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There are a lot of them: PRWeb, PRnewswire, i-newswire, PRLeap.

And as mentioned earlier, Google does not give a lot of importance of links from Press Release sites, but if you have a good story you can use the PR sites to tell it.

I use the latest version of Chrome. I tried to reproduce but without success. I see this issue couple times a day (maybe once a day).

I'll try to reproduce it.

Hi David,

I was talking about this error

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There are still some bugs in a new Moz:

1. I can still find a lot of mentions of "SEOMoz", for example: in a footer, in a Q/A form (SEOMoz Resources), in a new question form (SEOmoz PRO Application, SEOmoz Tools, etc.)
2. On a main form (http://moz.com/pro/home) sometimes my full name is not visible at all, sometimes my MozPoints are hidden (on a left top corner);
3. There is not direct link from http://devblog.moz.com/ to a main website;

Regards.

With a PR3 and Domain Authority - 32, this website will not give you any SEO benefit.

If you need a good Press Release site other than PRWeb, you should try:

• http://www.prnewswire.com/
• http://www.i-newswire.com/
• http://www.prleap.com/

When one good web-site (PR5) has a link to my web-site - it's great. But, if this site has a second link to my web-site from another page, is this also good? Or, let me ask in a different way, will my web-site get "double benefit" from that web-site?

I see that Page Authority is really very important signal, but is it more valuable for Google too than PR?

A web-site has PR5 but in OSE I see that Domain Authority is only 26.

I've also checked and the domain was registered in 2009.

Is this normal?

MyGuestBlog is a good service, but you should check every offer carefully and accept only good ones (PR4+ websites)

You can view Moz's 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors, there is a proof that a domain that starts with a target keyword has more power than other sites. And, keywords which appears in the subdomain name, also boosts rank.

But keep in mind that the keyword should be relevant and the website should be a quality site.

Moz's 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors: http://moz.com/article/search-ranking-factors

Matt Cutts somewhere said that the difference between a domain that's six month old verses one year old is really not that big at all. So we can guess that they use domain age as a ranking factor, but it is not so important.

There is a great infographic about Google ranking factors: http://www.entrepreneur.com/dbimages/article/ranking_factors_infographic_2.jpg

You should definitely contact to the visual.ly team via http://visual.ly/contact form and report the "terms of use violation". I believe they will respond quickly.

Almost the same issue. I need to type the password at least once a day.

Wow, that's it? If I add SSL certificate to my web-site all "(not provided)" keywords will be gone?

Thanks.

About your question #1: It will give you some benefits, if you have a domain name containing keywords and it is more preferable if you use domain without dashes i.e. your-keyword.com

There are also rambler.ru and mail.ru but yandex.ru is the biggest one.

I would be nice if you will have a friendly URLs.

You can use a rewrite rule to remove extensions. Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9489315/htaccess-rewrite-rule-to-remove-extensions

David,

I'd like to add a new feature suggestion too. It would be great if you add some kind of user/employee management.

For example I'd like to be able to add another users to my account and assign them the specific permissions (view selected campaigns, generated reports etc.)

Regards

Click Edit Page and in Basic Information you will find the field "Name"

Also, there is a Username field too you can change.

You should (definitely) not delete the current account. Why loose all that fans?

Maybe you should consider to change name like "New Name (Formerly Old Name)" and after some time, maybe after a couple of month, remove old name.

Actually, there is a pretty good explanation http://www.seomoz.org/help/ose-overview

Also, you can see very informative hints on OpenSiteExplorer. Simply type your domain and view each column title's hint.

Heh, I got a hug!

I just remembered that when I got 50 mozPoints I had to receive a hug from Roger.

So, I need my hug!

What if there was JourneyMan and JourneyWoman and depending the provided gender in your profile it would change?

Of course SEOMoz should add such field first in the profile

Huge list of directories: sites.submit-everywhere.com, almost all of them are free.

This kind of link building is a real trap. You must pay every month for these links and we all know that soon or later Google finds out how to take down this network. Besides you will loose your money, you risk to be penalized.

As you mentioned, Google does not allows such reciprocal links.

I think, you should avoid making this kind of deals, i.e. ignore them.

It depends who asks and how. If it is interesting, I tweet/share the link.

There is a very interesting video: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-separates-a-good-outreach-email-from-a-great-one-whiteboard-friday

Do not forget to 301 redirect old links

It's more common if you use lowercase keywords

It's a content syndication service, it automatically distributes your links to a lot of different social bookmarking sites.

I think, you should avoid this kind of services.

It seems that there are really good answers already in the Q/A:

1. http://www.seomoz.org/q/has-anyone-use-this-source-to-submit-articles
2. http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-there-any-good-websites-to-submit-articles-to
3. http://www.seomoz.org/q/ezine-articles
4. http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-are-the-best-article-sites-to-submit-to
5. http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-it-safe-to-submit-the-same-article-to-multiple-sites
6. http://www.seomoz.org/q/do-links-to-blog-articles-help-that-much

And, the short answer is that you should avoid submitting articles in such directories. Sometimes it will even harm your site.

Also, I noticed that my article on Ezine is copied to a bunch of low-quality web-sites. Of course they removed my on-page links.

Thanks Branden,

This article is about Press Releases, which as I know has even less impact on SEO that article submission.

Does article submission web-sites have any impact to SEO in these days?

There are a lot of good/not so good article submission databases, but does it really matter if you spend a time to write unique articles for them?

I mean, is it a good way for link-building, or should I spend more time for other parts of SEO?

There are also a special websites (for example SubmitYourArticle) which automate this process, does it make sense to use this services?

Alternates?

Lots of questions…

Update Sorry, I found some good answers only after that I posted this question.

It seems that they already did it, I've searched and almost every page with keywords "SAPE link network" has a 0 PR.

There is an interesting article on SEW that Google is going to update Penguin to the next major version - http://bit.ly/15Vkr6O

So what do you think, what should we expect? And also, is there available updated webmaster guidelines?

My 2 cents for WordPress, it has plenty of addins and very easy to install and configure.

WordPress has a very good SEO Tools addins, there are a lot of skins available and you can easily find someone who can install or create custom plug-ins for it.

Think also about that if you are mentioned in a major and relevant website, it might be helpful (and will be) - the real people will see your name and try to find you.

Chris, did you mean promoting the content?

There are really few article submission websites which are useful. Some good ones are: EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleCity, SooperArticles

Keep in mind, that some of them does not allow to put links in the article, some of them add "nofollow" to your links, some allow to insert no more than 1-2 links in the article body etc.

Some of them require to post unique articles, for example Sooperarticles.com

Value of these web-sites might be that you will have some high PR backlinks and additional traffic source, if your articles are really useful.

If your sitemap.xml file is uptodate and/or all your links can be accessed by Google it does not make sense to submit links manually.

Try BuzzStream, it's a good tool for collecting prospects.

You can create a free account. It's better than nothing

ahrefs.com can show it to you

Short answer is no.

You should distribute a press release only when you really have to say something important. Moreover, you will have a better chance when your content is customized.

Also, I don't think that submitting it to many PR sites is a good idea. You can choose one of the top press release distribution sites, for example PRWeb, PRnewswire and submit your PR no more than once in a month.

And of course, there is a great blog post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-you-wasting-budget-with-online-press-release-distribution-14595

Did you add it in the Google Webmaster Tools?

(Just in case, how to add: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1352276)

I suppose that, the link path is incorrect in your web.config file

Hi Juan,

Google can index PDFs, but there are some exceptions:

• Google cannot index encrypted or password protected files;
• Or images in PDF document.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35287

Why are you trying to optimize a page using a PDF content?

If you want to combine all of these domain into one, you should consider to create one domain (not subdomains), like this:

www.newdomain.com/e-shop1
www.newdomain.com/e-shop2