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I was looking for an answer to the 2nd part of the question. Is there an easy way to tell google that you are the author sitewide? It would take years to go around and do DCMAs for every piece of content that's been stolen. One thing I've noticed: In Image Search, Google is able to do a very good at tracking the orignal picture and ranking that. In Web search, Google does a very poor job and often ranks copied content higher than the original.

Your the consultant and Moz has the tool's to monitor and give you idea's on how to improve SEO. I would defiantly recommend checking out the on page grader - https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader It has helped me improve my organic SEO really well by making sure I have the search terms in all of the right places. it's good to send to the customer as well so you can show them how there pages have improved. Communication to the customer is key with SEO. Moz does have a list of recommend consulting companies which may be worth checking out - http://moz.com/article/recommended

Hi Keri, Yes, I figured that out. I only choose the people I can "follow" and message them telling them that I'm into weight loss too and see if they want to do a friend request. Once they're friends then I cultivate a relationship with them, tell them what I do, and do things like offer a free session. I'm still struggling a bit with keeping my integrity. I'm a very honest person and I don't want to mislead people. I'm going to do some facebook advertising too, but this question is about a free strategy.

Hi Dennis,Chrissmithps and Chris Menke thanks, its a good staff to help. Thanks again!

I would argue that if this is the type of person who could be your customer you can keep it as is and let google index it.  As you said, it is helping you in the short term.  Upon any manual review, it would seem that it would pass easily, and that it is not any type of auto-generated spam or produced with the intention of manipulating pagerank or search results. Could it get you filtered in the future? Maybe, but more likely maybe not. Is it helping bring in more of the same kind of people?  I think it is.  But I don't think you have a reason to shy away from such legitimate engagement.

I can now resolve the www version of the site but not reach the root domain which will continue to return the 605 error so there is something about the root domain configuration that is blocking our bot. A workaround would be to create a new campaign for www.bigbluem.com instead of bigbluem.com

Hello! The bug has been patched and you should now be able to remove the insights from the custom report. Let me know if this works on your side!

Look at Google Trends, Quora, Yahoo Answers, keyword tools that get from Google Instant are also good. Find forums. Look at Reddit (add /top/?t=all at the end to check out the most popular posts)

Hi Chris you really brought some extra information, thanks for that going the extra mile.

Hi There While the CSS isn't ideal, it's ranking impact is likely in the .01% range of factors. There's lots of other things much more important. Did you see a drop in rankings or traffic when you installed the new theme? Or are you just afraid it will hold the site back from further in increase? I'd look more heavily into "local SEO". Here are a few sites and resources; http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/ http://www.localseoguide.com/ http://moz.com/blog/everybody-needs-local-seo Local SEO involves getting your local listings in order, acquiring reviews etc. Moz also has a new Local service: https://moz.com/local/overview You can also check out something like http://www.whitespark.ca/ - they have some of the best Local SEO services. Secondly, you'd want to make sure your content is the BEST and most authoritative source of info about your industry in your general area. For example this page kind of just talks around the services, http://orange-restoration.com/services/san-diego-water-damage/ but if I were to be honest it feels as if it was written just to have content on the page for search engines. (ie: "san diego" and "san diego water company" appear over and over again. ) Instead you can focus the page as best as you can on helping to educate and inform the user. What would you teach a customer about water damage if they were standing right in front of you looking for help?

Hi Nima Google will always show more links than our crawler as they are a much larger company and have multiple seeds to crawl more pages. You should use multiple tools to obtain a full link profile which is something I've seen recommended many times in our community. The 68 links we found mean those links meet the criteria we are measuring to discover them. This also means the 158 other links may not be considered as high ranking sites or your links are too deep for us to crawl or they have been crawled and are just waiting to appear in a future index update. No single index will be the same as each company crawls differently. As I mentioned earlier: We grab the most recent index We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Google does not crawl this way. This and our metrics are proprietary to Moz so it isn't that our data is unreliable or is being crawled incorrectly. The domain authority is effected by a lot of things. It is hard to pin point it without being a SEO consultant or the specific web designer on your website. Domain and Page Authority scores are both calculated using Moz's Ranking Models work. In essence, we take a lot of rankings data from the search engines (by running queries) and then try to build a predictive scoring system using our own on-page analyses and Mozscape link data to construct an algorithm that will effectively reproduce the search engines' results. Our current accuracy hovers in the 70% range, but over time, we expect to improve. Once we have a ranking model (which we internally call "uber"), we can create scores that best approximate the combinations of all our page-specific link metrics or domain-specific link metrics (removing the keyword-specific features like anchor text, on-page keyword usage, etc). These scores represent the model's query-independent or non-keyword-based ranking inputs. In simple terms, Domain Authority is our best prediction about how content would perform in search engine rankings on one site vs. another. Page Authority answers the same question for an individual page. Both are amalgamations of all the link metrics (number of links, linking root domains, mozRank, mozTrust, etc.) we have into a single, predictive score. It's important to note that both Domain Authority and Page Authority are on a 100-point, logarithmic scale. Thus, it's much more difficult to grow your score from 70 to 80 than it would be to grow from 20 to 30. Here's some places to really delve into what is going on: http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authority http://moz.com/blog/googles-algorithm-pretty-charts-math-stuff http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics Here are some good resources to help you take a look at the factors. http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/20902104/Domain Authority http://moz.com/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-trust-authority I would recommend starting a new thread on the forum to seek advice from other marketers as I am only able to explain how our tools work from the technical side. Hope this helps!

Thanks! Stability and success go hand-in-hand. It's all about the long-term goal. You're correct with that finding - 33% of people will only click a link in Google's top three organic results.

I have never done a migration of a website with so many URL's it is kind of overwhelming.  I do have a 404 page with the catchall rule in place.  See i'm coming from the business side of SEO i'm not really the developer getting in there and actually doing the migration ( I tip my hat to all you developers without you I am nothing but a voice).  I'm guiding my developer to the safest route.  Doing the migration all at once does make sense to prevent both sites being cached

This feels like looking for permission to take a short cut and I personally cannot justify that. I would highly recommend to take the time to make the pages correctly and not even worry about duplicate content or Panda. None of use can tell you if it will "work" or if it'll be seen as duplicate content or when it'll be hit by panda, but if it's auto-generated, I can promise it'll be hit at some point. However, the worst you can do is test it. Take the top 10% of make/model deal pages and create them how you want. Do it like you're talking and see how they perform. I'm not talking a few weeks, I mean a few months. All the while, be developing the content for some of those pages. This way, if it works and people like the pages, they are relevant produced the way you want to do it now, the short way, then you can produce the other pages that way. At that point however, your top make/model pages will have unique content that you can put up. So a few months later, you'll have 10% of your deals pages with unique content and the rest automated. Then start working on the next top 10%. Keep going until they are all done.

Hi there, Yes affiliate links (widgets etc.) should be no-follow there was a good few penalties floating around for this. Regards to the "paid links" if your doing all white-hat then yes they should be no-follow but really this a bit of a grey area and down to a bit of personal choice. I tend to follow links like this (with in reason) what a good idea can be is to have one main follow link (e.g.on home page) and if you have site wide links make them no follow. In theory though Google doesn't like "paid links" but you will find a lot of people "bend" the rules a bit.  Unless you have hundreds of links a think a few links from sponsors won't do you any harm and as long as its not site wide follow links I would let them sit as follow links but if you want to stick to the guidelines (precisely) then they should be no-follow. Hope that helps a bit

It may be down to an algorithm change, I'm going to review my Bing Webmaster account tomorrow to look for any clues. It may be worth typing site:yourdomain to see what pages have been indexed. I'm also going to regenerate the sitemap and resubmit it tomorrow. Let me know if you find any solutions.

I understand linking to the page only if it makes sense.  What are your thoughts on the location of the link? should they be placed at the top left/right or just place them in the footer. The major differentiation between the two examples of branding I gave were one brand is promoting its sub-brand with a 1 way link they are not linking to one another (example : Brand A is only linking to Brand B & Brand C while Brand B&C do not link to Brand A).  The other example is all of the brands are interchangeably linking to one another (example : Brand A is linking to B&C while B&C also Link to Brand A)

Thank you Erin That is really helpful.  You hit the nail on the head re my confusion. Hope you have a good weekend, which may well have already started (not sure if your in front or behind GMT) zIKvPDV

Sorry for the delay rpaiva, yes it would be two URL's with unique content.

Hi Chris! Earth here. Actually, it just me, Erin. Unfortunately we don't have a way to parse out the information from the Dashboard module. It's a whole kaboodle. While it won't include DA, you can add modules for Traffic from Search to look at your overall Organic Traffic. http://www.screencast.com/t/5xv5QDmpR http://www.screencast.com/t/yL9xXqoaB The only traffic we measure in Moz Analytics is Organic, so your total visits in the app won't reflect any paid search. I'll leave this questions as "unanswered" just in case anyone from the community wants to chime in! I hope this helps, and have an awesome day! Erin