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When the big update came through a little over two years ago about page speed, I was working on a site with load time issues. I did see quite the drop in organic referrals from Google after that update was pushed, while organic referrals from Bing and Yahoo continued to increase. I was working in-house at the time, so I don't have a lot of other sites to judge at that time, but I did see distinct change in that one site.

I also agree with you that load time affects users and their browsing and conversion behavior. And even though "everybody has broadband" there are a lot of people on poor public (or conference) wifi connections or on their phones, and pagespeed is quite important to them.

Hi Chris,

If it's a product-related question, you can often get your question answered faster in Q&A than in our help desk. If there's a billing question, or question that involves a URL you'd prefer not to share, out help desk is available at https://moz.com/help/contact or by email at help@moz.com.

The Getting Started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started that Lesley mentioned is also a great resource for getting your feet wet with Moz.

Hi Josh,

We're going through some of the older unanswered questions and seeing if people still have questions or if they've gone ahead and implemented something and have any lessons to share with us. Can you give an update, or mark your question as answered?

Thanks!

They're automatically chosen. If the keyword is ranking in the top 50 of your preferred search engine, the keyword is added. We have some more information at http://moz.com/help/pro/on-page-reports that should help.

We have two completely different crawling systems. We have on crawler for your website, where you enter in your URL and we crawl your site looking for problems. We have a different crawler for OSE that goes and looks at the web in general and crawls for links. The two crawlers do not talk to each other, so it is actually understandable that OSE may not have data on the site. OSE doesn't have the same index size as Google, so we don't see all the links that are actually out there (though we're working all the time on improving this!).

I've always liked Pinnacle Promotions at http://www.pinnaclepromotions.com/. The store is easy to use, has good descriptions, filters, product not found page, etc. I have no relation with them; they're just a site I ran across when looking for promotional goods that stood out to me as someone having paid attention to  a lot of factors that make a good site.

Hi Chris,

We actually only very rarely remove questions in Q&A. In this case, four different users have volunteered their time to answer the question, and removing the question would be Moz removing their time and effort from the community. You can edit the title of your question and the content of the question, but the replies will remain. It will also help users in the future who may have a similar question.

Thanks for understanding!

Keri

Just a couple of days ago we had a post in YouMoz about 15 Smart Ways to Find Guest Posting Opportunities. You might want to check that out too.

There should be something about switching back to Pro. If you don't see it, send an email to help@moz.com and we'll help you out there.

If you download the CSV report, we list the referring page there. We know it isn't obvious and we're working on making this a little easier to find.

Have you checked the response code of your custom 404 page and made sure that it's returning a 404 and not a 200?

I see a number of pages indexed, including the home page. I notice that you're running on an older version of WordPress. While likely not related to your question, I highly suggest that you make a backup of your site, and upgrade to the current version of wordpress to prevent attacks on the site from security vulnerabilities (that can end up killing your rankings).

I also suggest logging into Google Webmaster Tools, if you haven't already, and seeing what information is there about your site that could help.

I agree that the sub-pages seem a bit keyword-stuff and repetitive.

Hi DittoEffect,

Can you give a little more background on the twitter profile links? The links have had the nofollow attribute for years now, with one of the more "recent" additions being the bio link getting a nofollow (see Sugarrae's post at http://www.sugarrae.com/social-media-sphere/twitter-lays-down-for-google/ as one of many talking about this). I think it would have been huge news had the nofollows been removed, and I haven't seen anyone else talk about this.

That is correct. OSE doesn't have the server power that Google does, and we can't find all the backlinks, but we do try to find the most valuable links.

The Just Discovered does rely on Twitter. Google Webmaster Tools is getting better at showing newer links, and showing recent links. Have you dug around in there yet?

We had a great guide posted about this in February that you might want to look at. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos

I looked at the URL in your traffic report, and went to a random page. I chose this one on finding business accounting software. http://www.urhowto.com/business-finance/accounting-small-businesses/

The inline ads are for umbilical cord banking and baby bags, the suggested websites are for solar power, and the most recent comments are for articles on babies, fashion, and relationships. Maybe looking at making your recent comments and ads and things more related by category? If I'm in a business section, show me only comments from business?

Do you have your analytics set so you can see where people are clicking out? Are they going to the resources you're suggesting in your text? Are they clicking on ads? ie are you actually making money, even if they leave?

You still have the benefits of traffic for your site and visibility, and people who see the article may also write about you and include followed links.

We're working on supporting https websites, but don't have that online at the moment. I'm asking the help desk to come in and comment on this post and give some more details.

For Twitter, we do have a partnership between Followerwonk and Buffer (more info at http://moz.com/blog/followerwonk-partners-with-buffer). Other than that, no, we don't at this time.