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Hi AL123al! Did Dan's response help? We'd love an update.

Thank you so much, Miriam!

Thanks Don!

I'm definitely happy to say that lack of respect isn't generally a huge problem here.

However, I wouldn't mind seeing more folks show courtesy by making sure to respond to other members' attempts to help, and by marking good answers whenever possible.

Welcome to Q&A! I'm so glad it helps.

Thanks Dirk! I certainly hope all our new community members do.

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Thank you so much for following up, Katherine! We really appreciate it.

Sounds like Deepcrawl, Screaming Frog, and Google Fetch & Render.

Not using 301s could be a big part of the problem. Do your old backlinks all point to existing pages on the new domain?

Hi Stacey! How is this going? We'd love an update.

Hi Enjin! If Martijn's response answered your question, mind marking it a "Good Answer?" Otherwise, how can we help more?

Hi Matt! Did Martijn's response help? We'd love an update.

Hi Allie! Did you work this out? We'd love an update.

Hi Jeffrey! Did zeus1956's response help? We'd love an update.

Hi Tormar! To my knowledge, having a title element within a link tag adds no SEO value. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Alt tags in images, though, are rather important, both for user experience and for SEO. Among other things, they're covered here.

I'm not personally aware of anything that would make it inherently bad, but I do think you should take some time to consider why people visit your blog, and who you'd like the audience for your blog to be. If your blog is mainly for content that's reasonably "evergreen" and that will draw repeat visitors, then using it for this sort of promotional material might not be the best idea. If you're just looking to draw one-off visitors or fill your funnel, it might be fine.

For example, take the Moz blog—the vast majority of our posts aren't about Moz products at all, and when we do post about our own products and events, the posts are in addition to our regularly-scheduled, educational posts. Our blog has a large readership who are generally looking for information they can apply to their own marketing. If they saw posts that serve as little more than advertisements for our products, they'd have no reason to come back. Running the sort of content we run helps us keep our position as an industry thought leader, and keeps us front-of-mind when members of our community are in the market for tools like ours.

You note that property listings tend to draw a lot of clicks, but those clicks are coming from folks who are actively looking for property listings. Those types of visitors strike me as pretty likely to see the listing on your blog, consider whether they're interested, and then bounce along to the next search result. I don't see them sticking around to read and engage with your blog. If you're fine with that, go ahead. If you'd like your blog to be a knowledge source for your visitors, though, maybe leave the listings to the listings.

Hi Henry! I'm going to give a member of our Help Team the chance to respond as well, but you can get started learning about some of the reports we have available here.

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for posting in Q&A! Just a heads-up, though—we actually don't allow job postings in this forum, as it's intended to be an educational resource. No worries, though.

I'm going to lock this thread to further responses. We have a list of companies we recommend, and I also suggest giving the job board at Inbound.org a try.

Thanks for understanding!