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I've used vBulletin in the past, but I think that is way overkill for what I am looking to do.  I just want people to be able to post a question, more similar to WordPress comments.

Our clients usually have a lot of questions about our industry.  We implemented Facebook comments (see bottom of: http://www.jwsuretybonds.com/info/faq.htm) on many pages throughout the site to allow our clients to ask whatever they'd like and build additional content using copy on how our clients speak, not industry expert vocab...

I have some problems with FB comments:

• Our answers only show to people logged into FB.  For others it looks as if we don't reply.
• The data pulls from FB, so we don't own it and it is slower than our server.
• You need a Facebook, Yahoo, or Hotmail account...I want anyone to be able to ask a question.

Can anyone recommend a script that accomplishes our Q&A functionality using our own database?  Also, I'd like to allow anyone to post without a requirement of an account.

If I had a WordPress site, I suppose this would be easier, as I'm sure there are various comment solutions, but I have a HTML\PHP based custom built site.

Thanks for the response. Do you feel checking new links discovered weekly is a bit overkill?

Hey Moz!

We're in the middle of performing a link remediation campaign, and had a question regarding new links. We do not acquire any links through methods that break Google's guidelines, but we recently discovered a suspicious link to our website that happened organically.

What is the recommended frequency for manually checking all newly discovered links to our website in order to catch/remove toxic links? Monthly? Bi-monthly? Yearly?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the responses everyone. I'm going to look into all of your suggestions.

Hello there,

I'm looking for a stock photo website for our company blog posts. We used iStockphoto in the past, but they raised their prices and it just isn't worth the price.

Does anyone have suggestions for a good stock photo site that is less expensive?

Thank you Devanur.  I will make use of this if a 301 redirect solution can not be found.

I am trying to redirect old dynamically created pages to a new static one (single page).  However, when I implement the redirects, it still uses part of the old dynamic url.  For instance...

dynamic.php?var=example1

dynamic.php?var=example2

dynamic.php?var=example3

should all redirect to: static.html.  However, they are redirecting to:

static.html?var=example1

static.html?var=example2

static.html?var=example3

The page is resolving fine, but I don't want google to misinterpret the new static page as numerous page with dup content.

I tried this in PHP on the dynamic.php page as follows, but it the problem above persisted:

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://www.mysite.com/static.html');

I tried doing it in my .htaccess file as follows, but the problem persisted:

redirect 301 /info/tool_stimulus.php?var=example1 http://www.mysite.com/static.html
redirect 301 /dynamic.php?var=example2 http://www.mysite.com/static.html

Can anyone solve this in PHP or w/ htaccess?

Help!!!

Wow this is great!  I didn't know about it.  Thank you so much!!!

I want to get a better handle on what internal link text (and co-occurance if possible) my site currently has.  We have a lot of old blog articles that provide link juice back to the main site, but with thousands of pages, we never kept track of when we internally link to a page.

Are there any tools that will provide an analysis of this?  OpenSiteExplorer seems like a very tedious way to do it and it didn't appear to be 100% accurate.

Also, are there any tools that will provide analysis and recommendations based on keywords targeted?

It is done using CSS, but it needs to be clarified if the content is down far due to other content on the page or if it is down low due to HTML tags (perhaps from a navigation).  The former might make a difference, but I think G can detect that trick anyway.  The latter is irrelevant in my opinion, as the tags will be discounted.

This can be done via CSS, but I'm not sure doing so has value any more.  It used to be a practice a couple of years back, but I don't think it is necessary anymore.

Precisely what I was hoping for!  I did some searching myself and didn't realize GA would tie in with the site search.  Fantastic!  Thanks so much.

We are adding a JQuery smart search to our site that provides product suggestions as our visitors type.

I can create a simple script to store precisely what the visitors are searching for and how they type it.  However...

1. I am not sure how to best analyze the data for use.  Simply storing the data does not tell me how many times a particular phrase was used.
2. I believe a smart suggestion search tool will skew my results, as it will suggest what I list my product names as in my database rather than what they call it.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  I found a great JQuery script for the suggestion search, but is there anything out there for storing and analyzing the user search input?

I have 3 pages that rank VERY well for related terms such as:

-How to get widgets

-How to become a widget

-Getting widgets

-etc.

I am incorporating a video on the topic and rewriting much of the content on the site.  I am wondering if it is wise to 301 redirect all 3 pages to 1 page that has the new/better video content or if I should leave the old content that is ranking well and embed the video on the top of each.

The anal retentive side of me wants a nice new site structure and 1 powerful page.

However, if the 3 pages are currently ranking (sometimes 2 pages in the same top 10 results), should I mess with what is working?

Ultimately my goal is to increase the avg time on site as these 3 pages are top traffic pages for the site.  However, they do not convert at all, as they are for a product we don't offer.

Thoughts?