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As a web application developer, I liberally use inline comments (code at the header and inline with code).  It's a key to maintaining the code over long periods of time (we forget what we did and why) and across teams (somebody else may need to update code I originally wrote).

That said, I use comments surrounded with tags that do not end up in the HTML code rendered to a visitor.  Most languages that "create" HTML code as output (ColdFusion, PHP, etc) usually have tags so comments can be used without being seen in the HTML.

In my opinion, this is the way to go.

Neil, you're probably concerned with the comments in HTML comment tags.  I cannot help you there.  For those of you who can suggest best practices to site owners and developers, ask that whenever possible inline comments are in tags that **do not show up in final HTML. **

Also, as a practice, I do not want the World seeing (or reverse-engineering) my code based on my comments.  Use them as a web developer yet hide comments in output so SEOs do not have headaches of wondering how it affects rankings/page performance.

I hope that helps.

Good for you Group16.  You posted just before me.  On the same wavelength.

I peeked at the data for your domain in ahref.com. That data set shows 22 domains linking to any page at your domain.  Here are the top 5 domains.  Dmoz was not in the domains.

Domain    Backlinks    RefPages
wrg.com.br    379    379
zone41.org    140    140
digitaldiscovery.eu    99    99
siteintel.net    14    14
acepi.pt    7    7

Doug pointed out the pain we feel.  Waiting on Google development team.

In the meantime, if there are critical items that you need pushed to your attention, a lesser (temporary) solution may be to set up alerts to trigger you view the data when a goal is reached.

Google analytics > select profile > settings (cog icon) > profiles > assets > create new custom alert (button)

Choose a period (day, week, month).

Choose "<label>Send me an email when this alert triggers.</label>" and you can add additional emails too.

A stop-gap to know when thing happen?

Also, have you considered setting up a dashboard?  (or you may already have).  Home tab > dashboards.  It may not arrive in your inbox, but a link to the correct page is a quick method to get to key GA data you may be monitoring.

While you are there, peek at Real-Time (beta) link for interesting actions in [close to] real time at your site.

Greetings Doug, I echo Mike's request.  It would be wonderfully supportive of you or another staff member to give one (or more) examples on how "Domain Authority and Page Authority for the top 20 search results on Google".

I cannot simply present to my boss and say, "SEOMoz shows this keyword as 62% highly competitive."  My boss is wise enough to ask, "Explain what 62% means. Show me how this applies."

Fair question.

One  example from you in layperson terms would be highly appreciated.  Then, I may replicate myself and thereby explain the value and origin of the measure.

Please "teach a person to fish ..."

Cheers, Loren

Hi Slava,

I want to warmly thank you for the productive phone call, the links to social media reading, and the plethora of excellent ideas towards USBid's 90-day Social Media Plan.

It is awesome to connect and gain traction on efforts to engage with our customers.  It's this level of connection that makes SEOMoz community of great value to me.

Without taking away one iota of praise to you, I want to state that I hoped for more social media gurus to respond to this question.

So, I renew my call -- what could I have posted to better engage the interest of additional social media experts?

In closing, I am taking this task seriously.  I set up a Basecamp project (37Signals rocks!) for study and coordinate tasks to reach my SMM goals.  I know you'll be one of my collaborators on this journey.

Other takers to join in on this ride?