Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Ryan, You added some great additional insight here for Bill to consider.  Excellent work on that. And yes, I agree with you in not being happy that the "edit" link doesn't want to work lately here.

I think most of the responses addressed the question as if it concerned signatures on the SEOmoz forums. I believe Daniel was asking about signatures on forums in general. I can share two observations regarding links in signatures: some sites disable the links completely. If that is the case, you will know right away and there is your answer. some sites allow the link, but add a "no follow" tag. It depends on the site preference and the software they use. You can always view the page source code and see if the no follow tag has been added, then you will know the answer for that site. The topic is a double-edged sword. You want quality contributors to receive credit for their work. Then again, by allowing these links you will attract some poor quality responses.

Yep that's it, thanks.

I'm a small business owner who managed to get lost down the SEO rabbit hole a few years ago on another forum. Since then I have learned so much that I do spurts of intense study for a few months then leave it alone for a year.  I then come back to learn all the new and exiting changes that are constantly going on. What I do find odd is that in my experience 99.99% of the SEO "experts" who call my business and try to sell me a product or service fail so miserably that I just shake my head & then go back to my own learning instead of paying someone else to do the work for me. I understand that lots of people who are new will ask the same new questions, I sure did. If they are asking the wrong ones a two fold approach might help. a. Answer the question. b. Guide them to the proper questions with examples of why another method of thinking might be important.

In addition to Steve having pointed out that the PR you see is totally invalid, and not truly reflective of your real situation, I'd also say that if it's only been back online a couple days, it's way too early to even begin to determine how the site holds up.  Nowadays Google assigns an initial estimated ranking value to each page on the site, and the site overall, but then other algorithms are run over the course of days, if not weeks.  These provide additional input to either confirm, deny or otherwise cause a modification to that initial assessment. Then there's the reality that in all that time, if other sites that compete for the same phrases undergo changes themselves in that general time-frame, that too would cause shifting. Personally I don't put too much weight in ANY "ranking" data.  Whether it's MozRank, Keyword search results ranking, or any other kind.  All of it's just a general guide. The only thing that truly matters nowadays for the vast majority of situations is - am I getting a volume of organic search traffic that suits my needs, goals? And from there, is that traffic highly relevant, to the point where those visitors become conversions - meaning how many of them take that next step after arriving that I am seeking? Such as filling out specific forms, or making specific purchases, or whatever the metric is. that data, over time, is what matters way more than ranking numbers. Just my experience.

I have a site that has a great deal of duplicate content because my clients list the same content on a few of my competitors sites. Is there any way to ask the clients to give you some additional information about each listing?  That information could be used instead of or preceding the current information. My homepage does not seem to want to pass link juice to these pages. Is it because of the high level of Dup Content or is it because of the large amount of links on the page? How do you know this?  Toolbar pagerank has not been updated across the web for about a year.  I can find some of your subpages in Google.  (dupe content has nothing to do with pagerank) Would it be better to hide the content from the results in a nofollowed iframe to reduce duplicate contents Google usually gets upset when you show content to spiders that you do not show to visitors.  This is the opposite.  I personally would not do this on one of my sites.  You never know how Google will behave in the future. increasing unique content with articles, guides etc? or can the two exist together on a page and still allow link juice to be passed to the site. Increasing unique content is almost always a good idea.  Again, linkjuice flows through links and that flow is irrelevant to content. My PR is 3 but I can't seem to get any of my internal pages(except a couple of pages that appear in my navigation menu) to budge of the PR0 mark even if they are only one click from the homepage. Many people focus a lot of attention on PR.  It is almost never an issue.  Relax and spend your energy on content. I would place this site in the Campaign Based Web-App in the SEOmoz Research Tools area and see what you learn from that.

Hi, Yes this is fully correct, google is using the directores ODD and this is normaly, my websites have the same thing, because the ODD is in multiple language, and google for each ccTLD domain like, google.co.uk / google.de etc.. for each one is using the odd on the parent language. Your competitor websites is for a long time registered on ODD and for that reason. bye

The key issue you wrote about, titles that are too long, relates to how well a page matches the topical focus within the title. Too many words in a title can cause topical dilution if they're all keyword phrases. In my experience, have the most important / most relevant content at the front of the title relative to the page topic.  So from that regard you're doing it properly. Generally speaking, I teach clients to keep the individual page title to 70 characters.  Not to prevent dilution specifically, but to ensure the entire title shows up in the Google search results although Google sometimes overrides your given title for one of their own if they think your title doesn't truly match the page focus. When a title goes beyond 70 characters, if the extra text is brand focused, it's not a terrible thing.  Google will still process the entire title, it's just the whole thing won't show up in the results pages. Having all the titles appended after the unique forum topic with your forum brand is not 100% ideal in regard to matching the individual page topic, however it's perfectly acceptable from an overall branding perspective. As for MagentoWebDeveloper and his concern with repetition, there is truth to that, to a certain degree, however it's not as major an impact because you do have each title prepended with the individual page's topical focus. And the more you do to focus on across-the-board SEO, the less concern that becomes.

Those are commends added to the code. My site has is part of the effort to rid the internet of IE6 browsers. You can read more about it http://www.theie6countdown.com/join-us.html. There is a simple script placed in the site which detects IE 6 & 7 browsers and asks users to update their software. TYNT is a SEO tool http://www.tynt.com/. It allows webmasters to track any information which is copied and pasted from their site. It creates links back to the site, and tracks all activity on those links. Both of those scripts are working normally and neither should negatively impact crawls. My Google WMT show my site being crawled normally, no errors. I have multiple pages ranked #1. With that said, there are plenty of opportunities for me to improve, which is why I am here. The position of the Title and meta tags within the head should not be a factor at all. I did hear Matt Cutts share once that webmasters could move the information to the top to help if there are other issues such as a page where the tag is not properly closed, but that is not really relevant in this case.

Just to clarify and provide an answer a bit more accurate to your question. 1. Whichever you want indexed (the www version or the non www version) you should have 301 Redirect functionality set up pointing to the one you want from the one you don't want on a site-wide basis. 2.  In GWT, you can designate that you want them to prefer the www version or the non www version. 3.  If you don't already, be sure to have a sitemap.xml file set up on your site, and submit it through Google Webmaster Tools and Bing's Webmaster Tools. 4. Having inbound links helps for ranking however it's not required just for indexing, if you submit the sitemap.xml file.  I've had plenty of sites indexed way before any inbound links existed. 5.  With both Google and Bing's webmaster tools you can review their data to see if either find any problems in your site.

Interesting point! However, we are creating a mobile site in html5 to serve smartphones only. On a seperate domain, m.example.com. From what I have read Google treats smartphones as desktops due to thier advanced web browser capabilities. So no need to bother with googlebot.mobile right? Googlebot should index the site once I create a normal sitemap.xml. My concern is that the mobile site pulls the same content as the main site which is already indexed. Would this create duplicate content? If so, what can I do?

One of the most important things to do is to think about your business and the objectives of your SEO efforts. If you plan well that will determine the page content on your site, the navigation structure and even the design.  All of these play in concert for a winning business strategy.

Yes! I just noticed that now too, I'll have dev get this fixed asap. Thanks