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Hi there, Spencer has it right - to analyze the backlinks of your competitor, simply pop the URL of your competitor into Open Site Explorer and you can see all the link metrics for that domain. The reason your own link reports might be empty are if your website is new or if it has no backlinks itself that our crawlers have found. If you had links that we have metrics on, they would show here. But note that these are your links, and not your competitors. Again, you can use Open Site Explorer to see your competitor links. I can definitely see how this might be confusing. I'll add a note for our product and engineering teams to suggest ways to make this more clear and easy to use! Thanks for writing in!

Well, you have a few options.... oDesk is an example of a great resource. It's basically an online marketplace to pitch projects overseas. They have a few systems set in place to make sure the person is actually working as opposed to checking Facebook or answering Moz questions all day. eLance essentially the same thing as above. Started out more design heavy as I remember it and more US oriented although that may have changed. Craigslist, Glassdoor, Monster, SimplyHired.com- Search for SEO Consultant, SEO Manager etc. What you have laid out are pretty simple SEO upkeep, as far as stuff like title tags, redirects, anchor text etc. and MOZ is an amazing program to help you find all of those things, the problem is getting someone to actually utilize MOZ in a way that helps you. Moz in the hands of my father, is a really cool program that looks nice and makes some really nice email reports that he forwards me numerous times a day. Moz in my hands, becomes an actual tool that can be manipulated. And trust me when I say, I am a peon in comparison to most on these boards. The problem with the SEO industry that I am a part of, as well as the Graphic Design industry, as well as Social Media is that everybody is either The Best, #1, Guarantees Results, or something like that and in turn can't perform, and ends up giving the rest of us a bad name. At the end of the day, you will have to find someone who you trust, or go with an agency. LinkedIn is a great resource. The power of referrals is pretty amazing. And honestly these forums from what I have observed are pretty amazing too. I will leave you with this... You pay with bananas, you are gonna get monkeys.

worked like a charm!  Thanks!

1. So I guess I'm okay with it, right? It is okay to use different term and do not repeat keyword on title tag and meta description. Yes 2. Title tag or meta description? Because on your response, you bold "Blue Fountain Media" on meta description. I have my company name Cordate on meta description. So should be okay right? I would use the company name in the Title tag of the home page. But yes you will be okay with it in the meta description. So what do you suggest? Should I edit the text on the slider so it becomes H1? But the thing is it is sliding. Is it okay for SEO? Or should I add H1 before slider or just remove the slider? Yes (I don't like sliders but partly for that reason) if you are going to use a slider add a H1 make sure its stays the same See **https://yoast.com/opinion-on-sliders/ ** This is the best slider if you ask me Soliloquy if you are going to use one. All the best, Tom

If the images are coded into the website using "http://example.com/image.jpg" instead of "/image.jpg" then the images will always pull from example.com, instead if your test site. If they were coded with "/image.jpg" then the code would pull from example.com when the page was there, and example.yoursite.com when you moved it over for testing.

Thanks for the input guys! I believe Twitter and Facebook don't run sitemaps for their profiles, what they have is a directory for all their profiles (twitter: https://twitter.com/i/directory/profiles Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/find-friends?ref=pf) and use that to get their profiles crawled, however I feel the best approach is through xml sitemaps and Google plus actually does this with their profiles (http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml) and quite frankly I would rather follow Google then FB or Twitter...  I'm just now wondering how the hell they upkeep that monster!  Does it create a new sitemap everything one hits 50k?  When do they update their sitemap? daily, weekly, or monthly and how? One other question I have is if their is any penalties to getting a lot of pages crawled at once? Meaning one day we have 10 pages and the next we have 10,000 pages or 50,000 pages... Thanks again guys!

Envato is a big company with a lot of web assets, so it is really for branding of each / ease of use. Some people that use themeforest might have never heard of codecayon before and vice versa. They also have the size of site to support this kind of layout as well, they literally have 10's of thousands of pages for each site. You also have to consider that during the development of these different sites, SEO was different as well. Exact match in domain names did more than it does now. So having theme, code and so on in the domain name helped back then too.

Expanding a bit on what William said. You have to be careful about the domain as well. If the domain is in your line of business it will usually be a good thing, but you need to be sure the domain is indexing in Google (this can be checked by site:www.examplesite.com) and then look at opensiteexplorer, majesticseo and/or ahrefs and see if the anchor text on the site is relevant, If the anchor text looks spammy or low quality you should tread carefully. Also make sure to pay attention to how the links were built, if they were all built recently that screams black hat SEO. If a site passes all the tests mentioned above it should be a benefit.

UPDATE I was just informed by the agency that we are working with that two pages on our website have been compromised. Index.php Hello.php Does anybody have any recommendations for malicious code identification software? Has anybody used the Browseo cloak identification tool? What is everybody's go-to tool for this sort of thing?

Yes its coming because for Exact Domain and there are no more searches for this keyword.

Hi Louie, It seems unlikely to me (which doesn't mean it's impossible) that they have a city-specific penalty. Can't say I have ever heard of that before either, and I would say it would be hard for Google to decide on something like that, manually or algorithmically. The idea that it could be a large number of links from the Sydney region honestly seems like a stretch: that should really just result in a link-based penalty that affects the site nation-wide. Where this could have happened, however, is if someone abused directory links with way too many links using "sydney" in anchor text but I'm sure you'd have seen something like that already. Even then, I haven't heard of that hurting all rankings in that region alone, but rather just for queries including "sydney". Have you tested this searching from IPs in each region, i.e. I just wanted to make sure it's 100% confirmed that the site does rank well and receives traffic from Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth etc. and that you are not seeing personalised results in those locations and not in Sydney. I know it seems like grasping at straws but it's a really weird case for a non-geo-specific query.

Hi Issac, Keyword cannibalisation is pretty much exactly that. This is why it is important for pages to be as unique as possible. The two below are sort of a similar thing, except the first one refers to linking to your key pages from a product page by way of a short sentence that has a link with some nice on-topic anchor text leading off. On your product pages, have a text link back to the key page that isn't the crumb-trail. You can also do this from other pages closer to the homepage Internal Links to your key pages -Andy

Hello Rachel, I had a look at each of these and probably wouldn't recommend MSemantic based on the user reviews. Google Rich Snippets for Magento only had 2 reviews, which is too little for my taste. If you want to go with an extension I would start with either of these two, one of which you've already mentioned: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/rich-snippets-suite.html http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/seo-rich-snippets-google-bing-yahoo-schema-org.html You could also take the DIY approach: http://www.creare.co.uk/magento-product-schema http://gotgroove.com/ecommerce-blog/developers-toolbox-adding-rich-snippets-to-magento-products-with-schema-org-tags/

Thank you so much! You're amazing!

Well hopefully Google will do it's job and recognise the canonicals. Keep an eye on your stats and if you don't see improvements, then you may need to do additional work. -Andy

Dropped you a PM with some specifics Adam, but isn't looking too healthy. -Andy

Hey!!!!! Pixelbypixel is right. Moz does offer some strong tools to help with Duplicate Content. Check out this article about how we crawl your site for this and how you may be able to fix it. http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/crawl-diagnostics/duplicate-content