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Hi Oliver!

Before coming to SEOmoz I used to work for OntargetJobs which is a company that has multiple niche job boards. Here's what I would recommend:

1. Keep those pages followed because people will link to them and you want to preserve as much of the link equity as you possibly can. So how do you do that?
2. Make sure that when a job expires (or gets removed, whatever) that the page gets 301 redirected to the category page the job is posted under. Depending on the niche, it may be locale based, in that case redirect it to the location. The idea here is to send the user to a helpful page for good user experience and conserve some link equity at the same time.
3. On the page that gets redirected to, program it so when a redirection happens that it displays a message at the top of the page. Something along the lines of "Oops! The job you were looking for is no longer active. However here are similar jobs in XYZ category"

Again as I mentioned above, this is a good way to help user experience, plus keep some of that link equity from the inevitable links job posting pages get.

I hope this helps!

Jen

Hi! I totally agree they YOUmoz authors deserve to get their posts through more quickly. But to be honest, there are only two of us (used to only be one) and we do our very best. We manually review every post and work with authors to improve their posts. The quickest way to get through the queue is to have a post 100% ready to be published. Unfortunately this is often not the case. Also, we got many posts submitted that have already been published, which we have to take the time to research to make sure their unique. I understand how annoying it is to take so long to get through the queue, but I promise we're doing our best on our end to get the posts up.

Thanks for being so passionate about YOUmoz! We really love it.

One thing to know is that Google often devalues footer links, so while it's usually not a problem to have links in the footer, don't expect them to bring you lots of linkjuice love.

I took a screenshot of both the Chrome (new) and Firefox (update is coming soon) toolbars to show you where you can find this option in both. Hope this helps!

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I agree with Ryan for the most part. Here at SEOmoz we get so many comments for each post that if we moderated each comment, it would seriously kill the conversation. However we have a team of people who watch for spam, plus we do have moderation set up for people who have less than 25 Mozpoints and have a link in their comment. At that point one of the team members has to approve the comment, remove a spammy link or delete the comment all together.

In general I'm not a fan of moderating especially if the person moderating checks comments infrequently. Nothing bothers me more than leaving a well thought out comment on someone's blog post in reply to the post itself or another comment and it taking 2 days to finally show up on the site. I wouldn't bother commenting on that blog again.

There's a fine line between moderating and keeping the spam out and if you can find that you're golden.

As for Facebook comments, I haven't personally implemented them on any sites but many people who use them have really loved it. Ryan linked to my post on using them and it seems like a great marketing/virality tool for sure. Facebook gives you easy moderation as well and I think it cuts back on spam quite a bit because it has to be a real user logged into Facebook in order to comment.

Hope this helps!

Sadly it looks like there isn't an option to change the color. Maybe they're trying to compete with the Pinterest button.

Hey Joao, please don't feel bad! I think it's great you've submitted 4 posts. It doesn't mean they won't be published, only that we try to space them out with other authors as well. I look forward to reading them!

Hi Thomas! That's a great question. Rae Hoffman actually wrote a really excellent post recently talking about she swtiched from the TweetMeme button vs the official Twitter one. I highly recommend checking it out: Why I Switched from TweetMeme to the Official “Tweet Button”.

The feature I like best is that you can set up the official twitter button to recommend Twitter accounts!

Hope this helps,

Jen

Sorry for being a bit slow to respond to this one. I agree that the less aggressive option might be best here. I see that there area a ton of comments on that already. You have quite the community there!

I find that Facebook can be buggy like that sometimes. Usually if you try back a bit later or the next day you'll see it. I agree with Nick, it's interesting but not data you can do much with. It's cool to see how many times your brand has been talked about, but you don't get much more information than that. At least Facebook is trying to improve and give us more info, maybe the next phase will have even more data.

For now I wouldn't worry too much about it not working, give it a day or so and try again.

Rather than using robots.txt I'd use a noindex,follow tag instead to the page. This code goes into the tag for each print page. And it will ensure that the pages don't get indexed but that the links are followed.

Thanks for the interesting question and answers! I can tell you from experience that thinking and worrying about why someone decides to thumb something down will get you nowhere but with heartache. I've had so many comments and posts thumbed down that I couldn't imagine why people would thumb it down. I have one post that I like to call out, where it was just a fun afternoon post (on Rand's birthday back in 2009) and I got so many thumbs down it was crazy. I was fairly new to the company then and was a bit heartbroken.

Now, we do get "thumb spam" where people decide to thumb down every comment on a post. I can't say why they do it but they do. Usually we catch them and I will email them about it. Sometimes I get a response back that they're sorry but got upset over a comment, but usually I get no response. But they don't do it again either.

When it comes down to it, I'd recommend just not worrying about why others decide to thumb a comment or post down. I think some people do it without rhyme or reason. Maybe they don't like your name, maybe the title of the post turned them off, maybe they're just having a bad day. But the way I see it, if someone thumbs my post or comment down, it means I've struck a nerve. And I'm ok with that.

Sorry I don't have a better answer than "don't worry about it".

I believe that the "like" option now also includes a comment, so that would be my suggestion. For example if you like one of our blog posts, you have the option to add text as well. Facebook has made some changes in the last 6 months or so where a "like" is generally thought of as the same as a "share". So I think a like is just fine!

Currently you have a share Facebook button, however a "like" is much easier for the user (just one click) and still shows up in the user's timeline. I'd suggest changing that to just a "like" button. It wouldn't hurt to have a link to your facebook page as well.

Since your page is so new, I'd ask all your friends and family to like your page so that it looks like it has a few more interested people.

I also agree with Phillip that you'll probably need to test what works best for you. There is no magic number or formula when it comes to placing social buttons.

Hope this helps!

True but using robots.txt does not keep them out of the index. Only using "noindex" will do that.

Hey Sam!

Yep, Grovo has created their own training guides on how to use SEOmoz.

Thanks!

Jen

It's important to look at Twitter as a way to engage with your fans and get your content out there rather than solely as a way to increase your rankings. If you're not there to interact with people, you'll find that they get uninterested quickly. The same goes for Facebook, Google+, etc.

I love the idea that Aran mentioned about having a Youtube channel. You can do a lot with that and even could post the videos on your site and tweet those links. One of the greatest things I've found though is to simply ask! Ask your Twitter followers what they'd like to see from you on Twitter. People LOVE giving their opinions so I'm sure you'll get some feedback. You could try that on Facebook and Google+ as well.

The idea really is to get a group of fans who are interested in what you're writing about or posting on your site as well. Maybe it's tour dates, or posts about your concerts, but something that gets people interested enough to tweet and retweet.

Hope this helps a bit!

Jen

Hi! Hopefully I can shed a little light on whether to go after shares or likes. Both actually correlate well with higher rankings, but this isn't necessarily a direct correlation it could simply mean that good content gets shared AND linked to which in turn helps rankings. Originally "likes" didn't show up in a user's wall or stream only shares did, so at that point they were more valuable because the share would be seen by more people. However FB has changed it so if you "like" something, not only does it show up on your wall/stream but it also allows you to add a comment. So it works very similarly to a share. If you feel that you can get more "likes" then go for it!

I hope this helps a bit.

Jen

Thanks!! I'm happy to help

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