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GoDaddy would work, and in my experience, they offer great customer service.

If you have links pointing to both, then a 301 redirect will help your website's domain and page authority, which will help your rankings.

Any reputable US hosting company should be fine.

The reason we 301 redirect non-www to www is to make sure search engines do not index two versions of your website. You can check it though a Google search: "site:yoursite.com"

This will give you all of the pages indexed by Google. If there is a yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com in the results, two versions are indexed, and a 301 redirect might allow you to rank even higher.

If there are two versions indexed, I would consider changing your host if  you can secure a properly located IP address. Changing your sites IP address can affect rankings due to geo-location, so make sure it is properly geo-located. Most reputable hosting companies can easily take care of this.

Hi Paul,

It looks like you have a good understanding of SEO and are willing to do the work required for a good SEO campaign. Now if you can most efficiently use your SEO time, you will really have something.

The one thing that you seem to be lacking is building your online network. It is great to write for your own blog and it is ok to sometimes comment on forums, answer questions and submit to good directories, but in my experience, the best links are given by a person, not by just pressing a submit button.

I would recommend finding some target websites that publish content related to your company/industry and try to build a relationship with the blogger or website owner. These will be your target links.

Yes, you will need to "Write Fresh Content" or provide something that adds value to their website, but that is only the start. You should write content with a purpose. The goal should be to get that content published on a certian blog or website. The only way to do this is to physically reach out to the webmaster or blog owner (remember they are people) with a phone call or email (I always receommed calling first if possible). You cannot just sit back and expect people to link to your great content, it needs to be marketed by you.

You most likely are an expert in your industry, so you have the knowledge needed create content that people would love to use and post. All you need to do is pick your target websites and physically get it front of a person that has the ability to put it on the website.

I hope this helps.

That looks like a penalty to me.

Daniel sorry for your negative experience. Not all SEO company's work that way.

It is a great idea to first try to get those links removed yourself, but if you cannot, Google has recently released a disavow tool, which allows you to tell Google what links you want to disavow from your website. Here is the URL to the disavow tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

Hope this helps.

Hi Daniel,

If you have a penalty for "workwear", most likely many of the links that have the anchor text "workwear" were built unnaturally. I would anaylize all of your links with this anchor text and remove the ones that are unnatural or spammy.

Google implemented this penalty to find unnatural link building tactics from bad sites, and one easy way to spot unnatural link building is if an anchor text is repeated. Google uses this measure because that is not how a quality website link to another website. Quality links do not have a standard anchor text, and the anchor text often includes the brand name.

The links that are worth keeping are the links from sites with a high domain and page authority and were not built automatically.

As a rule, the links that matter now and in the future are built by communicating with people and doing "link worthy things" not by pressing a submit button.

I want 301 redirect all a website's subpages with a .aspx extension to a page without the .aspx etension.

Example: I want to 301 redirect www.website.com/services.aspx to www.website.com/services

Right now if you do not include .aspx on the end of every URL it gives a 404 error.

I have used the web.config file to 301 redirect non-www to www and /default.aspx to /.

I am not extremely familiar with IIS 7.0 or web.config, so any help would be great.

Thanks.

Hi Peter,

Sebastian makes a good point. Relevant and respected (no spammy) directories are good but only in moderation. However, your primiary link building strategy should not consist of directory submissions.

Regarding receiving credit for a backlink, the link must be organically recognized (crawled) by a search engine, which takes time. The better websites are crawled more fregently, so their backlinks are recognized faster. Also, here is the opensiteexplorer.org linkscape schedule, https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule, which shows you the dates their data will be updated.

I do not have any experience working with http://www.greencowseo.com/.

One thing I would always check when a website ranks so fast for such a competitive term is the website's back link profile. You can do that using a tool like opensiteexplorer.org.

It looks like they have almost 6,000 linking domains with the anchor text "seo company", over 3,000 with "seo" and almost 2,000 with "seo firm". The closest branded anchor text has 68 linking root domains, "<a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">http://www.greencowseo.com</a>".

Thank you Miriam.

The accounts were placed under review for several different reasons. Most were placed under review because of an address change. One account has been reactivated after being under review, so that at least tells us that a listing "under review" is not completely dead.

Thanks for the resources.

I have a couple Google+ local pages that have been placed under review.

Does anyone have experience regarding the time frame of this reveiw process. Google says to give it a few weeks, but one page has been under review for four weeks now.

How long should I wait for Google to review them before I delete the page and start over?

Great point Ryan, the WHOIS lookup is a perfect tool to start your manual removal process.

Ryan, here is a link to GoDaddy's WHOIS search:  http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx

I would not recommend asking for a link the first time you contact a person, unless you are requesting a link from an article already published about you or your company.

Instead I would first try to develop a relationship with the person who can create the link you want. Next, I would create a good reason for that person to want to link to you (content, resource, guest post, etc.). Then I would request the link in a way that seems beneficial to both you and the person (website) linking to you.

Since the disavow tool basically tells Google to nofollow the links, I would recommend first focusing on the bad dofollow links in your back link profile.

Also, as a fist measure, I would not use the Google disavow tool. Instead, I would reach out to all of the websites containing bad dofollow links and request them to be removed. I would give each link at least three attempts before considering the disavow tool.

I suggest manual attempts before using the disavow tool because using the disavow tool is basically like telling on yourself. Your are turning your website into Google for having a spamming back link profile. I do realize that the disavow tool is a much better option then getting hit with a penalty,  but I am a fan of at least trying to take care of it yourself before turning a website over to the mercy of Google.

I recommend not building new website.

Your time would be better spent building more quality links to the current website and to a subpage optimized for your new city. Expanding your service area will create many new opportunities to generate links including press & news releases announcing your recent expansion, local niche directories, new client websites, local news sources, local organizations & groups, etc. Increasing your current website's domain authority and building your subpage's page authority with these new links is where I would spend the majority of my time.

Also, when you create the subpage for your new service area be sure to include the "city name" and your service's target search term(s) in your title tag, meta description, headers, image atl tags, URL, internal links, and unique content. Also, if you have a phone number and address specific to that location, I would include those (search engines recognize area codes and addresses). If you have a physical location in your new city, create a new Google+ page with your new address, phone number, and use the city specific subpage as your website.

Good luck.

PS- PPC might be a good temporary option to increase awareness in your new location, while your subpage moves up the ranks.