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Hello. Sent you a private Moz message and commenting here just to let you know in case you do not have email notifications set up. I look forward to the opportunity to see if we are a good fit for what your business needs.

Studio, The kinds of landing pages you're likely reading about are PPC landing pages, which aren't tailored for organic rankings.  If you're talking about an organic landing page, you do need to treat it like any other page you want to earn traffic from search--and you have to optimize for conversions too.  That's one of the reasons squeeze pages became popular--they contain a lot of content and draw the visitor in to convert them. When you think about Moz's home page, and factor in the number of links there are that point to it, there is probably no amount of on-page content that could outweigh the forces of the anchor text in those links.  That's to say that moz doesn't have to rely on content to provide relevance for its home page.

Its a dotnetblogengine.com blog its open source but not sure where to start

If you engage with your follows and users on any of those social media accounts I would advise to link to them from your site. Perhaps you can move them to a less prominent location and open them in a new tab when users click on them. If you don't engage with your followers then might as well get rid of them

Hey, You are coming at this from a slightly wrong perspective. Is your app good? Would people reading a review on this site be likely to buy your app? Is this site visible in search when people search for app reviews related to your app? If the reviews are good and the site brings value then getting exposure on the site and a link as part of the bargain would most likely be a good thing. If the site sucks and is a free for all with 15 word reviews in pigeon English then it may not be such a good thing but it would be unlikely to be harmful. Forget the metrics for now. Think quality and exposure. If the site is highly visible and high quality and you get some exposure via this site and may get referral traffic as well then a link is likely to be a good thing whether it helps your SEO or not. Hope that helps Marcus

If you look at my blog I have really struggled with really good (low / no cost) blog images. I came across this guys site today - it's totally devoted to great blog images and has a lot of great content on it - http://www.betterblogimages.com/the-1-blogger-friendly-website-for-finding-citing-free-images/ Another good article on the subject - http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-use-photos-in-your-blog-to-make-it-more-interesting And my favorite on the subject I have come across in awhile - http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-make-your-blog-posts-stunningly-beautiful-images Good luck! Matthew

Hi Studio, Here's the thing: Links to your site that are published on other websites can help your authority and your site's ranking potential when those links are published on sites that are themselves recognized as authorities and these days, it's fairly rare to find an authoritative site that publishes duplicated articles. This tactic was considered effective in the past, (and in some cases, may work today) but Google can now identify and eliminate this as a tool to help boost your rankings.  Here's an interesting past Q&A on the topic.  And here's another one.  In answer to your question, yes, it's not good for you and neither is it good for them. Moving forward, give the section on growing popularity and links on Moz's Guide to SEO a read to start giving you ideas about building your site's authority.

Be an expert in your niche, and contribute to the community. And ask yourself What pain points do consumers in this industry experience? What content could be refreshed and / or curated in this industry? How can you contribute your expertise to add value? Asking yourself these questions will help you develop content ideas, which will, in turn, potentially yield inbound links if you can build great content and share it with industry influencers. Hope this helps Todd

These: http://screencast.com/t/p120RbUhCT They appear on every page I looked at, and take up the entire area "above the fold" and the content is "below the fold" -Dan

Hi, There are a few ways to go about this, but for the best results you have to use all the tricks in tandem. 1. Firstly the copy has to be really interesting, funny and/or look amazing. Your standard boring 300 word articles do not cut it. There has to be something unique and offer extra value to other info on the web. 2. Promotion - There is no point in creating great content if it's not going to be found I have found 2 effective ways of doing this. Getting you post featured on famous blogs. Having great contacts in the blog world always helps, but is difficult to build up a quick relationships especially if blogging isn't your business. So I recommend finding someone with experience promoting content. I would to pay between £200-£400 for a good job. (I charge £400 but I'm sure there are plenty of people that will do it for less, just make sure to have proof that they can do it Examples: http://www.rollaramp.co.uk/news/infuriating-wheelchair-ramps/ http://www.airconco.com/news/how-not-to-install-an-air-conditioning-unit-1190.html If you are not looking to promote the content then it's important to write about something that people will search for. I wrote an article a few years back about the hottest cities in the world. It got no attention when it was initially published but now it ranks top on google for many search terms and always brings in at least 100 hits a day. Best tip is to use Google Keyword tool to find long-tail questions that people ask, then write about them. http://www.airconco.com/news/the-worlds-10-hottest-major-cities-839.html The two options above are scattergun approaches that bring in traffic to your site but do not guarantee top quality links, however, they significantly improve your chances. For good quality links you need to hustle by going out to respected websites and ask them to publish your blog post. It's hard work but high value. For example find a college website that is teaching people about a specific subject that you can offer extra value on and ask them to put a link to your page. Finally, if you become an renowend blogger in your field you get asked to write things for newpapers etc. The New York Times found our blog (ranks first for air conditioning blog on google) and asked us to write a piece for them. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/06/21/should-air-conditioning-go-global-or-be-rationed-away/air-conditioning-made-this-debate-possible Hope this helps a bit.

Is it different in Google's eyes? No. Is a single link going to get you caught and penalized? Probably not. Don't rely on buying links, as it will distract you from doing real marketing, and make sure you don't leave obvious footprints.

The best test case for the value of WordPress is to switch an existing site to WP from HTML as see the results.  I have been impressed.  I only use SEO optimized theme framework like headwaythemes.com genesis or thesis. I find Yoast SEO buggy and redundant if you use a strong framework.

TextLinkBrokers offers high quality placements for guest posts. As long as you aren't using commercial/exact-match anchor text and stick with branded/generic terms you're good to go. They also don't use any networks and spend a lot of time building relationships with authority sites. Check it out.

I'm not sure what you mean by "removed them from your blog," since most blogs have categories and tags to help with internal navigation and organization. It may be that they are still in your sitemap; so check your sitemap.  The other issue is time.  It takes awhile for spiders to catch-up with your site.

Andrew, Log into your account, now go to >Campaigns.     then >View this Campaign. Scroll down to "Keyword Rankings", then click on >See all Keyword Rankings. Hover over the keyword you would like information for, then 2 icons will appear. Click on the rightmost icon that looks like an EKG chart. Scroll down to the "Ranking Analysis on" portion of the report. There you will find 34 parameters your keyword and URL are graded on. You will find a button just below and to the left of "Ranking Analysis on" that says "Run Full Report" you get 50 free report per month. So knock yourself out.

Hey! This is a common issue between AdWords and GA. Analytics is tracking the number of visits, and AdWords is tracking the number of clicks. I'm not completely up to speed on what qualifies as an actual Visit to GA but it's not the same as what you're paying for. Sometimes when people don't stay long enough to count as a GA defined visit, it won't appear when reviewing traffic sources. And when you see higher numbers in GA than in AdWords, there are a few other things that could be happening as well. AdWords is always about 4-6 hours behind the real up to date time. So as long as you aren't looking at today only, this shouldn't be a factor. Google also will credit you for what they believe to be fraudulent clicks, so they will also lower your numbers in AdWords. What kind of variance are you seeing? Also, you may want to look at the Advertising>AdWords>Campaigns section instead of the Traffic Sources section. I don't know when Analytics starts tracking last non-direct touch (if that's only in the goals or if that's throughout). But as soon as you leave the Advertising tab, things start to get wonky.

Hi, On blogs I usually don't use or advice to use the brand or domain name as blog titles are usually long - adding the domain / brand will only make them even longer. If your blog makes a good job as far as branding - no need to put that in your Title. As far as keywords - that is always a good idea - but again - you should use your main keyword that is targeted with a particular post in your H1 and use the h1 also as the title tag - that can cover the basic setup. Anyway, I would rather not use the keyword in the Title tag / h1 if it dosen't fit and if it's not really readable like Jesse also mention. Also the keyword, to "maximize" the SEO effect should be as much as possibile closer to the beginning of the title. You can add for some - the hype formula for keywords - Use the "keyword: comment" format. So if your main keyword is Iphone and your post is actually called "the new model of Iphone" you can move the keyword in front using: "Iphone: the new model" - stupid sample but hope it sends the idea Hope it helps.

Can you describe the problems you're having?  Are your test variants getting indexed?  Google overall does not have a problem with A/B testing, they encourage it.  After all, the better your site converts, the higher CPC you can tolerate from your ads, and the more money they make.

You have a very typical case here, Studio33. The usual way to handle multiple sitemaps most efficiently is to create a sitemap index file at the root of the site which would list the locations of the two actual xml sitemaps you have. Then in both Bing and Google webmaster tools as well as your robots.tx file, you point to the sitemap index file. This way, you're giving the maximum number of signal for where the engines can find your sitemaps. (A sitemap in internal directories may not be found by search engines - they're trained to look for a standard sitemap file in a standard location at the root of your site - no sense making it hard for them!). Here's Google Webmaster Tools' help doc on making a sitemap index file. Hope that helps? Paul

I agree with both Alan and Mike, there is no real SEO value you will gain from using tags on your blog. As Mike says, usability is probably the only reason to use tags. If you're using WordPress, Dan Shure posted a pretty good article on setting up WordPress for SEO last May.