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Hi guys, as we know there's been some Google updates today.

Has anyone noticed a change in ppc? is there any connection?

Any info much appreciated.

Thanks for that, good read.

Quite furstrating they haven't given us much info about how they detect or differentiate from relevant images to the site design and adverts? i guess if it has no link in it, it'll be seen as natural.

The new algo update says any images at the top of the page negatively affect user experience if they are adverts? how does google know if its an advert or relevant banner?

When trying to put text as far up as possible on the page, is it ok to make it appear higher in the code but appear further down using css?

Or does Google not go from the code top to bottom when working this out, more how it renders?

Any advice much appreciated.

Not far here (Halifax).

Very strange as to me the code seems ok. It not however on a different line for the title tags, not sure this would help having the <title>start on a new line?</p></title>

Has anyone else had the issue for a couple of months now where ose is showing links that are live when they are not.

I am doing seo for a big e-commerce website so it is important i can find out what the anchor text distribution is for the domain.

How is this possible when ose shows me links which are not live?

There's been 2 or 3 updates and still showing expired links in our back-link profile. This is very frustrating and has led me to see if anyone else can recommend an alternative which is more up to date?

And yes before seomoz reply, i know you only update a certain percentage of the web.

Hi everyone, an interesting question here. How do you determien what link volume you should try and get into your website?

What analysis do you do to determine the number of links you feel is right to go into a back-link profiel every month? obviously there is no magic number but its an interesting question to know what others do.

Obviously you don't want to build too many or too little.

If you have been penalised for bad links in the past and are now back on track - how do you calculate the volume?

Do you take links dropping out into consideration?

If I have an image that is well optimiswed for a keyword that the page it is on is ranking for but i put a no follow in the image link - is this going to lose the value of the image on that page.

A strange question i know but this image i have on my homepage is optimised around a keyword, the image is also a link but when i changed the link in the image to no follow i seem to have dropped rankings for that keyword. Probably consicidence but i thought i would throw this question out there and get some views?

Hi everyone, hope you've all had a good new years celebration.

Just a quick one on page load speed? how important do you think it is to organic rankings, especially on competitive terms?

Any tips on improving it? do i need to improve just the landing page im trying to rank or every page as its looked at as a qualtiy score as a whole?

Kind Regards,

Is making the alt and title tags in an image the same bad for seo?

Does anyone have any recommendations? any help much appreciated.

Is there a link between ranking higher in organic search rankings and having a good social media presence.

I think there is, the more likes and followers you have the better.

The real question is how to you utilise it, do you regulary share content, put keywords in the share info for the ones you want to rank, how best can you utilise social media to help in organic search?

I suspect social noise is used towards some kind of overall quality score in the search engines.

Has there been a chance in the adwords quality score/review thing recently?

We have noticed our score up and competitors down by quite alot and wondered if there had been an update perhaps?

Fixed it now, it was to do with the url in the form.

I cannot really do that, just wondering if you know why this might be happening :S

We are getting a duplicate content error, with "online form/" being returned numerous times. Upon inspecting the code, we are calling an input form via jQuery which is initially called by something like this: Opens Form

Why would this be causing it the amend the URL and to be crawled?

Yep i found majestic pretty useful, i also am now using a combination.

Cannot say i'm happy with ose, inaccuracy to me.

Erm its a little different, still very questionable about the accuracy.

I also noticed that my internal report shows different anchor text distribution to the OSE, does anyone know why and which one is more reliable/up to date?

Way before the last update.

I am not getting accurate views in ose. Its still saying i have links from domains which i do not. I am wanting an accurate anchor text distribution but ose is not providing me with it. Does anyone know where i can get this kind of info from?

I waited for an update with ose but i personally find it inaccurate as it is still telling me links are there when they are not.

Hi there, one of our big competitors is ranking first for a huge key term.

We were wondering how they did it, so i went through normal processes:

• Age of domain - reasonable.

• Unique content - a little but the ranking page has pretty much none - meaning panda update isn't applying here,

• Back-links - nothing special really, not enough to be above everyone in my opinion.

Then i had a look at social media shares, over 2,000 mainly as facebook shares.

So i went on their facebook profile and it does not seem like they are spamming content on there. Are these shares from users sharing the link? if so can i find out how many per post? i imagine there is a team setup to share this content when it is published on their facebook page?

It just seems so very unfair they are ranking number one like this, the content in their site is poor, it's not a relevant domain either. So much for panda update eh?

Any thoughts appreciated.