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If you assume that rel=author increases click through rate in SERPs, would it be a good or bad idea to implement it on every page on your site?

Thanks! It turned out that it just needed to be indexed or cached and showed up after about a week.

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I added microdata markup to a page with 10 reviews of a type of product (e.g. red basketball shoes). I used the aggregate review microdata markup so that when you use the Google rich snippet it shows that Google "sees" the rich snippet data for an average of 4 stars for 10 reviews. But when I search for the phrase, the search result doesn't show the review rich snippet. Do you have an idea why this is?

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I haven't paid a lot for a domain name but I would definitely consider 5 figures if the domain was an exact match for a really important phrase. In my experience Google still gives a ton of bias to exact match domains and if that goes away you will still have a strong advantage over competitors because people are likely to link to you using an important keyword phrase in the anchor text. When considering a price, I would suggest looking at the potential extra traffic you would get if you had the exact match. If you assume that the exact match domain will help you rank #1 for an important kw phrase, the ROI could be very good.

If you have been linked to from authoritative sites would it be appropriate to name them on a "As Seen On" section on your homepage with their logo. Do you need permission to use their logo on your site?

A followup question: would doing this help with the Panda algorithm.

You should email Jen Lopez who manages YouMoz. You need to include the HTML for the link in your bio on your profile page. If you change your Bio now, I don't think it would change your by line on past blog posts. The SEOMoz team should be able to help you.

Good question. I think that if a guest post creates value for readers is should continue to pass link juice to the author's site. An easy way for Google to determine if the guest post is valuable is to look at whether the guest post has earned any links and if it has social mentions. It is like most linkbuilding tactics - it can be effective as long as you don't go overboard with it. I have had a positive experience with MyBlogGuest. There are definitely a lot of junk sites but you can block them. I have found more quality opportunities on MBG than BloggerLinkUp. You also want to pitch your ideas to blogs that don't publish a ton of guest posts (as Rand has suggested in a WBF).

SEOMoz's link data is the best available in my opinion but you may want to consider looking at other sources as well like Majestic SEO and Google Webmaster Tools to supplement the SEOMoz data. Sometimes these other sources find links that SEOMoz doesn't have in their index.

Suppose you have a page on your site that discusses a topic that is similar to another page but targets a different keyword phrase. The page has medium quality content, no inbound links, and the attracts little traffic. Should you 301 redirect the page to a stronger page?

Based on recent changes in Google, do you think that an off-topic guest post on a high quality domain will help you or hurt you or have no effect.

An example would be if you published a guest article on SEOMoz about SEO but your website sells basketball shoes.

What are your thoughts about the following scenarios.

Scenario 1: You purchased a banner ad on a site for $50. Then you notice that the site accepts guest posts and you contribute a guest article which has a followed link.

Scenario 2: You pitch a guest post to a blog and they say sure but first pay us $50. You say, I can't pay for links but how about I buy an ad spot for $50 instead in appreciation of you reviewing by submission.

Scenario 3: You pitch a guest post to a blog and they say sure but it will cost $50 to be published. You say sure and pay them.

Which of these would go against Google's guidelines and be considered a paid link? It seems like they are all buying links to a different degree, but they would all be indistinguishable to Google.

Posting articles on the MyBlogGuest article gallery can lead to several sites offering to publish your guest post on their blog.

However many of these sites will accept any guest post that links out to anything from socks to hotels. Would you avoid guest posting on these sites? (if it would take very little time to do)

Thanks! Those are very good and helpful suggestions. One reason I'm optimistic is that a lot of the links are from large media companies that linked to the site in articles. As long as I put similar content there I think a good number of the links will remain.

Do you think Google will discredit all previous links if the all the content is deleted? We will be moving to a different hosting company and I am considering to keep the registrar the same company (but different registration information).

What if you are moving host providers and are deleting all content and rebuilding the site from scratch with new content? Would you retain a lot of the link equity (assuming you used the same URLs as before).

Suppose you were interested in buying a successful blog with lots of powerful links and they offered to sell you the domain but none of the content. Do you have any tips for conserving the link equity when buying the domain?

(Note: about half of the inbound links are to the homepage and the plan is to relaunch the site with new content.)

Have you tried the SEOMoz LinkedIn group? I know they have a jobs board where you can post job opportunities. You could also SEOs on Twitter to share your job opportunity to their followers. Also Craigslist is usually good for receiving a lot of resumes of candidates.

In the aftermath of the Penguin and Panda monsters a lot of blog networks seem to have been devalued by Google. It seems logical that spammers will flock to low quality guest posting next. How do you think Google will determine which guest post links to devalue?

Thanks!

We do great in earning links to our homepage, articles, linkbait, and resource pages but we get few links to our product pages which are honestly pretty boring. Do you have any advice for increasing links to these important "money" pages? (we are trying to add useful content to make them less boring and unremarkable)