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How/where did you install the rel=author tag, Adam? For instance, did you use a particular plugin?

Hi Ryan, you've received some great responses here. Did they answer your question?

Hi Mark, has your question been answered?

Happy to help.

Rel=publisher is for brands, rel=author is for individuals. Google pulls author information from individual Google+ profiles. WMT content guidelines state that each profile should have a clear, recognizable headshot of the author. Hope that helps.

Hi Craig - Have you checked out Moz's List of Recommended Companies?

Thanks to everyone for your patience while the Help Team looks into this issue!

Hi there, we are so happy you love the new Moz! Crawl test will eventually be integrated into Moz Analytics. In the meantime, you can use it at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test.

Happy to help, Romeo. And I definitely agree with your comment on the new Moz site. It is good-looking, easy to use, and FAST!

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Good question, Dave! Crawl Test will eventually be integrated into Moz Analytics. In the meantime, you can use Crawl test here: http://mz.cm/16nn81v.

Hi Romeo,

Crawl Test's currently being updated, but you can still use it at http://mz.cm/16nn81v.

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Christy

Hi Jeff, have you checked Moz's List of Recommended Companies out?

Hi James,

Kyle provided some very good responses. Has your issue been resolved?

Cheers,

Christy

You can also submit and receive feedback on feature requests in the API Feature Requests forum -- and see what other great ideas community members like you have for the API, too!

Hi Barame - Did Mark answer your question?
Cheers,
Christy

Hi Andrew,

You are looking for a complete content management system (CMS) based on .NET, correct? That is, you currently have a site written in .NET, with no CMS. Please confirm.

Thanks!

Christy

Hi Dmitri, have you checked out the list of companies officially endorsed by Moz? I do not see anyone on the list based in Ontario, but many of these companies work with clients around the globe

I would also encourage you to keep visually impaired users in mind, as alt-img tags (and contextual text) are how they determine what an image is. The screen reader skips over blank alt-img tags, and reads all others out loud.

Hi Stephen - Did Miriam or echo1 answer your question? Were you able to find a solution?

Hi there! Here's an article about solving keyword cannibalization issues (targeting multiple pages for the same keywords) that I thought you might find helpful. It's quite old, yet relevant to your situation - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/keyword-cannibalization-and-how-to-handle-it/8084/.

I also highly recommend reading Moz's Beginners Guide to SEO. Chapter Five is all about keyword research. Let us know how things go!

What are you seeing now, Dana?

Hi Flo - Were you able to resolve this issue?

Hi Priya! Has your social share count rebounded?

It's also very important to accurately describe the image in an alt-image tags to give visually impaired users with screen readers a good user experience. Screen readers literally read what is inside the alt-img tags so that users know what the images that they cannot see (or see clearly)  are about.

Here is the link to the list of inbound marketing companies recommended by Moz: http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended

Hi Carolina, has your question been answered?

Unlike the title tag, including keywords in your H1 will not improve your rankings in the SERPs any more than placing keyword anywhere high up in the code will. That said, including a keyword in your H1 is great for usability, which can increase conversions. When a user clicks on a search result (which includes keywords in the title tag), it is reassuring to click-through to a page with the same keywords prominently displayed.

Marking up your HTML with header tags is also very important for communicating the organization of your page to screen readers, which are used by the vision-impaired to browse the web.

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Hi Inga, has your question been answered?

Hi Andrew - You've received some great responses! Have any of them answered your question? As Dan mentioned, you can mark more than one response as a good answer

Hi Cary - You've received some fantastic support from the Moz Community! Has your issue been resolved?

Hi Nick, you've received some good answers. Did they answer your question?

Hi Jim - Did this answer your question?

Hi Luke, has your question been resolved?

Hi Patrick - Did James answer your question?

Hi Andy, do you mean that you linked your website back to your personal Google+ profile with Rel=Publisher, and successfully verified it? I'm asking because I haven't heard of this actually working, as Google states Rel=Publisher is for brands, and Rel=Author is for, well, authors. I have only seen Rel=Publisher successfully used to associate a Google+ Page with a website, and Rel=Author successfully used to associate an author's content (on various websites/blogs) with their personal Google+ profile. Looking forward to hearing more about this from you! Thanks, Christy

Hi Rajesh! Has your question been answered?

Hi Laura, has your issue been resolved?

Hi Mark, has your question been answered?

And the rich snippets testing tool still shows that your authorship is verified for the pages that are showing in the SERPs?

If so, run through this checklist, posted in GWT Help: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1306778 and see if there is anything you might have overlooked (like installing Authorship code twice, this is a pretty common issue.) If you still don't see any issues there, you might try running a few different queries for different type of content you have verified Authorship for. Google states that they only show Authorship information for the most relevant queries. What they deem as the most relevant queries can and does change. I've noticed that my Authorship information/photo will show for some keyword searches and not appear for others (alongside the same pages in search results). Searching for the URL almost always shows information.

Hi Daniel - Do you mean that your personal Google+ profile photo is no longer showing in the SERPs, period?

Hi Sachin,

Good news: Facebook Insights now offers limited data for referral traffic to your Page. To see how many visits (not unique visitors) were referred to your Page from outside Facebook, access Facebook Insights for your Page, then click on the "Reach" tab. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you will see a list of websites that referred visits to your Page during the specified time period. This information, which also tells you how many visits came from each external website, is located under the "Visits to Your Page" graph in the "External Referrers" column.

Please take a peek at your Insights, and let us know how that works for you!

Cheers,

Christy

You've received some great responses, Project#Labs! Do they answer your question?

Hi Larry, has your question been resolved?

Hi Aaron - You have a couple of solid answers here. Has your issue been resolved in GWT?

The Rel Author tag is used to link content created by an individual (on a blog, for instance) to  the author's personal G+ profile. Andy is correct, the author needs to specify in their G+ profile that they area contributor to the site (thereby linking back to the site where their content is) to complete the author verification process.

You should not use Rel Author in conjunction with Google Places.

Hope this helps!

Hi Swimby, has your question been resolved? You've received some great answers!