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Hi Jacob - Has this issue been resolved? We would love an update, thanks! Christy

No problem, best of luck!

Hi Chris, Just read screaming frog is good for 500 urls and then you have to pay, I thought it was too good to be true! David.

We experienced a similar thing when we implemented a live chat solution. Our TTTFB increased siginificantly, not only did this impact the serps but also reduced the customers experience due to having to wait longer. See if your live chat solution can provide you with a gzip compressed version that you can also load in asyncronously. This may help give your site a speed boost whilst at the same time maintaining an excellent UX element.

HI, If you are seeing these warnings in your crawl reports then 410 pages would be a high priority issue since it means you are still linking to these pages from within your own site. In that respect there is no difference between 404s and 410s, they both declare a page is no longer available and if you are still linking to these pages in your site then you should try to find the pages that are linking to them and update the links. If you download your crawl report, open in excel and then filter for 410 errors one of the columns on the far right should tell you which page was linking to the 410 page(s) in question.

Excellent idea regarding the sub-domain.  While not perfect it helps tie the two sites together rather than there being 2 completely separate domains. Thank you very much Samuel and have a great day.

However, just because an image is visible in Google Image search, does not mean you have the rights to simply use the image as you see fit. Other parties may have intellectual ownership over each image.

Mark, thanks for the question. My short answer: If you are doing anything that is potentially risky, then don't do it. I mean using guest posts at all -- whenever I see people talk about using this strategy, I die a little inside. Here's the long answer. Matt Cutts, the head of Google's anti-spam team, said here that people should stop using guest posts to build links. In response, Jen Lopez of Moz wrote this great essay that I highly suggest you read at least twice: As with anything, you don't want to be out there trying willy-nilly to get your posts on every blog for the sole purpose of building (probably bad) links. It's important to have this tied to your business and marketing goals, as you would with any other tactic. SEO is only one piece of the larger strategy, and if you focus solely on writing posts for link building purposes, you're missing out on a ton of other possibilities. Here's why guests posts are usually bad ideas: Websites that just publish countless random guest posts on desired topics are rarely authoritative websites in those niches. Does anyone actually visit those sites? Do those sites send legitimate referral traffic? If the answer is "no," then Google likely views them as having little authority. So, a random link on a random post on such a site isn't going to help you that much. Any guest-post website that charges for publishing posts is almost certainly violating Google's guidelines. Paying for links directly (or indirectly via paying for posts) is very, very risky. You are "building" links, not "earning" them. Why should Google give you credit for a link that you essentially give yourself? So, what's my answer? Read this Moz essay of mine that was inspired by Lopez's response. The key is to stop thinking about links and to start thinking about marketing. The best links, rankings, traffic and more are actually just good by-products of doing good public relations and publicity. My essay goes into to detail, but I'll summarize here. First, determine your website's target audience. Second, find out what major news outlets, publications, and blogs are actually read by your target audience. Third, use the methods that I detailed to get news coverage or a quality article or opinion piece (not a few hundred words of fluff) published on those websites. Yes, it's hard. But nothing good comes easily. ONE of those links is worth 100 or 1,000 random guest post links.

If you guys create a simple link network between one another, then no it probably won't help much and you're risking being seen as manipulating links. Instead, I suggest each writing up quality content that your site's focus on and provide a contextual link to one another. This way you are giving your users valuable content and if the article focuses on each of your own niches it then makes sense to provide a link to the site.

Hi Jeremy - Wow, we're getting a lot of these keyword traffic estimates questions this week. Unfortunately, Moz cannot provide Google estimated traffic. However, I wrote this lengthy answer earlier about how you can acquire the Google estimated traffic and which tool to use. Hint: The Google Keyword Planner http://moz.com/community/q/use-of-keyword-analysis-tool-espcially-regarding-search-volume

Personally I think it depends on the type of site I'm working with.  An eCommerce retail site and a corporate business page are very different in my book. I also like a simple, easy to read format (for both robots and users). posts title template (%%title%% %%sep%% %%category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%) page title template (%%title%%  %%sep%% %%sitename%%) If your page is optimized for the selected keyword(s), then they will be appearing with the title. I've had good look with it recently.

If they serve two very different functions I could see the advantage. Does your client already have the the multiple websites? Or are you looking at splitting up their current site?

Thank you! Jim I was not aware of the moz tool amazingly enough.

Hey World Learning! Check out this Q&A from a few months back about the same topic. Might help you understand better but Ray-pp and Linda are absolutely correct! http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-moz-and-google-search-volume-so-different#reply_273733

Hey Noah, Ray's comment above is correct but might be unclear. Yoast handles this the way you want - you've got a theme issue. This code is wrong: if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?> This tells Wordpress to output "page title - blog name" as the H1. Yoast isn't interfering in that. You'll want your H1 to say this:

Hi David, I've reviewed a lot of legal sites lately.  So many of them have been affected by Google's Penguin algorithm because of unnatural link building.  If you've had links built in the past then you may need to do a thorough link audit in order to clean things up before you can move on. For some sites there can be Panda issues as well that need to be cleared up in order for the site to see improvement. What is difficult though is the "moving on" portion.  When Google ranks law firms for a particular city, how do they determine whether you rank at the top or not?  You can only go so far by cleaning up links.  You can go a little farther by improving your site from an on page perspective so that it performs well for both crawlers and for users.  But then what do you do? The next component that Google uses in order to determine whether you should rank better than your competitors is links.  In the past, you could create your own links in a myriad of directories, article sites, bookmarking sites, etc.  But that's the type of thing that gets sites penalized.  Google only wants to count links that are truly valid votes for a site.  But I would imagine that there are not a lot of people who want to write glowing reviews of their attorney and link to them.  Still, there are some valid ways to get links to legal sites: -There are some directories that are acceptable and probably could send you clients as well. -You can get links from valid industry partners. -You can sometimes get good links by finding unlinked mentions of your firm and getting them to link to you. -The BEST way to get links is to produce content that people would find useful and then promote that content so that people will link to it.  But, this is hard to do.  There are companies that can do this, but you have to be picky when choosing one.  And, if you find one that can do this well, it will be expensive. When it comes to identifying whether you have a Penguin or Panda problem or another type of algorithmic issue that is holding you back, and fixing those issues, I can help you with this (although I do have a bit of a waiting list.)  In regards to promoting your site once the algo issues are fixed up, probably the best option is to go through the list of recommended companies here (http://moz.com/community/recommended) and asking them the following questions: -Tell me how you would get links to my site? - I would want to hear specific answers and not marketing speak like, "We'll leverage our blah blah blah and promote blah blah blah with our proprietary method." -Do you have references?  - Don't let them hide behind NDA's.  If they have successfully helped clients in the past with their rankings then they will have plenty of businesses who are happy to give them a reference. Hope that helps! Marie

Hi Rob, One strategy I didn't see mentioned was the use of Case Studies. Case studies can be used to help convert clients with similar goals - they add a lot of confidence in the ability of the service provider and provide a direct example of success. I also suggest getting on the phone as often as possible with potential clients. I've found it much easier to convert a client when speaking to the client's needs directly over the phone. Sometimes, the goals and needs can get lost in email and speaking with them directly allows me to align both parties; and a sense of unity is a great conversion tactic.

Will do, thanks Abe!