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Hey http://www.removeem.com/  is owned by  Virante a Moz recommended company. They are very good. All the best, Tom

Maybe I'll just wait to see what happens over the next few months in the SERPS. The only social network I could find linking was 4 tweets & their 2 youtube videos, they don't have any Google+  or Facebook pages, no reviews and they don't appear in the local listing. The niche is very competitive I just noticed that they do however use these Zemanta for what looks like related articles - which I am not familiar (so am just going to do a bit of research on them)

According to Google you have over 2000 indexed pages. However your site does not have any Extremely intuitive ways of allowing someone to navigate to those pages. I see the search directory. I would contact the developer and go through your entire site making sure that it will not prevent Google bot from crawling it http://marketing.grader.com/report/http://www.casacol.co/#seo http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/tmp/c706f9f5cdb4a88879c39ea6efaf8ab8.html

Thank you for the feedback Martijn, I was aware that Pinterest was technically a No follow domain. However in my regular link profile updates and reviews I have noticed them turning to Do follow and back to No follow again. I was wondering if anyone was noticing the same thing ?

There are mixed opinions on the use of them by Google.  I happen to think it's zero for all of them except H1 and I'm not convinced even of them..  There is a case for H1 tags and keywords in them but I've ranked pages without strong H1 tags too. It will depend on the design of your site but typically header tags are bold and slightly larger than the standard text on your page.  You can check your websites files and change them around if you want to change the sizes.  Think about reading a text book.  It's nice to have the chapter titles one size, the sections another size and subsections another size.  It's for your users.  You want to make sure they can easily find what they want on your page.  When we code sites, we generally indent too.  That's not for Google, it's for us to find things faster.  Same concept.

It's difficult to say whether these links are helping or hindering at the moment  - by the sounds of it the report the SEO agency ran was a Link Detox report and the results are purely automated, while I have a lot of faith in the tools from LRT I wouldn't be 100% confident with the results as some of the links may be giving a false positive... however you will most likely be talking about a small change ratios. Ultimately there is a potential problem if you haven't received a warning yet, so I would look to remove as many of these links as possible - as soon as possible.

What she said.

I agree with Lynn, but I'm a little confused about the intent. If you create the new URLs with product categories in them, you'll need to move the old URLs somehow, such as with 301-redirects. The new canonical tags won't help those old URLs, so you're potentially creating even more duplicate content by creating a new canonical version. Generally, I don't think adding categories to the URLs is a great idea. You can squeeze in a few more keywords, but the impact of that in 2013 is very small. As you said, you're also making the URLs longer and you're pushing back the unique keywords. So, Google is going to see more repetition toward the beginning of the URL and less unique information (as are users, although most people don't read URLs closely, IMO).

Having thousands of no-follow site wide links is unlikely to be worth very much if anything. You'd be better off getting a small number of links from domains that are authoratitve and/or relevant to your niche. So think about getting links that have a high contextual relevance too. (The content in which they appear is about the same topic). There's a risk that site-wide links get people into trouble with penguin / unnatural links and anchor text over-optimisation. The exception here is where the links have the potential to bring you relevant direct traffic which have have a high conversion rate depending on the source.

S_Curtis is correct in that if you created a campaign in Pro, you'll be able to see it in Pro and Moz Analytics. If you created the campaign in Moz Analytics, you'll only be able to see it in Moz Analytics.

Hey Apologies that your question wasn't answered sooner. I've read over all the information that you provided, watched the video, and reviewed several Advertising Policies from AdWords. I don't believe that the promotion of this video, in the way the content is presented from 00:00 to 02:09, is in violation of any policy. Political issues will forever be sensitive, but they are still political. International affairs is political in context so this would fall under the Political Advertising Policy. As I'm sure you agree, political ads aren't always accurate, positive or appreciated, but this video still fits this portion of policy. After Sandy Hook, Google created the Sensitive Issues clause that keeps advertisers without the capabilities for real aid from promoting their agenda after disasters. Unfortunately, it does not apply to this. AdWords for Video Policy states that all videos must be suitable for a Family audience. While I personally don't believe that politics is always family friendly, this clause is only purposed to cover videos of questionable sexual content. The only clause I think this could POSSIBLY, REMOTELY fit under, if not the Political Policy, would be the "Anti" and Violence Policy. This is specifically calling out one group of people who have been the brunt of a lot of racism in our country, even more so since 9/11. But, I agree with whoever it was in that AdWords Help thread that said the last seconds of this video changes the entire meaning of the message. This is a political awareness campaign and it's going to get a little ugly.

The problem is currently my old account has quite a number of inactive account and also spammed account which i need to trim it off. I agree that great tweets and sharing great info is a great way to get followers naturally.

As an early member of Moz, I can tell you that what brought me back to the site everyday was the blog and the comments on the blog. However I rarely commented on posts,  I didn't didn't answer or ask any Q&A, and I  didn't use the tools very much (although I used free tools at other sites pretty often) but I thought they provided a lot of credibility.  The content was very high quality and taught me to do my job better. You could tell that quite an investment was being made in the content and that there was a dedication to it and the community. It's my feeling that it was the content and the tools that developed nurtured a community Q&A section--it didn't just spring out of nowhere.  A lot of work first went into building a community where a Q&A section could flourish. I think the long term rewards will be worth it as long as you're in it for sake of building a community and not for the sake of any SEO value the community can provide.

Do you have any other suggestions for a business that does its own blog posts but does not want our individual names or contact available to the GP?

Hey Gerry, Sorry for the delayed reply. The Q&A questions only get directly assigned to the Help Team if they are marked as a product support question. I just looked into the campaign associated with this account and I don't see that we have been reporting any 404 errors on this site, but I do see that the campaign was just created on Nov 26th, so it seems that you may have deleted and recreated the campaign. Since we are no longer reporting any 404s, I can't look into the issue directly now, but if you run into this issue again, I would recommend sending an email directly to help@moz.com so we can investigate what may be causing the issue. Let me know if you have any other questions in the meantime. Chiaryn Moz Help Team

you do not want to go crazy with words in the URL. Only use them when appropriate. For instance I would honestly not start every URL with /lawsuit–example As has already been said the content should do that. For instance if you have a page regarding a lawsuit you should put at least 2000 words on the page with maybe some video not YouTube see wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled if you're going to use video. I do think using a link structure that is clean and to the point. Will help you the most. So example.com/keyword–keyword/ but do not feel like you have to stuff the link with keywords. After which focus on getting high quality relevant links pointed to that page as well as building high-quality relevant content.

Tough questions there Prince, First of all, know that we all struggle with the same questions--how do we get back links to our content, how many do we need, where should they come from, and to what pages should they go. Being able to answer those questions well is really what separates companies at the top of the search results from those beneath them. If you think of each link as a relationship with the person who created it, then you understand that each link is unique, as is each person who creates one for you, each page they are pointed to, each page they are coming from. It is hard work creating and maintaining those relationships. First you  have to show those people who may build a link to you who you are, why they should like you, why  they should trust you, and then you need to give them something exceptional to link to; something that is inspirational; something unique; something fun and credible; ultimately, something that is beneficial for them to share with others. It doesn't have to be difficult to create content like that, especially in the lawyer space, as there tends to be a lot of conformity among them.  it just takes thinking differently than every one else, seeing your services a little differently than all the other attorneys do, and recognizing that your audience has unique aspects about them to which you can tailor content.   I'm not saying anything new here.  Take a moment to review these and see if they don't help: A Manifesto of Content Marketing - Moz The Guide to Developing a Content Strategy for "Boring" Industries - Moz Here are a few ways attorneys have set themselves apart and created something sharable: http://www.pinterest.com/webshark360/funny-attorney-marketing/ http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/how-to-write-a-great-response-to-a-cease-and-desist-letter/ http://blogs.findlaw.com/strategist/2010/12/bed-bug-lawyer-attorney-finds-unique-practice-niche.html http://nylawthoughts.com/2011/03/28/bob-dylan-and-the-law/

Your descriptions is a 150 character commercial/call to action for the information on that page. Since some or all of it will likely show up in the search results snippet, it's job is to incite a click through. It should contain some form of the keyword or wording that is very, very similar to it but since the words used in the meta description don't assist with algorithmic ranking, it's not imperative. It's a good practice that your header contain the following meta data:  Title, description meta tag, rel=canonical directive, robots meta tag (kind of optional . Also, you have two robots meta tags--you need to remove one--I'd remove the first one.

Hi Prince The local-based URL you have suggested is good, but the issue is not so much with the URL but how you can effectively target these searches without local offices - at least it would seem by the fact that you don't show any addresses of offices on your site that there are not any. Is that correct? There is an excellent set of tips from Miriam Ellis on optimising for local searches on this post: https://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-best-way-to-optimise-the-website-of-a-service-area-business-websites-for-local-search The essential thing if you want to optimise for local searches is to show local citations of an office in that area. As Miriam says: The most important thing for SABs (Service Area Businesses) to understand is that Google is heavily biased toward physical location. SABs must have at least one physical location in order to seek inclusion in Google's local index. This can be a home address - that's just fine! But it cannot be a virtual address, P.O. box, etc. And it should not be shared by any other business. Is this site for a company who operate totally online or from just one phone number which could for anyone knows be offshore? If it is, you are not going to be successful with this strategy if you have no local offices that someone can walk into and buy the service. If it is an online only service being operated then your whole site should reflect that and you should market the site along those lines - with quality unique content being on the site answering the questions people may be searching for - based on the service you are offering. The Title tag you suggest is OK for a home page yes although it's a little diluted and the "As low as 1%" would be of more value in the Description meta tag. No one will be searching for that key phrase. I don't think these days there is much difference with using pipe, hyphen or comma. Sorry again to sound like I am being harsh on what you are trying to do. I think you are genuine guy trying to do their best, but with all the hard work you are putting in to this site you are better to direct it at making the site work well for you and your client. Peter

Ashley Chris has got the right idea - what you want to do is check the source code (HTML) of the page as it's loaded in the mobile device. I believe you could also use the user agent switcher in a desktop browser to see how it would render on a variety of mobile devices. Essentially, if you can find the source code for that ad in the HTML, even when loading on a mobile device, the ad is present but hidden. This is where my knowledge drops off a little - as I am not 100% of the mechanism that triggers an ad to count as an impression. It must fire off a javascript code - which in theory will happen if it's present but hidden in the HTML. Hopefully that helps you determine how it's displaying / not displaying. But the other thing is - people are using mobile sites all the time that have ads but are responsive - there must be a standard way for the ad provider to understand this is happening? Maybe talk to them too and see if you'll get a negative mark from it. They may do something to compensate for this.