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Hi Koko

If you really are having a problem getting an answer then you could try tweeting @randfish - it's a little public for many but it can work and Rand Fishkin is VERY responsive and a pleasure to deal with. I recommend a soft ask on twitter for Rand to take a loo into this for you.

I'd be interested to know why you feel MOZ is not for you.

It is a great service and helps me loads.

Best of luck

Steve

Thanks Kevin,

I'll need to work harder to get them some rankings then

Cheers

Steve

I have a client who I've been working with for 4 months but getting NO TRACTION at all on their SERPS.

This is unusual for me!

The only difference to their site from other clients is that the whole site is https so I'm wondering if that's making a big difference.

The site is: https://www.cnc-ltd.co.uk

Any help of hints would be great

thanks in advance

Steve

I don't see any reason it'd be different for google.co.uk over google.com.

I did a browser search in google.co.uk for medicx - Interesting results.

Your domain is #1

#2 medicxpharmacy

#3 www.medicxfund.com/

#4 www.medicxfund.com/investors

Seems www.medicxfund.com are listing 2 pages for 1 term.

HTH

Steve

I have managed to rank for "stephen counsell" multiple times on page 1. So it is possible.

What's your domain / business name?

Hi Matt

Hmm, sounds like you actually want to compete with yourself.

So, If I was going to do this I'd create a number of pages with different and unique content targeted at different angles on the key phrase (your business name).

The I'd start to create a set of backlinks for each of the pages so that they all have a similar ranking for the term.

I see why one would want to do this. Page 1 domination for a key term, but don't get too hung up on the Business Name. In my opinion you'd be better spending the effort creating really great content about the service or products you provide.

Good luck an dI hope this helps.

Steve

Hey All,

I've a new client who is a local business directory designed to promote local businesses across the UK but starting in it's home town of Brighton in the UK.

I'm a little stumped to know how I can start to optimise this site as most of the pages being created are from very different businesses and focus on different subjects.

I realise this is going to be a long haul but wondered if there are any tips you guys know of.

My client domain is: call-us-first.co.uk

Thanks

Steve

HI,

I guess there are updates happening all of the time with Google algorithms where they're always trying to improve the quality of results.

So my questions to you are:

Are you sure that you've not been doing what google might consider "naughty tactics"?

Have you had anything flagged in your Webmaster Tools account?

How far down the listings dod you drop and how are the competitors ranking. Are there any similarities between your site and the main competitors. IE if they didn't suffer, what are you doing differently?

I know it's not really an answer for you but some food for thought that I hiope helps.

Best of luck

Steve

Great advice.  Not thought of that.

Thanks so much.

Looks like it's all OK. I know.

BUT... only 1 keyword in the top 50 "Ace-Alarms". That's to be expected though.

Thanks for the quick response.

Cheers

Steve

Hi

I have what most of you may think is a dumb question but here goes. please be nice...

So I have a client (http://www,ace-alarms.co.uk) who are having a real problem ranking for ANY of their key words.

I know it's a reasonably competitive area but I've not seen such a stubborn domain and it seems that no matter what we do there's nothing listed.

i'm thinking that there may be a problem with the domain name.

My question is; how can I find out if this is a problem domain.

Thanks in advance

Steve

Hi All,

A new client in a competitive market (international car hire - Car Trawler affiliate) is using Comment Hut to gain links to his site.

I have not used this service so am wondering, with the latest google stuff, what the good the bad and the ugly is on the comment hut service.

Does it work?

Should we avoid it?

Thanks in advance

Steve

HI René

I use UK2.net exclusively.

They offer 100% uptime Gauranteed.

In the last 3 years I have experienced 1 outage lasting about 2 hours (about 18 months ago.)

I have a reseller account which allows me Unlimited everthing.

They offer a range of services for individual domains including unlimited.

Their customer service can be less than excellent but their trouble ticket response is very good.

Hope that helps.

Different computers on the same network / IP segment not loading the site could be a Proxy server OR DNS Setting.

I'm on Mac so that's what I know about.

What are your Mac network settings?

Do you get an IP address?

Can you load other websites from the same virtual hosting server?

Can you load the website via the IP address?

Whats the URL of the website?

Steve

Hi Ahtisham

The sites they publish to are pretty OK (PR 3 or 4). You don't get a list as such but you can see the post and link for each of the links. I believe they have almost 3000 sites to publish to.

I use this as a supplement to any other SEO for my clients.

Why not try it out? They run a 30 day free trial (no subscription charge). If you want their writers to create a 150 word post and link you'll need to pay $2.50 for each post. I use their writers most of the time and find the posts to be of average quality.

Of course you could write 150 word post yourself.

Hope that helps

Hi,

I am currently using BuildMyRank and IndusNet to link build for me.

I'm seeing good improvement in ranking for my clients after using both these services.

Could you let us know the URL and the keywords you're targeting?

Hi Michael,

Take a look at StudioPress.com (Wordpress Theses) - They have some excellent tutorials and help and have created the Genesis Framework and a whole load of professional designs that are easy to configure to your needs.

They have also created a set of free plug ins that make altering the detail of the designs easy. Like "Simple Edits" which allows you to change the footer section / copyright notice.

I've been using these for about a year and find them super easy to use.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hmm, I'd release the new pages gradually. 10,000 pages hitting the index in short order may get your site noticed and maybe treated as spam.

Maybe someone else on here can give you better guidance on the release schedule but I'd go with maybe 100 to 150 pages a day. That's a 3 month release plan.

Steve

OK, for each new page you implement, 301 redirect the old one to the new (when the new is complete) that way you won't loose any traction from google.

a 301 Permanent Redirect tell the SEs that your content has MOVED PERMANETLY

Make the 301 redirect another action on your make live list for each page.

HTH

Steve