Brooke,

There's nothing wrong with including place names in your title, in fact, it is a best practice in many instances.  Be strategic about doing so, though.  Adding the name of your city to every blog post will seem spammy (but won't get you penalized) and probably isn't necessary.  Typically, if your services are location specific, you should include your place name in the title, description, and body.  It will usually help with organic ranking  and click through on product/services pages when searchers are looking locally for your offerings.

Carl,

I'm wondering what you mean by "added noindex in the robots".

If you mean you disallowed those pages in the robots.txt file, that won't be enough to remove or keep them removed from the index.  Typically, the robots meta tag

[](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en)

is used to keep the pages out of the index.  And if you use the robots meta tag on those pages, do not use the robots.txt file to disallow bots from those pages, as that will prevent bots from viewing their meta data.

You know Tom, it sounds like you might have excessive "exact match" links on the mind  : )  and that can be a limitation to you in today's search.  The sites at which you can get exact match anchor text these days may not pass the value they once were able to and Google doesn't use anchor text to establish relevance to a search query the way it once did, either.

Are there sites whose rankings are being held up by exact match links? Sure. Such legacy-style rankings exist because Google tries not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Just because the way "importance" on the web was demonstrated in the past (via links and anchor text) is different than the way we're able to demonstrate it today (via social/mentions) doesn't mean some of those old linked-to-with-anchor-text resources are any less important than they once were.

Think of what makes you recognize that something is "important" in your everyday environment.  Is it that a number of lower quality references all say exactly the same thing about something? Not really.  Things that are important tend to be the focus of a variety of semantic references and sentiments from a variety of high- and low-quality sources and it's that kind of importance, aka authority, that you're trying to replicate in your off-page efforts. Focus on getting people to discuss your product/service rather than just getting webmasters to link to it.

Granted, all the above is a bunch of longer-term strategic gibberish that you can toss out the window if your business tactics and search marketing efforts are focused on the short term.  If that's the case, I'd go with "B", but good luck with that.

Morris,

As strong component of a linking strategy, the heyday of press releases has come and gone but press releases are still valuable.  They're valuable in the sense that they've always been valuable--as a means to reach a targeted audience with a creative message about a topic that will be of interest to them.

Press releases are an active engagement tactic, in that you research what publishers you want to target, you craft a message that is going to catch their attention, you send it via a channel you expect them to be listening on, and then you expect to engage and develop relationships with your target publishers.  Unfortunately, many people today think of the press release as sort of a passive tool--you write something that fits into the template you pay your money then you hit submit and you wait for all the links to come in.

Don't think of press releases as a way to get links, think of them as tools in building new relationships.

Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity. I'd love to get my hands on one though--it'd be like holding a baby google in your arms

Gianluca,

The Googleoff: snippet is not used for web-search, it's only used with the Google Search Appliance.  Could you can put the text you want to keep out of the snippet into an image?

Hey Anthony, Joni,

I'm interested to see how this works in this case.  Joni, please let us know...

Joni,

I don't think you can do what you want to do. As Google says, "In most cases, it's not possible to move products from one Google Account to another." But you can check here for the extenuating circumstances on some products.

Hey 720,

Links in Just Discovered Links are completely separate from Links in Mozscape/OSE.

JDL "indexes URLs within about one hour of being shared on Twitter—as well as the URLs linked from those tweeted pages." As I understand it, JDL URLs are displayed in the report without regard to their value or the value (DA,PA) of the pages the links reside on.  On the other hand, URLs in OSE are not indiscriminate.  The links in OSE are the result of crawls that attempt to reach only URLs of a predefined depth/quality.

I'm not sure if this is the case for your situation but (again, as I understand it), if the links that show up in JDL are found on low quality pages, it is possible that they will never show up in OSE.

30 days is the length of time a just discovered link remains visible on JDL.

It's such a subtle difference SEO wise (if, in fact, there is a difference at all) that it really works out to what's best in terms of the user experience (internally or externally).  I wouldn't waste much time considering it--just pick the one that seems to work best for your architecture/visitors and go with it.