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Hi Tonyklu, What I believe you are asking is how to improve the rank of your client's Google+ Local page for all 5 of his categories, rather than just the 2 high rankings you've achieved for 2 of his categories so far. Is that correct? If I am correct, then: Be sure you're building out very strong content on the client's site that supports his relevance to these other 3 categories. Be sure you're conducing a good citation building campaign. Be sure there are not violations on his Google+ Local page, and that there are no other issues like merged listings, duplicates, etc. Good inbound links to the website that identify the client's activity in these 3 other categories could help. A slow but steady stream of reviews on the client's Google+ Local page could help. This advice is on the generic side, but this is the general picture of how you build authority for any category. Hope this helps!

It depends on whether you use Apache or IIS to manage your website. Here is an example of what you'd use if you have IIS 7: <code><system.webserver><rewrite><rules><rule name="Force www" stopprocessing="true"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^site\.com$"></add></conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="<a" href="http://www.site.com/{R:1}">http://www.site.com/{R:1} redirectType="Permanent" /></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver></code> This shows what you'd use for Apache (at least I think... I use personally use IIS): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907348/force-www-via-htaccess And once you have one of these in place, you will also want to configure your Google Webmaster Tools to specify your preferred domain (Configuration > Settings > Preferred domain > Display URLs as www.YOURSITE.com). This is technically a 301 permanent redirect, so if you have any other links on the web that point to the non-www version, they will be redirected to the correct www version - since there is a redirect at play here, it would not pass the full amount of link juice. But like I said in my previous post, it appears that you only have 1 link pointing to the incorrect version. So, you will actually be fixing a broken link by doing this. In theory, your www version will be gaining some of the link juice that the non-www version was previously receiving. This is also going to provide your users with a better experience as well... which is nice Make sense? Mike

Your site does not offer any obvious reasons as to why the blog is not being indexed. I suspect you may have made changes in the past 30 days to resolve an issue. Is that correct? If not, Google should index your blog page within 30 days. I am concerned the page offers no original content, but the blog article you wrote in December is not indexed either. Have you made any recent (past 30 days) changes to the site? You have a large robots.txt file. I would recommend replacing it with a blank one. I am not a fan of blocking bots with robots.txt. The bad bots don't respect robots.txt and the good ones typically do not cause a problem. You can set your server to throttle bots so they cannot consume too much bandwidth. Even if you caught 50 bots there are potentially thousands of other bots out there. While you do not have to submit a sitemap.xml file, since you already have the file indexed why not provide a current sitemap.xml file? You can also use Google Webmaster Tools to add the page directly. From the site's dashboard, Health > Fetch as GoogleBot then enter the URL (blog/). Next, click Fetch then choose to submit the page and linked pages to the index. The process can be as quick as an hour or take days. Keep in mind Google does not guarantee to index any page but I expect this to be the fastest way to address your concern.

Most SEOs these days don't believe that there is such a thing as a sandbox.  If these are new pages that are still not ranking well, then it may be that they need to attract some links.  Or it may be that they just need some time to reflect the link juice that they have. If these were pages that used to rank well but no longer rank then there are a few possibilities: 1. Honeymoon phase.  Sometimes pages get a honeymoon boost and then settle into a normal ranking. 2. Penguin.  If you were ranking on the power of an overoptimized link profile then you may have been affected by Penguin. 3. Competitors are beating you. There are other possibilities as well.

Hi Irving, I did removed robots meta nofollow tags from the pages! Do i still need to change the URL's and let the old ones 404? Thanks