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Thanks for your reply, very helpful.  I'm trying to do the same with rel publisher to get my clients logos appearing from their google plus page.  I mainly use wordpress sites and using authorsure plugin, but I'm still getting to grips with it and running lots of tests.

I think the ghostwriting is the best option.  The director of the company will be happy to use his image, but he doesnt (or didnt) have a google plus profile.  I've just set him one up.

Does authorship really only benefit by showing you the face of the author is or there actually any additional 'google points' for it being a highly engaged and highly circled account?

Thanks for your response anyway, much appreciated!

I don't like to see people asking for likes, it does sound kind of desperate.  There are also lots of groups on Facebook where people help each other out by liking each others pages.  In fact, I think there are even groups on linked in geared around getting people to like each other.

On balance, most of the people I have spoken to don't like to be asked for likes.  The want to like a page because they like a page.

As far as I understand it, likes, plus ones etc don't really count for a great deal in social signals.  Shares, retweets are believed to carry more weight.

I've attached a link to an interesting article on social signals, breaking them down into post, comment, vote (like, +1), reshare and bookmark.

http://socialmediatoday.com/danaraam/1233876/google-social-signals-map-you-didn-t-know-existed

Hopefully this will give some food for thought.  I think we need to keep a close eye on social signals.

I will say though, that I pulled off an interesting report on a client the other day and found a site with low DA and PA but had been +1'd a few times (and liked) and it was surprising higher up the rankings than sites with far higher DA and PA and better on page reports (A's and B's)

Completely agree.  Additionally, any software that sells itself as being able to help your rankings is either lying, or using dodgy techniques that will be picked up and wiped out before long!

Hi Marisa.  We do agree, that's what I said - " the longer one tells you what the site is about ".  That's my reason and it has the additional benefit of the keyword.

SEOmoz isn't affiliated with any of the search engines so there is nothing that SEOMoz can really do to actually help you achieve higher rankings for you.

The only way you can improve your rankings is to employ tried and tested best practise techniques and use the SEOMoz tools available to help you research, track and improve your chances of progression.

I don't believe there is a piece of software out there that can genuinely improve your rankings.

It's a question of personal choice in this instance. While the shorter one might be easier for people to remember, the longer one tells you what the site is about and if on the offchance you get people searching how to look 21 forever, you have your keywords in the domain name,

Personally, I would go with the long one.

How do you deal with Rel author on blogs for your clients?

Suppose I'm a contributor (or rather, the only copywriter) to a clients blog - which happens to be about DIY.  The blog articles are written from the business perspective and published from 'the business'.  not from Me.

Should I be adding myself as a contributor and using my own personal Google profile on these blogs?  If so, then it's my face that appears next to the blog post and I'm not sure that's what I want for a blog about fixing shelves etc!

Am I misunderstanding how I should be using rel author?  Is it for SEOs to work into client strategy, or is it just for our own personal blogs?

Hi

For the official line on meta keywords form Google, I've attached this link:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Google officially announced in 2009 that meta keywords was not a factor in ranking at all.   I also believe that the description isn;t a ranking factor - the reason you need to focus on the description is to ensure that it has a strong hook that accurately reflects the content of the page to entice the searcher to click on the link.

Have you drilled down to see which ones they are claiming are duplicated? I'm guessing that it probably is blog articles that you've written.

As you've got a create.net site, it's pretty difficult to control (if not impossible) because you'll never get within an inch of any of the code to be able to effect any necessary changes.

I'm not exactly sure why, but I believe it's to do with the pagination and the page being crawled when its on a different page - maybe someone else can offer an explanation on that.

If you go onto the create.net forums one of their own tech's might be able to provide a better answer.

The problem you get is that the content also gets duplicated, not just the page titles.

My only advice is to see what Create can do about it and if you aren't getting anywhere, consider moving to a wordpress site and getting your own website.  It's probably cheaper in the long run as I know that create is about a tenner a month.  The more control you have over your site, the better it will be for your SEO.

Lots of create sites do rank very well though when well optimised, so it's not all bad.

Hi Laura

When I checked (and I've just checked again), the real time results show that the title tag is showing the company name.  If you, or another person have made these changes, they haven't been saved and effected the change.

I've attached a screenshot of keyword analysis for that page - only showing critical and high factors.  You can see that it references the Title Tag in two areas as being unticked.

The number 2 in your url will be fine and shouldn't cause you any issues at all.  As a starting point, your title tag and your images titles and alt tags should resolve it. You can then work at marketing that page etc.

I would really recommend the moz toolbar, I don;t think I could live without it to be honest!  When you know what you are looking for, it tells you exactly what you need to know in an instant.

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Are SEOMoz looking to integrate Facebook Graph Search (the web search section) into the product?  At the moment we can measure and track rankings for Google, Bing/Yahoo, but not Facebook graph search.

What are the general thoughts among the community?  Do you think it will be adopted as a real search engine?

I'm not overly concerned - I reckon it will take a lot to change people behaviour and have them moving away from the other search engines.

It's throwing up some interesting results though in searches!

Hi Laura

I just took a quick look at the page and did some analysis with the SeoMoz toolbar - you can download that as a chrome extension and its brilliant for a quick healthcheck on your individual pages.

The first thing I noticed was that you have the Title tag <title>as your business name - The Electric Heating company.  I would start with immediately changing that to Include your keyword at the beginning.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">I only checked a few of your pages, but all were named with your business. A classic no-no as Google definitely uses the title tag to find out what your page(s) are about.</p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Another thing, you have a couple of images on there named radiator3 and radiator4...consider renaming those images and adding alt tags to include 'electric radiators for conservatories and EHC Electric Radiators.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">I also noticed you have a wordpress site.  I'd really recommending adding the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin.  That trains you how to optimise your pages and I have had great success with that.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Hope that helps - that will definitely help you get ranked for the term.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Thanks</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Jo</span></p></title>

Hi Robert and welcome

I would definitely include Bloomington Illinois as searches are going to be for your specific local service.

Have you checked out the Google Adwords Keywords tool for some suggestions yet (not that it's  the be all and end all).  I just had a quick check and some suggestions were along the lines of 'back pain specialist', 'back pain clinic', 'back doctor', that sort of thing (with the local town name included).

I would also strongly suggest setting up a Google Plus Business page and linking it to your website - when you have set up your page you will see an option in your 'about' section to do this.

Google Pages are showing up more and more in local search, so a Google Page is pretty essential. It should also be well optmised, i.e. full profile details and a rich description of the services you provide.

Good luck and if you need any further help with that page, let me know!

Hi Robert and welcome

I would definitely include Bloomington Illinois as searches are going to be for your specific local service.

Have you checked out the Google Adwords Keywords tool for some suggestions yet (not that it's  the be all and end all).  I just had a quick check and some suggestions were along the lines of 'back pain specialist', 'back pain clinic', 'back doctor', that sort of thing (with the local town name included).

I would also strongly suggest setting up a Google Plus Business page and linking it to your website - when you have set up your page you will see an option in your 'about' section to do this.

Google Pages are showing up more and more in local search, so a Google Page is pretty essential. It should also be well optmised, i.e. full profile details and a rich description of the services you provide.

Good luck and if you need any further help with that page, let me know!

Hi All.  Just wondering what your experience is with using Facebook graph search?

I have a site that ranks highly for a good number of keywords on google, yahoo etc, but when you use the facebook graph search, it either doesnt show up at all or is buried away in page 5 or something.

I'm talking about the 'Web Search' bit where it returns web results rather than searching for pages likes by my friends etc.

Any thoughts?  Why is my site way behind the competition in Facebook?  I'm a white hat kind of girl and can't think what I might have done to offend!

Have you come across any good resources advising how to optimise for facebook graph search for web?

Thanks

Jo