with regards to SEO

I am writing with regards to SEO now.

1. XML sitemap submission

We have restricted access at Google Webmaster Tools, but we need to submit XML sitemap (http://www.website.co/sitemap.xml) there for better crawling of the website. Kindly, either submit it yourself or grant us corresponding access level. Path: Optimization>Sitemaps

2. Geographic Target needs to be set up

It is not set up either and we can target the website with the access level we have. The path: Configuration>Settings.

3. Authorship markup

This matter is not resolved either. Authorship markup doesn’t not affect your website’s rankings but is very good for brand and your leadership recognition. Here is a good articles about it (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhall/2013/02/26/6-reasons-why-googles-author-tags-are-important-to-leaders/).

As I have already told you. It doesn’t matter which Gmail account will be used. We can create it for you, but you will have to add a link to it from every page of the website with a rel=’author’ tag.

Moreover, I recommend to do the same for all the articles your share through business2community.com.

4. Ideas for blog articles

When doing a keyword research, we come across some informative search queries that might be used by your potential client. They will not be natural if located on landing pages, but you might consider them as titles/topics for future blog articles.

-          Business Continuity Best Practices

-          IT Disaster Recovery Plan Best Practices

-          What is Business Continuity?

-          Business Continuity Plan Template

-          What is Managed Services?

-          How to Monitor Network Traffic

-          What is a Help Desk

-          What is a Data Center

5. Linking to other blog articles

What would you say if I ask the writer to refer to the other blog articles of your blog? Or he can simple insert a comment where in the text should be a link placed to one of the previous articles.

It appeared that you have a very high bounce rate on your website (82.12%). Namely 82% of people do not click to check up the next (second) page of the website. There are might be two reasons:

-          Lots of traffic comes from image search (which is true for your website)

-          There are new other links that a reader is interested to click.  

Regardless the reason, the lower bounce rate is the better.

6. Home page text

We created a list of key phrases for the homepage, but some of the words are missing (they are listed below). We don’t want place them in the title tag to keep it natural, but they need to be present somewhere in the text at least to optimize the page for key phrases containing those words.  Please refer to the Google Doc file, Keywords and SERPs sheet.  

Consultants

Healthcare

Firm

Small business

Rates

Texas

7. Website Architecture

a.       Landing pages

The same sheet in the document contains other grouped key phrases and suggested landing pages for them. As you see, some of the groups do not have landing pages. Please suggest the landing page of the website relevant to the set of key phrases.

b.       

As far as I understand your services are limited to consulting only, but I might be mistaken though. Some of the key phrases listed in the sheet might not be related to your business offer. Can you please mark the key phrases (or even groups of key phrases) that should be removed with red color.