Hi Ruben,

Some services will get that many reviews daily, so I wouldn't have said that 8-12 in a week was a problems.

That said, I always tend to err on the side of caution, so perhaps drip-feed them over a 2-3 week period if you want to make sure you are safe.

-Andy

Ria gave a great URL to read there, but unless I missed them, it's missing a few points, like:

• Do you feel you have been hit by any penalties? Show stats and dates of concern.
• Do you have a monthly budget you are trying to work to?

There are a lot more that I would ask, but these are ones I couldn't miss.

-Andy

Hi David,

Well, if you use a tool that can change the name of the bot that comes after a site, then you can't do anything about it. However, I do know that SEMrush is causing problems for some hosts and the likes of Heart Internet, they block access to the SEMrush bot on all of their servers.

To be honest with you, it is quite difficult to block everything and time consuming and unless you have some secret formula to keywords that are magically drawing in more traffic, then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Take Accuranker. I use this for tracking and part of setting up, is it will find new phrases that I perhaps haven't been using or looking at before. It doesn't get these from either SEMrush or Ahrefs. All of this information is available from many sources.

I would honestly spend the time making your pages as good as they can be. Look at your cometitors. Are they winning? How are they doing it? Fight back against them rather trying to hide yourself from view.

-Andy

Hi,

Brand is very important to Google now, and you need to shout about it as much as you can and it can help with a number of factors, especially now Google has said that Brands will gain dominances in the SERPs for related searches.

Rather than turn this into a huge thread, have a read of this article, which looks at many aspects of what Google is doing to branding now:

http://socialmediatoday.com/georgestevens48/1317336/google-rewriting-page-titles-time-brand

-Andy

This is a subject where you are going to get a lot of disagreement and I think that the guy who insists on having HisBigAssCompany on the front end of the title tag will argue a lot louder and longer than I do. 

Amen to that

I don't agree at all with having brands at the front - not needed, but when Google appends it with this, there isn't a lot you can do, sadly. If you see a Brand: <title></strong>, then you know Google have been doing their thing.</p> <p>-Andy</p></title>

There is no guarantee Google will do this. The advice is work on Brand, but you can't guarantee they will change anything.

-Andy