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Spiderman versus Roger is an interesting thing to ponder. They both do like webs, though of different types. Roger may be a bit too robust when it comes to scaling the side of a building, but he really knows his way around the world wide web.

I'd say they could be good pals! Spiderman could help fight crime, and Roger would be there to make sure that everyone who was looking for information about Spiderman online could find it.

Roger helps make the internet work better, as well as sending hugs and smiles.

If Max doubts that Roger is real, you can show him this video of the Harlem Shake where he can see that not only is Roger real, but he has some good dance moves, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGzP3oShkYo

Hi Stubby,

First, take a look at the help page for sites with only one page crawled at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page. If that doesn't solve your problem, send an email to help@seomoz.org and they'll help you figure it out. Thanks!

And spamming lives on.

You're not the only one that's been seeing referrals from that site. Check out this other Q&A at http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-is-eadgear-com. There are two people in there with the same issue. Sadly, no definitive answer, but that thread might be of interest to you.

In doing a quick look at your site, I'm not seeing too many quality backlinks, and there's little content. On everything but the home page, there is just a small amount of content that provides little information, and there are a bunch of ads. There's not much "there" there to convince the engines that your site is a good answer to someone's query.

How do you promote your site? In OpenSiteExplorer, the backlinks I'm seeing are mainly from comments on an audiobook site, plus a (now removed) spammed link on wiki.apache.org, a press release site, and a couple of other spam comments.

This doesn't specifically address Google versus Yahoo!/Bing, but improving the site should help in all of the search engines.

You need to look at why your content/posts are all redirecting to the home page. If I look at the archives for November at http://quicksimpleinsurance.com/2010/11, I see a list of articles, but all of the URLs have /redirect and all go to the home page.

Additional technical issues are needing to choose www or non-www and use proper redirects, adding a robots.txt file, and also making sure you're using the most current version of Wordpress to help keep yourself form being hacked.

Are you the one that created and manage this site, or is it being done by someone else?

And many have community managers that will ban people for comments with links if that appears to be the main reason for commenting on a post. I ban several each day here at Moz.

I would suggest the wikipedia entry be edited to reflect that I'm much more focused on Cupcakes than Gummy Bears.

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Can you write the text such that it isn't conspicuous? Do you have any testimonials that may say something (using Ryan's example) like "I was concerned when my mother needed additional help. I saw relatives in an assisted living facility where the staff just didn't care, and I knew that wasn't what I wanted. I'm so glad I found Sunny Hills Senior Community Living" type of thing?

If you fixed a problem, such as duplicate content, that would mean that we're showing fewer errors and crawling fewer pages, since that problem is fixed. Might that be the case?

Let me see if I can channel EGOL on this one. My guess is he would ask why not invest that effort into adding content to the landing page or the ecommerce site itself?

The normal stuff should be producing the quality content on the pages with the conversion actions, not directory submissions and blog commenting. Make sure you've got a good destination, first.

My main SEO conference experience has been attending several SES and SMX events. I personally prefer the SMX events because I think they tend to have fresher topics, and it's a more comfortable conference to attend in that you have better food, more networking time between sessions, etc. SMX Advanced is good in that it's a somewhat smaller show, and has more advanced topics.

I think some of it depends on your focus. A small, focused seminar like EGOL talks about may be just what you need, or you may want a conference with a wider variety of topics.

Hi! You can crawl up to 3,000 URLs at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test, and download your errors in CSV form. It won't show up in your campaign, but it will let you get started a bit faster than waiting a full week.

You actually have several questions rolled into one here, which is why you perhaps haven't gotten a response yet. I'll tackle a couple of them. You may want to break them out into separate Q&A questions.

First, there's a ton of information at http://moz.com/learn/seo. This can help answer a lot of your questions about SEO, Link Building, and more. Be sure to check out the Moz Academy, with videos from Rand and other leaders about specific SEO topics.

Regarding titles for the locations, do you have physical locations in each of those places? Is there unique content for each of those pages, or is it just search and replace with the place name being the only difference? There may be a larger concern to address than the title tags for locations.

For many of these questions, keep the user in mind. Do they want to see a lot of repetition and unnatural looking text in all of these areas, or do they want to see real content that answers their questions?

A lot of people lately have been creating new accounts and specifically asking about that tool. To an outsider, it looks like there are people related to the company that are trying to get links for and raise awareness of the company. This forum isn't the place for that.

JohnMu, a Google employee, answered this on the Google help forums last month.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=74fb248959989911&hl=en

I wouldn't worry too much about the "priority" values. If you're able to generate them based on useful information from your website, then it's a good idea to do that. If you can't automatically generate them and have too many pages to set the values manually, then it's fine to submit the Sitemap file without "priority" information. The "priority" value gives us a bit more information about your site, but changing values here generally won't lead to visible changes in crawling, indexing, or ranking overall.

Roger had some tired fingers last night as he was updating everything. It is for 1:30pm PDT. The website is now updated, too. So sorry for the confusion!

I've walked in to Sears and asked where the maternity section was. Even mimed a huge belly. Clerk didn't understand what I was talking about. Thankfully, most employees are a bit better than this, and I do like EGOL's approach.

Google would frown on that, according to their content guidelines at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356.

The following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results:

• Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or services for links; or sending someone a “free” product in exchange for them writing about it and including a link

Actually, careful on that one Alan and EGOL. I have seen Google index the text from PDFs that are scanned as images. The company we bought, called Swampworks, was often mentioned in a newsletter that was typed and distributed by mail in the 80s and 90s. Someone scanned them and put them online, and they will show in the SERPs despite being entirely images. You can "view as html" and see the OCR that Google came up with. Some of it works, some of it doesn't.

http://www.google.com/search?q=swampworks+inurl%3Ahullbusters

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This has been happening for a couple of years now apparently. I see where Jen Lopez covered a similar example that Bruce Clay discussed at  the November 2009 pubcon at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/favorite-tidbits-from-pubcon-2009.