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Nope, they don't.
Good article here explaining it in more detail: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2325343/matt-cutts-facebook-twitter-social-signals-not-part-of-google-search-ranking-algorithms but basically any link from Facebook or twitter does not help your rankings.
Would be way to easy to manipulate to get rankings.
If your new to link building, then this is a great beginners guide to it: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
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Andy
As mentioned above, if I had just bought your domain, I wouldn't leave any 301s in place and would probably be the first thing I removed, so unless you have it in the contract that they have to leave any 301s in place, its basically a brand new domain.
What you could do is contact the web masters who are linking to your old domain, explain that you have changed domain names and would they like to update their site. Explain to them, this will help their users otherwise they the user could get a bad experience of getting a 404 page and could hurt the web masters brand, if they are seen to be linking off to dead pages.
I would also recommend doing a lot of social messages, same great website just a new name, otherwise people will still be searching for your old name.
But the bad news is, you have a new domain and you are basically starting from scratch, (with the little help of being able to contact previous web masters and changing links). You will suffer a drop in rankings and will take a while to recover.
While moz is a great company, Google has hundreds more servers than Moz so is able to dig further and deeper into the internet to see more links.
Moz last month crawled and indexed 166 billion pages http://moz.com/products/api/updates so this means there is still a large part of the net which hasn't been crawled by moz. They tend to crawl the larger more reputable sites and follow those links, rather than the smaller / black hat sites. They also can't crawl every site in every country so do tend to focus more where they have more demand from their customers (US etc), but your in Australia so I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue.
It actually took 4 months for my link from my Moz profile to show in Opensiteexplorer so even they don't crawl their own site that often.
Where are most of your current links from (that are appearing in webmaster tools). Have you checked these urls in Opensiteexplorer to see if these have been found by moz.
Google obviously has to crawl the entire web (or as much as they can) to offer the best user experience for when searching, plus people want their sites to appear in Google so submit sitemaps etc to them. Whereas and I don't know if this is techncially possible but I am assuming it is, the sites where you have got links could potentially stop moz from crawling their sites. In that case, your links would never appear.
If you could let me know a couple of the links that are appearing in WMTs I will take a look for you.
On one URL.
How I have always tried to explain it to people before.
If you have two urls and a person is searching in google, you are leaving it upto Google to pick the correct page to display. Google isn't perfect and may show the user the wrong URL and not help the user. However if all the information is on one url, then you don't need to worry about this. Plus you don't need to build links into two pages, just one page (hopefully getting you a better page authority and ranking). Plus it adds fresh unqiue content onto otherwise product pages, which can be similar across the web
If you worried about not ranking because of the word review missing from the URL, this is only a small issue but the benefits of the above IMO out weight the slight disadvantage.
Great article by Econsultancy on benefits of Reviews on product pages: https://econsultancy.com/blog/9366-ecommerce-consumer-reviews-why-you-need-them-and-how-to-use-them#i.1mpjwvuml2epzz
Very good question and this has been covered in this great moz article: http://moz.com/blog/after-penalty-removed-will-traffic-increase
Will it help, maybe not in the short term - but if you do nothing you are running the risks of being penalised further down the line and losing all your rankings. Thats the worse case, the best case is by removing the old links your rankings increase. I would never really leave bad links, as you will always be looking over your shoulder waiting for Google to strike.
Remove them and then concentrate on getting some quality links to your site to help boost rankings.
With Google you can never really predict anything any more and you won't really know the outcome till you have removed the bad links.
Worse case: you remove the bad links and your rankings don't improve - but your no longer looking over your shoulder waiting to see if you have been hit by the next update.
Best case: You suddenly jump up in the rankings and you no longer care about the next update, you actually look forward to them, to see which off your competition has been hit.
You will probably get neither of these by removing them, you will probably see a little improvement but nothing massive and you won't have to look over your shoulder.
I know I haven't really answered your question - but even if Google was to answer this question, they would only be guessing as they can't 100% accurately say what will happen as its all machine learnt.
Andy
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Can we please have a new feature to moz when answering questions please, the ability to save as a draft. I am currently on the train from London back home and I was trying to answer a few questions and give my opinion and after writing a really long and detailed response to an area I actually have quite a lot to say on, my internet froze and the page refreshed losing all the content. It doesn’t help that my Mac I am working on isn’t the fastest, but my new one isn’t quite ready yet.
But if there was a simple save draft feature, it would be really great as I wasn’t ready to post my answer as it wasn’t finished and without checking wouldn’t have made sense. Yes I know I could of done it in word and pasted it across, but usually when I am travelling and answering questions I do it on my Ipad which isn’t great for multitasking.
While I understand you don’t want lots of ‘draft answers’ all over the place as this would take storage space up on your servers and doesn’t actually help the person answering the question, your system could purge all draft answers which have not been edited in the last 24 hours.
Just a little suggestion to help make this great forum even better.
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Andy
I have just been to first major conference - Searchlove. It was amazing and I would highly recommend them. Will be back next year
cover a wide range of topics and have some great speakers ( including moz speakers)
no its not being unreasonable - what happens if the SEO guy changed something and broke the website - would would the client ring up and moan at the SEO guy or the web design agency.
If the guy was willing to take responsibility for his changes, then they would be unreasonable, but why would they allow someone to edit their work and potentially break the site - only for them to get moaned at.
SEO is 'secret' anymore - so I don't get what they guy has from not willing to work with the agency. To me it sounds like he will be doing stuff he isn't willing to share so either black hat techniques or doesn't actually knows what he is talking about so was going to bluff it until the client clicked on that the guy was b*ll shitting.
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I was going to write a in-depth answer, but this previous blog article is my bible for link auditing. I would only be duplicating everything that is mentioned and as we know duplicate content isn't good for SEO.
http://moz.com/blog/link-audit-guide-for-effective-link-removals-risk-mitigation
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Andy
Don't rebrand. Would try everything to get them not to re-brand there are numerous examples where you don't get your visibility back after months / years.
Appliances Online changed to AO.com and have done a huge TV campaign in the UK, but they have never recovered there search visibility (info from Searchmetrics).
I would advise stay away from at all costs.
If the client defiantly wants to, my web designer simply put in a few lines of code onto the old domain, and if a customer types in an oldurl.com/webpage25 it redirects to newurl.com/webpage25 so that you don't have to 301 every page.
He has just left for the day, but if no one else can give the answer by the morning I will let you know how he has done it.
But my advice stay away from rebranding.
is there any warnings in your Webmaster tools, this is the first place I would check.
I can see that on 29/8 you lost all your search visibility (according to Search metrics).
From looking at Opensite explorer - its look like you have a lot of directory links a high %, this would be my best guest to your sudden drop.
I would do a full link analysis, and remove any toxic links - http://moz.com/blog/link-audit-guide-for-effective-link-removals-risk-mitigation
I would then go about creating more natural links. Earning links through good quality content, rather than relying on directory links to boost your link profile.
I agree, I wouldn't have given them access without trusting them, all it takes is for them to alter one line of code and the site could crash.
Sometimes SEO's ( and I used to be like this but have changed) look at SEO in silo and don't think about how the changes impact other parts of the business / website - so a change that is good for SEO isn't always good for the website or the business.
So nope, I wouldn't give him access - our developers don't allow me access, I have to put a business case forward each time to get changes done, which has to be present and approved by senior management. Without this I could ask for a change which could cause a lot of issues.
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With our blog we don't use it as a product focus - more industry news focus, general category focus, relevant content - since changing to this strategy the conversion rate has improved.
So might be worth doing some less product specific articles and more generic articles - this is also good for long tail SEO keywords.
I don't know what resources you have available, and I am not going to say do infographics as this is wrong (too many people churning out infographics when they are not needed), but if you do have some design resources, either make your articles a bit more unique with images, illustrations - but if you do have some good information that works well as an infographic - then create one. These are usually very good for getting links. Don't just create these for the sake of it though.
But as Don said, more relevant content. Other idea's
How to guides
Unboxing articles / videos
Latest news articles
Explanation articles - help your customers to understand the products you sell, this will lead to more conversions as they can see the benefits.
Hope this is useful
Andy
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I am hearing that Penguin 3.0 has rolled out within the last hour or so, can anyone confirm this and secondly has anyone been affected?
My rankings don't seen to have changed, neither has my main competitors but it might just be too early to tell.
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Andy
I run an in house team for a large ecommorce company in the UK. We all work from the same office. I love having the team around me to bounce ideas of and debate new ways of solving problems.
I can fully understand how you feel, yes they are not yours and the site I work for I don't own - but I have put it a lot of long hours making the site as good as an experience as possible - I would hate for someone to come in and take control.
Hi Tim
How are you measuring the success of the blog, simply using Analytics last click model - if this is the case it won't work, but I am currently writing something on how to set up Analytics to track once a user has visited the blog, then how do they go on to convert, which channels do they come from.
Once you start looking at this, you might actually realise the blog does better than you think. I am almost complete and should have it done by Monday to share with you if you are interested.
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Andy
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Here are a few example of best practices:
http://moz.com/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls
But in summary keep it short, the shorter the better so I would go with: mywebsite.com/browse/birmingham/restaurants
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Yes it is possible to recover, but it wont be an overnight solution.
You are doing the right thing and tackling the issues of duplicate content. I think this update will have affected quite a few e-commerce sites as a lot I see always use the manufacturers description (duplicating content) usually for the reasons is easier and cheaper.
And good way of improving might be to ask previous people to write product reviews on the page. This is a good way of generating good unique content.
Not sure what platform you use or whether its custom built, but there is usually some good apps that will automate this process, sending emails to customers after a certain time to come and leave a review.
I would agree less is better, I've seen numerous reports over the years which say the more you ask, the higher the drop off.
Couldn't you get the customer to complete this field after purchase. Either at the end of the checkout, or follow up email.
Why not on the confirmation email ask them then, or in their account section. Anyone who doesn't complete it, leave it as general, and for everyone else you can target specifically.
I would highly recommend, putting the absolute minimal on the sign up form.
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Sorry there is no 'x' date that I can give you. It all depends on Google and whether you have done all the 301s etc correctly.
When you say you are doing 'link building' strategies what do you mean, maybe this is the problem if your have got a bad link somewhere?
I wouldn't recommend going back - you wouldn't get the traffic back to what you had and as the 'experts' said it would cause you more problems.
I would check all the 301s are correctly, did you actually change anything on the site at the same time or was it just the url that you changed?
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And i have just had an email from Distilled covering this same topic so thought I would share the link
https://www.distilled.net/resources/6-ways-to-improve-user-experience-using-analytics-data/
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Firstly it seems like you did all the right steps to resolve the issue. A while back I had a similar issue with my site and later a client's site that got hacked. They were both WordPress sites so now always recommend Wordfence plugin (premium) to stop the hack in the first place.
I wouldn't worry too much about the drop in DA, DA goes up and down all the time - it's only relative to your competitors. If your competitors go up and you go down that's when I would worry.
You are right in wanting the disavow file - its needs an audit and updating. I would just keep chasing and explaining you are potentially losing revenue and profit (they probably don't get the impact of rankings, but if you explain it in something which they do they will respond quicker). Once you have the file it's up to you to audit and amend as necessary, but this won't affect your Moz DA.
I would also ask them what processes they have put in place to stop getting hacked again if your doing all this work and the client hasn't changed how they operate, it could be a lot of time spent for nothing.
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Andy
"So how to get backlinks than ?" - this bugged me, what have you been doing upto now to get links, if you have been performing black hat techniques (http://www.pushon.co.uk/articles/top-5-white-hat-and-black-hat-search-optimisation-techniques/) then it might be worth giving up on your domain, and starting with a new domain (especially if you have a penalty) or trying to remove the penalty before you start doing any of the below.
there are many ways to get good quality links without guess blogging. Ive never done guest blogging and wouldn't do it on low quality sites, writing a great article on youmoz is different and can get you some links, but that is a different debate (see here http://moz.com/community/q/could-posting-on-youmoz-get-your-penalized-for-guest-blogging
I could spend days writing a huge articles about ways of getting links without guest blogging, but I will keep it relatively short.
1. How about writing and producing great content on your website that people want to link to.
2. If you sell products, send them out to some influential people in your niche and ask them to review (not guaranteed to get a link, but usually works)
3. Out reach, contact people in your niche and offer advice to help their articles and see if they can quote you.
Below is some great articles on helping you, I would also recommend watching Rands WhiteBoard Friday and subscribing to Matt Cutts on Youtube
http://moz.com/blog/google-traffic-links
http://moz.com/blog/earn-higher-rankings-without-content-creation-whiteboard-friday
http://moz.com/blog/filthy-linking-rich-how-to-passively-attract-valuable-links
I don't know if this is possible, but couldn't you offer 5% off your next order if you complete your profile.
This way you get a second order and a complete profile of your customer.
This way you are not reducing the chance of people not completing, increasing the number of repeat purchases and get the information and potentially more information that just sector.
I would be willing to complete my profile if there was an incentive, but as don't know the platform you are using, I don't know if this is possible in your case.
Hi Sean
I used to have a shopify store as well and there are plenty of apps, try this one I have used previously and liked:
http://docs.shopify.com/manual/more/official-shopify-apps/product-reviews
Investing in product descriptions and unique content will pay off in the long run.
I've noticed you have got some great content on your category pages (hopefully these still rank as its the time of the year when I guess you get a lot of sales) so its just the product pages which will require work.
Nope - I went to the London one, but really want to go to Mozcon next year.
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There is a number of factors including relevancy, but also Page Authority. If sites that are relevant about bananas are linking to your home page, Google might assumed that the home page is the most appropriate page for queries relating to bananas.
Also does your 'bananas' page have many links pointing to it, is it included in your sitemap, do you link to the page from your home page.
Without your actual url its quite hard to be specific for the actual reason.
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Andy
I believe they do, check out this old article in section 3 they talk about banners and how they can be great from an SEO point of view: http://moz.com/ugc/becoming-a-double-threat-integrating-your-seo-and-affiliate-marketing-campaigns
There isn't really a lot out there about banners and passing links, but I know normal banners pass link juice so can't see why GIFs would not be any different.
Hope this is useful.
Without your url its a bit hard to say exactly what could of caused the drop - as there are no official response from Google yet to give more details its a bit difficult to find the real reasons for drops
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I know this isn't technically an SEO question, but wanted people's advice.
As I am flying half way round the world I am actually arriving on the Friday and have Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday to go and explore Seattle.
I plan on going to watch a baseball game and visit the home of Starbucks (and I hate coffee, but thought might as well visit), but what else would people recommend doing / seeing in Seattle.
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Andy
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This is a great article on Social Media: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-social-media - hope this is what your after.
Surely if you are building this in dev, the new site isn't craw able anyway so I don't know what the issues are.
Always recommend building new sites and making sure Google or any bot / human cannot see them anyway - as there are usually quite a few errors during build, so wouldn't want someone to accidentally find the dev site and get a bad brand experience,
But on the url side of thing, build it without the dev in the url.
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Its a tricky dilemma you are having. I would personally say option A.
You mentioned over the last two years you have done lots of great onsite content which is great, but SEO is really boiled down to three area's.
You could argue content / link building is the same, but I tend to keep them separate. While over the last two years you have been working on the content part of your overall strategy, have you let something slip in the other two area's.
What new links have you recently gone and got in your niche (not directory links etc, but links from key influencers and websites in your niche. While this article talks about launching a blog, its one of the best articles on here for explaining what you need to do: http://moz.com/blog/my-recipe-for-success-how-to-launch-a-successful-blog.
You have some great blog idea's, why not share these with similar websites (obviously not your competitors), but other sites in your niche and get them to link back to you.
And the third option is technical - have you kept upto date with all the latest recommend changes from Google, is the schema markup correct on your product pages, to help rank the pages higher. Is your sitemap working, so that Google can crawl your site more efficiently, does your site work well on mobile etc.
Writing great content is just part of an overall strategy and on its own won't help you to rank any better. While Google tries to use other metrics to determining ranking, links are still an important factor in where you rank.
All your link in my opinion look spammy and from directory sites and if I am thinking this, Google is potentially seeing the same thing. Have you got any messages in WMT about penalties.
Have you thought about contacting some bloggers and asking if they would like to review your products (Note never asks for a link, but let the website decided if they want to link to you - looks more natural if every mention isnt a link). This way if these bloggers review your products as well as some potential extra links, you are also potentially advertising to new customers.
Hope this helps.
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I figured it out, its in demographics - will try out later and see what difference in results I get.
Image below, but basically click on Demographics before you post
But you do need a certain number of Facebook likes it does seem as some of the smaller pages I manage I get do this.
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Firstly welcome to the world of SEO, but the answer is pretty simple and I don't know why anyone who knows SEO would tell you any different.
If your site / CMS allow is, have them all on your site otherwise you are creating more work for yourself.
If the articles are on your site, the DA will pass down to the article pages. Google ranks pages based on your customer experiences, so if they have visited a blog article on your site through a long tail keyword and then want to actually purchase your services. If they type in 'x', Google will remember they have been to your site and interacted (so long as it looked like they had a good experience) Google will rank your other pages higher, potentially leading to more conversions and traffic.
Also you only have one brand to manage and not two, if someone wants to link to one of your detailed and informative blog articles then this link also passes weight back to your home page.
I would always say where possible have the blog on your main site, the only time I would suggest not to is if your current site can't support it.
Hope this is useful, I have only given the key reasons why you should put it on /blog (and it doesn't have to be called blog, you can name it anything you like, articles etc). But there are far more reasons for keeping it all on one domain.
Without knowing the company that recommend putting it on a new site I feel unfair commenting about them, but maybe they was thinking they could get you to pay for a brand new additional site and get some extra revenue for themselves - like I said I don't know them so don't like commenting about other peoples businesses if I don't know them - but that would be my only logical thinking of why they would want you to have a second site.
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I agree let it settle down for a few days and see what happens, however even if you do stay down there I wouldn't recommend getting a new domain name, Google is quite smart nowadays and if they realise what you have done will just hit the new site.
You say you have 110 domains pointing to your site (and without url I am only guessing here), how many are these are from forums, directories, spammy sites.
How have you gotten these links, are these natural links or are they genuine organic links.
Instead of worrying about whats happen, simply either through moz or ahrefs download your enitre backlink database and take a detailed looked at every link.
Think like Google, does the link look genuine, does it look like its paid, is it a spam link in a niche not even related etc and if you answer yes to a link, simply put it your a disavow file.
I have got a funny feeling Penguin is going to be on a monthly cycle, John Mueller from Google webmaster team has been hinting that the new penguin will refresh more frequently, how frequently I am unsure yet - but if you get your house in order (get your back links sorted) then the next refresh you should hopefully be able to recover.
In future, don't try and cheat Google with spammy links, stick to getting good natural organic links and then you don't need to worry about Penguin
there could be several reasons.
Has Moz found new sites pointing to your domain.
Check out this link explaining the basics of Domain authority, http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
but as they look at links and Moz Trust it could be a case of you getting a few good links, and removing a few bad links.
Also note that a drop is not always a bad thing and really you should compare your score against your competitors.
Your DA has increased by 3, but if all your competitors has increased by 4 then in theory you are worse off, but this also applies, if you drop by 1 and ur competitors drop by 2 then you have gained even though you have dropped so I would always recommend benchmarking yourself against your competitors and not using it as a stand alone number.
Like others have said, DA is just a number and in today's Googles eyes, it's all about relevancy of the page, rather than the page authority.
Also a site might have a high DA, but if the link juice doesn't pass down to the page where the link is, DA is irrelevant.
how about looking at links in a different way. Instead why not image Google doesn't exist and the only way to get relevant traffic to your site is from other websites talking and sending referral traffic (through a link). You would then only place links where you know you would get decent traffic and sales - think like this and you will get the relevant links and rank nicely. DA and numbers are irreverent then, it's all about relevancy
Just put them in a disavow file and forget about them.
Your telling Google that you know these are bad links and you don't want them associated with your domain. I would do this sooner rather than later.
If you get a penalty you have to show evidence you have tried to contact these and get them some removed - whereas if you simply upload your disavow file you can forget about them.
Simple guide here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en
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I would disagree, I would prefer to be taken to the sub category page to show me similar products with a message saying the product you was looking for is no longer available, please check out these very similar products - but I guess we all have different tastes and thats why as webmasters we can never please everybody
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Easy answer: get relevant links to your website.
But its slightly harder than that. First of all read: http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-increase-domain-authority
You want to find relevant and influential people in your industry and link to your content and share your content. (Followerwonk) is a great tool for this.
I would worry less about the DA of the website you are getting a link from, and more about the relevancy of the link.
Image if Google didn't exist. You would want links on the web that drove potential customers to your site, not on high DA sites that are not important, so if you think like this - you don't need to worry about potential algorithm updates.
If you want people to link to your site, you have to give them a reason to, so you need something on your site worth linking to, whether that is a blog article, infographic, etc.
Hope this is helpful, its the basics of what you need to do, and there are a lot of tactics for link building, but just make sure they are genuine long term strategy and not short term wins.
Things to not do for link building:
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I wouldn't recommend changing the url structures, however what you could do is create specific landing page about boutique apartments or flat and list all the relevant products.
Also you could use this space to really sell the experience, why you should pick a boutique hotel over a normal standardize hotel.
I am personally not a fan of changing url structures on websites once indexed by Google.
On all 1500 hotel pages, you would need a way of linking back to the main "category" page.
This is just from experience over the years of changing urls and expecting to get the same traffic etc. During a redirect you lose link juice so the hotels might not rank as highly etc.
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Andy
You could use Search metrics to determine how much the visibility of the site has dropped - it wont to tell you which keywords they were ranking for, but will give a benchmark of where you need to get back to in terms of visibility
Ryan is right, you will have to do some 301s and it will confuse Google for a while so you might see rankings drop even further for a while.
Shame they don't have analytics at least then you could find out the pages which was getting the most traffic.
I agree but lets see to get 100% (and not even Google has 100% of your links, I use three sources for monitoring links, Google Alerts / Webmaster Tools, TalkWalker / Moz / Opensiteexplorer). But lets say you want Moz to go from 3% to 100%.
This would required extra resources on Moz end so we would end up paying higher monthly fee.
We currently pay $99 a month. Lets hope my maths is good. So $99 for 3% or $33 for 1%, to get that to 100% that is $33 * 100 that would be $3,300 a month. I can show the benefits to my MD who pays the invoice each month of the benefits for $99. Convincing him to pay $3,300 I couldn't justify that.
Also it would depend where all your links are. If they are from highly reputation sites like Mashable, BBC, et al then you are more likely to have a higher % than if your links are all from domains which are less well know and less likely to be found by the Moz crawlers.
Regarding Moz telling you in advance about the % - I will leave that to a Moz employee to explain but I guess the % would be different for everyone so would be quite hard to explain.
Unfortunately there isn't a 1 amazing tool like everyone has said, its all about using multiple tools and using the best tool to meet the specific task you are trying to complete.
It also depends on what budget you have for SEO software, I am quite fortunate in that I have quite a lot of the software agreed by my MD, but I know some who really struggle.
I use:
And those are the ones i use frequently there a couple more i have that I cant remember of top of my head that I use for certain tasks and projects.
I wish there was a one best solution, all the above solutions are good, but not great in isolation and need to be used together.
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Andy
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I assume you meant the DA and PA etc - these we're all updated yesterday: http://moz.com/products/api/updates
Next Update is in April.
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Andy
The first question I would be asking myself - is this useful for the customer. If the answer is yes I wouldn't worry so much about Google so long as you offer good user experience.
However if the answer is no and your doing it more for search engines then I wouldn't recommend having the link in the first place.
But what ever you do, don't put nofollow on the links, you want Google to freely crawl your site.
No tool is perfect and will find all your back links straight away, even Google doesn't find them immediately, so I use a combination of Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and Webmaster tools to monitor new links.
It will just be a case of when Moz crawlers, crawl the website you have got a link from.
As Moz is relatively small compared to Google, it cant and probably never will crawl the entire web, so it tends to crawl the more larger sites first and crawls the sites which changes frequently more often.
It all depends what you want from the software.
I use:
Moz, ahrefs, majestic, searchmetrics, rankwatch, SEMRush - I use them all frequently and depending what info / research I am doing use the specific software.
Moz is great and has some wonderful features (including this forum - arguably one of the best on the web), but it does have its flaws - its crawl database is relatively small (but its growing 366 million urls was crawled on its last count).
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While I have never used the service - it seems pretty expensive to me. For one link on a site with DA30+ its going to cost £80.
Especially as from the looks of it you can't decide which sector the link is on - seems very grey / black hat to me, where its all about having a link. So you could sell car parts and get a link on a site that's about kitchens, might be DA30+ but not very relevant. Google knows where users click and will be putting more weight behind those metrics rather than website scoring metrics.
We usually look to get links for our clients where potential customers are that can drive traffic and sales as well as a ranking benefits.
While its probably more hard work than buying a link, its more natural, will give you greater benefits and you don't risk the chance of a Google penalty.
Thanks
Andy
DA is based purely on links pointing to a site and not whether or not that site has a penalty. If moz knew exactly what would trigger a Google penalty (which bad links cause it), they would be a very rich company
