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Hi Grant,

There are multiple ways of going about this I am sure, but here is my take.

To me, this sort of depends on the content of all 4 tabs and if they are relevant and valuable for the user on this page. Here are a couple of questions to ask yourself:

• Does the user really want to load a new page to see a small section what may or may not have belonged on the previous page?
• Does it make since for a user to go to a new page? (is there a ton of content in these sections)
• Is each section targeting a new keyword, or supporting the main keyword?

jQuery + CSS will be just fine

As long as your developer knows what he is doing, loading jQuery(or better yet pure css) tabs Google will index all of the content on this page. Google should see sitename.com/listing-name#section1 as sitename.com/listing-name. Just make sure the code structure is setup to support any content hierarchy.

**../listing-type/listing-name/ vs ../listing-name/ **

I think this could come down to what these listings are.. If this was say a real estate website it would make since to set it up like:

• ../house/123-main-st/
• ../apartment/432-main-st/

If it makes since to add a listing type I say go for it.

Again, this can differ for what type of content you are providing, but this should provide you with a good sense of general direction.

Thanks,

Casey

Hi matt,

The update for January was smaller than usual, we noticed also. They also state sometimes it can take up to 2 update cycles for links to be found and included.

Here is a post by Rand on the "interim linkscape update" http://www.seomoz.org/blog/interim-linkscape-update-for-january

We try to get 3-4 per month per client - each "outreacher" has about 3-4 clients they work on actively. We found that its also easier to hire & train professional writers/social media people to do this job, not only can they create good relationships through good email and status writing, but they can also write the content for the blogs itself.

Hi Bob,

A friend of mine once described it to me like this...

Say your selling your house, where your house is your domain authority, your rooms are your page authority.

You have a great big nice house. Every room is in great condition, freshly remodeled, etc.... EXCEPT the kitchen! Your house is still great, but the value has certainty dropped because of your bad kitchen. In fact, some buyers are even turned off because of your bad kitchen.

Same goes for the other way around... If you have a broken down house in the ghetto but you have a killer master bedroom no one wants to buy your house.

If that didn't make sense, you want to get that ideal house with great rooms.

I guess the answer to your question is DA is important and to ideally find link opportunities with good DA and PA.

Its not going to hurt you, but its not going to benefit you as much just targeting PA

You will not be penalized for using the word "free" in your metadata. Just make sure you have something free to offer and your description is not mis-leading.

Rich,

How old are those links? OSE updates roughly once a month, and its said it can take up to 2 index periods for your links to show up, if they are relatively new, this is the reason for this. You can check the linkscape update schedule here.

I know it can be frustrating for newer sites, you want to see the are showing up, but be patient. When they do show up in OSE the data you get is better than any other service we use.

No, at this point all it is doing is giving your competitors a clearer picture of what your targeting. There is no current weight for meta keywords.

As a matter of fact, SEOmoz's on page report card advises you to "Avoid Using Meta Keywords Tag"

If you wanted to keep the tag based archives, you could always noindex the tag archives. With WordPress, you can do that with ease with the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. That will solve your problem without needing to delete your tag archives.

Pull up Google and do not hit enter. There are a ton of long-tail keywords that your customers are searching for. At first glance the competition are all sites like yours also, not amazon, target or etsy.

I typed in "wall decals for" just to see what the auto suggest came up with(see attached image). Just those 4 suggested terms come back with 7780 exact monthly searches in Google's keyword tool and I havent even scratched the surface yet on suggested terms.

Hope that helped!

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We have never had any negative SEO effects from this. Just make sure you handle it the correct way - its a bit more than just uploading a ttf file. Use either Google fonts or a create your own "kit" with font squirrel which converts your font to all of the necessary files and gives you the sample css and html codes to implement it correctly.

Here are a few resources:

@font-face generator: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

Google Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts

They can absolutely have a positive effect to support your SEO efforts. One thing I feel you should know is though, simply using a service like Piktochart and some of the other infographic creators and slapping together something quick isn't going to give you the results you are looking for.

I would recommend designing a custom infographic from scratch - or hiring a designer to do it for you after you provide him with a creative brief.

You also need to think of your plans on how you will distribute the infographic. Here is a great youmoz post on how to push an infographic - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-push-an-infographic

Do those other free tools allow you to save campaigns, have automatic weekly custom PDF reports sent to your email, and pull social data all in one place? Probably not, that right there is worth more than $99 to me

Hi Ryan,

The best place to start is obviously the Google Keyword tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal . There are soooo many ways to to research and come up with keyword combinations, but for local keywords the Google keyword tool will be just fine as you usually arent targeting more than 20.

So lets take the word "lawn services" and "Allentown, PA" and combine them, now you have:

• Allentown PA lawn services
• Allentown lawn services
• lawn services Allentown
• lawn services Allentown PA

I usually start off with doing this for my initial "top of my head keywords", and also include any relevant surrounding cities. You can make a huge list like this easily in excel.

Plug these into the google keyword tool - make sure you select "Exact Match" from the left column.

From here you can now see the estimated search traffic - note, there has been some debate to how accurate this is, but you can still see what keywords are searched more than others. You can also see any related terms and ideas which are usually helpful in growing your keyword list. If you see a related keyword idea, do the same as you did before with the geo variations before and after.

Other tools which will help you come up with keyword variations before you plug them into Google Keyword tool:

http://soovle.com/

http://ubersuggest.org/

I hope this helps.

Hi Mark,

This will not hurt your SEO at all, here is a video from Matt Cutts explaining the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A1iRY6XTM

Hope that helps!

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Yes, they will be branded SEOmoz for the pro plan. With the pro plus plan they wont be.

If you do however copy their .PDF reports into Photoshop its pretty easy to just cut/paste your logo. But it takes a bit of manual labor.

There could be a number of reasons that it is not showing up in Open Site Explorer. OSE is updated roughly every 30 days, and it may take up to 2 updates for your link to show up in OSE. You can read more on how Open Site Explorer crawls the web and get a few tips on "why isn't there any link data for mu URL" at http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/about#why-isn-t-there-any-link-data-for-my-url

A couple of reasons on why it wouldnt show up (assuming you have waited 2 update cycles):

• There is a problem with the page blocking the crawlers
• There are no links or any way for the crawlers to find the page your link is on. (In this case you have to wonder how valuable this link is anyways. If you think it is of value, submit it to digg or stumbleupon to give it a link for the crawler to find in the next update)

Here is a link to start, they may just provide lawn care, but look at all of these variations: http://ubersuggest.org/?source=web&query=lawn+care&language=English%2FUSA&format=html

I would make one page going after 1 set of keywords (though only 2 or 3 MAX). Never create more than one page that may compete with another page on your site.

You may have one page on lawn care Allentown, PA, and other pages on:

• Lawn care tips
• winter lawn care
• summer lawn care
• lawn care service
• lawn maintenance
• lawn care quote

Etc, etc... Some of those pages make since to combine on one page like "lawn care service" & "lawn maintenance". Just make sure it works for not just Google, but the user also.

Assuming your using WordPress for your blog, you can get the latest posts with get_posts http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

Either just displaying the_title or the_excerpt will be just fine for SEO

Hi roberthseo,

It seems like sometimes it can take OSE 2-3 index updates before some links are included in the index.

But since your profile is from April, I would guess it is because your profile link may be to buried on CrunchBase for the OSE crawler to find. Build a few links to your profile page and it will show up in the next update or two.

Hi Simon,

What about when you have a average site no one really cares about, but on this average site they have a page with really awesome content and it looks like this:

• http://www.boringsite.com/ - 30 inbound links
• http://www.boringsite.com/really-awesome-content/ - 3000 inbound links

Would that not make sense? Will Google still see that as un natural, or will they know the reason for the link discrepancies?

Thanks,

Casey