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Other then Rand and the SEOmoz team being SEO experts I would imagine it is because of the onpage SEO and how they flow the PR from other pages to well other pages.

SEOmoz is also an incredibly amazing resource so it makes sense that lots of websites link to a large percentage of the pages on SEOmoz.

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Thanks for the reply and sorry for mine being as late as it is. I understand what you are saying about .im ranking which is why I was nervous about using a .im domain. I have seen .me rank before and was mainly wondering if .im would be on par with .me.

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The authority of the domain is not huge and sits at 23 as we have not yet bothered with the main website due to  a variety of reasons. The domain was registered in 1998 and has not been dropped since.

We currently rank in the top 5 for all keywords without any SEO at all. Basically the web dev has access to the site and needs to make the appropriate changes as me doing it would push him out of the work he would get doing it.

There is some personal issues with the web dev meaning that we can't get him to sort it for another couple of months and I've only been at the company a couple of months so far.

The issues at the moment are fairly serious and I'm talking no title tags and no www to none www and the other common onpage SEO dramas. I know that optimizing the website would give us a massive boost.

The authority of the cocitations would be on extremely popular job websites with authorities of 60+ the sort that are known by everyone and rank for pretty much every job related keyword.

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Hello All,

I was wondering if you should include tags and categories in your sitemap. In the past on previous blogs I have always left tags and categories out. The reason for this is a good friend of mine who has been doing SEO for a long time and inhouse always told me that this would result in duplicate content.

I thought that it would be a great idea to get some input from the SEOmoz community as this obviously has a big affect on your blog and the number of pages indexed.

Any help would be great.

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Luke Hutchinson.

Hi All,

Rand made a video the other week about cocitations and their benefit.

He mentioned that you should try and get your number and/or address in as many locations as possible.

My question is: is only the address sufficient?

I work for a recruitment agency and they obviously do not want the phone number on job advertisements due to the volume of calls that we would receive. We could though most likely place the address and business name in the text as it's relevant to the job ad and could potentially benefit our G+ listing.

How much of a boost would 20 or so cocitations a month give to a medium competition local search term in G places?

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Thanks for the reply. The WWW has the most links and the http has very few. I was mainly worried about the vulnerability of this structure and the risk the website faces from negative seo.

It should be sorted in the coming weeks but for now I'm stuck with it on both.

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Thanks for the reply and the clarification. I know that as mentioned it should use one or the other but your input has helped me with determining my stance on the issue.I'm guessing that there's no solid facts on this in regards to a penalty.

Hello all,

Normally i redirect my www to none www to avoid the potential of duplicate content and as its typically something that is done in SEO.

I don't have access to the site of the company I am working for at the moment as everything related to the sites code goes through the web developer.

At the moment the site lives at www and none www and one does not redirect to the other. I have been building links (organically as we engage on a few forums and blogs) to the www as that is how it is linked internally already and how links from the job boards we post on link.

We do however have some natural none www links and my concern is that since the site isn't redirected that it is being penalised or could become penalised because of this.

I imagine that it isn't a serious penalty if one at all but I would rather know so I can try and get it sorted as fast as possible.

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I noticed this on the news and a few blogs/forums a while back but did not realize they were actually going ahead with it. Do you think these will rank well compared to .org/net/com?

Hello all,

I know that Matt Cutt's stated a while back that .co domains would become recognized by google as a gtld and was wondering how google views .im domains.

I was looking at using a couple for work but have a generic name .im of my own that when checked in webmaster tools is locked to the isle of man in the geographical targeting option.

I was wondering if anyone can advise me on this and if possible provide some feedback based on experience with .im domains.

Thanks.