Recent content by gotohper

Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by 'fresh'. Forum and blog post backlinks will never get it done in a competitive market, right ? I guess I'm not understanding where on earth these links are supposed to be dropped in a quasi legit way--local vendors, I guess. Local vendors that Google takes...

Are you trying to rank 2 pages for the same terms ? Why would you do that ?

Are we talking referral traffic or organic serps traffic ? Either way you should start by adopting the role of someone clicking a link to your site. If you're that person seeing your link in the context in which they find it (or seeing your title tag / meta description in the serps) and you...

I've seen this before. There are multiple reasons why something like this might happen. Is your subpage better targeted in terms of content, title tag ? Alternatively, is there even a little bit of the content of the sub-page duplicated on the home page ? My blog sometimes does this where the...

I'd rather not become known as the guy who gives away free weddings. It's not really a great form of social proof in my industry, I don't think. I also find that when you do free work for people their expectations are higher than if they're paying a lot. Also-if a couple is signing up for a free...

zoiba: I'm happy to do 1-hour / day of manual SEO work per day. I'd do 5. I just don't know what that means exactly. I'd absolutely have an assistant do the work for me. But what would their strategy be ?

I mainly shoot weddings. When I was on page 1 I was booking 15-20/year for $2200/wedding. Now that I'm on page 2 (mid-way down) I'm looking at 5-7 this year if I'm lucky--and those I get by referral and longtail KW strategies. Slipping out of the 7-pack as well as off the first page in the...

There are obviously some extremely knowledgeable people around here, and I was hoping to get a little advice. My story, to be brief, is that I run a photography business in a fairly competitive market. I do work that is decent--comparable to the upper tier in my city, but I just can't compete...

I could do that--but I'm unclear about if there is a point in doing that in terms of helping my overall site (the page already ranks #1). I'd like to help my overall site. The page itself is already delivering.

Thanks a lot, guys. If there is a menu header on all pages (so there is a link to the homepage on this orphaned page) does that mean that this orphaned page is fully being squeezed of its magical pr juices in terms of benefiting the home page ? The home page is on-topic and not penalized as...

Being my first post, I want to say thanks for all of the info I picked up while lurking the site from time to time over the past few years. I have a page on my site that ranks fairly well (#1) for a low competition longtail search. The page itself is a landing page for a particular photography...