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It can't hurt to pay for the Yahoo directly link however I have not noticed one competitor dominating another because of that one link.  I have seen many sites without that link dominate others with it.

You are on the right track with blogging and social media.

I would think in your industry photos and video go a long way.  I like Marcus's suggestion below (doing a history of mens jeans).  Since consumers are visual it's important to integrate an image or video where ever you can.  For material products some people may search on google via the images tab so they can see photos.

Does anyone have recommendations on the best tool(s) to use to check the keyword density of each page of a website?

I'm not sure if SEOmoz has such a tool.

Has anyone else heard of Google penalizing websites for having their contact forms located at the top of the website?

For example http://www.austintenantadvisors.com/

Look forward to hearing other thoughts on this.

I think a lot of people are having this problem.  You spend years receiving great reviews on Google Places only to have the wiped out for no reason.

That being the case what 3rd party sites do you all suggest that client reviews be hosted besides your website?

Thoughts?

Thanks Dr. Meyers.  I did a 301 redirect for everything to go to www.  Hopefully that fixes it.  Thank You!

Thanks Dr. Meyers.  I did a 301 redirect for everything to go to www.  Hopefully that fixes it.  Thank You!

Thanks guys for all your feedback and suggestions.  I think I have decided on this one for the home page.

Austin TX Office Space & Commercial Real Estate. Find Rental Listings

Thoughts?

Thanks for that Francisco.  Luckily my landing pages rank as well as my home page and each has good content..  Just been trying to figure out the best Title for the home page.  I like what you suggested.

Thanks Doug.  I totally agree with that however doing title tags for the home page is tough because that is the catch all right?  From the home page I have links to more specific landing pages (e.g office space, retail space, etc...)

What is best practice for the home page title tags?

Thank you for the response.  The challenge I have in adding my company name is that its 3 words and takes up space.......leaving less space for #1 and #2 keywords.

How do you suggest I handle that?  I guess if Austin was the first keyword I could just have Tenant Advisors in the very end.

For example -

My current title tag:  Austin Office Space For Lease | Austin Commercial Real Estate Properties | Retail Space For Rent | Austin Tenant Advisors

I could use this instead?  Austin Office Space & Commercial Real Estate Tenant Advisors

If I do that then I'm leaving out Lease, Properties, Rent, Retail

Do you have your company name in the title also?  Ive been reading it's important however in my industry people don't typically search by brand name......they search for exactly what they are looking for.

Did your rankings go down a little first?  I have been told that I may experience decreased rankings for a few weeks.

That was a great post by Rand.  Thanks for sharing.

Because my company name has 3 words it takes up a lot of characters.  That is why I'm having a hard time squeezing it in and may just leave out.  Besides when someone searches for my services they don't look up my company name they typically look up a keyword.

Also, what has been your experience about rankings and changing title tags?  Should I expect them to go down for a few weeks?

I have a site that gets pretty decent rankings.  Based on Seomoz's assessment of my site I have ALOT of title tags that are too long.

If I make modifications to my title tags will that hurt my rankings?

I am also thinking of removing my company name from the title tag as that is taking up too much space.

I show 272 missing Meta Description Tags after the crawl completed on my website.  Pretty much all of those are from my website hosted wordpress blog.  Should I be concerned about this?

Thanks Andrew.  Would you recommend doing 301 redirects as well as canonical tags?

Hi Nakul,

Thank you for that.  According to SEOmoz definition of a subdomain......the only subdomain I have would be WWW

She also told me this.

I can tell that you have two separate pages set up for the subdomain and the root domain because when I go to http://www.austintenantadvisors.com/ and http://austintenantadvisors.com/, both pages are live URLs that don't redirect from one to the either and neither page has a canonical tag in the source code. In fact, it looks like all of the pages on your site live on both the www subdomain and also the root domain separately. You should look into fixing this issue before you decide how to set up the campaign because the way you choose to correct the issue will decide where the pages are actually hosted, which is how you choose how to base your campaign. For example, if you decide to have the www pages redirect to the non-www pages, you will want to set the campaign up as a root domain campaign or we won't crawl past the redirect. One thing to take in to consideration when redirecting these pages is to see which version is ranking in the search engines. Here is a good resource about redirecting pages on your site from Google Webmaster Tools

Can you recommend the best course of action?

1.  Redirect www pages to the non-www pages  OR

2..  Redirect non-www pages to www pages

One of the SEOmoz help desk professionals told me this today regarding some of my website pages.

"it looks like you have pages hosted as separate pages on both the root domain and the www subdomain, which means that these pages are competing for rankings and authority. You may want to consider a 301 redirect or the use of rel=canonical tags.".

Can anyone help me understand this?   How can I tell which pages are which?