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does anyone have any examples of how to use rich snippets for events? There are so many different variables and the Google examples are in sufficient

so what is the best practice for getting Google to be able to read text that populates via JQuery in a carousel. If the text is originally display none, is Google going to be able to crawl it?

Are there any limits to what Google can crawl when it comes to JavaScript and text? Or is it always better just to hardcopy the text on the page source?

This is Scott with IWS --

I see what you are saying...would you say we can rely on the reporting we get to be accurate then, or are you suggesting we double check using the keyword tool or a third party tool?

I hope you can see that i as the owner, find this a bit cumbersome to review when my SEO team presents me with things that don't reflect reality...and this is not the only time this has happened. . I don't know why Google changed things either...but its important to me to get accurate rankings for all our customers without having to use multiple tools. We manage many clients so we really planned on your system being our solution...if you have another recommendation please let me know. Thanks. And thanks for such a good reply.

How are we supposed to send ranking reports to clients if the rankings are constantly reporting false metrics

This is not the first time this has happened, but the rankings are WAAAAAAY off. What is the point of reporting rankings that are not accurate? What is the possible cause of this. Is there a solution? What is SEOmoz doing to improve their ranking programs.

Our client actually ranked #2 for "northern Virginia HVAC contractors" when moz had us not in the top 50!

How are we supposed to bank on information that is so consistently unreliable?

northernvirginiahvaccontractors.png northernvirginiahvaccontractorsrank.png

hello,

we are thinking about changing imageworksstudio.com to imageworkscreative.com

we have TONS of of pages and want to make sure that our Page Rank and Rankings are maintained. Are there any best practices or specific guides for redirecting for such a large site (which already has a bunch of redirects in place in the first place)

Thanks!

how is it that our website and our two competitors basically have the exact same link graph, except for at different levels?

my guess is they would have to be pretty longtail these days.

woops forgot link to forum post - here it is!

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=13037

a client is getting adwords campaign url's showing up high in the SERPs, like 2 spots under the original page.

The actual unique page is number one, and number three is the same page except the url is pulled from and adwords click

My guess is that yahoo is crawling adsense and mistakenly following it as a link. It's crazy that it ranks on the 3rd page though...

At the same time I have recently seen 25 pages deindexed in Google!

How could this happen - could these two be related. I read this forum post about similar things happening in yahoo to their site

Could this be a duplicate content issue (copyscape is showing no duplicate content) or are my pages getting indexed for some other reason?

SEO's are looking for you to convert, and not just be able to do SEO

Things that will help your case:

• being fluent in HTML and CSS would definitely help your case, as well as having fmailiarity with CMS's like wordpress and drupal
• Being an outstanding writer
• Having experience with AdWords (and maybe even adsense)
• Being a problem solver
• Having heavy industry involvement
• Know how to get leads from twitter (or at least get followers)
• Being an expert at onsite optimization
• being able to tell which strategies are going to be able to pan out in the short run and in the long run
• knowing your SEO tools in and out

I encourage you to try to code up your own site (even if it is extremely simple) and get it up on the web. Perhaps even put your resume up

yeah but does that really work though?

We have two pages ranking for "Custom Web Design"

http://www.imageworksstudio.com/custom-web-design

ranks higher (consistently 9-13)

and

http://www.imageworksstudio.com/content/custom-web-design

ranks around 35-40

the latter is actually an older version of the article that never was replaced or taken down - but it has the majority of the links to it

Wondering if we should update the old content so it is not similar to the one that is ranking better or if we should redirect everything to /custom-web-design to see if it can secure better rankings?

it should only be the first line as h1, not the content. We styled it all the same so it didn't look silly. WE did make local cities h2....not sure if that's good or bad...but it stinks to serve so many cities and only rank at your physical location. Especially when there are 20 cities with in 20 miles here in DC metro.

Not sure if local "city pages" will work or how that changes the landing page experience verse a very interactive home page...Google didn't think about all of that!

well....darn...its on the footer pretty much. Check out imageworksstudio.com

(about tab, lower left)

Thing is...you don't really want to spam up your site with content on a home page, as a branding firm we prefer short clear messaging that is focused on customer pain points, value props etc. Of course these are images and not really seo relevant anyways. Grrr - double edged sword.

Thanks again. I appreciate your comments.

That's what I thought too....but I'm old school SEO and have no idea if this has changed! Thanks.

If you have all of your homepage content in a tab set at the bottom of the page, but really would want that to be the first thing Google reads when it crawls your site, is there something you can implement where Google reads your content first before it reads the rest of your site? Does this cause any violations or are there any red flags that get raised from doing this? The goal here would just be to get Google to read the content first, not hide any content

What does everyone think about this article?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2 … l-content/

I tend to think its off base, Link building still works and there are tons of things that have to do with SEO that have nothing to do with link building...

I think its actually quite ridiculous and written by people that actually no nothing about SEO...kind of a lame attempt by Forbes, and if anything at all, this is just forbes practicing "SEO" with a link attraction post like this. Becase SEO, is NOT dead

i dunno how it is for everyone else, but the site was really slow to me. Try using different image formats instead of png's. maybe try jpg's?

we had this as a problem, made a few changes, and our site speed went up instantaneously

other thing is make sure your CSS and javascript are in external files when can be, although its usually the images and other media that are playing the major role in site speed

99 designs is cool. Traditional graphic designers don't like it htough. Compare em to sweat shops, and say things like "you have to worry about if its copied work on sites like those"

however it depends what you are trying to do!

thanks very much. Heavily agreed upon with those social shares. Very hard to get those however!