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I saw it mentioned in another topic and tried it out today. I like the 'numbers' approach they take, and I'm probably going to use their data someday. Their tools are good, but they're a bit light on interpretation and calls to action. This is fine for me, but might be less useful to someone just starting out in SEO/not familiar with the technical aspects of the field (e.g. most small business owners doing self SEO), which is where SEOMoz shines I think.

Hi Mark, They have business pages - see http://www.google.com/+/business/ You basically create a business page under an existing personal G+ account. Thanks, Brad

I can tell you that the impact from some high-quality blogs will be to delete your comment if you're using your keywords as your name. There was recently an entire post on this at http://ariherzog.com/and-blog-comment-spam-continues/

So I've heard. And I don't believe it's generally a hosted solution - don't you have to host Magento yourself?

The about and contact pages could be good for reputation management. Write about your staff, and you have one more positive result for their name in a SERP.

Answering my own question - eventually found another tool - it's amazing how many tools just piggyback off SEMoz OSE - and also discovered that I could find the site if I dropped the www. Thanks, Mark

Hi Mark, My understanding is having Nofollow links will dilute the juice this passed to the dofollow links. You can read more on that on from Rand.. here I will veer off a little from what Mark said in that having the navigation in the footer as well as the top header area, maybe okay if the site warrants it. Most all cases I would follow Mark's advice, but in a case where the navigation in the bottom can be perceived has "helpful" to the user, then it would be okay to use it there as well. In the end you can't always do everything that is considered "Good SEO Practices" simply because it helps your SEO, you must also follow good site design and useability practices. If having the navigation in the footer helps the user, and is aesthetically pleasing then I would say it is okay. The real trick of course is to merge Good SEO with both aesthetics and useability. Hope that helps, Don

Great call, EGOL. Second page of Google images. Thanks, Mark

Can't they change it to a human-friendly form? I don't think it's beneficial for SEO. Google strives for being human-friendly. Your client should move into the same direction.

You can't really avoid doing the math to figure out the probability that the better ad is actually besting the older ad.  It's a function of both the impressions and clicks so it's not easy to eyeball.  I threw together a little spreadsheet that should do the math for you if you put in the click and impression data.  I checked it with some data and I think it's working. It'll calculate whether we're 90% sure, and 95% sure which is better.  Just put in your ad numbers and you should be good to go!  Usually, if the 90% variation matches up with my expectations, I go with it.  Otherwise, you might wait for 95% just to be sure. My worksheet: http://www.mediafire.com/?pmu2mc6n5f6vw5s A/B testing people deal with confidence intervals all the time, so they know their stuff.  Here's some reading about it if you're interested: http://support.optimizely.com/kb/advanced/what-does-chance-to-beat-baseline-actually-mean http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/what-you-really-need-to-know-about-mathematics-of-ab-split-testing/ Hope this helps!

I think that this is a good way to sample the traffic.

Hi, Did you use Bing Webmaster Tools ? If no just sign in, add a site, go to Index --> Submit url's and eventually add your site url's. It really helps it's like pushing Bing to index your site url's. I use it for every page despite Bing is not popular search engine in Poland - where I come from Good luck! Marek PS. BTW I worked for biggest leasing equipment company in Poland for 15 years and still work for leasing industry, now as a consultant. WOW! world is so small

Oh - and it's affect the domain negatively.. when cleaning up your site directories via robots.txt. Its actually better as I explained below

I had a quick scan thought the article and it looks likethey are talking from a usability aspect. I am talking from a link juice aspect. Page rank passes only 85% thought a link, so if the home page passes PR of 1 thought each of its likes, the a page one click away only gets 0.85, 2 clicks 0.72, 3 clicks 0.61, 4 clicks 0.52. It gets a bit more complicated when the pages link back to the home page, theough dopnt pass back as much either. i have a simple explaination here. http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank And her is a caculator that you can ry to see how it workes out. http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php

There was a school of thought a number of years ago that thought that Google would ignore the fact that there were no spaces between two words - and for some phrases that are not as highly contested, you might find this is still the case - but I can't think of any occurrences of anything that I am working with now where concatenated words will yield the same or better results - separate the words wherever possible. Andy

I'm also seeing it in position 10. However in a scenario where this would be outranking another domain some things to consider: Facebook is a high authority site. That gives it a nice initial bump. The page appears to be liked some 500ish times. If a portion of the users who like that page have thier profiles set to public, google can see those internal links from thier pages to that page. Facebook does not no-follow internal links. So if a portion of the public pages linking in also have a decent amount of links going to thier page (ie they have a lot of friends on facebook or they've heavily linked to their facebook page from a decent blog or something like that) you get a ton of juice flowing into that page all with exact match anchor. When we do reputation management for some of our clients we actively use some of these exact things to boost pages on social platforms but we learned the tactic from observing this as a natural phenomenon.