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Really??  That's strange - if you PM me the domain, I can do a bit more digging.

1. Go to Wolfram Alpha

2. Enter the domain without any subdomain (ie. wordpress.com)

3. In the 3rd result box, top right, push "subdomains."

4. When it opens, push "more" (top right of the box)

You'll get something like this:

http://bit.ly/XaJ7o3

I haven't found many people who have actually figured out how to make this work since home doesn't have the same author info as a post.

Search Yoast.com - they have an option to have a homepage author in their plugin but even his site doesn't show a snippet photo when you search the domain.  Neither does Copyblogger or ProBlogger.net.   I have tried a few different things on my own WP sites and nothing seems to make Authorship work for them.

Have you tried manually adding the author tag just to that page?  And let the plugins and such handle the posts/pages?

I'm assuming you mean the SEOMoz on page report card?

This issue usually seems to be related to not using a valid URL or being some sort of cookie issue (pushing the button twice) and clears itself up.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-am-i-getting-an-access-error-when-creating-my-first-campaign

http://www.seomoz.org/q/onpage-report-check

https://twitter.com/fkaasgaard/status/258555937231630336

So make sure you're using a valid URL - if you know you are, clear the cache & cookies, reboot the browser and relogin to Moz. Should clear itself.

Agree - RankTracker from Link Assistant (SEO Spyglass people) will let you do "top 100" but really, if you're 86 or 66, who cares? A client might but not a client with a clue.  Page 7 and page 9 are both virtually traffic-worthless.

You can also try http://whatpageofsearchamion.com/ for individual keywords - it's not a rank tracking solution like RankTracker is, but it helps with 1-offs.

I've seen this once - but it wasn't a test or anything - a lot of uncontrolled variables makes it hard to say it was the link or not.  But, we changed and improved.

We had site.com/es/word.   When we changed it to site.com/es/palabra and it started ranking much higher.

My guess would be that through co-citation and such, more sites link to /palabra/ type links than they do to English words.  Perhaps the same has happened to you?

I was doing recovery for a client after a major algo drop killed them (-94% in a week).  Anyways, they were adamant about getting a "FULL list of links."

What we did was run OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, Webmasters Tools, Analytics and a couple other site reports, then accumulate those. You still won't have everything but you probably never will. You can also scrape some Google data if you think it's a worthwhile use of time. We used importXML to scrape all the links that linked to us but it was still incomplete, took forever, and still didn't export more than a couple thousand links.

That really depends on what you're blogging about.

If you're blogging news, anything "hot" or any type of search that will hit the QDF (query deserves freshness) triggers, it will matter when you post.

According to Portent:

"The Quality Deserves Freshness algorithm favors fresh content over old content, but only for search phrases that are seeing rapid growth in query volume."

http://www.portent.com/blog/seo/agile-seo-using-qdf.htm

If you're not writing about something time sensitive or with a good number of queries, it depends more on your current audience.  Let's say you post 4 times and then nothing - people don't get into the habit of checking you.  As Google has told us that not as many people are using RSS readers, it's up to us to keep our name in front of readers to remind them to come visit us and say hi.

So by that rule, I'd spread them out - post on Tuesday and Thursday every week.  Call that the blogging schedule. Everyone will know that on Tuesday they need to come read your site.  Same on Thurs. They won't forget you're there but you'll create a pattern in their minds and win thought-space.

So focus on what you're blogging about and your readers, rather than pure SEO - how do you want the blog to be read?  (Some sites won't have regular readers -just search readers. In that case, if QDF doesn't matter, publish them all as soon as they're done. All your job is then is to get as much content online as possible as fast as possible.)

I think the best practice would be to create a dropdown near the top of the page, enclosed in a

<nav>html5 tag.

http://html5doctor.com/nav-element/

According to at least one other site:

<nav></nav>

This new element can give search engine indexing algorithms clues to the information architecture of your website, (just like how sitemaps help them gain a better understanding of the website’s structure).

This is what you want, right?  To create a better looking structure but not necessarily make it a long list in a prominent spot?

</nav>

I think you're right - your link profile is definitely not up to where you'd like to see it.

The thing is, you own control of almost all your links. They are directory submissions, minisites, etc.  You aren't getting a lot of natural links, social linking or anyone talking about you.  You need to generate that "word of mouse" that will get links to you that are out of your control.

I prefer the top 2. 1 because it's the actual name together, 2 because it's the name with a dot com.  I don't prefer 3 and without knowing what's available, 4 is possible but it depends.  (I'd take jparker, I wouldn't take JeremyParkr, etc.)

parkerjeremy.com maybe?

thejeremyparker.com ?

Plenty of options depending on the use, as well. I've seen things like j-parker work as well.

This is the result of the new Google Images, probably.

What displays is this (attached JPG.)

The red circle is a link to your domain.  The blue circle is a link to the actual image page.

Many photographers are reporting their image search results are down and I've seen this with my own clients. People are clicking the visible domain, not "view this page" and it's really messing with image search hits.

Visit page will take the visitor to the actual page but for some reason, many people are clicking the domain instead.

coffee.jpg

I didn't suggest copying from Word into Wordpress.  I suggested the opposite - do a final spell check, word count, etc. in Word by copying into Word.

You can add plugins and such, browser add ons and whatnot but it seems to me that for a 700 word article, it would be pretty simple to check spelling, fix a couple words and update the post.

To "grade" content, it's a big difference if they are using Wordpress or not so I gave the best Wordpress answer I can.  If not, obviously that's not an option.  Scribe is great but a bit over the top to pay for something that Yoast does easily enough.

If you're using Wordpress, then Yoast's SEO plugin does most of this.  It grades based on a keyword (you can change the focus keyword a couple times if you need to check a few phrases.)  It does keywords on page, reading level, etc.  It also tells you whether you've over-used a keyword.  It's not as much a grammar checker (you may find it easiest to quickly copy & paste your content into Word for a spelling/grammar, word count check.)

Adam - use Topsy.com

Search your domain like domain.com and you'll see what's being shared.  Click on the timelines to see when things were shared and then on each individual link, open that up and click "influential only" and you'll see your top sharing Twitter users.

Agreed, for confirmation, look at the core.js file linked in the code.

I have a few clients using Authorsure (http://www.authorsure.com/) and they seem to like it.  I use Yoast on almost all my other projects so I'm not sure beyond that.  I'm sure it's not too difficult to setup though.  AuthorSure would be my first bet other than Yoast.

Agree with Irving - it's better to have subfolders most of the time.  The essential question is who will be controlling the SEO? If it's one person or company, use subfolders.  If multiple people will each control their own content, use subdomains. Think about this like Wordpress.com does.

Subdomains are somewhat treated as a separate website.  So if you split them, you end up doing the SEO work more than once.  Subfolders are considered part of the domain so http://mysite.wordpress.com is separate from Wordpress.com while http://www.wordpress.com/info/index.html is considered part of Wordpress.com  Make sense?

So if you use subdomains, each subdomain needs its own SEO. If you use subfolders all the work can be done to one site, which is usually much more efficient.  The best use of subdomains is if you had say a franchise (boston.yoursite.com, chicago.yoursite.com, melbourne.yoursite.com) where each of the franchisees would be responsible for their own marketing or a site like Wordpress that allows you to build your own content (thus under many people's control.)  That would be site.wordpress.com, site2.wordpress.com etc.

Wordpress doesn't "care" to SEO all those sites nor necessarily do they want to pass their own SEO juice onto those sites as subfolders so they've made them subdomains.

If you have a cpanel access, can you get to IIS?

This is a walk-through copied while I was looking for answers. I don't have a lot of experience with Windows hosting so I hope it helps. As always, have backups when possible and if this doesn't make sense, it may be best to contact the host (or tell us who the host is so we can find an exact solution.)

1. In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect.
2. Select "a redirection to a URL".
3. Enter the redirection page.
4. Check "The exact url entered above", and the "A permanent redirection for this resource".
5. Click "Apply".

I (finally) see the confusion - a good reason for me to be careful in word choice. I didn't say "duplicate content" I said "duplicated" content.  What I meant was "repetition" not duplicated but I guess because we see "duplicate content" every day as SEOs I chose the wrong phrase.  What I meant was the duplication / repetition that can happen in the title, as in my example:

"Brisbane SEOs and digital marketing services in Brisbane | SEO | Marketing"

I have many times seen replaced title/description if keywords are repeated in the titles.  I have always cleared it up with noodp and noydir.  In this case I stated that I didn't think that was the real issue but it is one that causes problems.

So the examples I copied in didn't have to do with "duplicate content" as it relates to rel=canonical but it has to do with "duplicated" title keywords. Obviously I wasn't clear enough in the original post and I'm glad to know that.  I still think my advice will work and for the reasons I stated, just with better phrasing.  I definitely didn't mean to be confusing so thanks for pointing it out.

Hope that clears up the misunderstanding and thanks for helping me give better advice - appreciate it.

~Matt