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Not exactly. You can however infer some traffic amounts when you're tracking keyword rankings against competitors in a Moz Analytics campaign. You can also get a good idea of how much engagement or traction a competitor is getting from social via tools here as well. Fresh Web Explorer is great tool for the News side this question--tracking sites that are writing about brands, topics, and so on. There's a decent comparison and test on Quantcast and others here: http://moz.com/blog/testing-accuracy-visitor-data-alexa-compete-google-trends-quantcast. Just remember, you'll never know the true numbers unless you have server logs and analytics access.

There's not much on this in sourced material other than some mentions in places like: http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/familysafety/advice/#behaviors, "Set age-appropriate filters on your computers and your child’s mobile devices: Filters and other internet safety tools block categories of inappropriate websites a child can view, such as sites containing pornography, violence, gambling, and illegal drug information."  Google's SafeSearch is primarily focused on pornography.  And the filters mentioned in the link above are in reference to installs on local machines.

Is there some filter going on though?  Try typing, 'california medical marijuana' into the search bar and notice where suggested search ends...  Obviously at this moment in time there's a legal gray area for this topic as a few states have made medical and recreational use legal, while federally it is still illegal in the US. And right now, search tends to mirror that grayness as well.

The official Youtube take on it is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846

Unfortunately, you can’t merge or link separate YouTube channels. Similarly, you can’t transfer data from one channel to another (this includes videos).

However, you can download your videos from your own channel. Once you've downloaded your video, you can re-upload it to a different channel. View count and other statistics will start over for the new upload.

That's the official version.

Hi Howard. Manual actions are typically applied due to the following: automatically generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping content from other websites, and/or other repeated or egregious violations of Google’s quality guidelines.  See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604777.  If that's the case with your site, and you keep using the same tactics as you've used in the past, none of the solutions above will provide a long term fix. For more on Manual Actions, see: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824.

Hi Danny. Most people typically deal with these by having them NOINDEXed instead of redirecting them. In that case, you'll allow them to be spidered by Google (follow) but not indexed (noindex). This should be editable within Wordpress or in a plugin such as Yoast's. That way your users can still quickly read through the archives authored by yourself, but your 'about me' page will have a better chance of ranking instead.

You might also look into your backlinks to the author archive and see if you can contact anyone that has linked there instead of your 'about me' page asking them to change. In that process you'll probably come across some suggestions on how to improve your about me page as well so it is more likely to gain inbound links moving forward.  Cheers!

You could use one number universally on your site and local listings in order to match NAP, but then use the alternate number as a way to do call tracking and set that one as preferred. Other options include survey samplings, extensions, or integrating with a CRM if your business involves inside sales and someone who would be taking down that information.

Trying to track by every different service might be a bit of a headache though, as you could conceivably have a different number for every single site: Yelp, Superpages, Foursquare, and so on... Maybe it'd be worthwhile to just coalesce them all as "online local listings".  Cheers!

Hi Ash. I've used Moz for years and this has never happened (due to Moz). The machines they use to check rankings are separate from the machine you're using, so here's what could be going on...

1. You're checking rankings so much in Google, repetitively running the same searches over and over, that Google is limiting your machine's access.
2. You're on a VPN that is shared by others and they're doing similar to #1.
3. You're on an office network that is doing similar to #1 and it's causing the captcha to appear.

As an experiment, launch a fresh browser instance--preferably one you never use, like Opera, or a fresh Firefox install--load up a VPN to change your location to some other country, and then run your search in that country's local version of Google. I doubt you'll see the captcha then.  Cheers!

I think a bit more would go into the consideration whether or not to 301 the site like branding, social activity, conversion rate differences, and market segments served. If everything just folds into the main site better than keeping it separate in the niche, then I'd go for it. Here's a nice case study of a company that had an issue kind of similar to yours: http://moz.com/blog/2-become-1-merging-two-domains-made-us-an-seo-killing. Reading through that post will help with seeing things that they looked at in order consider merging the two domains.  Cheers!

Yup!  Congrats on the usability score. I liked that the survey self-truncated when selecting that a section didn't apply. Good work there.

If the content from your old site is part of the problem, then you shouldn't use it.  There's a nice post on how rigorous Google is trying to become when presenting sites here: http://moz.com/blog/panda-pummels-press-release-websites-the-road-to-recovery. It's long, but gives you several insights into what Google is considering when looking for quality content.

For your site individually, what was the level of engagement? Were people spending a lot of time on site? Good conversations if you had a comment section? Lots of pages viewed per session? Several naturally received links form people sharing your content?  Referrals from email because people had emailed each other links to your site?

There are no tricks. A site people love can do a lot of technical things wrong and still do very well in Google.

For built pages you'll have to redirect / mod rewrite to get to more readable URLs, but within your CMS there might be ways to change how pages could become more readable when they're first created. You'll have a few steps then...

1. Figure out your naming conventions
2. Implement naming conventions into CMS for all newly created pages
3. Redirect old page to align with new naming conventions

That's the basics of it.

Yup. And the title of that page is that it's unusual activity from your network, and Moz isn't your network, so that one is easy to eliminate.  It's likely some other trigger as I and others mention.

Like you say, there are going to be different things to emphasize per vertical, but here are three resources to help get you started.

1. http://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data Moz's intro to Structured Data.
2. http://moz.com/ugc/getting-the-most-out-of-schemaorg-microformats A nice Youmoz post on implementation
3. http://www.stateofdigital.com/schema-org-best-practices/ Some best practices

The schema.org markups are designed to increase and diversify over time, so you'll likely have to search through them to find the best fits for your clients. Cheers!

This is an older post on it, but still applicable: http://sharkseo.com/nohat/303-redirects-seo/ and is more like a 302. 301 is the standard way to pass along site authority for permanently moved addresses.  See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633, "If you need to change the URL of a page as it is shown in search engine results, we recommend that you use a server-side 301 redirect."  Cheers!

Hi Paul. Yes, this bit of work would be more gray/black than other straightforward methods, plus its benefits would be pretty minimal. What would be better is gaining links that use the terms interchangeably from outside sources. If people are searching for these terms as synonyms they will likely link in the same way. There would be several ways to go about this, like a "Make Your Manual" campaign that generates some links, PR around such, and so on. Cheers.

If that's what you're seeing it looks like someone used a relative href link instead of a mailto link for emails on the about us page.

Another consideration: if someone links to a responsive site--whether it was from mobile or non--the link would remain the same. That should help as well. That way there's less need to prompt users to "Switch to Desktop" or vice versa.

Hi Leo. You might also try terms that are tangentially related, like global volumes around contact centers (US and UK spellings), non-charity based services, and so on. That way at least, you'll be getting larger numbers that you can distill downwards towards your search volume.

Another source of search referral traffic that I see with search providers is testimonial based, i.e. someone is researching a brand or charity and they come across your site via their testimonial around your service.

Lastly, you can check contact center strategies in other markets to see what they've done in the past, what they've missed, and where you could improve.  Cheers!

Right. That's due to updating after the Open Site Explorer update. Once Moz recrawls your site it will apply the changes and you'll see the numbers as they were previously.  It sounds like you've made these changes VERY recently. Any redirection of pages (even if they're on the same domain) take a bit of time to be fully recognized by search engines and Moz's OSE.

I know Mail Chimp has one example: http://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/ You could likely work with them to get this functional as you'd like.