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Looks great guys. Appears to be much speedier than before!

Hi Diane,

Yes, I would suggest adding the above code I suggested and customizing it to the page.

The rich snippet testing tool indicates that authorship is working for your page but there still must be something which is incorrect -

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.uk%2Ftrip-advisor%2Ftop-american-ski-resorts-for-over-50s&html=

Let me know how you get on,

Mark

Hi Diane,

• Apply Authorship markup for the person who has written the article.
• Apply publisher markup (your brand Google + page) to the homepage of the site.
• For the logo, just link it to the homepage. I'm not sure what you mean by text in regards this.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Diane,

I thought I wold jump in as no one else has so far. My suggestions are noted below -

• Apply Google + authorship markup to all of the articles on your site.

If we take the article you just linked to as an example, you can see that markup has no been applied to it.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.uk%2Ftrip-advisor%2Ftop-american-ski-resorts-for-over-50s&html=

If you can't find a suitable Joomla SEO plugin (apologies, my Joomla knowledge is poor so I can't recommend one), you need to add the below HTML to each article and tailor it.

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• I would also suggest improving the content a little bit. The title of the article is 'Top American ski resorts for over 50s, but the content of the article doesn't make it clear what the top resorts actually are. The body of the article would benefit greatly from more information about the resorts in a clear format, and possibly with added images.

• The alt text for the image seems a little spammy - 'skiing holiday ideas'. The alt text of an image should reflect what the image is about.

• Random suggestion, I find it strange that your logo doesn't link to the homepage

• The title tag of your site doesn't contain your brand name. Worth putting at the end of the title tag.

I could go a lot deeper but hopefully that's a starting point for you Diane.

Any more questions then just shout!

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Alan,

I noticed this earlier today. We lost 25% of the +1's across each of our business pages. It seems to be a common problem at the moment and hopefully just a glitch.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-plus-discuss/dBaF3946f2A

I'm remaining hopeful that this will be fixed as everything was fine yesterday.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Apologies - My linked source was a little outdated but it did indicate it would become more widely adapted

It's not surprising really. Yahoo uses Bing to pull in organic search results and has been doing so for quite a long time now.

http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-transition-to-bing-organic-results-complete-49228

It makes sense that you would be seeing the same results across both platforms.

If a keyword is ranking for poor quality content..then it's not a keyword worth having.

So for this reason, I would remove the comments. If they haven't already been picked up by Google's Panda update,  then expect it to happen shortly.

Even if you take a hit with rankings for these keywords, it's better disposing of the generic comments now, rather than them having a negative impact on your whole site in the future,

Hi  Mubashir,

I would suggest you begin by focusing on the on-page SEO first.

I'm not sure what level you're at in terms of your SEO knowledge but for a re-cap, the SEOMoz beginners guide to SEO is always great - http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Once you have the structure, content and on-page optimization correct, you can then consider who your audience is, where they can be found online and appropriate methods for putting your site in front of the right people.

With this in mind, you can then begin to build relationships with the influential people who will allow you to put your site in front of their audience.

Hi guys,

I'd appreciate any advice with this one.

At the moment I'm in the process of arranging a URL re-structure. I was wondering what the best way would be to track the performance of the old URLs against new ones?

We will be ammending the URLs for any new property pages which go live on our website but leaving the old URLs in play for any old properties listed. We're taking this approach for the moment so we can conduct analysis on the change.

It has been mentioned to me that placing a 'setvariable' in the code of pages with the old URLs and ones with the new URLs would be a way of tracking performance. However, my knowledge in this area is a little bit grey.

Any advice?

Cheers,

Mark

Hi there,

I think is a lot more serious than using the Disavow tool. They have an exact duplicate copy of your website. This is a major concern.

You need to file a DMCA takedown request.

It's also worth reading this - http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831

You can contact Google - dmca-agent@google.com

I would suggest you make this a priority.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Debal,

Maybe I'm interpreting you wrong but there is no quick answer to this.

You appear to be ignoring the advice already given to you by Brad. You need to spend more time reading about link building, and more time reading about on-page optimization.

There isn't one thing you can do to achieve the rankings you desire.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Mohammad,

I'm not sure what level your SEO knowledge is at but judging by your questions, I'd guess you're just starting out?

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Take a read through SEOmoz's guide above and you can begin to identify the key areas of your website which need to be addressed.

Typically, I would recommend starting with a full site audit for an already established website. Identify the on-page and off-page factors, prioritize them in terms of important and place a time scale next to them.

You don't need a tool to develop a strategy. You need to know the underlying factors affected your website.

Best of luck,

Mark

I think you need to look at it from two perspectives.

Is it really needed? Does every page of the site really need this content displayed on it? I would be hesitant about recommending you putting all these things into the footer of every page.

Secondly, Twitter feeds can slow page load time. This will impact on the bounce rate of your site and since site speed can impact ranking, you really gotta ask yourself again about the need for this on every page.

A couple of footer navigational links are fine. Just avoid stuffing the footer with Twitter, newsletter, navigational and blog post links.

One of the real questions would be - Why are you paying for a link?

Why not approach them with great content and work on building a relationship with them so you earn the link from them? You could save yourself money and it could lead to future links.

A one off payment for links isn't a good link building strategy.

Hi there,

It might be worth sending your request directly to the Moz team so it doesn't get missed -

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

Annotations would be a pretty cool addition,

Mark

Meta-Keywords have no impact on ranking though.

Kathy, you will need to add more content to the pages that are public. Focus on the specific keywords you wish to rank for and improve the on-page SEO for these terms.

Also, from what I can see, there are no backlinks pointing to the site. You should focus on attracting links from high authority websites within the sector.

Hi Barnabas,

In the help section it states -

How do I add my logo or get white labeled reports?
If you have our PRO Plus or PRO Elite, you can upload a logo from your campaign settings page. This will add your logo to the top of PDF reports downloaded from the web app. This is a great way to show off our excellent data with your awesome branding. Enjoy!

Standard PRO accounts don't have this feature.

I hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Barnabas,

I respect your opinion but what I've found with many SEO tools in the industry is that you could pay $99 for just one tool per months. SEOmoz has a vast toolset at your disposal, along with this community forum and the ability to ask a private question directly to the staff here.

The cheaper PRO package (which I'm also on) is for people to utilize the tools for a small/medium site or just smaller projects in general.

What you're asking for with logos is more of a bespoke service so the cost would typically be higher.

That's not just for Moz but for the industry in general.

Agree with Screaming Frog. It's more comprehensive than **Xenu's Link Sleuth. **

It costs £99 for a year but totally worth it.

I had a few issues with Xenu taking too long to compile a report or simply crashing.