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So a basic LinkedIn account is free. A paid account can do things like promote job openings, filled out more in a company page profile, see certain contact info, and see who's visiting your personal profile. But most people are just happy with the basic.

Here are so reasons why people have LinkedIn / ways people use LinkedIn:

• You have a whole bunch of business contacts that want to connect on social media, but you want your Facebook only for family/friends.
• As a business owner, you want to advertise for jobs on another network.
• You're a B2B business.
• You want to be seen as an expert in your business field. LinkedIn has lots of groups and q&a which help build that type of reputation.
• Even if you're not B2B, you target people in a certain business field.
• You want to promote your company's growth business wise to a professional environment on a page.

Of course, there are many more reasons. Hope this helps!

301s will not pass all the link juice. But they will pass most of it.

What Justin said! And yes, 301's pass 95-99% of all link juice.

We do cache the pages for quicker loading. This means that you'll sometimes see a lag in MozPoints updating.

Yeah, unfortunately, the decision was made -- as part of the hype -- not to mix the message to say that PRO users didn't need to sign up for the waiting list.

There are a lot of factors to consider what you want to do with it. Personally, I tend to stray away from microsites due to 1) it's a lot of work for a team to build out more than one site & keep it maintained and 2) as far as the linking aspect, Google is getting smarter to tell who owns what domains, who owns the same domains, and how they're linked.

Yes, if you have a site under 5k pages, it's considered a small site and you should optimize each page. Obviously, you want to start with the most highly trafficked ones and work from there. But especially in e-commerce, working on your product pages can really distinguish you from your competitors.

I'd go in and change the structure in WP and then 301 the old URLs with the redirect. Then your new posts going forward will only have the cleaned up URL structure and the old ones will be properly 301'd for all the SEO goodness.

I'd definitely keep the video.

Instead, I would 1) make sure your video is completely optimized (transcript, video sitemap, etc.); 2) build more links (and more legit than your competitors); and 3) freshness of page is a huge factor since Google's Freshness update.

It looks like there's something going on oddly with your redirects. I'd be double checking that those redirects are indeed 301s so they're picking up the current meta description (along with the rest of the info!). While on the user end, it looks great, the bots are getting different signals.

I also noticed that I was able to get this page: http://www.efurniturehouse.com/full-over-full-bunk-beds/
Which your current page is at http://www.efurniturehouse.com/full-over-full-bunk-beds-1/

The reason that your site's not being indexed is because your robots.txt file is blocking (see: disallow) bots from searching it.

Moz's index isn't a complete view of the web, but we try to crawl quality sites out there. Our index is always growing. But to be frank, no one -- not even Google -- crawls the entire web. There are just too many pages out there and computing power is expensive. Google crawls the most links simply because Google is a bigger company with more money and more servers and more engineers and who's business depends on serving web pages to everyone.

At Moz, we focus on quality sites because we believe (and hope) our customers and community are focusing on high quality links that are still active, which are going to give them the best SEO results. (Also a huge part of the web is just spam nonsense.) Many SEOs -- and I include myself here -- will use multiple sources of link indexing for the broadest view of the web and their sites. I use Moz's OSE and Google Webmaster Tools (free and big, but includes lots of spam, which can be great if you're fighting a Penguin penalty). Others will use OSE, GWT, and OSE competitors like Majestic and Ahrefs, especially if link building is huge for them and they want to account for every penny. Every index is a bit different.

URLs always help our community come up with more specific answers for your site!

Hi!

My first comment on our rebrand on social from SEOmoz to Moz is to be prepared. We knew about a year before this was happening, which gave us a lot of time to make connections and make sure we had the proper assets for the switch.

Facebook: They do have a place where you can file to switch your account name if you have over 200 likes. At the time, we had an ad accounts manager, so we reached out to them that way about our rebrand. They had to do everything on their backend for us. We gave them the instructions and the time we wanted it switched and magic. Then we, of course, had to update our information and pretty graphics.

Twitter: We secured the @Moz Twitter handle probably a year or more before we actually transitioned to it. We did let Twitter know we were doing this -- only in that it might've been risk if someone was 2 seconds faster to the draw than me and we have a verified account, which the continuation of that helped secure our branding and build a trust. To keep all our followers and such, we just changed the @Moz to something different temporarily, changed @SEOmoz to @Moz, and then the original @Moz to @SEOmoz. We wanted to keep the old @SEOmoz one for branding, to keep it out of squatters' hands, and because people still tweet at us via it. The only thing Twitter really helped us about with was the re-verification once we were @Moz.

LinkedIn Groups: Simple rename in their interface.

LinkedIn Company Page: You cannot change a company page name, and our efforts to reach out to someone from LinkedIn were not fruitful. We had to start an entire new page, which meant that we lost any of the followers there that we had before. Note: If your brand is 3 characters or less, you may have trouble when you get all your employees to change their employer on their personal profiles as it won't populate in the drop-down. After a few weeks and lots of Mozzer support tickets, they came up with a solution for us.

Pinterest: You can change the name in their interface.

YouTube: We actually already had our post-rebrand name over there. You can change it, but currently, YouTube has issues if you try also to reclaim your old brand.

In the end, we only really lost followers in LinkedIn as we were able to easily rename everything else instead of create a new account there. And Ruth, our SEO, rocked the proper 301s on our site so all our old links were pointing to the proper places. And our web team changed all our social buttons to the new URLs and names.

Hope this helps you on your rebrand!

Getting you some help for direct advice on your problem, but wanted to leave a comment about the tool itself. When you are looking at the Moz crawl tool, it only updates once a week, so if there hasn't been that long between the last crawl and when you did the work, it won't be updated. Here's more info.

If you canonicalized the pages correct and added pagination clearly, I wouldn't worry about the errors in crawl. I know one of the most requested features for our crawl errors is the ability to ignore some of the errors. Make sure your voice is added in our request a feature.

For canonicalization and pagination:

The best thing to do is have a "view all" page and rel=canonical to that page from your series pages.  However, if you don't have a view all page, then you can put these nifty rel="next" and rel="prev" tags in to let Google know your page has pagination and where the next and previous pages are.

@Architechs - You'll need to follow up with help@moz.com as I'm no longer a staff member.

I'd check to make sure your 301s were done correctly. If they are showing up as soft 404s, they are probably implemented wrong.

Hi Bodie,

Sorry about the delay on the MozCon videos. Our development team's working on the last step of making sure that you'll actually be able to purchase them, and then we'll be releasing them. We're hoping maybe for this week.

Thanks