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I use them to rank myself against a competitor, and also to judge link sources etc.

Don't worry about meta tags, they're not used and add clutter to the page code.

Must be an on page SEO issue.... Check on page elements out as your next port of call.

Thanks for that pointer goonewscowboy, I just stumbled across this article and it was a good read

Which high authority sources do you go for to get the big links?

You need to do something news worthy to get a link on the BBC! For your hip hop site you should concentrate on a different link building tactic!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps-archive/thread?tid=4fa32594aadb2e9f&hl=en

It looks like you'll have to use the real address!

Page rank? Or do you mean Page Authority (if you have the toolbar set up!)

Yeah the BBC was a lucky one for us, it was very hard to get it edited once they had already released the article too.

Nice site.... Is it relevant?

SEO value, in terms of Domain Trust, Domain Authority, and Page Authority. I don't have too many links, that refer traffic.

It's a toss up between the PRO toolset and the blogs, both main and the UGC blog (however I'm still waiting for my blog entry to be read, grrrr!)

@Scott Fern, Kris is correct in highlighting the massive average links per domain there... It should be a lot lower! The IP issue is something you might want to look into also, as getting involved with bad neighborhoods is a bad idea!

Follow David's instructions and you'll be sorted in no time! Very useful and informative answer, thanks!

Amazing answer. Put in the groundwork, and soon you'll be unstoppable!!

I'll start with ours, it's a BBC article which listed our website in the resources box, keyword rich

It's not necessarily a best practice in SEO to do this, but there are tools out there like http://www.submityourarticle.com which I've seen positive results from. The service basically pushes out either the same article, or a close spun alternative to many article networks, so there is a huge risk that in the future the links from the duplicate pages will be discounted/have negative impacts on your efforts.

Hope this helps!

You'll need to assess which keywords are actually a possibility for your site. Ranking isn't down to just the keyword you're going for. Domain age, authority, trust etc are all factors used in calculating your position in the SERPs. Don't get scared off by a 'Highly Competitive' keyword though!!

Well if you want a keyword you have to just go for it! If your site has loads of unique content, the likelyhood is that you'll start seeing benefits from long tail searches coming in with not too much work.

Check out the PRO campaigns on here, I'm assuming you're aware that SEOmoz utilizes some Google API's to serve up their own keyword difficulty score. Unfortunately the site I'm link building to is in a super competitive market!

Hope this helps.

Tom

Google doesn't index framed content at all I'm afraid. There are no SEO benefits to providing content served in frames. You don't seem to have any frames on your website however?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445

If you are not leaving the company behind, I would suggest flipping the current brandedsite.com to the new city. If you didn't start with CityAWebsiteDesign.com, then you shouldn't need CityBWebsiteDesign.com.

If you need to change the URL in some way to reflect this change... perhaps you're keeping the old office open etc, then the best option would be a subfolder, just brandedcompanyname.com/City-B-website-Design

That way you keep the domain authority of your website, and you get the benefit of the keyword rich url.

Hope this helps!

Tom

DGSEO, as everyone else has stated, it's VERY unlikely that you'll be able to get more than one DMOZ listing. I know it took me weeks just to get one!!