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Thanks Travis!

Sorry to bug you again, looking at the tags (in this case the dates, venue and addresses) are dynamic. How can I add schema markup to them and show the changing event times? The site has a larger number of events per page.

Thanks again

When using the GWT it only allows you to publish, I do not see anything that shows create "HTML"

Travis,

So I would be okay strictly using GWT Highlighter for Schema and it would cover me for the other engines  as well? Is there any way to view it after adding just to verify, http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets does't seem to work.

TY!

Have you ever used something like this for adding via html http://schema-creator.org/ or are you just pulling the code from schema.org and adding directly to your sites?

Hello,

I am in the process of adding schema to a site that I am working on,, are there advantages or disadvantages to adding via html on site or through webmaster tools?

Thank You

Hi Keri!  Most of the keywords are sports teams and concert performers so the are 80-90% are in the med to high. Sorry I should have been more clear.

What should be we paying per mth having 10-20 keywords?

We are actually trying to rank nationally on some of they keywords, I've found some of the longer tail keywords drive a good volume of traffic and comp. is not that high.  Have you personally worked with anyone overseas? Can they be trusted if they know exactly what we are looking for? I wouldn't even know where to start. I know a large number of the agencies here outsource overseas.

Hello!

We are a small online business with a tight budget. Most of the content, social, ppc is done in-house to keep things under control & cost down. Can anyone suggest a local or offshore link building agency that we can trust or that someone else has used with good success? Some of the local agencies we've contacted quoted us 150-200/mth per keyword, is that typical? Has anyone been successful with agencies overseas?

Thank You!!

We Do currently have a PO Box but Im not sure it will work? If we do eventually rent a space how hard is it to change?

Hello,

We are looking at the possibility of renting or leasing a small office but we're not quite at that point yet. We would like to take add Google Places/G+ by adding an address & phone number giving us more real estate for the small Brand we are trying to build. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we could add?

Thanks in Advance!

Hello,

We've been at it for almost 14 months, with slow/steady progression, at what point do you throw in the towel? I understand SEO is a long term investment but wondering if we can possibly get a better ROI using PPC. We've alway been cautious with PPC, it doesn't take much to hit budget limits,

Thank You!

For a Med-High competition keyword typically how long do you think it should take to crack top 10? We have good quality links & content but the overall DA is a bit low when comparing competitors. All strategies follow Google guidelines and are completely 100% white hat. We find ourselves ranking but stuck on pg 2-3.

Can anyone share typically what a US Based SEO Agency should or would charge for creating good quality backlinks? All of the pages we are targeting have been optimized with quality content and are ranking half decent. The keywords we are targeting are med-high competition keywords. We've located a few offshore agencies with prices in the 100$ range for 10 keywords but are leery of moving forward, currently it's the cost we are paying for 1 Keyword here in the US.

Thank You!

Do you have any other suggestions for a business that does its own blog posts but does not want our individual names or contact available to the GP?

Hello!

We were just wondering if we can add the Rel=Publisher on our business blog? We would like to have any of our blog posts that rank to have the small thumbnail/logo of our business similar to the way the rel=author  tag works in the serps. All posts are published by our business and we would not like any of our personal pictures showing up.

Any help greatly appreciated! Thank You!

Morning,

Yes it is showing as a verified page on my Google Plus account. Should I be using both re=Publisher & rel=Author?. It is an ecommerce site, we do however have a blog that I could set up a personal profile for the posts and rel=author it?

Would it be an issue if I did both pointing to the Google Plus business page?

Thank You!

I've had the rel=publisher set up correctly for months now and verified it using the Google rich snippet tool.

For some reason when I search my site/brand the Google+ profile will not show? Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to have it show up?

Thanks!

Thank you Very Much!!

Hello!

Does anyone have any suggestions to get an accurate search volume on organic traffic? I've been using Google Adwords however there is a big difference in Paid vs. Organic. Moz currently only pulls Bing.

Any suggestions much appreciated!!

Thank you!

Thanks Dana!!

They actually are a certified partner, I did call Google and they explained that they pull the seller reviews from the display url in our search ads. I was confused b/c the certified agency said we would lose our ratings?

Thanks

We are in the process of having an agency take over an adwords account. Will we lose our seller ratings? The website we are advertising will not change, just the adwords account. Based on what I've read google pulls data from display URL. We were concerned with losing them as we've had a CTR% since they started showing up in our search ads. They will NOT be using our account, but they will be adding us to their MCC & granting us access.

Thank You!!

Would it be wise to change title tags on the fly? ex. NFL regular season is now complete and they are into the playoffs, want to optimize and structure page around new info. Worried about losing current rank.

Thanks guys

Has anyone else run into this issue? I have a competitor that purchases domain names for popular inner pages we are trying to rank for. We are trying to build a brand, our competitors have a lower domain authority but rank higher for inner pages in the serps with VERY little content, backlinks/seo work, they host a single page and do a re-direct to their main site. Would this be a good long term strategy?

EX. We sell golf clubs our brand name is golfcity (Ex only) and we carry callaway clubs, our competitor is also building a brand but they purchased callawayclubs.net and do a re-direct. They rank on page one for keywords callaway clubs. If I do try to do this does one have an advantage over another? .com. net .org. because Ive seem them all used and rank on page 1.

Thank you!!!

Hello!

Does anyone know why when Im seeing my page in the serps its not displaying the meta description I have sepcified using my CMS but rather google is pulling a line from the last paragraph I have on the page?

Thanks guys!!

Hello!

I've noticed when doing press releases for some reason mobile rank is different than online? Is there a reason for this? They are optimized for seo and some rank much better on a mobile google search. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thank you

They said b/c wordpress is open source if there is an issue also with any plugins that site could be hacked.

Only reason I asked is because we were told there could be security issues if wordpress was hosted/setup as a sub-directory on our site?

Hello!

I try to add as much fresh content to my site weekly, I do also have a blog that I update 3 times per week.  Will google crawl frequently if I am updating info on my wordpress hosted blog when my blog name is www.blog.mywebsite.com? and the sites name is www.mywebsite.com? Will they treat them as separate domains?

Thank you!!

Thank You Very Much!!!!!

Hello!

Just wondering what opinions others have on Meta Keywords? Ive read in the past here on Seomoz that they are irrelevant now to search engines. I do see some of our Large competitors still using them. When I use the SEO page tool to check out pages for optimization it recommends that we remove them? This is something that I have been doing for a few months now but am second guessing myself now. Should I continue to leave them out of current page structure?

Thank You!!!!

Its really strange, some pages that Ive setup in the past rank on page 1 for what I though were low comp. keywords, yet the tool says they are 50%?

Hello All,

Ive been using the SeoMoz Keyword tool but have a quick question. Im working on a newer site with a DA according to OSE of 35. Im combing through keywords to rank. Although competition is very high I have found a few holes. According to the Keyword tool in SeoMoz  a few keywords Im looking at are roughly 50%. Would it be to difficult to rank for this type of term?

Ive been using a combination of Google Trends, Adwords keyword tool, and ubersuggest, to try and see whats available. Does anyone use different tools?

Thank you

Hello,

I have some competitors that purchase targeted keywords, host a single page, and do a re-direct on to their inventory page.  The problem Im having is getting above them, along with other competitors that have a high DA. They have little or no content on the page but rank very well. Is there anyway around sites like this?

ex-bluewidgets.net

bluewidgets.org

Thank You

Hello,

Ive noticed some of my competitors show up with both verified and non-verified Google+ Icon, and recent activity showing to the right usually where PPC shows. Is it possible for smaller sized businesses to accomplish something like this? Im assuming this is not paid?

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We cover online concert events, and they are always announcing new concerts, dates shows, etc. So we actually do them quite frequently.  Has anyone tried both services? Do you have a preference? PrWeb has worked Excellent for us, in terms of position on page 1 for a particular event, or news update.

Hello,

Ive used PrWeb for a few press releases with great results and was thinking of see how marketwire would work for us. Although is much more expensive they have a larger outreach. If we decided to try both of them out simultaneously (Both Different formats same style topics) would it cause any harm to the site we are promoting? Different anchor text, titles, body etc.

Thank You

Should I Always include some type of link leading back to my site? Is there a point where it would do more harm then good?

Hello,

When setting up a blog for seo, are same rules applied as far as keyword density, exact, phrase & broad match etc? We are in the process of setting up a blog on our site, with wordpress and want to start off on the right foot.

Thank you

Hello,

Would it be wise to change title tags on a page that is optimized and ranked already in google? These are sports pages, and the teams we are targeting are now in the playoffs so we wanted to insert that into our Title?

Thanks!!

I know that this question has been asked in the past, and that website.com/blog is better for seo purposes than blog.website.com. We want to setup a custom blog on our site, using Wordpress. Our designers/host are telling us that buy using website.com/blog can causes issues b/c Wordpress is open source, and our site could be hacked? Is there anything we should do about this? Any suggestions?

Any Advice appreciated!!!

Thanks!

Ive been working on a large ecommerce website that has thousands of pages, although we are working on adding custom content daily to the largest pages, we have "defaul content" with dynamic tags matching search query. Someone recommend we add a google Rss feed where they can also add some type of tag. Is this a bad idea? Ive asked in the past but my main concern is issue with duplicate content, It would be next to impossible to have all pages filled with custom content.

Any help much appreciated!!

Thank you!

I was thinking of setting up our blog as website.com/blog, however our web support advises against it as they said using wordpress pluginscould cause security holes, Im not sure what to do?

Robert,

Google webmaster says

It seems as thought it crawls daily, if so shouldnt those duplicate titile, meta descriptions be resolved after the changes I made to them? Thank You

Hi

I had some error messages in the webmaster account, stating I had duplicate title/meta descriptions. Ive since fixed it, typically how long does it take for a full crawl if Ive fixed these issues? Webmaster is still showing problems with various Title/Descriptions.  Also was wondering if I should block individual pages on a large ecomerce site? EX of a Large site -

http://www.stubhub.com/chicago-bears-tickets/ (Page is structure and optimized)

Then you have all individual games

http://www.stubhub.com/chicago-bears-tickets/bears-vs-lions-soldier-field-4077064/

they have an H1 and a meta description, should the page above be blocked from google and concentrate only on the Pain page?

Thanks!

Can the SeoMoz Bot Crawl more than 3,000 pages at once?

Morning Chad,

In the meantime should I remove ALL of the dulplicate site wide content, and only leave titles up?  Or block these pages? I am confused as to what to do. I do have the option via WYSIWYG editor to insert dynamic tags, but content will be thin. We actually get traffic from these pages, but as you said I want to do this correctly and not have to do it again in the future?

Thank you very much!!!!!

What would you recommend for a large ecommerce site with so many pages, that we cannot get content on fast enough? The editor allows us to put in "default" content which is inserted sitewide? We do have tags that switch up content slightly, I just would not want to run into any issues in the near future with an algo update.

Thank you Robert!

On one specific search it was showing on page #1 (low competition keyword) yesterday I located it on page 10. All of this happened with 2-3 days. I did see the mozcast tool show 80 yesterday.

Hello,

At the beginning of the week, traffic dropped drastically, I was under the impression that the site was hit by panda. This morning, I am seeing the keywords/pages, right back into position? Does anyone know what this could be? Webmaster had no messages, and was free of errors?

Thank you!