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HI Dillon,
I'm so sorry that I came across as harsh and rude. That certainly was not my intention, and I do apologize. In retrospect, I can see how that could have happened, and will work to make sure it doesn't happen again. As Ryan and Robert have mentioned, I am quite active in Q&A and usually leave a much better impression than this. I'm sorry you received this impression, especially as a brand new user.
Keri Morgret
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When there are a couple of thousand other pages like this, yes.
http://www.livingorganicnews.com/games/2011/get-cool-with-selected-berber-carpet-tiles-now/3215/
The subject of the article is about berber carpet tiles, yet the text has links (I used bold) that are totally off base and make no sense. For example:
"The berber carpet tiles might also be renowned for the durability and stain resistance at extended stay motel rates."
"To get rid of the difficult to vacuum Provillus scam dust particles..."
"An important benefit in using berber carpet tiles is a likelihood to eliminate the damaged location alone and replace it with a new carpet tile, a comparatively low-cost way of capatrex scam damage control, to make your ground look just like new."
Hi Geoff,
So sorry about that! We've actually had requests almost that extensive in private Q&A.Without giving specific details, we've been asked for site audits, reviews of business plans, implementing features, and developing work plans for temporary help.
I'm only on the first cup of coffee for the day, and it's already been a long day, so I totally missed the implied sarcasm. 
I just watched a TV show yesterday about buildings being built in Saudi Arabia and the double-paned windows that are actually eight inches apart and have outside air blown up through them to help keep the building heat down. It reduced air conditioning needs by 2/3. That's some pretty amazing content there!
My husband and I watched this while we sat in our rental house with no air conditioning of any type. What about some content for the millions of renters who want air conditioning but can't make permanent changes to their house or apartment? Such as how to safely install an a room air conditioner when the windows only go side to side vs up and down, how to keep your house secure, what size air conditioner do you need, what's the budget option vs the high-end option.
Give me all kinds of info about how to choose the right air conditioner so that I feel comfortable that I'm getting the right thing from your online store and I won't just head on down to Fry's or Sears and buy something there. Give me calculators about how big I need for a particular room size, give me worksheets for properly measuring my windows I buy the right sized kit for sealing the rest of my windows, etc.
You might be surprised at the amount of content you do already have, but don't think of as content. Things like:
Look around for what types of unique things you already have developed outside of the web, and see if you can use that on the web. You've already done the work involved in vetting the content, etc. Now let it work for you, and have people be able to find that answer on your website, without having to write the same email for the 50th time.
Diane, I have removed the domain in question from your post. You are much more likely to have someone buy that domain and then try to sell it to you for a large amount of money than you are to find a random person buy it and sell it to you at cost.
I suggest calling GoDaddy (if they are the ones offering it) and work with them on the phone, or find someone you trust to buy it for you.
Hi Highland,
If you go to http://moz.com/community/q/my-questions you should be able to see the questions you've asked. Hope that helps!
Here are some SEOmoz blog posts that can help provide some inspiration.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/outreach-for-linkbuilding-whiteboard-friday
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-create-and-promote-a-link-worthy-resource-list
Then you can be the first to blaze a path, and not have as much competition! Write about the most unusual piece of industrial equipment you've had for sale, explain some of the common types of equipment, explain things in everyday language.
A similar, though not exact example from my life a week or so ago. My husband is looking to pick up silkspan in large rolls and have it cut into squares to resell. The term for this is "sheeting", but that word can mean so many things that it was of no help online. I could find plenty of equipment to do this, but I didn't want to buy something from Alibaba, I wanted to find a service to do this. I finally found one site that actually talked about doing this, and included the magic phrase of "paper converting". From there, I got what I needed.
Even if you don't have the exact same model for sale twice, can you write about the overall category of equipment?
Toolbar page rank (which is the PR that you're seeing) is only updated infrequently and doesn't necessarily reflect the internal Page Rank that Google uses. More important questions are:
Have you had any warnings or notices in Google Webmaster Tools?
Has your traffic from Google changed?
Have your conversions changed?
Have your rankings changed?
If it's an online-only business, with no storefront, it's not something that SHOULD show up in a local search.
Take a look under settings (not via Yoast, but just regular WP settings) and privacy and make sure that your blog is not set to private.
Also, if you've paid someone a bunch of money to redesign your site, they should really have taken better care than to leave the noindex,nofollow on afterwards. You might want to drop them a note saying they did you a major disservice.
You may be interested in reading this post from Matt Cutts of Google at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/. The post starts with "Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company."
I manage the guest post submissions to YouMoz here at Moz, and just today turned down a 2000-word post with original content because it didn't meet our standards of having actionable information for our readers, and had a blatant and unrelated link to the author's company. The good sties are getting a lot stricter about guest posting, especially in 2014.
Hi! I believe we're having an issue with the keyword rankings. I'm not sure of the full status, as I was on vacation today, but if you open a ticket with the help desk at http://www.seomoz.org/help they'll keep you in the loop. thanks!
For accounting, I think there are some big firms in the last ten years that would disagree that nothing interesting happens.
In all cases, I'd start with the person who answers the phone and answers the email inquiries. What questions do they get all the time? What information do they send out by email? How much of that can you put on the web, to both draw traffic and to ease some of the phone calls and emails you get with basic questions?
Someone can order concrete, but how much hand-holding do they need to choose which type of concrete to order? How do they know how to judge how much to order? If it's for a pathway to my front door where two people live, do I need a different mix than if it was a sidewalk at an elementary school that has 800 kids? What about permeable concrete that lets rain go through?
What size forklift do I need? What considerations do I need to take into account when ordering one? Are there some that are too high for common garages? Do I need any training to use one? What if I need one for just an hour to unload a unit of plywood, can I get the delivery person to wait while I unload so they can take the forklift back? What happens if the plywood delivery is late and you end up serving lunch to the forklift delivery person? (this paragraph is all based on personal experience!)
Those are more for content than link building, I realize. For links, perhaps a local real estate agent has a column about DIY concrete driveways and could recommend your client as a reputable company? Could they sponsor a little league team and be sure that the team has a link back? If they're a member of the BBB or trade organizations, be sure to get links.
I'd ask if the recipes were already on the web and see if I'm going to be fighting a huge duplicate content problem against an established site.
A different forum may have an audience that is better suited to answer this question. Right now, this is like asking for reviews of the best steak sandwich in a vegan forum. For an honest answer to your question, I do suggest a different forum. For trolling, I ask that it not occur on this forum.
The community here is open to helping, but not as open to a question that turns into something where their are being used for a different purpose.
I'm locking this thread.
You'll first want to go into Google Webmaster Tools and see if you have any notices from Google.
This site http://www.mytrafficdropped.com/ has some helpful information to walk you through figuring out what may have happened. If you take a look there and come back and let us know a little more info, we can help you better.