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Do you minimize the amount of colors used as well? I'm curious if you've split tested this against a banner that you paid a designer to create. I like the simplicity of the idea, its kind of like craigslist with the less is more strategy.

Google results are different, depending on your location and many other factors. Here is an interesting TED video on the topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

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If the exact match domain is taken, I prefer to try add a hyphen between the words or add one additional word at the end. It could be a word that works for your niche, or you could look on the google keyword tool for additional ideas. For branding, I personally wouldn't add the same word twice...

If google has indexed the original article, it might devalue the page with duplicate content. Some sites have seen penalties after the Google Panda update, and were able to recover after removing 'low quality' content. I recommend writing original content if you can. You could use the ideas in...

If you feel that graphic design is not your specialty, you could hire someone to do the work for you. If you are low on budget, there is probably someone on fiverr that will crank something out for you.

If I were in your position I would either; 1. Hire someone to post a bunch of reviews to push down the negative ones or 2. Send out an email to all existing customers offering a chance of winning one of your best products/services or some other product (iPad, etc) in exchange for writing a...

There are many good threads here already on this topic. Here is one (it has two parts). http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/making-money/10224-niche-guide-intro-part-1-finding-niche.html...

Sellers on sites like Flippa, etc have been known to pump up a fake PR and then sell before the PR drops. Not saying everyone does it, but I am curious as well to learn about other methods for identifying whether or not the PR is legit so that we can avoid such scams.

I just tried out the 'author hreview' plugin and it didn't pass google's analysis. You can use Google's rich snippit testing tool (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=&view=) and it will tell you whether or not a specific URL has implemented the html code correctly. Funny...

I've been denied indexing on an aged domain that I purchased, without any previous knowledge that the domain had a problem. There were no archive.org listings or anything to hint a problem. Good to see some tips that might help.

Yeah that's the author hreview plugin (uses rich snippits). If you have an existing google places ranking and this plugin setup correctly, you can get a double row of stars. Pretty cool, although I don't know how long it will last. There is also a plugin from a current WSO that does the same thing.

Aweber, iContact, ConstantContact and many more. Aweber is very popular. You could also use interspire. If you setup a software on your own server, you could use smtp.com to make sure that the emails don't go to spam, but it is more work.

Ranktracker reports and other charts are great if the client is an analytical personality and likes to see a lot of data. If they are not too analytical (or doesn't have a lot of time), you could just show them one chart and keep it simple and to the point. The point is to upsell him, so focus...

For strength of competitors, check out Majestic SEO or SEOMoz Pro, both paid services but have a lot of info on competitors backlinks. It just depends on your budget, as these services are not cheap.

Check out Taktical's post. He has free sales documents with interesting graphs and some other info to help sell local SEO services. The documents are good in my opinion and help present the seller as professional.

Yeah I'm curious as well to what your phone verification method was, google voice or some other service?

That's a good point, they are providing value to the customers in the new markets who aren't able to take advantage of the new idea yet. The groupon copy in europe saved a lot of people money and promoted a lot of businesses, something that groupon wasn't able to offer at the time.

I agree, one can't split test this with any sort of reliability. It isn't enough of a big deal in ranking, which is why I was saying that it makes no sense for Matt Cutts to lie about it. I should have added that the split testing would probably go nowhere, but I thought that was implied when I...

Yeah the settings are really important. It is a complex plugin. However, I also have had some problems with it modifying the .htaccess file of my webhost account when I update the plugin, resulting in ALL of my sites going down until I found the culprit. Now, I backup the .htaccess before...