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On one site I work on, I noticed that pages in the upper navigation that have less links in the main navigation vs pages that have more links tend to perform better in organic search.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Since, November 14th, the impressions on our slideshows on our site are down by 43%.

The slideshows are built using # for pagination, and all content lives on one URL (through the user must click 'next' to see more content). Does anyone else have this issue?

Hi All, I'm a bit frustrated with the fact that I can only enter 5 words at a time into SEOmoz's keyword difficulty tool.

Does anyone know of a better way (or tool) to analyze keyword difficulty for hundreds of keywords?

Question for all the SEO's out there. Do you always include your target keyword in the image alt tag?

For example, if you had an article on osteoarthritis, and you included a photo of an old man, would you put "old man on a bench" or "old man suffering from osteoarthritis" -- even though you have no idea if the old man suffers from osteoarthritis?

Hi WIll,

Yes, I understand that 'jump to navigation' is determined algorithmically.

We can't actually link to the anchors because, as mentioned, the UI we've developed has better user engagement (one of our main goals is to improve user engagement site-wide). The anchors exist in a sort of expand / collapse format, so that the user can see the entire content and click on titles to see more.

I suppose the other option would be to put it in a hidden div, and add javascript so that the user could see the links if they wanted (even though, essentially, there isn't any value-add to the user since they can already see the content list)?

I'm working with a client that owns a medical site. All content is reviewed by someone from their medical board (doctors or nurses), but the content is written by a variety of authors.

I'm wondering if we could create authorship profiles for the doctors and nurses. Would there be any problem with that? (even though they didn't write the content, they just reviewed it for medical accuracy). The name of the reviewer is included on every article.

Any thoughts / feedback / similar experiences would be helpful.

Mainly, would google use 'jump to' sections of our page in the SERPs. We have anchors, but no links to the anchors, and are hoping that by adding a hidden div with links to the anchors, it will activate 'jump to navigation.'

The hidden div would be added just for the sake of adding the links to the anchors--it wouldn't be visible to users. We've found user engagement is higher for the type of navigation we built, but want to make sure 'jump to' works (is visiible in google SERPs).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Will jump to navigation work when using a hidden div? Basically, we use a navigation system such that when a user clicks on a title, it expands to show the rest of the article, each title has an anchor associated with it, but no where else on the page / site do we link to those anchors.

In order to make jump to navigation work, we are considering adding a hidden div with links to the anchors. Does anyone have experience doing this? Did it work?

In fact in this post http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html, they mention using a canonical when syndicating content, if the content is similar enough--not sure why they don't mention a canonical in the webmaster guidelines link I included above.

Hi, Cross domain canonicalization is a common practice as well (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/10/raising-awareness-of-cross-domain-url.html).

In this article http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359 google mentions if you syndicate content, you should include a link and, ideally noindex, the content, if possible.

I'm wondering why google doesn't mention including a canonical instead the link + noindex?

Is one better than the other?

Any ideas?

Thanks. I would love to hear if anyone has seen any SEO benefit from just straight syndication.

Can anyone provide some guidance on both how to submit your site to Yahoo News as well as some tips for how to get accepted into Yahoo News?

yes, that is correct.

Google doesn't say 'don't syndicate content' they say 'syndicate carefully' and include a link back to the original source: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

I think our site would be fine given that:

a) we published the content first (its already been indexed in google)

b) this is content syndication -- not scraping. We are permitting our client to use our content.

c) there will be a link back to us, in the form of a byline, to identify us as the original source of each article.

This is a major client for us, and they really don't want to use the canonical tag, so I''m looking for advice/ best practices / ideas

I stumbled across this old SEOmoz whilteboard http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-leveraging-syndicated-content-effectively and was wondering if this is still a valid technique given the Panda & Penguin updates.

Is anyone here still doing this (and seeing results)?