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Yeah very good point!

I was just wondering because I'm still in the learning stage of PHP I can see how quickly the code can get out of control!

I think SEOmoz use CakePHP when I was nosing at their jobs page. A lot of people reccommend CodeIgniter on StackExchange as well, so I might check that out.

I better start learning to use one of these then. Can I ask you to let me know which one you go for please?

Do you think it's essential to use a Framework when building a system like this?

We have the same problem as well. They've been ranking for a long time with dodgy tactics.

Totally agree with EGOL though, staying clean is the key, play long term!

Lots of good signs in Webmasters with impressions and crawl stats

Hey,

I think there are a few things to look at when ranking a video on youtube. . .

• Comments
• Video Responses
• Likes & Shares
• Website Embeds
• Title & Description
• Amount Of Views/Duration They Watch The Video For

Thats what I would look at anyway, hopefully someone else will give us their input too
 

I hope you can view this. . .

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo

I watched it just the other day, it was awesome

I would second the Screaming Frog tool, just used that yesterday and it's great! Might even buy a licence for it now. The free versions great though.

Hey,

Unless there is a specific reason for not using a plugin I would install Yoasts SEO plugin. It is much easier to manage all the meta stuff with.

Here is a link: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

It's also totally free

Thanks Keri!

This is very interesting, I'm getting conflicting opinions from the guys here at work and on the Q&A here. Like you say, some major website use the tag as well.

It would be awesome if anyone from Moz has some actual data on this, hint, hint

You can read more about the meta discription on the offical google website here

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

They do use meta description, though bear in mind they don't have to. So you will find that in some rsearch results they will change it.

You can read (and watch a video) about the meta keywords here

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

That's Matt Cutts, who is head of web spam at google.

Hope that clear things up for you!

Thanks for your suggestions guys!

Hey,

I have Google Analytics on my website, like most people, but I was looking at some other analytics and testing tools like heat maps, click maps, A/B, etc.

I was hoping that some of you could recommend a few that you use to see where pages are going wrong, track user behaviour and to how improve conversion rate.

I have had a look at a few websites like:

https://www.clicktale.com/
https://www.optimizely.com/

It would also be interesting to know how acurate these tools actually are, they seem quite legit.

Cheers

Hi Ryan,

I hope you are well.

I had the exact same thing yesterday, by the time I got to the page it had been edited. Well, I'm sceptical it was ever there actually because I could not find it in the edit history.

Funny thing is, is that it was that exact same wiki page! I just deleted it, perhaps Takeshi Young is right then

Someone must be experimenting with that page.

I had this issue as well a while ago, but it seemed to have fixed itself.

I spoke to Abe Schmidt about it, so it's worth emailing him on help@seomoz.org.

Sent accross, marked for your attention

I can see a universal result so I assume that's fine.

Did they say when the update was released?

I got the email today with the incorrect rankings and just checked the one that's not correct and it's the same as it was this morning

Perhaps just taking time to update on the system or something

What was the email address you contacted them on?

I thought I was going crazy, thank god haha

I've seen a difference of 11 on one. I was jumping for joy all morning then someone checked

After checking them from the report I was emailed, some of them seem to be incorrect, or is it something my end?

To be fair the majority of them are correct, I'm just querying it.

Thank you so much for both your quick responses, they are great

WordPress is a lot quicker to set up, and has all the functions that we need. Plus millions of plugins that will be extremely helpful, not to mention the quote for a WordPress site we got was about £2000 cheaper!

The only worry I had was that the guy who gave us a quote for the custom build was building a website for a similar company to ours and they were moving away from WordPress. But I guess every website is different and they must need functionality that WordPress can't offer.

Hello fellow mozzers,

Hope you are all well.

I am looking to get a website done and I am struggling to decide whether to get a custom build website site done or a website built on the WordPress platform.

Would you be able to share your experiences and advice/suggestions on what you would use, and why? (pros and cons, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards