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Thanks Greg - definitely helpful to hear your experience and the uplift you saw. Appreciate you sharing that! Regarding the "too many links per page" - one nice part is that this will only be for logged-in subscribers, so Google won't see it (unless their crawler buys a Moz Analytics account!) :-). And yeah, as Keri said and Dr. Pete has pointed out, 100 links per page is more of warning (kind of a "you're creeping up there,") not an error/problem every time.

That name would fool me!

Please keep in mind this is just my opinion/experience and no advice (you might need a lawyer for a reliable answer on that issue): To register a site as a trademark seems to be a very tough thing to me. You have to imagine that a website consists of a lot of elements which are already under certain copyright laws. If you use themes for the navigation, for buttons, pictures or even if your complete site is based on a theme which you might have adjusted these are all elements which you can`t claim as a trademark so easily. You have to distinguish between the whole site and maybe just a brandname or logo. A brandname or logo can be registered as a trademark if it fits the requirements. If you can protect the brand of your client I would always recommend to do that because it gives him/her a lot of protection against competitors ... Imagine this example: our company is called MusicStore... this is a generic expression which will never be registerable as a trademark. So now you can imagine what you have to keep in mind: be the one who gives the highest bids at Google AdWords always register company name related domains at first and much more just to avoid that any competitor can use our company name to profit from... If your client has any perspective to do business with his idea/brand for the next years, it is always worth to protect its brand... it means less hassle!

Awesome, im glad you guys enjoyed it, i know the kids enjoyed their roger swag

Howdie Mozzers! I am wondering the same thing. Are we getting closer? I'm dying to share them with my team. Do we have an ETA??

Thanks Jennifer that definitely clears things up!

I agree with Matthew's remarks regarding what type of content to write. You'll want to spend a bit of time promoting it as well. Posting it to your social profiles and sending it out to your email newsletter at the very least. In addition, you may find forums or social sharing sites for contractors that would be appropriate places to share your content. You'll want to tread carefully to make sure you're not coming off in a spammy way, but if you're sharing a genuinely useful article and not a sales pitch you'll normally be OK.

oh, it was really a great link to have back then..lol...those were the days. It still shows follow on my still existing articles so i guess they applied something new or added something to their guidelines

Its the little touches like that which help make this place feel more like a community rather than just another website.

That's great. Thanks Rand

Agreed w/ Matthew that rel=publisher is worth setting up, but KG is a tricky animal. On the one hand, Google is trying to do entity analysis, which may depend on similar factors (to a point) as traditional SEO, just from a different perspective. There are many cases, though, where brands that clearly are entities have no KG listings or just have an G+ box. For example, Amazon, Apple, and Wal-mart have no KG listing. Clearly, these are huge brands. K-mart and Taco Bell have G+ brand boxes. Some small local businesses (like Gene's Sausage Shop here in Chicago, which I used in my MozCon talk) have full KG boxes. Google does seem to tie some KG boxes to local one-boxes ("authoritative one-boxes"), which are the stand-alone pin entries that come after the snippet (and not in a pack or "near" result). That implies to me that there's still a preference to show KG boxes for business with a single brick-and-mortar location.

Dr. Matt Peters gave a sneak preview at MozCon this past week and posted some preliminary results here: http://moz.com/blog/ranking-factors-2013 We're expecting to have the full report in the next couple of months.

Thank you Charles. I agree, sadly, I have found other clients of our current SEO company that have our copied word for word blogs. Its clearly verified as both of our websites have the same link to the same SEO company on our footers. I will keep you all posted once we deal with this issue in the next few days.

Adam, Thank you taking so much time to respond. We really appreciate it. The leaders in our industry are at 65-75 but their domains are around 5- 10 years old.  We will keep you advise in mind in regards to next steps. Thank you

Hello Chris, thank you for your answer! Yes I will

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yep I have noticed this as well I reported a link directory full of spam and its seems to have gone up 3 positions.  I am going to keep an eye on it.

Thank you for answering and so quickly.

I'll be covering all these topics (and more!) in my Mozinar on June 27th, followed by a blog post. You can sign up at http://moz.com/webinars.

Yes, intentional move by Google. People were selling links with tier based pricing based on PR.