I've never heard of this before and I have created quite a few FB pages.

I would of suggested the same thing as Monica, maybe you clicked something you wasn't meant to but as you are saying you didn't I would try contacting FB - but in my experience it takes a while for them to get back to you.

Look on there developers forum and ask the same question - you might find others who have had the similar experience and got a solution.

Hi

Sorry there is no 'x' date that I can give you. It all depends on Google and whether you have done all the 301s etc correctly.

When you say you are doing 'link building' strategies what do you mean, maybe this is the problem if your have got a bad link somewhere?

I wouldn't recommend going back - you wouldn't get the traffic back to what you had and as the 'experts' said it would cause you more problems.

I would check all the 301s are correctly, did you actually change anything on the site at the same time or was it just the url that you changed?

Thanks

Andy

no its not being unreasonable - what happens if the SEO guy changed something and broke the website - would would the client ring up and moan at the SEO guy or the web design agency.

If the guy was willing to take responsibility for his changes, then they would be unreasonable, but why would they allow someone to edit their work and potentially break the site - only for them to get moaned at.

SEO is 'secret' anymore - so I don't get what they guy has from not willing to work with the agency. To me it sounds like he will be doing stuff he isn't willing to share so either black hat techniques or doesn't actually knows what he is talking about so was going to bluff it until the client clicked on that the guy was b*ll shitting.

I agree, I wouldn't have given them access without trusting them, all it takes is for them to alter one line of code and the site could crash.

Sometimes SEO's ( and I used to be like this but have changed) look at SEO in silo and don't think about how the changes impact other parts of the business / website - so a change that is good for SEO isn't always good for the website or the business.

So nope, I wouldn't give him access - our developers don't allow me access, I have to put a business case forward each time to get changes done, which has to be present and approved by senior management. Without this I could ask for a change which could cause a lot of issues.

thanks all for the suggestions, i will put a plan together for the Saturday and Sunday of things to do.

Thomas - I am arriving a few days early hence why I wanted to know things to do, I assumed during the actual conference there would be loads going on

How about coming to the UK, make it an easier discussion with the MD about the costs

Hi Ryan

The 'duck' ride sounds fun, I will do some research on that later.

Thats what I was hoping for either seasonal Mozcon attendances or mozzers advice.

I just don't like turning up to places and not really exploring the good parts.

Hi

I know this isn't technically an SEO question, but wanted people's advice.

As I am flying half way round the world I am actually arriving on the Friday and have Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday to go and explore Seattle.

I plan on going to watch a baseball game and visit the home of Starbucks (and I hate coffee, but thought might as well visit), but what else would people recommend doing / seeing in Seattle.

Thanks in Advance

Andy

Nope, they don't.

Good article here explaining it in more detail: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2325343/matt-cutts-facebook-twitter-social-signals-not-part-of-google-search-ranking-algorithms but basically any link from Facebook or twitter does not help your rankings.

Would be way to easy to manipulate to get rankings.

If your new to link building, then this is a great beginners guide to it: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Thanks

Andy

Hi

That link is pointless from an 'link building' point of view, however I still go after links from places like the Sun even though I know they are behind a paywall because they drive a lot of traffic.

So if your looking at it from an old school SEO point of view - they are a waste of time, but if you are interested in traffic and sales then these links are still very important.

Thanks

Andy

thanks for this, I will book the hotel in the coming days and wait to book the flights, thanks for the link.

yeah, but as I am travelling from the UK, I could do with booking things early.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

The link to the hotel for Mozcon 2015 doesn't work - seems like its the 2014 link still in place.

Thanks

Andy

Can you edit your urls to include a country part: i.e. www.palmatin.com/uk/example and www.palmatin.com/us/example or does your CMS restrict url edits

but Google actually for once give a very clear help on this topic - I would recommend reading this.http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

Do you own www.palmatin.co.uk?