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Thanks for reporting this! We just got the fix in so all of your campaigns links should work now.

Hi all. Here's a quick update. The good news is that we tracked down the core issues and have made progress toward fixing them. Keyword difficulty is up and running again, although we are still testing and tracking down a few imperfect results. Campaign rankings are in good shape. If you had any missing rankings, they should be retrieved by late tonight, though there a very small set of locales for which rankings are not yet available. And we are still on target to have rank tracker working tomorrow.

I also wanted to note that the engineering team has been investing in building up redundancy to ensure greater resiliency in the future. Unfortunately these systems were not yet complete when the latest problems arose. Fortunately, a lot of the work that the team has put in over the last week has helped us better test and prepare those systems.

Thanks to everyone for your patience during this outage. We don't take these issues lightly and have put every available resource toward solving them. We’re truly sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.

Ah, good question.

At the moment this project is still in planning, so I don't have a firm ETA yet. There's a good chance we will release the task list functionality in phases and I'm hoping to have a first phase out before the end of the year. I'll be sure to share some more information when the plan is better defined.

Hi Steven,

You are correct in noting that SEOmoz does not have this functionality at this time. We are working actively on expanding the size and quality of our main index, which is published monthly, but I totally agree that it can be frustrating to wait to see new links when you are working on a new site.

As Doug mentioned in his response, we are working toward a separate fresher index which works quite differently, but this is still a little ways out. We will be sure to share more about it as progress continues.

Thanks for the question, and good luck with the new site!

Adam

Very good question. I dug in a little bit and found out that both the Great Britain and United Kingdom option are exactly the same behind the scenes. Both return rankings for google.co.uk. I'm not sure how the GB option got in there, but we'll take it out soon and just leave the UK option.

For any people that chose GB in the past, their campaigns will continue to work and pull UK results.

Sorry for the confusion!

Adam

Hi Stephen,

Webmeup is a crawler unrelated to Moz. Feel free to block them if you'd like, though they don't seem to be nefarious in intent. They've listed info about their crawler and how best to block them here: http://webmeup-crawler.com/.

Thanks for the question!

I did a little digging, and you are correct in that a duplicate title should not be shown here. There are some cases where a URL is canonicalized to another, but our crawler still report it as a duplicate title.

The good news is that we have an update in the works that will exclude canonicalized duplicates correctly. We are testing it now and hope to have it in place by late January.

This update will also fix a lot of other small bugs and be more robust overall. I hope this helps for now. We'll be sure to announce when the update goes out.

Hi Julie,

This post might help. It includes some solid advice and techniques to clean up your GA data: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter.

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for the question. There are a lot of changes and improvements that were already rolled out with Moz Analytics. Some of the more prominent ones include:

• A more robust custom reporting platform
• A new integrated brand & mentions section that allows you to track mentions of branded terms, competitor mentions, and industry conversations.
• More integrated link data with link opportunities called out
• An expanded rankings section
• A new traffic-focused dashboard showing metrics and progress across your different inbound channels
• Matt Brown wrote a field guide to the tool soon after launch which provides some more details: http://moz.com/blog/a-field-guide-to-moz-analytics
• Another addition you might not know about is a new alerts feature as part of Fresh Web Explorer. This allows you to set up email alerts anytime your brand is mentioned in web content that was recently published. It's like Google Alerts, but more robust.

All that said, this is a platform that we are very actively working on. A few things that are up and coming in Moz Analytics:

• Monthly timeframes, which will allow you to see your data broken down by month for higher-level views and comparisons.
• Better interfaces to gain insights now that so much keyword data is Not Provided
• A little further out: A new section focused on measuring the effectiveness of published content and finding ways to make your content marketing more effective.

We are also focused on making improvements to some of our most popular tools, like Open Site Explorer and Fresh Web Explorer.

We went through a period in which our tools were a bit stagnant while we worked to ship the Moz Analytics platform. Not that it's out, we will be shipping new capabilities and features very frequently.

If you have specific features you are looking for, I encourage you to add them to our feature request forum. We try to make sure we respond to each request so you have an idea of where it lies in our current priorities.

I hope that helps. Let me know if I can supply any more details.

Best,

Adam

Hi Dru,

Looking at your page, it appears that you are using the wrong format for your rel=canonical tags. The tag I saw in your code was formatted as:

where it should have the format:

I think this should clear things up, but let me know if I am missed something.

http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/2

Sorry for the very late response, but wanted to let you know that I took a look into this and it appears that there is a bug in the ranking overview which makes it so we only shows the visit data for the first of two duplicates (differing only by capitalization) that is added. The first will show the number of visits and the second will display a value of "pending".

As for the data itself, if you go to the ranking history for the 2 keywords, it should show the same historical visit data (and has in our tests), so this is consistent with how we should be displaying this.

There is certainly no need to be tracking different capitalizations separately, as our GA data collection is not case sensitive.

If you are still seeing something odd aside from the pending on the overview, please let me know.

Thanks for catching this and bringing it to our attention!

Adam

Sorry I'm so late to this discussion.

Your request makes a lot of sense and I can definitely understand the sort of work you are trying to optimize here. You are right that SEOmoz doesn't yet support this scenario particularly well .

I think the best solution we offer right now is to create a campaign for each prospect's site and then create a custom report with the info you wish to include (we added the custom report feature since you asked this question).You can create a custom PDF report with analysis from whichever areas of the site you wish to include (so you could just include on-page, or on-page and rankings, etc.) and add comments in if you need to explain anything. I'd love to know if it helps.

Do you mind sharing specific needs for this sort of report, such as specific content, timeframe for creation, format, etc.?  This would certainly help us as we plan future updates.

Thanks!

Adam