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I was reading it as have a separate image sitemap thinking I needed 50 different sitemaps. This makes a lot more sense. Thank you.

Well typically the bot crawls multiple links on a page and when it hits a 404 or a redirect loop that particular action is stopped. It can prevent additional pages from being crawled.

Each search engine has it's own search algorithm. In some cases things are similar, but I do not think they can be correlated.

so if content is identical should I edit the meta tag to be identical? I have example.com/page & m.example.com/page identical in content. the mobile version does not include title meta tag at all.

Hi Ryan, thank you so much for your answer. I think the key is in your phrase "not a new blog created on EXAMPLEnewblog.wordpress.org", true. Thanks!

Hello Alec, I would say that what EGOL said is right, you are battling against a strong encampment and can't expect to have a strong showing unless you are taking a unique approach. The key is to determine if the 1 month PPC results are good in your mind. Personally that kind of turn around looks very promising based on the numbers but only you would know based on your ROI. If you can justify it then run PPC for now while working on the endgame of the SEO and increasing your site visibility and visitor numbers. A good strategy that I have found is to do some market research and take your survey data and write some interesting articles that you can use as blog posts and maybe a press release. If you can read the data in unique ways then it is likely to be picked up by a wider user base.

Hi David, Yep, keep the file updated. The best answers I have seen are directly on Google's Webmaster blog here (scroll down to the Q:A section). Good luck!

Hey Ashish! Felicia linked me to your thread. There are two types of link data we capture: External and Internal Linking pages. In order for us to discover backlinks to your site, we need to crawl the sites and pages linking to you. Once we can find those links, we will then be able to crawl your site to find pages you link to and so forth. Comment sections are not typically a good place to build backlinks as those sections on sites can be abused and come across as spammy. Run a search on OSE for the sites linking to you, check out their DA/PA to see if those sites have any influence that would help with discovering your links. Search other sites you can try to build your links on with high authority. The more sites linking to you, the better. Here is how we compile our index. We grab the most recent index. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority. It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile. Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. We update once a month and you can view the next scheduled update here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates Hope this helps!

Thanks all for the great responses... as usual!

Yes, that should work for both -bmw -ford and -intitle:bmw and -intitle:ford

It looks like your robots.txt is missing.  If you upload one and Google can read it, they will crawl your site. As the message says, further crawls of your site are "postponed" until Google can read a robots.txt file (which is odd, I've never had this on sites without robots.txt before.) I would suggest uploading & checking your robots file and then requesting a recrawl through WMT.

Thank you for the help, thats exactly what I was looking for!

That test in no-way proves that the link passed PageRank. I'm not sure about an href within an iframe, but equally I don't see any reason why you would do that?

Thanks Matt I'm proud of the team's work on growing the index thus far. I think we've reached the top of where we can go with the current index's infrastructure, so I'd expect sizes will stay in this range for the next 5-6 updates at least. For the last 4 years, we have been working on a new infrastructure for our indices - something closer to what Google does with real-time processing via caffeine (though not quite as robust), and we're planning to launch that in Q4 of this year, at which time, our index can grow much bigger and much faster (it'll also be fresher, included lots more kinds of data, etc). That system also won't be limited by software (which holds us back today), but rather by hardware (which we can and will buy more of). I really can't wait for that

You're welcome.  Ok, I think the reason you're not seeing link data yet is because your site's redesign was done between the last two updates of OSE data. (http://moz.com/products/api/updates between December 4th and January 28th)  If that's the case, you should see link data soon as the next update is scheduled to go live mañana. You might also be able to get some update link data and testing via Google Webmaster Tools.  Thankfully other things with the redesign sound like they're functioning smoothly. Best of luck!

In addition to Ray's response, are you also asking about increasing walk-in visits to your brick and mortar store via an increased presence on local search? You're best planning gains will likely come from quantifying the average values of visits to your brick and mortar and ecommerce stores then planning for X hours of work to increase that number Y%.  This is all going to be data that's unique to you. Still, here are some guides to help you with your planning. http://searchengineland.com/google-uses-neural-networks-reverse-turing-tests-validate-street-address-numbers-signs-209801  (A review of the growing interlaced relationship between real location presence and virtual presence.) http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/tracking-offline-conversions-hope-seven-best-practices-bonus-tips/  (Analytics guidance on tracking offline conversions) http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/study/2343577/google-local-searches-lead-50-of-mobile-users-to-visit-stores-study (Stats from Search Engine Watch saying 50% of mobile users doing local searches visit business locations.)

You're very welcome, Luke!