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Hi Colin! Did you see Colin and Robert's responses to your question? Please give us an update, thanks! (Christy)

This does help. Thank you for taking the time to answer!

Thanks, Tom! That's what I assumed, but very helpful to hear from someone more experienced.

Hi Colin, Just wondering, did you ever move to Lemonstand?  If so, how was the experience and would you recommend it? Thanks!

I am not a BBB fan. Here are some excerpts from an earlier thread, beginning with a post from me There is a decidedly less sunny view of the Better Business Bureau. It has been the subject of many journalistic exposes. Critics say it supresses consumer complaints for cash, acts as a shill for its paying members, and operates a pay for play scheme. The basic accusation is that it is a bad guy posing as a good guy. Wolfgang Puck and the Boston Ritz Carlton Hotel got failing grades. So did Disney World -- until it became a paying member. The Connecticut Attorney General opened an investgation at one point. See the ABC News 20/20 expose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw After a highly unflattering series of columns in the New York Times, The BBB tried to defend itself here http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/your-money/10haggler.html The BBB may have high domain authority. But whether it is wise for businesses to be associated with such an organization is quite another matter. i agree with a previous poster: local Chamber of Commerce directories are the way to go [image: ?ui=2&ik=5076cc97d9&view=att&th=137344f8f9416707&attid=0.1.2&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1]**Aaron Schinke **| July 5th, 2011 I have heard some of these horror stories as well. However I don't think the vast majority of people have. So, even if the BBB just passes the perception of trust along with the link juice it's probably worht it. Perception is reality. <a rel="nofollow">###### 2</a> <a rel="nofollow">###### 0</a> ReplyPermalink <a name="137344f8f9416707_jtc147147"> </a>[image: ?ui=2&ik=5076cc97d9&view=att&th=137344f8f9416707&attid=0.1.3&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1]**BathroomGetaways **| July 11th, 2011 I think part of the reason they get a bad rep is because just because you're not a member, doesn't mean you won't get turned in.  For instance, we had a hosting client that turned us in because we HAD to raise her hosting rates and she didn't feel she should have to pay (not very bright person was she).  So she complained to the BBB, despite the fact we're not a member.  We got a letter, we let them know how we resolved the issue, and they considered the matter CLOSED, and said we did everything we could do satisfy her. So my guess with many of the companies that have had the "pay for play" complaint, isn't that they were necessarily being strong-armed into paying to join, but that before they joined, they weren't resolving complaints because they probably didn't fully realize they had to. I agree the BBB walks the gray line, but lets not forget that 20/20 and other news outlets love to latch on to stories like that about big company or org messing with the little guy, and they are probably worse from a "bad standpoint" (20/20 and news outlets that is) than the BBB could ever dream of being. The media are whore's that will air anything they can.  The BBB, while not awesome, does provide a valuable service to both businesses and consumers.  What's the news media really do other than stir the pot for ratings? <a rel="nofollow"></a> But of course I'd be willing to reconsider my previous post. Perhaps the BBB would care to avail itself of my complaints resolution services? My fees are very reasonable. And everybody wins! This is a joke. I'm not serious. But the BBB is. Which is a problem. <a name="137344f8f9416707_jtc146406"> </a>[image: ?ui=2&ik=5076cc97d9&view=att&th=137344f8f9416707&attid=0.1.6&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1]**Djjinx13 **| July 1st, 2011 Hmmm I think the point of the post was in direct referece to the search engine marketing implications of BBB which is not only a powerful backlink, but as another poster pointed out it appears its "brand" gets a Google human "trust" bump which is understandable as Google always states they are about the user not the fringe opinons (not blasting your opinion.) Just stating that in consumers eyes the BBB is trustworthy ( i understand that is you point that it should not be) but once again the point I believe is the SEM benefits. Now in the future if consumers begin to gain your views that "trust" metric will begin to fall... But that is not today!!! and Today it appears in local search asepect a BBB link is good in consumers eyes and search enigne eyes so i see no reason if ROI justifies it one would not get it. once again just my opinion Edited by Djjinx13 on July 1st, 2011 at 6:16 am<a rel="nofollow"></a>

Couple hints - Do your content migration quick as possible. Use WordPress 'Site Maintainance' plug In. As mentioned before - your categories should go more than 3 levels deep. Remember correct permalink structure Of course keyword targeted meta tags for each product and page Most likely you will experience shift and gap between your rankings but if you will keep the same direction before - I would say you will be back in your prevent position after a 3.4 days and if you will use SEO plugins and will do everything correctly  - you will outperform your previous site greatly! Good luck with the new platform! Jungles

Since you don't care whether your sign-in page ever ranks well, and since the member content behind the paywall will never index/rank anyway, I don't think is a big issue, Jonathan. If you wanted to, you could "nofollow" the links to the paid content pages and you could set the signup page to "no-index". That would at least signal to the crawlers that the page isn't intended to be a viable content page of the site. Paul

Hi everyone, I'm doing some bad link cleaning. And am following this nice guide: https://moz.com/blog/bad-backlink-analysis-using-moz-link-explorer And there it says that "Because we aren't concerned with nofollow links, you will want to set the "follow" filter so that we only export followed links. " So does it really mean that I don't have to worry about nofollow links, even though they would be spammy, or some weird stuff like drug perscription anchors which for sure won't help me?  Or is it better to disavow those as well? (I would assume so).