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I'm curious to know what us MOZ folks have to say about an update on Google.

Article here: http://searchengineland.com/big-google-search-update-happening-chatter-thinks-258142

Any ideas?

Alan, it is an out-dated mind set.

It is good to supply external links to authoritative social portals belonging to the web portal.

/Chenzo

So if you haven't heard already - Larry Page released a statement regarding the newly founded company: Alphabet.

Crazy to think that the name hadn't even been used before for one but most importantly throughout his write up - there doesn't seem to be much clarity on what it is going to accomplish.

What are your ideas/thoughts moz heads?

https://abc.xyz/ - check it out.

/Chenzo

Most of you guys probably already know - but Google Panda 4.2 has began.

I would love to keep an open discussion regarding anyone who was affected by the last Panda update along with changes for the good/bad during this new roll out in addition to what vertical you are in.

PANDA TIME!

Your web therapist,

Chenzo

Toby a neat trick some of us old school SEO dudes use is:

Place "example of sentence from article" into Google and if it is being cached anywhere then you have your answer NOT to post it.

Web therapist,

Chenzo

Kelly,

You went from magento TO magento?

Did anyone use 301 re-directs during the build?

Your pal,

Chenzo

Nikola, are you using wordpress ?

What is the URL?

Web therapist,

Chenzo

Tanveer, forget it.

Let them know - Google's job is to find relevant, useful content and provide that to the consumer.

One of the best tactics to implement with an E-Commerce is provide 150-200ish of useful content about the product on unique pages for each which will increase the amount of "indexed" pages on the site which will in turn increase the sites value.

You have to get them to also consider producing AT LEAST an article once a week catering to their audience which then ties in their social media which I sure do hope they are at least investing in that as well.

Your pal,

Chenzo

If I make a blog about what Lawyers should know about say, new adwords changes or something like that, and then get links from PPC type blogs, would that help?

Negative, your best bet is to no rely on building links but useful, authentic content. Mentioning portals with great value and like minded vertical. Then once posted - mention them socially and through time - they and or other like minded sites will begin to reference you. Now, this does leave you open to the issue of reciprocal links - but algorithmically speaking - we may stimulate the 3 pro-dominant social back links - facebook, twitter, and google + ( while it lasts ;o)

What if I made a blog about top movies with lawyers in them or something like that, and just got links from non lawyer sites.

Once again, don't put your efforts in just link building - if it makes sense and you have done your SEO keywords analysis correctly - cater it to fit that market.

Most importantly - time is the most precious commodity in a URL's value.

Is that worth while?

I have many lead gen type sites and built them with knowledge of knowing they would take 8+ months to begin to gain traction and attention.

Hope this helps

Chenzo

Hey Ricardo - I could be wrong - but each one of the sub-domains may need to be listed as unique URL's tied to their own campaign.

Try it and see if it works - worth a shot.

Your pal,

Chenzo

Anyone have any recommendations for a stable/secure back up plug in for wordpress?

Thanks MoZzers

-Chenzo

The Mobile update coming out late April of this year...

Do you guys think that:

http://dudamobile.com/

Is a solid remedy to taking a Google mobile friendly?

-Chenzo

Dev,

1. What is the best way to regular check backlinks?

Open site explorer and or program called screaming frog.

2. what to do if a spammy link appears

There are a few tactics with not just only disavow angle, but also reaching out to the webmaster and using a few tactics I have come up with to get them into removing it.

3. What to do about directories that link to us

Same thing, reaching out to webmaster and using some tactics. ( If you want, reach out to me personally and I can share a few, but they took me years to perfect )

4. What to do with old links that are not good quality

If they are not spammy and are just low quality, I would recommend just keeping them.

So mozzers, you think we will get the truth on why facebook and Instagram went down once they get it back up?

so far their outrage has been almost an hour....

your pal,

chenzo

Very, very interesting Lewis!

​Howdy Mozzers,

I don't see this very often but figured I would share my findings, no surprise that I found a huge portal like

rottentomatoes.com ranking for the keyword: new on dvd , but for the last month or so - the page that is indexed for it is their "mobile" view. ( Screen Shot Attached )

I have a few ideas how you could go about fixing this - but just more of a conversation piece - have many of you ever seen such a thing - especially on a portal so big?

Your pal,

Chenzo

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I am looking to use a different sitemap generator that can do 5 thousand or more pages at once.

Any recommendations?

Thanks guys.

Hey guys - just so you know I got this today from a ghost on Moz.

Hello,
I like your profile in this moz.com community network and I think you are a nice person. Can we get in contact? I'm sorry if i am embarrassing you, I got curious to know you better after viewing your profile i think that i have something important to exchanged with you i shall explain more about myself including my pictures, please E-mail me to  not in this site because i am a new in this community and i don't visit this site often, I'd like to get to know you if you don't mind
Please i will Tell you more about my self
thanks & regardsFigured I would share and keep you up to date.Your pal,Chenzo

Anyone notice a while ago - the "more" drop down used to include "blogs" which really helped with finding like minded blogs for content marketing.

Anyone finding this frustrating and or find a solution?

I know they supply us with: http://www.google.com/blogsearch

Any other hints?

Your pal,

Chenzo

Anyone out there begin receiving this and or know when it started?

Google has recently began sending a new manual action spam notification to webmasters for “spammy structured markup” also known as rich snippet spam.

Your pal,

Chenzo