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I have a potential client that is looking to change their domain for branding reasons, but does not want to lose their solid SERP position.  I'm not concerned about links continuing to pass juice as he was (though I am concerned about the link profile). What I am concerned about is domain age (moving from a 4 year old domain to one that has just been parked for 4 years but not used, or one that is currently just a redirect to his site), and the fact that his current URL is an EMD.  He is using his state (only really does work there), plus two solid keywords in the domain, and wants to switch to brand name with one of the two solid keywords he was using. My initial thought is "if it's not broke, don't fix it."   How worried should I be about rankings if we change this domain. Thanks for the help, and fire back any questions.  Sorry I'm a little vague.

I am currently working on a site in Joomla (2.5) and continue to run across issues with titles.  Currently, the site is set to display the page title just over the content.  Turning this off really is not an option, as it is necessary to keep these titles as part of the content.  Right now, my page titles are not well optimized. What I would like to have is a separate meta title used for SEO purposes, similar to what a plugin like Yoast would do in WordPress - where there is a name for a page (often used in content as well), but a meta title that is used by Google. Hope that makes sense.  If anyone knows of a plugin that may be helpful, that would be great.  Thanks!

I was talking to someone about automatic directory submissions with someone lately, and would love the thoughts of the community here. Basically, the thought was that automatic directory submissions wouldn't get flagged by Google, because they're directories, not necessarily spam links. Is this still true in a post-penguin world?  He hasn't seen any negative effects from it yet, but I'm still cautious. My thoughts would be not to depend on the automatic submissions, but to use them as a supplement.  If a handful (maybe 50/mo) of directory links could be submitted automatically, that could free up more time for content development and promotion, which is where I believe the real value lies.  It would also help skeptical clients feel better about having a certain number of links. So, what have you seen so far?  Is this dangerous, safe, or fairly pointless?

We put a blog post up on our Facebook page earlier today.  Within an hour, there were 560 likes and over 4,000 comments.  While that sounds great, that is nowhere in the universe of normal.  Almost all of that was spam (there were no services that we engaged in to bring likes/comments). So, has anyone else here been hit by rapid-fire Facebook spam?  Any thoughts on what to do - leave it alone, delete the post, filters, etc.? Would love the advice of the Moz community.  Thanks guys!

How useful are you finding blog commenting to be regarding link building?  I was having a discussion with someone about this today, and I thought some input from the Moz community may be helpful. How helpful do you find blog commenting to be in link building? Do you have any evidence of effectiveness/ineffectiveness? Is it something you still currently do (for link building)? Any input is appreciated.  Thanks guys!

Recently, we created a new website for a client, and put it on a new domain.  We put a 301 redirect site-wide on the old site.  The 301 is working correctly, and any visit to the old site is now going to the new one.  So, from a functionality standpoint, we're looking good. However, looking at the domain authority of the sites, it doesn't seem that the old links are passing value to the new site.  The old site had 43 linking root domains, and a domain authority of 30, compared to the new site with 16 linking root domains and an authority of 22.  If I understand correctly, the links should be viewed as pointing to the new site and passing link juice to the new one, correct?  Is there a reason why this may be happening that I should be looking into?  Any thoughts or advice on this one would be appreciated.  Thanks guys!

So, I know that you can't simply transfer a coupon credit in Google AdWords to another account.  My question, if anyone knows, is there a way to do this using My Client Center? We manage multiple accounts, and have another coming on board that has a pre-existing coupon credit.  We were going to set up a new account (which we would handle billing for and just invoice) for the client.  But, that would leave them unable to use a coupon code.  If it's managed under MCC, is there a way to work around this?

I'm curious to get people's opinion on this. One of our clients (Company A) has a competitor that's using duplicate sites to rank.  They're using "www.companyA.com" and "www.CompanyAIndustryTown.com" (actually, several of the variations).  It's basically duplicate content, with maybe a town name inserted or changed somewhere on the page.  I was always told that this is not a wise idea.  They started doing this in the past month or so when they had a site redesign.  So far, it's working pretty well for them.  So, here's my questions: -Would you address this directly (report to Google, etc.)? -Would you ignore this? -Do you think it's going to backfire soon? There's another company (Company B) that's using another practice- using separate pages on their domain to address different towns, and using those as landing pages.  Similar, in that a lot of the content is the same, just some town names and minor details changed.  All on the same domain though.  Would the same apply to that? Thanks for your insight!

I'm having some issues setting up a Google CPP extension, and am looking for help. I just set up a new ad group with a call extension.  The bid for CPP is high enough to cover the adword bid plus $1 for the call.  However, it is saying that the ad is ineligible. Research is leading me to believe that you need to have 25-40 clicks on an ad in a month in order to qualify.  This will be difficult provided the budget and style of the ad. I also have another ad group under the same campaign.  That has 79 clicks in the last month.  Google is marking this ad as ineligible as well. What do I need to do to make the ad eligible?  Anyone have some advice or something that I've missed?  The ad extension itself and phone number have been approved. Thanks again for your help!

I don't use drupal very often, so I'm looking for some help.  We manage two sites in drupal, and the way they are set up, it creates a new thank you page every time someone fills out a contact form.  The thank you page displays the information that was entered, so I assume it is necessary to create a page to do this (this was set up before I came on board). What I'm trying to do is track conversions in analytics by thank you page, but because a different node is created for every page, it makes things really difficult. My guess is that there's some kind of module or shortcut that could make this easier.  Do any of you know of something, or preferably, is there something you're using that you'd endorse? Thanks for your help. -Adam

Right now, we have about 160 or so links on the home page.  It's been recommended that we keep it to under 100, though that's not as big of a deal as it once was. Is it helpful to make a bunch of those links "nofollow" in order to preserve link juice?  Is it going to make a difference, or be at all helpful?  I assume it won't be harmful, especially as a bunch of them are to the same page but on different sections of the page. Would live your advice and thoughts!  Thanks!

I'm looking to find some specialized directories, as I assist with a laboratory robotics group.  These can be paid (actually preferred for now) or free.  I know that seomoz has a helpful list of directories, but I was wondering if anyone else knows of a good place to find specialized directories like this.  Thanks.

I'm having some difficulty with a few of the sites I'm managing right now.  When I run a report here, I'm getting a duplicate content issue with sites that I'm running through WordPress.  Sites running on a different CMS are not getting the issue.  The duplicate content is being listed as from two URL's that are identical.  I checked trailing slash, spelling, capitalization, everything.  It looks like the same site is being marked as two with duplicate content. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this and/or what I may be able to do to resolve the issue (or if it's really something to worry about or not)?  Thanks. (and thanks for helping the new guy!)