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Sorry for the confused!

@andy-halliday is correct and I thought the accidental Dec 2013 update had been more recent

thanks! very helpful!

We are changing our homepage (and gradually the rest of the site) to Angular JS.
In order not to lose anything in terms of SEO we are implementing Hashbangs + escaped fragment snapshots.

Are there any other SEO considerations you think we should have and/or additional elements that we could add to the page to improve it in terms of SEO?

As Andy wrote, Page Rank is going to be outdated very soon since it will no longer be updated.

However, for the next months at least, I still think it's useful to compare PR vs DA and if there is a discrepancy you can probably assume the site was penalized (at the very least it is a warning sign to look into more closely)

I get Matt Cutts saying this isnt really a priority, but still want to get it right

Our menu links have anchor text and the links within the page are images (next to each other with dif pics)
It seems like I should keep menu links both as Follow, but NoFollow one set of the image links on the page, right?

My company is redoing our homepage and there will be 4 links to our main play pages (5 games).  2 in the menu and 2 within the content.

I was thinking I should no follow one of the links on the homepage + 1 in the menu so that we don't have link dilution from having multiple internal links to the same destination within 1 page.

Does this make sense? Any downside of this or suggestions of a solution that may be more effective?

Thanks!

Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted

Now that Universal Search has disappeared is it preferable to host videos on YouTube?

What would be the benefits of self hosting and using a service such as wistia?

Thanks for the response!

Do you have a link explaining your solution to someone a tad less technically advanced than you

Pages for my companies play process load slowly because the process is heavy.

Below the play process there is a block of text, put mostly there for SEO purposes.

R&D are proposing to load the SEO Area only after the play process is loading.
This seems like a very bad solution, because loading the SEO Area asynchronously will make the content unreadable to Google.

Am I missing something?

You should keep the H1 tag to only one per page and make the other headings H2.

Change the sizing of the H1 bullet to slightly bigger than the rest of the text on the page.

Make sure that when you are checking your rankings you are using a clean browser without any saved cookies and add &gl=uk to the top of the URL.

If they are still different it's possible that you've gone up in the time between the last ranking check....

It seems like you probably don't want 4 different TLD, but instead would want to use ahref lang to indicate to Google that you are showing different regions different content. See here for more of an explanation - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Alternatively, if you do want the unique TLDs you could put a canonical to whatever content is duplicate back to the main site (.com probably).

I am work as an in-house SEO person, and we use as external SEO consulting company to help with more complicated and technical issues.

It seems to work well, and helps with the lack of team/collaboration which can be a problem for people working in-house.

I am looking for relatively cheap hosting for sites in RU, UK, AU, Es, fr, se, pl and RO.

any recommendations?

Thesis is a good theme with built in SEO advantages.  Headway is great if you are looking for one with the most flexibility.

As Matt said, using Yoast and ensuring everything is set up important is just as important as picking a good theme (if not more)

Do you think it would be important for the 3 sites to use unique templates/ip addresses?

Google is recommending that websites nofollow any links from press releases or guest blogging.

Do people think this is really the new standard and sites could get penalized for guest blogging with follow links? Is anyone changing their strategy after hearing this announcement?

Where does this leave people who work in difficult niches (such as gambling)?

I want to find out keyword research about a specific US State but Google's tool only gives me data by Country.

Is there something else I can use?

Is there a way to check my Yandex ranking with SEOMoz?

If not, is there another tool you can recommend?

Thanks!