Hi Bruce

That's great thank you for the information and all your help.

Hi Don,

That's great thank you for your time and help. I really appreciate it.

Hello,

It doesn't matter what keyword I put into Google (when I'm not signed in and have cleaned down my browsing history) the contact us page ranks higher than the home page.

I'm not sure why this is, the home page has a higher page authority, more links and more social media shares, the website is an established one. When I have checked Google Analytics my home page gets more people landing on it than the contact us page. It looks like people are ignoring the contact us page and scrolling down until they find the home page.

I'd appreciate any help or advice you might have.

Thank you.

Hello,

On May 12th my average session duration within Google Analytics went from 1.12 seconds to 10 seconds. Every month since then it has had an average session duration of around 10 seconds.

My traffic over this time has increased. I am concerned that the website is being attacked by bots. What should I be looking out for to work out what is happening?

Many thanks for your help.

Hi Matthew

I wouldn't have thought it would cause any problems as long as it was true.

If you can truthfully claim to be the 'best' or 'No1' in your business market its worth double checking that there are keywords based around this for your brand/business before changing your title tag.

Hope that helps.

Hi Michelle

Try;

• adding Google Places to your website
• In your website I would add in to your contact page UK in the address as Google uses the address details within a website to identify where the business is based
• changing the language in the source code from US to either English UK or just English.
• It would also be worth looking at getting a broader range of UK based links as when I did a quick link check many of them seemed to be .com.
• Can you get hold of the URL www.nut-job.co.uk and redirect traffic from that to your .com site?
• Do you have Google Adwords? You can change the settings in there to just focus on UK searchers and not US

Hope that helps

If it is purely from an SEO point of view then I think that I would avoid doing the micro sites, I think that you would get penalized from search engines.

I agree with Tom if you are putting all that work in that they are suggesting then why not just put that amount of work into your main website/blog/social media? That way you are unlikely to suffer any negative affects and will receive long term benefit in terms of content production, traffic and social media shares?

Hope that it all works out well for you.

Have a great weekend.

We have used micro sites in the past for targetting 'niche' long tail keywords that would get lost within our main website. They have purely been from the point of view of benefiting the customer in helping them to find information that they need.

They tend to be for areas of our business and keywords that are on the fringes of our business.

We have found that by having a micro site it enables us to talk to our customers about these individul products directly to them rather than on a page that is within a website talking about a wide variety of products. (along the same lines as Mike explained in his example) We have two micro sites and one works really well for us the other doesn't. It is worth considering but like Tom says there are a number of warnings to take into consideration.

I think overall it depends why you are considering building the micro sites? If it is for the benefit of the consumer so that they can have clear and concise information that is relevant to them then it is worth doing with caution.

Hope that is of some help.