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Thank you both for helping us.  We talked about what you wrote this morning and are making changes based on this advice.

We have been trying everything we can with anchor text. We have read here that we should try naturalistic language.  Our competitors who are above us in Google search results don't do any of this.  They only use their names or a single term like "austin web design".  Is what we are doing hurting our listings?  We don't have any black hat links.  Here's what we are doing now.  We are going crazy trying to figure this out. We are afraid to do anything in fear it will damage our position.

Bob

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Thank you so much Calin, we really appreciate all your help!!!

One additional question that you might have an opinion on:

On our website the main menu bar is at the top of all the secondary pages, but on the HOME page the main menu is near the bottom because we wanted visitors to focus on the home page content first.

We weren't sure if it made a difference to Google that the main menu was under the content (at the bottom) on the home page

From an SEO  perspective would it be better to have the main menu on the home page at the TOP to be consistent with the secondary pages?

We are very appreciative of all this help.  We used toi use MOZ years ago - I don't remember the Q&A being so good and useful with so many topics.  It probably was.  This thread is so timely for us.

Calin: All our metrics are good and getting better.  We out rank our competitors on almost everything but can't move up.  My team member said the link on our page was not to the business Google+ account but to his personal one.  We did this months ago to get a picture on the search results - that's gone now. - I am sure they are other things we are doing wrong. If we get this fixed it will have a huge impact on our business. We have no black-hat back links (they I know of) and we try to do every right.  We will watch for every pearlof wisdome you can share with us.

Thank you so much.  There are two of us working on this right now.  We are spending most of our time trying to solve our problems with our keyword listings. I'll ask my team member here for specific recommendations or problems we are having.  He's going trough your report right now so we can have our programmers implement it right away.  We really appraciate this - Bob

I just posted something above.

Thank you, Calin!

We used the tool and are know looking at the results.  Schema addresses are very important? Is that exact format or where it comes from the key?

THANK YOU!Yes, we use our address - but some of our competitors on our keywords don't - and they rank higher.  We can't figure that out.  One of our guys thought you might get a better position without an address. It's sure confusing.

Here's ours - http://www.pallasweb.com - we are having a huge problem moving up and are having the same problem.  All of our metrics are great and moving up but we can't get into the map listings.  There are two of us spending all of our time trying to figure this out.  We have been in business since 1996. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  We used to use MOZ for years and then started back up a month ago. I think we stopped the last campaigns 2-3 years ago.

Our keywords would be web design, austin web design, web design austin, austin web design company, austin web developers, etc.

Bob

Thank you both for helping us.  We talked about what you wrote this morning and are making changes based on this advice.

THANK YOU!Yes, we use our address - but some of our competitors on our keywords don't - and they rank higher.  We can't figure that out.  One of our guys thought you might get a better position without an address. It's sure confusing.

Thank you, Calin!

We used the tool and are know looking at the results.  Schema addresses are very important? Is that exact format or where it comes from the key?

We are very appreciative of all this help.  We used toi use MOZ years ago - I don't remember the Q&A being so good and useful with so many topics.  It probably was.  This thread is so timely for us.