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instead of having different pages that are almost the same can you just make it one page that both navigation subs link to? So if you have Page A and Page B in the Navigation and Page A has a Sub nav link to Page C - rather than Page B having a sub nav link to a different page altogether why not just have it also have a sub nav link to Page C?  If they are so similar anyway can you not just combine the two similar topics in to one page?

I believe that goes with a jquery plugin that has something to do with text container size.  Our devs have used it before and it looked like that.  I don't believe it has anything to do with SEO.

Mr. Weiss,

I suppose, for me, it would depend on the campaign.  If it was going to be a long running client or if it was going to be my company's website I would pick one phrase and run with it for a few months and then change it up and run the other for a few months and compare the data to determine which one was the most successful.

If, however, it was a short running client like a 'one time' optimization (which I hate but they do happen) I would first rule out that I could in no way run them both together and if I couldn't and if I determined that they both carried equal relevancy to the page's subject I would take the one or two words that make the short tail phrases different (in this case 'background' and 'credentials') and I would find out which of those carried the most search volume and make an educated guess from there - I know you touched on that and I agree that it doesn't 'mean' much - but it does help with getting an idea, in my opinion.

You pose an interesting question and as I have taken your advice many times - and you certainly give excellent advice - I am quite curious as to how YOU or others here would approach this.  I will be watching this thread closely.

Cheers, my friend

Geo Meta tags are simply what they sound like - they are meta tags that allow you to declare your geo-location (longitude/latitude) - they may have some impact on local searches or searches using location identifiers.

Microformats are schemas used to help crawlers understand your content better.  I would recommend looking in to using schema.org formatting - or, at the very least, use V-Card formatting on your physical address in the content of your site.

As far as Dublin Core meta data - read this.  http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

Of course you can always ask anything here in the forums but Google is a good tool too

Cheers!

Now that you have been on Volusion for a bit - what are your thoughts? - I know this is off topic but I have been considering trying it out...

We have completed redesigns like what you have described (in your responses as well as your original post) and for one in particular - even with far better optimization in place after the redesign we had some rankings drop for a couple of weeks before rankings not only returned but improved over what they had been.  It was like the redesign was so drastic that Google pushed us back just to see what was going on - although I chalked it up to being the amount of time it probably took for all of the redirects to be recognized...

We use AWR and I highly recommend it.  And yes, the domains and numbers of keywords are unlimited - we have several hundred clients loaded - also, its accuracy is comparable to any software we have used - and we have used a lot over the years.

Agreed

I have never had any issues with hyphenated domain names and I have used them many times.

They arent in your xml sitemap are they? You probably generated a new one when you moved the site over... that could possibly be overriding the parameters... maybe... weird...

Google crawls and indexes secure pages - for instance, your https website has 128 pages indexed in Google.  I agree with Mr. Weiss that your site needs to be fixed however - especially the temporary redirect from http to https.  Was your entire website only recently moved to https and then you lost ranking or has it always been https?  I feel you probably have some other issues going on besides the secure socket layer.  For instance, almost every link in your footer nav has 'dog tags' in it.  Kind of spammy to me....

I would drop the "keyword in bold, italic and underlined" as well as worrying at all about density.  I would only do that if it enhances the page for the reader rather than bolding etc... a word simply because it is your targeted term for the page.  Also - alt tags are very important, yes, but remember to describe the image, don't just throw keywords in.  I think will all of the recent talk about 'Over Optimization'  those are things that the algo's could potentially be looking for etc...

Completely agree.  Thumbs up.

Hmmm... are they showing up in GWT?

Well, UK2.net does have a LOT of links, so there is that....

Also, if the competition is doing well without much content I would think that having as much relevant content as possible (which would presumably be more than the competition) would give your friend a leg up, right?  I mean the competition is doing well without it because it appears no one in that particular industry really uses much content and if no one is using it than its worth is moot.  I would tell your friend to use as much RELEVANT content as possible - I would certainly tell him to utilize schema.org formatting everywhere possible and start a good, on-going link building campaign.

So - any luck?

Agreed.  I didn't think our answers were contradictory, I agree with you totally.  I just didn't feel she needed to spend time trying to get rid of the naturally built non-niche links and I don't think you thought so either.

Cheers!

In the market I work (strictly hospitality) I would have to say that our mobile success, of which we have a good amount, is actually based on the desktop websites ranking very well and the sniffer delivering the mobile website to mobile devices.  Whether or not this will go on forever, I just do not know.

We expected strictly mobile search to take off in 2012 and optimized our mobile sites accordingly but alas, it is still the ranking of the desktop sites that is delivering the vast majority of mobile visits.... maybe 2013 ?

You are totally correct, Adam  I simply use DA as a guide line for whether or not the website, as a whole, is 'OK' - not as a definitive rule.  You certainly can get a spammy link from a high DA website but I haven't found that to happen very often at all.  I suppose I use it in the way that I used to use toolbar PR - not as a rule, but a guide line.  Thank you for your insight.  Again, you are totally correct, I should not have been so vague.

Cheers, and thumbs up

I would suggest taking the time to go through them.  Check the domain authority and the actual content on the exact page that links to your website.  Suspicious does not necessarily mean that it is a bad link - although most of them probably will be.  If the page that links to you has content that is relevant to what your website is about and if the linking website has decent domain authority, I would put that link in the 'keep' pile.  Even if out of the 120 you only end up with 25 links that you keep, it could make a difference in the positive.