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From the title, I was wondering if it could have been an alternative to Obamacare

Hi Abe, so does that mean there is a paid version or premium option of GetListed?

You can also

1. follow other companies on LinkedIn; some will follow you back.
2. Add the page URL to your email signature
3. https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins + https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/company-profile-plugin add follow company profile to pages

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http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/06/crawl-errors-now-reports-soft-404s.html

above is some of the ways to fix soft 404s. But the easiest might be to deindex and not have Google Webmasters crawl the members area. Unless its important for you

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would now looking at the DA and PA of the domain/page respectively, be equally effective in determining the quality of a site, to ascertain whether it is worth reaching out to...?

-Yea it will be more effective.

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It is used by some SEO reports like http://www.woorank.com, I dont believe Moz report has anything on it.

It is not used by Google, but it seems that it is still relevant to some industries, and they say "some search engines might still use it" So, it is applied to be on the "safe side"

More info:

http://blog.woorank.com/2013/04/dublin-core-metadata-for-seo-and-usability/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648641/does-anyone-bother-with-dublin-core-anymore/648734#648734

Dublin Core Generator for your site

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"But what I was getting at was, did DA and PA scores take publicly available Page Rank information into account when compiling the scores?"

No they did not, Page Rank was not as great of a metric to track to begin with.

UPDATE I have no sure way of knowing if they did so in the past or starting out, maybe we will get an actual answer from a Moz staff if it was part of dozen of other factors. But its highly unlikely.

Domain Authority is Moz's calculated metric for how well a given domain is likely to rank in Google's search results. It is based off data from the Mozscape web index and includes link counts, MozRank and MozTrust scores, and dozens of other factors.

(source: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority)

At this point because its been atleast 6mo since last PR was updated, DA and PA is more accurate.

"would that still give me equivalent information on the strength of that domain and thus make a judgement on whether it will be a worthy site for a guestpost"

-In my opinion it has always given a more valid metric of authority and strength than PR.

The only downside and to comment to "how close is now looking at Moz's metrics (ie. a third party company) to the info on PageRank that was being updated by Google themselves"

Mozscape is not as large as the Google index, but it is pretty big and significant now.

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One and the only interesting feature/aspect that I noticed is that Magnolia is used for very high trafficked sites.

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That sounds fine. I would choose either google apps or zoho for custom email.

I have not heard of Hostasaurus up to this point.

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I am glad I didnt miss this comment, really really well said. #Golden

Thanks EGOL

It is recommend you try to get in touch with the webmasters of the sites before going down the disavow route.

I second this as well. Disavow is not a plan A, but an plan B, C, D. In the process of link cleaning

Hi Kim just want to jump in and comment on "But getting the information needed to actually help getting better in SEO should be expected"

When I read that I thought of Moz's on-page grader, for us it seems like a great tool that actually helps with us get better SEO. What has been your experience?

Love your call to action Amelia: "Whatever you do, don't stop building high quality links to your site."

Hi Pedram,

You are correct when you say Schema.org is the standard by the major search engines.

Here's a great discussion on the subject here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/166612/schema-org-vs-microformats

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Hi Jonathan,

Tom has a great response here: "In terms of Baidu, having a chinese domain, like .cn or .com.cn and having Chinese servers certainly helps - but it is not a necessity in terms of ranking on the search engine.

However, proving that you have a Chinese presence, specifically a physical Chinese address, can be a real game-breaker, especially for PPC.  You basically need to have a Chinese registered address to advertise on Baidu for PPC and Paid search.  Your application will be halted until you do."

http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-china-perceive-a-com-cn-address

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Sure. Let me know how it goes

Most regular hosts do that give you for example Plesk, cPanel. these generically include Bluehost, Dreamhost, MediaTemple.net (there are countless of other great hosting options here it is just some that have had great experiences or heard of others). These are managed but generally allow you full control. There are also many unmanaged servers like Linode where you install mail servers from ground up, but I am not sure that is what you are looking for.

Again even WPEngine can have membership sites, it is just that it might take more time to set up as WPEngine is a bit picky in a good way to keep you from making mistakes earlier on. But if its for a informational site aka content site, and you have not yet worked with Wordpress. I would choose WPEngine. The benefits in my mind out way the cons of using gmail, or hosting custom email somewhere else.

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yea its by far one of the better hosting solutions starting out. It has its limits that are really there to keep you from making mistakes.  If you are not taking Wordpress to the extremes of an eCommerce solution or a membership site, I would say definitely go with them. I mention that because some (few, and very customizable) of the plugins are not supported or do not work great with WPEngine off the bat. They will go far and above to protect and speed up your content if that is important to you.  Also they do not allow you to create an email server like most hosting solutions that give you Plesk or cPanel access allow. Which is a pro or a con depending on how you look at it. Again its an amazing host. If you custom email is important and you do not want to use Google Apps or Zoho for email, try MediaTemple.net DV solution is also great option. Although the future might be iffy, as they have recently been bought out by GoDaddy. But so far I use them for some clients and them have been great. Again there are many great hosts out there, but I comment on the ones I have used. Bluehost, and Dreamhost have also been good with Wordpress but not to the extent of WPEngine and their expertise with Wordpress like Matt has mentioned.

.org is a self hosted which gives you 100% control with plugins like Yoasts SEO plugin that was mentioned. .com is free version that is great for mom blogs etc