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SeoMoz members have no control over what Mozbot crawls. Your best bet is to use a variety of site explorers to find links. Ex. Majestic, Google Webmaster tools, Link:www.example.com, Bing Link Explorer

Yes, technically this is buying links but I don't think it will harm your website. But on the same token I don't think links from these sites help either.

These sites may have a high domain rank but your link is placed on a new page that usually will have a low page rank.

Instead, I would try to submit your infographic to informational or educational sites if applicable. Also, consider sharing with websites that are relevant to your industry.

And I would set up some Google & Twitter Alerts to find people talking about topics related to your infographic. Start to build rapport with these people and mention your infographic to them for possible link opp.

Is your client open to changing to a new CMS? I haven't used expressionengine but it sounds like some of the features you would expect to be simple are not.

Examples of good anchor text that isn't branded is text links that flow within the content. Most of the blog posts on SeoMoz include tons of links but they don't come across spammy because they are intended to support, not mislead. I think good anchor text should include these elements:

• relevant to the topic of page or site
• read naturally within context
• descriptive of linked page

Review some of the blogs here to get a better understanding of good anchor text.

JH is right - Google should already recognize the original source. You could include a rel=canonical tag pointing to the original source to be safe - probably unnecessary though.

its difficult to tell without knowing how you set up these 302 redirects. This specific URL returns a 404 page and does not redirect to anything which may contribute to the False attribute.

Have you considered just doing a 301 redirect for these pages?

I do like how the social media pops out the side but you have to question are users going skip over it. Would it be more effective if they didn't have to hover over the icon to see what's going on on your news feed and which of their friends already like your page - by just simply glancing to the sidebar.

But then again building fans to your fan page isn't your end goal. Building fans is merely a technique used to accomplish your end goal of making sales or conversions. So I can see how compromising page real estate can be a factor.

However you can consider writing a custom message that adds value to your facebook fanpage. A compelling message above or near the facebook plugin convincing a user to become a fan may be appropriate. Or if you have a contest running then informing your web visitors would work well.

I think the custom social media bars you have under each blog post is set up nicely to receive webpage likes. Establishing a referral program  can help get your webpage liked/shared.

Your h4s and alt tags could be more keyword rich but the main content looks natural and include relevant keywords.

However, I would consider placing a prominent call-to-action above the fold somewhere.

These are just suggestions as there are multiple ways you could do this. Hope this helps.

Production Hub - http://www.productionhub.com/ may be a good place to list the job opening. I would also look into professional associations or trade groups for the type of position that allow posts within their forum or have a designated section for careers.

When a user likes a website, it is really considered as sharing the website on the facebook feed.

Liking a facebook page is basically becoming a friend/fan of the company's page - where you can interact with them and see their posts.

I think having your website liked/shared would contribute more to SEO but having more likes on your fan page will you allow more users to see your content and interact with your brand.

I would focus on creating quality content and clever ways to attract "fans" then as a result the likes/shares to your website will come naturally.

It would provide the best user experience to do a 301 redirect but include a message before (ex. Custom "You are now being redirected" page) or after (ex. pop up screen) the redirect to clarify the acquisition.  That way you get the juice from these sites and you don't have a high bounce rate from users clicking off your site because they thought they typed in wrong URL.

If these were in the warning section, then these are temporary redirects, correct? Can you provide a screen shot?

I've worked with Drupal and Wordpress and have had great results in regards to SEO capabilities. However, Drupal is considered one of the best for the following reasons:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1733049/reasons-why-drupal-is-best-cms-seo

Rand lists some SEO functionalities to consider when choosing a CMS on this post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/choosing-the-right-cms-platform-for-your-website-from-an-seo-perspective

Good Luck!

Are they users leaving legitimate comments on your site? I don't see a problem with making the profiles no follow since they are probably less content-driven pages.

Excessive links don't necessarily hurt your ranking if they are pointing to relevant, unique pages and enhance the user experience.

But if you want to cut down the number of links on the page, you can remove the anchor text link below each logo. Both the image link and text link are pointing to the same page. You will be able to slice the number of links on page in half.

It is best practice to diversify your anchor text even if the links are from quality sites. Not only to avoid being hit by penguin but to help rank your site for a variety of search terms.

A majority of your anchor text should be branded.

Also, having an exact match keyword domain can be risky, although I still do see exact match keyword domains still ranking well. If you do have exact match domain, I would continue creating quality content on site and obtaining good linkbacks to avoid any future algorithm changes.

Are you sure they are dofollow links? OSE will show all links (dofollow and nofollow) but the links you are seeing are probably marker with a purple nofollow in parenthesis - meaning they are not passing link juice.

Rel=canonical is just a suggestion to google, they will sometimes overlook it it's determined not necessary.  Google probably sees the domains on two different TLDs and is ignoring the tag. That's why your ie website is still in the SERPs.

"[rel canonical] lets site owners suggest the version of a page that Google should treat as canonical. Google will take this into account, in conjunction with other signals, when determining which URL sets contain identical content, and calculating the most relevant of these pages to display in search results."

From what you said, it seems like your .ie site's traffic and ranking have remained the same. So the rel canonical is having no effect on the ie site.

I personally don't think its necessary though but it doesn't seem like it's hurting to have it up there.

conversion rate = **unique **visits/conversions is the recommended equation but there are other factors to consider in your equation to obtain the true conversion rate.

Not every visitor can be considered a conversion opportunity. Here is a good article on Kaushik.net to help you calculate a true conversion rate for your website.

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/excellent-analytics-tip-8-measure-the-real-conversion-rate-opportunity-pie/

Good answers here. I would also like to suggest spreading your directory submissions out over a period of time. This way you don't have a bunch of links pointing to your site - it will look unnatural.

Submissions to human edited, niche- or geographically-related directories is best practice.

I would conclude that something else is causing the drop in rankings.  How significant was the drop?

Both sites are still being indexed and I would assume that if co.uk site dropped from duplication that adding the rel canonical would adjust the problem. However, rel canonical is just a suggestion to google on which site to display.

Using the hreflang tag is best practice for your situation.

I did a branded search in google.ie and google.co.uk and each respective site appeared. I don't think your co.uk website dropped because of duplicate content. I would suggest focusing on other factors to bring the site back up.

Do you know the specific date when your ranking dropped? Any change in your on- or off-page optimization?

Yes, I looked at a few pages of both sites and saw the content to be similar with some slight variations. I think with the domains on two different TLDs that Google won't penalize you for duplication.

Google can determine which site to display in the SERPs depending on the location of the user.

I wouldn't worry about only two sites on two different TLDs with similar content, just keep currency and phone number relevant to area and you should be OK. I saw a video by Matt Cutts a while back about this - it should help confirm.

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Excerpt From Google Webmaster Support:

Duplicate Content and international sites

"Websites that provide content for different regions and in different languages sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available on different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content is for different users in different countries. While we strongly recommend that you provide unique content for each different group of users, we understand that this may not always be possible. There is generally no need to "hide" the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or by using a"noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the same content to the same users on different URLs (for instance, if both example.de/ and example.com/de/ show German language content for users in Germany), you should pick a preferred version and redirect (or use the rel=canonical link element) appropriately. In addition, you should follow the guidelines on rel-alternate-hreflang to make sure that the correct language or regional URL is served to searchers."

This method does not hurt nor boost your SEO directly but is a great feature for the actual users on your site. This is a great way to promote your posts on your site and inform your audience of your social media accounts. It also gives them a taste of what you are doing on social media.

So while it will not directly affect your rankings, it can bring you more "likes" and "followers" that will see your posts on social media - driving more return traffic to your site and more chances to obtain links and shares.

I agree with making the content on this page read a little more natural and maybe splitting it up with some h2s.

To rank for local search terms, I would try to obtain links from "local" websites. Example: Attorney Associations in San Diego, San Diego Chamber of Commerce, and some authority local news sites that accept guest posts.

You can write posts that pertain to your industry and include a relevant linkback to your page. Here are some local new site links:

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/

http://sandiego.bbb.org/guest-blog-interest-form/

http://scoopsandiego.com/

Have you considered allowing guest posts from professionals within the industry. Make some contacts with some top authorities in prescription drugs to do some guest posts and offer them some sort of incentive (doesn't have to be a link back).

Also, try to set up an interview with a doctor, pharmacist to talk about current issues or events within your industry and post the interview to the site. Or even try your idea of going on a tangent of saving money on prescription drugs and interviewing a financial consultant but have your questions pertain industry related topics.

There are many things you can do to get your site ranking and rolling!

Search branded and non-branded terms for the site on Google to see how the site performs. If they aren't deindexed or performing poorly for their targeted keywords it probably wouldn't hurt to obtain a link from them.

However, it would probably be better to put your guest post efforts elsewhere.

If the image links or any links are from the Display Network, Google can identify this and will not pass any link juice to the site.

Essentially, if those links counted then it would be like buying links to rank higher on SERPs. I would also thoroughly search the page to make sure that your competitor's image link isn't also in the body of page.

Do you know the exact date you traffic went down. You could have been hit by Panda. There were two Panda updates before and after Penguin in April.

Try this analysis to get a better understanding if you were hit by Penguin or Panda:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/penguin-or-panda-how-to-determine-which-google-algorithm-update-impacted-your-website/43751/

Host your videos on a third party host (Wistia, Vimeo Pro) and embed on your site with a crawlable player - most prefer html5 player to get your videos on the SERPs and refer back to your site.

Do not publish videos on Youtube or Vimeo if you want the video to go back to your site - it will be self-cannibalization. Also once the videos are on your site, create a video XML sitemap and submit through GWT.

As far as having a link in the embed code of your videos, I believe Wistia's Embed Builder will help you create an iframe that can do just that.

Here are some helpful posts:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/getting-video-results-in-google/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/winning-the-video-thumbnail-in-google-universal-search

This video provides a good answer to your question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpK1VGJN4XY

watch?v=UpK1VGJN4XY

Using the keyword difficulty tool, the search for " The Unibody iPhone" is highly competitive. The SERPs have the sites like Fortune, Gizmodo, cnet that link to your site in the top spots. Also, I noticed the link from Fortune is a nofollow.

I did notice that you cannot view the website in Internet Explorer and goes to a page with links to other browser downloads. This could be contributing to poor rankings.

Having your page linked by these authority news sites but not performing well in the search results isn't necessarily a bad thing. You are probably receiving a ton of referral traffic from these news and blog sites. Once these news sites are lowered after the buzz, your site should do well and continue to bring traffic.

OSE will show both the www and non-www version of pages. These URLs may go to the same page but the bot considers these two different pages.

<dt>Change the last option in the filter options to "Group By Domain".</dt>

<dt>It should look like this: Show "all" links  from "all" pages to "this page" and "group by domain" </dt>

To report broken links, you will usually want to report this to a webmaster. So if you are unable to find their email address you can always try standard email address formats.

For example, if you find a broken link on brokelink.com, try emailing to webmaster@brokelink.com or postmaster@brokelink.com. You can even try to contact someone for general inquires so they can forward your email to the right person or give you the correct email address. To do this (using the example above), I would try info@brokelink.com or admin@brokelink.com

If you are able to spot a name on the website but can't find their corresponding email address, you can use a combination of Rapportive and this custom google doc - bit.ly/name2email -  to help you discover the correct email address. Here is the blog post on Distilled where this idea was derived - http://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anybodys-email-address/

I think Rankerizer - http://www.rankerizer.com/ - does a pretty good job of tracking your ranking for multiple keywords. And you can easily export results into a CSV file.

Create custom landing pages that are relevant to your ad copy and set a budget. Make sure to do plenty of keyword research and utilize positive and negative keywords on each campaign so your ad is not showing up for irrelevant searches.

I agree with Kevin on measuring everything and using a unique phone number to track your leads.

K thanks for clarifying. I think I have a better understanding now of what's going on.

I'm assuming you are finding the links that are pointing to your site through Webmaster Tools. It can take weeks after google has recrawled the page for your updated link profile to be reflected in GWT.

But if you are going to theses websites with 404 pages and your link is no longer there then you should have nothing to worry about. I would suggest thoroughly reviewing the links on all the pages that are said to be linking to you and and view the source code for no display tags with links to your site.

Unless you own or have permission from the website with the 404 pages, the Removal Tool won't allow you to remove the page from their index.

Have you checked on any link explorers to see if they are displaying the same links? Maybe it will provide you with a more refreshed link profile.

Your conclusion sounds correct. Keyword A is much more competitive and you have 80% of your backlinks coming from one domain. Your competitors may have a stronger link profile with links from multiple domains and diverse anchor text.

You are able to rank for Keyword B since it is less competitive and you have a link with exact anchor text matching that term.

As long as google can crawl the text the same weight will be applied as if it was out of accordions. But you should make sure that google can in fact crawl the text by using Fetch as Google on your Webmaster Tools account.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587

Im having trouble trying to understand the question.

You want google to index and see the content on http://0creditbalancetransfer.com but currently have a 301 redirect to http://abacusmortgageloans.com/GuaranteedPersonaLoanCKBK.htm?hop=duc01996

Is this correct?

No worries - Glad I could help out.

Ring Central has forwarding numbers that you can use. Place the forwarding number on your landing page and Ring Central generates real-time call log reports for your forwarding number.

I don't think being placed higher on third-party directories via paid listings will boost your ranking on Places. As long as your NAP is consistent and crawlable on directories, then this is best practice. A free listing is just as helpful to your local efforts as a premium listing.

However, paying for a listing on a local chamber of commerce or industry-related directory might have more impact. Finding and obtaining listings from directories that are local and relevant to you is key for having the most impact on your google local page.

I was thinking the "featured" listings meant the paid listings on directories like Yelp and YP.com

A clickable phone number is great for mobile landing pages. Try wrapping the number in a highlighted box and place at both the top and bottom of the page.

I had contemplated this a couple of years ago. We had an old site and just created a new one. The old site was performing well in the search results for popular keywords. We didn't want to risk losing any ranking doing a 301 redirect and we wanted to attempt having multiple listings on search results - so, we kept both!

We stopped updating the old site and let it coast then started working on SEO for the new site and eventually had two well performing sites on the SERPs.

And with google merging organic and place pages, you could use the new site as the URL for a place page if the company you are working with is a local business. So you'll have a organic listing and place listing.

I thought I would share my experience with you to consider what is possible with keeping both sites.  However, there is nothing wrong with 301 redirecting to the new site.

I have found backlinks from decent quality websites with content that is relevant to my niche much more helpful than .gov and .edu sites. However, I am not saying obtaining links from edu and gov is a bad thing by any means.

I recently had a guest post with follow link on a local subdomain of the BBB and didn't seem to do too much.

Seems like an ideal link is from a site with a high domain rank and high quality content relevant to your industry.