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Coming from the other side of the fence as a developer and business owner and not an SEO person, I find that this is a great resource channel to discuss ideas. I will ask questions at time that will be basic, sometimes because I see different view on here or have a answer from the external SEO company we use. I like to know why something is done, not just that its is done. There are many responses I scan on here to find that information, and if I cannot find it I ask. Having spent many years on cutting edge software, I am used to asking questions in forums and just getting silence, it is refreshing in here to see prompt answers, support (thumbs up and good answer icons) and discussion on various topics.

The title of this discussion prompts me to say: 'The only wrong question is the one not asked .When you assume you know the answer to every problem then you become the problem.'

I was searching Bing and Google for a validator for schema.org but I can not seem to find one. It seems a little odd for them to promote and use the new standard but not give developers a way to ensure the markup is correctly parsed.

I am looking for something like the rich snippets tool Google has.

Unless the load balancing is causing your system to 404 or 500 I cannot see any SEO impact. We did have to change the way we handled session state when we switched to load balancing to ensure state was valid on our shopping cart calls but that is more a developer issue than SEO. Most major hosts now tend to use VM, Cloud or other resource load balancing behind the scenes to keep their costs down without impact to SEO of their clients.

Have a look at this video from 'whiteboard Friday' about the schema.org markup that Bing, Yahoo & Google are now using to describe content such as Author. It will most likely be more useful in the long run as the big 3 adopt the standard and give ranking bonus to sites that use it.

I am having similar issues where a keyword will be top 10, then show not in top 50 then go to 9 all in the same 24 hour period. It has been timing out a lot lately too. I tend to use the weekly campaign scan now and check Google for any large movements.

Since the site has been stale for sometime, have a look at the crawl graph to get an idea of how often Google visits and follow Ryan's advice to give it a nudge.

I Agree with Egol, and actually http://www.videoconference.com.au/ and http://www.videoconferencing.com.au/ are both parked domains and probably for sale. Check http://whois.domaintools.com for owner details.

Our competitors, good to know what the chatter is about.

If you only show the car image they were originally looking for and also the current ones available in 'mustang' then that would work for cross or upselling the customer. It could also give them the idea to get in quick if they like a particular vehicle, before it sells to. You could get fancy and track the click throughs on a give vehicle and show a heat map of level of interest, but that only works if you get reasonable interest on most vehicles.

It helps a little, but I have only a fraction of the sites showing up (even in export)

Our site has a lot of non-followed links showing up on the latest SEOMoz Competitive Link Analysis update and I would like to know how to get a list of the sites that aresettin no-follow.

It does depend on if you have similar cars to sell. If so you could create a page with links to other vehicles that a buyer may be interested in and then add a 301 redirect to the new page. Depending on what your site developers are using, they could include an optional heading to specify that 'car xyz is no longer available, but we have many others' where xyz is determined from the refering page. This would give the new page where you have similar vehicle SEO juice and keep your customers infromed of what is in stock.

I would look at getting all the on page perfect for the chosen keywords.

Making sure the urls target those keywords and all the canonical tags are set up to avoid losing juice to upper/lower case issues.

Having good human appreciated headings but still using keywords without overuse.

Get the links and blogs rolling with good anchor text.

See where you competitors are making errors in these areas and just do it better.

Find the keywords that provide the best traffic (your competitors will be using them) and focus on the best 2-3 word phrases.

Most of all keep it white-hat, or the hard work will be short lived.

Our business www.oznappies.com is ranking on page 1 & 2 for the main keywords within 2 months using that strategy and following reports and tools on SEOMoz. We have an SEO doing the links and blogs and I am doing the on-page work.

The linkdiagnosis tool was very helpful - Thanks.

I have Google reporting different capitalization as duplicates, so now I ensure all pages have a with the lowercase version of the page. This ensures Google does not split the juice between, what it thinks are two different pages. It is a spin off from when Fresh-fish.hmtl could refer to a different page to fres-fish.html etc.

so, the two terms being accepted as different keywords is just mimicing how Google handles these terms. Check Google Webmaster tools to ensure no pages are being reported as duplicates, or let Roger do his weekly scan and check the results.

I looked at wordpress, but I am having trouble getting it to play nicely with MVC.

I saw the note today that the link index did it's monthly update, yet our site www.oznappies.com still only shows 1 linking root domain and I know there are many more links now.

What do I need to do to get open Site Explorer to use the latest data?

I enter our site, create the report and only see old information from 6 may 2011's link index.

I have the same issue with competive link finder, links I know we have on the sites listed for our competitors are not showing for our site.

Is there any way you know how to host a tumblr in a sub-directory or do we need to get a custom written blog app for our site?

Is it possible to get a subdomain blog.site.com that is on tumblr to count toward site.com. I hoped I could point it in webmaster tools like we do www but alas no.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The content is only hidden in the form of jquery collapsing panel via $(this).slideToggle() so that some content is displayed to the visitor and then replaced 10 secs later with new content. This is common in flash where a given piece of screen will be replaced with changing content.

How do you suggest this type of changing content should be delivered to make it SEO friendly? I thought of having javascript collapse the panel onload by that makes the screen resize and do nasty things in Explorer.