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Hi Everyone,

Over the weekend, we got a number of spam emails sent through our contact form, but what makes this unusual is that it went to an email address that is no longer listed in the contact form. We used to have it go to our info@, but not anymore. The new email address has not got any spam, but the old one still is. Those spam emails all say at the bottom "This mail is sent via contact form (top) on Kempruge website."

How is this happening? What can be done about it? We have added captcha, but that only seems to help the site that is currently linked to the contact form, not the old one.

Thanks everyone,

Ruben

Also, read the two responses this question http://moz.com/community/q/is-there-a-paid-link-hierarchy. I asked something really similar about my competition, and two people gave great responses.

I can answer this part: "If the blog is well written and is meaningful  is it OK and if google ever decide it's paid and don't like it, wouldn't it be better to be page one for 6 months and then recover?"

Unless you make enough to retire or only plan on being in the business short term, then no. If you get hit with any of Google's penalties it takes A LOT of work to get it removed.

However, I understand your frustration entirely! I bet most of us do. What I have learned the past 6 months doing this, is the sooner you can get over the whole "Google's a hypocrite and life's not fair" mentality, the sooner you will learn how to build links the right way. Once that starts to happen, and it will if you take full advantage of this community, you will be glad you did the "right" way.

Good luck,

Ruben

Hey Chris,

I don't have anymore context; it was just a thought experiment. I'm doing my best to wrap my head around in foreseeable issues I might have.

Thanks for the help,

Ruben

Well, unless I missed something, does that mean someone from another website could copy one of my posts, target different keywords, add a rel canonical tag, and suffer no penalty? A lot of my content would be universal, if it were not targeted to my service area. For example, why you should hire a divorce attorney in Tampa?

Could someone in Orlando just do the above steps and be fine? (Change Tampa to Orlando, Target Orlando, add a rel canonical).

Thanks!

Thanks for the responses and clearing this up for me. I appreciate it.

Let's say I have two duplicate pages, A and B. However, A has 5 external links and B has 3 _different _external links. If I add the rel canonical tag to B, so that A is the "master page" do I also lose whatever link juice was going to B from the 3 external links?

I'm a little confused by the responses to this question. From what I read, you all seem to agree that their videos are poor content and essentially, web spam. Yet, you all also agree this a good campaign. Do you all just mean in the short term/ Are they in any danger of being penalized here? If not, does that have to do with different Google guidelines for youtube blackhat/whitehat SEO vs a website?

Thanks,

Ruben

This youtube video dominates the top search phrases for my area. The problem is that this JUST happened. It wasn't there last week, and the video has only been uploaded a month. Also, this law firm has not been ranking for anything that I have seen until now. It's all just out-of-nowhere.

I saw the WBF about Fresh Content, but there's not a lot of Google News or dates referenced in any of the other results. This video looks like a great outlier to me, but I'm guessing I'm just missing something. Any ideas? I'd love to mimic this success!

As always, thanks everyone!

• Ruben

I just don't understand how we can have a  long list of 1's and 2's in google, but in Yahoo and Bing, some are close, some are in the 20's and some are not even in the top 50. Is there something that Yahoo and Bing care about, that google doesn't? I know about the meta language being more important for Yahoo and Bing than Google, so I added that. There's nothing I can do about the domain age, which I know is important to Yahoo and Bing. Is there anything else?

thanks,

Ruben

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Thank you both for the help, and Patrick that was a very insightful comment. Thanks for showing me their side. It actually makes perfect sense (albeit sadly for me).

• Ruben

Great, thanks for the insight!

Ruben

Hey Jonathan,

Thanks for the response. When you buy themes, how do you check how fast they will be? I know page speed depends a lot on the content, but are there any giant red flags you can see in a theme that would make you say no to it?

Thanks,

Ruben

Believe it or not, you can get good writers from craigslist. I've hired some for a few pieces before. Granted, you will have to sift through some trash, but it's easy to tell who the good ones are. The good ones will have links to their published work, and then you can evaluate their work for yourself.

Good luck,

Ruben

Does anyone have any RWD WP templates they would suggest? It's for a friend of mine that is starting a local solar panel installation company. For the beginning, he likely will not have more than a handful of categories and subcategories. I'd say no more than 50 total pages.

Any suggestions would help. He doesn't want to spend more than $50 - $100, but he's not married to that figure if it's worth it.

Thanks everyone,

Ruben

I'm not sure if they are exactly the same, but the intro videos are at moz academy, here http://moz.com/academy.

I want to suggest to Moz they add "mobile" as a Q/A category. Agree? Disagree? Is this the right place to suggest that?

Thanks,

Ruben

Hi Everyone,

We used DudaMobile to create our mobile site, but there hosting is too slow. When I told them, we want to switch, they said we couldn't. I have not got any specifics from them yet, other than, "all our mobile sites are hosted by us." Is this even possible?

I was under the impression that you could switch hosting companies freely. Sure, you might have to pay off the rest of your contract or something, but they gave me the impression it was impossible, not expensive. Does anyone have any experience with this or them?

Thanks,

Ruben

Hi,

The tool is designed to tell you the difficulty of the keyword across different engines, so in your case, a 62% in bing and a 74% in google. However, it is not designed to tell you the search volume across the different engines. As you can see in your screenshot, all the numbers are based on "Bing Search Volume (Exact Match)," so all the numbers will be the same, because they are coming from the same place. The only difference will be the difficulty.

I hope this helps,

Ruben

How do you all handle homepage optimization, if you (or a client) offers a variety of services? Our homepage has the strongest link profile of any of our pages, but it lists all the areas of law we cover. Therefore, it has too many keywords and none really rank well. Should we just pick our most profitable areas and optimize for that?

www.kempruge.com in case anyone would benefit from looking at the actual page.

Thanks,

Ruben