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Within the Google Partners interface you can link your Google+ page (this is required for profile completion.)

Now, there are two types of Google+ page: brand, and local.

Question: Can a local business G+ page linked within the Google Partners interface, or does it have to be a Google+ Brand page? I'm getting errors when attempting to link a local page.

I'm thinking the issue may be that you cannot get the URL verification tick on G+ local pages, as per https://support.google.com/business/answer/4569085?p=link_page_to_website&rd=2 - assuming that the URL verification tick is required as part of the Partners/Plus link.

Can anyone comment on this?

Thanks!

Thank you both for the speedy reply. I've been using Rafflecopter to-date, but dayum, KingSumo looks nice.

Hi Mozzers,

I really like the look of the giveaway app Web Profits are using here: https://www.webprofits.com.au/blog/giveaways/moz/

Does anyone know what they're using for this? Or is a custom solution?

I tried asking directly but they're not really active on social.

Cheers!

This is actually what I had in mind, information overload I must have confused the source.

Thank you very much.

Was actually one of the first places I looked, his posts here, as well as on distilled. Great content, but not exactly the post I was after. Appreciate the response.

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for a specific video post I recall watching, i thought it was on moz.com, all about creating a decent set up for video production. It discussed things like lighting setup, sound, hardware on a budget etc.

I have searched the moz.com blog video tag archive, as well as the Q&A, but haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Cheers, Peter.

This is the feature I'm looking forward to most, bring it on!

I assumed the same, hoping for a reply from staff.

Thanks.

In the guide video (http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started) a report button is show. However, I cannot see this button in Moz Analytics.

I'm assuming this is due to the tool being in beta?

You may not like this answer as I'm not going to recommend some service which makes it easy to find quality blogs that will accept your content. Because that service does not exist. There are plenty of sites offering such services, but the quality of sites that partake are typically pretty sketchy. A few years ago this may have been an option, but now that guest posting has blown up, those sites are ineffective in my opinion.

If you want real results, you'll have to do some outreach to secure posts on awesome sites that aren't simply a free-for-all accepting posts from anyone. Of course, this means the content you put forward has to be equally, if not more awesome.

URL?

I would suggest sharing your tactics and results or just keeping it to yourself - not just boasting without any evidence or details, it just leads to skepticism.

You will be paying them to identify issues you could do yourself, assuming you had the time and ability. If you don't then you might need to pay someone to do that for you. But you should get a couple of quotes and get feedback on any company / service you consider.

Keep in mind they are not offering to do any of the leg work of getting low quality links removed, which is tough. You'll either need to learn how to do the outreach to get links removed, document it all, and file a reconsideration request or get someone to do those tasks as well.

If you do have the time, you should have a look through some recent SEOmoz panda/penguin guide posts and do it yourself. You'll learn a lot!

Good luck.

IMO If you want to recover from Panda, building content on crappy free-for-alls like Squidoo or Hubpages isn't the way to go.

If you're going to create some new unique content, make it awesome and post it on your own site OR create extra-awesome content and try and score a guest blog on an authority site in your niche.

Here are a couple of recent posts:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-and-operate-a-content-marketing-machine

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/creating-an-editorial-calendar-for-content-marketing/

There was another really good one recently I'll try and find to share.

So gald they are gone, it was extremely outdated and most of them were junk. People were still submitting to them due to the fact that they were on an SEOmoz list!

Checkout Raven Tools, sounds like it may be a good match for what you're after. It's a suite of SEO tools, including keyword research, ranking, competitive data etc.

From their Keyword Research Tools page (http://raventools.com/internet-marketing-tools/research-assistant/

How it works

The Raven Tools Research Assistant integrates third-party data from SEMRush, SEOmoz, Google AdWords and OpenCalais and its Alchemy API. For domains, the Research Assistant automatically reports metrics for organic and paid keywords, including rank, traffic, costs and volume. For pages, the Research Assistant extracts keywords from the page’s content and sort them by semantic type. And for keywords, the Research Assistant uncovers matching and related keywords and ranking URLs.

Track data in depth elsewhere

With one click, you can add keywords or competitors you uncover in the Research Assistant to the Raven Tools Keyword Manager, Competitor Manager and/or SERP Tracker.

It may have to do with the size of the index is tool is reporting from - obviously Google has a much larger index of the web and therefor can see more links.

You could use rel="canonical" back to the original post on the recruitment company site's job listing. And/Or a link back to the recruitment company site listing, 'this ad was originally posted on x recruitment site' - if they are using RSS feeds to distribute the job ads there are Wordpress plugins that can add this automatically, such as Yoast's SEO plugin.

I'd recommend the Adwords learning center if you feel confident enough after studying you can even take the Adwords exam(s) and get certified.

410 will kill the link equity. In cases similar to yours, I have implemented a 301 to the category page of the product removed. This gives users products similar to the one they were looking for, and retains link equity.