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John/Thomas are 100% correct. If it's not natural, it's spammy and Google is getting quite good at recognizing this. Even if it not recognized today, it will be in the near future. Small decisions today can lead to big trouble tomorrow. STAY AWAY!

Trellian says that they have some demo information--at least regionally: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/feature-demographics.html. Also, Google Trends.

Do you have access to the httpd main server config file? If so, please read Apache HTTP Server Tutorial: .htaccess files.

".htaccess files should be used in a case where the content providers need to make configuration changes to the server on a per-directory basis, but do not have root access on the server system. In the event that the server administrator is not willing to make frequent configuration changes, it might be desirable to permit individual users to make these changes in .htaccess files for themselves. This is particularly true, for example, in cases where ISPs are hosting multiple user sites on a single machine, and want their users to be able to alter their configuration.

However, in general, use of .htaccess files should be avoided when possible. Any configuration that you would consider putting in a .htaccess file, can just as effectively be made in a <directory>section in your main server configuration file."</directory>

I totally agree on this as well. I think it varies greatly on what product lines you are running listings on and the best thing to do is track the leads that come in via rfq's and phone (oof TN) and follow them to see if they convert. I think we can all agree that it is difficult to gauge the seo benefit on it.

You are right. It's AVG antivirus safe search and it will check pages for spyware & etc.

Unfortunately except for manually asking/submitting a disavow request not much else to do. It's part of our checklist now to check for spammy links on a regular basis for clients.

Provide valuable and unique content on a regular basis. For example, if your business is home cleaning--create some articles on how to clean  stubborn stains in a kitchen sink (focus on long-tails). This will help build up your traffic and increase inbound links to increase rankings.

I agree with David. It's natural and not spammy. Also, the infographic is great and is doing what its supposed to do!

You can advertise products/services from two separate domains in one account. However, do not overlap keywords (or product/services) and use a separate campaign (ie-no double serving).

Google is a business, correct? It's their job to server shareholders by creating value and as long as they do not break the law, what's the issue?

I have always felt Google organic rankings were extremely unbiased. Sure, I would cuss at them when one of my sites were dropped--but was always happy when I leaped over one of my competitors. Anything outside of the organics, is fair game IMHO.

Oh by the way, this site is run by a group of Google competitors including Microsoft.

You need to create pages that focus on your brand name that Google believes are more relevant than these posts. This is tricky, but you can try to get your company in Wikipedia (usually gets high organics to push down any negative posts) and etc. The best thing to do (IMHO) is to answer these posts and offer superior customer service and a possible resolution (depending on the situation). Good luck!

Here is a good checklist (although 2 year old) and a good checklist from YouTube (the whole optimization section--on left menu is excellent as well).

No, it's not a good thing. Write content toward your prospects and keep kw density as natural as possible. It's quality & uniqueness that matters (still need to optimized for on-page though).

All the examples appear to be keyword stuffing and useless for prospects (copy isn't natural, kw rich and below the fold). Not something I would do. If they are high in organics, related to another factor (ie: DA's are high).

Totally agree w/David. Make sure to include a min spend/maintenance amount for each month and charge variable (%) over that to help defray cost on small pcc amounts. If you charge 15% of a $1000 account every month, that may be not worth $150 to you.

Incredibly excited to attend my first MozCon! Looks like a jammed packed line up of interesting topics. Looking forward to Dr. Pete/Rand's topic's the most, but all of them will be extremely informative. It'll be interesting to meet everyone in person as well.

I took a look and looks like they do have an extension:

https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitemap_XML.aspx

I typically use the keyword first and company/brand second. As a prospect will skim the serps, they typically are looking for the keyword entered, so prominence is import.

I use gsitecrawler for years with some large sites. However, not for millions...

Out of fear (of something new) and not understanding. As most of us know, educating some SMB's on the benefits of an uncapped budget is a chore and many are not receptive on learning about it. On the flip side, this works to the benefit of others that do not cap their budget.

Not sure. Your robots.txt file looks fine & shouldn't be blocking anything except for admin:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

sitemap: https://www.myqurantutor.com/sitemap_index.xml