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We will have one at the end of July from Everett Sizemore about SEO for e-commerce.

Sorry about the lack of webinars in May and June. Time just flies.

Hey Karl,

EventBrite says that you were released a ticket on Monday! You should've gotten an email from them with a special link that said "A space is now available for MozCon 2012."

-- Erica

Essentially, your transcription is the record of what you're talking about for accessibility first, then bots. Keyword stuffing in them is just tacky. But you should definitely pay attention to optimize your title, description, and all that other jazz.

You can add a transcript without times in the interface by using the "transcription" option. It possible that these are less friendly SEO wise. But they are better than nothing. Closed caption files are the best option to go with. (I will admit to be very lazy with my own video and not creating closed caption files, just transcripts. But there are also services that you can pay to do this for you!)

Make sure you're on the waiting list!

It depends what kind of curation you want to do with how Google will treat it.

Are you creating a link list? Are you showing a quick blurb with your opinion? Are you re-publishing the article?

For the first two, you're creating somewhat original content, and I wouldn't worry too much. (Though make sure to add your opinion on the second option.) On the third one, you can use rel=canonical to get around duplicate content.

I'll be there! (But you probably knew that. =D)

We don't have any official plans for the weekend, but there are a ton of great bars and restaurants in the area that are super fun. Check out Rand's post about his favorite food & drink in Seattle.

Unfortunately, I'm going to be busy with set-up that night. But have fun.

Google considers links from guest posts as "natural" link building, not "unnatural" (read: buying links) and won't count it against you. In fact, by using the rel=author tag and having your profile appear on other sites, not only will your post likely see higher click-through rates, but you're establishing yourself as an trusted authority on the subject and Google's actually more likely to trust your posts.

At this time, Google does not have a choice on what time you can get your reports. I'd do a little test to see if when they get sent depends on what time you set them up, e.g. if you were to set up the report at 6am, it would email you at 6pm.

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for being active in our Q&A, but please remember that members come from all walks of internet marketing and some are just starting out. (We all once where there.) Part of the reason we have Q&A is to help out and be generous with our knowledge, among other TAGFEE tenants, even when the answer or ways to find the answer seem obvious to us.

Have a great weekend

Thanks, everyone, for your responses. Rand now has the questions, and he'll be answering one in this month's newsletter!

The easiest way is to go to our "Campaigns" page and next to each of your campaign names is "Settings." Go here and scroll down to "Google Analytics Connection:" and then you can disconnect from that one and add the right one.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Google Analytics Connection:

Hey Q&Aers,

As you probably know, Rand answers one question per PRO newsletter, and I need a question to ask him.

Please leave your questions below.

(I generally give Rand a few questions, so he can choose which one to answer, so this is by no means a first come, first serve situation. But please only ask one!)

Thanks!

If you're marketing to marketers, then it is a bit of a different story in that they may actually be interested in your content. I guess it depends on how valuable you find your other interactions with the group. A lot of LinkedIn is about self-promotion, but I often question just who, if anyone, is listening, especially in groups.

I advocate to stay away from this kind of "like" swapping. The fans of your Facebook that you want are going to be those who are interested in your brand and your services/product/what you do. Are these people doing to give you that attention? Are they your audience? Or will they just hide your feed in their views?

Growing fans can be done through things like contests, great viral content, or Facebook ads. With all these things, you can target your audience and the people who will really help you and spread the word. And grow your Facebook Edgerank.

What Justin said! And yes, 301's pass 95-99% of all link juice.

CSS can definitely get in your way. Glad to hear that your rate has normalized now.

If this is popping up on every page, it's definitely affecting your site load time and your freshness factor. Also, if that's the first thing Google's reads, they could start thinking that all your pages are the same. While generally, cloaking content from Google is a bad thing, having this pop-up not be indexed by Google may help with your current problem.

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.