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Hi everyone,

Anybody have experience when you have some websites which stored in Google Webmaster Tool and they exchange links between sites. So is it good for sites? We are hosted on different server.

Thank you so much

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Can I toggle it from top to side to bottom like the old version (which had idiot-proof arrows for this purpose)? I ask because the default setting for the bar is now top-of-page – which completely stops some pages, eg Hotmail) displaying.

Moz Toolbar not working in either Chrome or Firefox. I've updated both browsers, uninstalled and reinstalled the toolbar, just get nothing (see image link).
Anyone else having this? What's the fix?

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Again, thank you very very much.

Hi Jane
Thank you very, very much for the detailed, informative response.
A handful of follow-up points/questions:

• I've only ever written for sites in my industry – so I get around the "...totally at odds to the topic of the site..." problem.
• "…posts come with a generic author bio that links to a commercial site…" Given that I run a commercial site, do you recommend I completely avoid an author bio and only link (where justified) in the article body?
• "...The harder you work to "hide" the fact that you're guest blogging..." Some site owners have inserted bylines on my articles, eg: "By Jeepster of Jeepster.com" (followed link), making it clear it's written by a guest. Again, is that to be completely avoided?
• Further to your post here, there's a reputable site in my industry that openly asks for guest writers (completely unpaid; and it's not one of those built-for-guest-posts websites). Can I safely contribute to this if my articles contain relevant links?
• Finally, I've been granted approved guest authorship to a couple of heavyweight sites in my industry, ie, I submit articles to them which are vetted at their end before going live. Is that still safe?

Thanks

Thanks for the response. By the way, I'm guessing 2 cents is a Yorkshireman being generous

We're reaching out to companies that we have a business relationship with (past and present) to find out if they would be interested in linking to us. 
All are obviously in the same industry so highly relevant. But some of the sites are low in Domain Authority (with scores of about 15-25). 
Should we also ask these sites -- or avoid them?

Hi Steven
Thanks for the reply. But my question remains:
How can it be possible to "build" links with specific anchors/text around the anchors in an age in which link-building (guest blogging, directories, etc), are all but a busted flush?

Thanks for the response, Marie

I asked the question as I was wondering whether I'd need to add "boilerplate" text to each description to fill it out. I'd rather not as a) it's not very scaleable and b) I'm not sure it would add value to our users per se, as in the main people want to see pictures. Here's an example of one of the shorter descriptions we run.

-Is the content the same MLS description that is on multiple sites?  If so, then I'd noindex it Of the 4,500 pages, 95-98% are content that's unique to our site (the other ~2-5% are managed by individual realtors who I'm guessing probably copy and paste descriptions from their own sites. We're not in the US so aren't part of the MLS network).

-Do users engage with your content? Mos' def.

If it's just paid editorial with no links (or links that are no-followed), that's straightforward advertising and you're on safe ground.

However, I'm guessing they want a followed link. Do so at your peril. And don't just take my word for it:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/why-did-my-pagerank-go-down/

Watch this Matt Cutts video here in which he says it's not an issue.

As it says on the tin:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-clarifies-url-shortenings-impact-on-seo/29312/

For what it's worth and to update my previous response, see this from Search Engine Land. I think the URL is self-explanatory:

http://searchengineland.com/links-from-press-releases-do-have-ranking-benefit-despite-what-google-says-145139

Dear SEOMoz

I don't know why/how this thread has been marked as "Question Answered" when it hasn't.

Bad, bad, bad. Not me, that Matt Cutts guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bVOOB_Q0MZY

I would start here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-guide-to-seo-version-two

I do a search and get absolutely nothing. Diddly squat. This may be one for your hosting company...

Can I toggle it from top to side to bottom like the old version (which had idiot-proof arrows for this purpose)? I ask because the default setting for the bar is now top-of-page – which completely stops some pages, eg Hotmail) displaying.

No need to apologise. I'm here for honest answers, not to be soft-soaped.

I agree with a lot (but not all) of that. A lot of the article directory/blog footer links were obtained 3/4+ years ago by a previous SEO firm. Like everyone else, we haven't done article marketing in 2/3 years. Funnily enough, ALL our articles on article directories were high-quality and informative (Yes I know, we should have found another home for them. But time was when even Bing advocated using article directories).

Re; the 3 links you refer to, it appears the company that built our (real estate) site lists all the real estate sites they have built and puts them on a template. Trust me, I didn't ask for it, didn't pay a cent for it.

Re: PR links -- I'm fully aware they don't pass link pop. They were a genuine attempt to drive clickthrough traffic (and we have received traffic from them). Why are they bad, per se?

We actually do have editorial citations/links from related sites, including the New York Times real estate section.

I'm not defending the parts of our link profile that aren't great, just trying to improve things the right way.  FWIW, our link efforts are now focused on content creation and social media.