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Yes, I have had this happen to our listing when I accidentally switched to "this business serves customers at their locations", our listing disappeared from google maps. When I switched it back, it reappeared in a few days.

Matt, no offense, but this is all very basic stuff that you must know very well before starting to do any type of SEO. People here usually discussing somewhat more advance topics.

As I understand you are expert in dog training. Imagine person coming to the professional dog training forum and asking umm how to tell the difference between the stud and the bitch.

File Manager in Cpanel.

99% of Internet providers use Cpanel. I would assume GoDaddy is using it too.

So all you have to do is login to your GoDaddy account and go to Cpanel. If you do not know how to do it, I would suggest calling GoDaddy tech support or reading up their help files.

Once you click on the File Manager, it would look like File explorer in windows, but only for your website. Click on Upload file button, pick the file to upload and you are done.

I have attached the screenshot of CPanel

I am not trying to discourage you but if you have no budget to hire someone else and do have time to learn. I would suggest digging into Goddady help files, calling their support or just using Google to figure out how to manage your site.

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I can answer that specific question.

Sitemap is file with the list of pages and path to these pages that you what Google and other search engine to access.

Usually sitemap is generated by the program you used to write your website.

If it does not there are a few websites that allow you to create Google style XML sitemap on line. For example http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Just use google and type something like sitemap builder. Once you get that file (sitemap.xml) use Godaddy file manager to put it in the root directory of your website (usually called public or www)

If you have CRM like WordPress there are plugins that you can download that do the same thing. Login to your wordpress admin panel. Go to Plugins->install plugin and search for sitemap. Pick the plugin that you like the best and just like that you got sitemap for you WP

It is very good that you have a blog.

Blogs are good.

This site is about SEO.

SEO stands for search engine optimization.

I think this should clarify it

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

On diagnosis page it has a small button next to every problem called Show Advice

Yes, linking with anchor text as your keyword from the blog post to the page that are you are trying to optimize for that keyword will help you rank higher for that keyword. But do not over do it - 1 link per post is probably enough.

If your blog ranks high enough then it would pass some link juice to the page you are trying to rank.

Make sure that that keyword naturally placed in your post not just tacked on for the sake of having a keyword. Blogs are written primarily for humans(your customers) and not the search engines.

one piece of advice,

before deciding to optimize for a keyword that you think your customers are using, do research and find out what they are actually using.

Google Insights is an excellent tool that can help you see what people are actually searching for.

here is the link http://www.google.com/insights/search/

For example in the last 12 month the top search terms in the USA that were ralated to dog training were

| 1. | training a dog |

	100
2.	training dogs

	70
3.	puppy training

	50
4.	obedience training

	40
5.	dog obedience

	40
6.	dog obedience training

	40
7.	obedience

	40
8.	dog training collar

	30
9.	training your dog

	30
10.	dog training classes

I wish someone would do it for me as well.

However this type of work generally cost (from what I understand) $700 and up.

So at most you would get couple of quick comments that may or may not be accurate.

At any rate, if you expect some one to look at your site, I would start with posting its address.

P.S.

Also there is Firefox plugin called  SEOquake, once you install it, it would add a number of buttons to your firefox browser. Browse to your site and click diagnosis button. It would show you recommendation about that particular page (not the whole website). It is inadequate replacement for professional advice but it is free and it is something that you can fix right now.

Hope that helps.

yep, it is down. From what I understand they are trying to fix some bug - you can read about it at

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/21655043-mozscape-index-update-temporarily-delayed-until-july-6th

No it does not happen too often - never seen it down before personally but I suppose as with any software - oops things can happen. This outage is more of an oops thing rather then chronic problem.

Is it better to specify www.site.com or *site.com for SEO Moz campaign?

assuming that

I do not have any subdomains except www,

in the Web Master tools I have selected preferred address as www.site.com

and I have redirect in my .htaccess from site.com to www.site.com

The reason I am asking is because I see different SeoMoz trust and other stats for root domain and www subdomain. I would think they should be the same, given the fact that I only use www?

Is it suppose to be in today?

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Resale account after the discount is $75 per year. Resale account includes a powerlisting, so for $75 you can update a 20-30 sites which is not that expensive. The problem with yext is that once you stop paying them, your listings would disappear. So the best strategy is to use Yext to get the updates in there fast and then still go and update the listings manually. Make sure to keep the spreadsheet with all the sites and passwords so you can track your progress.

We can set our own keywords as branded in SeoMoz campaign, but Google would not necessarily see them like branded. After reading the Blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-penguin-update

I had a question: Are there known rules (or at least guesses) what Google considers a branded keyword/anchor text?

I guess the first one would be your website domain. So bluewidget.com for example would be a branded keyword for bluewidget.com website. How about Blue Widget or Blue Widget Company?

As I understand in order to rank well for the page in google, the page/site has to have a lot of back links that have an anchor text with the keywords that you want to rank for.

At the same time if google finds that your anchor text contains kewords that are in your title or h1 tag, it may penalize your site. So what do i do to rank well for my chosen keywords.

Lets say I am only interested in keywords San Francisco widget and Oakland widget

The title of my webpage says San Francisco | Oakland widget

The anchor text that I usually pick is either San Francisco widget or Oakland widget.

I also have plenty of links that have anchor text like "website" or "click here"

What should I use for my anchor text in my backlinks?

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I had a similar problem with tag, read more and categories reported as duplicates. I resolved it by installing Nofollow Home Internal Links plugin which made all the non essential links nofollow

So my impression from reading articles about Page and Domain authority as well as impression from your answer is that

Domain authority is an absolute value of how SeoMoz thinks the page ranks in Google

and

Page Authority is a relative value of how much this page is helping this particular domain to rank in Google?

So by that rational you can have some domain with domain authority  rank of 10 and the webpage on that domain with authority rank of 60 because it is the only page that has backlinks.

So then it means that pages with high PA but low DA would have less value for backlinking then pages with somewhat low PA but high DA. Is that true for most of the cases ?

So DA 70 with PA 30 is better then DA35 with PA 40?

In the opensite explorer most of the links that I see have a higher domain authority and lower page authority which makes sense to me because I thought that domain authority is an aggregate of  its pages authority. But apperently I was wrong because sometimes I see that the page authority is greater then its domain? How could that be?