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I got the same warning for one off our brand sites, but I don't really monitor the rankings at the moment as these are only really holding sites.

I've never heard of this before and I have created quite a few FB pages.

I would of suggested the same thing as Monica, maybe you clicked something you wasn't meant to but as you are saying you didn't I would try contacting FB - but in my experience it takes a while for them to get back to you.

Look on there developers forum and ask the same question - you might find others who have had the similar experience and got a solution.

Wow - that is a lot of questions within a question.

Trying to rank for highly competitive keywords is as the name suggests hard, I would either go for the long tail keywords or finding little niches within the industry and rank for these. While you are doing this you are building your DA, et al and therefore should start ranking for the more competitive keywords.

It doesn't in theory matter how many keywords you are ranking for, but remember the more you do, the less you can concentrate on them and you will spread yourself to thin and not actually improve any. Especially if its just you I would concentrate on a few keywords which will drive you high converting traffic.

I would track keywords in two sections (brand vs non brand), as branded keywords I would hope you are always in the top positions.

Ranking the pages, yes look at "Title, H1 Tag, Description, Meta Data, Fresh Content and using the keywords on the page" but also look to build decent, relevant links into the page.

Use the Page grader to find some quick wins to help boost these pages. They usually tell me some of the basic things I have missed.

Best practices for link building - http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links I would read this article, I could try and explain here but I would just be repeating the experts. I would recommend reading http://moz.com/learn/seo to further your reading.

Hope this is useful for you.

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Andy

quick way would be to type the url into the Google and see if it appears in SEPs or if you don't want to type in the url the article name and site:example.com

If the page has been around a while you can check to see its PA in Moz - but as the last Moz update was a while ago it won't have updated any new pages (not a great solution, but its a quick and easy - not always correct).

Alternatively send me a private message / post the url on here and I will have a look for you.

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Mozbar as mentioned above is the best tool. Its simple and easy to use.

But the source code is always the best.

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Andy

First thing: Your sites authority will not decrease because you add an external link (otherwise no one would ever link)

Second thing: Exactly how much is passed is a little hard to determine and is not revealed by Moz, someone asked a similar question earlier this month and this has got some great responses and I don't want to duplicate their work

http://moz.com/community/q/how-much-domain-authority-is-passed-on-through-a-link-from-a-page-with-low-authority

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Andy

I am assuming you are not changing the domain name so you don't need to worry about any links pointing to the home page as this page will be live.

And for any pages you don't want but have links pointing to them, then yes 301, nope you don't need to recreate the urls, just add the 301 to servers.

Unfortunately if you are changing some of the site urls, you are going to lose some rankings in the short term but I am sure the new site is much better written for the search engines that you improve - but you will lose some short term rankings

In understand about dev time and trying to get things put into the priority list - its a real challenge in todays business especially for those in SEO as these days onsite factors help in ranking, its no longer all about links

But I agree about images that would be good, if and when you ever do move to a new platform and want some people to test the it, let me know I am always willing to help out where possible.

Hi Ryan is correct, it can be done by looking at the server logs, it's a bit tricky to set up so just checked your devs have done this before.

also and this is important do you want to show different data to organic visitors from Google or all Organic visitors from all search engines.

Hi Moz

Can we please have a new feature to moz when answering questions please, the ability to save as a draft. I am currently on the train from London back home and I was trying to answer a few questions and give my opinion and after writing a really long and detailed response to an area I actually have quite a lot to say on, my internet froze and the page refreshed losing all the content. It doesn’t help that my Mac I am working on isn’t the fastest, but my new one isn’t quite ready yet.

But if there was a simple save draft feature, it would be really great as I wasn’t ready to post my answer as it wasn’t finished and without checking wouldn’t have made sense. Yes I know I could of done it in word and pasted it across, but usually when I am travelling and answering questions I do it on my Ipad which isn’t great for multitasking.

While I understand you don’t want lots of ‘draft answers’ all over the place as this would take storage space up on your servers and doesn’t actually help the person answering the question, your system could purge all draft answers which have not been edited in the last 24 hours.

Just a little suggestion to help make this great forum even better.

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Andy

DA is based purely on links pointing to a site and not whether or not that site has a penalty. If moz knew exactly what would trigger a Google penalty (which bad links cause it), they would be a very rich company

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Free samples are a bit of a grey area, and in my opinion it depends on who is sending out the product and what they really want from it.

We send out quite a few products to be reviewed and we actually want them reviewing to find out what people think of them and to drive sales (if it gets a positive review). I like a link and only for the reason its easier for the customer to purchase the item, but whether that link is follow / no follow / affiliate - i don't really care. Its all about the review to build awareness of the fact we sell the products and sometimes to show the diversity of the products we sell, especially new categories.

Where it becomes and issue is when the person sending out the reviews start demanding followed links to certain parts of the sites, thee don't look natural and the only reason they are sending out the products are for SEO benefit.

Regarding your disclaimer, as someone who has sent out products I wouldn't have a problem with you putting that on there, and there was something earlier this month about vlogging now having to make it clear when they have been given free products to review.

I guess SEO isn't as White Hat and Black Hat as some claim, as this to me would be 'Grey Hat'. Plus review sites need to get there products from somewhere to review and these sites do add a lot of value to customers in the decision process of buying so I couldn't ever see Google penalising sites for either accepting review samples or sending them out - whether or not in the future the might a  'review follow' as well as 'follow and no follow' I don't know. This could be one way for the search engines to see that while the links haven't technically been paid for but are not 100% natural.

Great article here for aditonal reading on this: moz.com/community/q/soliciting-product-reviews-with-free-samples 

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Andy

I would disagree, I would prefer to be taken to the sub category page to show me similar products with a message saying the product you was looking for is no longer available, please check out these very similar products - but I guess we all have different tastes and thats why as webmasters we can never please everybody

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Firstly Affilaite links usually don't help towards SEO as they go through the affiliate company i.e. Awin, so the link juice actually is passed to awin, not yourself.

Once a product has sold out on our site, we 301 to the category page as this is the best user experience, while they can't get the exact product they are after at least they are still landing on a relevant section of the site - I've seen some examples where companies 301 to the homepage, but this isn't a good user experience.

Time periods for the 301s is a bit hard to say, I would track and see if they haven't had anybody click on the old link for 6 months to remove the 301 - but thats my opinion. Some would argue longer and I have spoken to others who say three months. What ever time period you do chose, keep an eye on 404 errors and if a decent number of these keep popping up, keep extending your 301 window.

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Andy

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From a previous company I can recommend https://www.facebook.com/SueCoVPA very good work and very well priced.

I haven't used in a while as I know have a full team of copywriters so no need to out source, however if I ever did need to, she would be the first place I went.

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Andy

Hi

This is a great article on Social Media: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-social-media - hope this is what your after.

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Sorry there is no 'x' date that I can give you. It all depends on Google and whether you have done all the 301s etc correctly.

When you say you are doing 'link building' strategies what do you mean, maybe this is the problem if your have got a bad link somewhere?

I wouldn't recommend going back - you wouldn't get the traffic back to what you had and as the 'experts' said it would cause you more problems.

I would check all the 301s are correctly, did you actually change anything on the site at the same time or was it just the url that you changed?

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Andy

no its not being unreasonable - what happens if the SEO guy changed something and broke the website - would would the client ring up and moan at the SEO guy or the web design agency.

If the guy was willing to take responsibility for his changes, then they would be unreasonable, but why would they allow someone to edit their work and potentially break the site - only for them to get moaned at.

SEO is 'secret' anymore - so I don't get what they guy has from not willing to work with the agency. To me it sounds like he will be doing stuff he isn't willing to share so either black hat techniques or doesn't actually knows what he is talking about so was going to bluff it until the client clicked on that the guy was b*ll shitting.

I agree, I wouldn't have given them access without trusting them, all it takes is for them to alter one line of code and the site could crash.

Sometimes SEO's ( and I used to be like this but have changed) look at SEO in silo and don't think about how the changes impact other parts of the business / website - so a change that is good for SEO isn't always good for the website or the business.

So nope, I wouldn't give him access - our developers don't allow me access, I have to put a business case forward each time to get changes done, which has to be present and approved by senior management. Without this I could ask for a change which could cause a lot of issues.

I would agree, the site has very few links pointing to it, but it does have a low DA so with a bit of work, ranking above it should be easily achievable.

When I did an incognito search and this may be skewed as I am in the UK, but the competitor is 7th. Not sure what your clients url is, but I would worry about the other sites above them.

The site seems to do a lot of keyword stuffing at the bottom, with every location in the area listed.  Like I said I would worry more about the other sites, than this particular site.

The link you refer to above, has a low DA and by the looks of it, is there web design agency.

Hope this is useful.