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You aren't alone!  I have a client that just lost all of his 1-5 rankings!  About 20 in all.  Taking ubiquitousinnovation 's direction, and creating a disavow file for the spammy links that were created before our firm started working on the site.

Beyond building a solid website....

Off page - have you considered MOZ local?  For $49 they can kick start a citation campaign for you.  First you will need to make sure the client has a Facebook fanpage or Google Plus account.

The rest is all elbow grease.

Like a page that lists every show in your database?  Isn't that what a sitemap is for?  Couldn't find one on your site.

Your search is already fantastic!  I can search for Lion King... and pick a city I want to see it in.  The dates aren't listed, so I don't know if I've missed the one in Boston or not... would be helpful for vacation planning.

The only benefit I see to listing all the shows on one page (with perhaps the city and dates listed) is for prompting ideas to the visitor who knows nothing about theater (like me and only know about the ones I've seen or want to see).

I don't know how it works over in the UK, but here in the States, I can run a PPC campaign with a generalized keyword "web design" and only target specific zip codes, cities or county (through Google PPC), and even more granular based on hobbies (in FB).

So, yes, I would do the generalized, and then if you can, spread it around the several different geo areas that you can target.

Good luck!

We're in the same predicament here on the other end of I-4 (Clearwater).  Technology proficients in our area are slim pickings.  Here's a few things we've done that has worked well in the past:

(1) Documentation - Document your SEO procedures and utilize a system for maintaining all your work (so it's scalable).  We use Access07, for managing implementations, history from Dmoz and citation history and effort - kept on a server and accessed remotely via logmein or vpn.  That way you can manage effort and results on a scalable platform.  We have a solid on-boarding process that can get new folks performing great SEO within a week.

(2) Locally - Hire experienced admins that are really good at researching online, being creative with data and good with Excel.  We generally give a short homework assignment to qualified candidates to test their speed and creativeness.

(3) Remotely - Hire employees from outside the area to telecommute.  We've hired out of Atlanta and NC, which are both relatively cheap airline tickets and short flights for necessary "day trips" to the office.

If you've done #1 well, the rest is teachable.  Besides, you want folks who will SEO your way (which works for you and your clients) and not broken or trained improperly by somebody else.

Ditch the .ca - makes me just as nervous as the .us here in the States.  Even though .biz and .info and .net get some traction - the country specific ones seem to be harder to rank for - and quite honestly very confusing.

Better off being unique or finding an expired .com domain with some Alexa rank.

What has worked for my clients in the past, is to have two domains:

(1) the main domain for SEO purposes, controlled in Google Webmaster tools as the primary domain
(2) a shorter marketing domain, that forwards (with masking) to the main domain.. and passes the juice.

This way the marketing domain can be shorter, advertised in newspapers,business cards, etc... and can be easily remembered.... and main SEO domain still gets the value of the direct hit traffic.

Thanks!  I downloaded the paid version of JoomSEF... the free version includes a link in the footer... kinda tacky for a client's website.  The paid version was only $35.57 USD.  So... crossing fingers.. here goes nothing!

According to CodeCanyon... the Smart SEO plugin is only valid up to Joomla version 2.5 (as of 1 month ago).  Looks like JCH Optimize is for only for speed optimization.

Still looking for a good SEO plugin for Joomla.  My client does not want to convert to Wordpress (even though they aren't selling any products, just service based org).

To simply answer your question, perform a Google Search for "Google's Amit Singhal keyword density".  Amit's research paper may prove useful to you on your quest.

Because your are in my client's competitive geo area, I do look at your site from time to time.  To guide your question, take a look at your boat accident page:

http://www.kempruge.com/personal-injury/boating-accidents/

This really does read as keyword stuffing.  You have way too many variations of "boat accident" on a page with very little content.  Which may partly explain why your page is buried on page 3 for "Tampa Boat Accident Attorney".    Your page is NOT written for the reader, it's obviously written for the search engine.  BIG MISTAKE.

You are looking for a tool to tell you yes or no, and the best tool for this is the Moz on-grade checker.  If you aren't getting the score you want there.... then I'd question your content.  You probably won't get much assistance in this forum if you are looking for advice on how to effectively keyword stuff under the radar.  The SEO professionals here probably won't engage to help you.

Yes, I've had this happen to me too.  I'm not sure of the technical reason for this, other then the internet being re-propogated. Everytime I relocate a website, I run into this issue.  After a month or so, everything seems to go back to normal.

Rahul,

I'm glad you are asking some really great questions.  Each one is very complex and requires a thorough understanding of how SEO and google/bing/yahoo work. Which, I think, is beyond the scope of this forum or site.

1. Getting ranked nationally is very different then getting ranked locally.  There are quite a few factors that come into play - the most important being TIME.  The amount of time your site has existed as well as how much TIME you have put into growing your internet presence.  This translates into links established naturally over time and that leads to a historical record of traffic over time.  There are a few tricks up an SEO person's sleeve to get listed on page 1 locally the fastest, but you may not want to hear that answer.  The answer is Google Maps.  Make sure you are listed there first.

2. You may be confusing Google+ places and pages with Google rankings.  Granted Google + pages can show up in the primary Google SERP, I don't think you can substitute the good work there for the good work done on your website.  Your google+ work should SUPPLEMENT your webpage work.

3. Nobody really knows how the mysterious MOZ tool works.  Use it as just another tool in your toolbox, not the ultimate source.  Although we use it for our primary research and for finding needles in a haystack.  We appreciate it for what it helps us accomplish.

4. yes.  See #2 above.  Actually three times, add in  your Google maps too!  However, if you are listed in other highly referral directories, they may overshadow your Google+ (ie: manta, mapquest, yellowpages).  Don't simply rely on Google+ to be your end-all-to-be-all.

5. Huh?  Not sure what that is.  According to wikipedia Google Pack is no longer available for download.  Not sure why you are referencing them.

All in all, you may want to check out some other reference items.  This site proved very useful to me when I was first learning SEO:  http://www.bruceclay.com/seo/search-engine-optimization.htm  They authored "SEO for Dummies" and it's a great reference tool for beginners.

Good luck!

Beyond building a solid website....

Off page - have you considered MOZ local?  For $49 they can kick start a citation campaign for you.  First you will need to make sure the client has a Facebook fanpage or Google Plus account.

The rest is all elbow grease.

I don't know how it works over in the UK, but here in the States, I can run a PPC campaign with a generalized keyword "web design" and only target specific zip codes, cities or county (through Google PPC), and even more granular based on hobbies (in FB).

So, yes, I would do the generalized, and then if you can, spread it around the several different geo areas that you can target.

Good luck!

Well you've got flexsteel as a keyword on two URL's.  Google probably is putting more empahsis on the deeper page  because it either existed longer OR has been crawled with higher factors for the keyword.

You may want to check out your other internal linking and make sure everything is going to the new product page.  Chances are you have lots of internal links pointing to the deeper page, hence making it appear more authoritative on your site.

Check on that, then re-upload a new sitemap for a new crawl.  Good luck!

PPC landing pages and SEO landing pages ARE NOT THE SAME!  Nor should they be treated the same.  Sure, every page on a website that is exercising SEO should be treated liked a "landing page" - but not in the same way.  Let me explain.

SEO Landing Pages When you have rolled up your sleeves, written your content, worked it to a Flesch-Kinkaid grade level and optimized it, it would be a total bummer if your visitor couldn't convert.  Conversion could be, reading the next blog page, next blog article, signing up for newsletter, signing up for trial offer, or actually buying x. In other words, on an SEO page, there are lots of options for conversions or browsing beyond the actual page itself, including bookmarking for later reference.

PPC Landing Pages Now, let's take the visitor who you paid to visit your website. Those visitors, you don't want them to browse or look around, you want them to buy or convert RIGHT THEN AND THERE!   That conversion should be there only option.  There should be no other leaks out of the page to keep browsing and tire kicking... either sign up, enter email to download, start the trial or buy RIGHT NOW, or back out.  Those pages should have the on-page meta done OK.  They clicked on your ad, if written properly, because they wanted to buy/try/sign up right now.  The page needs to have enough content on there to help them make the conversion and actually convert.  But not so much that it deters the conversion.These are the pages you can roll up your sleeves on and have fun testing with A/B conversions, customizing meta, etc...  One well written landing page can serve the purpose for several, if not a handful of keyword ads. They key is that the content (message) needs to match the intention (ad).  So, if your ad promises a free trial for white apples - then your LP better offer a free trial for white apples.  However, if you ad promises super cheap white apples with free delivery, don't take them to a landing page that offers a free trial for white apples.  Capisce?

I hope that makes sense.  Good luck to you!

Like a page that lists every show in your database?  Isn't that what a sitemap is for?  Couldn't find one on your site.

Your search is already fantastic!  I can search for Lion King... and pick a city I want to see it in.  The dates aren't listed, so I don't know if I've missed the one in Boston or not... would be helpful for vacation planning.

The only benefit I see to listing all the shows on one page (with perhaps the city and dates listed) is for prompting ideas to the visitor who knows nothing about theater (like me and only know about the ones I've seen or want to see).

Bummer!  I didn't get a postcard, but I agree... really not liking the upgrade.  I don't care about fancy... just useful.

Does YouTube do that?  If so, that is probably why this YouTube Channel was only created in October 2012.  That alone was a red flag to me!

To simply answer your question, perform a Google Search for "Google's Amit Singhal keyword density".  Amit's research paper may prove useful to you on your quest.

Because your are in my client's competitive geo area, I do look at your site from time to time.  To guide your question, take a look at your boat accident page:

http://www.kempruge.com/personal-injury/boating-accidents/

This really does read as keyword stuffing.  You have way too many variations of "boat accident" on a page with very little content.  Which may partly explain why your page is buried on page 3 for "Tampa Boat Accident Attorney".    Your page is NOT written for the reader, it's obviously written for the search engine.  BIG MISTAKE.

You are looking for a tool to tell you yes or no, and the best tool for this is the Moz on-grade checker.  If you aren't getting the score you want there.... then I'd question your content.  You probably won't get much assistance in this forum if you are looking for advice on how to effectively keyword stuff under the radar.  The SEO professionals here probably won't engage to help you.