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I would say no as well...

IMHO

Usually when you have to resort to talking about D level tv personalites on your home page, then you might not be the greatest at internet marketing. Also their own link portfolio is VERY weak (at first glance)

The methodology they use is a good one for overall marketing though (Focus your message and build brand and expert recognition) It seems to integrate all aspects into one "package", but it seems they do not do their own SEO/SEM well (except for the most general of tactics)

I would say for offline marketing they may be great but LOL for online they do not seem so great at face value

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At one point this was taken as a "suggestion", but I believe almost all search engines automatically ignore this nowadays.

I think even when it was a valid command, it was still more often than not ignored by Googlebot

Shane

Hi,

Our form system needs a major overhaul, but very short on time and resources...

Can anyone suggest or know of a contact system prebuilt that can be integrated into HTML that has send, tracking and reporting abilities?

One of the main reasons for this is we are moving away from Tomcat, and the form system we currently have utilizes servlets....

I have not been able to find much on this subject, so not even sure if there is such a thing?

Thanks

You May have already done all this, but just in case others may be experiencing...

Just as a first step i would remove the MOZBAR (Not disable actually remove fully)

Second clear all cache and cookies (clearing all your PC's temp and prefetch can sometimes assist as well, but not necessarily relevant. And yes i know there are many articles out there that say do not clear prefetch, but they are incorrect...

Next reinstall the Addon

Just from years of support, this is the first steps I would take on any addon no matter the author. Add ons source code is rarely the issue, and most often system specific. But of course there are always exceptions to the rule!!

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Realized after making blanket statement "Add ons source code is rarely the issue, and most often system specific" ..... That could be misinterpreted. Speaking specifically to hung processes, this is caused by a DLL interacting incorrectly, and if your temp and cache is full, this adds to the issue especially in this instance because the browser itself begins reacting slower, because it is having to shift around data every time a query is made. In the instance of Mozbar, I would assume it makes a "call" on almost every interaction with browser.  This is the reason for both the Temp and cache clear as well as reinstall. (Just to verify it gets a "fresh start" at interacting with system resources)

But of course this could be the simple fact that the addon is making so many calls.... Hope i cleared something up (probably not LOL)

Safe may be the wrong outlook

This strategy is definitely employed by many, but i think they are slowly seeing the returns on these types of strats slipping. Not to say they do not work, but not sure it is a good idea in such a small niche (probably a pretty big SEO footprint will be left)

If you have articles that call for linking to your site that has a logical and informational purpose, then this is a good strat, but just throwing out content with anchor text to your site is sometimes a waste and possibly hurtful.

IMHO - Forget so many word presses and concentrate on having a blog on your site that generates quality informational content that is related to your niche both directly and abstractly.  This is a site link building strategy that can payoff in incoming links and traffic.

Now this is not to say that other avenues should not be taken, but if you have lots of content that can be created then i would keep alot of it on your site mostly in one place so you are not spreading all that potential traffic to alternate sites not on your domain (wordpresses)

Just an idea

I had been wondering the same thing... but as it says here it is understandable that it takes time as the web is only getting bigger, so the algorithm can be unpredictable, also network conditions can vary speed, even bandwidth usage I'm sure. You may just have to explain to your clients as we all know how unpredictable the internet is. I know clients don;t even understand what a simple backlink is, but it is our job to interpret the internet for them, and sometimes expectations are unexpectedly modified.

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule

IMHO

Pretty much the same... I use SEOmoz tool, Keywordspy and Adwords

Not sure how your IT Dept is about LAMP stacks....

http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-wordpress-on-oracle-enterprise-linux-lamp-stack-2010-07-15/

I am of course assuming you are using Linux and Oracle....

And that your IT dept will allow a MYSQL database, as this is something you will not be able to get around.

Hope this helps in some way

This really does not fit the description of cloaking, the content is the same, just different languages right?

If this is the case IMO this would not bee seen as cloaking as your are not delivering different content, just user experience.

Also as long as you are not separating IP delivery by source (meaning sending spiders somewhere different than humans) this would not be the definition of cloaking.

WIKI:

One use of IP delivery is to determine the requestor's location, and deliver content specifically written for that country. This isn't necessarily cloaking. For instance, Google uses IP delivery for AdWords and AdSense advertising programs to target users in different geographic locations.

As of 2006, many sites have taken up IP delivery to personalise content for their regular customers. Many of the top 1000 sites, including sites like Amazon (amazon.com), actively use IP delivery. None of these have been banned from search engines **as their intent is not deceptive.  **    Keyword here..... Deceptive 

Hi,

Last weekend (Or the one before that, they run together) Google did a PR update. Google even took a hit from a PR 10 to PR 9

Keep tracking your campaign and traffic for anomalies, if you see a unexplained decline, then worry, otherwise i would just keep focusing on creating quality content, gaining quality links and making sure your site is free of "spammy" SEO techniques and duplicate content.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. From a marketing perspective and knowing what i know about marketing and sales closing tactics I tend to feel that a company no matter where they point you will never be the counter argument, always the pro argument.

This is why your suggestion to me seems counter intuitive as i had obviously already picked out a specific product, and done research on it.

Also not to mention that if they had readily available information that proved they made domain (or brand) trust metrics with search engines go up (especially knowing what we now know about Panda), why would they not have that front in center as SEO's would be lining up at the door for that opportunity, in my opinion.

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Hmmmm

I guess the wording of case study (meaning actual research done by a third party to investigate something or research) was missed.

Of course a company will tell me what i want to hear....

I was asking for specific case studies (that apparently do not exist because no one can seem to grasp the question) not a recommendation from the company itself.

Is SEOMOZ the best SEO tool suite? (i think so) but i would not recommend calling SEOMOZ to get that info..... seems kind of counter intuitive, granted companies "spin" data to look the best always in their favor...

Hi,

I am not talking about SSL, I am talking about the Trust Seal which DOES improve CTR as the seal is shown in search engines.

Of course SSL would not affect as this is only a certificate, but the Verisign Trust seal is an identity confirmation and a "thumbs up" for security aspects.

Hi,

Does anyone have any evidence or case studies that Verisign Trust seal actually raises trust metrics?

I know there are the obvious benefits such as better CTR and Conversion (which could in turn raise trust metrics). But i am looking for actual sighted examples of Verisign increasing trust signals to search engines discrediting the correlation between search metrics improving.

I modified this as i think people are getting confused between SSL products and the specific Versign product i am talking about Verisign Trust Seal seen here. https://www.verisign.com/trust-seal/index.html?tid=gnps

This has nothing to do with security for transactions it is more geared towards all around safer user experience including Malware scans and enhanced "stand out" in SERPS. It is not just a Domain validation but an organizational or Branding authentication check"

With that being said, the question still stands Does anyone have any case studies or direct examples of trust being elevated in metrics for the specific product mentioned above.

Thanks.

I have lost my window

The admin team has already began tasking and beginng save.... It is a major Virtualization migration, and my requests had to be in by yesterday. Ohh well, it will be only 23 hours and i convinced them to just route to a shutdown pool generating a 503 since they will not cloine this late....

Thanks for the help though i will keep this in mind for next time ( but i get my brand spanking new virtual environment next month soooo i will be able to have more wiggle room)

Hmmm so it sounds like it may not affect as the change is being made internally at the firewall through tables, and should not affect TTL since the domain is still going to the same nameserver.

Last nights question http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-add-503-status-to-iis-6-0

I found a few crack hacks, but did not like any of them especially since the IIS has multiple pools with applications on them.

Thanks for the help I love the discussion

Okay,

So yesterday I asked a question about setting up custom error pages in IIS 6.0 to properly do a 24 hour 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. With no answer, (not to the despair of the community as the question has NO simple or easy answer

So after a night of dreaming about solutions

I realized that we have the ability to just clone the site.... So basically it would just become a redundant server or mirror site for 24 hours.

With all that being said the question is.....

What SEO pitfalls might I encounter from this if any

I suspect none as load balancing and redundancy is a fact of life in the WEB world, especially since it will be a MAX of 24 hours downtime for maint.

Hi,

Our IS department is bringing down our network for maintenance this weekend for 24 hours. I am worried about search engine implications.

all Traffic is being diverted, and the diverted traffic is being sent to another server with IIS 6.0

From all research i have done it appears creating a custom 503 error message in IIS 6 is not possible  Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb877968.aspx

So my question is does anyone have any suggestions on how to do a proper 503 temporarily unavailable in IIS 6.0 with a custom error message?

Thanks

If canonical is the problem, Google could have seen what you describe as a way to try to funnel all the rank.

Much more info is needed such as...

How duplicate is the content, remember it must be very similar or exact. cross domain canonical is allowed (and actually boosted traffic in my case, but my content is EXACT duplicates and needed due to technical operations issues)

Have you made any other recent changes to your site structure or marketing tactics?

Some SEO's say yes as they believe that any anchor text linking is beneficial, but like Acorn-Internet said, value to the user should be #1 as if there is value to a user, then there is value to search engines (most of the time)

I would suggest against it as Google is on a quality rampage right now it seems, so questionable tactics that have negligible SEO benefits (such as this) should be avoided in my opinion.

w00t!