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Hi Jason,

Thanks for being so considerate! You're welcome to discuss the sites here. It will help in the discussion if you indicate they're adult sites (as that helps us know that it's a real competitive industry, I'd ask the same if someone was talking about payday loans as opposed to garden rakes). If you do include a link, please add a note that it's NSFW. We do have many people in the forum who are surfing from work, and they appreciate that type of warning before blindly going to a site.

Thanks!

Hi Diane,

What geo settings do you have for the rank tracker, and what geo settings are you using in your browser? Which Google are you using?

FYI, for google.com and a geo of Seattle, I'm seeing the Claire Hegarty site in fifth place for that keyword right now.

And bank account deposits.

Hi Chris,

We actually only very rarely remove questions in Q&A. In this case, four different users have volunteered their time to answer the question, and removing the question would be Moz removing their time and effort from the community. You can edit the title of your question and the content of the question, but the replies will remain. It will also help users in the future who may have a similar question.

Thanks for understanding!

Keri

Here's a post from Dr. Pete about doing just that. He lost traffic, he lost indexed pages, and had to beg to Google for a reinclusion request even after he fixed things back again. You don't want to do it.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/catastrophic-canonicalization

Hi Eric,

You might consider starting with our list of Recommended Companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.

One month is still quite new for a domain. I'm going to http://dogtraining.blogspot.com/ but not finding any content on that page and wondering what I'm missing, and how that would get 500 backlinks. If the page truly has no content and it has 500 backlinks, I'd be worried about those links not being of the very natural type.

We released a new index last night, and DA should be closer to normal now. Can you take a look and let me know how things are now?

Here's a blog post on the history of SEOmoz. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-history-of-seomoz. Rand writes that in 2004, "In an attempt to grow my skillset, I participate vigorously on half a dozen SEO forums and eventually build SEOmoz.org as a site to host my thoughts, struggles and discoveries."

I also watched Rand speak last week, and he stated that he never intended it to be this type of business site, it was originally a blog to write about what he was going through.

Hi! We're going through some of the older unanswered questions and seeing if people still have questions or if they've gone ahead and implemented something and have any lessons to share with us. Can you give an update, or mark your question as answered?

Thanks!

Hi Ryan,

Appending that to my query string didn't work, but using the Search Tools dropdown and setting my location to US did the trick. Thanks for questioning me, was great to be able to see this.

Actually, WWW is considered a subdomain. If you have some links going to domain.com and some going to www.domain.com that would account for the different metrics.

Here are the details about the banner (it's for brand pages). https://business.twitter.com/en/advertise/enhanced-profile/

Hi Nick,

I'm following up on older, unanswered questions here in Q&A. Did you ever get this sorted out?

I would recommend SMX (as well as MozCon, of course!). Things I appreciate about SMX:

• They seem to work hard to add new sessions and make sure that it's not always the same speaker talking about the same thing.
• There are ample break times between sessions. You have time to network with people, time to ask questions of the speakers, use the bathroom, check in and respond to messages from your office, etc. I have found this to be more important if you're trying to attend as many sessions as possible, less important if there are only a few sessions that interest you and you're willing to skip a session to have a break.
• Delicious food! I do think Mozcon beats SMX for food, but in my experience SMX beats the other large conferences for food. There's enough food for breakfast if your hotel doesn't provide any, well-stocked snack breaks, and a good lunch.

I would also recommend MozCon, though as an employee of SEOmoz, I have to admit my bias here. We are a bit more reasonably priced when you factor in the discount for being a PRO member, which can help make up for being in the opposite corner of the country from you. We have three days of keynote-style presentations. We don't have panels, but instead have 45-60 minute sessions with one presenter giving an awesome presentation. We also have all of the 2012 Mozcon available on video for $299 for pro members (see our announcement at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here) that can allow you to virtually attend MozCon and make it to SMX in person perhaps.

And for OSE, you can find the update schedule at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

Just because you can't share doesn't mean people aren't going to share it on FB. Just yesterday, I shared http://www3.gehealthcare.com/en/Products/Categories/Accessories_and_Supplies/Adventure_Series_for_CT/Pirate_Island on FB with my friends. I don't have formal experience in this area, but did want to point that out. There was an article on slate.com about the design of these, and I went looking for more information, and found that page.

If you can figure out how to get an answer from Google, especially on an SEOmoz forum, we would love to know.

Also, some site owners will run link checking tools on their sites that look at their off-site links and see if any return 404s. If you're not returning a 404, the site owners may not know (via an automated tool) that the link is broken.

I might use caution with that list. According to their disclaimers, people do pay to be a part of that list. http://www.topseos.cn/disclosure. So just something to be aware of.

Hi Dan (and anyone else with the same question),

You can put html code in your blog bio section of your profile. When you make new posts, the html will show up in the post, even though in your profile it doesn't show. We do ask that these links not be abused.

For existing posts, we need to re-save the post so that it grabs the blog bio information again, and then it will show up. Send an email to editor@seomoz.org and we can take care of that for you next week.

I use wheregoes.com to see where a shortened link goes without clicking it.

In a context like this, PR generally means public relations.

I don't have experience with Joomla, and have just cursed over a website in Mambo, but the first part of these instructions for copying a Joomla website make it look like the content is in a MySQL database much like Wordpress. I don't know where right off to look for that database, or if the client would have it in the archive you were given, but it's at least a start of where to look.

http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

The most common reasons for this are discussed at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages. If those don't solve your problem, email help@seomoz.org and we'll be able to sort it out at the help desk.

Thanks!

Is this a Moz report, or a different report? I wasn't aware that we said a peep about Dublin Core.

I was wondering if the client did plastic surgery.

There are solutions for call tracking available that shouldn't negatively impact your SEO. One solution is to use an image replacement, another is to use javascript and figure out what type of source is referring the traffic and show an appropriate number.

How granular are you wanting to track your data? Do you just want to know direct vs ppc vs organic, or are you wanting to know each PPC keyword that drove traffic and which of those keywords converted? That'll affect the number of phone numbers involved and the cost.

For your local SEO, you will want to submit your regular phone number, not any toll-free number or tracking number. To the best of my knowledge, there's no good way to track the calls from people calling directly from the local SERPs, but you need those phone numbers consistent with all of the other published information that contributes to your NAP (Name/Address/Phone). Having the yellow pages with one phone number, other links with other phone numbers, and your local listing with yet a different phone number is a Bad Thing. Sorry I can't quantify it for you, I just know you want everything the same for that listing.

I hope this has helped. In a previous job, I worked for a company that provided call tracking and ROI solutions which is where I got some of this knowledge. I myself haven't implemented call tracking on my website, but I'm aware of a lot of the factors involved.

Oh, and a button to click "give me no personalization, localization (beyond my country), bias, inference, or voodoo magic in my results"!

Hey everyone,

We're so sorry, but this is a known bug on our end. It's on our fix list, but we don't have an ETA for the fix right now.

The only time I used it is when I was working at a site in the educational field, and we used it to markup our lesson resources. We used it less for SEO and more for interoperability with our partners.

I personally favor the .com, as it's shorter and makes more sense, and more people are aware of .com domains.

The next thing I would focus on is why should people come to your site as opposed to the dozens of others out there on the web already that offer baby hazel games. What do you offer that they don't have? Think about about your unique selling proposition as you put together your site.

It'll take a little bit of time for OSE to catch up and see the 301 redirects. For now, don't panic!

I'd suggest that if you can to not use any extension in the displayed URLs. That way the next time you change languages the URL won't change. As an example, see the SEOmoz URLs -- it's just http://www.seomoz.org/q/php-to-html-change-in-extension with no extension.

I don't know the code offhand for that, but I'm sure others can help you out with that.

Hi Andrew,

I went to that URL and found the following phrase:

"Packs which are designed especialy for those on holiday with"

I put that into Google as a phrase search, and that page from your site DID show up. Along with 14 other pages from your site. Have you looked at how much unique content is on each page versus how much is duplicated across pages?

If it makes you feel any better, this is the solution about once a month in Q&A. You're not the first, and you certainly won't be the last!

If you get your page to stay, you may have a tricky time making it accurate. We've battled with the SEOmoz/Moz Wikipedia pages. Despite extensive notes in the Talk page from Rand, there are still a ton of inaccuracies in the page (last time I looked).

I don't know exactly. We've been releasing an index every couple of weeks recently, so I'd wait at least a month before worrying. Do make sure that you have all of your redirects set up properly, so that the search engines know where to find the new site.

Your home page links to http://www.theradiatorgallery.com/designer-radiators.html with the anchor text designer radiators, and that page links to the home page with the anchor text designer radiators. Others can give more information, but I think you need to pick one page that you want to be the focus for designer radiators and focus on that, and not send conflicting signals to the search engines with this type of circular linking.

Yep, that's your problem. I just talked with the help desk to confirm. OSE/Linkscape can't crawl https for measuring your links, so it's only seeing links that are going to http and not the links going to https.

There's a link building section of the Moz Blog that will give you a lot of ideas, as well as our section on links in the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Moz Local is a standalone product, and the price doesn't change with whether or not you have a Moz Pro account.

Hi! So sorry for the delayed response, but having downloadable files show up as links is a known bug in OSE that we're working on. Here's a post from a Linkscape engineer with some more information: http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains

Some of the important information from Facebook says you basically can't use FB to run the promotion, so no "your like enters you into the contest". There are several external companies that have a business model of using FB as part of promotions and will help you do that. I believe you can use FB to make people aware of your contest, but not as a means of entry.

There are several companies that have a business model of helping you run promotions that you might investigate. There are a lot of legal things to consider, such as age of entrants, if the nature of the product is permitted to be promoted, restrictions on promotions in different states/countries, etc

A bit cynical here, but would a PR agency be able to create high-quality content that's relevant to your industry? Or would your time and money (for that type of content) be better spent having someone with knowledge of your industry (perhaps in your company) writing and paying for an editor to polish the content?

Closing thread, OP reported elsewhere this is fixed.

I can't make a judgement on it, but you might check out Graywolf's recent post this month on masking affiliate links. http://www.wolf-howl.com/affiliate-marketing/how-to-mask-affiliate-links/

Using &sort=6 in the parameters will sort by newest post, which may help. We don't have an RSS feed for questions at this time.