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One thing you might consider doing is building some goodwill with people who are searching for that service and those who provide it. When Moz (then SEOmoz) decided to stop doing SEO consulting, we were still ranking really high for it and people thought that's what we did. Instead of just 404, we created our recommended companies page, which gave some goodwill and helped people out.

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I took a look at your site, and I ran a report in OpenSiteExplorer on your backlinks. It doesn't look at all like Penguin, like others suggested below.

My suggestions:

1. Take a look and see what your competitors are doing. If this is recent, we've definitely see fresh/newly updated content be pushed to the front of SERPs temporarily and then die back down to lower numbers.

2. Make sure your content is getting updated.

3. Your content looked pretty thin. While in the past ranking competitively for this term was pretty easy, when I did a search (granted even incognito, I'm in the US), I got many results from UK government sites and wikipedia ranked pretty highly. Without solid, uniquely interesting content and strong, relevant links, it'll be very hard to beat these sites.

Everyone's 301 redirect suggestions are correct. However, exact match domains may not be worth grabbing all of them for SEO. There's been lessening returns.

If you were going to canonicalize, you'd be canonicalizing to the comedian's own websites where the original bio about them probably lives. It can be tricky when using bios, since you want to make sure that's okay with the person. I'd suggest two things: 1) Either rewriting their bios and having them approve the bios before you post them on your site or 2) Adding other info about each comedian besides their regular bios that makes them unique.

Did some poking around, and it looks like the only solution is to log-in remotely to a computer that's running Windows.

All keyword rank tracking software, including Moz's, requires you to input the keywords yourself and then they will tell you if any pages (and which pages) are ranking the highest for that keyword. See attached screenshot from Moz Pro rank tracking inside campaigns. This is why in addition to ranking tracking, you need to do keyword research to populate this list of terms.

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Everyone has great suggestions!

It's also important to look at how that publication does links and make sure that you aren't pushing them to do something they won't do for anyone. Recently, I was working with a publication that was happy to link to how-to or further information articles, but did not want to link directly to any brand mentions.

It shouldn't matter at all. If you're worried the sites are low quality, you might consider no following, but press link pages are pretty common.

You'll likely end up confusing Google about which country it should rank the site in, and it could negatively affect your US rankings and still get you no traction in Germany. You really need to build a German site.

If the car is a completely new model, part of marketing's greater job is to create a market with PR and make it a keyword people were searching for. In 1995, no one was searching for Prius, for example.

When I've done SEO 101 talks, I've definitely used the Beginner's Guide as a guide to make sure I covered all the basics.

There's some impression, when it comes to customers/visitors, that .coms and other TLDs that we're "used" to are still more trustworthy. If you're second guessing it, you should probably go with your gut. You can always buy the .BID TLD and use it later.

If you can 301 redirect the events page to your recording of the webinar, that would be the ideal situation.

Eventually that expired domain will be removed from OSE and won't show as a backlink to your site. Every time we publish an Mozscape index, it's completely fresh and reverified link information. Hope this helps!

There's currently no issues on our end with our API. Since MozCheck.com is not actually run by us and runs by using our API, you'd have to contact them in order to understand what's up with their site. Sorry for not being able to give you better news.

putting on moderator hat You can totally leave the URL for your site. We have several adult site customers. We just ask that you, as you already have, leave a warning that it could be NSFW for some people due to the content. And having a direct example with URL will probably get you better answers from the community.

Unfortunately, we don't have an ETA for recognizing the new TLDs. This is something we're working on. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Bryan,

So we actually send Help questions directly to our team through Q&A too!

Google is super fast when it comes to the main, most important stuff on your domain. It's still indexing stuff from the old SEOmoz.org domain because we have a ton of pages! and frankly, some of them aren't very popular. We also made the decision not to redirect every single page and killed a ton of them. The less popular pages are lingering (though with the right 301 redirects, we're still getting that traffic to the still important to us pages) with SEOmoz.org, either waiting to be indexed at Moz.com or tossed out as they no longer exist.

For dealing with people who are scraping your site, make sure you have canonical tags implemented on your pages for your shiny new https site. Most scrapers steal the code, so they grab those too.

Unfortunately, not all the social networks can read 301 redirects. Everyone's hoping that as they grow, they will read 301s and keep social shares. Twitter seems to be able to read 301s, but not Facebook or the small networks. You actually have to change the code in the share buttons to leave them at the old URL. Read more about how to do this.

You may also chose which content is more important to keep those social shares and change the rest, just depending on your needs. Also consider how important showing those social shares are. If you only have a few, it might not be worth it and can actually harm people's opinion if your content has low shares.

Best of luck!