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Hi Brett,

I was also looking for a way to automate the extracting of keyword data from Moz some time ago and hit the same wall. I have found a work around for it, which is far from ideal but does save quite some time. I have written an R script that uses Selenium to access Moz, authenticate and then get the URL that produces the .csv export. For example mine looks like this:

https://analytics.moz.com/delorean-api/rankings/prod.XXXXXX.XXXXX/grouped-by/engine-variant/You/week.csv?date_range=....

This makes the data available in my R session and then I can do pretty much everything I want with it. It is not an API so you won't be able to get the data straight into Tableau but you can save it somewhere and then just import the file. The script execution can be scheduled using Windows Task Scheduler if necessary. If you think this is something that may work for you, then I would be happy to share parts of the script.

Great to get this feedback. It gives me food for thought. That there are differing views actually makes me feel a bit easier about things as it shows that it isn't necessarily clear cut.

The advertising content is clearly segmented, so potentially I could test it out on a defined area.

What you raise, is what has been my concern.

We are in a competitive market fighting it out with a lot of sites with similar focus and similar offering, so cross-domain duplicate/near-duplicate content ends up being the main focus for how we optimise this area of our content.

This no-follow thing has just been in the back of my mind as something I should look into just in case we are giving out a negative signal in someway.

And in our case, it is not the link that is paid for. They are paying to post a job vacancy - the link is mechanism for applying or finding out more.

So how does a search engine detect what is paid for and what is not?

This is my first SEOmoz  question, so I am really excited to have two people respond so quickly... how wonderful the community here!

Thanks for replying so quickly. I will have a read through/watch the WBFs in  the links you suggest.

To confirm, I am not worried about passing on link juice to other sites. I just noticed that other sites of a similar ilk take this approach and wondered about the advantages and disadvantages.

From a client perspective, we track the visits to their sites via their links using our own reporting set up, so they know how well we do in terms of meeting their advertising needs.

Thanks for replying so quickly. I will have a read through/watch the WBFs in  the links you suggest.

To confirm, I am not worried about passing on link juice to other sites. I just noticed that other sites of a similar ilk take this approach and wondered about the advantages and disadvantages.

From a client perspective, we track the visits to their sites via their links using our own reporting set up, so they know how well we do in terms of meeting their advertising needs.

Hi

I run a job board that enables employers to post job vacancies and information about their organisations. These are 'paid for' pages (advertising) on our site.

These link out to their own websites. My question is, would it be better for these links out to their sites to be no-follow?

From my site's perspective, I cannot necessarily dictate the quality of their websites (although the majority are leading firms) as I would in article and feature content, where we do happily link out and refer to other quality sites with information that gives readers further information.

I know that many large job boards do this where they run listings of feeds from other sites, but should we also do this at the page level where the link out is effectively paid for.

What would be the pros and cons if I do or if I don't use no-follow?

I hope this makes sense and look forward to some replies.

Many thanks

What you raise, is what has been my concern.

We are in a competitive market fighting it out with a lot of sites with similar focus and similar offering, so cross-domain duplicate/near-duplicate content ends up being the main focus for how we optimise this area of our content.

This no-follow thing has just been in the back of my mind as something I should look into just in case we are giving out a negative signal in someway.

And in our case, it is not the link that is paid for. They are paying to post a job vacancy - the link is mechanism for applying or finding out more.

So how does a search engine detect what is paid for and what is not?

This is my first SEOmoz  question, so I am really excited to have two people respond so quickly... how wonderful the community here!