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Also having this problem. Emailed help@moz.com.

Hello Bilal,

Instead of geo-locating through Google Webmaster Tools,  use "hreflang" to target your website to visitors in a certain region.

The rel="alternate" hreflang="x" annotations will help Google serve the correct language or regional URL to searchers. More information is provided here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077 and here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192&topic=2370587&ctx=topic.

Please let me know if this helps.

Simply creating the infographics won't create value for you. You have to go out and promote them to build social links e.g. tweets, shares, comments and links (when people share them).

Does this help?

Inhouse is cheaper for you in the long run but Agency allows you to draw upon another company's expertise and will usually cost a lot more.

Go online to some of the best SEO companies in your area and check out their career sections. You'll know how to write out the job description based on theirs.

Salary information is relatively easy to find. You can ask around or check out that SEOmoz Salary guide for SEOs and SEMs.

I recommend doing as the Bing Engineers say. Since you have the same content in both AJAX and non-AJAX, it is in your best interest to serve the content in a way that both Search Engine Crawlers and Users benefit.

The best way to do so is by sending Search Engines to the non-AJAX / static version and sending users to the AJAX version. I'm a little surprised that only Bing has a problem and Google does not for you because Google usually requires the AJAX Crawling Protocol in order to index AJAX.

Please let me know if this helps. I used to have an identical solution on one of my accounts and this resolved it.

The easy way to find out is by submitting a reconsideration request. The more difficult way is to audit your backlink profile and see if you built any shady links that violate their TOS. The EMD update might have caused your traffic to drop because I notice that you have an exact match domain.

Look into your analytics and see if you can identify the specific words that dropped in traffic.

Wait some time, it takes time for Google to cache your page after crawl. You should see it in a few weeks.

Yes keep shopping. You can get industry legends to work on your price for much less than that. I recommend asking for a proposal and a time frame from as many vendors as possible.

Let them know upfront that this is your budget and that you are not going a dime over. After you get 10 - 50 proposals, start picking out which ones are best for you and based on vendor fit. Don't go with people who are pushy or appear shady - you will regret it later.

Work with people with whom you have great chemistry with.

I recommend spot checking your website to see if these are indeed valid duplicate title and meta description tags. If they are not then you can let Google know that those issues are fixed through the console in Google Webmaster Tools.

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Very cool.

There are plugins to get around this issue such as VaultPress. No installation is 100% hack-proof - I'd ask your designers for instances where website.com/blog got hacked - because if your website is very popular and you are concerned about hacking, you should go with a more secure CMS like Drupal or an enterprise content management system.

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We prefer to have it in the first link. You want to avoid redirects as much as possible. I think it was MC who mentioned that you permanently lose 1% of your traffic every time there's a redirect but it works both ways for the crawler.

Good to see you here, we've met in person at Lauren's bday several years ago in SF. Do you work at SEOmoz fulltime now?

If you can tell me your niche or post your website URL, I can construct some linkbuilding footprints for you.

I use the following tools:

1. Xenu - identifies broken links
2. GSite Enterprise Crawler - identifies on page issues
3. Google Cache, Google Webmaster Tools - finds crawling issues
4. Scritch - finds server/platform type
5. Ahrefs, Majestic, OSE - for link diagnostics
6. SEO Book Bulk Server Header Tool

No problem JP. Glad we could help out. Feel free to reach out to us if you have specific questions on link building. We've trained many folks and are happy to help out.

Agency SEO but have worn all hats.

Use Xenu or Screaming Frog to find the pages that have broken links on your website. Just download and run and the end, it'll show you where they are located.

I haven't seen a .io in the English SERPs as well, why not register a .io and see if you can get it to rank. The test should take less than a month and if it ranks then you can consider redirecting it to your .io domain.

If you focus on brand building, then yes, you'll offset any losses. The EMD will pick out poor quality EMDs without the requisite quality content.

Also, the loss from the 301 is not a short term loss, it's a permanent loss.