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Hi tgr0ss,

If you chose for website URL that consists of keywords, it still carries some ranking weight (not much though, and it will decrease over time). Myself, I prefer the company name as the URL, as it good for branding and it doesn't look like you are trying to force your rankings to go higher.

In regards to your titles, each page should have an unique title tag. As you are pro member, you can see in your campaigns that there are "Duplicate Page Title" errors. What I prefer is the following structure:

Keyword 1 | Keyword 2 | Company Name

Keyword 1, Keyword 2 | Location | Company Name

And be sure to keep the length of the title tag under 70 character, so it won't be shortened in the search results.

Best of luck!

The keyword tool isn't about competition per se (even though it does talk about competition), it's more about how difficult it would be to rank for certain keywords.

In your case the keyword "christian web designers" might only return few search results, but the top 10 could be domains with a strong backlink profile, which would make it difficult to rank for the top 10.

If you are new to SEO check out:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

If I were you I would focus on learning SEO myself, as having the knowledge yourself is golden.

Hi Stephen,

Definitely, definitely don't do this. It sucks that your clients don't want to operate with you, but doing this might put them at risk of a penalty. You clearly know that the technique is used by spammers, and even though you might justify you reason, Google will not.

Have you showed your clients some articles or blog posts on the importance of content perhaps?

Hi Diane,

Had a quick look at your website, and since it seems to be regularly updated (latest celebrity news etc.) I think having an RSS feed would be beneficial to have, this way frequent visitors of you site can easy check up what's new at your site.

They are also easy to set-up, so yes, definitely go ahead with it.

Regards

Simply put, the moz crawler bot cannot crawl every single page on the web, whereas the google WMT crawler does a significant job doing so.

If you do have a new site though, give it some time and your links should appear in OSE, every new site takes a while to get found by the moz crawler.

There is one website I could definitely recommend, it is called "My Blog Guest" (http://myblogguest.com/)

It is founded by Ann Smarty, who has been featured here on SEOmoz and she is also a member on here. Basically, the website offers the opportunity to look for blog guest writers as well as offering articles to other blog owners. The site is easy to use and pick up.

If you are willing to pay though you could check out sites such as oDesk (as mentioned by Ben). Do be aware though that you look at their ratings, their native language and the amount of experience they have. We once trialed on there looking for a writer, the content we received however was very very poor (although the person's ratings on oDesk were good). In the end, we settled for an in-house writer.

Best of luck!

Hi Lucy,

Like-wise as Robert, I myself have used hootsuite before for several social media complaints. Besides a huge outage at an important time, I didn't really mind using the service (took a small while getting used to it, that's all).

I suggest you read http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-shortener-owl-li-indexed-in-google (was released today, excellent timing) as well, which actually talks about using one of the URL shorteners provided by Hootsuite.

Best of luck.

Hi btrr69, by looking at your OSE data every single backlink you have (except 1), has the anchor text of "whey protein". There are a total of 76 links containing that anchor text. I am getting the feeling that you might actually be punished by Penguin.

Anchor text should be super diversified, with only about 30% of total links containing either your brand name or chosen keywords.

If I were you, I would change as many anchor texts on those links as quick as possible.

Hi LittleBigMan,

Your best bet finding out where your traffic is coming from is checking your Analytics (which hopefully has been setup?).

On the left you'll be able to go from Traffic Sources -> Search -> Organic. On this page you'll see all the keywords that have brought you in traffic organically.

Also check under the referrals tab to see if BOTW and Yahoo are bringing you any traffic.

Best of luck!

Also, I did a quick lookup in Open Site Explorer to check out your linking profile.

You currently have 148 links containing the anchor text of "seo services london"

All these anchors seem to be from links from an Escort website? Anyway, mix those up or just change it to your business name (Reseolve), as this will absolutely be hurting your rankings.

One more thing, consider adding a Google Authorship to your site. You don't seem to have a G+ account though, but no worries they are easy to create. Once you set up your G+ account check out  http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218

Hi Hoang Huy Do,

The following page explains quite nicely where you should keywords in regards to on-page optimisation.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/on-page-factors

In regards to link building, never go overboard with keyword anchor texts. I believe something around 3-4% can be keywords you are aiming for. Otherwise, it should be your business name or natural text such "click here" etc.

It might be worth checking out the following keywords, which are from the top of my head:

• buy japanese candy

• order japanese candy

• buy japanese candy online

• japanese candy online

• japanese candy online shop

• japanese candy store

• japanese candy store online

• japanese candy order

Some of the above might be useful.

Good luck!

Did you receive one of those GW messages?

If yes, what did it say?

Hi Vikas_Rana,

As you said,  simply sharing awesome content (doesn't have to be restricted to the niche of the business) helps a great lot in increasing the overall following and +1s of the Google+ page.

Other ways:

• help out people out if they ask questions (e.g. a comment on an article)

- Comment on other users' status updates (being funny helps :)!)

• if you haven't done so, share the G+ page on different social media

• share interesting posts of others.

Also the following article will be of help:

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-increase-google-plus-followers

Good luck!

Hey Ardi,

When we first started with Seomoz we asked ourself the exact same questions. After contacting the staff at Seomoz we know understand it quite a bit better. The way it works is that the Seomoz crawler crawls the web for 2-3 weeks. After this, it has to create metrics (such as PA/DA) out of all the data, which usually takes up the rest of the month. Unfortunately, as this is quite a huge job it takes around 4 weeks or longer. The next update was supposed to be this week, but is now being set back until the 29th. Open Site Explorer isn't the only tool you could use, one other one which was mentioned by Seomoz in the past is the Majestic Site Explorer one, https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer . I still prefer OSE by a margin, but Majestic update their index at a faster rate.

Even if some of your link aren't picked up after the update, it could be because the location of the link is on a website that isn't to popular. If that is the case, you will have to wait until further index updates, in order for it to appear.

I find http://ubersuggest.org/ to be a fun and useful tool to generate keywords.

Hi LittleBigMan,

I actually do record every link that I want to target and achieve. Basically I make a large list with the websites I want to target along with contact details. I then jot down whether I contacted them or not + if I achieved gaining a link on the website. I think it's good to keep track of the links you gain, for example if you once contacted a website and they said that they would link to you, but then forgot about it, you can quickly shoot them back an email to remind them (if that makes sense). Another reason to record the links down is if you come across a website in the future that you like, you can quickly check in the spreadsheet whether you or a workmate have contacted the website in the past, as it may be a waste of time contacting them again.

Also, some clients enjoy seeing the links you gained in their monthly report.

Good luck!

Hi,

I haven't heard of any info-graphic distribution services that may be out there. However if you do have the time, doing it yourself can be fairly simple and often highly rewarding. Instead of explaining steps that could be undertaken myself, check out the article below by John Pring. He seems to be a master of infographics and their distribution.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-the-maximum-number-of-links-from-your-infographic

Best of luck.

Hi Harley2g,

Instead of the domain at the end of each title tag, I would just put the company (or website) name.

For example:

Keyword 1 | Keyword 2 | Company Name

I wouldn't put the ".com" at the end of the title tags.