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I tried SEMRUSH and they are a great tool, but's very limited for the free version.

Thanks guys, I see there isn't an all in one / magic pill tool to use. Regards, Benny

Have you sent us a note at help@moz.com so we can look into it? That's the best thing to do at this point if it's still not working for you.

Formally everything that can be seen just by the bots and not by the users, it is consider cloaking. Be aware that toggled content sidebars or columns, if it is visible by the users after completed an action, is not considered cloaking. So, in your case, if you are just showing one slide of a slidedeck with multiple slides, it could be considered cloaking. Obviously, you should not freak out and, as Spencer wrote, understand what are you hiding. If you're hiding images only with no crawlable text and without alt text, then you should not worry, also because those images are substantially invisible to the bots (they know they exists, but they doesn't any worded description of the photo). Instead, if you are hiding text, maybe optimized seoed text... than it is much better to quit the slideshare and use just the image with text you really want to show to your users (and Googlebot).

We released a new index last night. Same calculations, better data set.

If we had a company doing articles submissions and they stop doing it, would this affect DA score and the keyword rankings?  Like I said, I haven't changed anything to the site except taking 50 unranked keywords from t he campaign and adding it to our other two websites campaign.

Yeah! That was actually the first time I had even heard of Yandex. Of course the issue is that I haven't searched in the Russian version of our keyword using the .ru SE as I'm not sure about any linguistic differences that Google Translate wouldn't account for (it's a financial industry term). I'm sure we're not ranked highly in the Russian version of the SE though, as we don't have a Russian version of the site! haha

I'd like to bump this and mention that the widgets are actually included on the page as an iframe when javascript is enabled... again, any thoughts on the SEO validity of viral widgets? Disregarding any marketing/ brand awareness benefits.

I tend to agree that you can't take everything Google says at face value, at the end of the day they're still a company and have their own interests to defend. You indeed could develop several other KW-specific domains (assuming you had the domain names), but I think the big reason not to is that it would take a lot of time and money to get peripheral sites to the point where they compete with 12 year old domains with thousands of quality links. IMO this time is better spent on your own site on something other than SEO - like marketing, which has its own SEO benefits.