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Google's been changing the title of page names in the SERPs for years, especially if they think it is too spammy or doesn't match the query. They even do it on Apple's main website. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do about it.

I'd add that just because you have their business card doesn't mean they gave you explicit permission to add them to a mailing list. In the weeks after a major conference, I'll see Twitter and Facebook complaints from people that exchanged business cards and were now on a newsletter. You may want to reach out individually and ask if people would like to be on your list, but be sure to not automatically add people.

Google isn't going to endorse either of those tactics. Heck, they even just reinforced that if you have any advertorial content on your news site you need to make sure that's not in your site map or they may not index our news site at all.

However, people are free to write whatever they want online. Google isn't the police, but if you want to be included in Google, you need to follow their rules.

What I'm trying to say is that your criteria may exclude blogs in your industry that are high quality with requirements about not needing to register. Everything on YouMoz is about online marketing, so it wouldn't be a place to post about furnace filters.

I think you're missing requirements about the topic of the blog, making sure that the post is a good fit for the blog, making sure existing posts on the blog are high quality, and making sure that the guest post content that you provide is high quality with proper grammar, spelling, references, fact-checking, and formatting.

That could actually exclude a number of good blogs. YouMoz from SEOmoz doesn't meet a couple of your criteria -- we require a free account, and we've been around for several years now.

I'm not seeing anything in here about the quality of the blog, if the guest posts are all related to the theme of the blog or if anything on any subject is accepted, if it's related to your industry, what type of content you have to offer, and so on.

Has your traffic changed?

Have your leads changed?

Is there any impact besides the number of pixels of green your have on your toolbar right now?

It could just be that your URL extension changed and things will catch up. If everything else is fine, don't sweat it.

I believe newspapers use a feature called "first click free" that enables this to work. I don't know if that will work with your industry regulations or not, however. You may also want to see how sites that deal with adult content, such as liquor sites, have a restriction for viewing let allow indexing.

Thanks for pointing this out! A lot of unhappy people on the thread, but among SEOs that have retweeted the announcement on Twitter, there seems to be a positive reaction that this will help reduce the incentive to create low-quality content.

Your bio says you're with a brothel. While it may be legal in your area of Nevada, if the Google+ account had much relating to this, that could be a reason why it was suspended. Could you tell us a little more about the account?

The guide on scribd was not put up there by an SEOmoz employee. As Mike mentions, the seomoz.org/help page is where to get the most current information. You're also free to ask questions here in Q&A, and we even do have an Associate who is from Italy that may be able to lend you a hand in answering Q&A questions.

I'd suggest the redirection plugin for Wordpress. You can easily redirect the missing pages to the correct pages without having to create any pages. It also logs 404s for you, and you can create redirects from the 404 log

It's easiest for the Moz team to respond to individual questions like this via an email to help@seomoz.org or sending in a ticket through the help hub at seomoz.org/help.

Also, for why we only crawled one page, check out  https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages- for some helpful tips.

If you download the CSV of the report, there is a column that will list the referring URL for the 404.

By off-page, do you mean link building and the like? You're going to have a tough time getting quality links if you're not allowed to work on the content. I'd take a second look at the client and consider if it's going to be worth your while with the restrictions you've been given.

Would it help if you had your client read the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo to let them know why you need to be able to change things?

How about focusing on the keywords and products that make you money?

My husband sells kits for model warships that shoot and sink each other. A high-volume keyword would be battleship, but that doesn't get us any sales. A low volume keyword would be uss iowa 1:144 scale turret cover, but that's a low-priced item that's not going to help us too much. For us, a different keyword makes much more sense.

Ahh, the problem is that the OP changed jobs, and the new person removed those custom alerts. I hadn't realized that until just now. Thanks for letting me know, and I'll see if we can do anything to get it fixed.

Awesome response here! I'd also like to add we did have a great YouMoz post two years ago about essential alerts for GA that would email you when certain events happened. It's at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/7-essential-google-intelligence-custom-alerts-that-keep-me-sane.

Has your traffic changed? Have your sales or leads changed? Do you have any messages in Google Webmaster Tools?

If I compiled all of EGOL's answers and tips, I could have one of the most awesome resources ever!

Joanna says Hello back, she's just over a couple of desks.

Hi Jesse,

Welcome to SEOmoz and to Q&A. Thanks for the kind words!

I'm in the middle of something right now, but will think on this and come back. Look forward to seeing what others say as well.

My first guess is that Google thinks you have a ton of identical pages. When I look at three random pages for your products, they appear identical to me except for the name of the kit and the URL. Everything else -- title tag, all content, page layout, etc. looks exactly the same. The search engines really want valuable and unique content, and are going to have a hard time seeing the value in these pages.

When I put the text description of the 6000k light into Google, I find other sites with the exact same description. Again, the search engines are likely not finding anything here that they don't see on other sites.

Also check Google webmaster Tools. When doing a site: of your site, there are some odd-looking SERPs and at least one page has a message that the site might be compromised.

I would also suggest reading the Beginner's Guide to SEO, especially the link building section at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Personally, I would rather do nothing at all than do a package like the one above. The one above just means that at some point, I'm going to need to spend a lot of time to clean up those junk links. I view this as similar to spending a couple of hundred dollars a month to provide someone with spray paint to put your URL on the side of a building. It's about the same quality. Again, this is my personal opinion, and not the official voice of SEOmoz, but we take a fairly similar if more muted stance on these type of packages.

Spun articles are junk. My favorite is  an example of a post on alcoholism -- instead of "think before you drink" it read "think before you beverage".

Here's an example of an .edu link. http://courses.csusm.edu/ricastudy/module01/discussion01/_disc1/00008603.htm They're not all quality.

Ok, stepping down off the soapbox. You have a number of trusted community members here that are also giving you great advice. Those with Authority, Guru, and Oracle underneath their names have been around for a while and have lots of participation and are generally good people to listen to.

I don't know if these are sample or actual domains, but also consider if there is a chance of any legal implications of choosing a similar domain -- for example if you tried to register google.co and put up a search engine, Google would have issues with that.

Can you tell us where you're seeing this? Is it in Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, SEOmoz, etc?

The Beginner's Guide to SEO will help you with some of these questions as well. http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Wouldn't it look a tad odd to the search engines to have a site that didn't like out? Are you trying to do this for all of your links, or just some? Can you give a little more background to your question?

Open Site Explorer isn't able to crawl the entire web, we only crawl about the top 25% of it. We also have a bit of a delay between when you get a link and when it shows up in the main OSE crawl.

I'd suggest also verifying your site in Google Webmaster Tools and Bing's Webmaster Center. Both of those sites will show you additional links that are coming into your site that OSE hasn't caught yet.

Honestly, my first suggestion would be to try a different client. They're really limiting the amount that you can do here. Meta keywords are generally not worth your time. Meta descriptions can be written to help entice clicks via a search result page, but you first need some good content so that the search engines will want to show that page in the results or that you can get quality links to these pages.

Part of the reason you're having a difficult time finding those numbers is that it's usually not worth it for the companies doing the rank checking to go that far. With people not going past the first page or two of results, it's not too much a difference if you're ranking on page 11 or page 16 -- the traffic's just not going to be there either way for that keyword.

So you can't change anything on the page itself that the user would see, such as product descriptions? What is the source of the content on the site itself? Is the content duplicated across other sites? Is it a technical issue, or a political issue for not being able to change the content?

There are a couple of different components here. The back link count is updated every 2-4 weeks, when Mozscape is updated. We have our own crawler, just as other sites have their own crawlers, so we'll all have different numbers depending on how many URLs we've crawled that cycle.

That's a good guess. OSE is up to a few weeks behind on links. If you tried this query yesterday, try again today to see if it still happens, since we just released an index yesterday.  You might check web.archive.org to see what it looked like a few months ago, or even Bing's cache to see if it was a fairly recent change (Bing tends to update more slowly than Google).

Is there more value in spending 3-6 months in doing the coding plus content for several sites, or would there be more value in spending that effort in developing content for your main site? Which is more defensible when the search engines update algorithms? I'd vote for spending the effort on my main site rather than other sites.

Seems like this is a great way for the clients to see personalized results with their sites climbing towards the top!

Generally the search engines don't want to see content that is just for them and not users, or showing the search engines one version of content and showing users a different version (which is called cloaking).

I just have to say I'm real thankful this is about car body kits. I saw the URL and was afraid I was going to need to add a NSFW disclaimer, until I saw the comments.

We don't have an association with them, and will be contacting them regarding this logo.

On the first screenshot, I'm thinking that maybe images aren't loading. I'll make sure that we have links back to the question that are in text and not just images in the future, but not sure exactly when that rollout will be. Thanks for letting us know!

Hello everyone,

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ONLY private Q&A is shutting down. Public Q&A is here to stay! You'll be seeing more activity in public Q&A from associates as they answer questions and endorse answers, and more feature development in public QA during the year.

Personally, I'd rather spend that time and money and effort on building the quality pages on my own site, and have people give my site the benefit instead of an external site that I can't control.

Charles, saying that "Google will penalize you" for doing something is a fairly strong statement. Can you point to your source on this subject? It's helpful to give additional information in cases like this.

Here's an explanation from an SEOmoz staff member about what that notice means and when you might want to do something and when to not worry:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

This is a fine place to post this question. I know at least two Moz employees (Joanna and Andrew) will be at SXSW, though I don't know their schedules. You might also try asking on Twitter!

We can look at hyperlinking the question, as we'll be doing some more tweaks to the emails.

One of the feature we did add was having the question title in the subject line, so messages about different didn't get lumped together in gmail anymore.

We're looking into it. Thanks for letting us know! Stupid system knows when I'm on vacation, doesn't it?