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Hi, Google Webmaster tools sent me a few messages recently about the jump in the number of 'not found' errors. From 0 to 290 errors, ouch. I know what it's from but I think Google is seeing things.  We developed another page/subdomain we're working on with links back to the root domain. Basically a complete list of articles page that lists each article and links back to the root domain. Not sure what Google is crawling but the links that would result in a 'not found' error aren't there. Will these disappear over time? Thanks for the help!

Just curious if paying for a business.com link is still relevant at all. I cancelled my yahoo paid directory listing after researching on here.  Can put the $300 to better use elsewhere. Just curious if business.com is now not the best use of money either. Thanks! Aaron

Just curious what people think.  The SEOMOZ trust on my site has gone up, all while Google is dropping us in rankings for lots of keywords. Just curious if this can happen to anyone or once you are 100% 'trusted' you're good. We went from 120,000 page views down to about 50,000.   All while doubling content, improving the design(at least from a user perspective), and getting more natural links. Seems counter intuitive to Google's mantra of ranking quality. I would guess 'authority' sites never get hit by these updates right?  So when you make it you've made it.(at least from a dropping like a rock perspective, obviously you have to keep working). I'm guessing we just need a bunch more quality links but would hate to work on building links, quality content, trust etc for it to be something so finicky long term.

Getting ready to do some link building. I've got several lists of competitors' links, including a bunch of sites with broken links that would be a great fit to link to us. I've got a capable VA to get started work on reaching out to people. Just curious if this is the right game plan, seems a little simple: For this round of link building I'm thinking all the links would point to my root domain. -Find quality sites/links to go after -Find an email to the owner/webmaster -Have the VA send them a value proposition email(i.e. why it's good fit for all)...or tell them about broken links etc. -Follow up myself when a response is generated. -Hope/verify they link to us. Thanks for the help with the newbie questions.

Question, been thinking of some link bait infographic ideas for my site www.jobshadow.com I've got a couple in the careers/job niche but the one I think would be best is completely unrelated. I study free market economics a lot and want to debunk the whole 'deflation' debate that is on the news these days. The overall gist would be to do so with a history of Apple products showing why falling prices aren't anything to be afraid of. Given that it's econ/techie related(even non econ people would find this graphic neat I think) and not specific to the 'career hunting' and job searching my site is I'm curious what people suggest. Give it a shot and release on our blog anyway?  Or trade it to someone else in a more relative niche(assuming the graphic gets built, I know ideas are relatively cheap:).

Hi, I've got a bunch of notices saying almost 1200 pages are no-followed and blocked by robots. They appear to be comments and other random pages.  Not the actual domain and static content pages. Still seems a little odd.  The site is www.jobshadow.com.  Any idea why I'd have all these notices? Thanks!

Just looking for some advice on this topic.  I know it's much debated but it seems the consensus is that having some broad categories and more defined tags is optimal. The issue with my site is that it is very broad in nature.  We're profiling and interviewing all types of careers.  The site is www.jobshadow.com for reference. Up until now I haven't used Wordpress Tags at all.  I've just been using categories(i.e. 9-5 type jobs, salaried jobs, hourly jobs, jobs in medicine, etc). I've probably got way too many categories.  They are being counted as links on every post page which pushes me way overboard on links per page. -Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on best practices for my site. -Also, none of the categories themselves are really pulling in any SEO traffic so switching those wouldn't be a big deal.  Just looking for the best way to help users browse the site and the growing number of content. And rom what I hear Tags can pull in some random/long tail traffic pretty easily if done right. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks for the help!

Just curious what people think of my footer.  I think it provides some value. Not that many people click on it but it doesn't look that bad in my opinion. Curious what others think.  If getting rid of it would help SEO I'd look into it.  I outsource all my coding though so don't want to spend money tweaking what doesn't need to be done. www.jobshadow.com Thanks for the help!

Just curious if anyone knew of some good ones out there.  Looking to try a couple out.  Thanks!

Just curious if anyone noticed a drop in traffic last friday. I got hammered with about a 20% drop overall.  Didn't know if there was an update or what. Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, new here.  Did a little search here and didn't see anything exactly like it.  My bad if it's been discussed. I've read most of the FAQ's and haven't seen this exact problem addressed.My site is **http://tinyurl.com/89aury5**I recently installed a new design and since then have been having lots of 404 errors.You can see the screenshot here http://awesomescreenshot.com/0b92z1615There has been a perfect correlation between loss in traffic and the rise in errors as well.  **Most of the errors I have are /function.opendir after what would be a normal URL.  **Most of these appear on the 2nd and 3rd page of the crawl report which you can't see on the screenshot.Anyway, I don't have any broken links on the site(that I can find), and certainly not any of these that google is crawling.  I've read it might be a PHP error but no one seems to be able to find it.  Pretty bizarre.Looking for any help.   Thanks!