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Wow!! I hadn't heard that request before, that's a great idea. I'll pass it along to the product manager in charge of Rank Tracker. That makes a lot of sense!

Thanks

Jen

Hi everyone!

So sorry about the issues with Rank Tracker. Our engineers are currently working on some fixes that we hope will go out very soon. Also, we're working on some major upgrades to the tool, so in the future you won't run into these sorts of issues.

Thanks!

Jen

Hi Dan,

Check out Wildfire app, I think they might have at least most of what you're looking for. I haven't personally used it but I've heard from other Social Media folks that they like it a lot.

Hope that helps!

Hi! Unfortunately there is only one layout for Facebook business pages now and it's the timeline format. I would use your Facebook page to help you rank for your name and branded terms and to grow your community, get your content out, etc. However, I wouldn't specifically focus the page for ranking for other terms.

For SEOmoz we've gone back and started adding milestones from the company's past to the timeline which shows a fuller picture of the company as a whole. I also like the fact that you can pin a post to stay at the top of the page which will help if you run ads and point to your page.

Hope this helps a bit.

Jen

No, Facebook content doesn't get indexed. Take a look at the SEOmoz Facebook page's cached, text version from google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:chzSCnphy10J:www.facebook.com/SEOmoz&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1. The only content from the whole page is this:

SEOmoz
is on Facebook.To connect with SEOmoz, sign up for Facebook today.32,806 likes · 1,117 talking about thisSEO Software, tools and tutorials. Learn more about SEOmoz PRO: http://www.seomoz.org/featuresI would focus on using Facebook for your brand name. Hope that helps!

It looks like you've changed this to the regular Facebook like button?

I agree with what they've said above, but one piece that's been missed is Google+. Be sure to get a Google+ brand page set up and link it to the website and other social sites. When you do a search these days, not only do they show Google+ pages in the normal SERPs but they also show a callout on the right sometimes. Having a Google+ strategy is a necessity these days: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-every-marketer-now-needs-a-google-strategy

Hi! A while back Tom Critchlow wrote a great post on how to use tools and APIs to gather Social Media data, I think this would help you out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-track-your-social-media-strategy. Check out the post then scroll down to the part about using Google docs to connect to APIs. I think you should be able to do the same thing for your site if you have some sort of feed for your products.

Hope this helps!

Jen

I agree this is definitely the best way to do it. However, since you have set it up under your account, you do have the ability to add other accounts as admins and even transfer ownership to them. So you're not stuck! The link that Sebastian gave above, will walk you through the process of doing that.

18 H1s definitely seems excessive, however in the grand scheme of things this would be a much lesser priority in my book than many other things. I mean if this is the biggest problem, then you're doing quite well. If you're wondering if the developer is doing the right things overall, that might be a different question. I just don't think that worrying about the H1s on the page is that big of a deal. I'd make sure the site is crawlable and all those other high priority things before I spent too much time on this.

Hi Anne!

This is definitely an issue people are running into when setting up brand pages for Google+. The good thing is that you can have multiple people be admins of a brand page. So if you create it under one email address (I created the SEOmoz one under my own personal account), then you can add other admins after it's created.

Here's a great post on getting started with Google+ http://searchengineland.com/google-pages-now-open-for-businesses-brands-places-more-100217

Here's a great post about using Google+ for SEO: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-seo

Here's a great video from Rand about why it's necessary: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-every-marketer-now-needs-a-google-strategy.

Hope this all helps!

Jen

Josh, please read my and Dr. Pete's comments below. Don't nofollow the links, but do use the meta noindex,follow on the page.

I wonder if it's because it's set to only show the page to users in the United States?

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

Do you mean Open Site Explorer? Or are you looking for a site that shows OSE data for multiple URLs at once?

Whoa! You built an app that quick to help answer this question (and obviously get the information in general). That is so cool! I just tried the app, it's neat. Thanks for doing this!

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.