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Hotly debated. Same with image.. does having images on a website improve its rankings?

The answer is yes and no. I wouldn't say there is a DIRECT correlation (i.e. simply having a or <video> object on your page won't increase rankings). However, if you have properly optimized the image/video, then there is addition relevance and context that gets added to the page that would help with rankings.</video>

At an indirect level, visitor would be less likely to bounce back to serps, spend more time on site, have a better user experience and be more likely to link to the website.

To add to what the other's have said... EMD's work better for churn and burn/ranking for a single keyword. If you plan on building a online brand/long term website, use a more branded domain (unless the EMD is real sexy).

You can post to reddit without using imgur. Instead, post it on your website along with supplementary content, make sure the page loads fast and isn't spammy, and post that to reddit instead.

Imgur is it's own separate entity that people browse through. The main advantage imgur has is that images are "more compatible" with reddit (in terms of plugins that make loading an image easier, people are more likely to click/view because they know its a good experience).

According to mozcast's big ten tracking, the strongest domains seemed to have increased their percentage of page 1 results on 1/8/2013.

I feel like the trend of big brands dominating the smaller sites has been going on for a while now with no changes in sight.

Yup, they are counted. Yelp won't show up because it uses a redirect but I see merchantcircle, urbanspoon, manta, etc in my GWT links list. OSE is reporting less but i still have a urbanspoon and yellowpages backlink.

You can put anything into your meta description and it won't mess up any NAP inconsistencies. It's used purely as the text to show in SERPs - not related to SEO, link building, local map pack, etc.

Differences in NAP in the actual website content and various business citations could cause issues, but not in the meta description.

Check out the link intersect tool: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/opportunities/link-intersect?site=fillinyoursite.com

You enter in a bunch of your competitors and it tells you which pages have backlinks pointing to them. The more competitors a page links to, the higher chance you can have your site added there as well.

Upon further research, you are correct. A noindexed page is still crawled and indexed, just not in SERPs. So any links will still be followed and the page is still a part of the website. With this in mind, I think you should 404 the page and redirect via meta refresh after some time. Reach out to the webmaster's of the good links and ask them to change the new URL.

I still don't think a 302 is the way to go in this scenario. Ideally, you'd experiment with different options and see which produces the best results.

Yep, what you have is good. The image names/alt should be keyword friendly and describe the image. It would be better if you described it even more i.e. pizza-buffet-marriot, pizza-buffet-hilton

Video markup should also appear on regular search results.

Are your URLs just not in web search or are you ranking but no video thumbnails are showing?

You can have both markups on a single page, they shouldn't conflict.

1. Not auto approve - those are usually spammed, if posts have 7934 comments that read like "great site, thanks! bookmarked!" and link to their own sites with keyword anchors, its a bad site

2. Niche related - content on site is related to your website, don't contain illegal/porn/gambling/pharma related content

3. Switch up anchor text - don't over optimize, make your linking text varied. use real name, brand name, keywords

4. Make sure the blog is indexed & ranking - if its penalized, your time is better spent elsewhere

5. Social signals - the more tweets/shares a blog post gets, the better the website typically is

I'm sure there is more but having these elements is almost guaranteed to be a good blog.

Sure, but it doesn't mean everyone will see it.

Best course of action is to add "Special Hours" in Google My Business to declare when your business is closed.

If you haven't done any link building to those sites, they are pretty much worthless. G knows about this strategy and best case scenario, ignores them. DA is irrelevant to rankings. I can show you many sites with amazing DA but shit rankings because they are penalized/crappy links.

Opportunity cost: 100 domains @ $10/yr + 100 ips @ $20/yr = $3k in yearly savings. You can easily put that money to better use.

Yes, she is talking about the title tag, not meta description. And I believe she is referring to this - read the full article here

As you can see from the image, the title is cut shorter in the new version.

They are considered completely separate entities that have nothing to do with one another.

Ideally, widget.com/blog/ is the best place to run your blog.

Manual > Yext BUT Yext take a lot less management/time/effort and will be effective in ranking small businesses.

So if you have the time and resources to hire and manage an employee/outsourcer to manually submit, claim, verify and update your listings - do that.

Yext pretty much does that but all automated through a backend. You enter your business info and Yext submits/updates the listings on all the sites (I don't know whether they have outsourcers doing it on their end or its all coded). I've found that changes take longer to update with Yext and isn't as flexible.

Depends. If the people who would use the Facebook pages have different needs depending on the location, it may be better to have a separate page for each location. However, if all the pages would pretty much be the same (you would post the same updates to each and the questions from customers for each store are pretty much the same), I would stick with 1 brand page. Its easier to manage and it is more authoritative than having 12 separate pages.

My guess is Penguin - specifically because it 1) a single page that was effected and 2) the anchor profile for that page. You built a lot of links to that specific page with the same anchor text. In fact, you have more links to that page/anchor text than branded to your homepage. I would build more links to your homepage with your brand/URL as well as more diversified links to your /what-should-i-read-next/ page.

Cheers,
Oleg

"I am wondering if it may be better to have one page dedicated to the specific material properties, one page dedicated to specific applications, and one page dedicated to available types. "

^ this. Create a page targeting each type of customer (one looking for a specific material, one looking for a specific application and one for available types). You can use similar content with some quoted content blocks on each page, just make sure there is unique content there as well that tailors the content searching for a specific need.

Yandex is pretty much only used in Russia, Kazakhstan and some Eastern European countries. If you don't have customers in those areas, I wouldn't worry about Yandex.