I need to delete an old client from my published listings.

I have tried it and it works. The problem many times is you'll get non-qualified prospects liking your page which will hurt your engagement numbers.

I guess if you are just starting out and you want to add a little clout to your FB page, you could consider it.

I'd rather have 110 engaged fans than thousands of non-engaged fans.

Thanks Alan. I can understand why they want to do this from a branding standpoint but it will be harder to rank for individual terms.

In most cases I would think multiple websites would be called for here. A website for each area of service.

Hello Everyone,

I was looking for some strategies for doing SEO on a site that offers multiple services.

Here is the example:

There is one company with ONE physical address.

They perform the following services:

• Pest Control
• Mold Remediation
• Home Inspections
• Waterproofing

They also handle these services in several surronding cities.

They want to maintain one website for branding purposes.

Obviously I will create individual pages on their site for each service but was wondering how diffiuclut it will be to rank one website for these various services.

Thank you!

Oh sure. Suppose I asked for feedback and then I argue with you? Not too smart. You learn the most from your mistakes. Thanks again for all of your help.

Hi Marie,

Thanks so much for your feedback. I am glad I posed this question as the ebook and look of my page has been mentioned so I got to get to work. Like I said above, I am changing my ebook offer in exchange for a 7 page video training course. This might change the look and feel of my page. Thanks so much.

Thank you Sha for your feed back. This was really helpful. I am working on a new lead gen give away and moving away from the ebook. I will be doing a video course. So maybe this will help. Most of my readers are direct response marketers so they would expect a two step lead gen offer. Thank you for your time.

Well those keywords are kind of the low hanging fruit when you run an SEO consulting firm. Trying to rank for SEO, SEO consultant, SEO firm is tough.

Maybe I can try to soften up the content a bit.  I'm also going to add a video this week.

I am on the first page for my keywords but my concern is Google knocking me down for my high bounce rate.  My traffic is really increasing so I know I am doing some things right.

Thanks for your help

In my top 10 this is what I found

For my main keywords like small business internet marketing and small business seo my bounce rate is in the 40% range.

funny thing is my most popular keyword the last 30 days is "tools" which has a 98% bounce but I do not see my site ranking for this. "tools" is in my top 10 for the past year with a 75% bounce rate.

86% for radical marketing

My bounce rate has always been in the 70% range. This is why I changed my design and home page layout. My home page used to be more of a squeeze/landing page.  So I added more links to click and cleaned everything up.

I added a video training course with 10 videos you can access from my home page ( no optin required)

Thanks for your honesty. Spammy is the last thing I would have thought on this site. I have my phone number and contact information very visible. I am sharing my social networks with folks, I have a very active blog. I have real testimonials with photos and there is zero adsense or banner ads. I feel any good direct response website should have some sort of lead gen to capture names and emails.

You bring up a point I did not consider and I appreciate this.

Hello Everyone,

I'm stumped.

My primary website has a horrendous bounce rate of around 75%

My domain is www.radicalmarketingsolutions.com

My home page has a bounce rate of around 68%.

The funny thing is, I have a page on Google Analytics basics for small business owners that is my 3rd top page for content, I have an average time on page of over 3 minutes yet my bounce rate is 90%.

I have another page on how to depersonalize your google searches in Chrome and Firefox that is a top page with a time on page over 5 minutes and this page has a bounce rate of 96%!

I felt that my old design was really hurting me so I changed the design in the beginning of this month and it does not look like it's helped much.

I really simplified the site, created a lot more white space and added some links to my other important pages in hopes to get more click throughs.

I would really love some honest "constructive" feed back on my site as to why the bounce rate could be so high.

I have a ton of content on my blog and I get a lot of positive feedback.

One thing I did not do was exclude my IP from Analytics so I could be influencing the numbers. I've added this filter and hoping this will help.

Another issue is I do email my list with each new blog post. This could mean those folks visit the post and then leave without reading anything else on my blog. So this could be hurting me as well.

Would love your suggestions.

Thanks,

Bill Parlaman

Good luck. Like I said, this is just me being silly. I pray to my Google shrine twice a day and this is what it tells me.

All at once or drip feed, either way your content gets up there!

I don't think there is any right or wrong answer to this question. More of a preference.

For me, I like to drip my content.

In my own silly mind, it looks more natural to the search engines rather than dumping a bunch of content on your site.

I also think it keeps the search engines coming back to your site as you posting content through the months and years rather than all at one time.

Mind you. I have no scientific basis for this... just my own anal retentivity. LOL

Hello,

Little confused on this matter.

From a website architectural and content stand point, what is the difference between a category page and a content page?

So lets say I was going to build a website around tea.

My home page would be about tea.

My category pages would be:

White Tea, Black Tea, Oolong Team and British Tea correct? (  I Would write content for each of these topics on their respective category pages correct?)

Then suppose I wrote articles on organic white tea, white tea recipes, how to brew white team etc...( Are these content pages?)

Do I think link FROM my category page ( White Tea) to my ( Content pages ie; Organic White Tea, white tea receipes etc) or do I link from my content page to my category page?

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Bill

Hello All,

I am optimizing three websites for a services based company in the South Jersey Area.

Of course within South Jersey there are certain counties, cities and towns I would like to show up for.

For example- Pool Cleaning

South Jersey Pool Cleaning

Cherry Hill NJ Pool Cleaning

Burlington County NJ Pool Cleaning

Voorhies NJ Pool Cleaning.

Do I need to create a page on my websites for every possible county, city and town I want to rank for?

This would entail creating thousands of pages targeting these geographic keywords.

I have seen other similar sites just list all the counties, cities and towns they service in the footer and it seems to work.

Of course this would be beneficial for any business who is looking to not only rank in their home base but a predetermined radius around their home base as well.

Thanks so much, Bill