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Hi Nathan,

After creating our site we decided to write down some guidelines. Thought you might enjoy them http://moz.com/ugc/website-design-wars-seo-agencies-vs-web-design-agencies-worldwide-trends

Feel free to PM me if you need any help

Carla

Hi Woj,

You have got to read my Youmoz post on how to do a SEO friendly parallax scrolling responsive website http://moz.com/ugc/website-design-wars-seo-agencies-vs-web-design-agencies-worldwide-trends

Our project went really well

Feel free to private message me if you need more insights.

Hi PH digital labs,

After working on our project we decided to write about how to do a Parallax scrolling, Responsive web design and SEO website. You can read about it here. http://moz.com/ugc/website-design-wars-seo-agencies-vs-web-design-agencies-worldwide-trends

Thought you might like it

Carla

Hi Miriam,

I really appreciate all the references and info. This is the kind of stuff that makes debates end quickly

As for EMD, we are actually thinking about rebranding since when we started our company EMD had all the benefits.

Thanks for all the tips

Carla

Hi Miriam,

I have a client who has a local business and really wants me to create multiple websites to go after different keywords. I have advised him not to do this but he keeps insisting. Can you recommend any great articles from a well know source talking about this? Does Matt Cutts have anything on this issue?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Steve,

Egol is completely right. This approach is very expensive to maintain and Google frowns upon duplicate content.

This approach is very passe

Hi,

Does anyone know if the YOAST SEO plugin works 100% on responsive wordpress template? In other words, when you configure the custom title and metadescription is it also configured for the tablet and cellphone views as well?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Paul,

We recently optimized a store with 1000 products. Here are some tricks

1. Use Product Schemas http://schema.org/Product
2. Use concatenation formulas to add more descriptive words to each product. For example =concatenate(cell with generic concept ketword, " ", Product name)

Your site looks very optimized and nice. I noticed you added images for the tables instead of creating them with HTML so that the content can be picked up by Google. THis may be something to improve. Also instead of having a long page you might want to throw your information on tabs. Google reads them as lists and it makes the page look prettier. Here is an example

Hi everyone,

As many of you know the Google keyword tool is going away unless you have an active campaign. Can anyone recommend a tool that is similar and free? We do international SEO so it is really important for me to get keyword suggestions in several languages.

Thanks Carla

Hi Martin,

Great question. I run into this situation all the time just like trying to tell a potential customer that their Flash website has to be redone.

I usually call them and try to educate them on what Google is now requiring. That poor link building practices work in the past but not today and that their a in danger of getting dinged by the Google Spam team. I also try and fine one good article that explains all this from a very reliable source so that they don't think you are making it up.

Education is the only way. I find educating my clients the best way to sell white hat linkbuilding services. Yes it is time consuming but effective and it builds trust.

I would not bash the other SEO company. I would just explain that Google has improved their algorithm and that these techniques are considered black hat or poor link building techniques and that they should correct them or else....

Hope that answers your question. The same issue pops up with websites that have poor web architectures. When you suggest to the client, that they need to modify their website, they freak out.

Good luck and I hope this answers your question

Carla

Hi Keri,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. What anchor text is assigned automatically? Company name for example or no anchor text just URL.

Also, can I change my URL in the future?

THanks

Carla

Hi,

Does anyone know if you can modify your anchor text and URL after you reach 200 Moz points on your profile section (On the web section under image)? I am close to getting my 200 pts (btw...enjoyed the entire journey) and am trying to choose my anchor text.

Here is some interesting analysis too. I have a Spanish site since we are an Argentinean firm.

1. Would a spanish word as anchor text have any value since Moz.com is an English site? I am think about semantics here and how Google likes only content relevant links. My thought is that it does today but it may not be true in the future if Google is going to do away with linkbuilding and just do semantics and co-citation.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Ash,

I have been able to accomplish this with several websites. Basically if you go for the plural version you will also improve the rankings for the singular version. Here is an example.

We wanted to rank a clients website under "Barrios Privados" and "Barrio Privado". You will likely rank first for the plural version and then for the singular version.

Good luck.

Carla

Hi James,

I just answered your PM. thanks

Carla

Excellent point and something I have not considered.

Thanks Jon

Hi Jon and James,

Just a thought but if you have over-optimized a specific anchor text instead of disavowing the links you may want to add more links but with different anchor text so that the anchor text looks more diverse. I'll give you an example.

Over-optimizaed anchor text = "abc"

Hypothetical Current situation

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100

Hypothetical Solution

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100
• New links with "def" anchor text = 10
• New links with "ghi" anchor text = 10

Good luck!

Hi James,

I did encounter something similar. You have probably overoptimized a specific keyword. If all your incoming links have the same anchor text and it is not your brand name then Google is punishing you for non-natural link building. Are you ranking for other keywords?. You might have been sandboxed and not know it. What is the domain name?

Thanks

Carla

Hootesuite is another option. They have a free trial version.

I just added the plugin you recommended. I hope it works. Thanks for the tip http://wordpress.org/plugins/gotmls/

Yes you do and it is awesome!