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Thanks for the clarification. I too saw it on the calendar earlier (set myself a reminder on my calendar) and was confused when I saw no changes on my sites... and then the 29th as the update.

I use Google Alerts to track domain-level backlinks (via the link:http://www.example.com trick) but is there a way to track/be alerted of long urls, not just the domain, without having to set an alert for each specific url?

Hmmmm okay I'll try that and send it to the programmer. Thanks!

I like the call-to-action button that HuffPo uses on its FB button, where with one click, a user on their site can 'Like' their main page on Facebook without actually having to go there (assuming that they're logged in, of course). I'd love to use it on my site but...

I'm trying to understand how this works. It seems like it's a custom wrapper, as i'm not seeing the toolset in dev tools  (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ etc)

Anyone know about this?

Good point, I guess I should add some color. Attached is an OSE exam of their site, our toaster landing page and then our main home page. Obviously, we are two completely different sites, and our main page holds a huge edge over the /toaster page.

Knowing this, would you:
A) play it safe, keep Kool-Kitchen-Apps.biz domain/site, and 'pretty it up' 
B) redirect to /toasters, dice roll
C) redirect to /, likely keep or  improve ranking for "toasters"
D) panic, stop using computers, hide in neighbor bushes until arrested

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We are KitchenApps.Com, your online portal for kitchen appliances. One of our biggest selling products is toasters, but despite SEO efforts, **KitchenApps.Com/toasters **ranks on page 6 for "toasters"  and barely budges.

One of our competitors, Kool-Kitcken-Apps.biz just tossed in the towel and sold his domain/site to our boss for the cheap. It's an old domain, but the URL isnt lovely. He's got content, but it aint pretty and of course, we sell differently than he does, have some different products, etc. BUT BUT BUT hold everything, he ranks on the first page, with his homepage, for "toasters" his best ranked keyword. A lot of sites have linked to his site for toasters, buying toasters, etc.

Of course, the boss wants to just toss his content, and since his domain is different than company name (which is literally KitchenApps.Com) we should redirect Kool-Kitchen-Apps.biz to our SEO friendly KitchenApps.com/toasters url. He expects that will keep the same positioning, and we'll snag the toaster clicks.

Can we expect to maintain the positioning on page #1?

Did you see the same results in positioning as you had before they were yanked from the index?

Right? Yeah we've done that, I just want to make sure my expectations are set correctly on a site-wide reindex. The realistic repositioning timeline, etc.

A programmers 'accidentally' put "name="robots" content="noindex" />" into every single page of one of my sites (articles, landing pages, home page etc). This happened on Monday, and we just noticed today.

Ugh...

We've fixed the issue; how long will it take to get reindexed? Will we instantly retain our same positions for keywords? Any tips?

I track purchases on one of our sites via Adwords codes. We've just added an affiliate, and I've been advertising in Adwords, to their page on our site. On that page, when the call-to-action link is clicked, it takes the user to their site to make the end purchase. Aside from adding doubleclick (or equivalent code) to the link, Is there a way to track?

Something like including an Adwords code, that I would ask the affiliate to place on their check-out page? If I recall right, I cannot add Google code to a domain I don't have control over.

I noticed that some sites have a specific section on Youtube, under the structure youtube.com/social/blog, which contains backlinks to the site. For example, this Twilight blog: http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/twilightish

I've had trouble finding out information about this. Is this auto-generated by Youtube, or can someone set this up?

I'd like to add live chat to one of my sites. The last time I did this, I used the largest provider and was disappointed at the way the addon tended to drag page loads, but this was also three years ago.

Any experience or feedback about the live chat systems out there?

I'd like to add live chat ability to one of my sites. The last time I did this, I used the largest provider and was disappointed at the way the addon tended to drag page loads, but this was also three years ago.

Any experience or feedback about the live chat systems out there?

One of my sites is getting a major refresh on the home page, which is good and bad.

The legacy homepage was very long, and had a lot of text (thousands+ of words) in the body, with about 450+ links (internal/external) on the page. A ton of graphics, etc etc. Yuck.

The revamped homepage is much improved. Very short, visual, fast, and SEO optimized.  It's more of launching pad into the rest of the site. But, the text in the body is much less, perhaps a 100 words or so.

The worry is that with so little text, matching the target kw count will appear as stuffing. The 'solution' was to include a visible text box at the bottom of the page, with about 300 words, basically what would typically appear in an 'about' section of a site. But instead, its located on the bottom of the homepage to beef up the pages content, and to avoid looking too 'stuffed'.

Visually, its unattractive IMHO and while the text is good and informative, its under the fold and will likely not change that much going forward. This all seems very 10 years ago to me, but I'd like a second opinion.

Is this box of text a good strategy?

I have a Drupal site that utilizes Solr, with 10 menu pages and about 4,000 pages of content. Redoing a few things and we'll need to revamp the sitemap. Typically I'd jam all pages into a single sitemap and that's it, but post-Panda, should I do anything different?

Seriously, Ryan is always ALL OVER Seomoz comments with good feedback

Say you've got 5,000 articles. Each of these are from 2-3 generations of taxonomy. For example:

• example.com/motherboard/pc/asus39450
• example.com/soundcard/pc/hp39
• example.com/ethernet/software/freeware/stuffit294

None of the articles were SUPER popular as is, but they still bring in a bit of residual traffic combined. Few thousand or so a day. You're switching to a brand new platform. Awesome new structure, taxonomy, etc. The real deal. But, historically, you don't have the old taxonomy functions. The articles above, if created today, file under

• example.com/hardware/

This is the way it is from here on out. But what to do with the historical files?

1. keep the original URL structure, in the new system. Readers might be confused if they try to reach example.com/motherboard, but at least you retain all SEO weight and these articles are all older anyways. Who cares? Grab some lunch.
2. change the urls to /hardware/, and redirect everything the right way. Lose some rank maybe, but its a smooth operation, nice and neat. Grab some dinner.
3. change the urls to /hardware/ DONT redirect, surprise Google with 5k articles about old computer hardware. Magical traffic splurge, go skydiving.
4. Panic, cry into your pillow. Get job signing receipts at CostCo

Thoughts?

What Ryan said. Traditionally, I've seen that Bing (and Yahoo) will ignore link shenanigans that elevate listings better in Google. An example that I personally have is a competitive kw positioned at #4 in Bing, and #81 in Google. But, most of the competition are link spammers so... Don't forget that Baidu is going to switch to Bing's engine (at least on the English side).

ha!