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I just want to add one thing. If you looking at points to determine the validity of someone's insights or SEO knowledge, I wouldn't. For example, I have 160 some odd points, but almost all of those are from me asking questions. Not from me answering them. Whenever someone is kind enough to answer one of the many questions I post, I look at their thumbs ups, thumbs downs and good answers as one factor in how much stock I take in what they say.

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Ruben

Hi Miriam,

I absolutely will followup. I'll mark it in my calendar. Thank you so much for such a thorough response! That was incredibly informative; I really appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Ruben

Does anyone have the promotional code for this? Do we get it for having a paid moz account?

Thanks,

Ruben

This may be way over-the-top, but have you checked if OG tags would violate the regulations at all, or if they could potentially be a violation down the road? Granted, even though I haven't read the regulations, I don't think it should...but it's just something I'd double-check. I could see a potential problem if the wording is ambiguous and a competitor wants to stir up trouble for you.

No, I just searched the questions, and they all seemed to address different types of links than mine. But, thank you! I will read that now.

We have four pages that have over 100 links (danger, danger from what I gather), but they're not spammy footer links. They are FAQ videos for our four main areas of practice. Does that make a difference? If not, should I just take half the questions on each page and make four additional pages? That strikes me as a worse UX, but I don't want to get penalized either.

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Ruben

"It's also one reason why the terms for guest posting and pr and not about as much on here." I didn't understand that part, if you don't mind clarifying.

I saw Moz has discussed PR web in earlier posts, but they are mostly months to years old. I'm wondering if PR Web is a good service? A lot of my competitors use it, but it seems just like a paid link to me. If for whatever reason, PR Web is an approved loophole, does anyone have any suggestions on which plan to purchase?

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Ruben

It's going to take you a while, but you can do it manually. Go to your admin panel, then on the left side, click "new likes." Then you will see a list of people's profiles with a "make administrator tab" and next to that an "x." Click the "x" and it will remove them from your page. Repeat.

that's the best solution I have. Wish I could give you an easier way.

Good luck!

Ruben

We have an old site we are trying to figure out what to do with it. Right now, we have it as a parked domain, but were considering changing it to an addon domain with a redirect. I have no reason why I chose parked vs addon, other than I had to pick one. Is one superior than the other? What are the pro's and con's for these?

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Ruben

This morning, I did a non-personalized search for a keyword phrase with "attorney" in the phrase. No maps were triggered, and we had a good ranking. But, when I substituted "attorney" for "lawyer," a bunch of local map listings popped up and pushed us to the second page. Any idea what attorney wouldn't have any maps, but lawyer would?

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Ruben

Point taken. Thanks for the response. Now, I just have to get Google index the snippet with the phone number from here on out.

People are more likely to call us, than email us. However, if they're using a mobile device, there's a click to call button on that site. My question is this: google does not include our phone number in our meta description. I could try to get the description changed, but it doesn't seem like it would make that big of a deal for just the desktop site.

Am I missing something about the importance of the phone number on a desktop site? Any experience with this situation?

Thanks,

Ruben

Great, thanks so much!

I know this is vague, but what's the criteria for "high quality?" We were looking at doing this for a few of my friends who practice in other areas of law than we do. They don't have any red flags in their back links, and we are all tied to the same industry (if that matters, I thought it did?) but they aren't extremely popular or anything. Does "high quality" mean they have to get a good amount of traffic and press or just not violate any guidelines?

I'm sure that's a tough question to nail down, but appreciate any thoughts you might have.

Always appreciative,

Ruben

Hi everyone,

I can't seem to find a concrete answer on how anchor text is going, so I'm hoping you all can shed some light on it. We were asked to do a few guest blog posts, and I wanted to figure out what's the most effective way to use the backlinks. Granted, I know user experience is most important, but since we have control over the topic, I can tailor it so that won't be a problem. Other than user experience, how should I approach it? Things I'm considering:

1. Should I use branded text or keyword text? Kemp & Ruge Law Group vs car accident attorney? I've seen some reports of exact match anchor text causing some penalties, but I'm thinking that's for like thousands of links. We barely have any.

2. Should we point the links to our homepage to help our domain authority or to the page with the keyword phrase we want to rank higher?

Thanks,

Ruben

Unfortunately, no. It's on all (or at least most) of our promotional items. Thanks for the suggestion, though! I had not thought to even consider that option.

On the off chance you're in the legal industry, http://www.martindale.com/ is good, though they pretend they aren't a directory.

It's a wordpress site.

http://www.kempruge.com/

Well, I can't say "I'm sure," because I don't know how to check if it's archived. I do know that, I didn't archive it. I also know that I changed it on both contact forms. And, when you enter data into both contact forms, they go to the new email address not  the info@ email address.