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Much appreciated Jasmine.

Cheers guys,

Is there a way to PM the site domain name for more detail incite as it's not making much sense to us. The data is very confusing.

Even though there is no google juice can the MOZ data be confused by the ad links?

Hi Dr Moz'ers

So our ex-contracted SEO "experts" have a enlisted our website to 40 odd directories with the same key word and copy.

Is it best to just delete them all to avoid a possible negative SEO/Google outcome?

Cheers

Hello Dr Moz'ers

So we have a new competitor in our market (6 months) that has basically copied our business model 100%, grrrr. We have been in the market since 2008 .This new website is ranking well considering how difficult our market is.

This new website is using the re-targeting display advertising and within 6 months his Moz data is showing around 45,000 back links, is this because of the re-targeting display advertising?

Is there any link juice from the re-targeting display advertising because the MOz data says the site has 100% follow even though its an image.

Cheers

Cheers Samuel,

So in a nut-shell "Author tags" for Blogs posts only - got it.

How about the Publisher tag option? Or is there no SEO or copy protection benefit from this option either?

My theory from all I have been reading on the topic of SEO, is SEO these days needs to honest and we need to build a community around our branding / site. So my theory is if we can tie our content to our G+ which ties it to our you tube, blogger, FB, site blog and shop etc etc then Google can easily join all the dots together are see we have an establish community, that we're active in it and then have better access to our content and keywords etc.

It's just my untested theory. FYI - I'm no SEO expert and its all new to me, maybe that's a good thing given all the changers from google. Does anyone really know whats going on and how to rank these days?

We have spend 10s of thousands with SEO companies in the past a lot of it has been a waste now given all the updates and the cost in man hours in "insurance" in cleaning up possible bad history to avoid negative SEO in the future.

Its seems the good old fashion marketing ways now prevail aka: quality products and service in the hope that the customer talks and spreads the work aka: "word of mouth", however as we're in a tech-age it's via an online social avenue.

Add to that high quality blog content with internal key links that again come with the hope someone will like, + and share it with your www related community.

I receive newsletters from the SEO companies I have used in the past and now all strategists seem focused on cleaning up back-links and then hand picking just the a hand full or quality back-links from competitors and then try and work out how to get that same link.

Apologies this has gone a little side ways from the original question but related all the same.

If any of the MOZ SEO experts are looking for a hot topic blog post here's a great heading- **The 101 to ranking in 2014: DIY guide. **Because it seems to me that SEO needs to be more personal rather than 3rd party.

I'm guessing though, if everyone did the same thing then the strategy would be less effective.

Hello Google+ experts

We run a eCommerce (magento) site with ~140 different products.

We manufacture all of our own products and therefore the product descriptions / content is written by us for us, however there are smaller operators that can scrap it, adjust it and use it on similar products. Can we author tag our own custom product descriptions or will goggle not like this?

I have read a hand full of blog about author tags v's publisher tags, and most bloggers state that eCommerce product pages should not author tag as content is normally generic product spec information.

Our product content is fresh, custom and written by a real author it's similar to a blog post so why can't we tag it to protect it? (The descriptions include a product - Overview / Benefits / Suggested use)

If we do Author tag it will Google spank us and damage our SEO or because it fresh and custom advance are SEO?