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Hi Sherwood, We haven't had any recent reports of this behaviour. Have you tried logging out, then clearing you cache beyond your cookies before logging back in? Please also check you're not booking Moz cookies. If you're still having trouble please send details of your OS, browser version, and screenshots/screencasts of this behaviour, if you're able to capture it, to help@moz.com Thanks! Jo

You'll get denied if the settings of the post aren't completely public. If for whatever reason that person doesn't share the post to the world, you won't be able to share it with everyone and it will have limited view on your wall. Hope that helps!

OK, found it three seconds after posting the questions.  Duh.

Short answer: Highly doubt it. Long answer: I haven't seen anything from any of the ranking factors Moz, or anyone else produces, that would indicate so. And under normal linking I can't imagine a situation that would cause a User based issue (like increased bounces because you got launched in another window), unless it's really excessive. For example, I deal with professional photographers sites, and they sometimes have a portfolio site, and a blog, and sometimes they are two different systems with two different experiences and often times open the other in a new window. That is very annoying and a can kill a user's experience and they end up with high bounce rates. I think if you're just sending links to other useful sites, target="_blank" is perfectly fine to use. I do it on my site all the time.

Cool post Phil. Also, you look like a bad-ass musketeer.

Glad to hear Chris! Have a great day

Just a quick follow up, I isolated the problem.  WordPress was stripping the rel=author that I had included in the link.  I have since upgraded to WP 3.6.1 and I don't know if it was that or something else, but WP is no longer stripping the rel=author.

Thanks, Dan, your comments and links were useful. Best, Christopher

Hi Christopher Don't worry about the high bounce rate, most single page blogs face the same problem and it won't affect PR... I would however suggest that somewhere on the page you link off to other relevant content. This will encourage users to browse your website giving you more engagement and reducing your bounce rate at the same time! Steve

Our site though does keep a timer on a active session so that once it reaches the range of several hours it will log you out automatically to keep your session secure. The system is logging me out every few hours. In the past, I thought I could browse the web all day without having to repeatedly login to the Mozbar.  Is my memory that bad that i don't correctly recall the previous behavior?

I have figured this out so I'll provide the answer to clean up this thread.  The Product menu shows the products that have been reviewed with the count for each product.  When the Yotpo account is initially created, there are no reviews, so the system randomly selects four products and the count for each is 0.  When product reviews are posted by customers, this list will change accordingly. Thus far Yotpo is working great.  The person verification using social media accounts and the ability to post reviews to social media outlets like FB and Twitter are great features. Best, Christopher

Checking the news today. The gentlemen apparently did received the $500. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100976139

The viral lift sometimes, it really depends on the company and what the prize is. The company I do it for has a unique product that has a pretty big following. So people organically review it as good and write blog posts about it. We have never promoted any with money per se. One thing I have found that works really really well is blogging. If there is a blogger in the market that has a lot of followers and they can be paid or given free product to make a blog post about the giveaway (along with a fb post and a tweet). Then that can work out well. We saw one balloon from 500 people entered to 3k people entered in one day because of that. I don't tend to recommend paid ads, I like the subversive paid blog post, where people do not realize it is "sponsored". I feel people tend to believe it more and have found it works out better.

Hi Christopher, This is a known issue, we have a fix in place that allows you to move the toolbar to different places, but we know this is not perfect. The reason it functions differently to FF is Chrome treats extensions as part of the page (i.e. you 'inject' the HTML/CSS/Javascript) into the page, where an FF extensions get their own section of the header.  This causes complexity when it comes to the 'injected' code interacting with the existing page, resulting in annoying issues like hidden pages, and javascript errors. We have some ideas about how we want to address this in a future, for example, we have talked about having a more solid concept of on/off, perhaps activated by the browser extension button, and maybe a blacklist of sites that it would automatically turn off for (e.g. GMail, JIRA).  Watch this space.... If you have any ideas I would love to hear them! Jon Jon

Thanks for mentioning our Content Strength Audit. I would of suggested Wordpress SEO for the easiest solution to this problem but It seems it's already been suggested and seems you're using it.

One that no one has mentioned is Olark. It is a website chat program. You can use pigeon to communicate with people, but it ups up an an alert every time someone lands on the site. It tells the user agent and a bit of information about them. Plus you can initiate a chat with them if you want to.

Thanks for the quick response.  I've been reviewing the rules and some incentives are allowed and others are not.  For example, I think you can reward likes but not posts though I'm not yet an expert on what is and is not allowed. I've used several contest apps in the past (e.g. WildFire and SocialAppsHQ).  Would be interested to know if MOZ users have experience with other similar apps or have rolled their own apps. Best, Christopher

Thanks, David, I've been testing Raven Tools for the past month.  I really like the ability to not only monitor many types of social accounts, but the ability to post to a variety of social accounts from within one centralized tool. Best, Christopher

There's no relevance nor context for these links. It's linkbuilding instead of link earning, so I wouldn't do it.