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I should have added that they should open and fulfill a Google Places account

One or both of you probably has personalized search results on, or localized search results on

Let me know how it turns out.

Local = the volume within the whole region.

So, Local is not really "local" as you might think of it.

As you seem to be in the US, if you set the Local region to the US, that is the number you get back in that column.

Hi,

The first thing I would do is remove the double titles on all your pages.  Most of the pages have a duplicate of the title, but the home page has "Playground developments" in one title element, and "Home" in the other.  You are just confusing the search engine with this.

Plus, beef up that "Contact Us" Page and use the company identifiers in Schema.org to send a clear signal to the search engines.

I would also change the copyright to be copyright of the company name rather than the copyright of the website address.

Also, maybe an Alt tag for your logo image would be appropriate.  Something like "Playground Developments Logo Image" or whatever so that you are describing the image, and sending a message about the company name again.

I honestly don't remember the exact source.  I have done massive reading in the last few months, and I am sure it was in multiple sources.

One of the better books on Adwords is Advanced Google Adwords (although outdated, but an Updated Version of Advanced Google Adwords is coming in April)

If you waited this long, I would recommend waiting for the updated version, and then getting that.  It is always good to know something about any area where you are spending significant time and money.  I also would recommend getting it soon, as changes happen fast, and even the new book could be outdated in less than a year.

Surprisingly, your local library may have books on Adwords available to you as well depending on if you are near a medium to larger city.

I think something is going on with a space vs a %20

1. Copy and paste in the url that you listed above to Brent's recommended tool, you get a 404 response.
2. If you copy and paste that url to a browser, however, your page comes up.
3. Now take THAT url and paste into the tool Brent recommends, and you get a 200 (good) response.

The only difference that I see, is that when I copy and paste that url to a browser (Chrome in my case), it adds a %20 where you have a space.

Since this is the thing that makes these other url checkers work, I am guessing that the crawl diagnostics tool is having a similar problem.  See the comparison below (much abbreviated to the area in question)

ACO 3018  (from your post, and gives you the error)

ACO%203018 (when it resolves in the browser, and shows a good response in the tools)

I am just smart enough to tell you that these are different, but not smart enough to know why it causes problems for crawlers, but not for browsers.

The good news is that your pages work for users.  The bad news is that Google probably never sees them.

Hopefully you got your response long before now.

Just in case;

exact match is exact match.

So for

[baking supplies] it will show you how many people searched for [baking supplies].  No more, no less, no add ons, and in the same order.  It will not show you how many searched for "good baking supplies" nor will it show you how many searched for "supplies baking" or anything else.

phrase match is essentially exact match plus.

"baking supplies" in phrase match will show you how many people searched for "baking supplies", plus how many searched for "good baking supplies" and "baking supplies for chocolate chip muffins", etc.  It will not show you how many searched for "baking cheap supplies" or "supplies for baking"

broad match will show you everything regardless of the order, regardless of words, etc.  It is more like match soup.

so a broad search for baking supplies brings back every variation that includes those words and anything like it.  It is hard to know just how far this goes, but it could include "cooking ingredients for big weddings" as far as I can tell.

This seems like some good info on hgroup

http://html5doctor.com/the-hgroup-element/

You could use an html counter instead.

Countdown Timer

Seems pretty easy to configure, should be faster than yours, and its free.

I seem to have discovered that that line of code was only visible in the developer tools of my browser - and not to you - because of a Chrome Add On that I was running called iSEO for Chrome which counts keywords per page.  I just put that add-on a few days ago, so I had never noticed that before.  So, that part of my analysis was wrong - (remember I'm New!).  I didn't realize that add-ons would show code to me in a way that appeared to my novice eyes as code of the website I was on.

I am glad you found the other content so you decide to show it or delete it.

I would also consider your pages of "car make" Car Warranty to be potentially duplicate.  Really look at them closely to determine if you have them there for human users, or if they are there for search engines.  If they are there for search engines, they have to go.

Also, your Dealer website looks pretty similar, so you might have duplicate content between the two sites.

Good Luck, and let me know if I can help in some way.

Hi, I am on the road today, but can give you better details on how to find it tonight, or send you a screenshot or something. I will try now, but this is off memory. Using chrome, and the "developer" option (not view source code) Then it brings up a half page. I think it was under either the "resources" tab ot the "elements" tab, I don't recall It shows all your divs, and close to thelast one was the one in question. If you open that one you see numerous keywords, all separated by the paragraph divider.

Seems like a great site for a forum or "Youbet Blog" where your users can submit guest blogs on their strategies.

Seems like you have some sort of thing where people are buying each other's strategies.  So the really good ones will write about their strategies to promote themselves, and then sell more of their tips or whatever.

This is not "exactly" how google sees your page, but I find the Search Spider Emulator in this tool for Firefox - super easy to read and use

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxy-seo-tool/

It has a lot of other stuff too, that overlaps a lot of other tools.  I use it just for the Search Spider Eumulator part.

Hi,

I am pretty new to seo (or at least new to taking it seriously), so take advice as you see fit.

First, I think you have some hidden content (google does not like hidden content, they think you may be trying to show different content to search spiders than to humans).

This whole section  div style="display: none; " id="SeoHeapKeywords" and everything in it.

You are also hiding this area, but I am not sure why, since a human would read it fine:

It's a fact that a quality car warranty can save you money. Warrantywise offers the highest level of car warranty cover at the most competitive prices in the UK. Without a car warranty you could end up paying unwanted garage fees that could leave you with wallet busting garage repair bills. A car warranty from Warrantywise is a brilliant way to secure your finances and your cars future, no one likes nasty surprises especially when it causes problems both financially and for your everyday life. A car warranty is an ideal way to protect yourself and your car! Warrantywise are one of the best car warranty providers in the UK, with competitive prices, friendly, helpful staff and fantastic car warranty offers, you will not be disappointed with your car warranty policy.

Also, I am not sure about the strategy of having multiple "car make Car Warranty" pages, that seem pretty darn close to duplicate content to me.

Let me know how it turns out!

I am pretty new to SEO (or at least new to being serious about it), so use my advice at your own risk.

My guess is that this stems from situations like this:

Powered by FORTUNE3 • shopping cart software or the other keyword perfect variations of it at the bottom of your customer's sites.  Would they have put that there if you didn't pre-code it into the software and charge them money to remove it?

The sites are also all unrelated.  You might think they are related because they are your customers, but is ray bans, jeep parts, car covers, and homeowners rights manuals, gun lasers, and all the other sites related to shopping cart software?  None of them has any other mention of shopping cart software on their whole site, except for the forced link.

Also, these are effectively paid links, since you put them into the software by default, and you charge people $50 to remove them.  Thinking in reverse (sort of), you are paying $50 to them to keep the link.  It's a forced, or paid link.

Think of it this way, if you offered to your customers to remove it for free, or gave them a way to do it easily and told them how (even for non-techies, like a check box in the admin panel they use for processing orders), what percentage would remove it.

I used to have a store on Big Commerce.  They did the same thing, except I could remove it in the accessible code, and it is one of the first things I did right away.  I really did not want to be forced to advertise for them.

Anyway, I am curious to see how this plays out, as I suspect you are not the only shopping cart provider with this situation.

By the way, here is another example of it, and it is sure to catch them too.  Go Daddy Spammy Link Building

All good ideas, and we will check them out.  I doubt we are preventing crawlers or noindexing, as the sight was just rebuilt and rankings have been Awesome in Google, so google is hitting the sight fine.  We do have a 301 to go from http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com

I may have found something though.  For your SEOmoz campaigns, are they set up as

domain.com

or

*domain.com

My other campaigns have a * in front of the domain, and Rogerbot hits them just fine.

I am thinking that we had the site on domain.com (I can't remember and it was only a couple weeks ago!), and Roger was crawling fine.  Once we pushed out the rebuild, we pushed it out to www.domain.com.  So I think my problem comes down to an *

Any thoughts or confirmations or refutations are welcomed!

We got bounce rates down to 0% on a client's site.  (Pages/Visit increased dramatically too)

Super Excited!!!!

Until we discovered that we had two copies of Analytics code in there.

So I set it up one of my Moz campaigns as domain.com

Rogerbot only hits 1 page.

I am thinking I should change it to www.domain.com, but I cannot seem to find how to do this.  Thoughts?