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You don't need to include them no, and You can't include a sitemap entry for a YouTube video page anyway, only individual pages on your own site. You can choose to include embedded your YouTube videos in your video sitemap if you wish - (Tutorial for you here: https://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/) But this isn't the best strategy to take if you're trying to get rich snippets (see here: http://moz.com/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy) I hope that's useful!

Thanks Mike, I just checked using the seobook.com tool, they're 404s No, no link equity is lost by not 301ing them. GWT shows no crawl errors.

Thank you for your suggestions. About how long does it take for Ahref to have information on a website? This website has been a project for about six months and I've been working out all of the kinks to make sure the website is unique. 1 - They have a Facebook that is pretty active and there's a lot of interaction. I'm going to work on driving some of that traffic to their website and hope that helps. (My goal is to also target Google+.) 2 - I'm working on getting backlinks (non-paid) as well, although the number of links I will have doesn't compare to the competitors.

Hi Antony, I have Seen Profiles rankings on Google Locals but in very small locations. And I have also seen Google local listing Ranking with Free domains like wordpress etc. That provide you a free sub-domains. I will recommend you to have a Website because Competition is getting higher and higher So if you have a Website then You can manage onpage optimization stuff very well. And In-case you donot want to have a website then You should Go with option 2 above. Having sub-domain on any free hosting website. Thanks

You're very welcome, Ruben.

Yes, Abe was right. I assumed that the non www. version was already 301.(I mean come on who doesn't do that) but it wasn't. Lesson learned... Don't make assumptions!

Hi Jim- There are plenty of good articles about Penguin recovery, but here is the main goal: Remove unnatural backlinks: Look for non-relevent backlinks, backlinks with manipulative anchor text or unnaturally high anchor text ratio, sitewide links, etc. This can vary with each site and please don't look at my blurb and just start getting rid of backlinks. There has been a ton of discussion on Moz about Penguin recovery, which you should read up on: http://www.google.com/#q=penguin+recovery+moz.com Do a lot of research if you are going to tackle it yourself instead of hire it out. Best of luck!

Displaying "Site Stats logo" is optional since ages ( http://adwords.blogspot.hu/2008/09/conversion-tracking-site-stats-logo-is.html ). You can modify the "Tracking Indicator" setting of the existing conversion to "Don't add a notification to the code generated for my page." and generate a new tracking code. The only difference will be in the following line, this way you can change all your conversion codes in bulk: var google_conversion_format = "2"; // WITH Site Stats logo var google_conversion_format = "3"; // WITHOUT Site Stats logo Hope this helps, feel free to ask.

Many thanks guys

bcgroup, As long as your navigation isn't obfuscated by javascript, flash, or iframes, and links from your homepage are followed (vs. nofollowed) the tranference of pagerank from your home page to your internal pages normally takes place naturally.  Be sure to verify for the above issues and then make sure your architecture is well laid-out: Internal Links - SEO Best Practices - Moz Successful Site Architecture for SEO [SES London 2011] - Moz

This is in the product support question, so the OP is actually referring to the Moz Rank Tracker (which is not run on their computer).

Domain Authority is a metric that Moz uses, but is not a metric that any search engines use for ranking.

Oh that is great. I've used it before but then I read somewhere in google tutorials that it can cause problems if you use it when it's not an emergency.

I suspect Google have lumped it in with Iraq and/or turkey.  The next level down from country is city, so you might be able to work out the traffic from Kurdistan by summing the cities traffic. Hope that is of some help.

I would prefer to share your blog URL over here and I believe me and some other folks will help you do the basic audit and indicate you where the problem is! hope this helps!

Maybe it's the repetition of keywords in the titles and H1 that are causing the drop in ranking, like a title structured (just for example) brown shoes, athletic shoes | sportsauthority.com where "shoes" is repeated.

Thank you to you both! The only reason why I am looking into directories is to get backlinks, I don't think people would be actually looking for me in them. So you guys don't recommend directories as part of backlinks strategy? Thank you so much!