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If you mean this Q&A? I'm absolutely sure it's custom built with cakephp.

Update: We just built a plugin that sets a cookie for Adwords visitors and then allows you to display a different phone number to them (even if they leave and come back later). You can define how long the cookie persists, and if it should restart the 'timer' each time the visitor comes back.

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*If you try it, please let me know what you think and/or how we could improve it.

I definitely agree with you about one way links being better in general. However, if Google reduced 100% of the link value.. then blogs like SEOmoz wouldn't do well at all because they link back to tons of sites

This sounds completely legit to me.
Google just doesn't want you to exchange links for the sole purpose of manipulating search results.
But in your case, you both are giving each other brand exposure

You could ask for one way links, as those may be a bit more valuable.. but I wouldn't stress over it either way, you're on the right track IMO.

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Hey josey, unfortunately we don't get any extra access to the api with a pro membership. You can read more about it here.

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Hello qlkasdjfw,

I think it really depends on your niche. I don't particularly like Yahoo Answers because they are super well known, and are therefore more prone to spam. I try to find not-for-profit sites, local niche resource sites,  government directories (like the chamber of commerce) and some relevant social platforms (but interaction is the primary goal with these of course).

Hey Tim,

It's not a bad idea, but i'd try to balance both options.
What I mean is, I wouldn't remove your URL completely from everything...
but If you do, please write a youmoz about it and let everyone know your results

But yeah, it would be helpful for users if Google monitored demand for brand terms, and applied some kinda of precedence to those that have a growing demand. Be careful not to spam this yourself (I had a client try it before hiring us), because it would obviously be easy to detect.

Hey tommo, you are correct- and I understand your concern.

For rank tracking....
Yes, it is 'technically' against Google's guidelines to scrape for rankings, however- Google is very aware of SEOmoz, and has never publicly stated anything against them. (They did ask SEOmoz to stop reporting pagerank a few years back though.)

Although this is anecdotal and doesn't prove an endorsement.... at a lot of conferences, and on some whiteboard Fridays, Matt Cutts has been in touch with the Moz team. This puts me at some ease about Google penalizing all Moz users. After-all, this is an entirely white hat community

As for everything else besides 'rank tracking'...
seomoz uses linkscape, their proprietary crawler and index of the web. This means, whether you are signed up or not, they may still crawl your site (and probably will), because that's how OSE gets data to return in open site explorer.

One final point to keep in mind...
SEOmoz uses several data centers around the US, so using their rank tracking would lead back to them, not you. Anyone could just as easily track your rankings as you could, so how would Google know to penalize you? They really couldn't because otherwise, all you'd have to do is setup a campaign for your competitors and watch their rankings fall.

If you're super concerned, you could use everything in the web app besides rank tracking, and you'd have absolutely nothing to worry about
(and the price would still be worth it- in my opinion).

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Please Note, I am completely white hat, and if I had once ounce of suspicion that search engines frowned on the rank tracker in the web app, I'd stop using the rank tracker. And that's a decision everyone needs to make for themselves. Above all else, I study the hell out of webmaster guidelines and try to follow every rule and piece of advice that I can.

Hey Dunamis, Yes!

We actually do this for our customers' sites and their competitors' sites. It's a great way to stay 'in tuned'

1. trafikant wrote a post about how to get new backlinks in your RSS reader, and

2) neboweb wrote a more detailed post about monitoring for web mentions with Yahoo Pipes

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Hablo un poquito español, pero he utilizado Google traductor 
Pero me gustaría seguir en contacto, por lo que puedo mejorar mi español.

Pete Wailes wrote a great guide to Google's search parameters on SEOmoz.

That should get you started off pretty well

Nope. Sorry. Google can crawl CSS, so anything you do to hide text (z-index, position:relative, etc) is easily detectable (Google can even parse javascript).

Now, sometimes you can get away with such things, like in a drop down menu for example. But if you do it, be sure to use the standards from a site that is well indexed.

You're right, I was looking at that to... hahaha. From my experience though, It's better to have one link.. maybe not much better, but at least a little bit.

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Great question. I recently worked on a site with exact same layout, and I chose the first one.

I think it's better for users because they won't have to 'think' about which one they should they click. It's also a bit easier to maintain, so you can focus resources elsewhere.

Hey Jonathan,

Chris is right. I strongly recommend:

1. use the alt tag (and don't hide text)

2. use descriptive names for images

3. use text links along with the images

A great example is http://www.etsy.com/category/jewelry
(except they didn't name the images very well)

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Hey Todd, thanks.

While I definitely agree about having tightly themed categories, I'm not quite sure I am sold on using a silo. Correct me if I'm wrong here please, but isn't a silo when you don't cross link detail pages (within the same category) with each other? I think Alan feels the same way, or perhaps I've misunderstood.

Check this post about the importance of link architecture by Google. Specifically, the last Q&A.

Hey totalvac, The markup goes throughout your page. Here's the getting starter guide for schema.org.

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Hey EGOL, thanks. I've actually not thought about it for articles! Perhaps we could share an example with each other?