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Hi,

I have been having HUGE problems with OSE for the last few days.

It is getting to the point where I will be looking to stop using my SEO moz account and looking for alternant options with other providers.

It is sooo buggy.

what are the team doing to fix it apart from directing us to a video of a dog? I mean Funny video but in all seriousness I just want the reports so I can carry on with business.

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Hi All,

I notice the SEO moz keyword difficulty tool has been down for a few days!!!

I know from support that they say it is going to be a "while" till it fixed, but some type of estimation on how long it will be will be good.

Also in regards to the types of accounts, why do the top accounts have the same limitations as the 79/month tool in regards to the keyword tool reports (50 max and 5 per scan)? I mean this is probably a wider question for the SEOmoz team need to answer.

Kind Regards.

It is not advisable to only build site wide links on one or two root domain. Google favors websites which have links from various C-block root domains.

Google will not so much penalize you they will just not rank you too favorably if you only have 2 links from root domains and over 500 links..

We have worked on a few high end fashion brands in the past, some times it is hard to make them step away from the flash sites and the image heavy sites but in the end of the day it is all about training, Even if you work with a site that has limited images you need to develop a strategy which will allow the site to incorporate some SEO elements, then you really need to push the off site elements in a big way, any thing is possible it just takes time and education.

Hi All,

I am having some serious concern with OSE data recently for numerous clients, one client I want to talk about today has the following data from OSE for the month of August 2011 compared with July 2011:

Total links to the domain: (decrease of around 100,000+)
External Followed links: (decrease by around 5,000)
**Linking Root domains: (decrease of over 60) **

The crazy thing is that the domain authority has actually gone up by around 5 points for this client even though every thing has suddenly gone down?

Also funny thing is we have been link building quite strong for this client over the last 12 months using only high quality sources from out niche.

I am worried that their is serious issues with the data, I realise we saw some updates to OSE recently yet I am suprised it can be this drastic.

Kind Regards.

PSV

Yes it is a problem it is advisable to use new content for each new market, Never use the same content on say a .com and a .co.uk

It is also advisable to use content from local copywriters for local based content.

I have seen many instances where only a .com's content is indexed because duplicant content is seen on other international TLD's.

No you will not get peanlized for that amount do not worry just try and make the anchors different and natural =)..

google will only take action if you have 3,000,000 links for example from 1 domain and 5 links from 5 domains in a space of 1 week and all the anchor texts are the same i.e. "SEO Consultant" on 3 million pages from 1 domain lol..

you can also look at domains linking in Google Webmaster tools

Regards

Their is a section for "SEO moz tool" questions here within the public Q&A.

I was interested to see the wider community's view on why this tool has been down for 7 days and too see if others were also facing issues.

Here is one reply a few days ago:

_I am so sorry that you are running into some issues with our web tools. Rankings, Rank Tracker and our Keyword Difficulty tool all ran into these unexpected outage issues. Unfortunately, Google has changed the way that they present rankings information, so we have had to make some changes to our collection in order to keep up with these changes, I'm afraid that this has caused some issues with providing the real time data for our Rankings and the Keyword Difficulty tool is also currently unresponsive. Our engineers are working tirelessly through this holiday weekend to fix this for you. At this time, unfortunately, we do not have an ETA for when that tool will be up and running again. I thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this issue and I will update you when I have any further information for you. I am hoping for an ETA soon.  _

Surprised_ SEOmoz has not posted an official statement about this yet, just a tweet. _

Only thing is we are paying money for tools which are currently having various issues is why an ETA would be good.

It is kind of like paying for a news paper and getting a newspaper with no content in it delivered.