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So I couldn't find anyway to remove likes that wasn't super manual. Looks like generally Facebook notices what's up and then deletes them all as spam accounts. I'd consider starting over, especially with that few likes. Unless you really need that brand name. I did find a how-to on creating a macro in order to remove likes. Not sure how well it works, so beware.

I also suggest using a service like bit.ly for shortening URLs & grabbing your own custom, even shorter domain. At Moz, we have mz.cm, which lets us get even smaller on Twitter and the link.

Any traffic coming into your site, you can track on GA. You probably want to set up custom tags and do some filters for what campaigns you're running.

At their basics, URL shortners are a 301 redirect. So if you really wanted to do the extra work, you could have a 301 redirect of say http://example.com/awesome to http://example.com/mysiteisrad/everyonelovesit/youarecool. It's just easier to use a 3rd party -- and since you own the domain and are pointing the traffic to the site you own, you can track it in GA -- like bit.ly to do the heavy lifting for you.

You want to be careful about duplicate content doing that. Your site's going to be easier to control the meta tags and such. If you're going for just bigger audience exposure, more stuff to share, etc., you might consider deindexing those posts. I'd suggest reading Dr. Pete's post on duplicate content post-Panda. On the other hand, Tumblr's notoriously bad at SEO without major tweaks so it might be worth looking into where you're ranking (or if you are) for your Tumblr and then going from there.

Unblock all the pages!

Hi Muhammad,

Sorry to hear that your site's been blocked by Facebook. That's terrible!

I haven't dealt with this myself, but I did some digging and it looks like you aren't alone. Unfortunately, it looks like it's also very hard to get Facebook to unblock you. Facebook uses the companies Securi Site Check to make sure sites aren't scammy, spammy, or hacked. Securi looks like an aggregator of many security check sites, but that it will tell you which security check sites still have you on their blacklist and which ones you need to reach out to get whitelisted. You'll want to do this first before you do anymore outreach to Facebook.

After you are sure you're whitelisted with the security check sites, then contact Facebook. I found this case in Facebook's help threads about a company that was able to successfully unblock their site. Looks like he had his brand "like" all of Facebook's official pages to help businesses, which sent a trust signal to Facebook that the brand was legit. and then commented on all of them to get his page unblocked. Sadly, it looks like you have to be a very squeaky wheel to get anything done. If you have a Facebook ad rep, you also might reach out to them after making sure your site's whitelisted on those security sites.

Sadly, it does look like people did end up switching domains or doing some redirect action when Facebook wouldn't unblock their sites. But I'd use that as your very last resort.

Best of luck!

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!

Yes, on social sharing -- when posting to Facebook, Pinterest, etc. -- OG tags will override your meta description tag. Best practice is to have both, and in most cases, you'll probably find that the information will the same for the page.

As far as the Moz Crawl Diagnostics, unfortunately, it doesn't read OG tags right now. We are working on improvements for better suggestions, and more types of meta information is definitely on the to-do list.

Andy got back to me, and you can find the examples here. Enjoy!

Hi Rich,

Not that I know of. Were you the person who tweeted at us this am about it? I've reached out to Andy. Thanks!

Happy New Year to you as well!

Good to know about 301 redirects and G+. I imagine that the rest of the networks will get there someday.

If your hosting WP on your own domain, you can upload an htaccess file and do your 301s just like any other site. I use WP for my personal blogs and have successfully done this. I also know that some SEO plug-ins like Yoast can help you do them too.

Okay, in the social share buttons on old posts, we left the old URLs there because Twitter, G+, etc doesn't understand 301 redirects. We didn't want all the posts saying that 0 people had shared then, and one posts past a certain age, we don't expect to get more more. You can read more on how to do this here. 

"First, on the beginning of the post it links back to http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday-11080, which is there redirected to moz.com equivalent page. This seems like a wasted step unless it is on purpose."

This is just us being LAZY. We did not do a database change for old SEOmoz.org URLs to Moz.com URLs because we were busy doing other things. We left the body of posts as they were.

I saw you made another Q&A post about your troubles with changing your FB name and have a great answer in there.

You'll get denied if the settings of the post aren't completely public. If for whatever reason that person doesn't share the post to the world, you won't be able to share it with everyone and it will have limited view on your wall.

Hope that helps!

Hi! We were having issues with this earlier, but it should be fixed now. Sorry about any inconveniences! Let us know if you're having any more problems.

Hi! Unfortunately, we're having known issues surrounding adding a G+ business page to your Moz Analytics campaigns right now. Our engineers have this in their top priority to work on, but I know it's really frustrating. You might try removing your personal page -- which was a bug when MA was first released and MA won't let you add a user profile anymore -- and then try adding your business page. Hope this helps!

Without looking at your exact maps, it's hard to say. I'd suggest reading through and watching Wistia's awesome documentation about Video SEO and seeing if anything pops out as not happening on your end.

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!

Hi Dan,

If you go through Facebook for your name change, you do not lose any of your fans. They are all transferred seamlessly. Yes, your vanity URL pointing to your page will change, but with Moz's experience, Facebook did a redirect from our old vanity URL (seomoz) to our new one (Moz), so you'll still retain any links built to your Facebook page and the resulting traffic.

Best of luck o the rebrand!

Any links to old SEOmoz social accounts on those pages are straight up a mistake and oversight on our part. They are not any super secret SEO formula we've found. They are not supposed to be there, and we messed up by not removing them.

That said, on those pages, I've looked for the old SEOmoz mentions and I cannot find them. Can you be more specific about where you're seeing them so I can get them fixed? Thanks!

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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