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Awesome! Exactly the answer I was looking for. Many thanks, Ben, greatly appreciate the  help with this.

Thanks, Ben for checking into this. Just so I understand correctly, are you saying that a guest poster who is assigned the role of "Author" can actually moderate comments on their post?

I didn't see that info in the codex. I know that the role of "Editor" does but it looks like an Editor can a lot of other things as well.

Thank you, Ben and Sanket for taking the time to respond. I looked at the different roles WordPress lets you assign. Unfortunately, the "lowest" role that lets a user moderate comments also lets a user edit other pages and posts, which is rather risky for the person whose letting Big Brand X guest post on their site.

Thanks again for the help, appreciate it.

Is there a plugin or function in WordPress for a guest poster to just get admin access to control comments?

Example:

Big Brand X writes a guest post on www.yoursite.com.

Big Brand X wants admin access to approve or delete comments on their guest on www.yoursite.com.

Big Brand X doesn't want access to edit their guest post or any other post on www.yoursite.com, they just want admin access to manage the comments on their guest post.

Is this possible? Thanks for the help!

Hi Keri. Thank you for the info, I wasn't aware of the view only option. I'll send this post to our IT Director. Appreciate your help! Have a great weekend.

Hi Dan. Greatly appreciate your response and insights. I think you've completely identified the issue(s). Basically from a technical SEO perspective our site is a trainwreck hit by a nuclear bomb. The battle between IT and my marketing department rages on, making it really difficult to get anything fixed. There's some politics at play that won't get solved here

Anyway, many thanks for your help on this. We'll try again tomorrow.

Sorry, but there's no one-size-fits-all answer regarding what is acceptable and unacceptable. You should be taking into consideration the intent of the site to help determine what is acceptable. Let me give you an example:

One of our landing pages had a bounce rate of 58%. This was problematic because the landing was designed to generate leads. In essence we only had a shot at converting the 42% of traffic that didn't bounce when they hit the page. And of those, we were converting about 6%. For that particular product, we converted 5 out of every 100 leads generated, and the average lifetime value of the client was about $3K.

Long story short, it worth our time to deal with the higher bounce rate because the potential value of each lead was rather substantial. So, take it on a case-by-case basis, but remember that it's been said Google takes bounces rates into consideration as a ranking factor.

This morning I discovered that the homepage/root domain of our company site, http://www.collegeplus.org/, has been de-indexed by Google and Bing. Out IT dept. is claiming it's our fault because we changed the meta title on our homepage. But they will not give me access to GWT to see if there's any issues.

I believe the issue lies within our robots.txt file - http://www.collegeplus.org/robots.txt

I also don't believe we're suffering a penalty because all of our tier 2 pages are still indexed when any type of branded search is performed. We don't do things that can get a site de-indexed like this.

Any ideas on what the issue may be? Or at least something to convince our IT dept. that simply changing a meta title won't get your homepage totally de-indexed? Thanks.

It looks like LinkedIn's links are using the http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url= prefix for the external Websites links and is recently using 302 redirects.

Sorry, but there's no one-size-fits-all answer regarding what is acceptable and unacceptable. You should be taking into consideration the intent of the site to help determine what is acceptable. Let me give you an example:

One of our landing pages had a bounce rate of 58%. This was problematic because the landing was designed to generate leads. In essence we only had a shot at converting the 42% of traffic that didn't bounce when they hit the page. And of those, we were converting about 6%. For that particular product, we converted 5 out of every 100 leads generated, and the average lifetime value of the client was about $3K.

Long story short, it worth our time to deal with the higher bounce rate because the potential value of each lead was rather substantial. So, take it on a case-by-case basis, but remember that it's been said Google takes bounces rates into consideration as a ranking factor.

Hi Dan. Greatly appreciate your response and insights. I think you've completely identified the issue(s). Basically from a technical SEO perspective our site is a trainwreck hit by a nuclear bomb. The battle between IT and my marketing department rages on, making it really difficult to get anything fixed. There's some politics at play that won't get solved here

Anyway, many thanks for your help on this. We'll try again tomorrow.