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There is an interesting situation with caching mechanisms such as Cloudflare and many others; where the benefit of caching the website for speed only comes in when you have significant traffic and simultaneous traffic to your website.

Some caching plugins take more server resources initially, and actually tend to slow down your site than speed it up, until the user traffic increases and then you see the benefit of the caching for speed.

As for security aspect of Cloudflare much of the security options are available for free. If you don't realize the benefit of the paid subscription you can still enjoy the security benefits of the free option.

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Hi,

Two key factors are location and competition. If you are already ranking for your primary area, great.  If you are ranking for other locations as an outlier, even better.  Now to get the outliers to rank higher is tricky. Because of location and competition. If there are many other businesses in the area where you are an outlier, location is a much stronger metric then many others in this case. If competition was low your chances could be better.

Here are some ideas:

1. Go crazy and get all the local citations directories and creative means like citations in your relevent youtube videos and other assets. Basically create a stellar citation profile. See if this helps if not so much or not at all, that means location and competition are in the way here and are giving precedence to other businesses.

2. If you are showing up on local results as an outlier, if you are showing up that means eye balls are looking, yes you may be lower than other businesses, but if you can get significantly more higher end reviews. This could set you apart and give you that conversion despite an outlier position.

3. Try ranking for organic results for the city + industry you are going for, it might not be too competitive and this might be a better position than as an outlier

4. Increase social signals to your website, and Google local page.

Hope this helps!

Hi Chris,

Under 2 sec is what you should aim for. Under 2 seconds for human brain is fast enough.

Now 2.54 secs is good. Now is that the same for all if not most of your clients? What if your clients are using DSL vs High Speed Cable connection? These things you would need to test here: http://www.webpagetest.org/ select the apporiate geographic locations and possibly test with DSL speed and see if you are happy with the results!

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Response from google: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-auto-content-spam-17524.html

And yes its not okay, manual translation all the way.

Hi Jeremy

Congrats on a great link and a great placement.  I would question your comment that its in an area that is clearly designated for advertisers, even thought the right column has been used many times for ads.  There is nothing that tells google it is in a place for an ad. Also you do have the benefit of attracting young population who are not so familiar with ad tactics and just see it as a great link to great products, that the magazine endorses.

In some ways getting a link that takes so much of website real estate on a nice layout.  Your link is in a great position.  And its a followed link. Plus the link is actually in a sidebar which is used in post of their pages so your link is not just on the homepage it is as good as getting a footer link that applies to all pages

Again congrats, and hope that helps.

Mttompsons, Google does not or should not "index" pages that return a 404, which means the page is not there.

What I mean by should not index, is that there is an instance where the old page is still in the index and from what I read that site will be dropped next time Google goes to try to reach/crawl that URL.

Links without anchor text = hidden link (regular user cannot see it, but the link is still in the code) so yes you should worry about it, and remove if you can.

If you are wondering why they are there? Someone may have tried to remove the link and instead just removed the anchor text leaving the link.

If you are wondering how to search for these links, search for ">" and "> " might be a good start

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"I don't see how plug-ins can implement serious SEO, but my mind is open."

If you could talk more on the above statement and let us know what you mean by serious SEO? Because the most popular and functional plugin http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ covers good majority of the on-page SEO optimization requirements.

Also a little background on Wordpress CMS as a platform, out of the box, It is a very SEO friendly content based platform.

These are great beginner to advanced guides to setting up the SEO plugin in the Wordpress CMS platform: http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-seo-chapter-4/ plus this: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

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Hi Michael,

This process is not always that instantaneous if "no index" is applied, with Google de-indexing. Please refer to these two threads that should give you more idea about the issue and possible solutions to speed up the process of de-indexation:

http://moz.com/community/q/put-no-index-meta-but-still-indexed

http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-google-not-deindexing-pages-with-the-meta-noindex-tag

Let me know if this helps!

Great reminder Ricky, if you are getting paid, then disclose and no-follow. Thanks Ricky

Ok I see what you mean, it doesnt create a separate page, but opens up the image in the whole window, but you can treat it as its own page.  When you upload an image you have options to select what you use as a link for it right now you have selected to link to the image itself.

If you click on link to NONE the image will not open in a new window. See attached. This might be the older layout of WP but the functionality show be the same

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http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/5-creative-commons-photo-plugins-that-will-pull-images-into-your-site/

The link above describes how this is done being pulled from public archives. I have not seen a service that does this automatically for you, its done great for things like copied text that will then give you a link with it. You could manually provide embed code with each picture, similar to what Photobucket gives you for an easy embed.

Hope this helps!

One thing that I want to chime in about and discuss is image size and image compression and optimization for speed purposes, as images are a significant factor in the page load time of the site. + Image optimization helps with site load speed.

Just a little different between the two types: PNG is better for crisp images with a low number of colours, and JPG is better for a low-bandwidth image - however it is not as crisp and therefore not very good to be used for the layout of the website.  Generally, JPG is for photos and pictures, whereas PNG (or GIF) is for website layout or for computer generated graphics.

Great resource here which is better for image compression and/or optimization if its of interest.

Not directly important to ranking but important in general sense of ranking.

This is on the newer version of WP, see attached. Let me know if this helped or if you have any more questions

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Hi Adam,

If you are ranking on the first page for three pages, that says to me each individual page of the three is ranking pretty well. I would track this search and see if you still rank for all three pages, as one way of looking at it is that competition is dropped to the second page if you are ranking for multiple positions, this is good while it lasts, if you notice that other 2 drop, you can move the content to the one that still ranks, more below:

As for making one page stronger, generally if you have similar content on 3 pages combining that into one page, if that makes sense in your case. and redirecting, or linking to the page with all content.

Hope this helps!

So true Guillermo, animation works really well to show and tell a product. Thanks for sharing Wideo, its great it could be a great low cost solution if you can get great graphics. I just saw this, and it looks clean and simple: http://www.wideo.co/view/177481367942562265-casey-solar-energy (I also like the voice of the powered by Wideo) sounds cute!

I've seen this personally happen to me, and my guess it is something on Google's side as they are trying to fiddle around with what information best to display from your site to SERPs. I'd love to hear others experience with this as well.

Really great question. MOZ local is definitely most bang for your buck, however Yext offers listings that MOZ local does not include, and so if you have the budget why not use both right!.

According to moz's https://moz.com/local/how they answer a similar question, so this gives us a some-what complete answer of go ahead and use both:

If I already manage my listings on sites in your network, what will happen to those listings if I use Moz Local? Do you override them?

Response:

• In most cases, we will not override your listings. Localeze and Superpages will reject our efforts to publish your listings if you’re already managing them on those platforms. You can still manage listings independently on those platforms—or remove those listings and establish them through Moz Local.

Step 1: http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/setup/

Step 2: http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/how-to/

Hope this helps

Again PR  is usually connected with links, and if you want to see how strong a site is you check the number and quality of links pointing to that domain.  In our case for local seo you need to check the number of citations that your competitor has. What you can do is take their phone number and search for that phone number and see all the places that it is listed. And that should give you the approximate amount of work that needs to be done. More here on how to do that, and for more advanced citation searching and building: http://ontolo.com/blog/phone-number-co-citation-analysis-local-link-builders

Hi Mark,

The nature of web-page authority usually takes time to grow. Its a significant metric (see ranking factors page, it is the most correlated factor) Its the one that is hardest to influence as part of factors in page authority is TIME.

Therefore the TIME factor takes the most time in SEO