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You could try searching NerdyData for a search operator like below:

href="http://example.com

Make sure to leave the closing quotation mark out to account for any sub pages.

This may or may not  return some different results, it's worth a shot.

If you are seriously concerned about a penalty which could result in your business having to close it's doors, you should probably be seeking out help from an agency rather than looking for free advice here.  If the situation is that dire, then getting an audit and quote from an agency will probably be your safest bet at this point.

Migrating to a branded domain is probably the best step to avoid a penalty at this point.  Get away from the EMD and over-optimized anchor text ASAP.

If your domain is penalized, it won't be your branded domain - it will be your EMD domain.  It's hard to say if it could be penalized in the future, but it hasn't been yet, so you might be OK.

I assume that you'll 301 redirect all pages on the EMD to the new branded domain.  You should be prepared to put in a lot of effort to clean up the anchor text of the EMD link profile, or completely disassociate the old domain in the event of a penalty.

I would tell your client to not worry about it.  I didn't know that GoDaddy was in the SEO consulting business now?

I found this as an explaination of what a GoDaddy SEO Checklist Stop Word means:

Words that are common do not help search engines understand documents. Exceptionally common terms, such as the, are called stop words. While search engines index stop words, they are not typically used or weighted heavily to determine relevancy in search algorithms.

It sounds like more of a warning to me.  I wouldn't worry about it.

I would suggest Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARRP), but since your main concern is performance - be wary of large sites.  This plugin can be resource intensive on large WordPress sites, in which case it is to your advantage to use YARRP Experiments to control the cache and throttle.

To 301 redirect all files in the direct to the new directory in .htaccess, try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^old\ foldr/(.*) /newfolder/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

This should redirect all HTML pages, images, you name it.  It should also account for the space too.

You'll want to move all your files to the new folder location so when the redirect happens your end user doesn't receive a 404 error.

As Jeff mentioned, it could very well be Google running a test - they run small tests like this quite often.

I just tried a branded search for one of my clients when I was not logged in, and I see www in front of the domain.  This client required www as part of their domain, so we set up .htaccess redirects to force all URLs to begin with www.

Google is pretty good about figuring out redirects and will show www is it's required, and will ignore it and not display it in the SERPs if the site doesn't use www.

Does your site have the proper redirects set up to send non-www URLs to the www equivalent?

Like Federico stated, the link results in a 302 redirect, which does not pass any link equity as far as search engines are concerned.  It might as well be a nofollowed link.

So, does it have value?  If the link is driving your client traffic, then it does have value.  If the link is on an obscure website and isn't driving any traffic - than it has no value, because it will not help the client rank in search engines.

Monster and Indeed pretty much have the job-related searches locked up unfortunately.  It would be a waste of time trying to compete with them, unless you get luck and are able to outrank them on a long tail keyword - but even then you might not get the results your looking for (as far as traffic goes).

Some marketing association sites will charge you to post a job, others won't, it depends on the association.

You might be better served with referral traffic and social media traffic.  Post the job to Linkedin and see what happens?

You could not possibly do any good by building your own link network with 12 domains you purchased.  Google will figure it out, and your links will either be devalued completely, or you'll get a manual penalty placed on your site.

There are legitimate use cases for site wide links (like in the footer) but it's best to nofollow these links to be safe.

As Chris stated above, it does look like a Google Penguin hit.

First plan of action would be to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see if you have any notifications from Google regarding manual penalties.  If so, take the necessary steps to resolve these issues.

Second, it does look like you have some really spammy links coming in from spammy sources. I ran an OpenSiteExplorer report on your page and I see the same "cialis" links that Chris alluded to above.  You may want to look at disavowing links like these to make your inbound link profile look more organic.

And finally - update your site!  If you had somehow managed to make it through Penguin 2.0, you would have eventually lost your rankings anyways because other sites will be coming in and taking advantage of absence.

Hope this helps!

You'll want to use a rel="publisher" tag.  More info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1708844?hl=en

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I am not aware of anyway to determine if a site has implemented Google Webmaster Tools or not, as they could have verified it with by uploading a randomly named file, or through Google Analytics.  I would say if they are fairly large site and have Google Analytics (which you can determime by viewing the source code of the site) they probably have GWMT as well.

To determine if Bing Webmaster Tools are in use, you can go to http://example.com/BingSiteAuth.xml (replace the domain name) and see if the file exists.  If it does, then they activated Bing Webmaster Tools.  If the file does not exist, it either means that they never activated Bing Webmaster Tools, or they did and were smart enough to delete the file from their server.

Hope this helps!

Looks like you missed "http://" in some URLs so the browser is treating them as relative links.  There are more.

On this page: http://www.boxtheorygold.com/blog/?Tag=Business+Leader and others like it, I found several URLs that start with "www." which is your problem.  This page has a relative link on the anchor text "keep on improving"

Building links and authority organically can be, unfortunately, a long and frustrating journey - especially in boring niches.  When I pull up your blog posts, I don't see them as blog posts (much like Peter above) but rather as promotional material disguised as a blog post.

The problem you are facing is one that I've seen time and time again.  Online businesses in boring markets with little to no audience are really hard to get off the ground.  You have to be extremely **creative. **

When you are writing your next blog post, I would suggest browsing through Pinterest to see what popular items come up for "storage bins" or something similar.  There are probably a bunch of "life hacks" and instructographics that you can gain inspiration from to write a blog post.  Then share the heck out of it - share it on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, you name it.

I know you are facing a frustrating challenge, but if your task was easy, then people such as myself would be out of work

I think using an intermediary page with a redirect script is the way to go.  This allows you to modify the redirect (301 vs 302), the server header, and the destination - after the fact.

Ideally, you could do this going forward.  For your current affiliates, you could reach out to them and provide a new affiliate link, or ask them to nofollow the link.  This part isn't ideal, but if you had the intermediary redirect page you could handle this without contacting the affiliate.

I disagree that SEO should be taught in colleges, or that there should be certifications for it.

SEO requires constant learning, testing, and adjusting.  By the time you finish a 4 year degree, the tactics and guidelines you learned in year 1 may be completely obsolete.

Each SEO is different.  Everyone has their own opinions and techniques.  That is the nature of the industry, and why it's so interesting.  There is no one right answer, there are many different ways to get to the top, and even more that make it harder to get there.

SEOs also use an ever-changing set of tools, which also is adapting and changing with the industry.  The tools you learned while at University are probably outdated or obsolete by the time you graduate.

I personally think that a degree in Marketing or Communications will set you up for a great start in the SEO field, but the majority of the leg work to learn industry standards, tools, techniques, etc., should not be taught in school.

I encountered this problem today with a brand new campaign I created yesterday.  I double checked the settings page but there was no where to connect or reconnect the connection - so since the campaign was new I just removed the connection and reconnected it - this probably isn't a good option for you however.

I initially thought that it had something to do with me going between Moz Analytics and back and forth to the old Moz Campaign Manager.  Perhaps someone from the team can comment?

Why not try to avoid the problem altogheter?  I assume the below line is site-wide:

If you remove the index, follow meta tag, your pages will still be indexed and followed.  Then allow your authors to decide on a post-by-post basis if they want to noindex or nofollow the page.