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This is a decision you only face at blog creation time, once you have strated your blog and it is established, I don't see anything that should push you to change unless it is a "business reason"
A subdomain is arguably not the best practice, but it is not a bad one either
YES, we have a methodology that yields results both on the short and long terms.
Nothing has really changed for us since those updates as we already had very cautious linkbuilding strategies done 100% manually, the hard way!
That's a very common pattern in the SEO area
Just keep building quality links knowing that a portion of them will probably never be of any use, but you cannot guess proactively which ones!
You never really know when a link's effect has been applied, you don't even know if it has been applied.
In fact, a link's effect can be "your rankings were maintened (no change) thanks to that link that helped keep up with your competitors' linkbuilding strategies"
The website giving you the link could also evolve prositively (or negatively) and you won't see an effect until many months later.
There are many tools that can help you see your link profile, none will tell you if it is natural or not, it is up to you and your SEO. Here are the most widely used:
If you want to do it yourself, you first need to understand what a link profile is made of.
A link profile is made up of:
Let me know if you need anything else.
The simple answer is NO
However, keep in mind that the IP has a very very small impact on your rankings.
If you target the French market, you have a very slight advantage in getting an IP from France
Also, try to get a good host so your website's loading speed doesn't get affected.
Other than that, I really don't see anything.
Oh, don't forget "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
The first question you should be asking yourself is "why did our competitor lose his rankings?"
The answer would be something like:
If one of the reason was that they got links for site A, B and C that you too have links from, then you would probably have dropped too!
My point is, it is not about the websites you are having links from, it is all about the global link profile and the time taken to acquire those links.
Now, you are also wondering if you should preventively remove those links, my answer would clearly be NO, but it you ever decide to do so, please do it slowly so you don't hurt your rankings too much and try to compensate with other natural links progressively.
And last but not least, we always tell our cutomers to concentrate on getting new links that correct their link profile rather than waste time and effort trying to change things they already have.
Hope that helps!
We have helped many customers achieve TOP 5 rankings without ever using content marketing!
In fact, there are many other powerful linkbuilding strategies like :
Of course, you might say, this is so old style SEO! And I would have to agree with you, but guess what? they still work quite well even on highly competitive keywords when done properly.
Anyway, good luck to you.
http://p3consulting.com/ already exists, so #3 is not an option (you would be working for them)
#2 has a USP in it, what would you do when you want to change it? However, you might want to register it and use it as a "brand" or secondary/specific website.
#1 and #4 are not bad, but they are a bit long.
As you will probably need the word "consulting" in your future SEO actions, I guess #4 is the best.
Good luck!
You should always try and track the density of your target phrase, not individual words.
That being said, I second Cody in that you shouldn't worry to much about the density itself. Try to apply those rules :
use exact phrase at least twice in the content (more if you have a lot of content)
use a variation (plural, adverbial form...) of the phrase
put it in bold once or twice
For more details about on page optimisation, this old post is still a very good one :
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
In addition to what has been said, I think you also need to understand how it all works for you to make the best decision.
It is all about DNS propogation, it is the time taken to update all the servers around the web with the new IP to point to when one looks for your domain name. Now yourdomain.com points to 195.81.76.22 and you want to move it to 156.22.101.85 (examples only)
While the update is propagating, some visitors will get the old IP (website on yahoo) and others will get the updated one (on the other host) so there is no downtime.
The issue is with dynamic sites (forums, blogs...) you might get data (comments, posts...) that will be made to the version on Yahoo and will be lost once everyone goes to the new host.
I your website is static, just go ahead and move your files and update your DNS records and don't worry about anything else.
If your website is dynamic, then you should copy the data at a given time and either :
Hope that helps