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Hi Scott,

If you believe that Open Site Explorer doesn't show every single link (which may well happen), you can always double check a website  by using the following tools:

• Majestic SEO (very very good)

• Ahrefs

• Raven Tools

I believe the best one is still the link report you can find in Google Webmaster Tools (with Majestic SEO second), but as you say, that is not always an option.

Best of luck.

Hey LittleBigMan,

Rand actually had a whiteboard friday in regards to Search Suggest: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-googles-search-suggest-instant-works-whiteboard-friday

Should help you out.

Thank you for that answer,

Bit silly that it isn't available to the public, can't think of a reason why they would do this.

Hey guys,

Could someone please tell me how the SEOMoz team were able to add a graphic on their Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/SEOmoz) underneath their followers?

It's the graphic of the plane flying.

When I go to the Twitter settings, I only seem to find how to change the background of the profile, nothing in regards to adding a graphic on that spot.

Thanks!

Hi Jeff,

My favourite that we have used here at the office quite often is hootsuite. (http://hootsuite.com/)

The free version is excellent (barely any reasons to buy the paid versions imo), and once you setup all your social media accounts, multi-posting is a real breeze. Basically on Mondays I can set up all social media messages that I want to go out for that week.

Also, are you aware that SEOMoz has a social section for each of your campaigns? It's a nice and quick way to see how your social media accounts are doing.

Don't worry about the profile link (if thats what you meant) showing up or not in OSE, they have been nofollow links for quite some time now, so it doesn't really matter anyway (although it does look good course in OSE!).

The same happens to use for some clients, for some of them the Twitter links shows up and for others they don't.

I would say so (depending which seo efforts were undertaken of course).

Also I have noticed myself that for some our clients our traffic has gone up, due to competitors being crushed by the penguin update.

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!

Hi seochump,

There are 2 reasons I can think of the top of my head. First of all sofware such as OSE can take a while to crawl (and find) websites, before finding out what backlinks are pointing to it. Due to this, it may appear that some sites have 0 backlinks to it, while in reality it could have lots. You mentioned, that a lot of times the page has a page authority of 1, usually means (to me anyway) that OSE hasn't picked the site up yet.

Secondly, I have noticed while working for several clients, that whenever a new site comes up, it "could" shoot up to the top of the rankings, before it being dropped off to several pages. New sites come and go onto the first page rather quickly. So perhaps it could be that.

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.

It looks to me that the site could be recently created.

I've had new websites created which took months to be picked up by OSE (although contacting the SEOMoz help team and notify them accelerated the inclusion quite a lot)

Good day guys,

We got a restaurant that is changing its name and domain.

However they are keeping the same server location, same content and same pages (we are just changing the logo on the website).

It just has to go a new domain. We don't want to lose the value of the current site, and we want to avoid any duplicate penalties.

Could you please advise of the best practices of doing a domain name change?

Thank you.

Hi CFSSEO,

I would suggest reading the following:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions

Might help you fix your problem.

Regards

Hi Sherohass,

I would contact support at help@seomoz.org, it looks like it's an error on their end.

Good luck.

Hi David,

If there are way to many bad links to remove, it is probably a good choice to invest in a link removal service (can save time and money). I myself haven't had any need to use one, but recently at an SEO conference we were advised by specialists to use an online tool named RMOOV (http://www.rmoov.com/) which they recommended if you have some link cleaning to do. There is a free option as well to give it a shot with 1 campaign.

Regards

Good day ge0173400,

Basically canonical was created to tell Google that if you 2 or more pages that have the same content, which page with that content you want Google to focus on.

For example you have 3 pages regarding gold fish. All 3 pages have nearly the exact same content except the species of gold fish. All of a sudden you have duplicate content now. It is then up to you to decide which page you would like to get the most value (let's say page 1). You then put a canonical link on pages 2 & 3 pointing to page 1. This means that when Google crawls pages 2 & 3 it will find out that it should focus on page 1.

If the above is confusing, definitely have a look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps It does a great (and better) job of explaining canonical.

Best of luck.

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!

Hi Harry,

If you do external link building you should not focus your anchor text on one or two chosen options (such as "diamond engagement"). Since the release of the penguin update, a lot of website have actually been penalized as their link profiles contained anchor texts that were purely their keywords that they want to rank for (looks super dodgy to Google). When building link, switch the anchor text around often to non-keyword ones such "click here" or "click here to access website", "company website" (just general ones).

I believe (not a 100% certain) that I once read that the anchor text with keywords you want to rank for, should be about 30% of the overall anchor texts used in your link profile.

Best of luck.

Hey guys,

I read this article this morning on SEL. Not sure what to think about it.. Matt did have a point that a lot of infographics are of bad quality (even with wrong information present at times) , and hence don't deserve to gain links from it. But how could Google possible know whether the infographic itself is of high quality or not??

http://searchengineland.com/cutts-infographic-links-might-get-discounted-in-the-future-127192