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Duplicate question, please answer at http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-using-a-platform-to-automatically-cross-post-on-the-social-bookmarking-websites-good-or-bad-for-seo

I'd also recommend checking out the SEOmoz articles on Link Building to give you some ideas http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4.

Can you give us the name of the hosting company by chance?

I just looked in Google for your site and it looks like it's indexed again. Hope everything is recovering quickly for you! I'd suggest running a campaign in SEOmoz for that site (if you haven't yet) to pick up any duplicate content issues and other suggestions that we have that can further help your site.

If you figure out a way to do this, you'd be rich! They don't seem to care who they touch, whether it's Apple or SEOmoz of the little site. When I search Google for [negative keywords seomoz] I get back the post that I wrote about negative keywords, and Google has rewritten the title to be "negative-keywords-for-positive-roi - SEOmoz". negative-keywords-for-positive-roi is the URL/post slug! If you use different phrases to search, you'll find the correct post title. Quite frustrating!

Hi Diane,

There is no one tool that is going to show you 100% of the links to your site. Google Webmaster Tools will show you a fair many, but even they do not show you all of the links that they know about. Still, that is probably the most complete information you will get.

Open Site Explorer is generally updated every month, and does not crawl the entire web, so the links it lists will be more delayed and fewer than what you see in GWT. The advantage that OSE has is that you can see links going to sites that are not your own (where you do not have access to GWT because it's not your site) and SEOmoz adds additional metrics that look at the value of the page the link is on.

Have you received any warnings about your links in Google Webmaster Tools, or are you wanting to know about the links just in general?

Not rankings, but consider user experience, especially with mobile. If someone is looking for somewhere to eat in the next two hours and they're using their phone, they're going to want a page and site that makes it easy to find information about the location, hours, etc. You might also bring that aspect to the customer and let them know the potential conversion issues (unless you're already planning something for mobile -- the existing site looked just like the desktop site on my iPhone right now).

If you go to the research tools tab, there's a link to SEO Web Crawler. You can request a crawl of your site instead of waiting the week for Roger to normally come back to your site.

Could be that your header is linking to the index.html instead of just the root URL.

It's useful to have the redirection plugin in general, I've found.

Can you tell me a little bit about the crawl error you're getting from the SEOmoz crawl?

You'll probably be just fine. The XML sitemap plugin will also help tell Google where the new URLs are, and you'll have the redirection as well.

You would want to use a 301 redirect (the Redirection plugin in WP is good for this) to tell Google that the old content moved to the new location. If you install it then do the changes, it may even do the necessary redirection for you automatically.

Am I correct in that you just set this up a day ago, so it's not like you're doing this three years in with a whole bunch of backlinks and needing to worry about link juice?

Even with just one page, you can get duplicate content. Consider:

www.example.com
www.example.com/
www.example.com/index.html
example.com
example.com/
example.com/index.html

Might this be the case for you? It's hard to know without seeing your URL.

It's actually almost two years old, though I don't run across it in the SERPs too often. Here's the post Google made when they released that feature: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/understanding-web-to-find-short-answers.html

For a funny example see http://imgur.com/gallery/uXZ7o

Unfortunately, there has been a delay. We've posted information on the SEOmoz blog about it at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained.

Dr. Pete wrote a good post about "too many links" at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many. It's understandable that there are times you need more than 100 links on a page. Do keep in mind that the html sitemap is not the same as an xml sitemap that you would use for the search engines, but the html sitemap is to help orient your visitors.

My guess is that it's probably too new, considering that Open Site Explorer hasn't had an update since February 27th. It looks like you probably started the blog after our last crawl. You'll likely see data when the next crawl is released at the end of the month.

I've had the same experience. I have WP Tables Reloaded, and am seeing some of the table info in snippets in Google even. If you search [site:strikemodels.com/products] you'll see several examples.

A couple of things to keep in mind that no everyone who searches on a word (especially a broad single-word query) will actually click a result. They may look at the result and realize that they need to narrow it down, and not click on anything.

It's really hard to tell search intent from a one-word query like gold. Is it a fifth grader who is searching for a classroom assignment about gold? Is someone wanting to know about gold so they can buy gold jewelry? Do they want to know the current price of gold? Are they interested in investing in gold?

The points are only good if you are marked a helpful answer, Modbargains.

Hi! I see that a good part of your reply is based off of this October 2010 blog post at http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/seo-for-bing-versus-google/. I'd love to see any more recent information that you might have, as well as personal experience.

Thanks for the reply Ann! David, SEOmoz and MyBlogGuest are different products, you'll probably find the best help for MBG talking with Ann or using her support forums.

Thanks for this helpful information. In the future, it'd be great if you could add the links that cite your sources, and indicate which portions of your answer have been reproduced from existing content.

Webmaster tools will tell you how many pages you have submitted in a particular site map, and how many pages are indexed in each site map. If you're able to put your new content into a new sitemap, that's one way to judge.

Here are some examples of real outreach letters at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/outreach-letters-for-link-building-real-examples-14902. The SEOmoz blog category for Link Building at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4 can give you a lot of advice, too.

One thing I'd consider is writing some killer pieces of content that are evergreen (timeless), then you can ask people to link to them, and they'll also collect links on their own. What's the best style of tablecloth for Thanksgiving dinner, how do you make sure it will fit your table, and how do you get gravy or wine stains out of your tablecloth. Make a comprehensive piece about the tablecloths and table decorations in general for major holidays and be the authority in that space.

Hi Shaun,

Since you put this in the category of SEOmoz tools, I'm assuming you want an SEOmoz crawl. We do offer a custom crawl that will do up to 3000 pages on demand, with results in a couple of days (or hours, depending on the size of your site). Check it out at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test.

Hi! The problem is actually on our end right now, as Linkscape is down. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed @seomoz. We're keeping that updated with status reports. If you have a problem still after Linkscape is working again, sending an email to help@seomoz.org will get you the best support for that. Thanks, and so sorry about the problem.

That's exactly what has happened. We've had a delay in releasing a fresh index, so the data is further behind than it usually is. We're so sorry, as it frustrates us very much as well.

If you'd like to be able to give details, you can ask a private Q&A question. Those questions are not indexed, are viewable only by SEOmoz staff and associates, and all of us are under NDAs.

I'd look at the source code to see if a robots noindex got added, or if there's a weird canonical tag in the source. If you can't share your URL publicly, consider using a private question credit -- the private questions are not indexed, and only viewable by staff and associates (and we're all under NDAs).

We're having an issue with LInkscape right now, which OSE (and other tools) uses. We're working on it right now. Keep an eye on the SEOmoz twitter account (@seomoz) for updates.

Have you read the Link Building category of the SEOmoz blog? Take a look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4 and you might also get some more ideas for building quality links (both for forums and in general).

It depends on what that one hour of work will get you. Is that one hour of work total, or are they prepping with an audit then spending an hour to explain it to you?

What have they said you'll get out of that hour?

The redirects are necessary for pages that are indexed in the search engines (so people coming from a search result can get to the right page) and for pages that are linked, bookmarked, etc. You generally want to make sure that most pages you change get a redirect.

Take a look under settings (not via Yoast, but just regular WP settings) and privacy and make sure that your blog is not set to private.

Also, if you've paid someone a bunch of money to redesign your site, they should really have taken better care than to leave the noindex,nofollow on afterwards. You might want to drop them a note saying they did you a major disservice.

Ahh, I found a robots noindex,nofollow on your home page and at least one internal. That would do it!

There should be a setting in Wordpress that asks if you want your blog to be private/ not indexed by the search engines. Did that setting stay checked after you went live by chance?

If you're able to give us a little more information that would help.

Has the organic traffic dropped from all of the search engines, or just one?

Has it dropped for all of your pages or just some of your pages?

Has it dropped for all of your keywords or just some of your keywords?

Have you verified the site in Google and Bing Webmaster tools and looked for any messages and warnings?

When you redesigned, did you put in redirects from the old pages to the new pages (if your URL structure changed)?

Hi John! OSE usually updates once a month. The last update was February 27th, and we've had a delay in releasing the next update (it'll be about a month late). For some detailed information about the updates and this delay, please read the blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained

SEOmoz maintains a list at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.

Is there a way for the search engines to find the new content? If you're blocking the old content from being crawled, even if there are redirects, it makes it that much harder for the new URLs to be found. Also, do you have a sitemap with the new URLs?

When I was in a similar situation where I didn't have the best of relations with the development company, I used Pole Position's free Code Monitor (https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php) to check the robots.txt files of the live site and any development sites/subdomains on a daily basis. I'd get an email if anything had changed, so I could go to the dev company right away and try to mitigate any problems.