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Hi,

A lot of changes have been happening with Google places over the last few weeks, we have seen 3rd party review data changed. And Google has been making a bunch of tweeks.

another thing I noticed where Google is taking more and more time to make changes is the verification of things it will take 8+ week to get bulk upload feeds accepted these days.

I also wonder when Google will fix the problems but for the moment you have to sit tight and monitor the blog: <cite>google-latlong.blogspot.com</cite>

You can link up on majestic SEO and view the top 10 results for a keyword and then pull the back links view quickly within the software. Only issue is that they are using the Yahoo link API so it is not all that great.

In regards to software that pulls the top 30 rank links that would take a lot of demand.

Hi, To be honest I do not really feel DMOZ is the best site to worry about any more.

It is not the most important directory that it once was say 8 years ago in SEO, where people were desprate to get on.

You can try and apply a few times, but from my experience it is really a chance thing it can take around 12 months if not more some times to get accepted.

If you want your site to get indexed, build some good content, links from a few social sites like twitter, digg, stumble upon, add the site to webmaster tools, try and generate some buzz via related sites and it should get indexed with no problem.

Sub domains will not affect the PR and the Domain Authority as Google treats them as a separate domain.

The common issue made with sub domains is that people place the same content on the sub domain as they have on the main site and think it is ok. Well it is not and this causes duplicate content issues. So my question is when you have this search function for you site will it house the data which is already found on your website and also on the sub domain it could cause some concern with multiple content showing.

But really another problem with sub domains is that people start linking to them and then you have no link juice flowing to other parts of the website.

A good way to get real keyword data is to run adwords campaigns for the exact keywords, yet it is never going to be exact due to demand increases and drops over time.

I was looking at the URL mentions within SERP results,

The non hyphen seems to have 126 mentions compared with the hyphen domain at 76, don't know about the quality of these links what link building tactics were employed.

Both seem to only pick up one link via OSE been on your main website.

I would also question the hosting/who is data and any other common areas for the website, a funny thing is if you view the cache version of the website Google notes that the hyphen domain as splitting up the text with spaces.

When comparing IP data from the host, seems as though they are on a similar server yet not the same correct?

IP Address     174.121.38.186
IP Address     174.121.38.162

But overall very interesting test, and thank you for sharing.

My Advice is to make a deck/ business case for the programmer show him the problems with having two versions of the website indexed. I have encountered a few developers who are not really in tune with the whole issues around duplicate content and SEO. I think the best idea is to act on the same page, show the developer some respect, show him the design is good but then also educate him about SEO.

If you do a cononical tag, sorry to say but it is not going to be a long term fix, it will just be a short term fix.

Try and push for the 301's.

Hi Nice term,

I am seeing some funny results for this term:

santacruzcustomcabinets.com

<cite>santacruz-customcabinets.com</cite>

Yet it is not like these domains have no URL mentions and links to them, check the domain in google for example:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22santacruzcustomcabinets.com%22&oq=%22santacruzcustomcabinets.com%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=877l1574l0l2006l3l3l0l2l0l0l219l219l2-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=af0e63f933289f02&biw=1422&bih=609

we see 27 links/mentions for the URL.

This shows that the domain is been noticed by Google, the term is also very low competition so the power of exact match domains will also come into play.

Yet look at the second result it is a domain with just the keyword in the URL and only 11 links.

I hope this helps,

Regards,

James Norquay

Are you getting these results when logged in? Or logged out of you Google account.

I have found that some times you see crazy data when you are logged out, yet when you log in the data seems a lot better.

I do not think that is possibly to acquire a 30+ point increase in PA and DA when links have dropped, could be a bug with OSE.

If the app isnt accesses by search engine crawlers, then it would not have an SEO benefit.

Yet it would be beneficial for Traffic for sure.

If the app is also hosted on a website or mobile site it is beneficial for seo.

You can do this in Advanced Web Ranking, where you can check say 3 different competitors over 40 keywords.

But I am pretty sure you can not do that in SEOmoz, unless you make a profile for the competitor.

Yeah good idea you can target a lot of traffic via Google images, but you must remember to make sure you link back to the original owner of the images. Unless you have taken the images of the celb's yourself or they are stock photos

Yeah I noticed it was down, seemed to be frozen on the last question I answered.

All up and running now

Hi,

Facebook ads is an interesting area, yet from my experience it is really the image that goes with the advert that counts

We were testing ads which had an image of a girl who looked sad and it was a poor quality image the CTR was low we then changed it to a image of a girl who was happy and high quality. Instantly we saw an uplift in CTR.

For the dentist vertical you really need to know the demo from the client. See what type of data they can provide and the GEO area they service.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

James.

Hi,

I have noticed this problem too with my OSE, I contacted the dev team about going back to the old format where you can download the files to CSV and they said they are looking into it. (I hope they do)

I think it is also a matter of demand on the website, I would wait till a SEOmoz rep also confirms this.

Regards,

James.

Hi,

I would advise to block the directories which the files sit in in robots.txt, over adding no index tags to specific pages.

Yet then this would also leave these pages to not be indexed by Google, other search engines and also this Link Smart software you are referring to.

The thing is if you add a no index tag or if you add a robots .txt block to pages it will also block all search engines too.

So yes their is some risk involved, you have to do things carefully around this area.

Kind Regards,

James.

Hi,

I had a quick look it seems this site has around 2,000+ pages of content in a different language on a .us domain, so they are targeting people who speak chinese I believe from the US market.

Quite a good idea I guess, I also believe the competition would be lower as .cn domains would not have the same power as the GEO rich .us domain.

If you have great content, a huge number of pages and a few very targeted high quality links you can rank for a whole lot of long tail keywords.

Regards,

James.

Hi the best tool you can use is the ad preview tool from Google:

_https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargeting**PreviewTool**_

With this tool you can view how your website ranks for all different GEO locations around the globe

I don't know getting a web developer to go into a server and change a robots.txt for a totally random business is something which I would not advise. they have obviously blocked the directory for a reason, possibly they do not want it indexed due to the content it holds?

Most web devs need good reasons to do things, I know I have dealt with 100s the bigger company and especially govt devs are hard to move in hurry, they usually have a bunch of other jobs to do, or they will put it on the requests list.

Yet I agree with your point you could contact this website via email or phone and touch base to see if they want to include your link as it is highly relevant to them.
Yet in my experience most government websites are very funny about small business asking for links even if you are a huge business they ask a million and one questions before you can acquire a sucessful link.

But like the old saying if you don't ask you don't get, so email/call away.