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  • ENSO


    I want to make viewable the xml sitemap I created with the xml tool. However I am not sure that if I throw in html code to make it look nice if it will interfere with the site map. Should I just use the xml with google and submit it there then have a separate stiemap.html that is viewable on my site? Or will two sitemaps complicate things?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ENSO
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  • odegi


    Hello, When link building, is it acceptable to link with a site that has high authority but has minimal relevancy to our site? For example, if we sell nutritional products and the link exchange would be with a site that relates to free coupons, would that work? Also, if we are publishing articles on other sites, should we also publish them on our own site? Should we add "nofollow" if we publish them in our site?

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | odegi
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  • ENSO


    SEOMOZ is great, it told me all the pages with 404 errors, however what would be more useful is if it told me where those links were located? Is this not available through this site, or am I just not seeing that information? If anyone knows of a how to, that is easy to moderate in difficulty to back track broken links I would appreciate it.

    Link Building | | ENSO
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  • FarkyRafiq


    I have a site where most of the pages don't use images. i use the logo on each page as part of the header. As the header is on each page, if i added a keyword into the alt tag, relevant to the specific page as below Would that be bad SEO? Thanks, Farky

    On-Page Optimization | | FarkyRafiq
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  • andywozhere


    I have a site that lists events. I ask those submitting events to submit original content if possible, but frequently they submit press releases which are already published elsewhere. I rewrite some of the press releases, but do not have time to rewrite every press release that comes my way. I want my users to get a comprehensive list of events, but I don't want get a penalty for duplicate content. What is the best solution?

    Content Development | | andywozhere
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  • Tit


    Hallo, Our website was not accepted by Google news although we are confident that our site meets all the requirements. We see several other gambling sites already appearing within Google News’ pages, and we contend that, in most cases, our reporting is both timelier and more relevant. We hope you can give us any feedback. http://www.hetpokerspel.nl/nieuws Regards, Thijs Weinands

    Content Development | | Tit
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  • pugh


    I have been trying to research adding ping services to the default list in wordpress, which only includes http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ A lot of the articles that I have come across seem to be quite old, can anyone tell me if this is still relevant and if so, which services do you find to be worthwhile using? Thanks

    Technical SEO | | pugh
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  • modifyed


    Hi, I have a website called www.bollykings.com It had a pretty solid rank on google for a number of keywords but 4-5 months back, it was badly affected by the Panda update. Now it comes nowhere. I have started updating and posting new articles on it since the last two months. When I search for "bollykings" on Google.com, website does not come only in the first 40 results. What could this mean?

    Technical SEO | | modifyed
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  • theshortstack


    Morning all - I've been getting a bit of traffic recently for mobile phrases, so am thinking of putting a mobile optimised page on my site which users will be automatically directed to when they visit my site. My question is though, how will this affect the rankings of those current pages which are trying to target mobile users. For example, let's say I've got a page at www.betting.com/iphone which is ranking really well for those users looking to place a few bets on their iPhone. Once I stick my mobile optimised page up anyone clicking through to this URL will be re-directed to a generic mobile landing page at a different URL. Is this likely to effect my rankings of the original www.betting.com/iphone page at all given the fact that all visitors are being immediately  re-directed elsewhere? Thanks very much for your help

    On-Page Optimization | | theshortstack
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  • careeron


    Hi, this question might not be SEO specific but i was wondering how seomoz implemented a direct search from the chrome omnibox (you write www.seomoz.org and the press TAB)? BR Carl

    On-Page Optimization | | careeron
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  • DigitalJungle


    Hi All, Client of mine using reversed Meta Tags format in their website and Honestly i never saw such Meta Tags formats. In my opinion having 2 Title tags and wrong reversed description tag is not correct and the needs to be removed, and other tags need to be changed,too But they said that it probably doesn't make a difference because weird thing is Search Engines are apparently able to index them ,So they don't think it affects search engine results and won't remove it just based on opinion. So should i persist in correcting them or just hope for the best and ignore it?!?!?! Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | DigitalJungle
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  • heritageseo


    In terms of a small flash slideshow and having text and links on various slides within, is such text and links as easily index-able (or even at all) compared to static html text on a webpage?

    Algorithm Updates | | heritageseo
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  • Bartell


    I'm working on a very large (over 2500 pages), very old website (with pages created in the late 90s). The structure of the site is a mess (it still shows subtle sings of Frontpage!). We are trying to move to a more uniform, dynamic solution. My question is: what sort of implication will there be on search rankings if we implement 301 redirects from the very old pages (that are poorly named) to new pages which follow a uniform pattern. Some of these pages have external links pointing to them and others (most) just have internal links pointing to them which will be adjusted to the new urls. Does the age of the page have a significant implication on rankings? Is there a better way to this than 301 redirects? Thanks for the help

    Technical SEO | | Bartell
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  • nicole.healthline


    Studies show that using the targeted keyword in the alt tag helps to rank better for a keyword. But what if the keyword doesn't exactly describe the image, would you still use it in the alt tag? For example, say you have an image of the brain, but the article is about cognitive behavioral therapy -- an accurate description would say 'human brain' but an SEO alt tag may say 'cognitive behavioral therapy'--which would you use?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nicole.healthline
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  • ENSO


    On page analysis wanted me to add a canonical url tag. However I added then re ran the on page analysis and it came up with an error. What is the proper way to add a canonical url tag in the head of an index page? ie. add a canonical tag to www.hompeage.com/index.html would it be ? Or should I ignore this for a home page? Because I add it then run the analysis again and get this? Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical Moderate fix <dl> <dt>Canonical URL</dt> <dd>"http://www.ensoplastics.com/index.html"</dd> <dt>Explanation</dt> <dd>If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.</dd> <dt>Recommendation</dt> <dd>We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.</dd> <dd>So do I add it or not? If I don't I get a lower page rating if I take it off I get a higher page rating with room for improvement. </dd> </dl>

    On-Page Optimization | | ENSO
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  • Robbie8299


    This is my first time asking so I will try to be as clear as possible. Ok, I have a micro site that is an (exact match domain) and the domain is a couple 3-4 years old and ranks very well for several search terms. The main two terms it ranks for are like this. houses for rent in XXXXX XXXXX homes for rent (XXXXX equals a city name) The issue is this site has no backlinks, zero advanced SEO, I only did basic optimization to it when i set the site up. Even site structure, url structure all are not good.
    The only page I have ever even seen rank is the main root url. But with all that the site does really good in the top 1-2 results for key search terms. Now, I have a main site that is a very big site that has steadily been climbing in search terms every month with great backlinks, optimized for the city and all.
    It currently ranks on second page for the listed search terms listed above. What I want to do is 301 redirect this microsite to my city page on my main site that is much better optimized for the key city terms.
    The 301 redirect would point this "root domain"  (mymicrosite.com) to my city page that looks like this. www.mymaindomain.com/city/XXXXXXX If I do this will Google rank my main URL city page as well as it ranks this microsite with zero links, seo, etc, etc. What happens if it does not? Will I be able to turn off the 301 redirect and keep the microsite rankings? My main reason for wanting this is I want this city page to rank well and I only want to optimize one site instead of both. Any help would be great!

    Technical SEO | | Robbie8299
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  • Socialdude


    Hi I currently submitted to 30 seo directories & I just want to make sure my links get indexed by google so the link value passes onto my site. Any suggestions about getting my links indexed? I was thinking of either pinging or social book marketing the links! What's your view, thanks.

    Link Building | | Socialdude
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  • CarsProduction


    We will need to send our users to an alternate version of our homepage for a few hours for a certain event. The SEO task at hand is to minimize the chance of the special homepage getting crawled and cached in the search engines in place of our normal homepage. (This has happened in the past so the concern is not imaginary.) Among other options, 302 and 307 redirects are being discussed. IE, redirecting www.domain.com to www.domain.com/specialpage. Having used 302s and 301s in the past, I am well aware of how search engines treat them. A 302 effectively says "Hey, Google! Please get rid of the old content on www.domain.com and replace it with the content on /specialpage!" Which is exactly what we don't want. My question is: do the search engines handle 307s any differently? I am hearing that the 307 does NOT result in the content of the second page being cached with the first URL. But I don't see that in the definition below (from w3.org). Then again, why differentiate it from the 302? 307 Temporary Redirect The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests. This response is only cacheable if indicated by a Cache-Control or Expires header field. The temporary URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s) , since many pre-HTTP/1.1 user agents do not understand the 307 status. Therefore, the note SHOULD contain the information necessary for a user to repeat the original request on the new URI. If the 307 status code is received in response to a request other than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might change the conditions under which the request was issued.

    Technical SEO | | CarsProduction
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  • NaHoku


    I just got a brochure with a very impressive lineup for the upcoming eTail conference.  Has anyone here been to the eTail Conference?  What's been your experience?

    Industry News | | NaHoku
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  • ICM


    I received a crawl report yesterday, made some site changes, and would like to see if those changes were done correctly. Rather than wait a week for my automatic crawl to be generated, is there anyway to initiate a manual crawl on a single subdomain as a PRO member? As a PRO member, you can schedule crawls for 2 subdomains every 24 hours, and you'll get up to 3,000 pages crawled per subdomain. When we've finished crawling, your reports will be sent to your PRO email address, which is currently From here... http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

    Moz Pro | | ICM
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  • Mont


    If a page element (div, e.g.) is initially hidden and shown only by a hover descriptor or Javascript call, will Google crawl and index it’s content?

    Technical SEO | | Mont
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  • BobGW


    Hello, For our site thewealthymind(dot)com what keywords do you think I should be targeting, I assume it is not enough just to get keywords from Google Analytics history. Thanks!

    Keyword Research | | BobGW
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  • MichaelWeisbaum


    Do Facebook Open Graph tags get spidered by Google?  I have a site I'm looking at and they've implemented these tags on the entire site, but with the same title and description on every page.  I'm assuming if you use these tags, give each page their own unique tags.  But do these have an effect on rankings at all?  Does googlebot see them and take them into account?

    Social Media | | MichaelWeisbaum
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  • richpalpine


    We made changes to a site, including the addition of a new page and corresponding link/text changes to existing pages.  The changes are not yet showing up in the Google index (“site:”/cache), but, approximately 24 hours after making the changes, The SERP's for this site jumped up. We obtained a new back link about a couple of weeks ago, but it is not yet showing up in OSE, Webmaster Tools, or other tools. Just wondering if you think the Google SERP changes run ahead of what they actually show us in site: or cache updates.  Has Google made a significant SERP “adjustment” recently? Thanks.

    Algorithm Updates | | richpalpine
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  • theshortstack


    Ok, I'm still only on my second day as a SEOMoz Pro member so I've obviously got a whole lot of learning still left to do. However, I still wanted to post up a question here that seems to have occurred time and time again today. The thing is when I've been link building in the past, I've been looking for high PR pages with not many OBL. Having watched a few of the seminars and played around with OpenSiteExplorer though, it seems that I might have got my priorities wrong. OSE for example seems to only look at the strength of the domain and the page within that domain ... and I'm assuming that OBL aren't too important in calculating a page's strength given that a lot of the links I see my competitors have built up are technically stronger despite being on a page with around 12 or 15 other links. So I guess my question is, should I be ignoring PR rankings and numbers of links on a page and throwing my trust totally behind OSE? Are they really no longer that important? Thanks a lot for your help.

    Moz Pro | | theshortstack
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  • UWPCE


    I work on an education website. We offer programs that are offered up to 6 times per year. At the moment, we have a webpage for each instance of the program, but that's causing duplicate content issues. We're reworking the pages so the majority of the content will be on one page, but we'll still have to keep the application details as separate pages. 90% of the time, application details are going to be nearly identical, so I'm worried that these pages will still be seen as duplicate content. My question is, should we deindex these pages? We don't particularly want people landing on our application page without seeing the other details of the program anyway. But, is there problem with deindexing such a large chunk of your site that I'm not thinking of? Thanks, everyone!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | UWPCE
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  • noBulMedia


    Just wondering if there are plans to integrate the social media reporting section with the new "Reports" section. Having a social section in the new Reports interface that could show weekly/monthly/yearly Facebook and Twitter interactions would be awesome to have all in one PDF report with the rest of the reporting options.

    Moz Pro | | noBulMedia
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  • JesseCWalker


    I often work with people who are in service industries who do not have a business address (dog sitters, pilates teachers, personal trainers, house cleaners).  They often work by going into someone's home to provide the service. However in some of these industries independent contractors compete with businesses who have a brick and mortar location.  This presents an SEO challenge when a serp features a 7-pack of local business. When I search "masseuse" I get a 7-pack after a Wikipedia result, and a merriam-webster result.  So being in the 7-pack is essential for any real traffic for the term. One solution to this problem is to have the contractors use their home address for their Google places listing, Yelp, etc.  Is this a good idea? I'm a little worried about this technique because these independent contractors don't actually bring clients into their homes.  Also it would be misleading if someone was searching for a place to go to get a massage instead of having someone come to their home. But the presence of 7pack in a serp really puts these people at an unfair advantage. Would you use a home address?  Do you have any other suggestions as to how to level the playing field in these cases?

    Image & Video Optimization | | JesseCWalker
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  • PGD2011


    Webmaster Tools shows inbound links that don't show up in SEOMOZ. What is that?

    Link Building | | PGD2011
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  • JoshTurner


    I'd like to provide a keyword research report to a client, that includes all of the keywords we're targeting, organized nicely along with relevant data for each (keyword difficulty, search volume, etc.).  Is there a way to do this other than running an individual report for each keyword?  I'd like to avoid sending them a 50 page document showing all of the keyword research 😉 Thanks for any help! Josh

    Keyword Research | | JoshTurner
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  • Socialdude


    Does anyone have/use any really good link analysis tools? I have been using SEOmoz open site explorer but don't find it that indepth or find that many links. I don't mind paying once the link analysis tool is good and I can export links to excell. I was thinking of buying this software http://www.link-assistant.com/features-and-editions.html Cheers,

    Competitive Research | | Socialdude
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  • RobertFisher


    A question posed by Christopher Glaeser from early today:low PA high DA, had a follow up response from him providing 2 urls from PR WEB for separate press releases: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8923419.htm  (HP White) On moz bar Page Analysis/Link Data  =  PA - 47  DA - 36 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/12/prweb9051351.htm  (Golfer's Advice) On moz bar Page Analysis/Link Data  =  PA - 1  DA - 96 I kept scratching my head as to how a press release of 6 weeks ago had garnered such attention from a company that would not seem to have a huge traffic due to more obscure product offering and scientific subject (Analyses of Armor Industry versus Golf Advice). 
    Then I realized that for HP White, Link Data was not about the PR. The url from mozbar was HPWhite.com not the above, I did not notice until I used OSE where same thing was happening. When I cut and pasted the above press release url for HP White and placed it in OSE this changed: PA - 49   DA - 96 (2 links 2 linking root domains) For Golfers advice (0 links from 0 linking domains) Note to all: the links to the PR WEB release for the HP included a low end directory type link and a link from PR WEB (. For Golfer's Advice there was not a link back to the release from PR WEB: Note that Golfer's Advice is a newer release (6 weeks). So, any link from HPWhite release would equal more juice to HP White and PR Web and Vocus. Any link to Golfer's Advice from release offers......???? to Golfer's Advice and who cares to Vocus and PR Web. So, I guess this begs a couple of questions: Why the mozbar link analysis difference for one versus the other? Does PR Web treat some differently than others? Who benefits most from me paying a PR Web to do press releases for a client, PR Web and Vocus or my client and I???? I have tried to order the images to make sense: L to R top, then bottom is last. [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a> [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a> [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a> [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a> [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a> [](<a href=)" target="_blank">a>

    Moz Pro | | RobertFisher
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  • ociosu


    Hi! I have a new version of my website, running with a different CMS (joomla). In order to install the new CMS while not loosing my all content and links I was forced to install the new site in a subdirectory. So the old website was http://www.mydomain.com And the new one is http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory I had redirected  http://www.mydomain.com  to http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory but I am not sure if that is correct, or if it will generate SEO problems. I named the subdirectory with a keyword, at least to have any advantage of something that to my short knowledge looks bad... What do you think? Another question... I understand that it is a good SEO rule to optimize each page for a different keyword. Is it a problem if http://www.mydomain.com is not optimized for anything? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | ociosu
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  • Host1


    Hi. I've added my site to dmoz.org 3-4 months ago or something. Still not accepted (surprise..) Anyway, i was wondering if there is any other sites like dmoz.org i can add my site to? (Free sites, not interested in the countless "pay for express listing"-sites).

    Link Building | | Host1
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  • Petersen11


    I want to use the Rank checker for a bunch of keywords, but i don't want to set tracking to them, It's just a one time only check i want to perform, but im not sure how to add many keywords (it's about 150 keywords i want to check). So if anyone knows how to do this, with SEOmoz Rank Checker tool or another tool in SEOmoz, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

    Moz Pro | | Petersen11
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  • zeepartner


    I have to optimize some online Shops and after Panda I really don't know what to think about thin content on product overview pages anymore... used to be that we could improve our rankings easily just by adding 1-2 sentences on such a page. This always worked for non-overly competitive terms. Now It feels like it doesn't work any longer, but I couldn't put my finger on it and I don't have the resources to test. Here's an example of what I mean: http://www.geschenkidee.ch/wandtattoos/aus_aller_welt.html 
    I would add max. 3 lines of text directly over the product thumbnails. What do you think? Is it worth adding some text on a product overview page or do I not even have to bother post-Panda?

    On-Page Optimization | | zeepartner
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  • buzzmartseo


    Dear SeoMoz fans, I'm really glad to be a part of the community. Just have a quick question. I run a marketplace similar to eBay where users sell the products. I would like some suggestions on how to effectively proceed with SEO for an ecommerce marketplace of this type. Should I be proceed developing product review or product comparison landing pages and build links towards them as often suggested or should  I consider alternative marketing methods? Looking forward to your replies.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | buzzmartseo
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  • nuxeo


    Hi, My SEOMOZ crawl diagnostic warn me about duplicate content. However, to me the content is not duplicated. For instance it would give me something like: (URLs/Internal Links/External Links/Page Authority/Linking Root Domains) http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/contact?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews20110516 /1/1/31/2 http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/contact?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews20110711 0/0/1/0 http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/contact?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews20110811 0/0/1/0 http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/contact?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews20110911 0/0/1/0 Why is this seen as duplicate content when it is only URL with campaign tracking codes to the same content? Do I need to clean this?Thanks for answer

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nuxeo
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  • idreams


    i want to ask a question. i am sure this is kind black hat seo. look at this web site http://www.199999dollars.com/ if we also create website like this and put a banner as domain for sale and in the footer put back links to our domain ? thanks

    Link Building | | idreams
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  • pauledwards


    Is making the alt and title tags in an image the same bad for seo? Does anyone have any recommendations? any help much appreciated.

    Technical SEO | | pauledwards
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  • CommercePundit


    I want to define rel=nofollow attribute for Vista Patio Umbrellas. I have designed narrow by search section on home page. I want to define rel=nofollow attribute for all text links which are available in left navigation. So, what is best solution for that?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CommercePundit
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  • ChristopherGlaeser


    I've been reviewing the PA and DA of news releases on PRWeb.com.  While PRWeb has a very high DA=96, the vast majority of news releases have a PA=1, even those that are several months or several years old. 1. What is the affect of a follow back link with PA=1 and DA=96? 2. Although the vast majority of news releases have a PA=1, there are a few with a PA=40 plus.  Further analysis revealed that these pages had one or two back links from other root domains.  So, it appears that it is possible to boost the PA of your news release by linking to it from another root domain.  Would it be advisable to link to your own news release from other root domains so as to boost the PA, and thus have back links to your site with a good PA and excellent DA? Best,
    Christopher

    Link Building | | ChristopherGlaeser
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  • TommySwanson52


    Hi SEOmoz! I have a potential client who is piloting a web application in a specific geo market, but plans on expanding to 10+ cities in the near future (6-12 months). He wants to rank for "[initial geo market] + [service]". Should I optimize the homepage for this keyword (which will be relatively easy to rank for), or encourage him to build out a geo-specific template (could take a few months to add this to the application) for this market, and try to rank that so it's scalable? Thoughts are appreciated. 🙂 EDIT: In terms of the business type, this is a web application that helps people organize their travel. It isn't your local traditional restaurant that is trying to compete with others in their area. We would be competing with other nationally recognized travel applications (TripAdvisor, Yahoo Travel, etc), most likely.

    On-Page Optimization | | TommySwanson52
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  • fun52dig


    Currently I track all my clients sites under one Google Analytics account. Is this a good practice or should I setup a separate account for each client?  My concern is that if I every had a problem with one website could it effect all websites under the same account?  An example would be that one of my clients decides to start linking to some spamy websites that are sandboxed by Google.  Could this hurt my other accounts? Can one rotten apple spoil the whole bunch under the same account? Thanks All!
    Gary Downey

    Technical SEO | | fun52dig
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