Sudden MozRank drop?
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My site's MozRank dropped abruptly from 3.5 to 3 from September to October. MozRank had been steadily climbing until then and there were no changes made to the site in that time period. What may have happened?
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It could just be due to fluctuations in the size of the SEOmoz index and which of your links they indexed this month.
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