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I have a potential client that is looking to change their domain for branding reasons, but does not want to lose their solid SERP position.  I'm not concerned about links continuing to pass juice as he was (though I am concerned about the link profile).

What I am concerned about is domain age (moving from a 4 year old domain to one that has just been parked for 4 years but not used, or one that is currently just a redirect to his site), and the fact that his current URL is an EMD.  He is using his state (only really does work there), plus two solid keywords in the domain, and wants to switch to brand name with one of the two solid keywords he was using.

My initial thought is "if it's not broke, don't fix it."   How worried should I be about rankings if we change this domain.

Thanks for the help, and fire back any questions.  Sorry I'm a little vague.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help!

I am currently working on a site in Joomla (2.5) and continue to run across issues with titles.  Currently, the site is set to display the page title just over the content.  Turning this off really is not an option, as it is necessary to keep these titles as part of the content.  Right now, my page titles are not well optimized.

What I would like to have is a separate meta title used for SEO purposes, similar to what a plugin like Yoast would do in WordPress - where there is a name for a page (often used in content as well), but a meta title that is used by Google.

Hope that makes sense.  If anyone knows of a plugin that may be helpful, that would be great.  Thanks!

Okay, so my caution was well-founded.  Thanks for helping me feel sane.

I really appreciate your input on this one guys.  Thank you!

I was talking to someone about automatic directory submissions with someone lately, and would love the thoughts of the community here.

Basically, the thought was that automatic directory submissions wouldn't get flagged by Google, because they're directories, not necessarily spam links. Is this still true in a post-penguin world?  He hasn't seen any negative effects from it yet, but I'm still cautious.

My thoughts would be not to depend on the automatic submissions, but to use them as a supplement.  If a handful (maybe 50/mo) of directory links could be submitted automatically, that could free up more time for content development and promotion, which is where I believe the real value lies.  It would also help skeptical clients feel better about having a certain number of links.

So, what have you seen so far?  Is this dangerous, safe, or fairly pointless?

That was terribly unclear, I apologized.

We linked to a new blog post from our Facebook page.  Posted through Hootsuite, but that's never been an issue before.

Because it's a fan page, there are no followers, and the same number of "likes."

Thanks for the help.

We put a blog post up on our Facebook page earlier today.  Within an hour, there were 560 likes and over 4,000 comments.  While that sounds great, that is nowhere in the universe of normal.  Almost all of that was spam (there were no services that we engaged in to bring likes/comments).

So, has anyone else here been hit by rapid-fire Facebook spam?  Any thoughts on what to do - leave it alone, delete the post, filters, etc.?

Would love the advice of the Moz community.  Thanks guys!

If you're using Yoast, it will set up rel=canonical automatically.  That's not a bad thing, it's just letting you know just to give you a heads up.  Don't worry about that.

I think it's fine to promote.  One thing I would do, just to make sure your 404 errors are taken care of, it install webmaster tools (if you haven't already) and make sure no other 404 errors come up.

Looks good though!

Not sure exactly what you mean.  Are you asking if the blog looks good enough to start promoting, or specific advice for where to go from here?

Let us know.  We're happy to help!

And, if I understand right, yes you want keywords in your title tag.  That's one of the most significant on-page factors you can utilize.

How useful are you finding blog commenting to be regarding link building?  I was having a discussion with someone about this today, and I thought some input from the Moz community may be helpful.

How helpful do you find blog commenting to be in link building?

Do you have any evidence of effectiveness/ineffectiveness?

Is it something you still currently do (for link building)?

Any input is appreciated.  Thanks guys!

Yeah, that's what I figured.  I figured I'd throw it out there just in case though

thank you.