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Do you want to track the funnel, each variation and which direction people take? Or do you just want to see the leads coming from the landing page?

In addition to DM/IM books, make sure you expand your business knowledge. Knowing how customers tick and how SWOT works rarely goes out of style. My suggestions: Primal Branding Influence (Cialdini) The Lean Startup Lean In (Sandberg) Think & Grow Rich Selling the Invisible (Beckwith) The Slight Edge Excel for SEOs Blue Ocean Strategy (Gladwell) Crossing the Chasm Decoded (Barden) The Innovator's Dilemma Never Eat Alone Psycho Cybernetics Rework (Fried) The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Iredeto, I do this on a few of my sites and it works out well. Saves on crawl budget, keeps google from accessing my affiliate links, and keeps any pagerank from passing through the links, which keeps me in-line with Google's webmaster policy on links. One thing to keep in mind is that Google may show those URLs in the search results with a message that they can't show the content because it has been blocked. If you want to keep this from happening you may have to remove that directory GWT using the URL Removal tool. If they get re-indexed in 90 days (or whatever the reset time frame is) you will have to do it again. Hopefully that won't be an issue once you get them all removed the first time and block the folder. Using rel = "nofollow" tags on the hyperlinks going to that directory wouldn't hurt either.

Thank you for sharing your resources with the community!

Must've been a Webmaster tools issue - tried the whole process again and this time Webmatser Tools verifies the site with the 301 redirects in place

Keep nofollowing your links everyone - eventually we'll break Google!

I've had SEO consultants swear that you should still fill out the meta keywords tag because some search engine in a galaxy far, far away is apparently still giving it some clout. I say leave it blank. The search engines that matter won't give you anything positive out of it, and you never want to find yourself in a position where you're actually getting dinged for having that field stuffed with too many keywords, or having the same keywords duplicated across every page. I also agree with Donna that it's making it easier for your competitors to see what you're targeting. If you ever have a client who demands to know why you're not including meta keywords, you can show them this blog post directly from Google that pretty definitively states that they have no ranking value: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

I don't get it.  The code is only <iframe src="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/profile-name/xx/xxx/xxx" width="1" height="1">.</iframe>

FYI...my sitelink search boxes now take visitors to my site results page and no longer a secondary google serp.  guess I just had to wait a bit longer for them to update their index.

And to you as well! Sorry if I was blunt and no disrespect intended. If you decide to keep the url then you will need to build new quality links. Even after disavowing the bad links you will not rank if you don't get good links going forward. Check out these guides http://moz.com/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building  http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies   http://www.makemoneyninja.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-link-building/ The good news is you can save the url but it will be more time consuming. Good luck!

/index.html should 301 redirect to the root domain (www.example.com/index.html and example.com/index.html should redirect to www.example.com) For multilingual, you will need to set up hreflang for each language via tags or sitemap. Check out https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en for more info.

Hello, James from Moz Help reporting in! Andy is in fact correct we update DA and PA through our monthly indexes, the next one aiming for Dec 4th which is just about a week away. If we crawl your pages we will have them updated with the latest and greatest PA, DA, backlinks, and more! If you have any more questions feel free to reach us at Help@moz.com Have a great day - James - Moz Help

Thanks Jeff and Andy, We are already building compelling content focused in those specific states. I was also wondering if there is anything in the technical side to leverage position, but local SEO and schema doesnt really apply to us, since it is usually based on a physical address which we dont have it. Building a landing pages targeting the state would be an option but we do want the user to arrive in the homepage which is not really geo targeted. Ill try a few thing for the next few weeks and I would be happy to share some results. Thanks a lot, A

People who do SEO knows both techniques, and every single person must hire as needed. Ask for budgets and compare the services you get. If you're not convinced, then look for another. Cheers.

yes thank you guys, that's how I thought about it as well and just wanted to clarify

Thanks for checking in, Mick!

Thanks MiriamEllis Very helpful.