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Hi, just wondering which is the best format for linking to pages. In my navigation at the moment i have links like;

Car Repair Services

Is this the recommended format or should it be;

Car Repair Services

Many thanks for any answers.

Alex

Should this basically be the htaccess starting point for every website that I create going forward?

Thats great thanks for that Chris.

oops - guess i've knackered this page with that code!!

Could you explain what all the code means in detail? I just copied and pasted the original!!

I'm getting 1 - 403 error which is;

http://www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/hi-performance-auto-centres-sunderland.html

Then I'm getting 1709 duplicate content errors and 1709 duplicate title errors.

I've been working on a clients site and put up the following but when I check back on seomoz i have over 3000 errors and notices and its been crawling a silly amount of pages that don't exist!!

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Options +FollowSymLinksDirectoryIndex index.html RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.html [L]

**"JavaScript / CSS / Flash **__optimisation" point is an interesting one. What would you be doing here? Is this to speed up the site load times or to correct things that make for a bad user experience within their site?

Ha.... that's better. Many thanks for your input David.

All this isn the first phase? Would you not break some of this up to be applied into the second phase? Unless of course the price reflects what is being done I guess.

Thats great thanks David. WHat would you include in your Comprehensive Site Analysis? Something similar to Danny Dovers?

Thanks Guillermo, I'm actually creating my task sheet as we speak so I can then break it down into stages. I guess the main tasks for maintenance would be link building and content writing.

I'll create a post with my version when its done. Thanks again.

Alex

So would you price for the full job or break it down into Phases? What would you include in your task list first?

Phase 1:

Competitor Analysis
Keyword Research
Check site for errors
Title Tags
H1's
Robot.txt
Canonicalization

Phase 2:

Content writing
Link building
Article submission
Social Media

Phase 3:

Maintenance ??

I'd be interested to know how other people set out their job tasks for seo on a clients project.

More and more of my clients are asking me to apply my SEO knowledge to their websites now but I'm unsure of how to price and structure it for them.

I know what to do and how to do it, but I just can't decide on the best way to set out a plan for the clients.

Should I just bill them by the hours that I do or is it best to create phases ie - Phase 1: Competitor analysis and on-site optimisation. Phase 2: Link building and content writing etc..

I always feel that client wants to know what they are getting for their money but don't know how to quantify what I do.

Ideally I'd like to offer my services in phases but not sure how to price and what to include in that phase.

Phase 1 - £xx, Phase 2 - £xx etc..

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be doing? I've looked through loads of the blog articles and questions and I can find checklists to get organised, but its mainly just how to price for the jobs I'm stuck with.

Also.. is there a certain way I should display this schema info or can I just hide it with css? Is it fully controllable via css? Sorry for all the questions.

This is all such great advice. i can't thank you enough. I will set at it this week and see if there is any improvement.

Thanks

Thanks for your response, it waas great. So I guess I learn something new everyday.. today's lesson... what is a Local Business Schema (NAP)!!!!

Many thanks again

So theres still been no improvement in this. There are 3 business locations within my clients company. Hi Performance 1 in Sunderland, UK, Hi Performance 2 in The Barnes, UK and Hi Performance 3 in Seaham, UK

Do you think this is having a negative affect on the listing? The main listing should be Hi Performance 1. I've tried alsorts but seem to be going further and further down the list now.

Thanks for that Matt. Some good resources there, ill definetly give the Whitspark a go. I've already read the post by Rand but it seems to be out of date to the Google that I get when I do a search. I don't get any reviews so can't see where they're coming from. All I've done so far is make sure all of my address and contact details are the same throughout and then I typed in my competitors brand name in google and registered with the same directories as they did as long as they weren't dodgy spammy directories. Most of the appeared to be relative to the website I'm working on.

Just to add to this, my clients website has much better weight than its competitors but yet it still ranks on page 3 for local search. What am I doing wrong? The search term I'm using is garages Sunderland.

Hi there, I've been working on my clients website for a while now. About a month ago I created him a local business listing in Google. I was wondering if there are any new tips to get his business up the rankings in local search? I've researched and only really found information relevant to the old way Google displayed local search.