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This should also lend some perspective as to why SEOs typically recommend at least 250 unique words per page ...    I think with Google paying more attention to Main Content separate from supplemental, etc.  code uniqueness may be less relevant than it has been in the past... but overall, you should still strive to ensure your pages have a clear distinct purpose/value conveyed by the main content of the page that is easily distinguishable from other pages of your site.

Thanks! We'll fix that as fast as we can.

Thanks Ryan, definitely helpful but the law seems slightly vague. "Such consent may be implicit, such as by engaging in a transaction with a company, or by virtue of having one's telephone number or email address listed in a public directory." Sounds like we are technically allowed to email them about the site if they place an order, but at the same time I don't want t cross any boundaries that are frowned upon.

Hey there rush IMPRINT, great to see someone else from Pittsburgh on the SEOmoz forum. Since I represent Eyeflow I'm obviously biased.  We have been long-time SEOmoz members and typically recommend this website to anyone who wants to learn more about SEO as this site is a very honest and reliable source. We work to keep our own blog updated with great content as well. Learn More about us: History of Eyeflow Client Testimonials Case Studies If you need a few more reasons here's 5 more reasons why clients typically chose us. Our website has a lot more information as well as links to our profiles on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Look forward to hearing from you. I believe you'll find us very honest and passionate about SEO.

You could also share it on Google+. I plus oned a site of mine yesterday, and today it's indexred. It doesn't have any other links pointing to it.

The first thing you want to do is go into Yelp and claim your business. Make sure that you put as much info (don't go crazy with a ton of categories, etc. keep it simple) as is pertinent. Name of business, location, phone, hours, information, etc. Then, it is about getting reviews, etc. If you have clients who will go in and do this, ask them to. Hope it helps, PS After you do this, within a few days they will call to sell you advertising. We don't handle any clients it makes sense for (since it is based on impressions, etc) so we do not recommend it. If we were handling a restaurant it would interest me. Hope it helps

I agree...  If you hire somebody to get links for you... the week after you pay him he can go to one of your competitors and acquire a similar load of links... then you get a message from him.... "Need more links?  :-)"

Sorry I guess I misunderstood you! This sounds like a good technique and the IP address variety will not be a problem. Doing just one of these will be helpful for you as long as it is original content and you use the keyword properly. There is really no definite number of these that it will take to see a significant result but having any new original content will help your google rankings. Google likes to see original fresh content so as long as it's original, these will be helpful!

Not really - no, as long as the videos are technically on the same URL and your video sitemap references them only on the URL you want rich snippets for. If you'd rather go for a lightbox than a inline embed, then that's fine - but do be careful of the implementation here, as you still need Google to be able to see the video file in the source HTML, so normally a CSS only lightbox or a basic JavaScript trigger is much better than anything that pulls in the video dynamically with JS (which can often prevent the video getting indexed).

http://youtu.be/I5qZ9GrBf4w News sites frequently place their branding atop of the video.

I've only found one other question in Q&A that mentions Treepodia, from someone who has used it before. You might contact the author of http://www.seomoz.org/q/video-seo-youtube-vs-3rd-party-hosting-with-video-sitemap to see how it worked for them.

Yep, I would go with a 301 also. Keep that juice (or as much as you can muster).. you'll lose a little value in the transfer.. (5-15%), but it would be worth keeping it. Cheers!

Depending upon what products and services you are selling a video might work well.  I expect that it would be better for services where the potential client gets in touch with you by phone.  The video would give them an opportunity to learn about you before calling. If it was shopping cart transactions I would definitely land them on the product page with a buy button. However, the video might work well.  If you don't try it you never find out. One thing that they say about trying something that is very different.... that is how you kick things up an order of magnitude or learn what does not work. Good luck.

I think you need to ask yourself this: If you were doing this type of "shady" PPC marketing like your competitor is, and they found out about it, do you think they would be so kind as to not turn you in?

You do have a lot of pages, I will point out that you have some duplicate title tags, and pages without meta descriptions. Golf, Overseas, T-Shirts.. I would recommend running a Crawl Test as it will point out major issues like this. Site seems to provide a good user experience, very pleasant looking & easy to use, from there I guess you need to make sure you have done the SEO Basics. Hope that helps,

How can you use Mechanical Turk here in an ethical way?  Are the writers going to actually use your product?  I doubt it (unless it's an informational product, and you're giving it away to them for free?  You didn't really offer too much information). I agree with EGOL - if you don't ask for reviews, you wont get them.  In one of my businesses where this is relevant, we specifically ask for a review of the order process at the time of the order, on the thank you page.  We also email 24 hours later to solicit a review, and again 7 days later.  Anyone who actually does leave a review, we again hit them up for a social "share" or the review they just left.  Even with all of that, our review rate is only 1-2% of our customers.  Simply put, if you're not aggressively soliciting reviews, they're not going to happen. On a more functional level, make sure it's as easy as possible to actually write the review.  Facebook or twitter integration could make it easier, streamlining the login process (or skipping it altogether), or getting rid of captcha (this would obviously go hand in hand with manually deleting junk reviews, or disallowing links of any kind).

References are a good idea. Amazon astore will display products and pay you a commission.... very easy to set up.. and they can make good money...  http://astore.amazon.com/

First of all you want to check your Google Analytics account directly. The SEOmoz PRO platform only tracks organic (non-paid) traffic, and you also want to make sure your PRO campaign is attached to the right profile. You can double check your rankings for your top referring keywords (from Google Analytics). Make sure they haven't fallen. If they haven't, then it's unlikely Google is penalizing you for anything. Sometimes it's a matter of seasonal traffic fluctuations. This especially happens around the holidays. You can check Google Insights to see if your major keywords are seasonal. Also check your PRO campaign for any increase in errors, to make sure all your content can be indexed properly. Finally, sometimes your rankings, and your traffic, actually do drop. Freshen up your content, build good links and you should be on the road to recovery.