Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Adam, you asked for a feedback so I will try to be as honest as possible so that things that are missing can be added and over all it should be improved.

I would love to call it a blog tracking tool.. the only idea that immediately comes in my mind is to look in to the competitor and see what they are up to and what audience reaction they are getting against different post in the past few weeks and months... this can help one write what is significantly hot these days... but what about the following updates?

• You give the stats of facebook share, like, tweet, SU, reddit... which you can easily and quality find from other services like sharedcount.com. Dont you think it will be great if you can come up with a formula or something that calculate the total social power of a blog post...
• If you go a little deep in to the post and pick up keywords from it... you will be able to feature the top 5 powerful keywords that the blog you are looking for is targeting...this will be a feature that most people will like.
• How about getting a data from Majestic free API and feature the top 5 links they recently get against their posts. (This is a rough idea but it can be fine tuned to make it beneficial for targeted audience and off-course for you!)

If you can include more features to it... this really can get a pickup by people in the industry! I honestly don’t see any paid value for it but as a free tool this can go good!

Ok i guess the problem is that website is crawled but not indexed and there can be several reasons for it...

Here are few things you can do to say hi to Google and in way request them to re-crawl your website....

1. Try updating page content more frequently..
2. Share it on social media especially on twitter and Google+
3. Increase the crawl rate in Google webmaster tool (I know it has nothing directly to do with it but it works for me... most of the times)
4. Try to get some links on the home and internal pages
5. Do some social bookmarking of internal pages (not for link but for crawling purposes)

Hope it will help!

The reason to remove links from domains that are de-indexed from Google listings is because mots of the times domains that are de-indexed are caught as the participant of some low level activity.

nops for pages within the domain you should use '-' to separate it instead of '_'.

The reason why you should not do this in the main domain is because it looks spammy to many people as this is the format that most spammers use when buying keyword rich domain names...

Active on social media is interaction to me so if the content you distribute on social media sites creates buzz and people started interaction with you... You are active! It’s simple is that!

Will Google find it active or not is a different debate... may be Google+ interaction will be considered as more important as compare to others but this is not conform till yet!

If you have issues related to product, Probably the best idea is to email at help@seomoz.org or contact @Moz at twitter!

Ok it seems like you are looking Guest Posting from the link angle only…

1. 1. Anchor in Body is better than Byline

This is true but not only because of the juice transfer ratio but because of the fact that guest posts are read by real people so while reading there are more chances that they will go though that link as well and might consider linking to it… so in a way there are chances to convert that one link in to multiple….

1. 2. 2 Links in the same URL?

Yes Google will count the 1^st one if Blog Post will target 2 links point the same URL.

1. 3. Duplicate Byline

Honestly I have used the duplicate bylines and I personally don’t think it has a significant impact on links that are pointing out to your desired location… link juice will still be passed!

Well, to be honest Chris, It is a poorly maintained site. I mean deleting the past news is not at all the solution... I guess the right solution is to work on hosting side and enhance the data base or else the problem will be continuous.

If you are going to use too many redirections this will cause another problem and at the same time will slow down your website speed.

Actually 404s are generating because the URL is available in Google index but there is no page on your website available against it and this causes a 404... The easy way is to reduce 404 is to send a removal request to Google from Google webmaster tool.

And for future... instead of removing pages you should try investing on database and better hosting.

doesn't matter at all! the worth of the account matter from your level of interaction and engagement in the community.

Well branded keywords in SEOmoz have simple meaning... for instance you are receiving traffic from tons of different key phrases from organic, paid and other channels... in organic you are receiving traffic from different keywords some includes your company name and others will be the niche related information keywords...

Branded keywords are the keywords that contain your brand name so that you can get to know that how much traffic is coming on your website with your brand name and how much is coming from other organic key phrases...

According to SEOmoz, ‘Domain Authority measures the predictive ranking strength of entire domains or subdomains, Page Authority measures the strength of individual page.’

Whenever a new page has been created, the PA of that page should be none and then with the time people stated link to it and PA grows with time…

Usually .EDU links are promising links (no matter from a sub page) so I think you should go for it because with time the PA will increase… and this link is surly going to help you in many ways…

Just pointers... don’t rely on it... Google is changing fast and you never know when they might do that if they are not doing it at the moment...

If it matches your brand go for it but if not then prefer to go for a brand related URL instead of a keyword...

If you are using HTML website it can actually arise few of the problems that needs to be resolved in order to optimize your website properly. Shifting to wordpress in a good option as it is good to change and adopt the new technologies!

I think you should look in to the top users of the Moz Community to see if someone comes under your budget and do things for you!

Hope this helps!

Site No indexed in Google has nothing to do with DA or PA of the website as these are the parameters by SEOmoz which are purely based on the number of links a website have!

No index from Google doesn’t means website can’t have links coming from other websites.. so, if there are external links pointing to the website there will be a PA and DA of the website and page.

To be honest its difficult to come up with any name but there are several things you can consider...

Search within the SEOmoz community... see what their activity rank is?... see how they perform in daily blog comments, in QnA section and select few... Talk to them...compare prices and services and i am sure you will find some one fit for you!

Pro tip: Cheap prices usually offer cheap services...

Ryan is pretty much right on his point... I spent 2mins on your link profile data and I can say that this more seems like a link penalty. The links pointing to you are mostly spammy and irrelevant.

I think its better to check your messages in Google Webmaster tool and see if you received any email from Google.

In other case there are two things you can do:

1. Design a viral link campaign that allows natural links to come in, focus on the link quality and relevancy.
2. Use Link Disavow tool by Google to discount shitty links that are available in your profile.

And this should help you increase your rankings within few weeks of time.

Hope this helps~

I have personally used Hootesuite and Sprout Social also seems a promising tool to me!

If you are asking for normal Social Media management tool which does not required any advance feature then my idea is to take a trial version of both tools and see what fits your need and if both tools can get your work done, just check the prices and make the decision (No Rocket Science).

It’s a very general question to ask without the specific URL/Domain you are talking about!

If you were ranking well but then dropped then there can be many possibilities and page load time is one of them!

Also, check your links and see if the links that are pointing to your website are of quality and relevant or else there is a huge possibility that the dip in traffic is because of the Google Panda/penguin update!

If you have good amount of duplicate content on your site and you are not using canonicalization to fix it, you will see your rankings will go down for your desired key phrases.

Like I said there are many possibilities so I would love if you can be either more specific with your questions or pass the URL!

Hey Tan,

I would agree with Chenzo to a higher extent! I think if anyone offers you that he/she will build 50 links per month sounds more like a shit to me and honestly you are going for a lousy services if you are going for this...

Good Links build itself (naturally) and if you give reasons your audience to link to you then there are no way they will not link to you...just find a person who creates awesome content and with that a great promotional plan you will started to see the improvement in links, ranking, traffic, leads and finally sales and branding....

The key to rock in search engine to place and set yourself as an expert and not as the one who got nothing but a sales page for their customers and egger to rank on the first page of Google...

Choose the people/companies (may be within the SEOmoz community) and talk to them interview them ask them how they will promote you and if they sounds logical as well as profitable to you then go for it... Remember, I will make you on the first page of Google is neither logical nor profitable...

Good luck with search!

Sorry but I am little lazy at writing so i will try to keep it short and simple

There is no time of it... but your website should be appear for branded terms like if your website s www.exampleABC.com ... your website should at least appear against “example ABC”. If you want to target more keywords and you want your website to appear against them then other then optimized pages you need some targeted links pointing back to your website.

I think you are looking for this https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages/

just add your facebook URL and it will generate the code for you!!

hope this helps!

You are actually talking about link audits and identifying the bad links from the system. When it comes to link audit there are multiple tools available for it. If you are using Moz.com (Open Site Explorer) will give you the detailed insight of the links that are pointing back to your site. You can try other tools like Majestic SEO and Ahrefs.com for this. It is ideal to use the data of multiple tools like a data combination of GT, Moz.com, Ahrefs.com and Majestic SEO will be mind blowing.

Above tools will only give you the link profile but how to find the bad links out of it is another job. There are two ways here:

-          Do it Manually

If you are going to do it manually then you need to set the parameters like which link is bad and which link in the system is worth including in the good list. Try to remove all the bad links and if they does not remove include them in the disavow file and submit it to Google.

-          The Tool way!

There are tools like Link Detox and Link Risk that can do this job using their signals to identify a bad link. This is a little costly ideas as these tools are a little on the high end.

Although there are tools available but it is always a better idea to go manually on this as tools can guess wrong so you always have to check the things manually even after get passed by the system.

Hope this helps!

I am not sure the question itself is quite confusing but as far as my understanding goes here is the answer:

If a client has 3 different business addresses in 3 different cities that mean you can include 3 listings for client so why choose anyone, why not include all and optimize them completely?

You can always get a way to completely optimize the listing and get reviews (in terms of local)... if this is what you are looking for.

Chris, you want to include URL so that it appears in the search results against the query? If this is the vision behind this approach then I would argue!

Write “TV Repair Man” in Google and you will see no Google+ URL is appearing but mostly they are pure websites and local citations. The reason why I would encourage you to use your company name is because this way you will be able to tell people that you are also available on Google+ and people can easily find you and connect on with you on Google+

I would recommend using this custom URL feature as part of the branding.

Hope this helps!

Ok, here is the helpful resource regarding Roger Mozbot. http://moz.com/help/pro/rogerbot-crawler

This might help!

Here you go! >> http://www.seomoz.org/directories

I guess you need to focus more on is your link profile… I am not saying its bad but in terms of quantity its less… you need to have more links in order to outrank your competitors…

The strategy is fine but you need to accelerate it a bit more so that things can walk in your favor!

Hope this helps!

Ok, there could be multiple reasons that include the violation or their T&C and more. I have checked the picture you have attached and it says the button “Learn More”. My advice would be to check and see what exactly has gone wrong and what possible options you have to fix the problem.

As far as the B2B businesses are concern, facebook is not really an ideal social platform where they should engage as their targeted audience is normally not available there.

I know my answer is not actually helping you but I would be glad if it gives you a hint towards the right area.

Best way to find the lost links is Ahrefs.com that will show you the data of lost links within the index or Majestic SEO that will show you what links are now deleted.

Hope this helps!

As far as I understand the concept of infographic is that it is a way to attract 100s of link pointing back to your website... how that actually happens... I guess this happens when someone copy and paste your infographic by using the embedded code!

Now if there is a paragraph on the page that is linking to the main site.. (Probably that will not be included in the embedded code).. So in that case you might not get much benefits of an infographic even after it go viral.

As far is discounting links in infographic is concern it is a simple chain that is easy to capture.

My words: I don’t think infographics links are discounting completely at least the moment and even if they do you have a fair chance to impress people from your infographic and convert them in to profitable business sales.

I think Dana did a perfect justice to that answers, All I wanted to add here is that when finalizing the list of directories always consider niche instead of the general directories.

http://www.redirect-checker.org/ This is the website. Just enter your URL and it will show you the status code of it.

As simple as that!

I am not really in a mood to present myself at the front of you and raise my hand but i can give you an idea of how you can find the right kind of SEO for your business. There are tons of snake oil sellers who can eat your money and give you nothing but will waste your time and put your website at risk.

Here are few of the things that should keep in mind when searching for the right kind of SEO for your business.

• He will discuss what he will do!

This means that he will be able to give you the overview of what he can do for your business and what you should expect on month to month basis.

• He will be Open to community

The right kind of SEOs are usually open to community and help others with their knowledge and talent. If you want to search for the right kind of SEO on SEOmoz platform i would recommend checking the list of top 50 active members and approach them as they are the most active people in the SEOmoz community.

• Usually there share their tactics

Not all but mostly good SEOs tend to write on different platforms (SEO blogs) about the expertise that they have in order to give the right image of SEO in the community. You can always find this by typing in their name or may be the company name they are working for.

• Twitter Addict

This is not must but true to almost 85% of good SEOs. They tend to share their perspective about SEO to other likeminded people in order to build relationship. Most SEOs discuss things, happenings and ideas on open platforms like twitter, so if you want a good SEO see how active they are on twitter and what is their fellow circle.

• SEOmoz list of Recommended Companies

If budget is not at all a problem for you, then you should consider checking out the list of SEO companies that SEOmoz recommend as they are all the high class people in the SEO community.

I guess you have a narrow image of how Google look in to the websites when rankings in SERPs against different key phrases. The images should some good measurements but there is nothing that allows me to come up with the answer of domain 1 or domain 2…

We even have no clue how many things Google consider but we at least know that they are 200+ signals.

My advice for whoever domain is losing to analyze every area that may be on-page optimization, content, back links, social, press links or others and if anything is bad or at least not up to the mark then try to fix it and work accordingly.

Hope this helps!

I started blogging as a guest blogger as I don’t feel the need of my own blog but then people want me to have a place where they can read my stuff!

I believe Blogging have the following benefits (based on my experience)

-          You can get the change to set yourself as an authority within your particular niche.

-          You get a chance to build and engage a community around your blog that like your work and share their views on your posts (ideas).

-          You can convert a good amount of your fans to convert in to your customers by encouraging and satisfying them enough through your blog pieces.

-          Technically, you can target long tail keywords through your blog and make them rank well in Google.

-          Relationship Building is one of the key things you get through blogging that later help you getting links, endorsements and much more!

Jay, you think I will say No or no thanks to it?

I am always hungry about new stuff coming from the Mozplex.... Count me in please.

Semantically the links in the footer should have to have lowest value but after the panda and penguin update same link in the footer of multiple website may question the quality of link and anchor text.

I think it’s good to have a link from few websites but having link from every website they made with same or slightly varied anchor text might hurt the overall link profile instead of providing benefits.

There can be many ideas… I guess you should focus on some press links.. as they are always high quality and some links from magazine sites as they contain lot of traffic. Infographic to your researches can be a great idea!

You can also try guest blogging in your niche and some related niches… also if you have budget try some videos as this will get your links, traffic and business leads at the same time!

Hope this helps!

The way Google look in to links and anchor texts is different than how they see and measure your social media score. If the tweet is good with nothing optimized in it, it will get lots and lots of shares and retweets, where as a completely optimized tweet failed to create a buzz in the arena.

I believe when using twitter or any other social network just think about people instead of Google, algorithms or machine and this way thing will get natural automatically and you will see the buzz you was ideally looking from your social efforts.

Not really , I don't think Moz have this option available in their paid accounts... although they should add this as this is a requirement for agencies!

I don’t think there will be a problem in leaving them as it is at the moment... the reason is because they are pointing back to the entities that are quite famous like facebook page, home page and more...

Make it no follow will indicate Google that the other websites are not quality and this is why you do not want Google to pass link juice...

If there URLs are not available then they must be giving the status of 404 all you have to do is to add a command in the .htaccess that any page that as a status of 404 will redirect to home page so that way all the pages that are no more available will automatically take the user to the home page.

Hope this helps!

I believe Jennita shared the post you are ideally looking for but in case not, Phil Nottingham is the guy who usually write about Video strategies so you should check his profile to get what you are ideally looking for!

Hope this helps!

There is something odd on your website because when I try to log in from my IP the website wasn’t opening but when I tried to enter in to your website using zenmate it worked for (maybe my country is block in your list).

I tried using screaming frog on your website it didn’t work and said connection timeout. I am not sure if this is again because of the IP so I cannot really tell you in detail about what technical issues your website is facing.

But kind of service you are targeting, you have to have a much bigger and quality link profile in order to rank for desired keywords. Not sure about technical issues your website is facing but you have to build great amount of links pointing back to your website and this way you stand a chance to rank for many of your targeted key phrases.

Hope this helps!

I think you are talking about adding a comment with a keyword in the name section and your desired page in the URL section...

As far as Google is concern, according to the latest information Google does crawl comments so it is good to add relevant and valuable comments and 1 out of 10 comment can be anchored but do not over do it or else you will find this technique will started to work against you!

Paul, this is something I have experienced a lot... there are many blogs who claims that good planning on platform migration can help you stay away from the loss of search engine traffic as well as  rankings but I think migration is going to give a temporary effect on rankings and traffic and bad planning can make it preeminent.

Here are the following things you should keep in mind before you are starting to migrate a platform from one ecommerce platform to another.

-          Make sure that the next ecommerce should have all the necessary SEO plug-ins installed that you will need to make your website look good to search engines as well as users.

-          Make sure to do a proper 301 redirection on pages and on category and product level. Any mistakes will results as a ranking loss from the search engines.

-          Try to keep the URLs same as possible so that redirect should not be needed

Try to update xml site map and webmaster tool about the change so that Google can track and re crawl the pages accordingly.

Let me assure you again that this might produce a negative impact on rankings and traffic for a short period of time but as soon as the pages started to crawl it will get fixed accordingly.

Hope this helps!

Search engine take PDF as a page and can easily crawl the content in it that means if two identically same PDF will be found on different URLs with 100% same content available in it, logically this should be considered as duplicated content because; it like 2 different URLs providing the same information to search engine, so it should be duplicated.

The hard way: Create your own PDFs (way to costly)

The Easy way: Add link to the original resource like the same you do with articles and images, you pass a link to the original resource to help search engine know what the original piece is.

Another way: Block all the PDFs from search engine so that search engine should not crawl and index them in SERPs. The PDFs will be available for your users but not for search engine.

I just take a quick overview of your product pages and I guess if you block the PDF from search engine it won’t affect much! #ifiwouldbeatyourplace

If I would be at your place, I would have looked in to the Google Analytics data (although good amount of data is hidden but still it can help you give it a clue) and would have seen how many people are coming from near me keywords and what are the top services most people are searching for.

Ranking for extra keyword is never bad but should you invest your time on it or not is a big question.

Once I will have the GA data of top 5 services that most people are searching for according to the available data I would have tested the near me keywords in a PPC to see impression vs. click ratio of my targeted audience.

If amount of data I received would be interesting, I would have invested my time and if the traffic is not good enough I would have focused on other important areas.

Hope this helps!