Thanks for the insights.

It really helps

Hey Carolina,

Jarno has nailed it.

Just on a side note, if you want to see the traffic for http://domain.com your web developer should be able to supply you with the server logs which will tell you similar stats to regular analytics.

This is achievable because log files record requests to a server. Google Analytics record requests for pages with the Analytics code installed.

Hope you can sort it

Iain - Reload Media

Hi David,

In short, yes it does need to be in the head. Unfortunately it's the basic structure of an html page. No way round it, you'll have to customise the headers.

If you did put them in the body, search engines wouldn't recognise them, and they would generate their own title tags, which would make it difficult to target your chosen keywords.

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Are you getting any crawl errors in Google Webmaster tools?

Hi Nadav,

Start with checking if they are a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. Are they part of a Lock Smith association, if so there is a great link to get.

Does your client partner with local carpenters or other tradies in the off line world. If so that will be a great online referral/link.

If you search for Locksmiths {location} are there any none competitor sites that come up you could get your client listed on?

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Sarah,

I wasn't able to find errors on that page. Just to confirm the CSV of the crawl, is that coming from Google Webmasters?

Iain

I see. To get the city-state pages indexed then they must have their own URL. If you can only access it via posting a form (assumed for using the search feature), the a search engine can't see it.

To get round this, you could put a links underneath the search box to popular searches. This will get them indexed.

Does that answer the questions?

Thanks

Iain - Reload

Hi Editable Text,

In short if you show Google a crawlable link to the content with the dynamic header/content, and the content is driven by the unique URL, yes it will index it.

As with any SEO/life question, there are a few t&c's with this.

1. The pages need to be unique enough not to be classed as duplicate content
2. Make sure it's intelligently linked internally
3. You have external links pointing deep into the site
4. You have a decent site architecture

To answer you second question, you'll need unique pages for each location, unless your content would be so thin, you'd need to group them. The URL doesn't have to include the keyword, but it's damn helpful if it does.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

When was the CSV download of the crawl taken? Have any changes been made to that page since?

Did the same 404 show up when you used Screaming Frog?

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Katherine,

Try using Screaming Frog SEO software to crawl you site. That should pick up if you have a incorrect internal links.

For external links pointing to none existent pages, try Majestic SEO. It has the largest amount of link data (Sorry Open Site Explorer, but you know it's true).

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media