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Hi Syed,

At this point it is all automated, there is no webmaster input (other than removing the sitelinks that you do not want to show up under Google WMT) or schema to help with this.

Also note, that sitelinks are search query specific. Example the same homepage for a site can display different results based on the query, in this case with sitemaps or not, at times schema might be displayed instead of sitemaps; meaning other schema that is set up can at times take away from the sitemaps that you are trying to display.

Some say that it is authority based and the more authority your site has, the sooner the sitelinks show up. However with a great structured site, for example a Wordpress site with easy to follow permalink structure, sitemaps, no duplicate content. I have seen even non authoritative and new domains showing up with sitemaps quickly.

More info from Google:

"We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them.

At the moment, sitelinks are automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition."

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en 

Hope it helps!

Hi Ruben,

It could mean that yes you are doing something right, as in getting more links, or just that moz has recently crawled or found more links, and as result you are seeing a jump in your DA. A 2-5 point increase or decrease is not out of the ordinary

Here is more relevant info: http://moz.com/community/q/freaked-out-over-domain-authority-ranking-drop

Hope this helps!

If you feel the links are harming you or your SEO efforts in anyway, you can go ahead and disavow them. However, the disavow link does not remove the links so it does not help with 404 errors, but will ignore them when it comes to your rankings.

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Your questions can have many suggestions and little tips but by far one of the biggest ones answers this part of your question: "So what is the new purpose for our blogs in this new age of Google and ever-increasing social influence?"

Produce engaging content, and be know as the authority in a certain topic and social shares, comments, and traffic will naturally come for an ever-increasing social influence. Its one of those easier said then done things.

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Dr. Pete in this article should provide some answers, food for thoughts, and hopefully a suggestion:

http://moz.com/blog/how-do-i-get-googles-bulleted-snippets

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Michael, Philip is on the dot mass footer linking was an SEO trick of the past that does not benefit much in terms of an SEO boost. If its messy clean it up. Leave it ONLY if it makes sense from a user experience, and so optimize for a real human person as he would browsing the lower part of your site.

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Hi Oliver,

"Ratings in Google Product Search consist of an aggregate ratings score with snippets of customer reviews from third party sites and from Google Checkout which are based on your store name and the registered domain."

These ratings from Google come from _"various sources" _including:

Bizrate(Shopzilla), Pricegrabber, Epinions, Yahoo, Review Centre, Viewpoints, Google Checkout Reviews, Reseller Ratings, Trustpilot, RateItAll.com, eKomi, and more.

To read more the above is taken from here

PS Google Checkout is no longer a place where reviews can be acquired as it is being cut.

Hope this Helps!

Hi Jeremy,

The general consensus here at the moz Q&A is to send you over to: http://moz.com/community/recommended#local-search-services

You are correct many are above this budget, but I still want to encourage you to give that a shot, if nothing works out, PM me and lets chat and I might be able to help out

How much links per month per location are you looking to create? (This might help some wanting to help)

Here at moz community we recommend: http://moz.com/community/recommended#local-search-services

Hi Andreas,

I cannot comment on the getseojs, or prerender I did not use those. However, google can execute "some" JavaScript to find content but Google has limitations.

This article should help: http://moz.com/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really

Hope this helps!

Hi Dario,

Authority is a superior metric for the following reasons:

1. Twitter followers could just be spam accounts and not genuine followers

2. Authority is usually based on things such as retweets, mentions, and responses meaning that you are engaging your community and your tribe or a following actually is responding to your shares.

Therefore 100 followers that retweet and engage your shares, will be more meaningful than 1000 followers with no shares, retweets, etc.

Hope this helps!

"not technically addressed in that area"

Physical staffed location is required according to Google Places policy.

If its not techincally in the area, you can build organic content to rank for those areas but not local.

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Hi Adam,

If you are ranking on the first page for three pages, that says to me each individual page of the three is ranking pretty well. I would track this search and see if you still rank for all three pages, as one way of looking at it is that competition is dropped to the second page if you are ranking for multiple positions, this is good while it lasts, if you notice that other 2 drop, you can move the content to the one that still ranks, more below:

As for making one page stronger, generally if you have similar content on 3 pages combining that into one page, if that makes sense in your case. and redirecting, or linking to the page with all content.

Hope this helps!

Well said iSTORM! To add using images in H1 tags is not very search engine friendly or natural approach. H1 tags are to be used for text only, so adding images may not work to your advantage.

Thats a negative on "Since you are moving the websites to another domain and keeping the same structure, so the permalinks of each page will stay the same except the base domain name "

-permalink structure will change thats why its not so plug and play, and looking for some automated or semi automated methods, otherwise will have to do so manually...

Hey Guys,

witnessSF.org (WP), witnessLA.org(Tumblr), witnessTO.com(WP), witnessHK.com(WP), and witnessSEOUL.com(new site no redirects needed) are being moved over to sf.ourwitness.com, la.ourwitness.com and so forth. All under on large Wordpress MU instance.

Some have hundreds of articles/links others a bit less.  What is the best method to take, I understand there are easy redirects, and the complete fully manual one link at a time approach. Even the WP to WP the permalinks are changing from domain.com/date/post-name to domain.com/post-name?

Here are some options:

1. Just redirect all previous witinessla.org/* to la.ourwitness.org/ (automatic direct all pages to home page deal) (easiest not the best)2) Download Google Analytics top redirected domains about 50 urls have significant ranking and traffic (in LA's sample) and just redirect those to custom links. (most bang for the buck for the articles that rank manually set up to the correct place) 3) Best of the both worlds may be possible? Automated perhaps?I prefer working with .htaccess vs a redirect plugin for speed issues. Please advise. Thanks guys!

Sure this should be really easy to get going, you can start with this:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/font/

Bummer, I was not aware of that, its such an awesome plugin

Hi Chris,

Under 2 sec is what you should aim for. Under 2 seconds for human brain is fast enough.

Now 2.54 secs is good. Now is that the same for all if not most of your clients? What if your clients are using DSL vs High Speed Cable connection? These things you would need to test here: http://www.webpagetest.org/ select the apporiate geographic locations and possibly test with DSL speed and see if you are happy with the results!

Hope this helps!