The information changes to a completely 2015 page are set to go live this week. But, I do happen to have the hotel link: book your 2015 hotel room.

FWIW, Wired recently did a study that showed if you're coming from the UK, it's best to buy your flight 53 days out.

Yes, search engines definitely know that subdomains are hooked to your domain, and there's evidence that search engines will count links toward a subdomain to your domain. However, there's speculation that those links are slightly discounted in the level of authority they pass -- they are a stronger signal to your subdomain -- and it's still best practice for your SEO to put your blog on a subfolder instead of a subdomain.

Looking at your site, I noticed a couple things:

Your site speed is pretty slow. You can use pingdom.com to check your site speed. This is a great study by Jon Colman about site speed and how much it actually affects your site. I noticed that you're running WordPress, and here's some tips on how to speed up your WP site. Google definitely factors in speed, and this could be affecting how the bots reach your site (or don't reach it) and account for the flux week-to-week. You are correct in that it shouldn't be that dramatic of a change week-to-week.

I also noticed that your homepage was a little overly optimized for keywords. As search engines start getting more semantic, you want to optimize more for the user. Definitely don't kill all the keywords, but balance is the key. Read through the copy as a visitor, not just the SEO and industry expert.

If the pages are worth the effort of 301'ing them, I wouldn't worry about page speed for them. Besides link authority from those old pages, you should also look for traffic, since 301s are actually more about seamless experience for the people coming to your site.

When Moz stopped doing consulting, we put together a list of recommended companies in order to drive that traffic there and then to great consulting companies. This allowed for context for the visitor -- compared to direct redirection where a visitor might think they stumbled into some weird click scam -- and for us to give a link and specific information.

If you live and die by search marketing than MozCon is the place for you. Our content is intermediate/advanced topics and covers for many different types of markets from small business owners to medium companies and agencies or huge companies. You should be able to walk away with a lot of information directly applicable to your work.

Some people MozCon isn't for:

1. Super beginners -- our audience is intermediate to advanced, and it would probably be over their heads.

2. People who aren't into inbound marketing. If you're not into SEO, social media, content marketing, analytics, or conversion rate optimization, MozCon probably isn't of interest to you.

Actually, the videos were included in the MozCon ticket price this year, so all attendees will get them!

We've put together several blog posts over the years to help MozCon attendees explore Seattle: Mozzers' favorites, our mega post from 2013, Rand's personal recommendations, and Jon Colman's Seattle coffee guide.

Everyone's 301 redirect suggestions are correct. However, exact match domains may not be worth grabbing all of them for SEO. There's been lessening returns.

It is indeed true! All MozCon goers will have access to the videos as part of their ticket price. Videos will be up within 1-2 months.

Hi Terry,

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it is true that MozCon is completely sold out. Every seat is the house -- 1,325 seats -- is booked.

Your best bets are on the waiting list, which to be completely transparent is running 160+ people. Or searching "MozCon" on Twitter or joining the MozCon Facebook Group as I've seen a few people post about having extra tickets in those places.

Sorry to not have a better answer.

If you're thinking about joining us for MozCon 2015, super early bird tickets go on sale right at MozCon, so keep an eye on our Moz social feeds and blog as we'll be posting about it.

Google is super fast when it comes to the main, most important stuff on your domain. It's still indexing stuff from the old SEOmoz.org domain because we have a ton of pages! and frankly, some of them aren't very popular. We also made the decision not to redirect every single page and killed a ton of them. The less popular pages are lingering (though with the right 301 redirects, we're still getting that traffic to the still important to us pages) with SEOmoz.org, either waiting to be indexed at Moz.com or tossed out as they no longer exist.

For dealing with people who are scraping your site, make sure you have canonical tags implemented on your pages for your shiny new https site. Most scrapers steal the code, so they grab those too.

Hi Muhammad,

Sorry to hear that your site's been blocked by Facebook. That's terrible!

I haven't dealt with this myself, but I did some digging and it looks like you aren't alone. Unfortunately, it looks like it's also very hard to get Facebook to unblock you. Facebook uses the companies Securi Site Check to make sure sites aren't scammy, spammy, or hacked. Securi looks like an aggregator of many security check sites, but that it will tell you which security check sites still have you on their blacklist and which ones you need to reach out to get whitelisted. You'll want to do this first before you do anymore outreach to Facebook.

After you are sure you're whitelisted with the security check sites, then contact Facebook. I found this case in Facebook's help threads about a company that was able to successfully unblock their site. Looks like he had his brand "like" all of Facebook's official pages to help businesses, which sent a trust signal to Facebook that the brand was legit. and then commented on all of them to get his page unblocked. Sadly, it looks like you have to be a very squeaky wheel to get anything done. If you have a Facebook ad rep, you also might reach out to them after making sure your site's whitelisted on those security sites.

Sadly, it does look like people did end up switching domains or doing some redirect action when Facebook wouldn't unblock their sites. But I'd use that as your very last resort.

Best of luck!

I also suggest using a service like bit.ly for shortening URLs & grabbing your own custom, even shorter domain. At Moz, we have mz.cm, which lets us get even smaller on Twitter and the link.

Any traffic coming into your site, you can track on GA. You probably want to set up custom tags and do some filters for what campaigns you're running.

At their basics, URL shortners are a 301 redirect. So if you really wanted to do the extra work, you could have a 301 redirect of say http://example.com/awesome to http://example.com/mysiteisrad/everyonelovesit/youarecool. It's just easier to use a 3rd party -- and since you own the domain and are pointing the traffic to the site you own, you can track it in GA -- like bit.ly to do the heavy lifting for you.

I'd test a couple things:

1. Stay off the page for a week or so. I'd post a message to the followers before doing this to let them know this is happening. Something like "this page is vacation and will be back XXX."

2. Since it sounds like you're going to be posting good content going forward, I'd suggest taking out ads to push your content out. You can even select it to show them to your existing audience. You don't have to spend much money. (I've done ads for nonprofits were I spent $20 tops.) This will help you get that reach, but also show that your content is relevant.

1. Honestly, I have no idea if that will work. But it never hurts to experiment. And it sounds like you're in a position where nothing is really happening and it's not going to hurt you to try.

2. Well, if you aren't willing to spend the money, there's really no other way to boost the post to get engagement. The average number of followers brands have on Facebook is around 13,000, which 400 of them isn't a small segment, and Facebook is a Catch-22 of the only way your posts get more traction is if people are liking them. In August, Facebook also upped how much they will show one user your paid promotion from 1 time a day to 2.

Earlier this year, Jim Tobin at Ignite did some tests/stats and found that your Daily Organic Reach = -22 + (Total Likes x 5.399%) + (Daily Paid Reach x 0.327%) + (Page Views x 0.416%) + (Weekend [1 if yes, 0 if no] x -194.4) + (Posts Per Day x 81.08). Which means that Paid Reach factors significantly into whether or not people will see your posts, regardless of quality.