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Ok, so this might not be the most insightful question on the PRO Q&A Forum, but does anyone else find similarities between SEOmoz's own Roger and Google's Googlebot?
Can anyone provide any insight into either of these two bots (i.e. birth date, creator, etc).
Cut me some slack, it's Friday people.
This is likely occurring because your competitor's have a "hybrid" organic/local listing. My advice is to verify that your homepage title tags are properly optimized. Also, you should verify that you have claimed your Google Places profile. My advice is to use your actual business name in the business title box for your place listing.
When Google figures out that your place page is associated with your website and you have a top organic position, you should see your website title listed in your organic/local hybrid listing.
Playing around w/ OSE post update. Love that there are social signals. Having issues with exporting to .csv via email.
What's the reasoning behind this change?
Anyone have any solutions for circumventing (i.e. downloading data directly to excel via API)?
What are you using to check for the back link? The BBB page contains the links and the page appears to be indexed in Google. Perhaps your link checking tool hasn't found the link yet.
Call me prude, but I don't recommend auto-blogging at all. Especially in light of Panda Farm.
Should you wish to pursue against my better advice, you could check out feedwordpress and wp-e-matic.
Facebook doesn't appear on Top 500 domain list. What am I missing?
Completely seriously, spend time exploring SEOmoz.org. Almost everything you can / should know about link building is available somewhere on the site.
I spend a lot time following people/sites on link building and IMHO there really isn't a clearly better resource.
Follow these tips to take advantage of Google+ for SEO. Recognize the advantages of Google+ for branded search queries. Watch what Rand has said about Google+ for marketers.
C. If you have categories and sub-categories, than there is value to organizing your site to reflect that. If you are creating sub-categories for the sake of sub-categories, then I would go with B.
It really depends on the nature of what your site is about. For example, /shoes/running-shoes/specific-shoe-type/ makes sense. However, /shoes/running-shoes/red-running-shoes/red-running-shoes-velcro/red-running-shoes-velcro-hi-top/specific-shoe/ is probably too long.
One place to look is impression data from Google Webmaster Tools? Hopefully, if you've linked GWMT to Google Analytics, you might also be able to compare to previous year(s). Are you buying keywords on AdWords? You could look at impression data there too.
What are you using to track links? Many back link checking tools offer the ability to see new links added over a time period.
Even if you have a simple excel file of the back links your competitor had on day x, you can run a new check on day y and filter out the ones that previously existed.
Hope this helps.
"Any SEO benefit"? Yes. Enough to make it a top priority in the grander scheme of a comprehensive SEO campaign? No.
Assuming I understand your question correctly (and admittedly I may not), you won't get search value from moving blog to sub-domain.
However, there may be other reasons to do this.
We use both. The key is to make sure that biz information submitted is consistent on both.
One link, linking to you from porn site? I don't think it will have any impact. If you think about it, if that caused a problem, you could just add links from porn sites to your competitors. Definitely don't link to porn sites, unless of course, you own a porn site.
At the risk of stating the obvious, make sure you are logged out of google. They don't come up one for me.
You may also want to take a look at this recent post (and especially comments) at Mike Blumenthal's blog:
Hi Bob,
It different cases it may mean a lot of things. In my experience, more often than not, if it's in OSE and the link/page doesn't it exist, it's because it's been removed since the last time MOZ crawled the page.
Sometimes, it's because of web trash. But MOZ has been getting much better at filtering that stuff.