Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Obviously Moz is in a different industry than cottage rentals, but one of the biggest things we heard about our redesign was that it was not responsive and did not render well on mobile devices. At least for our audience, they've come to expect that the site will be usable on something besides just their primary computer.

From the perspective of a small business owner though, I get you. I wouldn't imagine too many people are interested in ordering a USS Iowa hull from their phones, but I could be wrong. In your case, I would think it would depend on how far in advance people book your cottages. If there are some available with only a few days of notice, I would think having a site that works well for mobile would help when people are on a holiday and looking for their next place to stay.

Was this it Stephen?

http://www.seomoz.org/q/same-article-in-different-directories

However, DO NOT mention Yelp. Yelp does not allow you to in any way encourage customers to leave reviews, even without a contest. Be sure to read and understand the guidelines of review sites before trying to encourage people to leave reviews.

Thanks Gordon, I (and SEOmoz) appreciate your support. This was certainly not the easiest Q&A post I've ever written.

I don't believe this has anything to do with Wikipedia. Google has been, in some cases, showing site/folder names in place of URLs for a couple of years now. There's a post on it at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/06/google-experiments-with-removing-urls.html from 2011.

Hi Askshopper,

We did brainstorm about several things we could do. We believe this is the best way to be empathetic to all of our community members. Private Q&A takes time away from being able to provide quality answers and oversight in Public Q&A, where a larger number of people could benefit from the answers.

There are actually very few users who ask a question each and ever single month. Even if we dropped the ratio to one question every two or three months, it would not significantly impact the number of questions asked in Private Q&A.

George,

Thanks for being so understanding!

We wanted to be sure that people in your situation did have plenty of time to ask any questions they've been meaning to ask and have put aside. If you haven't asked a question yet in January, you have the opportunity to ask three more questions (January, February, and March) before private Q&A winds down.

Hi Stephen,

There will be faster responses in public Q&A from associates, for value that is specifically related to Q&A. We've also added many features for paying members in recent months, including FollowerWonk and GetListed.

We would never, ever make the questions public. We will keep the private questions available to you as long as we can, but at some point they will be removed from our system.

We sure do! The code is SMX14MOZ. Thanks for asking!

Here's a blog post on the history of SEOmoz. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-history-of-seomoz. Rand writes that in 2004, "In an attempt to grow my skillset, I participate vigorously on half a dozen SEO forums and eventually build SEOmoz.org as a site to host my thoughts, struggles and discoveries."

I also watched Rand speak last week, and he stated that he never intended it to be this type of business site, it was originally a blog to write about what he was going through.

Hi Tait,

There's not a way to see that right now, but that is an interesting suggestion. I'll pass it along to the team and see if we can add a "threads I want to watch" type feature to the queue.

Hmmm...my first thought is that if it's sudden duplicate content and doubling of errors is that perhaps Roger found both the www and non-www versions of the site?

I don't know of such a tool, but one thing to try would be to set your location in Google to the city you want to target, and see if that site (blog in question) ranks when your city is set to that location.

It'll take a little bit of time for OSE to catch up and see the 301 redirects. For now, don't panic!

Hi Daniel,

I've asked that someone from the help desk come and comment on this when they get a chance. I know in the other thread people have reported this to the help desk already, so I'm sure they're working on it. You're not the only one, and SEOmoz is aware of the problem.

Here are the details about the banner (it's for brand pages). https://business.twitter.com/en/advertise/enhanced-profile/

Ryan is correct. The help desk staff is busy responding to questions from the help desk. It's a small percentage of the questions in Q&A that are related to the SEOmoz software, so it makes less sense for them to spend time over here instead of in the help desk.

Do send a request to the help desk (as easy as emailing help@seomoz.org) and if you want you can tell us where what they've said.

Thanks so much!

If you give him a 301 redirect it should help him, and the search engines, which is the most important part.

If you can touch base with your IT team and see if they changed something and ask them to change it back, that'd be a good place to start. If you can share your URL here, we can look at it and help direct you to the easiest way to fix things (if it is the www and non-www problem), or help identify the source of the problem.

Check out BlueGlass. They often write about infographics on their blog (this post http://www.blueglass.com/blog/avoid-ordinary-infographics-with-these-7-steps/ is from yesterday), and they also offer infographic services (I can't personally vouch for them, but did see information about it on their home page).