Subdomain Metrics
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Hi All,
I have been looking in the forums but could not quite find an appropriate answer to my question.
I have a site that has no subdomains, in my htaccess non www redirects to www.
So I would think that the subdomain metrics in seomoz would be the exact same for root and subdomain.
However, it appears that I get almost all the Ticks for my site over my competition on the root domain, but do poorly in the sub domain area compared to competition. Also, it shows that I only have 2 links for everything in the sub domain section.
Any I reading something wrong, or is this correct?
Thanks in advance
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You guys are great!
Robert - Thanks for the good guesses, it put me on the right track.
Nick - Every time I email Seomoz for any questions, I get an excellent concise response from the team, and its mostly been you answering all my questions. So thank you for that.
The answer you gave makes a lot of sense now. I was just worried my client would think they are doing so great for their root domain, but very poorly for their subdomain against their competition. Now at least I can explain to them what is going on.
Will check out OSE.
Cheers
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Haha, I need to look at his campaigns, but that is what it looks like on the surface. All of us on the helpteam have been pushing for the fix really hard to!
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Come on Nick,
I made some good guesses there and you go and tell us this. I am so hurt, I am not going to wash my SEOmoz T-shirt this week. No, no, I am not.
Certainly gonna quit guessing at ----.
Thx for the update,
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Hey Chirah,
Sorry about the odd metrics. If the campaign is set up as a root domain, then the subdomain metrics won't be accurate, we are working on a fix for that now. If you want to see the correct metrics put your URL in OSE and check the Compare Link Metrics Tab.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
Best,
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Chirah,
It is not unusual even with the www taken care of correctly for mozrank or trust to be a little to somewhat different.
Without your urls, I would guess that whatever is going on in your competitive analysis has to do with your competitor not having resolved the www. That I see with our clients regularly.
You did not say how many links you had in the root, but that you had only two in the sub. This issue could be a timing issue depending on when you did the redirect.
We have a client I just looked at who we took on in Sept and his root vs sub are equal with the exception of the mozRank and mozTrust. Since those are equations as opposed to counts it would make sense that they would take longer to resolve. But, they will never be the same is my guess....look at SEOmoz.org.....
Hope it was helpful.
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