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Yes, we are! I don't have a definitive date, but those two are at the top of our list most definitely.

Thanks!

Hi! Yes, our crawler does read wildcards in a robots.txt file. This change was made in the past 3 months or so. Hope that helps!

Jen

Hello!

I just ran the page through the Facebook debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laserfiche.com%2F which re-caches the page, and it looks like it's pulling the logo fine? It is doing a 302 redirect to the US-EN version of the site that you might want to check into (not sure if it should be a 301 or not?).

If ever you have an issue with Facebook, be sure to run the debugger to get the page re-cached. I find that often helps!

Hope that helped a bit.

Jen

Hi Bill!

A couple of your questions that haven't been answered yet:

How do you do this and how do you know if it's already being done?

When you look at the code for a page, if you see a lot of code within tags, that means that the CSS is on the page rather than in an external file.

You can do the same with JavaScript. If there is a lot of code within the tags in the source code, you know there is JavaScript on the page instead of in an external file.

If it has not been done on a site is it hard to go back and do?

It is very simple to take this code, put it into an external file, then link to it like we do on this particular page's code:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="[/q/moz_nav_assets/stylesheets/production/all.css?0.4.25](view-source:http://www.seomoz.org/q/moz_nav_assets/stylesheets/production/all.css?0.4.25)" />

That is what it looks like when you link to a CSS external file.

If possible though, I'd definitely have someone who knows and understands the code help you out at first. There's nothing more infuriating that making what you think is a small change to a JavaScript file and it end up breaking the whole site.

Good luck! And I hope this helps a bit.

Totally agree with Ken. I actually did a presentation recently about Social's influence on search, it might be a good one to check out: http://www.slideshare.net/jennifersablelopez/social-medias-influence-on-search-going-beyond-rankings.

Thanks!

Yes, yes, yes: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.ccisolutions.com%2FStoreFront%2FIAFDispatcher%3FiafAction%3DshowMain&comparisons[0]=http://www.ccisolutions.com

Use that comparison to show them that you're mixing up your link juice by getting links to both URLs and by consolidating you'll be able to rank that home page better.

Hope that helps!

Let me know if you have more questions!

Hi guys! Unfortunately don't have specific training courses like this where we train people on using our product, however we do have weekly Help webinars where you can talk to us directly and ask questions. You can sign up for them here: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/welcome-webinars.

Additionally, Distilled has some great conferences in the UK and the next one coming up is LinkLove. You can get more information about that here: http://www.distilled.net/events/linklove-london/.

Hope this helps!

Hi Joseph! I'm sure Rand will chime in as well, but I know our engineers are currently working on a write-up that explains the future of the index, plus some of the issues of the past. They're trying to get all the details in there, and hopefully we can get that published by early next week. What I know so far, is that they've fixed some issues and this index is looking much better. I'll let the engineers explain what that means though.

Hi! You're in luck, coming soon to your campaigns will be a social tool that measures and tracks Facebook and Twitter. Have you checked out the FB insights? It gives you quite a bit of data. Another tool I like is http://mediafeedia.com/ which lets you schedule FB statuses and things like this.

Also, did you know you can get FB insights for your site, and not just your page? Go to www.facebook.com/insights and in the upper right corner you'll see a button "Insights for your Website". Add your info and they give you a little piece of code that you add to your header file (like for webmaster tools). Then you start getting FB insights for FB interactions to your site, and not just to your FB page!

Hope this helps!

Hi guys! Check out this post from Rob Ousbey talking about How to Allow Google to Crawl your AJAX Content. In it he explains how both Twitter and Facebook are using the "hashbang" or "#!" to let Google get to their AJAX content, in turn showing the URLs to Google as twitter.com/randfish and the like.

Hope this helps!

Jen

LOL! Omg I'm so sorry... SearchLove videos!! haha We just released MozCon videos so I totally thought this thread was about that. Sheesh I'm so so sorry!

Hi! Are you talking about the videos on Whiteboard Fridays? joeyoungblood is right, we use Wistia for video, it may be something they can fix on their end? If you give me an example I can check it out.

Thanks!

Hi Omid! I'm so sorry about this. We are in the middle of deploying a new version & have run into some issues. I believe we'll be reverting back asap. I'll update here when it's working again. So sorry for the inconvenience!

I can't remember which conference it was at the moment, but a Googler talked about how if you have too many hashtags they see that as spam and it might not make it into the real time search. I know some people just have fun with the hashtags, but we use them in our tweets for things like #SEO #socialmedia #analytics, etc whenver it makes sense.

I highly recommend checking out the Webinar Friday Rand did on this very subject: Getting Value from XML Sitemaps, HTML Sitemaps & Feeds.

Hi Steve,

Using the video is perfectly fine, but only if you show that it was created by us and link back to the original post and not just to the refer a friend page. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks!

Hello!

It looks like your site is fairly new, and while most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, it can sometimes take even longer for many of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories.

Just so you know, here's how we compile our index:

- We grab the most recent index.
    - We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
    - We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).

Which means, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Sorry!

You can get a bit more info about our crawl here: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer.

Good question! Rand will be talking a bit about this during his intro at MozCon I believe.

I don't think there's a difference whether it's a tweet or a retweet, what's more important is the number of times that link is shared and the "influence" of the people sharing the link. I wouldn't worry too much about whether it's specifically a straight up tweet or a retweet though. They both help from what we've seen!