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.

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).