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  Google's Current Wave of Updates (4/24 edition)
  

  Edit: Someone beat me to the punch, here is the thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webspam-algo-update-24-4-12 Let's just discuss it there. So Google has said they are doing another wave of algorithm updates that could impact anywhere from 3-5% of SERPs.  I saw it here: http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-update-targeting-webspam-in-search-results-119295 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html Has anyone seen any changes?  I've heard from a few friends that their sites are bouncing all over the place, which seems to happy a lot during these updates.  We might not actually know the fallout for a few days/weeks/months. I saw a  few of my smaller sites take a hit, but most of mine have stayed the same. Anyway what do you guys think?  Sometimes an update like this can be a wake-up call to people who think they are doing white hat stuff but may be pushing the envelope a bit too much. Thoughts?

  | vforvinnie

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  Site search
  

  My google site search is now costing us $750/year. That is an outrageous fee for providing a search feature on our website. does anyone know of an effective search box we can put on our site that is less expensive than google?

  | StreetwiseReports

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  Anyone interested in meeting up in Central NJ next week?
  

  So I realize it's a bit of a short notice, but April 24 (next Tuesday), I will be hosting a Joomla users meetup in conjunction with Blogsvertise.  The first get together is going to be more of a social meetup, with not much specifically planned.  Topics that will be discussed: Joomla - everything from basics to advanced questions SEO - open discussion, Q+A,  networking Bloggers - Bloggers will be there, and can connect with other bloggers/companies. Anything else web related as well. The event is going to be hosted at the Blogsvertise office in East Brunswick NJ. There is going to be some free pizza and snacks, and should be a good networking event.  In the future we aim to get more organized, and have guest speakers and presentations, but for the first one we want to gauge people's interest, and see what they would want to hear presentations on. If you are interested you can reply here, or shoot me an email at vforvinnie at gmail dot com.  My cell is 848.992.3171 but I won't be able to talk until after 5pm during the week.  It is going to start at 6:30 and will probably run for a few hours. Cheers, Vinnie

  | vforvinnie

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  Does anybody know why my domain name is up to sale?
  

  One of my domain names is not showing on Google's search results, when I type the URL in nothing appears. I notice something to do with blocked, but I couldn't find the message again. When I type in the actual URL in the search box it comes up  with the message that the domain is up for sale for $32 the year, but the strange thing is it is still registered to me and it's definitely not up for sale? I find this very strange has anybody got any ideas whatbn could be happening? I sent in what they call a trouble ticket to the domain parking service, so I'll see what their replies is This is the doamin www.whitby-.uk.net

  | whitbycottages

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  How to search adwords properly
  

  If i search the word gold, Google tells me it is searched 20 million times/month. I realize that is people searching the word gold in combination with other terms. I would like to know how to find out how many people search the word gold just by itself. How do i do that?

  | StreetwiseReports

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  How do you determine the level of an SEO
  

  I wanted to know how others classify an individual in the industry. i.e. What makes an SEO beginner, intermediate or advanced? What skill set separates a pro from a newbie?

  | MassivePrime

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  A longer vanity URL vs an abbreviated URL if keywords are not included in either which is better for SEO? The URL's in question "WhiteGloveInternational.com" vs "WGIVIP.com"
  

  Please provide some explanation as to why... either way.

  | entourage212

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  Want to a Medium Cost Seo Firm
  

  Hi, I have a website which is ranged in medium scale, I want some medium cost seo company to do the seo work for my site. I willing to pay upto $500 p/m. Waiting for the replies.

  | Dexx22

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  How to create a SEO Package
  

  Hi, I am looking to create some packages to offer clients. To say that we will do... XXX Backlinks XXX Social Bookmarking XXX Article Submissions etc etc But how do I go about creating these packages, to make sure that they are fair and worthwhile. How do you know how much of each you should offer? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Cheers

  | MiracleCreative

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  Wrong types of questions...
  

  I've noticed something in the forums. Many people are asking the wrong types of questions with regards to SEO and having success with their sites on it. This is understandable since many of the questions being asked are by those who have only just got in to SEO. But it does show that the emphasis of the industry must still be very much focused on getting links and changing META data, etc... with little mention out there in all those resources of what actually matters. Thankfully, the questions are answered with people explaining that the wrong questions are being asked, and that it's not just about random traffic gained through rankings for general keywords. Do you think that in time we'll see an evolution of the questions, as awareness grows, moving from questions of how to rank to questions on how work out the best KPIs to measure, and how to action strategies for improving them?

  | SteveOllington

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  How to Educate my Company About SEO
  

  Hey Mozzers, I'm currently faced with a situation that I believe is probably quite common in the SEO industry. I'd like to get the input of the SEOMoz community to see how others have handled this situation and how I can use that to help my company and of course myself in this process 🙂 Here's the dealio. I recently obtained a position at a fairly large company ($500 million annually) with the task of being our Lead SEO, which I am loving, but am finding one thing to be a big hurdle to our success. Essentially no one here has any pre-existing knowledge about what SEO and inbound marketing are. There are a few younger folks who understand some of it, and a few of those who I work with on a daily basis are starting to get it, but I fear that many of the folks on our webteam and even higher up do not understand the value of SEO, the implications of certain things the webteam does to our website, and moreso the value of me being here as the sole SEO expert. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been in a similar situation and how I might be able to effectively instill a culture of SEO within my company to get people to think about SEO before they do things. My first goal is to ensure people think about SEO before making changes to our site. My second goal is for them to see the power of proper SEO, thus proving how valuable I am to the company. Thoughts anyone?

  | CodyWheeler

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  SEO Conferences - Which One(s) do you Attend ?
  

  I have been in SEO since over 10 years now. And have been attending Pubcon since 2004 in Las Vegas. I think I have only missed 1. This year, I have been thinking of which conferences to attend and here are the options. I am looking for 1st hand experiences from people who have attended multiple conferences to kinda do a comparison. Here are the upcoming conferences by date. I am only listing the US Conferences. SES New York March 19-23* BlueGlass Los Angeles April 23-24* SMX Advanced Seattle Jun. 5-6* MozCon July 25 - July 27* SES San Francisco August 13-17* SMX New York | Oct. 2-4, 2012* Pubcon Las Vegas October 16 - 19* SES Chicago November 12-16* SMX Social Media Marketing Las Vegas | Dec. 5-6 Please let me know what conferences you have attended in the past and which ones of these people here are planning to attend ?

  | NakulGoyal

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  When will Rand put out "Art of SEO 2nd Edition"? (ANSWER: IN ABOUT 2 WEEKS)
  

  First edition was printed in the end of 2009.  Great Book. Needs updating of course. I would buy the next edition if it was updated in an awesome way that I know Rand and the others would do.

  | stubby

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  Google to Target Overly SEOd Sites
  

  I just watched the video from Barry Schwartz talking about the new Update to come with the Google Algo. Video of his Friday Post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqSPT2NXdA I have also started reading on Webmasterworld on this topic: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4429947.htm What do you think Google has in the list of changes?

  | Ben-HPB

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  Recommended marketplace for SEO
  

  Hi Mozzers! With the shut down of the SEOMoz marketplace what are some other resources for finding people to help with SEO tasks? Craigslist seems like the best resource for this, but are there any other good ones?

  | ProjectLabs

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  What is the highest conversion rate you have achieved? URGENT... Community please help!!!
  

  Hello Guys, I need the community's help. I want to estimate the number of visits per month that I will have to generate in order to reach a particular revenue target(monthly). There are three brackets (income channels) in which I can divide this total number of visits - ORGANIC, CPC & ADVERTS. There are two parts to this question. Part A> What percentage of the three income channels should I give to ORGANIC??? Part B> What is the conversion rate I can achieve? Basically... I want to find out what is the general conversion rate that you guys normally achieve for your clients and what percentage of your total visits are through pure SEO and Social Media. I have done most of the calculation assuming that I will be able to achieve 4% conversion rate (but the answer scared me real bad :)).... do you think this is low??? or do you think it is alright? I will appreciate prompt response because I have to  give my client the forecast report in a few hours... I have done a lot of research and have finally turned to you guys for an answer... RAND... can u pitch in man??? That would be awesome 🙂 Thanks in advance for your input guys. Best Regards, Talha

  | MTalhaImtiaz

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  Google Product Feeds - New Requirements
  

  We are in the jewelry industry, and for Google product feeds, we list our products under "Apparel & Accessories > Jewelry". As of the new Google feed requirements, they are saying that we have to choose a gender and color for each product that is in the Apparel category. While this makes sense for clothes, it doesn't exactly for jewelry because many items are for both men and women, and there's not always a color associated with each product. I can enter some of these fields manually, but with 5,000+ products, it makes it difficult w/ each update. Anyone have solutions for this? Or a way around it? Can we just include those fields but leave them blank? Any other solutions?

  | applesofgold

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  Huge Hit and Bouncing Rankings Since Panda 3.3 Update?
  

  Has anyone else seen rankings bouncing all over the place since the end of Feb? A client's site is for the term hcg which I know is controversial but we were in 3rd or 4th for the past couple of months until this update. Now for the term "hcg" the rankings are bouncing from the twenties to over 100 multiple times a day. I check them throughout the day with non personalized search, rank checker, etc to just try and keep updated. I have never seen rankings bounce around so much after an update and am wondering if this update is somehow effecting these more controversial search terms. Since The end of Feb our traffic has almost dropped in half due to the drop in just the "hcg" term ranking We have been cleaning up the site, updating lower quality content, blogging frequently and trying to build better links for the past couple months of working on the site.The problem is there have been a few other previous SEO companies that worked on the site and I don't know how much black hat tactics were used. Any insight or suggestions on this would be appreciated, we are all scrambling to try and recover from this.

  | Netmark

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  Any Tool Suggestions for Sharing Bookmarks in a small group?
  

  Hi, We have a small group of co-workers, and we are constantly firing round emails of great articles we have found, new websites to read etc etc. Emails are just very cumbersome and get lost, so I am wondering if people can suggest any tools which would be good for creating a "work board" where we can quickly mark and comment on articles/websites each of us finds and it gets posted across other peoples boards. It needs to be fast, user friendly, allow grouping by topics, visually appealing (and ideally allow you to mark of when you have read something). Anyone have an suggestions as to a tool that would be similar to this? Thanks

  | James77

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  Organic Search Results Display
  

  If you do a Google search on northface a beautiful display of the search results is show in the number 1 organic position. How are they able to get this type of search results? I have never seen anything like it before, and would like to have our search results displayed like this.

  | FreightBoy

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  Need a contractor to create Wikipedia pages
  

  Hey guys! Can anyone recomend a good contractor to create/maintain Wikipedia pages? We are in the publishing business and I want to create Wikipedia pages for our authors/products. Need someone who has successfully created wikipedia pages before, can make basic research to find sources that wikipedia will consider reliable, has good academic writing skills and can start a debate in case they want to remove our article. If anyone knows good contractors please recommend. Thanks!

  | Alexey_mindvalley

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  Panda 3.3
  

  Hello MOzzers and Roger, just read this: http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-panda-update-link-evaluation-local-search-rankings-113078 is there any point in linkbuilding anymore? Totally baffeled. Pl help lol - thank you so much. Much love, V

  | vijayvasu

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  Mobile Phone Geo Location Detection?
  

  Does anyone know if there is code, or software that you can use on your website that will direct a visitor automatically to a specific city page when they come upon your site with their mobile phone?

  | Stevej24

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  Google driving me Nuts - How do you combine 2 accounts?
  

  I know this must be driving a lot of other people mad as I see loads of people who now have 2 registered accounts at google plus due to their seemingly terrible ability to merge or connect accounts. We have a work email address set up through google, then I have a personal Gmail address. In Google Plus now I have 2 profiles - even though I have not signed up to google plus with my work email, I cannot add this email to my Google + account set up on personal email as it just tells me to log into that account taking me to a page to set up a profile for that account. Has anyone managed to solve this problem - it is happening to everyone in the company, driving us all nuts and our IT guys have no idea how to solve it. Were trying to use G+ for the purposes of SEO & Marketing, but if they make it this cumbersome for people to use, then they are going to die a quick death - after a few weeks of use and noticing the huge number of dead accounts, only live accounts being SEO/Internet Marketing related, and huge number of duplicate accounts, I think their user figures are hugely suspect! Rant over - anyone know how to merge accounts?

  | James77

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  Seo is dead?
  

  Hi there, I see a lot of conversations about the term "seo is dead" because some people speak that seo are dead because of google plus and facebook. Is it true? What do you think? What do you think that is the future of our business? We will stay uneployed or we still continue to work? Me personally I hate facebook. Is just so much stupid (like most of people, I guess thats why is so popular) but what about google plus? Is a serious and worthy social profile.This will kill us? I read in SEL or SEW ,I dont remember which of them that this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Manjoo said that seo is dead and some are even supporting him.Also he said that "Google just broke its search engine" with the creation of Google plus. Me I think search msrketing,seo will live for long time yet,Me personally and my friends NEVER EVER CLICK on Facebook ads(if we do it , is just curiosity, and after we never visit again that page,this guys what I was reading their articles before they said that they see a lot of traffick from facebook.me also but the taffic from facebook dont do nothing,even in adsense they dont click on my sites,not to convert to buyers).I have 20 close friends and none of them cares what kind of content they find from facebook.Is our mentality (I am from CYprus)? Or is just a fact?That facebook ads are just some crap? Or general the acebook is a crap?Me i think that is.Is made for some people who are boaring and need something to kill time.so the traffick what you get is some boaring people who dont care about nothing, just some more things to watch and comment with their friends.So practically you have them on the site and after BAM, new hot site so bye bye.Never visit again your site.Why is so much importand?Their likes etc?The difference with google adsense is that all from our company are clicking on the ads and on the results. (much more on the results, because we think that is the best.Including me that I know that SERP can be manipulated.But we still prefer that.Why all speak about that SEO are dead? Are paid from facebook? WTF? Why I never hear somebody from SEOMOZ to say this?My result is that they are some bunch of I@@@TS and they dont know what they speak or are on the other side.I am sorry for my bad english but like this I can express my fealings.If you dont understand something please ask.

  | nyanainc

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  Contact ontolo
  

  I signed up for the free trial for Ontolo and was not impressed. On the morning of the final day of the trial they had already began to process a charge. I emailed support saying I was not interested, do not charge my card, and I then canceled my account. A few days later they charged my card. They have not replied to my email and I do not see a number anywhere. Anybody know how I can actually reach them?

  | webfeatseo

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  Anyone seen any dramatic changes in SERPs 18th Feb?
  

  Hi Guys, Wondering if there has been an algorithm update or new Panda released today? Not seen any news in Google yet however noticed fair shuffle of all results in my niche, particularly in the top 3. The main take I've had from the brief research is that the brands in the niche have popped up a few spots and blogs / affiliate sites etc have dropped. Results noticed using Google.co.uk

  | shloy23-294584

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  How to pick an SEO pro?
  

  I run a community site that has over 1 million pages of user-generated content specific to a very defined vertical. I recently switch to the Drupal CMS and have paid the price in the search rankings. I need to find someone to help with my site's SEO efforts. What should I be looking for when selecting an SEO professional?

  | proforums

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  Why do most Local Directories turn around and lie and try to steal your clients?
  

  OK, it'ssssssss RANT TIME! I am quite accustom to clients sending me emails they have received stating how their site is not optimized and the spammer can get the site ranked number one on Google. They all have @Gmail.com so I am assuming that is a very large SEO firm. Occasionally I send them an email from an anonymous account asking about their site and phone number and they have neither due to exigent circumstances (I assume prison left them broke). But, I am ready to declare war on some local directories! I have now had several clients call me regarding inquiries they received within minutes or days of local.com or merchant circle or SuperPages etc. having us post a listing for the client. Ten minutes ago, I get a call from a pleasant young fellow who introduced himself as being from Web.com. As he began to talk (or read) he stopped all of a sudden and said, "Oh, I see you do most of what we do....." I stated hold on a minute, now who are you with?" It finally came out that my local specialist had listed our company or changed our company with them a few days ago and they were calling to tell me how unoptimized we were." NOTE: I am always pleasant to the caller as they are just doing a job. I said, understand that what I am going to say is not about you, but about your company. I sign up multiple clients with you which helps your business and you run around behind my back and tell them I did not do a good job and you can help them. They just need to leave me. He responded, "Sir, we never recommend anyone leave a company." I said, I am sure you don't. In the end he stated that it probably was not a best practice to mess with people who bring your site business. So, here is the question: Why do we put up with this crap?!?!?! When are we going to say: If you have a directory, be a directory and not a cover for a web sales firm? Why don't we start a couple of directories that are exclusive to those who can answer basic SEO questions and have an email address with the same domain as their marketing web site. Why do we keep letting these clowns do this? Imagine, having built my wife a site, she comes in at the end of the day and says: "I got this call from these people who said the site was not optimized correctly and we are not ranking in Google?" That was Local.com, I believe. My favorite was the rep who called and the more I questioned the SEO and ranking knowledge they were professing, she said: "I think I should let you speak to our Google expert." I said, Great. Three minutes later she returned to tell me he had gone to lunch and would call me back." I am still waiting. Hope I hear from a few of you, sorry for the long rant. I do feel better now though 🙂

  | RobertFisher

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  Google+ profiles and Rel Author. Extensive question
  

  A bit of a mammoth question for discussion here: With the launch of Google+ and profiles, coupled with the ability to link/verify authorship using rel=me to google+ profile - A few questions with respect to the long term use and impact. As an individual - I can have a Google+ Profile, and add links to author pages where I am featured. If rel=me is used back to my G+ profile - google can recognise me as the writer - no problem with that. However - if I write for a variety of different sites, and produce a variety of different content - site owners could arguably become reluctant to link back or accredit me with the rel=me tag on the account I might be writing for a competitor for example, or other content in a totally different vertical that is irrelevant. Additionally - if i write for a company as an employee, and the rel=me tag is linked to my G+ profile - my profile (I would assume) is gaining strength from the fact that my work is cited through the link (even if no link juice is passed - my profile link is going to appear in the search results on a query that matches something I have written, and hence possibly drain some "company traffic" to my profile). If I were to then leave the employment of that company - and begin writing for a direct competitor - is my profile still benefiting from the old company content I have written? Given that google is not allowing pseudonyms or ghost writer profiles - where do we stand with respect to outsourced content? For example: The company has news written for them by a news supplier - (each writer has a name obviously) - but they don't have or don't want to create a G+ profile for me to link to. Is it a case of wait for google to come up with the company profiles? or, use a ghost name and run the gauntlet on G+? Lastly, and I suppose the bottom line - as a website owner/company director/SEO; Is adding rel=me links to all your writers profiles (given that some might only write 1 or 2 articles, and staff will inevitably come and go) an overall positive for SEO? or, a SERP nightmare if a writer moves on to another company? In essence are site owners just improving the writers profile rather than gaining very much?

  | IPINGlobal54

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  Will Search Engines implement timestamps?
  

  We continuously receive comments on our partners' websites which are obviously spam from a third world country trying to build backlinks that some SEO firm outsourced. Out of curiosity, and what I've added to my prayers at night is for the search engines to apply an algorithm update to discredit comments posted under a certain time frame to help identify spam, and these garbage practices.  Do you think something like this would happen? My most important thought is...how can we compete with companies that are doing these practices trying to get that quick buck?  Look, we want to play the game with the highest ethics and morals and not "cheat" the system because we know a "work around". Thoughts...

  | cyberlicious

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  What is the best place to learn reputation management, with regards to SEO
  

  I have a new client that needs help with a bad review.  Of course it may not be able to be deleted, but I have started to scratch the surface on how to help 'push it down' using SEO. Can any offer advice on a definitive source of learning reputation management? Many thanks!

  | adell50

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  Help on implementing schema.org in our hotel website
  

  Hi, We came across with this schema.org and we decide that it will be helpful in our website if we can implement it properly. But somehow reading through the documents still makes us confused on how to use it. Can anybody show me how to use it? For example in our homepage www.florahospitality.com I can use the itemType Local business on the content but I can also use the itemType Hotel on the Hotel Listing dropdown. Is it advisable the two type at the same time?

  | shebinhassan

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  Setting up a Company Blog - Subdomain or new URL?
  

  I've just got hold of a client without a blog (a blog is very marketable for their industry especially!). But run into the dilemma - Is it better to set up a new domain ("clientblog.com") with separate hosting or create a subdomain ("blog.clienturl.com")? Has anyone ever done a study on this and which is most beneficial? Most importantly has anyone had success with either? Thanks!

  | RPIDigital

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  Is your content above the fold
  

  Google released an update today that will rank pages with plenty of content above the fold higher than those that don’t.
  If you have a lot of ads above the fold then don’t expect to rank.
  I see many CMS sites with very large banners across the top and content pushed down low on the page, will these pages also be hurt by the update?
  The update is crawling now, you might want to check your SERP’s and see if there is much movement going on.
  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

  | AlanMosley

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  Hello, Actually I have bit of doubt. If I create Google plus business page. Will it helpful or effects for my website ranking?
  

  If I create Google plus business page. Will it helpful or effects for my website ranking?

  | jaybinary

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  Searching for another Defender of the Front Page!
  

  Greetings Mozfriends and Champions! My company is searching for a performance based SEO that can handle multiple websites and platforms at the same time. Was wondering if any of you fine people would be interested in such a quest. Please reply to the message or you can E-mail me at [email protected]. Good Luck Champions! Justin Smith

  | FrontlineMobility

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  Anyone have any thoughts on Third Tribe?
  

  Is it valuable and how is the community?

  | flowsimple

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  Node.js for SEO
  

  We've got a client building a site using node.js (http://nodejs.org/) I'm not at all familiar with this and of course need to know how nodejs impacts SEO?   Are you familiar with it?  Any sites you know of using it?  But as I said, bottom line - how will it impact the SEO on the site?

  | VMLYRDiscoverability

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  Paste 'do a barrel roll' into Google - See what happens!!
  

  Hi, Paste the words 'do a barrel roll' in Google and see what happens!

  | activitysuper

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  Can anyone recommend SEO Vendors in the NY NJ area?
  

  I am looking for an SEO consultancy service preferably in New York, any suggestions?

  | EBDM

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  Why Should I stay with SEOMOZ ?
  

  Why Should I stay with SEOMOZ and pay a minimum of 100+ a month when you can get the same tools with no montly fees in other sites?

  | globalcampus

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  Does it make sense to go after broad search with less competition vs. narrow search with very high competition?
  

  We are in the process of analyzing our current site structure, on-page optimization and keywords to form a new strategy around our site. What we are finding with the keyword research we’ve done thus far is keywords that are shorter-tail have less competition, but far more searches than some of the long-tail keywords. For purposes of illustration I will give an example. Let's say we sell Wedding Cakes and the keyword string  “Garden Wedding” has approximately 246,000 monthly local searches and medium competition, but “Garden Wedding Cakes” only has 880 searches and very high competition. We believe that if we create a very effective landing page for "Garden Wedding" with all kinds of great content surrounding "Garden Wedding"  that we have a much better chance of ranking on page 1 than if we were to go after the term "Garden Wedding Cakes".  Furthermore, the volume of search far exceeds the "Garden Wedding Cakes" and hopefully will reach a much larger audience.  However, because "Garden Wedding" is such a broad term, we are concerned that we don't necessarily understand what folks are searching for vs, when someone types in "Garden Wedding Cakes" we know they are looking for a cake. Here are the questions we have: Targeting broader terms with higher search, has anyone implemented this type of strategy? We think in the long run, this will help us with exposure, but also with help our targeted page of "Garden Wedding Cakes" rank higher (if we can earn a great PR for the page "Garden Wedding". Would we run the risk of creating a higher bounce rate with this strategy for people who are looking specifically for Garden Wedding items/supplies, etc..  Is this a major concern? Could we monetize the effort put into new, rich content surrounding Garden Weddings, when we are in the business to sell Wedding Cakes? Any insight that one can provide would be greatly appreciated.

  | UrbanityStudios

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  New Search Engine
  

  Looks, like I signed up months ago to be a BETA tester for a new search engine called Volunia Has anyone else heard about this engine? Just curious! Thx

  | Ben-HPB

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  Anyone have experience with the eTail Conference (upcoming 2/27-3/1/12)?
  

  I just got a brochure with a very impressive lineup for the upcoming eTail conference.  Has anyone here been to the eTail Conference?  What's been your experience?

  | NaHoku

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  Keyword Ranking Tool
  

  Hi guys, Can anyone help with a software (online or offline / paid or free) that can help us get the keywords and the rankings our websites are ranking for? *** NOTE: We already use some software to get our rankings for a list of keywords we submit. We are interested in a software that can pull our keywords and rankings WITHOUT having to submit a keyword list. We want to know  where and what for do we rank (especially long tails).
  Also, we know we can use a turn around (by exporting the keywords we get traffic from from Analytics and using Market Samurai to get the rankings, but we prefer an independent software that does all this automatically for all the links on our entire domain. I remember I accidentally got into such software a couple of months ago, but lost the track of it :). Please let me know if you know about such software. I hope I am not chasing after shadows 🙂

  | tolik1

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  Question about local listings for traveling service
  

  I have a band that performs all over my state and was wondering if i could add my business to google local listings in all the cities that my band performs in.  How would i go about that being as there would be only one phone number and no local address?  I'd love to get the traffic from the local listings that come up for certain search phrases.  I wasn't sure if Google would look at that as spamming though.  I do have contract musicians that play with us in each of those cities and could list their home address as the  address just in case i have to have an address on the listing that is local.  How do businesses that provide services in multiple cities by traveling to those cities usually  list their businesses? any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

  | Ron10

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  Hyphenated domains – good or bad?
  

  I have a client who will be changing their domain name from www.brand.co.uk to www.brandglobal.com. There are concerns however that this might affect the searches for brand terms and variants. Hence, there is a suggestion for going for www.brand-global.com. I’m aware that search engines are smart enough to discern the brand name in most cases, but I’m wary if it would impact highly on the brand search terms and would it be a better option to go for www.brand-global.com instead of www.brandglobal.com? Any advice (or reference to discussions around this) would be much appreciated. Thanks

  | ravisodha

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  Who is going to Searchlove London? Will you stop and say hi?
  

  A massive part of the conference is meeting people. I went last year and would like to make sure I meet as much of the moz community as I can this year. If you are going to be there please let me know and we can all make a point to say hi I'm debating whether to go back to the mohawk hairstyle for the conference, for ease of recognition 😉 Cheers and hope to see you there Stephen

  | firstconversion

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  Questions to help get to know a potential client and see what the possibilities are for there campaign?
  

  OK so I am putting together a list of questions to refer potential clients to. The purpose of these questions is to: 1, Help them understand the difference between "just give us your keywords and we will make you rank" seo  and the full range of options that are advocated here on seo moz.  .... 2, Get them to see that there are different levels of involvement that are available for different aspects of a campaign and give them ideas and options on how much input they want to have as well as make them see that we can help them with even the stuff they are gonna do themselves or do it for them with there input and permission. Thats where things get a bit confusing I was thinking of having a list of fifty linkbuilding/linkbaiting  techniques and check box options beside each one so that they can read a little bit about the particular technique ie forum participation for example and then see how they felt like that related to there industry , wether they would want there staff to do it with some training from us wther they would want us to help them find the right forums and show them how to link back and to which page, or wether they would just want us to handle everything or simply not feel that that was right for there business .. then they would move on to the next thing ie   video creation or user generated content and in the end we would have a big list of things to discuss with them and they would have a better understandiing of how much there is to good seo and what might work for them and also how we could help them and how a relationship/ partnership might look I would love some feed back on this is it possible will it help us to build trust with potential clients (which is diffucult for a new biz in this industry)  how would you lay it out would it be a usefull resource for other seo companies etc thanks so much seo mozzers this forum is awsome and i know you will steer me in the right direction oh ps   this would be something we would keep on our site

  | duncan274

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