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The code is as follows:

<td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl"> <a href="<a href="https://plus.google.com/+thelotter/posts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/[myname]/posts" id="ctl00_Header_socialCtrl_GooglePlusLinkCtrl_hyperLinkSocial" target="_blank" class="socialIcon googlePlusIcon"></a href="<a></td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl">

(only thing different is myname is my brand)

We have a Google + icon linking to my page and I don't want it to say on my website homepage "find us on Google".

Shouldn't the above code be okay or does it need to be modified?

I am trying to implement rel=publisher but am having some difficulties.

Although I have over 1000 fans when I try and verify my page I get a message from Google that "Your page does not have enough followers to be eligible for verification"

I have the following code on my pages:

<td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl"> <a href="<a class="webkit-html-attribute-value webkit-html-external-link" href="https://plus.google.com/+thelotter/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/[myname]/posts" id="ctl00_Header_socialCtrl_GooglePlusLinkCtrl_hyperLinkSocial" target="_blank" class="socialIcon googlePlusIcon"></a href="<a></td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl">

What should I be doing differently?

Thanks!

I use SEOMoz to track my rankings in RU, but there are a few problems:

1 - SEOMoz doesnt offer Yandex tracking

2 - When exporting rankings to CSV it only shows the keywords in EN characters and looks something like this ??asad&$

Any suggestions for a better tool to use for RU?

Thanks!

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)?

Thanks!

Figured out the problem was on my end

I want to import SEOMoz data to list of URLs I have using scrapbox.

I added in my credentials according to the API but am getting error 401 as the status of all my links.

Any idea why and what I should be doing?

I purchase a a domain xxx.ru and want to add my new website to yandex webmaster tools.

However, when I try adding my site I get a message saying "this site is a mirror of yyy.ru" (the old website who used to have my new domain and has since move to this new domain instead of the one I purchased from them)

After getting this message I am not able to add my website.

Any advice?

we may have more than one news item per day but the title would be different....

would you recommend adding these numbers, or no need and might as well leave them off?

We dont have wordpress so I can't work on the plugins.

Would it make sense to have a 6 digit number with the date, ie for today 072913, or would google not know to interpret that as a date?

My website is not a news or magazine site, but we do have a news section updated 2-3 times a week with industry related news.

We are working on a new structure for the URLs.
Should the date be included in the URL?

From this article from Google I understand that as long as we submit a news sitemap it doesnt matter whether or not numbers are included in the URL, correct?

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68323?topic=11665

I would never ask someone to disagree with Matt!

I was more asking based on Matt's video if linking between sites should be discouraged even if it would be beneficial to users or if it should be avoided because has negative SEO ramifications.

My company has a main xxx.com website and geo-specific subsites - xxx.co.uk, xxx.es, etc...

We link to each of the subsites from the menu, however it also makes sense from a content perspective to link between the sites on internal pages.  However, in this video Matt Cutts seems to discourage this - http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-linking-20-domains-together-likely-a-cross-linking-scheme-167089

Do you think its worthwhile to keep the inter-site linking to just the menu or okay (or even helpful) to link between the different sites.

I launched a new website ~2 weeks ago that seems to be indexed but not cached.

According to Google Webmaster most of the pages are indexed and I see them appear when I search site:www.xxx.com.

However, when I type into the URL - cache:www.xxx.com I get a 404 error page from Google.
I've checked more established websites and they are cached so I know I am checking correctly here...

Why would my site be indexed but not in the cache?

Did I miss an alogrithim update that happened last month?

The rankings for my tracked keywords do not seem effected (so I didn't notice until now) but according to SEMRush the number of keywords I am ranked for dropped significantly in June.  Traffic did not significantly drop in one day, but compared to last month is 20% lower (and should have been ~30% higher based on industry trends)

According to SEMRush other websites in my industry, including the most reputable ones still ranked #1 for the most competitive terms - seem to have also dropped significantly this month the number of positions they were ranked for...

Thanks!

Just to confirm, this is in addition to the social media icon + link visible to users, right?

Hi,

I want to add rel=publisher to my website.  According to Google support I should use the following tag -

Add to homepage - [rel="publisher">Find us on Google+](https://plus.google.com/my page])

A few questions:

• Is this in addition to my social media button linking to my page to direct users there or should it be used instead?
• Where does "find us on Google +" appear on the page - or is this a hidden instruction only meant for Google?
• Could I add the code without the "find us on Google +" so that it would read
• Can this be added anywhere on the homepage (as implied by Google) or should it be on the meta head?

Thanks!

Use them wherever it is the most relevant for your business - website, blog, etc... and then promote via social media, infograph sites and other off-page efforts.

It's a new site and I have now confirmed it's not readable

Not the answer I was looking for, but thanks for all the help!

Text on my site seems to be readable in a text only version (the page is not cached so I viewed it by disabling JAVA and then copy and pasted the page into Word)

However, when I look in the page source I don't see the text there.

The text was created using Open X html boxes to help us with formatting, but is this causing an SEO problem?

Thanks - that could be a decent alternative to offer!