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My first thought is no. But I am definitely looking for some loopholes. If there is any way to make this work, please share your thoughts.

I have a client with page 1 rankings for several keywords. He wants to make some updates to his website.

He is offering a new service and wants to show before and after photos of the procedure. He is an OB/GYN, so the before/after pictures are very explicit and have full nudity.

How will this affect his rankings? Is there something that I can do to tell Google and other SE's that these photos are medical and not pornographic? Should I host them on another domain? Just looking for thoughts and insight. Thank you in advance!

Have you purchased or obtained any spammy links to your content?

Have you checked Google webmaster tools for any malware warnings?

Did the traffic just stop completely? Make sure that you didn't remove your analytics code from your header. This will make it obviously look like you have 0 traffic when you actually might be. Sometimes technical changes (especially with a CMS) can cause some parts of the site to stop working together.

What did you do recently that might be of question to Google?

I have a client with a well aged, high DA site. They rank well for their wedding photography business in several cities.

They are launching a new service which is related to photography (photobooths and flipbooks) which they built and developed content on a new domain. The existing domain has 0 links with a DA of 1. The site is brand new..

Is there any drawback to moving the existing content on the new domain to a sub directory of the high authority domain? EX: http://domain.com/newcompany

The look, feel, and design of the new site / service is much different than the high DA site.

My thoughts are that this will give them an automatic step up, especially since they will be marketing this in several major cities.

Also, since the design will be different, if it is good to move to the subdir, should we put the new company name in the subdir folder or something keyword friendly like domain.com/photobooth as opposed to domain.com/newcompanyname.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I'm going to head this route....thanks a lot for your help!

Hey Mozzers-

I know the basic process for handling duplicate listings, but I just want to make sure and ask because this one is a little sensitive.

I have a client with a claimed and verified listings page, which is here:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=chambers+and+associates&hl=en&cid=9065936543314453461

There is also another listing (which I have not claimed yet) here:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=dr.+george+chambers&hl=en&cid=14758636806656154330

The first listing has 0 reviews, where the 2nd unverified listing has 12 fantastic 5 star reviews. We can all agree that if I can get these two listings to merge, his general listing will perform much better than it already is (the first listing has about 200 actions per months).

So, what is the best way to merge these two without losing any reviews and without suspending my places account? Thanks in advance!

Ian

Depends on what framework or CMS you are using. Do you have any more info? Check your htaccess file for any malicious code.

Google webmaster tools will allow you export all of the backlinks to your site, within any page. Also, in open site explorer, by default it shows links just to one URL. Make sure you select the dropdown "All pages on root domain" and it will show you all links to all of your pages.

EGOL-

Thank you for your awesome input. Didn't realize I was sitting on that...you are awesome!

Thank you both! I will definitely use to connections that they have already to get those sites and associates to point a link to the site. They also do the clinic work on campus so I'm sure the university will provide a link with the right leverage. Would love a .edu for this one. Thanks guys!

I have a prospective client looking to do SEO- they are a charity and have a fixed one time budget. (The budget is surprisingly high) They are looking to have their site ranked for "charities in (our city)" and "dental charities" and any keyword variations. Adwords shows significant search volume and ranking difficulty is moderate per SEOmoz keyword difficulty tool. On page will be fairly simple and well handled, but am looking more towards the authority and link building.

I am going to tackle 3 top quality directories, Yahoo, BOTW, and Business.com (as well as DMOZ but i've never had luck). But was wondering if there were any other nationally recognized sources that mozzers know about that would be a good place to start to get some links to the site. The organization is a clinic that provides free dental work to veterans.

I have never handled SEO for a charity before, and my first instinct is that getting a link to the site will be much easier to get than if I ask them to give money to the foundation, so they would be glad to do it. Any other guidance would be appreciated. And I can give more details if necessary.

Any other tips and insight would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Ian

What about off site elements? Any directory submissions that were of low quality? Or did you lose a link that you might have had before?

I like that.

Now is there anything negative about uploading the same video to both services?

I am just wondering if there are any SEO considerations when uploading a video to either YouTube or Vimeo? Should i choose one over the other or is it okay to upload to both? Haven't stepped into the video part of SEO waters before

Im assuming your client has online competition? Show them their online competitors and what keywords they are ranking and optimizing for. Your client will love it if you outrank their competition! You also now know that you aren't going to be wasting your time and have an end goal.

I've never been able to find one...they must not have one? The only way I've ever found cached pages on Bing is to click the arrow next the listing on the SERP, then arrow down to cached page.

If you look at the source in chrome, the isn't matching color of the <title>. I think you are having a validation issue. I think its up top in the HTML section:</p> <p><span>xmlns:og</span>='<span>http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/</span>'</p> <p>Make sure that you are using quotation marks instead of the apostrophe. So it is ="content" instead of ='content'. </p></title>

Make sure that your site is being crawled correctly. Also, how long has it been since you did the site consolidation? If it is very recently then I would guess that your final site will get its ranking back soon, you've done all of the necessary steps.

Have you considered getting links from those directories for your client? Do that and get some additional links that are better that your competition doesn't have and I would imagine that you would outrank them over time.

I agree with this. The closer the IP addresses between sites that link to each other the more likely they are that the two sites have a relationship. Not that this is bad, it's just that links that you get from your relationships are usually easier to get than those that are freely and naturally given, so they discount them.