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Awesome, thanks for the share Ryan :))

Yes I agree and I have had success with hyphens in the past, but I firmly believe  they are less likely to be successful than unhypenated websites (but that's in hindsight). As to whether the hyphen played a part in the success is another question entirely, it may have been for a multitude of other factors which I never tested at the time.

Have you conducted any research on this, might be worth doing and then publishing the results on your site, would be of great value.

Think the only way to test this would be to launch two sites, optimised and written as identical as possible (but not the same content for obvious reasons), also best to use different server hosts and see which one ranks best, would be pretty conclusive.

Is cool Michael, the info comes from a reputable source with facts behind it, but if you have your own proof that hyphenated urls work that's good. :))

Not sure if this is of any help Michael

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name

Thank you Sha

"I'm sure you know already that you dodged a bullet by losing that client Lee :)"

Agreed, I had a bad feeling about them at the initial meeting, the second meeting merely convinced me they were a bad lot. Thought they were very controlling, inflexible and negative towards new concepts or embracing social.

So yeah in hindsight I'm glad I lost the contract, but I did learn from the experience which is a plus :))

MMmm that's strange, would have thought Australia would have it before the UK. Not trying teach you to suck eggs but the link is top of page as in the attached image. Did a search too and the launch appears to be world wide.

googleplus+bar+games+button.jpg

"content on a retail site it gains an enormous advantage over competitors (who do not have that type of asset) in its ability to climb the SERPs."

Perhaps I should hire you to convince my clients! Just lost a potential contract for suggesting this (insurance company). All of their content was very poor, one news post had 27 words and included 3 keyword strings  - Couldn't believe what I was seeing. They told me I was being too negative lol I thought I was giving constructive feedback.

Good points though, appreciate your thoughts,

Lee

Thanks for your advice Egol always appreciative of your insight

Am new here so my question was more from the perspective of getting a feel for the tools and how to use them.

Before using SEOmoz all of my data was taken from SERPS (i.e. experience, knowledge and hunches) and am hoping that the tools would compliment this.

Elaborating somewhat on your second paragraph:

Wouldn't the numbers be indicative of quality?

I'd also prefer to take a balanced view, I'm sure you do this too, by taking both into consideration, the numbers and the quality of the content, which of course I can only do with sufficient knowledge of the tools.

Thanks, Lee

Thanks Kyle,

like what you said about "void of any helpful context in and of itself. The more meaningful data is the underlying metrics of the pages competing"

Shame .......... was hoping for a faster starting point, but I guess it always boils to drilling down and defining the data.

Thanks

"In other words if it says "70%" but the site I'm trying to rank is already IN spots 1-10 somewhere this is much different than trying to pick keywords for a brand new site and getting it to rank from scratch."

Thanks Dan, this is what I'm trying to determine, most of my business comes from new sites, so while they have a little age, from the sense of rankings I'm trying to identify new phrases on sites with no previous seo.

Would have been a little more helpful if that percentage gave me a better idea of the impact on a new site, but I guess we can't have it all.

Thanks for the tip though will certainly broaden my search, perhaps look for moderate to low, but as you advise, look for weak off-page competitors.

Cheers, Lee

Is cool Michael, the info comes from a reputable source with facts behind it, but if you have your own proof that hyphenated urls work that's good. :))

is funny you say that, was analysing a site the other day and they had lots of links from graphical blog post, think they came from abode illustrator tutorials, commenting has been blocked now but those links were generating a lot of authority, low 70's.

Which raises an important point thats something worth considering, commenting on pages that are likely to mature in respect of PA, what might only get a little authority now might in say 3-4 years yield something worth having,

Good points thanks a lot.

Is surprisingly easy to implement if you have css/html knowledge, just create your design and upload it to web-server, create an app that links to this and then create a new tab that links to the app.

"Apps on Facebook are loaded into a Canvas Page. A Canvas Page is quite literally a blank canvas within Facebook on which to run your app. You populate the Canvas Page by providing a Canvas URL (the location of your design) that contains the HTML, JavaScript and CSS that make up your app."

Creating FB apps

If you need more detailed info inbox me.

Is pretty awesome, means you can add pretty much anything you like into a fb application, video, forums or anything that is web based such as contact forms and signup etc.

Following a thread here thought I'd login to G+ only to notice the new Google games tab, lol you've gotta give em A+ for trying ......

Think Google should try to be a little more original, wondered what everyone else thought of this new addition?

Lee