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Nice website.

I would spend much more time getting quality, pertinent backlinks for your site from creating good content pieces which people want to share/link to.

Do you use canonical urls throughout the site?

Yeah, hard it is hard to say without knowing what exactly is going on.

It is possible that at a small scale you may not see the potential issues rise up, but when you get over a certain traffic level the imperfections in the code may cause an issue.  You definitely don't want to have a slow server time as you increase the traffic, which generally speaking, could cause you an issue.

I hate to have the typical lawyer-esque type of response, but it all depends on your plan, traffic levels, etc, etc.

That's why I would identify what the issues are and then ask yourself, and other pros out there what potential issues it is going to cause, then quantify the potential cost impact (tangible and intangible - I think you must have a "pain in rear end" threshold) those issues may cause, then calculate how much time and cost it will take to correct the issues.  Then I would make the decision based on ROI when you consider all those factors.

If you have an issue in the coding that won't truly be an issue until you reach like 100,000 unique visitors per day, and you are only projecting having like 1,000 visitors a day, I would probably make a different decision than if the issue were going to show itself at 500 visitors per day and I am expecting 1,000.

Hope that helps!

Wow - that is tough.  I have been there when it comes to hiring coders, etc.

I am not 100% sure what they are saying is correct, so here is what I would do:

1. Get them to explicitly list what the issues are, one by one, line by line of code which they are claiming to be causing an issue

2. Shop it around to other developers, not the original ones (in my experience you will not get anywhere by doing this) and see if what they are claiming holds some validity.

Just saying that it isn't coded correctly isn't sufficient enough to make sweeping changes.  It needs to be quantified with a potential impact to the site also identified for each line item.

Your site loads pretty fast and as long as you have an XML sitemap submitted to Google, and a few other things going, I cannot imagine why it would be an issue.  It is already on the Wordpress platform which is quite a large percentage of the overall code base, but then again, you may have a number of plugins running, etc.

Is there any hard data to back that up?  Just curious if there has been a study done over a ton of pages, links, etc.

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You could probably write a macro to do this, although just because you could doesn't mean you should.  I don't think it is advisable because you do not want to violate any terms of use for anyone.  That is never a good thing.

Nice, thank you for pointing that one out!

I noticed this too, I think that the whole MOZ system is down for maintenance or something because OSE is also not up and working right now for me...

Just wait some time, I am sure it will come back online.

If you have users register for anything (like comments for example) then I would use https, or any kind of ecommerce.

Other than that, I don't think you pick up an advantage.

I cannot see why it would hurt to submit articles with fetch as google, but in general if you have a plugin controlling your XML sitemap, Google will get updated whenever something changes or something new is posted.  Fetch as Google will just make it happen faster than if you wait for the bot to come and crawl the site.

Check out Brian Dean at backlinko.com (I believe Brian is also here on MOZ) - he has some excellent ideas for getting links from quality sites with good content creation.  Actually, he has some of the best ideas I have seen in a while.

Hope that helps!

If you are searching for something more local, like say a real estate business for a certain town, you are probably going to get better results by searching yourself.

Clear out all of your cookies in your browser, as well as LSOs and all cached site data, then perform your search for each keyword in your browser.

I don't know for sure, but I believe there must be some kind of weighting that goes into where the geo-location of your IP address is so for something local, I have seen it have an impact in what gets displayed in the searches.

In my experience, I look at some statistics per page of the DA + PA because I believe that both matter in terms of how they rank.