Hi StreetwiseReports

The code to add onto the end of a URL Search Query is:

• &pws=0

Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz from last week, entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google" which is all about de-personalizing search.

Regards

Simon

Hi Bob

On the SEO side, keywords in domain names don't directly matter as much as they used to, especially with Google. That's the general consensus these days.

On the Usability side, it still helps if there is a keyword or two in the domain name, it helps with that remember-ability as you mentioned plus can help with Click Through Rates if it 'does what it says on the tin'.

What the keyword(s) is depends largely on whether Brand or Product/Service is your most important selling point.

If 'Bob Weikel' is your brand that you'd like to be the main selling point, then include those words.

If 'Health Coach' is what you'd like to be foremost known for, then go for that.

And of course, your suggestion of  'bobweikelhealthcoach.com'  includes both brand and service and isn't too long, though more difficult to remember perhaps than either or.  Perhaps drop the Bob and become known as 'w****eikelhealthcoach.com' as a suggestion.

There's no definitive right or wrong, it's what best matches your business purpose & goals.

If you haven't already read it, have a read of a Domain Guide here on SEOmoz which may help you further.

I hope all that does help you out,

Regards

Simon

Hi Theresa

That's a really good question, to which you will likely get differing answers.

These days, there isn't so much difference between the way modern websites appear on Desktop browsers, Tablet browsers and Smartphone browsers.  Non-smartphone mobiles tend to have more issues.

There are differences though, such as some JavaScript, navigational code and flash not working on tablets and mobiles as well as on desktops.

Personally, I see three main categories at present:

• Desktop
• Tablet (including the iPad)
• Smartphone

because websites do tend to load differently enough between the three, thus having three different technology platforms to cater for.  As tablets and smartphones continue to develop & advance, it's slowly becoming more or less the same, one day not too far off, I believe all 3 will be similar enough and there won't be the need to build different versions (other than perhaps for the speed issue mentioned below).

Within Google Adwords, there remains the option to target 'All Devices', 'Desktop and laptop', 'Mobile devices with full browsers' and 'Tablets with full browsers'

Although another issue is of course Speed;  3G does not usually bode well for full-blown websites to be loaded on a tablet or a smartphone, thus this is a major reason why for the time being, it's usually advisable to cater for tablets and smartphones separately with cut-down versions of the main website. 4G is starting to launch and wireless hotspots and becoming more common, so also one day, speed won't be so much of an issue with tablets and smartphones.

I hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi there,

Maybe, it's likely that there are enough inbound links to the old domain, however it is worth checking whether the Domain Redirect that's in place is a 301 or a 302. If it's the later, get it changed to a 301 if you can.

Depending on your access to Google Webmaster Tools, it would be worth informing Google via GWT (if you can) of the change of address (domain) for the old site. This would help to speed up the full reindexing and removal of the old domain from Google's index.

Hope that helps,

Regards, Simon

Hi Duke

Thanks for the further info.

As the objective is to not rank better for brand terms, so rather it is to rank better for Non-brand terms, then it doesn't make any sense to focus inbound links on brand terms within the anchor text. That can be counter-productive towards those important Non-brand terms.

Brand is one of many factors when it comes to Search, which you seem to know already. The more brand mentions and links on brand terms, the more authority that brand acquires, in theory.

However that doesn't necessarily benefit Non-brand search.

So all-in-all, my advice is to focus link efforts on a natural blend of Brand and Non-brand links, catering for both is important.  Don't worry too much about changing existing branded links to non-brand, instead, focus on both types of links and anchor text moving forwards.

With best regards

Simon

Hi there

Changing the anchor text of inbound links that's already optimized for your non-brand target keywords will risk in reducing your rankings for those keywords; obviously depends on factors such as the quality of those inbound links, competition...

If you are already ranking top for your brand, then this doesn't seem like a worthwhile exercise to do, unless Brand is everything to your business.  If your brand is not ranking well, then by all means go for it for some existing inbound links.

If you can identify any inbound links on anchor text such as 'click here' or 'visit the website' then by all means try to get that anchor text changed, if the link is worth it.

In most cases, I'd suggest focusing on acquiring new relevant medium & high quality inbound links (natural links that is, not paid) with a variety of relevant anchor text, including both brand and non-brand.  This would be time better spent compared to changing existing links that may not help to achieve your goals;  increasing the number of relevant visitors to your site.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Great, you're welcome, glad to help

Hi there

From the sounds of things in your question, yes, you will likely be better off targeting your internal pages to rank for relevant search terms rather than your homepage as a 'catch-all'.

So e.g.  http://xxxxxx.org/the-keyword-for-ranking  try to acquire (natural, not paid) inbound links to these pages from relevant authoritive websites with relevant anchor text.

Your homepage will acquire links anyway (usual scenario), this page will rank for your brand and perhaps main overall keyword, difficult to tell though without knowing anything about the website.

There was an interesting White Board Friday recently entitled "Mapping Keywords to Content for Maximum Impact" which is worth a view. It introduces the concept of the 'Frankenpage' which is best avoided (e.g. a homepage or internal page that tries to cater for too many different topics and keywords), better off targeting 1 page for one or two phrases based around 1 main topic.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi Albere

It sounds like you've done some good work to progress as far as you have. I'd suggest to keep going and not give up, if what you've been doing has worked then keep doing more of it.

I've seen on many an occasion that it does take time and perseverance to jump from the second page to the first.

Try performing a competitor link analysis if you haven't already, look for any linking opportunities. See if you can improve the anchor text of any existing inbound links that you have.

Check your on-page and on-site attributes with the SEOmoz toolset.  Ensure those keywords that you are targeting and included in your Meta Title, Description, H1 tag and throughout your page content (without over-doing it, everything in moderation).

Have a read of  "A New Way of Looking at Ranking Factors" and check out the periodic table of ranking factors within it.

Keep producing fresh, relevant, interesting valuable content and share it socially across the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.  Do some online PR and share your content, this helps with acquiring new natural links.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

I wouldn't suspect so. Wiki is seen as an incredibly Authoritive site and has many high quality links pointing to it, so it's high rankings are mainly down to the site being so authoritive and huge.

Wiki fulfills many of the factors within the periodic table of SEO ranking factors at http://searchengineland.com/seotable  It's a difficult site to beat, though can and is certainly achieved.

Glad you like the suggestions, they will help to get there.

Regards

Simon

Hi StreetwiseReports

The code to add onto the end of a URL Search Query is:

• &pws=0

Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz from last week, entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google" which is all about de-personalizing search.

Regards

Simon

Hi Theresa

That's a really good question, to which you will likely get differing answers.

These days, there isn't so much difference between the way modern websites appear on Desktop browsers, Tablet browsers and Smartphone browsers.  Non-smartphone mobiles tend to have more issues.

There are differences though, such as some JavaScript, navigational code and flash not working on tablets and mobiles as well as on desktops.

Personally, I see three main categories at present:

• Desktop
• Tablet (including the iPad)
• Smartphone

because websites do tend to load differently enough between the three, thus having three different technology platforms to cater for.  As tablets and smartphones continue to develop & advance, it's slowly becoming more or less the same, one day not too far off, I believe all 3 will be similar enough and there won't be the need to build different versions (other than perhaps for the speed issue mentioned below).

Within Google Adwords, there remains the option to target 'All Devices', 'Desktop and laptop', 'Mobile devices with full browsers' and 'Tablets with full browsers'

Although another issue is of course Speed;  3G does not usually bode well for full-blown websites to be loaded on a tablet or a smartphone, thus this is a major reason why for the time being, it's usually advisable to cater for tablets and smartphones separately with cut-down versions of the main website. 4G is starting to launch and wireless hotspots and becoming more common, so also one day, speed won't be so much of an issue with tablets and smartphones.

I hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi there,

Maybe, it's likely that there are enough inbound links to the old domain, however it is worth checking whether the Domain Redirect that's in place is a 301 or a 302. If it's the later, get it changed to a 301 if you can.

Depending on your access to Google Webmaster Tools, it would be worth informing Google via GWT (if you can) of the change of address (domain) for the old site. This would help to speed up the full reindexing and removal of the old domain from Google's index.

Hope that helps,

Regards, Simon

Content in an iFrame can be indexed, that's the biggest issue here. iFrames have a URL all of their own, so are a page in their own right. Sometimes they are wrapped in a Frameset, which can tie them together to produce a whole normal page.

If their is any way to avoid using an iFrame, then go for it. If not, then it's not just about SEO anyway, Usability is also very important and it's often a compromise that has to be made.

So do what's best for the User Experience and cater for SEO afterwards, which could be using a 'NoIndex, Follow' tag on each iFrame and an 'Index, Follow' tag on the overall main page URL.

Regards

Simon

Hi Brian

This is an easy question to answer; "absolutely not". Please don't copy them, you'll end up regretting it.

How you've described your competitors' links makes them fall into the 'worthless spam' category; their efforts would have been for little gain, especially any long term gain, plus they've risked getting penalised for link spamming.

Links from blog posts are usually nofollow so will hold zero SEO value, there is only a small percentage of decent blogs out there.

To acquire some links that will actually be of benefit to your website, create some unique relevant interesting valuable Content for your visitors and Distribute this well. In turn, you'll likely be rewarded with some great natural links. Infographics with a text link built in can really help.

I hope this has been of some help to you.

Regards

Simon

Hi Ivaylo

I shall share a few pointers with you here for consideration;

1. Perform an on-page analysis of the website to identify and help resolve any issues that might come up, such as too many on-page links or too many no-followed links pointing in, any issues with titles or descriptions... (The SEOmoz toolset is great at helping with this).

2. Research what valuable links are pointing to the Wiki page and try and get some of the same links pointing to your clients' site (new followed links from different reputable websites will help a lot). Also, identify existing links where the anchor text could be improved.

3. Keep the content fresh, relevant and interesting.

4. Depending on what your clients' site offers, consider if there are any tools/widgets that could be developed to help make the site more useful.

5. Consider building upon the Social aspect, such as engaging with people on Twitter, Forums and Guest Blogging to attract more visitors and more sharing of your content.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

I wouldn't suspect so. Wiki is seen as an incredibly Authoritive site and has many high quality links pointing to it, so it's high rankings are mainly down to the site being so authoritive and huge.

Wiki fulfills many of the factors within the periodic table of SEO ranking factors at http://searchengineland.com/seotable  It's a difficult site to beat, though can and is certainly achieved.

Glad you like the suggestions, they will help to get there.

Regards

Simon

Hi Albere

It sounds like you've done some good work to progress as far as you have. I'd suggest to keep going and not give up, if what you've been doing has worked then keep doing more of it.

I've seen on many an occasion that it does take time and perseverance to jump from the second page to the first.

Try performing a competitor link analysis if you haven't already, look for any linking opportunities. See if you can improve the anchor text of any existing inbound links that you have.

Check your on-page and on-site attributes with the SEOmoz toolset.  Ensure those keywords that you are targeting and included in your Meta Title, Description, H1 tag and throughout your page content (without over-doing it, everything in moderation).

Have a read of  "A New Way of Looking at Ranking Factors" and check out the periodic table of ranking factors within it.

Keep producing fresh, relevant, interesting valuable content and share it socially across the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.  Do some online PR and share your content, this helps with acquiring new natural links.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi Maria, this usually has absolutely no effect at all on SEO, though can't be completely sure without seeing it and your website. The main consideration with such pop ups is User Experience rather than SEO. Hope that helps, Simon

Thanks Ryan. I like your more detailed answer on user experience, spot on!