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I agree with EGOL. Its too useful of a metric for them to completely ignore. However its probably not weighted very high since this is something that would be very gameable.

See: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-7 for some extra opinions on this topic.

It could be that the comment spam is now being punished, coincidentally after you stopped it. Run the keyword grading tool on your pages to make sure your on-site is as good as it could be, and continue building legitimate links. I would never suggest using black-hat techniques like buying comment spam.

Yes absolutely change it over from tables. A lot of the work the search engines are doing lately is to understand and interpret semantic markup. A table based layout is pretty much the antithesis of semantic markup.

It doesn't seem like a presentation issue like tables could effect your SEO, but you're missing out on all the goodness of rich, semantic html.

Here's a good intro: http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/html-css/semantic-html/

Those are really good numbers! I tried asking a question like this once but it turned out to be too general to get any really good feedback. I'd recommend asking more focused questions so you can be sure to tease out the expertise on this forum.

One quick thing I noticed: no microdata. Try adding schema.org microdata to your site to improve its searchability. For example, adding rel="author" to your author links alone can make a really big difference in CTR.

Another thing you may want to start doing is usability testing. There are services out there that can help you with this, or if you just round up some family and friends you can do some quick testing for cheap. It can be surprising what you find your average user doing with your site.

Good luck!

Ideally you'll keep your URLs as short as possible, you'll notice SEOMoz does this here by limiting the Q&A section to the /q subfolder.

You also don't want to stuff keywords into your titles, URLs, or content.

However, www.example.com/review/razer-mouse-review is a far cry from keyword stuffing.

As far as the order goes, I believe that an exact match such as "razer-mouse-review" is slightly better than "review/razer-mouse" for someone searching "razer mouse review". Its a really minor difference though, to the point where the page with higher authority should always win in a match between those two. I wouldn't go through the trouble of changing those URL's and 301'ing them (which will cause you to lose a small amount of authority).

Its not quite the same, but you can use the Crawler tool at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

If you're logged out and click the Like button, a dialog should pop up asking you to log in before you can like it, or see the page you're liking. Thats just standard facebook, they hide all content behind the registration wall.

If you're saying the likebox has no content except for a login box, that is weird, however I don't really know why it would be doing that, sorry. I can however point you to the FB developers support page

Thanks for the reply Jane!

It actually does have a fair amount of history, created in Oct 2008. I'm still on the fence having a hard time weighing the pros and cons. On the one hand you can set the H1 tag to be whatever you want, but the username changes your page title and the anchor tag text on all your site actions. I'm starting to lean towards 'create a new channel'.

I would recommend going back to your .com address. It presumably has more inbound links, and has a longer history, both of which are going to make it the better performing domain name. That being said, 301 redirects can move a lot of your link juice, most estimates I hear are somewhere in the 90% ballpark. So if this is a technical challenge for you or would otherwise take a lot of time, it may not be worth it.

If you have the resources, move everything back to your original domain.

My predecessor left me a gift of what is arguably the worst kind of Youtube channel name: Our company's name condensed to an acronym with some additional gibberish that may or may not have meant something to her.

In short: Our channel name will never be searched for, will never provide any ranking boost.

Now our Youtube success has been very marginal so far: 31 subscribers, 7,300 video views.

Given that situation, should I seriously consider scrapping my channel and starting  something new with a keyword targeted channel name? Or does channel name matter so little that I should hold on to my 7300 video views?

I'm not sure I'm following you, let me make sure...

You used to have 100redflags.com on tumblr but now you're moving all the site content to a different server and have pointed your DNS to that new server, ie off of tumblr.

If this is true then no you don't need to do anything else. If the site structure and the URLS are all the same then moving servers will be transparent to the search engines.

Regarding your stuff on tumblr account, I think Nakul has come up with the best solution: rework them into blurbs that point to your real site.

I'm willing to bet its an issue with their crawler as Robert mentions above.

While you wait on confirmation for this, make sure that your web server is not configured to serve to any unnecessary ports. For the vast majority of sites, you only need to listen to the default port 80. This apache doc may help you with this.

Unless you have a combination of great skill and lots of resources, you may be chasing the impossible. That being said, you should always optimize for the keywords that make sense. If you are running a business not in competition with wikipedia or a government service, then appearing in SERPs right behind them can be considered success.

I'd also suggest that you look into PPC (buying ads) independently of your SEO efforts, as both are important aspects of a comprehensive in-bound marketing plan.

Just to clarify my position, I do not think a plain text link will be counted towards your page or domain authority.

Also, I would be careful using a strategy that considers too many good links with high value as anything other than awesome. If your strategy only included such links, I think you would be doing very well.

Two things are going on here.

• You want to 301 redirect your old URLs on 100redflags.com to where they will be on the new WP site. There are plugins to help if you don't want to go directly into your .htaccess file.

• You want to avoid duplicating content on your Tumblr and WP site and vice versa - you can do that by utilizing Tumblr's "don't crawl" option if the content is actually a duplication. A better way would be if Tumblr allowed you to set your own page as the canonical version, or possibly redirect to your site. I don't think they allow this, but could be wrong. That would essentially transfer the majority of your tumblr link juice to your domain where you probably want it.

It depends on the format. A plain text http://mysite.com will not be counted as a backlink, it must be in an anchor tag like http://mysite.com and the link must be followed, ie not include 'rel="nofollow"'.

If your web server is set up to fix case issues (ie turning them all to lower case) then you've got no problem.

From the search engines point of view, case in the URL matters (case for keywords do not, big difference). Each different version is considered a different resource, and would be cached and indexed separately, leading to potential duplicate content penalties.

If you're trying to fix a large site that has mixed up their upper and lower case in their URLs, the easiest fix is to do it in the webserver, .htaccess if you're using apache.

As mentioned above, iframes aren't considered best practice for SEO.

The cleaner way to accomplish this is to set up a permanent 301 redirect using the .htaccess file for your .com site.

This code should do the trick:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.jordanhundley.com$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jordanhundley.net/$1 [R=301,L]

I think you may have some other issue that is preventing the crawl. All my campaigns use the plain domain.com (no www or other subdomain), and yet my I have my htaccess set up to forward all traffic to use the www subdomain. Rogerbot crawls my whole site fine.

Check your htaccess that you're not preventing crawlers, do the same for robots.txt, and finally make sure that there isn't a rel noindex on your pages.

I'll have to punt on the changing the campaign domain - it looks to me like that isn't possible, but lets wait to see if an seomoz staff responds with a definite answer.