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Thank you for the prompt update Ryan.

Thanks, Erica. I figured that. Moz's timeline is awesome! Definitely worth the custom coding.

Ok thanks for the response Keri

Local directories are good for local companies. Yes that is a good approach. You may want to look at Yext whitelabel package for marketing this service to your local clients.

If you are publishing "fresh news" about subjects that appear on other websites, it can be extremely difficult to rank because of the immediate volume of content being published, much of it on powerful sites. I can have established articles on my site, that have been there for years, this is a site with a DA of 76.  These articles can be swamped in the SERPs by content being published on the New York Times, CNN, LA Times, and many other very powerful and very popular sites.  My rankings will come back eventually, when the content is either deleted from the news sites or it is buried deep in their site as fresher news is added.

Hi Ryan, thanks for this! I'm also hoping to see more and more markups turn into Rich Snippets in the SERPs. But as you say, this is a story for another time as it will happen gradually. It's about getting a balance right between being too enthusiastic with schema.org and identifying the right level of information to markups... which is trickier than it seems! Thanks!

It can take months for Google to start deindexing old URLs. Have you done a search in Google to see what pages they are still indexing? You can type in site:"Your Website" and it will give you the full results of URLs that are indexed. If there are any that shouldn't be, you can fetch and render them in GWT to force Google to crawl the 301 redirect, which should expedite the process. I am sure you submitted a new sitemap once you made all of your changes, but, if you haven't that could also help speed up the process.

Hey Victor! Read these and you'll be totally up-to-speed on this: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/11/25/guide-to-using-call-tracking-for-local-search/ ...which is a follow up to Mike's 2013 post on this : http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/05/14/a-guide-to-call-tracking-and-local/ I think you'll find these to be right on the money

Hi there! The problem with OSE has been resolved. There was a hiccup with the API connection failing to complete requests, but all is well now. Thanks so much for your patience! Christy PS - A list of currently known issues with Moz products is maintained at http://health.moz.com.

Thanks for the shout out, Ryan! Although, I think Smashing Magazine has already answered this question the best: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/22/responsive-web-design-should-not-be-your-only-mobile-strategy/ Basically, what you want to do is load high quality images for desktop, but remove those images or serve lower quality images for mobile. You can either do this by loading the images you need with JavaScript rather than CSS, so matchMedia can change the images based on device type, or you can set up your server to deliver differently sized images based on device type. Hope this helps!

Links are nofollow and are brand-name-based. In my opinion a link that generate referral traffic is always good link, also in the eyes of Google I would not worry about it

Hooray, the issue with OSE has been resolved! There was a hiccup with the API connection failing to complete requests, but all is well now. Thanks so much for your patience. Christy

On question 1, I'm surprised it's that specific that you can't include a space. I'm inclined to think Google knows the difference, but there isn't much out there. I did find this, but it's not definitive: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/registered-trademarks-and-other-symbols-in-the-title-tag/20463/. I may just try testing the impact of a mark (TM or R) next to the keyword. That would be useful to know. On question 2, I did a little more research and found this question answered quite nicely a couple years ago by Moz member Edward R. Jenkins: http://moz.com/community/q/maximum-length-of-the-url-for-seo-75-115

Hi All! It looks like Dev Dan asked a follow-up question here, if anyone can help him out. http://moz.com/community/q/gtm-migration-from-old-to-new-verison-as-old-version-closing-on-1st-april

thanks for the response!

Same thing happening for me. Interested in this as well.