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Totally not a good idea to use photos from Google images. Most of them are subject to copyright and the penalties for infringement can be severe. We've had a digital photography business for the last ten years or so and people stealing images has been a nightmare. Really glad I'm winding that down these days.

Best is to use your own images and if this is not possible, as Alan mentioned use Creative Commons photos. They are all over the place - a big Commons section on Flikr for example. Make sure that you if you use any CC images, you stick to what the licence requires.

Some are licensed as non-commercial so you can use them on a personal blog but not a business one. Others are fine for business as long as you provide attibrution to the licence holder.

Personally, I think CC is the best way to go (I have several sites that are licensed CC) - you can read more on the licenses and the requirements at the link in Alan's response.

Edit - a quick thought, just this week we bought licenses for some images for a tradeshow backdrop at http://www.shutterstock.com/ Very reasonably priced and huge selection.

BJ, I'm afraid SEOmoz isn't going to do a single thing to improve the rankings for your website.

What it will do though, is give you tools, education and ideas to help you do this yourself. That's what you pay for if you sign up.

This is a process, not a single event that you pay for and get results - the good news is that if you spend time here, learn some good techniques and implement them into your marketing, good things will happen over time.

Barry Schwartz wrote about a new Panda update from Google, a couple of days ago...

http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-version-24-1-2-of-search-queries-impacted-146149

Kibin, what I'd do is work to make sure my home page is nicely optimized for the search phrase I think is the most important (I'd use Google's keyword tool to get a feel for which is the most likely one) and then be sure to add a blog to the site.

In the blog articles, I'd make sure that I cover the different search phrases that I think my potential visitors are going to be searching for. Over time with a portfolio of blog stories that provide useful content for your potential clients, you'll see good results - share your content on the social media sites too.

SEOscar - I've not used the API myself, but there is some decent documentation, including a Getting Started Guide in the Mozscape section of the site. I'd be inclined to start there.

Check out the Wiki page as well: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/

Fraser, one thing you can try (if you haven't already) is to use the "Fetch as Google" feature in webmaster tools.

Once you've entered the url of your page, and Google retrieves the data, you have the option to then submit that url to the index.

I've done this a couple of times and it seems to work - of course, Google might have been ready to index the pages anyway, but who knows!

Adam, as it happens SEOMoz seems to be hosting a webinar on this very topic next week.

You can sign up here

Actually, I got the POV = Point of View OK, it was the Miveu = My View I struggled with a little.

Like Fransisco, I don't see any problem with the videos - other than some are not very good.

David, I think your product is really cool and I'd expect that a lot of your customers are going to be posting videos they have made with all kinds of keywords.

If I were going to market your idea, I'd have a blog on your site and embed some of the coolest YouTube videos that your customer make in some of the posts. A good blog that you update with really good stuff will be great for your SEO anyway.

This is a product you should be able to have great fun with!

If you are using Open Site Explorer to check your links, after the last update you'd be expecting to see fewer than before.

See the post Rand made on this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/july-mozscape-update

This might not account for all you are not seeing, but would explain some.

Nathan, I'd say that WordPress in general is a good platform for SEO, regardless of which theme you use.

I use several of Brian Gardener's StudioPress themes which work very well for making an attractive site, but I'd say it is the content you produce and what you do with it that matters more than the theme. I've used Brian's themes for many years and always been happy with them.

We use the Platinum SEO WordPress plugin which make it easy to get things working nicely and have spent time with generally getting things to be Google friendly.

I'd say your content is still the main thing though (followed by outreach to the community around your clients and business) - if that is good, everything else seems to fall into place.

Woopra is a good suggestion Todd. I used to use it on a couple of sites, right after it came out of beta.

Problem is, I ended up with information overload - it was fun to see what was happening on the sites in real-time, but (of course) it took time away from doing more important things.

To be honest if someone calls you, the only way to know how they discovered you is going to be to ask them.

Of course, you'll find it hard to get the level of detail you want, people who call looking to buy something don't want to be quizzed in detail as to how they found the company.

Our customer service people always ask how the caller found us - usually the response is limited to one word - "Google" In our case, our organic visits way outnumber the PPC (thank goodness!) so I'm happy with the Google answer.

Jerry, if it were me, I'd work my way through all the suggestions that Rand suggested over in a recent "White Board Friday"

It might well be that the previous owner had left you more than just the links to clean up and I think this would help you out.

Hi Ivan,

Scribit does look to be quite interesting, although I don't think it is anything we'd use for our own marketing.

Getting good content on our site is obviously important, but we want to generate our own, not randomly find related stuff on-line.

I suppose have a news site in a particular industry that would be populated by Scribit and then used to serve up AdWords for revenue might work to some extent, but otherwise, I don't really seem the point.

I wonder if all these links would be seen by google as "unnatural" as well?

That's cool. So Google is finally taking some steps to remove spam and improve the experience for their users?

Does this mean that other link building networks are facing the same thing? As someone working on building up our company's sites - with good content and following the ideas I learn here, I see this as a really positive move.