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It might have been covered but it does seem that google is ignoring iframes in relation to commets code posted on sites.for instance: our text cached version.: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8IZ95GICp7AJ:gaveltek.com/seoblog/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

compare the page title to (use headers it easier)

www.gaveltek.com/seoblog the list "comments" and despite there being some the are  not posted. However, I do believe general wordpress comments hold some weight. That is not to sayt that facebook comments do not, its just done via different metrics, like social, and trust, and egngagement.

Cheers

TODD

I am pretty familiar with the challenges with machine learned list generation. There are so many quality indicators that can be faked.  headed up some similar projects to make these exact things viable. I feel your pain. I appreciate the one on one. Dont be a stranger. exchanges like this are what make seo what is.

P.s. one thing we did is look for any directory, scrape its categories based on their listings, rank them based on PR, and multiple other strength indicators. Then filter through the list by seeing who charges, who doesnt, and who exists

and the amount of outbound links on pages with less than 100 links, are they blog rolls, are they etc...

todd.

I wish you the best.

TODD

Rand,

Well thought out reply. I am very sensitive to time constraints when apportioning time to give attention to the step children of our projects.  Pehaps leveraging some of your existing clientele with a value added proposition(free time, part time contract, t-shirt), would take that task of your hands and give someone a little extra moz pride, without sounding needy of course It would certainly not make anyone feel that the product they pay for is only going to be updated if they do it themselves. The double win is super valuable as it clears up the time constraints for you and really steps up a a simple, but valuable product, and updated and frequently.

Thanks Rand.

TODD

Great post, appreciate it.  However, I was surprised by your request / recommendation that those paying for this service ( i believe its listed as a perk) should be responsible for policing it. The fact is the list needs constant updating as sites like these come and go so quickly. I am hoping to shed light on that fact, not just to simply bandaid the problem. Furthermore a lot of the directories listed do not correspond with the best practices espoused by those involved in this organization... paid links, bad neighborhoods, etc... etc...

Thought it was noteworthy.

Cheers

There are a lot of levels here, but I will address only the URL format. It is accepted practice and generally considered more effective to:
http://www.blahblahblah.com/blah as opposed to a subdomain(blah.blah.com).

the part that will be up for debate is the sitetowndirectory.com questions. I feel its a great idea for you to build a brand around whatever name you choose. This takes a lot of good old fashioned SEO but with the help of the community here you will be just fine. At the end of the day its up to you to make your domain work for you. There is some benefit to keyword rich domains, but these days we see a real trend towards brand, brand recognition and brand trust.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you need more specific information.

outdated site directory found here:http://www.seomoz.org/dp/seo-directory

not that directories are amazingly useful anymore, but with all the updates and vitriol thrown there way an update is in order. Its one of those "layup" link building tools but in its current state its less of perk and more of a boon.

Thanks

Awesome response Ryan. In particular the part about google not existing.

absolutely true about throttling your linkbuilding. Slow, steady and relevant.

I cant believe people are still using services like this. The interesting thing is that they do seem to offer great customer service, but that "service" seems to only spin comment spam and back profile backlinks. Id love for our community to discuss more sites like this so that Junior SEO's or people just starting dong get wooed by the promise of AWESOME links.

Cheers,
TODD

I took a look at this site, and while I am not completely finished seeing if there is any value. You can check your analytics / webmaster tools and see if that site refers traffic, brings users, or the link is valuable enough to show up in any number of linkbuilding tools. That being said, any link that is contextually valid, and brings ANY users to your site is a win. Given that DIIGO's deal is to tag and annotate pages it would seem valid as the context is definitely related to the site it will link to. The next question would be are the links follow? can google see, crawl and index the pages?

Cheers,

TODD

someone wrote a pretty good article discussing the use of javascript in navigations, here is the link:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/working-with-navigation-in-seo

There are a lot of levels here, but I will address only the URL format. It is accepted practice and generally considered more effective to:
http://www.blahblahblah.com/blah as opposed to a subdomain(blah.blah.com).

the part that will be up for debate is the sitetowndirectory.com questions. I feel its a great idea for you to build a brand around whatever name you choose. This takes a lot of good old fashioned SEO but with the help of the community here you will be just fine. At the end of the day its up to you to make your domain work for you. There is some benefit to keyword rich domains, but these days we see a real trend towards brand, brand recognition and brand trust.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you need more specific information.

This code you posted seems to be working wonderfully. The link you posted is a thread to a plugin we dont use, but I so very appreciate your time. I would say you are doing just fine (regarding your comment about you not being and "expert") Thanks again!

We do the same, however, I am looking for a third party (other the GA) specifically for facebook that is friendly with some serious reporting.

Thoughts?

NO problem! Was it helpful?

Hola!

google has this to say about submitting sitemaps "Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover." ala Webmaster tools. I stand firmly behind your inkling to create a good standard issue sitemap and submit. Last week we had a client (attorney) who did not have a sitemap at all for the three years her site was up, google had about 22 pages in its index, after sitemap, 432 pages in its index.  Be sure to submit to BIng webmaster tools as well, cover all bases!

so I say create right away, its not going to hurt anything, and can quite honestly help a lot! as a footnote to this answer, if you are using videos, etc... on the site be sure to build a video sitemap as well we have been seeing a lot successful indexing of our clients media.

Hope this helps!

The plain old simple fact about deleting twitter accounts is that you will lose followers and potential opportunity to shed some light on your brand and service (no to mention build some pretty solid links to great content). The idea in having foreign twitter accounts is to be able to adequately represent the locals in their own language, destroying the language barrier and bringing everyone a warm fuzzy. So take a good look at your referral sources, conversions from twitter vs the amount of time and energy your staff is taking to manage all these accounts. That equation should spit out a suitable response.

That being said my two companies have 1 twitter account each and employees are able to create their own and tweet as they wish (within reason) we have been able to get followers from most developed countries and tweet entirely in english, with a smattering of foreign words here and there.

in the end your analytics and referral data should be more than enough to answer any questions of effectiveness you might have.

Raven tools (and soon SEOmoz) has some potent Social Tracking / Social Mention features, maybe take a look at those as well.

You bring up a really interesting question. When you say dead links I assume they just lead to nowhere. Ideally you would 301 Redirect (which will pass most of its value to another page therefore keeping some of that SEO steam you have built up) to a page that allows the user to continue to search for similar or related products, keeps them on site with out scaring them away with a "File Not Found" error on their page, etc... I am not familiar with Shopify so I am not sure if its possible. Might be helpful if you were to post one of these links so that we can all take a look at it and work it out as a team.

In the past month have you done any of the following:

1. Employed a less than ethical link builder?
2. Written any new content
3. Switched hosts
4. Implemented any re-directs or any other DNS / Server Side coding?
5.  When you search are you turning off personalized search (&pws=0)
6. Tried searching from a different computer

**please list your URL and Ill see what I can tell from my end. Keep in mind that these things generally happen for either very good reasons, or for no reason at all.  **

If you can add value by creating a relationship between to the two brands and are not solely interested in gaining rankings. That is how you win with LinkBuilding. Remember one well placed link can deliver convertible clients, as opposed to tire-kickers, etc... Quality over quantity. If you are able to build the link, be sure to run them through your social media channels, just to show them you are willing to drive traffic in their direction as well. Social media is very easy to track, just a helpful hint!