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Thanks for your input William.Lau.

Hi Ruben, Agree with Alex. Provided you have unique content for each page, you should be okay.

Im assuming you dont have any existing penalties, you just dropped those links into the disavow to clean up the link profile right? If so, then you will notice a drop in ranking within 2 weeks usually (if the site benefited from those links) Building new links, content and doing outreach shouldnt be a problem to it. It will just do it's own thing.

Hi 1akal, Drilling further down into the GetListed.org page vzPRO linked to, you will find two sections that will help you: https://getlisted.org/static/resources/local-citations-by-city.html https://getlisted.org/static/resources/local-citations-by-category.html I also recommend that you check out the Local Search Ecosystem 2013 infographic to understand the relationship between data providers: http://moz.com/blog/2013-local-search-ecosystems Adam Steele wrote a very good post on US citations earlier this year: http://www.leanmarketing.ca/lean-top-50-best-local-citation-sources-in-the-usa/ However, if you are not located in a major city, you may not find a lot of preexisting lists of things like classified, local blogs, news sites, etc., for your city. You will likely need to do your research beyond the broad data provided by resources like the ones I've linked to, above. In that event, you will need to learn how to judge the quality of a citation. There is no standardized way to do so, but I really like Darren Shaw's article on this topic: http://www.whitespark.ca/blog/post/12-how-to-identify-quality-citation-sources Hope these resources help you!

Hey everyone! Unfortunately right now our API can only provide site specific data as we indicate on apiwiki.moz.com. We may look into providing an API that would pull campaign data that may or may not include rankings and to help our product team obtain feedback on what you would like to see, I highly encourage everyone interested to post and update a request on our feature request forum: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

Hi Thomas, I'm excited to hear you're diving into the custom reports. The emails will send based on when you set up your report. Did you set it to daily or weekly, and when did you originally set it up? I'm curious if it just hasn't gone out yet. Thanks! Jen

I'm not a Google+ expert but I agree with Tom here that the URL should be easy to remember and brandable.  I would prefer something like /+casey&torres vs the other ones they suggested.  I know you can request a different URL.   But if you have to choose between the two the /+tallahasseedefense is definitely better.   I have google.com/+vzpro which doesn't help people know what I do but it is easy to remember.  I keep all of my marketing urls the same if I can.  fb.com/vzpro, twitter.com/vzpro etc and try to coordinate them as best as possible.  I would consider what their other social media outlets have as urls and maybe try to get something that all fits.

Hello Joni, One of the solutions from the thread Matt linked to earlier is very interesting. I've never tried it but will definitely give it a shot soon. Read about it here. In short, you would add a line to the htaccess file that would instruct user agents trying to access a secure page on the site that they are disallowed from visiting any page. Since I've never tried that solutions, and so far haven't talked to anyone who has, my recommendation is going to be the simplest one I know of: Make sure your rel canonical tag is using the http version of the URL. This should not change when viewing the https version - it should have an http rel canonical tag. That should solve the problem without having to redirect users to a non-secure page, and without having to edit your htaccess file.

Unfortunately, generic directories are close to useless for link building. I know exactly why they feel useful - you can get a link with about two minutes of effort. The problem is, search engines these days's don't particularly care for them. There's a good reason for that: when was the last time you used a directory like www.the-web-directory.co.uk or botw.org.uk to actually find something? I'm willing to bet that the answer is "never". So directories have almost no value for users, and at the end of the day search engines want to know you're providing value for users. So I'm afraid that rather than answering your question I'm going to join Chris in saying "that's not the way to go". Having said that, there is one type of directory that does get used: the local directory. If you have a Google Plus business listing (and if you don't then setting one up needs to be your first action after reading this) then complementing this with results in directories like FreeIndex, HotFrog, or All In London will help the search engines to confirm your business name, address, and telephone number are correct and so may give you a boost in the local rankings - which is rather useful as I imagine a lot of your customers use local terms like "birthday cakes London". You'll run out of local directories fairly quickly, though, so the big question is "what do we do next"? The answer, as it so often is, is "create and share content". I know what you think whenever somebody says that. "Creating content takes loads of time - time that I could be baking cakes" but there's something yo should probably know. Your cakes are remarkable. I mean that. Looking at your site, the cakes you have produced are amazing. And from the number of them that there are and the skill it takes to make them I imagine you're pretty passionate about baking. The great thing is, if you produce remarkable content then people are going to want to remark on it. On Facebook, on Twitter, on your website. You already produce content that people want to talk about and share, so all you need to do is get the conversation started. Invest some time in social media. Talk to people about baking, commend other people on their work (both pro's and amateurs). Find the Moz for bakers - the place online where they all hang out - and answer their questions, write blog posts, and let them in to one or two of your secrets. Comment on their blog posts, correct them if they get things wrong, and build up your reputation among other bakers. Doing this is a lot more work than just getting some directory links, but they bring about a whole lot more benefit  And by benefit I don't just mean better search engine rankings, I also mean more website visits, people spreading the word about you themselves, and much, much more return on the investment of your time. And speaking from experience, social media is much more fun than trawling through the web looking for dubious directories.

o.k, because our site was built in WordPress. Any one know plugin that will allow me to add canonical tag for each post separately ? Its more plugin that will allow me access to the code of each post. Any one ?Thank you

You are welcome my friend. A good website navigation can really help in this regard. The more easier for the Google bot to crawl your site, the better for Google to show site links in SERPs. Wish you good luck. Best, Devanur Rafi

Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks!

Hi, You won't find the X-Robots tags in the HTML of your page as they're send within the headers of a document. These details could be set via your server. That's also the place you'll have to look to change something like this. I tried to give you an example, but somehow I can't ping your site and it returns a 406 error.

That would do it! Try this in robots.txt: User-agent: Rogerbot Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: / Keep in mind that this will only block crawlers that obey robots.txt. Once Roger crawls your site, it may be a good idea to lock the dev site down entirely.

Hi there No, the canonical will not pass the meta robots directive to the original page, so you're safe there. What you're effectively doing is using two ways to prevent duplication - the canonical will instruct web crawlers not to index versions of the URL with query strings, just as the noindex,nofollow tags will. Nothing wrong with using two methods simultaneously to do this - always a good idea to be safe - and so the end result will be that the URLs with query strings will be very, very unlikely to be indexed.

If you use the words Weber 522053 in the query, Google is likely to return the title with Weber 522053 in it, even if it doesn't return it that way for a different query, because Google sees that Weber 522053 is important to the querier. But this does show that Google knows what the intended title is and is shortening it for its own unfathomable Google-ish reasons. (I did notice that Weber 522053 is not visible on the page at all, so possibly that is what makes Google think that it is not important information to display in the serps.)

I think it's important to note that we currently have no strong evidence that tweets (favorites or RTs) directly impact rankings. Google cut off the Twitter "firehose" data and claims they don't factor in social as a direct ranking factor (even Google+). I think "direct" is an important word there, and that makes sense - social is relatively easy to manipulate, at least in terms of raw signals. They're still trying to figure out the right mix. That caveat aside: (1) I agree with Ratan that RT's are generally more advantageous indirectly. They expose more people to your tweet, and those people will click through, drive up engagement, and potentially link to you. Eventually, this can have an indirect but very real impact on SEO. It's unlikely that favoriting has much impact even indirectly, IMO. (2) Social signals, like RTs, can definitely be used by Google for indexing new content. Content posted on G+, for example, is indexed incredibly fast from decent accounts (not just big names, but any account that's clearly real). This isn't "ranking" per se, but you can't win if you don't play, so it matters. (3) I strongly suspect social will be a corroborating layer, if it isn't already. In other words, if you have a piece of content with 500 +1s but no tweets, not Likes, and no links, that's going to look like spam to Google. If that same piece shows signals across very dimensions, then those 500 +1s may have an impact. RTs may eventually be part of that equation (personally, I don't think they are right now).

Hi, URL forwarding  technically uses 302 redirect method. It is also called 'temporary redirect'. What it tells the Search Bots? Okay, it says that the URL has temporary moved. 301 redirect refers to 'moved permanently'. What it tells the search bots? It says that the URL has permanently moved to the new one. 301 redirect is used when you want to tell search engines that your old URL has now permanently moved to the new one. You must use it with care as search bots tend to give all authority of the old URL to the new one, and eventually take the old URL off their index. More information can be found here http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection Thanks