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Hi BGS,

There are always updates and Jesse is right however this is a great spot to check for major updates

http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

I agree with Streamline. We used Sucuri.net to clean up malware. Worpress sites are great but very buggy. They always get viruses. You have to buy extra protection. Sitelock is another good choice.

Hi Nathan,

I asked the same question awhile back and this is the answer I got. http://moz.com/community/q/does-anyone-know-why-moz-com-appears-to-have-a-pr-of-2-now

www.seomoz.com used to have a PR of 6. I suspect it still does even though the tools say PR2 because I noticed it still ranks for the same way for a lot of the keywords.

Carla

Hi John,

Does the report say who created the content first. I had a very interesting experience with copied content. You can ready about it here. http://moz.com/community/q/copied-content-copied-website

The post is useful

Thanks

Carla

Hi Oliver,

No Follow links do not leak link juice but there is a new concept in SEO called co-citation. Basically Google and other search engines are using mentions (semantics) http://moz.com/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday to determine how to rank your website. I suspect this is Google's effort to try and reduce spam and the linkbuilding business. The more mentions you get the better your website will rank and especially if the website has authority

Thanks

Carla

Hi ParvatiSingh

It looks like you might have been hit by the latest Google algorithm updates. There have been several in the last 3 months such as Penguin 2.0. Unfortunately Google does not mention the international roll out dates. We only know when they roll things out in the US.

Carla

Hi Peter,

Thanks for getting back to me. I will visit http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

Carla

Hi Marie,

You are absolutely correct. I was confused. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Carla

Hi Everyone,

I have a client who has 2 Facebook pages for the same business. One of the pages has 300 likes and the other 1200. They do not want to look the likes. Is there a way to merge to pages so that the likes are not lost?

https://www.facebook.com/SanPedroApostolCordoba

https://www.facebook.com/colegiosanpedroapostol

Thanks

Hi David,

Thanks for your contribution. I didn't realize Google had different kinds of bots but now that you said it makes a lot of sense. If Google did have a bot for each device it seems like MOZ would have to have one too to be able to produce accurate ranking reports for each device.

Thanks!

• Google Mobile Bot
• Google Tablet Bot
• Google PC / Laptop Bot
• Google Smart TV Bot???

We have a responsive web design website and noticed this morning that we are ranking better on a cell phone search than on a PC search. There has been talk about this happening. My competitors do not have cell phone views or responsive websites.

Does anyone know if Moz is planning on adding this kind of ranking information to their reports?

Thanks Carla

Thanks CasperK,

I just posted on Matt's site this question. I have seen comments about everything being rolled out in the US first and then English speaking countries. It's a shame, they don't comment about their international roll outs.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Bob,

We do content marketing ourselves and here is something we have learned. If your PR is high enough and your article is niche enough, you will rank without any incoming links. See attachment.

I recommend you contact people that are interested in the topic and see if they have an article similar to yours but not quite as indepth. Chances are they will want to link to your niche article from theirs.

It worked for us. Thanks Carla

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Hi Daniel,

I do not recommend doing this at all. However what I do recommend you do is make it very obvious that you have a website per country or region. Upper right hand corner is a good place to do this. People travel a lot these days and it is very annoying to be forced to see a website because of your location.

Hi Jessy,

Well I am glad to see that I am not the only person with the same issue. I really delayed the whole submitting my competitors to Google spam but they continue to use black hat techniques. I will let you know if it works.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Jesse and Tuzzell,

We have several competitors that use constant black hat techniques. They have been doing this for over 2 years and for some reason the Google Algorithm updates are not taking effect. We have stuck to white hat techniques but are getting a bit impatient. For over 2 years our black hat competitors continue to outrank us. We waited 2 years before submitting them to Google Spam and the only reason we did it was because they have not stopped using black hat techniques. It's a bit frustrating. We are not going on a spam crusade...its more like helping Google do their job and testing the Argentina Google Spam team and learning more about SEO. BTW, we also submitted ourselves to the Google Spam Team about 2 years back to see if our links were in line with Google's policies.

Hope it makes sense...

Carla

We have submitted several really spammy websites to the Google spam team. We noticed they take a very long time to react to submissions. Do you know if it is possible to disavow a link that is not pointing to your website but rather to a very spammy website?

Thanks

Does anyone know if Google releases all algorithm updates worldwide or if they do it slowly across the globe? I have a SEO agency in Argentina and it does not seem like the algorithm updates hit us as they do in the USA. I’ll give you an example. Penguin 2.0 did not even create a dent in some really spammy websites that we watch.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Erwin,

I have been wondering about this myself. I am a believer that no-follows contribute but as co-citation, however I have no proof. Testing this theory would be fun.

Hi,

I ran into a similar issue while we were redesigning our site. This is what we did. We unblocked our site (we also had a user and password to avoid Google indexing it). We added the link to a Moz campaign. We were very careful not to share the URL (developing site) or put it anywhere where Google might find it quickly. Remember Google finds links from following other links. We did not submit the developing site to Google webmaster tools or Google analytics. We watched and waited for the Moz report to come in. When it did, we blocked the site again.

Hope this helps

Carla