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Thomas, I did not get something from him but got something from BaseCamp along the lines we spoke of earlier. As to Mr. Fried's comment, " ...if you would contemplate writing off the expenses for his business as this would be something he is doing for charity." Translated that is, "Why don't you guys pay us to provide it to them and write it off yourselves?" Frankly, If he will take on the CodeCamps and other STEM activities we do, I will do just that. So, I will handle this charity for him. All he has to agree to is taking on all that we do for charity. Now, where before I could take, "No," I today say why not take BaseCamp and place it .... I actually find that to be rude. His justification for not offering something to them is to act as if we are asking and we do not do things for various charitable causes. What an ass. Best

That was supposed to have been "great question". Wonder how that happened! I find the Moz interface doesn't play well with my iPad. Course my brain and fingers might not have been coordinating well after midnight either. Your idea is an excellent one. Especially if it embraces the TAGFEE or a similar code that facilitates and encourages openness and sharing.

Thanks for letting me know about the New Yorker article.  That does make a difference.

Try to use every channel of marketing to promote your business. I'm working on the business website of a job search project and I'm using an SEO channel to promote it.

Hmm, don't recall this ever happening with Yelp before. I guess we all have a bad day once in awhile

Made a note to send you my next statistic related question directly , well done.

I can't as due to a couple of relationships it would out the client. The client is large enough that these people would know their (our client's) marketing firm which is my company. I even thought about having an employee handle it, but the purchase is too important to the client for it to fall through if we can get close.  Thanks,

"They should do a study on who is leaving.  I bet who is leaving has a higher average rep score than the people who are stayin'," Sadly for the investors at times its the quantity that matters vs quality of people on the network...

Ken, I had come back to this to thank Steffany and saw your response. Just wanted you to know I am a gummy bear, jelly bean (typically fruit flavors), quality orange slice, etc. kind of a guy. I am so glad I could help you out. Hint. I hope it really provided an opportunity for you to relax and not worry, Hint, or to get back to the business of getting the candy out to those who truly need and deserve it. Hint. Just kidding, couldn't pass it up though, all the best. Robert

Hey Robert What do you mean you "can't touch everything"? Do you mean edit the image title, alt text etc? Looks like you basically have four places images are ending up at the moment; http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/ look like user avatars - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/aaron/avatar/Aaron-Cohrs-small.jpg http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/ looks like as Lynn was saying theme images such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/blog/img/seo-blog.png http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/ which is the default image upload location for WordPress, such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Adobe-001.jpg http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/ - for "smilies" like http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif and there's only two of them As Lynn said there's not much of a ranking issue here. If this was a gigantic site, I might suggest some sort of crawl optimization. Also, I generally avoid plugins like the plague unless they offer a real super value add - and in the case of media management the built in WordPress media management is pretty solid for most sites. But it does look like this is the theme determining the location of some of these, not plugins (except for maybe those avatars). -Dan

If you ask my staff, they will tell you that we redo lots of work every month.   That sounds like it wastes lots of money and employee time, but in the long run I am confident that we are making more money because we learned something from our bad guesses.

Hi guys, Robert excellent question. Just to clear up the legal question I did some searching and you are right there are circumstances in which you do not have to pay interns I thought you guys might find it interesting to see the actual law. I found the official law at the Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm & a PDF http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf there are certain things that will allow you to take on an intern without pay. They are listed in the links above. You are correct there definitely are situations in which you can legally not pay for an intern. I thought you guys might think this was interesting. I know when I was in school I guess you could call what I did an internship I was not paid but learned a great deal and am more than grateful for it today. I think what you said about actually seeing somebody being able to accomplish something that they believed they could not or possibly without the internship would not have looked in that particular field only to find out they are good at that type of work in this case marketing. I also want to say kudos to you for telling the intern that said "I can't do this, this is not really my forte." Your response of "we do not have an option to tell a client we cannot do something. I would appreciate you going back and finishing, and then he looked down at his work." Very professional and very true you would never want to have to give a client that excuse and I guess for that in turn you live and you learn. I think everyone will agree when it comes to personal lives or professional non-of us have not made mistakes. However to have the wisdom of somebody there that has literally accomplished what these people are trying to do with their lives is such a good thing for them and for us because the more we can teach somebody in my opinion the better we become at our jobs. Outstanding question. Respectfully, Thomas

Robert, may I suggest that if you come up with a good study and results, you consider submitting a post to YouMoz? I would love to see something like this show up in my submission queue:) I get to take a first peek at all of our YouMoz submissions and, as you can imagine, I am extra happy when the topic is Local! As for the carousel, I like this: "Hopefully, we will wake up in a month or two and it will have been changed." Haha! Here's to hoping. Thanks for the very enjoyable chat, Robert!

Hey Nakul,  So good to hear from you. I was talking with Amber, our Director of Local, and she said it is also happening with YP.com. At least if it is with Bing and Yahoo, I can say that maybe some of these directories are not all being bought by Google. Hey, if you are up for coffee, lunch, a glass, etc. I moved a bit further West. Give me a buzz or email me. All the best,

Wait...doesn't EVERYONE read about SEO for fun??? Heh-heh! Glad that was a good find for you, Robert! Miriam

Now William, I hope you understand it was my effort to follow the question about 10 days before: Has anyone noticed how SLOOOOOW Q&A is or is it me...? (Rough approximation). Just felt like if I was going to point out the negative I had to point out the improvement. But, hey, now that its back to rocking, I'm smiling too!! Best

Everyone should be noticing the performance improvements by now. Early Wednesday morning we rolled out an update that has helped things considerably. If you find any bugs or odd happenings, please either send an email to help@seomoz.org or chime in on the thread about the update at http://www.seomoz.org/q/q-a-performance-improvements. Thanks so much for your patience!

Actually, both are reasonable in my opinion EGOL. I was stuck because my local person had put the numbers in and she kept saying they are not showing and I kept saying they are.  Here is the only other variable I failed to mention: there is a PPC ad on the query with the old meta term. Thanks,

Robert, If you go to ebay and amazon you will see them running adsense (or equivalent) on their product pages.