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Thanks for that.  What you are experiencing by the way could be because the server does not have a reverse dns entry.  A lot of servers do not come with those and that could also be affecting your ability to send out email.  Also be sure that your spf records are setup correctly so that they are viewed as credible.  I had a similar issue a while ago, and it had very little to do with my ip and very much to do with a lack of a reverse dns.  Also, you should run a blacklist check on the mail ip to ensure that it is not listed on 1 of the 150 spam lists.  I use mxtoolbox to check that.  Hope that helps.

I am currently in the process of migrating a site, the domain will stay the same, it will go from example.com to example.com.  The only thing that is changing is the IP address and the host.  The server's will still be in America.

I have done research on this question and have gotten varied answers, some saying that the ip change will affect the SEO rankings depending on where country is, and some saying that Google only looks at the URL not the ip address in terms of rankings.  Does anyone have an answer so I can be prepared and mitigate as much damage as possible?

What I have noticed with clients and others is that traditionalists tend to have a harder time to move over towards digital, where as digitalists have an easier time adapting to changing environments.  However, this is also dependent on the person themselves.  If the traditionalist has a drive to explore the digital side, and they will need to have one otherwise your digital efforts will go to waste, then go ahead and hire that person.  If they do not, i would recommend you hire a traditional SEO and push them along as most traditional SEO's have to deal with change everytime Google does an update (about 500 times a year). Those are my two cents.  I hope that helps.

So yesterday google webmaster tools has over 5,000 links linking to my site.  I get in this morniing and now i have 16 links linking to my site and no rankings minus brand terms.  I do not believe that I have been penalized but I might have been.

After digging further into this it seems that my www.domain.com and domain.com are separated and webmaster tools is tracking www.domain.com and majority of links are to domain.com.  Is this possible or am I wishing to see something that is not there.

Any help and recommendations would be absolutely appreciated.

Jimmy, private message me with a screen grab of your footer.php file so i can see if i can find it.

I don't see anything odd.  To me it looks to be located in the footer file.  Go appeance/editor/footer.php look for that snippet of code and delete.  It also looks to me to be the only bit of html in the footer.  Don't forget to update your file afterwards.

Highlight the portion of the footer you want to remove, right click the highlighted portion and "inspect elements". This will tell you exactly what the code for that snippet is.  Hope that helps.

Yes that is correct.  Also, when you remove it, don't forget to update the file, simple but people tend to forget.

just to clarify, are you talking about having a wordpress site as in "mysite.wordrpess.com" or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?

Hey Sorina,

I had a similar problem a while back and just rebuilt my sitemap, that seemed to take care of the problem for me.  However, if that doesn't work for you, Google offers support via its "help articles".  Here is something to look at: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35738.

I hope that helps.

Let me start out by saying the answer below is PERSONAL PREFERENCE:

I would keep everything in one site and separate by menu items and sub menu items.  I assume that the content won't change as much unless the law changes.  This will make your seo pushes more efficient and make your domain more of an authority as well as the potential to have several niche categories connect to you (contextual).

However, this would be a long term strategy that would not yield immediate results, so you have to question whether or not you need immediate results/is your website currently bring business, or are you willing to wait for the website to start converting.

I hope that helps somewhat with the decision making process.

What I have noticed with clients and others is that traditionalists tend to have a harder time to move over towards digital, where as digitalists have an easier time adapting to changing environments.  However, this is also dependent on the person themselves.  If the traditionalist has a drive to explore the digital side, and they will need to have one otherwise your digital efforts will go to waste, then go ahead and hire that person.  If they do not, i would recommend you hire a traditional SEO and push them along as most traditional SEO's have to deal with change everytime Google does an update (about 500 times a year). Those are my two cents.  I hope that helps.

What Franck says is correct, it creates user engagement and can help with the SEO.  And David has also mentioned outsourcing to elance and Odesk as well as not using the dates.  Also a good start.

Another thing you should do is just write a bunch of content before hand and just keep them as drafts, that way the writing won't hold you up except for maybe once a month.  In addition, you have other sites like fiverr.com which is hit or miss on how good the content is but only costs 5 dollars.

But if you want a writing service that is backed by actual people and don't want to be worried about whether they speak actual english or whatever language you are looking for, there is also professionalwritingservices.biz/ and I think they cost like $10.

However, back to your original question.  It can't hurt you to start a blog.  It promotes engagement and makes your site dynamic, instead of static.  With the addition of a blog to your site you are providing your customers an insight into your business and an opportunity for them to engage you.

If you choose to go ahead with the blog, make sure that they are socially enabled, meaning people can like it on facebook, share it on twitter, and post it on Google + (good for SEO) so that you are getting the maximum outreach with each post.  I hope this helps.

Hello All,

I have been given the opportunity to go to several conferences.  But like most SEO guys, I have a tone of work, and need to use my time sparingly.  The one conference that has peaked my interest is SMX.

I was wondering if anyone has been to SMX before and if they recommend it.

Also if anyone has any other conferences they would recommend, preferrably on the east coast, that would be interesting please let me know.

Any answers are appreciated.  Thank you.

If you have an account on ahrefs.com you will be able to see which links you lost by clicking the tab of new/lost links to view what was lost.

In answer to your first question, it is common that links will get lost, over half, not entirely sure, unless all the links came from one place or one page on a website.  If that website discontinued that page or just deleted then it could be a plausible reason for why you lost half your links.  That is why most people push link diversity.

I hope that helps.

To start out you might want to read the learn seo section of the seomoz board here:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

also, here is a video that might help:

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.ca/2012/06/seo-essentials-for-startups-in-under-10.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GDBcode+(Google+Developers+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Google also has a webmaster series that could be of help to you if you don't feel like reading.  here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

watch?feature=player_embedded&v=El3IZFGERbM

socialbro is good and is free, you can create your list in twitter, upload it to social bro and do it from there.  If you use google chrome you can download it as an application for chrome.  Hope that helps.

P.S. I am sure there are others, this is the best free one I have tried, and it tries to limit you on how many people a day you can follow, you can chose to ignore.  If it doesn't display the second page, just hit page 1 again, useful workaround.

just to clarify, are you talking about having a wordpress site as in "mysite.wordrpess.com" or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?

When I asked this question a while ago the overall consensus was to go to Mozcon, I also hear good things about SES and SMX and was told to go to them as well, but highest priority was Mozcon.  Hope that helps.

If you are doing a lot of videos that direct to your site then to protect yourself i would just link build to those urls which in turn will keep your site safe and still pass along linkjuice.  Because most video directories have a high PR like youtube and vimeo you should be safe.  However, if you still want to linkbuild directly to your site and use a service.  Do your research and find out what they say about their process.  If their description sounds spammy it most likely is.  Hope that helps.