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What do you mean by share other blog content?

If you mean repost the content on your site, you need to look at the original site for their policies on copying the content, and to see if it is copyright. Many blogs do have their content copyright, and may file a DMCA notice if you republish their posts without permission.

It's not a penalty as much as it is Google doesn't want to show searchers lots of identical content in the results, and just won't show what they consider duplicate.

Do you mean that you have a blog on your site, and on wordpress.com? Is there a reason for having both? Perhaps we could help you figure out a better overall solution.

I'd like to add that what gets shared by one audience doesn't necessarily get shared by a different audience. Some companies get a lot of product support questions via Facebook, and their Twitter feed is where they put out their fun photos of the office. For Moz, it's the opposite. We generally get more responses from people on Facebook by sharing what the office looked like during the World Cup, and much of our Twitter presence is responding to questions.

I just answered this question where you asked it on another thread. In brief, sharing content does not mean copying and pasting the content, it means sharing a link or otherwise telling people about the source of the content.

Sharing an article is not the same as republishing an article. You can go on Facebook or Twitter and say "Wow, this is a great post about xyz" and put a link to the post. Or you can say how you really disagree about the post, write your own post, link back to the original post.

For shareable content, we're also talking about things like my mother writing about her cross-country travels on her blog, and including links to sites that talk in-depth about a place that she visited. She's sharing the links and the content (by sharing the link) with her readers because that site goes into much more detail than she could about a particular place.

You can only see a small percentage of the keywords driving traffic, due to (not provided) and Google not sending data on the vast majority of keywords.

Hello Akhilesh,

I just wanted to leave a quick note that Andy is another Moz user like you, and not an employee or contractor with Moz. He's volunteering his time to give you answers, and appears to be on a different continent (and time zone) from you.

In a couple of other questions, people have suggested that you read the Beginner's Guide to SEO. Have you had a chance to do this yet? There's a section on link building at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links that you may find helpful.

Believe me, I'd love to find the magic bribe to get EGOL to write on YouMoz again! I'm the same way, however, in that I can dash out a response in Q&A or an individual email to someone in 20 minutes, but take two months to turn that into a blog post.

It's generally a technique that is prohibited by companies that people hired to do this type of thing. For example, people would put up gigs on Amazon Mechanical Turk, asking people to search for a particular phrase, to help them get into autosuggest.

Hello Funnls,

It looks like we responded on a Friday afternoon to your ticket. Our help desk is not regularly staffed on the weekends, so that's why there's a bit of a delay in your latest response. We do have information about our phone support policy at http://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/phone-support.

However, you DO want to be consistent and have either all www or no www, and have one redirect to the other, so you don't have both versions (www and non-www) indexed.

Is there a way you could have one Facebook page per location?

What happens when you go into GWT and fetch fancydiamonds.net as googlebot? Is there some reason that perhaps googlebot isn't seeing the redirects correctly?

Is it a better use of your time and money to create the content yourself, or spend the time managing this firm?

A lot of the methods listed on both sites are fairly outdated. You may be interested in the moves that the press release sites themselves are making these days, such as today's post at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-pr-newswire-changes-18770.html.

In person, if you're at MozCon or SMX Advanced, where Roger comes out to visit. Otherwise, he'll tweet you a virtual hug if you remind him when you're at 50 MozPoints.

For being a link building service, neither of these sites have more than two linking root domains showing up in Open Site Explorer.

Both sites set off many alarm bells for me. In my personal opinion, you're going to spend a lot more money cleaning up after a service like this than you would for the service itself.

In looking at your site, I'd focus on your site first before worrying about links. What is it about your site that is different from other sites selling refurb computers? What do you have to offer your customers? Has your site ever been compromised (http://www.myeasypc.com/brands/Jimmy-Choo.html looks kind of odd).

A couple more thoughts here, based on your revised question.

You'll want to figure out how those links to the rogue subdomain have been generated, so you don't just move them over to the new CMS (such as if it's in body text that gets wholesale copied without being examined).

If those old subdomains are not needed at all anymore, I'd get them removed entirely if you can, or at the very least blocked in robots.txt. You can verify each subdomain as its own site in Google Webmaster Tools, then request removal of those subdomains if the content is gone or if it's excluded in robots.txt.

You might suggest to the dev team that they password-protect things like this so they don't get accidentally crawled in the future, use robots.txt to block, etc.

If you have known dev subdomains that are needed, and you know about them as the SEO and make sure they have robots.txt on them, you might want to use a code monitoring service like https://www.polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/ to monitor the contents of the robots.txt file. It will let you know if the file has been changed or removed (good idea for the main site too). I've seen dev sites copied over to live sites, and the robots.txt copied over too, so everything is now blocked on the new live site. I've also seen dev sites with a data refresh from the live site, and the robots.txt from the live site is now on the dev site, and the dev site gets indexed.

I'm wanting to make sure I understand the question. You're not really looking to manage the Google Places / G+ accounts from the standpoint of local SEO and managing name/address/phone, but rather looking for a social media solution where you can post to several accounts at once, correct?

I'm asking to make sure we can route this question to the right person, and you get the best answer.

Thanks!

Hi! I have a couple of ideas, and sent you a quick email to the account on your Moz profile.

You may also find it helpful to do a google search for:

site:ourdomain.com -inurl:www

This will show you all the non-www subdomains that Google has indexed, in case some others have slipped on in and you don't want them to be indexed.

Looks like you may have been hacked at some point. Go to Google in incognito mode, and type site:vonderhaar.com and start going back a few pages. This page is an example of a blog page that is filled with spam http://www.vonderhaar.com/blog/kprsd40080f/. Looks like it might have just happened, as I see today's date on at least one of the posts.