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That does sound like a bug. I have had excellent responses from the help desk in the past. During the weekends no one is usually working, so I bet you'll hear from them this week.

Ryan Kent, I agree with you. In SEO, you're either an early adopter, or a late-comer. Thumbs up for you sir.

Just in case of the small chance some people haven't seen this yet, I wanted to share it...

http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/

Hey Marcus, the web app already has this feature... unless I'm misunderstanding your question?

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Hey Brandon, I too have difficulty with the SEOmoz API, so I'm throwing my vote in here for someone to help please

Howdy JSOC. You can use regex in your .htaccess file. Here's a tutorial to get you started. I'm still trying to master this subject myself, but if you want to provide the specifics, I'll do my best the help you. And if all else fails, you can ask Casey Henderson @ SEOmoz, he'll definitely be able to help you out

Howdy Barry,

I know it's not exactly what you'r looking for, but I thought this might be of interest to you. Google Analytics Interface Navigation Slide 10.

Howdy Steve, I personally found a lot of value in Cindy Krum's Mobile SEO book. Give her a shout. Does this help?

No problem Bruce. I would definitely recommend that you look through some recent blog posts, and find some folks with high mozpoints. Hope this helps Bruce

Hey Barry,

Will the 'compare check box' in the date selection not help? Also, when you do it in excel, consider recording it as a macro, so that you can just run that macro automatically every time you want the report. Does this help Barry?

Hey Bruce.

It's generally difficult for someone here to answer that in a non-biased way... because everyone on this site prides themselves with learning SEO. I recommend that you take a look into the SEOmoz company directory. Or, watch the posts and comments for some people you think are giving great advice to others.

Does this help?

You might try running a full linkscape report in the tools section. It may not return anything more than OSE, but then again- it might.

I like to download them all into excel, and then do the filtering from there. Here's a great resource for getting started with Excel for SEO. Does this help?

GA is obviously the de' facto standard for small - medium businesses.

Another cool tool is Chartbeat. It's not nearly as comprehensive, but it'll provide you with real time data about your visitors. And it's super affordable. Although, I would by no means not use GA.

You can export a list in excel from Open Site Explorer. Does that help?

Hey John, you're right... an extra $30 does help. We usually add an Adwords budget into our proposals, so that  we can use more than just the $75. We do this because we feel like the best keyword research is pay per click advertising.

Google Engage is great, have you signed up for the Professionals Program?

Hey Nick, I didn't notice this until just now- sorry about that. 
Do you mean the testing process for keyword research in Adwords?
We'll research the most probable keywords for qualified visitors, and then either:
#1. test tons of exact match keywords to see real-world worth of each, or
#2. put a few very short broad keywords in, and then use the tool "see all search terms' once the campaign is over to see what the marketplace is actually searching for

Then of course, we optimize the site and create a link building plan for those phrases.

Yeah, sorry too. Ethically, I would say it's gray hat on a small scale, and black hat on larger scale. Of course, that's completely subjective. But I say this because, the main purpose of the secondary site's existence would be, in fact, to 'trick' search engines.
Just my opinion. I also can understand Steve's point of view.

If the site's are relevant for the niche, I may consider 301 redirecting page by page to the primary niche..... or instead, you could just link them over as you're doing. Would it be possible to contact the inbound linking domains, and ask them to link to your primary site instead?  
If the niches are all relevant, I would build pages on the primary site to reflect the secondary site's content. Then redirect page by page. Then contact the linking domains and ask them to update their links. 
Does this help Dunamis?

Are they currently existing?
Did the DNS info reset to your contact info after you bought them? If so, the PR may get reset as well. 
Are the sites relevant to the primary site's niche?

Hey Steve, thanks. I see what you mean, and can't disagree with your thinking... I personally would prefer to spend that hour (or so) trying to get a link to the primary site. But I can understand why others would rather just create one.
We're both assuming that someone would use different hosts, right?
I'm also curious to know, where would you 'draw the line' so-to-speak?
I mean, domain names are only about $10 each, so you could 5, 10, 100. etc. At some point, you would be building an 'unnatural' link profile, and begin to raise flags.  And me being a skeptic, I tend to lean towards as natural of link profiles as possible.

Thanks Steve, you have great point!
However, I don't think they would pass **any **value, due to a lack of inbound links. And, if they began getting inbound links, I believe the efforts spent would have a larger payoff, if the primary site were getting those new links instead.
I'm also kindof a skeptic in SEO... what I mean is, I try not to ever do anything with the primary goal being to deceive search engines. The time invested in building those micro sites, I think would be better spent engaging in building brand recognition (brand queries, natural links, social, etc.)
What do you think Steve? Thanks.

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I doubt you'r adding much value, as those links would have very low (or non existent) domain/ page authority. Plus, if your hosting them all on the same C Block IP Address, they'd likely be discounted even further.

Use Google's Website Optimizer, and study conversion-rate-experts.

I was imagining that the vast majority of their pages would be user generated job listings. But I think I was incorrect.

I definitely am not discounting your way of handling it... I think it's fantastic, especially because it's scalable.  Where do you 301 the pages back to, the main category page?

Eventually, wouldn't a large ratio of your inbound links be pointed to pages that are 301'd to another page?

It just seems to me, that Google wouldn't think that is very 'natural', and perhaps would just feel that the majority of the content on the site is old/ outdated since most of the inbound links point to pages that don't exist anymore. (even if they are 301'd)

Hey Richard,

That's a useful script! Thanks!

Do you think in the case of running an employment site, those 301's would begin to rack-up frequently enough to get flagged?

[edit: I meant to add this below Richard Getz script]

Hey Spencer,

Is there a way you can dynamically pull the information (for the job) into the page.... so that once the job goes away, you can then change the informatino to be a new job?

The only catch to that, would be the URL structure, becuase obviously you would need to make the URL's generic, such as "/bay-county-seo-job" or something instead of mentioning the company.

On Distilled's recent conference call / webinar, Will discuess their project hiremarshall.com (I think that webinar would be of some help to you- and anyone else reading this).

Specifically, you could develop a model which keeps those pages live, so that the company uses that same page for all of their new job openings.

Donnie Cooper.

Thanks Casey..

that's the part that was stopping me from wanting to use mvc... having to build/ maintain a different backend for each site. It just seems too redundant. Even with 'objects', you still have to update specific lines of code for each customer everytime you improve something.

Thanks for your help!

Hey Lindsay,

How about if the 'new' domain has been a 301 to the 'old' one for years **(**and has the same DNS info) ?

Hey Casey,

Is that really the main difference? Just more control because your writing everyline of code manually?

PS. Is SEOmoz going to switch to lithium (http://lithify.me/) ?

I second the smartdraw software.

I've been happy with it because you can do several other things with it.

Thanks, Richard.

I definitely keep a subscription going with lynda.com. I think we should get SEOmoz.org to add them in the discount store.

-Hey, you changed you photo! (Or, I haven't noticed until now).

What made you switch to joomla?

I'm in love with wordpress, but for some reason, I feel like mvc would be worth the switch. The only problem is, it comes at a higher cost of time invested per project. So, I'm looking for motivation to make the switch

What's the benefits of choosing an mvc framework such as codeigniter or cakephp over wordpress?

Wordpress has so many plugins, and a universally known UI for customers, it just saves a ton of time.

However, a lot of the 'big guys' like SEOmoz and Distilled(?) use Cakephp and other mvc frameworks so it has me wondering what the benefits are......

anyone?

I to use the free $75 of adwords (in the SEOmoz discount store) for every new customer to test their keywords. I think it's an over looked opprotunity by a ton of SEO's.

As a by product, customers love that you're running paid ads for free, and it gives you a chance to up sell them (if you can prove a return for them).