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Thanks, Rand.  It's kind of an honor to have you speaking up on my little question here!

It's probably predictable that someone (or more than one) would try to monetize this sort of trick, because of the Google pronouncements that you mentioned and the other articles that have appeared about CTR and time-on-site behavior.

Too bad.  I guess that we all have to actually earn all those visits and page views.  

Thanks, Ray.  What you said confirms what I speculated - too good to be true.  And not entirely above-board, either.

It seems like a less-than-white hat approach, and anyway I don't know whether or not it could work.

Does anyone have any advice about it?

Thanks!

Hi -

I am responsible for a small but growing number of websites for companies that serve the elderly population.  I need help with link building for these websites and I'm looking for suggestions on finding one or two professionals to whom I can outsource that work.

1.  Can you recommend anyone for this need, someone I can contact who you know to be qualified and professional?

2.  Can you give me an idea of what such services should cost?

Thanks!

I am no longer satisfied with paying for my "Pro" moz membership.  I miss having phone support, but moz personnel have told me, "don't worry, we have chat support, and that's just as good!"

So just now I tried to downgrade my membership status from "pro" to free", but now you have to fill in ALL of your credit card information, just to cancel(!)  If you don't believe me, just try it.

Anyway, I thought that maybe I was just not understanding how to do it, so I tried using the chat system to ask for help, and here's what happened.

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me: How do I downgrade from my current "pro" subscription to a free subscription (if there still is such a thing as a free one)?
Just a moment...

Sorry for the delay! We've got more chats than usual. If you need to run, please feel free to leave us a message and we'll get back to you soon. Thanks!
me: Pretty ironic. I am cancelling my paid subscription because you dropped phone support but you (your company) told me, "oh don't worry, chat support is just as good"

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And, I waited for ten minutes before giving up and asking here.  I hope that at least some other customer can answer this question for me.

This is a perfect example of why phone support is important, chat support is ok but not always sufficcient, and why in general it's not satisifactory (to me, at least), to basically tell customers to go ask for help in the Q&A forums because the company won't budget sufficiently to provide customer support with its own personnel.

Sad, too, because I've been a moz customer for over 4 years.  There just isn't enough difference in value for me to continue, considering the other tools that are available now, some of which do provide satisfactory support.

Thanks, for anyone who can answer my question.

Never mind.  I figured it out (the solution i discovered: export the rankings data to a csv file; perhaps there's a better way, but it works).

Simple question: once you've built up a big set of keywords within Moz, how do you export it back out to use in other places?

Thank you for taking time to respond to my question, Craig.  I appreciate your help.

Re: "Contacting the sites to get the anchor text changed": that's not going to work in this case.  They're just spammy link webs / farms and they don't respond to such requests.

We are indeed publishing new content and working to get some new links via that approach.

Thanks!

Hi - I'm working on a site that has somewhere between 1200 and 1500 backlinks.  Somewhere around 800 or 1000 of the links have one of four or five exact keyword phrases that this company paid a former seo to create links for.

They ranked well for those phrases until last fall and then almost overnight they fell completely out of the first 50 SERP results.   They did NOT receive a manual penalty.  This leads me to two questions:

1.  This sounds like they were hit by Penguin, rather than Panda.  Do I have that right?

2.  Is there any value in disavowing the 800 or so spammy links?  Is there any danger in doing so?

Thanks!

Thanks for pointing out that article.  I appreciate your help.

Thank you for taking time to point that out.  I appreciate your help!

Thank you for taking time to write such a detailed response.  I appreciate your help!

I have a website for one of my businesses at www.trustworthycare.com that we've been building upon for many years.  On that site we have a lot of content and we publish at least two blog articles each week with solid content that is relevant to members of the market that the business wants to attract as customers.

I have a second website for a new business at www.ageassistance.com that is in the same market but which operates in a different manner.  That second business is very new.  It also publishes two articles per week.

Both sites name me as the author and I have created a Google+ page for myself.  The sites identify me as the author for google+ author purposes.

Both businesses also have google+ pages.  The weekly articles are being pushed out to the respective Google+ business pages as well as to my own Google+ page.

I think I've got all the basics established for us to take advantage of google+ for SEO purposes, then.  Is that correct?

If so, what do we do next?  What matters?  Getting others to +1 my posts?  On which Google+ page, mine or the businesses?  Getting others to share my posts?  If so, is it better to get them shared from my personal page, or from the businesses' pages?

Thanks!

THANK YOU!

That was the information that I needed.  I didn't know to look for that "robots" meta information.  With that, it was pretty quick work to find where I must have accidentally turned on a setting on my home page's settings to cause that to happen.

• Tim

Yes, I have looked at WMT.

I used it to test my robots.txt file, here are the results:

For the domain http://www.trustworthycare.com/ it reports:

Allowed; Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions

It reports that it can fetch the homepage successfully.

It reports the following under crawl errors:

Access denied: 1

Not found: 76 (none of these are ones that would be likely to block the entire domain from being crawled)

I investigated the Access denied and it turned out to be this file:

trustworthycare.com/public_html/sitectrl/wp-app.php

Would that be causing this?  It doesn't seem likely.

I just noticed that right around 12/1/2012, SEOMoz stopped crawling all but two pages out of the 400 or so on my website at www.TrustworthyCare.com .  I speculate that this is probably due to some dumb mistake I made at that time, but I can't for the life of me figure out what that mistake was.  Before that, the weekly crawls included all 400 or so pages.

I wonder whether it's something that changed in our .htaccess file.  Here's how that file looks now; can anyone see what is wrong there, or perhaps offer other suggestions if it doesn't look like anything is wrong in it?

Thanks!

• Tim

PS - I'm a small business owner, not an SEO or software engineer.

PPS - I found and read this page, but I've pretty much tried the things described there (I think): https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages

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^www.aservantsheartseniorcare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aservantsheartservices.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.aservantsheartservices.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^careforparents.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.careforparents.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^eldercareradio.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.eldercareradio.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^helpforyourparents.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.helpforyourparents.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^privatedutyseniorcare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.privatedutyseniorcare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sandiegocaremanagement.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sandiegocaremanagement.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sandiegocaremanager.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sandiegocaremanager.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sandiegogeriatriccaremanagement.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sandiegogeriatriccaremanagement.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sandiegogeriatriccaremanager.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sandiegogeriatriccaremanager.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^servantsheartcare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.servantsheartcare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^servantshearthomecare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.servantshearthomecare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^servantsheartseniorcare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.servantsheartseniorcare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tlccare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.tlccare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tlcseniorcenter.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.tlcseniorcenter.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tlcseniorhomecare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.tlcseniorhomecare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tlcseniorservices.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.tlcseniorservices.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] #php_value upload_max_filesize 8MRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^trustworthycare.com$RewriteRule ^(.)$ "http://www.trustworthycare.com/$1" [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://blog.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://blog.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://test.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://test.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.blog.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.blog.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.test.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.test.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trustworthycare.com/images/files_for_service_inquiries/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.trustworthycare.com/images/files_for_service_inquiries$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://sandbox.trustworthycare.com/.$      [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://sandbox.trustworthycare.com$      [NC]RewriteRule ..(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ashsc.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ashsc.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://trustworthycare.com/" [R=301,L] # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache         BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip        BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html        BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html         Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon <filesmatch ".(css|js|htc|css|js|htc)$"=""></filesmatch>    FileETag None          Header set X-Powered-By "W3 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^(./)?w3tc_rewrite_test$ $1?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 [L]    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip    RewriteRule . - [E=W3TC_ENC:gzip]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.trustworthycare.com    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$ [OR]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (sitemap(index)?.xml(.gz)?|[a-z0-9-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml(.gz)?) [NC]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|/feed/|wp-.*.php|index.php) [NC,OR]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php) [NC]    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress[a-f0-9]+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(W3\ Total\ Cache/0.9.2.5) [NC]    RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/sitectrl/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f    RewriteRule .* "/sitectrl/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]# END W3TC Page Cache core# BEGIN WordPressRewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPressRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^privatedutycare.com$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.privatedutycare.com$RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.ageassistance.com" [R=301,L]

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Hi - When reports here show numbers of keywords appearing "on first page", there must be some implicit assumption made about the number of results listed per page.

1. Can anyone tell me what that assumption is?  Is it 10? 20?

2. What about universal results Local links?  If the answer to number one is, for instance, 20 results per page, then are there any assumptions made about the number of universal results Local links included?

I'm just trying to understand what the reports mean.

Thanks,

Tim

Joel - Thank you for taking time to respond to my question.  I appreciate your help!

Is anyone else interested in offering their input?

Thanks,

Tim

My site has an external link nofollow:dofollow ratio of approximately 1:1

That is, there are about as many nofollow external links as "do follow" external links.

I have an impression that the ratio of no-follow to "do follow" links is a factor in the way that our website shows up in SERPs.

I have the impression from reading a variety of sources, and from looking at Seomoz, that calculate "trust" factors as if they mattered (in SERPs), that seem to value a relatively low nofollow:dofollow ratio.

Am I correct about that?

Thanks,
Tim

PS - I don't know whether or not this matters, but our website is at: www.trustworthycare.com - Tim

Interesting.  I ask because I own an independent (not franchised) business that provides non-medical in-home caregiving services, allowing the elderly to continue living in their own homes instead of having to move to nursing homes.  I was speculating that that might be the industry of the client that you were asking about, or something similar.

"Bing looks at meta keywords as a spam signal and not a ranking signal."

That's something I hand't heard before.  Great.

I haven't been inserting keywords for a long time, after hearing that they were no help for SEO.  However, in the beginning we were using them on some pages.  We have several hundred pages on our WordPress site.  I guess I will have to go look for a plugin to remove them.  Can anyone recommend one for that purpose?  We're built on Thesis (I'm sorry to say, now) which doesn't play well with a lot of the mainstream SEO plugins like the one from Yoast.

Thanks,

• Tim

I like Mike's answer and it led me to wonder: I wonder whether the original poster would be willing to state what industry is this company in?

Thanks again.  I hadn't looked at the Bing WMT set.  Interesting and useful.  Thanks!

Thank you for taking time to answer my questions.  I appreciate your help!

Thank you for taking time to reply to my question.  I appreciate your help!

"Check to see if your Manta listing is in Google's index."

How can I do that?  Sorry, I'm really new to all this.

Thanks,

Tim

Our site has had a link back to our site from Manta for a long time, but it's not appearing in our OSE results.  One of our competitors similarly has an inbound link from Manta and that link DOES appear in their OSE results.

I'm not certain whether that matters for us.  Does it?

But in any event, why would the one link appear but not the other?

Thanks!

• Tim

Hi - How long should it be before a brand new external link to our site shows up in OSE?