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Hi Larry Glad that all made sense. Sometimes this can get really confusing - I have had a few car dealers in the past that had the same questions and sometimes it's just a matter of expectations and being realistic with search engines. Let me know if you have any more questions - happy to help where I can!

Hi Amy Subdomains CAN impact root domain performance, it's just a matter of how they interact. But it's odd that your sub domains are performing fine, but your root domain is seeing the impact. That just sounds odd to me. I will have to do a little more research on your particular site to see if I find anything else. Thanks for your patience in my response on this one!

I think best solution for improving rankings is decreasing load time with CDN aka Content Delivery Networks. You should watch this video about CDN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4COWL7oNSw

Hi Tom, thank you very much for your answer and time! I explained to Patrick above which are the reasons for doing in this way. I will have to find another way because this will obviously not work.

You could use a CDN - I personally use MaxCDN. This would host your JS/CSS/Image/PDF types of files and deliver them to the user faster than your normal web server will. Here's how to connect MaxCDN to Magento if that's the CMS you're on: https://www.maxcdn.com/one/tutorial/magento-cdn/

keep in mind some companies count images as back links others do not this is an interesting comparison and I think every one of the major backing companies is critical to a full back link audit. FsApuY8.png

this tool will allow you to add your CSS files as well as your JavaScript files and then you can combine them dramatically reducing your calls to the server therefore also reducing your DNS requests. please run your site through this tool as well http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/ below are tools that will help you combined your JavaScript & your CSS http://refresh-sf.com/ http://skalman.github.io/UglifyJS-online/ Here's the CSS tool http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/css/ information on Java script http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/combine-external-javascript.html

PS here's an update I ran it out of California as well http://newrelic.com/synthetics_previews/7b161fb0c45f0132e6e800505682a6e4 446 msCONNECT305 msSSL1 msSEND490 msWAIT3 msRECEIVE938 msTIME TO FIRST BYTE

I just took a look at the following URL: http://www.urbandazzle.com/abc-wine-glass-red.html which looks to appear fine in the SERP: site:http://www.urbandazzle.com/abc-wine-glass-red.html This URL however gives some errors using https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/. Have you checked that proper markup is used? Are there any other URLs not showing up?

I have added an update here: http://moz.com/community/q/reviewing-category-tag-policy-update

Great addition of Jonathan! I also think a well implemented example will not get affected by this update but identical pages won't do you much good in the future. So if you start with this strategy, make sure you do it good!

So glad you guys and gals like the Moz Local Learning Center. That's great to hear! It can even be a useful thing to share with your clients to help them start speaking the Local language with you

These are my outreach tools, though some might not call them that name, but they keep my work in daily contact with thousands of  people who are interested in my industry. ** A news page on my website where I post links to industry news stories on other websites and any new content that is posted on my own site.  This page is visited by about a thousand people per day. ** An RSS feed of the links to news stories described above that goes out via Feedburner to a few thousand people. ** A Feedburner email list of several thousand subscribers who want to receive the list of story links described above. I am not an outreach kind of person.  I don't want to schmooze people.  Instead I just do my best to post what people want, and allow them to opt in for a daily RSS, or email, or visit to my news page.  You will not get this overnight.  But if you are dedicated to featuring everyone in your industry who is doing something good, lots of people will want to hear this stuff.  Then, when you publish something new.... BAM... it goes out to your whole tribe and they share it with other people for you. Once people see you doing this, a few of them will send you great stuff to feature.  That will make your job easier. So, instead of schmoozing people and sending your stuff out to Mailchimp and all of these other services, build something good on your own site and let other people promote your stuff for you.

Hi Mollie. Regarding Moz Local, the $84 charge is per location per year. If you've already created paid accounts with the sites where the branches are currently mentioned your cost will only be in hours by doing it yourself. Regarding some of your location settings, there was a recent discussion here: http://moz.com/community/q/client-says-no-local-phone-number-all-locations-no-directing-to-centralized-call-center about the policy (Google's) around using a call center number versus branch specific numbers. Listings in general need to be as specific possible in order for people to interact with locations. When you're talking abut mobile users, not having listings that are individualized would likely result in poor map listings and poor walk-in-mobile traffic. You'll likely want to do a cost-benefit analysis of whether or not having your branches listed individually and ranking well would bring in more than $252 / year. Cheers!