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Check Dr. Pete's recent post about the new page title guidelines: http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool
The max length is based on the pixel width, not the number of characters, so you need to be careful with those long titles.
On the other hand, repeating the brand name 2-3 times is spammy. I don't recommend it, because it will have a negative impact on click-through-rate.
Disavow all the suspicious links, but also remove as many as possible. Google wants to see that you did work on cleaning up your link profile and not just disavowed the links.
If you're busy, then outsourcing link clean-up can be an option. Be prepared to pay $5-20 for link removals, because some site admins charge money for the work.
I checked the website and it's .com.au
Yes, it can probably read the content of that particular page, but the not necessarily every page on your website. Crawlable is not the same as indexable. For example, Google crawls pages that contain the noindex tag, but don't index them.
Also, even if a page is crawlable, it doesn't mean that Google understands it correctly. Are the meta tags correct? Does it contain correct mark-up/structured data?
I recommend spending some time reading the Webmaster Tools help pages, so you'll have a better understanding: https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en
Google often changes the page titles on the SERP if it thinks that it's not "good enough" and fully related to the search query. I had these problems with page titles that used special characters like | or -, and use repetitive (boilerplate) titles. In your case, the page title is basically a very generic head term + boilerplate.
Try changing your page title to PC Games at Mighty Ape Australia (without the pipe), fetch it in Webmaster Tools and see if it changes in the SERP. If it doesn't, then probably it's still too generic, so try customising it and removing the repetitive part, e.g. PC Games: Coming Soon, Best Sellers & Imports
Repeating the brand name in every page title is not the best practice nowadays.
In this case insert the canonical tag in the section of page on vietnamtravel.com:
You can read more about the canonical tag on Google's page: [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en)
Hi John
If you want all websites to perform well in organic search, then make each of them unique and don't create duplicate content.
If you want only vietnamvisacorp.com perform well, then add cross domain canonical tags to the duplicate pages on your other websites and mark vietnamvisacorp.com as original. Make sure you set page level canonical URLs and not the homepage (www.vietnamvisacorp.com).
I saw a tweet from Raven, which basically suggests that they will implement the Google Webmaster Tools rankings data into the reporting tool. Probably that's the best way of presenting keyword rankings, because it shows the average positions. Rankings are being affected by so many factors, that it's difficult to tell which ranking report is the most accurate. Location, search history, logged in personalised data, etc, etc.
An average ranking report from Google Webmaster Tools might be more useful than the ones from Raven or SEOMoz.
I was worried too, so I asked SEOMoz on Twitter: I really hope @__SEOmoz__ won't shut down the rank tracking tool, like Raven Tools did.
and they replied: We currently have no plans to change our data service options & are listening to what our community has to say 
The crawl runs once a week, so maybe the broken links have been corrected since the last report. Wait for the next report and check if they still appear.
It's not the end of the world, but definitely more expensive.
As you probably know, the folder microsite gets most of the root domain's authority, while a sub-domain doesn't get anything at all, or just a fraction of the authority; therefore, you'll need to invest more in content, links, social factors, etc.
Use a different Google account for each client!
We had 50+ clients in one Google account and the nightmare started when some of them didn't renew the contract. Migrating listings is a pain in the ***, because the listing will have a significant drop in impressions and you can't just pass it to a different Google account.
It takes roughly 4-6 weeks to migrate, re-verify and then recover from the migration and the client will blame you when they disappear for a few weeks, especially when most of the traffic comes from Places.
Having different companies in the same Google Places account was a rookie mistake and I wouldn't do it again.
In case of new or relatively "weaker" websites, Google often shows the homepage on the SERP only, instead of the product pages, because the homepage has the highest Page Authority. When the product pages are becoming "stronger", Google will trust those as well and show them in the SERP.
If you're worried about losing the current homepage performance, then keep the 3 keywords in the homepage title if those products are very important for the client, and create three individual pages for each product. After 6-8-10 month when the product pages' authority is high enough, then Google will probably show the product pages instead of the homepage, because those have more relevant content and more relevant links.
Don't expect too much improvement from those directory links. They're good to start a project but you'll need a lot more to achieve good rankings.
As far I know, registering your business in these well known directories is not considered as "link buying". These are "quality" business directories and (according to them) they do filter dodgy, spammy, low quality websites.
I've registered a large number of websites in BOTW, Yahoo, Business.com, etc and never had any penalties.
Have you tried XML-Sitemap's video sitemap generator? It detect the embedded videos and creates the sitemap automatically.
It isn't free, though... $10 for the basic XML sitemap generator and an extra $5 for the video sitemap generator.
Because their videos are very popular and they want to generate link juice for the SEOMoz pages, not YouTube.
Distributing your videos through many channels isn't a duplicate issue. My videos were firstly hosted on Vimeo and my website's video sitemap listed those pages. Later I created a YouTube channel and uploaded the same videos. A few weeks later the YouTube pages started taking over the SERP and currently all of my videos appear on YouTube first, then on Vimeo. The higher number of YouTube video views and comments indicate to the search engine that those pages seem to be more popular; therefore, deserve better rankings.
You can set geotargeting in Google Webmaster tools. Subdirectories with a gTLD is a supported solution and duplicate content shouldn't be an issue; however, we have had canonical problems with English pages across .com, .co.uk and .com.au ccTLDs.
Google claims that they're smart enough to understand that your subdirs are for different countries but I'd strongly recommend changing the content as much as possible. Use different spellings, sentence structure, etc, let the client know that it's also better for visitors to see customised content rather than a general marketing copy.
You can read more about the Webmaster Tools settings here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=182192#2
What if I link bombed your website? Every month I pay someone $5 on fiverr.com and buy thousands of super spammy black hat links. Not just your website, the top 5 in the SERP for a certain keyword that I want to get ranked for.
I run a test like this before. Link bombed a website with 15,000+ links, reported to Google but nothing happened so far. It would be too easy for competitors to ruin each other's online reputation with spammy links.
In less competitive online markets (like smaller countries) businesses often start 6-8 websites selling the same product or service. They present unique content on each of these websites and they do link building for each website but because the competition isn't as strong as in the US market, they can get first page rankings with directory and article submissions. When it's successful, they are present on the first page with 3-4 different websites.
They are pretty careful because they register the domain with different companies, hosting is on different server with different IPs, so it's completely white hat and Google doesn't recognise that the owner is the same.
Yes, Google allows you to change location but it seems like the search results are still different, probably because Google uses your IP address as a variable.
I use a VPN provider which has 50+ servers around the world and use their VPN servers as proxies.
Hi Lewis,
Tracking correct local search results requires proxies in every state and city which is a significant cost. Basically they need a proxy server in every city because Google identifies local searches on city and suburb level too. Having computers all over the US running keywords ranking reports is simply too expensive.
If they had proxies in every state, then which city should be targeted? For example: California. LA or San Francisco ?
I'm afraid you have to wait for the next OSE index update. I don't know how to trigger it to index websites. Sometimes I have the same problem, even when the website has a campaign.
I suggest that SEOMoz should prioritise PRO users' websites and make sure that their websites get indexed. For example, a website that is present in a live campaign should be queued for the next OSE index update. We pay for the index updates, don't we? 
"We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 59,000,000,000 pages (which is about 25% the amount in Google's index).
Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Sorry!"
More info here
Also, the OSE index updated every 4-6 weeks, so don't expect immediate results.
Sorry, I forgot to remove the .au
The most important and easiest step is to use Google Webmaster Tools. Go to Site Configuration, then Settings and set the Preferred Domain to either www or non-www.
Google:
"The preferred domain is the one that you would like used to index your site's pages. If you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we'll treat that link as if it was http://www.example.com."
If you have access to .htaccess and not afraid to use it, then the following will help:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.yourdomain.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]
This redirects the non-www domain to the www version, and also redirects the index.html to the www version. Edit accordingly..
First Rate and Colombus in the same thread.
Find a local SEO company or a freelancer with good reputation. It's always better to meet sometimes, discuss the project and talk maybe once a month about the project.
Probably you'll have to pay a one time fee to start the project, on-site SEO, etc, then a monthly payment for link building, new content, social media and reporting.
OSE is being updated every 4-6 weeks so new links will be showed after the next update. The next update is scheduled on the 23rd August. You can check the update schedule here: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
OSE doesn't cover 100% of the Internet so that can be another reason why your links aren't showed. Read more about OSE here
Do you guys know the Bad Neighborhood tool? It's a pretty simple tool and I use it to quickly check websites for links, dodgy anchor texts and anything suspicious. I would implement a similar method in the DA calculation.
I'm afraid you misunderstood my post.
I know that it's only a link metric but since DA and PA is becoming a standard in the SEO world, future updates should consider more variables in the calculation, because online advertising professionals often use and refer to the mozbar for site comparisons.
"DA is mainly a measure of link counts based on the linking page's DA/PA"
Probably it's more than that. The [DA specification page]( It uses a machine learning model to predicatively find an algorithm that best correlates with rankings across thousands of search results that we predict against.) talks about machine learning and that's exactly where this spammy site analysis could improve the calculation. Algorithmically it should be too complicated to filter spammy sites and lower the value of links coming from those pages.
This post is just a tip for SEOMoz' further improvements, because I do like the team and their tools. A software can be improved by continuos testing and by talking about the weaker parts.
In the meantime my colleague asked me how I would differentiate between spammy and valuable blogs.
My answer was:
These blogs are easily identified as spammy because there's a dodgy 200 word content and hundreds of comments. Every nick name is a link with "smart" anchor texts. The comments are only a few words long and these pages have roughly 4-500 links. ...so it's pretty easy to algorithmically identify these websites as link farm.
I used a black hat link scraper that uses a list of free-to-comment spammy blogs.
Combine the site analysis with this list and you have a nice negative list of domains.
I use DA and PA every day for reporting, researching and most of the time it's a pretty good metric to compare domains and pages but recently I did an experiment and I was surprised when I saw the results.
Two months ago I "link bombed" one of my old, unused websites with thousands of spammy blog comment links. Before the attack, its DA was 21 with a few hundred links.
In August, after the recent OSE update I checked the website again and I was quite surprised to see DA 61 as a results of 8340 links.
A DA value over 60 is considered pretty strong and it's interesting to see that spammy blog comment links could change it so significantly. Someone who doesn't know the history of the domain might get interested in advertising on such websites because the mozbar shows a high DA value.
I know it's difficult to algorithmically differentiate between spammy and valuable blogs but a future OSE update could focus on this issue.
Let me know what you think.
I found an article from 2008 that shows Google data centre locations: http://bit.ly/mONhf9
Your other question is a bit confusing. Why Google wouldn't see the UK site?
Are you checking broad or exact match phrases?
car insurance and insurance car are equal because these are broad match types
[car insurance] and [insurance car] are very different because these are exact match types
Numbers are rounded in order to make them easier to read and manage. 195,000 is easier to read than 194,793 and that slight difference doesn't really matter. Same with 590 and 587.
The "reliable source" you linked is a forum where an unknown person posted a message. That is not something I would rely on. Read more about SERP CTR and check your website's data and you will see that the numbers are roughly correct.
There're researches about the SERP CTRs and sometimes I compare these research values to my websites' traffic data. I haven't experienced major differences between the Keyword Tool's and my websites' results, it seems to be accurate.
Can you give us a reliable source of information for these claims?
If your ads have a lot of impressions but low CTR then your keywords will end up having very low Quality Scores. I would try using keywords that are relevant to your business even if they have low search volumes. The AdWords keyword tool is not 100% correct and your business needs only those few who are looking for these special services.
Maybe a more thorough keyword analysis would reveal keywords that have slightly higher search volumes.
If you use more generic keywords and your ads show that your service is special then:
The tool is not working correctly because I'm having the same problem with two different computers. Both running Firefox 4.0.1, Win7 and OSX Snow Leopard. Australian and European domains show the USA flag.
I'm in Australia too. Maybe try re-installing Firefox from scratch. Delete cache, uninstall Firefox, download latest version, install and download seomoz add-on.
try contacting seomoz support...
I had a similar problem with Firefox 4.0.1. I had to log out from SEOmoz & Google, clear cache, cookies, remove the SEOmoz add-on from Firefox, then reinstall and log back in. After that it worked perfectly.
I'd use the ski-goggles.aspx because that page is about ski goggles, not any kind of goggles. It's a clear sign about the sort of goggles the page is presenting. Ski category / Ski goggles
A quick search in Google revealed that the 1st SERP shows both solutions:
/ski-goggles/c1000003457/
/ski-goggles.asp
<cite>/ski-goggles/c42/Catalog.aspx
/ski-goggles.htm</cite>
It won't hurt but your pages don't get too much link juice from the footer links and visitors probably don't read it either. It looks like keyword stuffing so I'd remove it and also because it has no benefit for your website's performance.
I have a similar client or even worse. The domain is 302 redirected to the default.aspx. It's a super dodgy CMS implementation and no one could answer the question. It's been months and the dev team still hasn't fixed it.
Didn't they implement a cross domain canonical tag? I had a similar client that has .com.au and .com too, and started ranking better with the Aussie ccTLD after the Panda update but recently they implemented a cross domain canonical and the Aussie ccTLD disappeared from the SERPs.