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Thanks Mark,

I have some very seasonal related items - whats your email?

Any one know of any good product review sites? I have a seasonal product that i'd like to get some reviews on, and am willing to give the product(s) away to get some decent reviews.

I'd work towards making a great user experience on the site. Look at improving title tags, calls to action, improve the descriptions of the properties and some additional content. Personally I'd remove the ad-sense 

That would seem like a pretty decent load time - anything sub 2 would be on the right lines.

DA - Domain Authority

PA - Page Authority

This is a great whiteboard Friday that will help you understand more on this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics

Page load speed was a factor Google mentioned they take into consideration a couple of years ago, so as standard you should look into this - not just for Googles sake and the sake of your ranking, but to make the site a pleasant experiance for your users.

As I mentioned, back this up with decent content.

Possibly this:

Hi,

Bob here from the ** * * and I wanted to drop an email to you and compliment your site. Nice layout, good info, good resources.

I was looking around at a few different sites for product/service information and I thought your's was one of the best.

That being said, I also noticed you guys have some great content related to product/service.  I currently work for a company that maintains a website that offers product/service, www.domainname.com.

We are a nationally recognized, reliable source for product/service on the web and I was wondering if you'd be interested in exchanging/advertising via links between your site and mine?

If not, thanks for the time and keep up the good work!

Thanks,
Bob

The guys at SEOmoz usually do get back to you, sometimes there is a delay as they get pretty busy.

The grey checked area - you mean the ticks in your example? This is highlighting the website that has been deemed as having the best metric of the sampled sites.

Not looked into your site, but there could be some reasons that you are in 6th even though you appear to have 'better' metrics than the sites above you.

Its also worth noting that DA, and PA are just measurements. Generally having higher scores for all three are a good indicator that you should rank higher, buts its not a guarantee.

You should focus on producing some compelling content add it to your site. Be consistent with it, and then be patient.

Hi,

There was actually a great post on this subject a few days ago, worth taking a look. I think based on this, you could improve the structure of your email. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-write-email-to-get-a-better-response-rate

Hi,

I don't really understand your first question - do you require assistance with SEOMoz? SEOmoz has a great help file you should take a look at: http://www.seomoz.org/help

Plus you can always contact the moz help team, which are always er...helpful

Hi Vizergy,

Great answer.

The root domain is strong, so I’d imagine the sub folders will get some benefit from this.

Yes, it is one page-per franchise deal so I think the approach I’ll be taking is making sure each of these pages has its own unique content (and checking for duplicate site wide), targeted towards the locations target KW/Phrases.

With a few decent links pointing to each location page, and indeed the domain, I think will both benefit.

I've been asked by a client to optimise a a webpage for a location i.e. London.

Turns out that the location is actually a franchise of the main company. When the company launch a new franchise, so far they have simply added a new page to the main site, for example:

mysite.co.uk/sub-folder/london

They have so far done this for 10 or so franchises and task someone with optimising that page for their main keyword + location.

I think I know the answer to this, but would like to get a back up / additional info on it in terms of ranking / seo benefits.

I am going to suggest the idea of using a subdomain for each location, example:

london.mysite.co.uk

Would this be the correct approach. If you think yes, why?

Many thanks,