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I just posted this same link in another similar thread and I think it will help here too: http://www.seobook.com/art-pitching-email

Hehe, excellent... thank you. I feel a little less like I might be insane now I know somebody else gets it. Though I am surprised you read my post, it was far, far too long lol.

I'm with you on the blog thing, I try to write them, I really do... but unless it's about how much I hate TopSEO's I just never seem to get the time. I know that's bad for people in our industry but hey. I also never remember to tweet stuff, so I basically have an in-active twitter account... another discredit to me I know.

I get what you mean about the MozRank, it makes good sense... not so much as an ego thing for me but more a pride thing (if there's a difference), i.e. I want MozPoints so I can get the SEOmoz T-shirt which, being the extreme geek that I am, I would wear out with pride (even though people down the pub probably wouldn't know what it was). It's sort of similar in a way to my being atheist... I wear atheist t-shirts a lot. Maybe I'm in struggling with identity issues lol. But anyway yeah, that still doesn't explain why those people would give a thumbs down... I mean, they don't get more MozPoints for themselves for voting others down.

I've just grabbed a screen shot, check that out... the guy in the middle, he just made a joke... was pretty funny too. But two thumbs down?

Anyway, I'm gonna have to click good answer now aren't I lol... shameless!! haha

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My recommendation would be to do whatever you can to get as much experience as possible by submersing yourself in with anybody there who deals with the SEO, and get the theory by reading, spending time on here, and doing an SEO course such as MarketMotive, SearchEngineCollege, or Quirk... they're three of the decent ones, and it's kind of like having interactive books with deadlines, coursework and tests to ensure you're doing things right. They're kept nicely up to date too

Try these:

http://www.marketmotive.com/internet-marketing-training-and-certification-signup?top=how&topic=SEO

http://www.searchenginecollege.com/certified-search-engine-optimizer/

http://www.quirk.biz/courses/course/seo?utm_expid=47245799-5&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quirk.biz%2Fcourses%2Fhome

And get these:

http://www.artofseobook.com/

http://www.dannydover.com/lp/seo-secrets.html

You mean Google Places/Maps right? If so, much is about the reviews and mentions with them... least so the actual Google maps reviews and more so the third party review site ones.

301 Redirect then wait

Yeah I think you're probably right... it's too easy to judge a whole comment before finishing it sometimes, to read the first sentence and have formed an opinion already, possibly misunderstanding or taking the whole thing out of context.

With the second point though I must admit I'm a trolls perfect target, I get suckered in way too easily and feed the flames without even knowing it.

Yes, exactly that

It will come out of the index once G realises you've told it that both pages are one and the same. So yeah it will come out.

You still have some nasty crawl issues. The main story on the homepage, on the banner is something to do with gastric bands/weight loss, etc... but clicking on it gives you a 404 error and the resulting URL is a dupe or redirect of the homepage for this. That's not good.

Aside from that stuff, maybe tone down on the ads a little, ensure no cannibalization with internal linking, and do some different off-page to what you have been currently... your off-page is looking pretty good with fair diversity in anchor text and link types, etc... but probably worth you ensuring some bookmarking and social shares, tweets, etc... are done. Do some of that yourself but also, add some social sharing options for the articles, and try to add them with a call to action feel. You've got the perfect content for that kind of thing, you should be taking more advantage of it.

No worries... as a quick tip, Google some stuff, look at where the reviews originate in their places listing and then you'll know which sites to get reviews at

Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. Just don't get a bespoke one made, pick the wrong company to do it and you'll be stuck in an eternal nightmare.

We've been using it with a couple of sites for quite a while. Customers buy a LOT more through Paypal but then there are still purchases made, and for all we know those purchases might not have been made if GC wasn't an option. Also, I reckon its use has gone up a little in the past year.

In summary I'd say that whilst not that many customers use it, there's still some, and that's still more money

How interesting. Why do you think the underscores bring video results above, making the serps mismatch all the others?

1. Ensure the content is good quality, and ensure it contains some original and useful stuff

2. Promote the content on the basis that it's good quality and it will hopefully gain links, shares, etc... naturally

3. Link build with anchor text to relevant pages from relevant pages on relevant sites, but don't over-do it with the anchor text, only a percentage of it should be keyworded.

4. Diversify with your link building, so get links from different types of sites such as blogs, forums, directories, articles, social media platforms, and do a bit of bookmarking too.

5. Start looking on blogs, etc... and on here about how social signals are seemingly becoming more and more important, and think about how you will begin to work that fact into your future strategies.

Hmm, so you could be held to ransom for your own site?

I'm not saying for one minute that the company is bad or anything but the problem with this type of thing is never about how much they charge, it's about the level of service... if staff changes or they take on a bigger client, or any number of things that result in you getting low service, what are you ever going to do about it in that situation?

What if the site and CMS used is no good for SEO purposes, what if they don't allow changes and don't allow others to access the source code. What if things go wrong with hosting or anything else to do with the site?

I would just get the whole thing built in an open source CMS by someone and hosted somewhere you have full access to if I were you.

But not before you've posted a link to their site first.

But then it's merely a reciprocal link, and 9 times out of 10 will be less in value. I'd rather get the link through another hook, though I agree something must be in it for them too.

Ahhh of course... that's pretty cool. And the video file/save names possibly do have too. That's a quality experiment, you should expand it and do a YouMoz post!

You probably already know this but there's a FF plugin called Google Global which you can use to search from other places if you wanted to check the differences easily

It raises a big red flag for black hat link building/spamming.... in other words it looks totally unnatural to the search engines. If you had links grow naturally they would have a range of words such as the domain name, the company name, words like "view site here", etc... as well as variations of keywords that are relevant.

If you've got a high percentage of keyworded anchor text links that are all the same, you didn't get them naturally, you built them trying to rank for that word

You kept the domain name and all the page URL's the same right?

When you say a "better" server, is it hosted in the UK, and is it a shared server? These things can make a bit of a difference.

Did the rankings drop very soon after the change?