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Great to hear. Let me know if you have any question when you start that project.

Casey

Hey Danny,

I've always done 301 redirects from the server and avoided any other method. This was more for my sanity to make sure that I was getting all the equity I could if there was a difference, not saying there is a difference but if there way, I wanted to be safe. Since it sounds like you may be constrained by your technology, the solution you are going with is fine but if you had both options available, I'd go with the server side redirect always.

Hi Danny,

The Moz.com website/blog are running on PHP/Nginx. As Matthew said, Nginx is much faster and less intensive on the servers for both CPU and memory. Nginx has some great documentation and is really easy to get things to redirect. It's as easy as adding lines like the following to your configuration and your good to go:

rewrite ^/q$ /community/q permanent;
rewrite ^/q/(.*)$ /community/q/$1 permanent;

Making the switch from Apache to Nginx was one of the best things we ever did and I would highly suggest you do the same thing for both static and any dynamic sites you may have. I'll most likely never use Apache again.

Casey

After talking with our rep we found that it wasn't needed on all pages so we now only have it on our homepage.

Hi NicB1,

We use Amazon CloudFront here at SEOmoz and it allows us to setup a CNAME for our CDN. So if you look at our images you will see we use a few different ones, such as cdn.seomoz.org, profile1.seomoz.org and profile2.seomoz.org. While I haven't done any studies on this, I can tell you that we have not seen a major change in image traffic in making the CDN switch a few months ago.

I'd check with your CDN people and see if you can setup a CNAME and place it on a subdomain.

Casey

At SEOmoz we use Amazon CloudFront that allows us to setup a CName for our CDN. For example you will see that all our CDN images come from a few different subdomains, such as cdn.seomoz.org or profile1.seomoz.org. I bet your drop is coming from the ugly url that your CDN is providing. If your CDN allows you to create a clean CName I would do that and create  your CDN at cdn.vistastores.com.

Casey

We pull the numbers via javascript. If you check out posts.js when you are on the blog you can see where we make a call to Facebook and to Twitter to get those numbers. We also have hard coded the numbers at specific dates just in case it fails so there is a number present.

For the feedburner numbers we do those server side and ping the feedburner api and cache it. So there is one unlucky sole every hour that has to ping feedburner to recache the number.

Your correct that pages needs updating an in fact we have a new version rolling out in the next few weeks. As for the "premier" level access to the Site Intelligence API, this is for one of our old PRO levels call "premier". Currently we have 5 levels of PRO, they are PRO, PRO Plus, PRO Elite, PRO Agency, and PRO Enterprise. The PRO Premier level no longer exists which is why if you want access to the Site Intelligence API you need to pay for it separately from your PRO membership.

There is no benefit to having it on every page. In talking with our Google rep they stated they just needed on our site/homepage but since sometimes they don't know what they need, it was placed on every page via our CMS. At this point we haven't seen any negative effects from it but we might try placing it only on the homepage to see if that does anything.

Casey

Hi Lara,

You can still find your old questions at http://www.seomoz.org/qa/my.  Watch the blog tomorrow for some important info about the old QA section.  Let me know if you have any further questions.

Casey

Users who have a certain number of MozPoints don't receive that message since they are most likely trusted to not SPAM their fellow community members. So as EGOL said it's a SPAM protection since most users never send more than a few message a day. If you need to send a large number of PM please contact me and I'd be glad to review you message for you.

Casey

Actually the Rank Tracker Tool will be going away in it's current form.  We are working on coming out with a new version of that tool and you can leave any feedback or feature requests you have here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-does-your-ideal-rank-tracker-look-like-we-want-to-know

All that info will be sent to our product team who will decide on the new features.

There is no tool on SEOmoz that will do that.  We do have the API which will give you that information but you will need to write a script that will pull the information for you.  Maybe some of our users have other tools out there and can point you in that direction.

Hi Alex,

Currently the only way to do it from SEOmoz is to have access to the Paid API.  There may be tools out there that utilize the paid API and will return the results for you though I haven't seen any.  It maybe be worth asking another question and see if anyone knows of a tools like this.

Casey

Hi there,

1. I'm not familiar with Market Samari so I can only speak to Google's KW Tool. The SEOmoz tool compares the PA, DA, and other metrics of the top 10 results for your keyword and give you a score.  The Google tool is most likely looking a true search volumes and not at the actually sites in the top 10.  I get little to no value from Google's tools as it doesn't help me determine how hard it will be to rank.
2. Once again, I feel that the SEOmoz tool is much different than the tools you mention as it compares the current 10 ten results to your site and lets you know what site has the best metrics.
3. The tools scrapes the 10 results from the keyword you enter and calculates the score and data from that.
4. It seems you ran it correctly and you should be able to compare your site to the top 10 results for that keyword.

A thing to remember is that for Niche Keywords the data can be deceiving since there can be strong competition for keywords with low value.

Hi MrPaulB,

GWT take average position for a few different things.  For example if you have a few different pages that rank for a keyword it calculates the average rank based on that.  For example, if you have a page that ranks number 1 for the keyword "Blue Widgets" and another page that ranks 20th for "Blue Widgets" the average rank would be 10.  It's a bad metric to use and often confuses people.

Hi Susanna,

The Social Data is pulled daily from the APIs provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.  The numbers might seen low for a few different reasons:

First, the Facebook share count is only for those accounts that are public which reduces the number of shares we can truly see.

Second, Twitter only counts the native Twitter share and not when people do a tweet with an RT in front.  Hence the lower numbers you might see.

If you are seeing any other issues, please let us know by sending us an email at help@seomoz.org.

The Cols parameter works just like it does in the Links API.  For example:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991127/Anchor Text API

If you want to display term or phrase, which has a bit flag of 2 and internal pages linking which has a bit flag of 8, your Cols Parameter would be 10.  That would return both the term or phrase and internal pages linking.  You simpily add the bit flags and use that as your Cols Parameter.

This makes it so you don't have to loop through and make a bunch of call to get multiple columns.

For the people I've seen it work for, they were "complaining" on Google+ and Twitter.

Hi Michelleh,

We've been testing things to see what it takes to get the authorship image to show up.  It really came down a two things, one was making sure that your Google+ profile was included in lots of other's circles and second, that you complained a lot that your picture wasn't showing up.  I've had success with both.  There are also a few good blog posts out there that suggest Google is really picky with the setup and if there is even a minor problem you picture won't show up.

Hi TheDude,

Looks like that PHP script is just returning the json with all the comments.  You need to take that json information and then parse it out so it's something that Google can read.  Then I would add a jQuery script that hides the comments once the page is loaded.  This will show the Facebook comments to people or bots with javascript enabled and will show the php script stuff to those who have Javascript turned off.

Here is a post that might help you with your problem:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines

Casey

Hi Peter,

It looks like that's an error in the graphic.  That term should be replaced with the following description:

The number of internal pages linking to domain with partial anchor text match

Hi Greg,

If you can send any examples to help@seomoz.org we would love to take a look at them and see if there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Hi Thomas,

Check out this article talking about how Google looks at Twitter's use of the hashbang.

http://searchengineland.com/how-twitters-technical-infrastructure-issues-are-impacting-google-search-results-86229

I always link to the non-ajax version.

Casey

Talked with the dev today and he checked and they are not being counted in rankings.

Hi Felicity,

Andre is basically correct with his answer.  We usually tell people not to worry about links like this as long as you have a Strong Link Profile.  For example if you have a new website with no links and you suddenly get tons of bad links, you have a good chance of it hurting you.  Now if you have a strong link profile with good links and you get some bad links, it's not going to do anything.

So I would only worry about it if those are the only links you have in your link profile, otherwise you should be okay.

Casey

Hi,

So after speaking with one of our engineers he said that they were included in the rankings which after looking at it they felt it was a bug and released a fix to not count them in the rankings.  We are currently having an internal debate about weather those should be counted.  What do you think?

As Erica has stated, on our Pro Plus and Pro Elite accounts you can add your logos to the reports but you can not replace the SEOmoz logo.  The report will have both your logo at the top and ours at the bottom.  Hope this helps.

Hi, currently OSE does not handle HTTPS request but it's on the road map to be complete in the future.  When our crawler for OSE crawls the web it currently does not crawl HTTPS pages, hence they are not included as an option to pull from.  This hopefully will be coming in the next few months as we just added it to our web app.

Hi Josey,

As a PRO member you get access to the SEOmoz Free API, which allows you to access to 3 calls, url-metrics, links, and anchor-text.  Each of those calls is limited from the full paid version and those limitations are listed on this page, SEOmoz Free API.  If you have any other question please contact help@seomoz.org

Thanks!

Hi Garry,

This is something that we have been looking at but nothing has been planned yet.  I'll let our product team know that another person is interested in a feature like you described.  You can always head over to our Change Log to see what we are working on and request new features.

http://www.seomoz.org/dp/change-log

Casey

We will be going back to the direct download option by the end of the week. If you need a report before then and didn't get your email, try submitting it again.

Hi Farhad,

Feel free to email me casey[at]seomoz.org and I will look into your problem.  Also include the details of your problem and I will find the correct person to address your issues.

Thanks,

Casey Henry
Marketing Ninja
SEOmoz

Crawling the web can be complex and problems can pop up like they did this month. We are working to increase the speed at which we release updates and this crawl we ran into a problem that forced us to start over, hence the longer delay.  Otherwise it was going to be out on the 11th of July.  Sorry for the delay.

Hi Ive,

Currently the even is sold out but we are working with the venue to get more space. If you would like to attend add your name to the waitlist.

http://mozcon2011.eventbrite.com/

As for live-streaming, it doesn't look like that is going to happen but there will be videos available for purchase a month or so after the event.

Hi Thomas,

The tests I've done show the +1 will go to the canonical url.  So in your case you will get a +1 on site.com/locations/arizona/

Casey

Crawling a large number of website and calculating the metrics takes some time.  We are currently on a schedule to update every 30ish day but are working to decrease the time it takes.  Stay tuned.

I'll always suggest you improve site speed but make sure you look at the ROI you can get out of it.  If you spend 40 dev hours to increase your site speed and you see no increase in rankings, thats not good in my eyes.  I'd make sure that you work with you Network Systems guy to get an accurate reflection of how faster/slow your site really it before investing a bunch of dev time.

Negatively evaluated from Google or someone else?  My guess is that they use that number along with other user feedback from the SERPs, such as if people bounce from your page quickly.  I've worked with sites who have horrible metrics on GWT and they still ranked very high.

As Keri said, those results are based on people who use the Google Toolbar.  If you are looking for a more accurate reading of site speed, I would install the new Google Analytics site speed tag which will start tracking your site speed in Google Analytics and isn't based just on people who use the toolbar.

I've found that the speed displayed in Webmaster Tools can vary widely and is something that is still very beta for Google.  I personally look at it once in a while but never report it to anyone since I don't trust it.

Casey

Hey Henry,

I'd make sure that the landing page has a rel canonical tag on it and you should be good to go.  My guess is that Google either gives full value for the link or a very high amount of the value. Google has gotten a lot better at identifying what page deserves value when it have variables attached to it.

Casey

Strange, well if you have any further problems please email help@seomoz.org with the details and they will look into your problem more.

Casey

Hi Steven,

After looking at your account, it looks like the problem might be that you setup your campaigns to crawl domain.com and really your domain is www.domain.com which are two different domains in the eyes of our software and Google.  I suggest you setup new campaigns to crawl the www version and that should solve your problem.

Casey

Hi Lora,

Can you share what domain that is please?

Casey