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Hello Team,

I have moz pro account.

I'm getting following error for seomoz call using your API:

{"status":"401","error_message":"Your authentication failed. Check your authentication details and try again. For more information on signed authentication, see: http://apiwiki.moz.com/signed-authentication"}

The link that we are using is:
    http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/

And following bits are requested during the call:

1. 68719476736
2. 34359738368
3. 32
4. 2048
5. 16384

The error is intermittent. It comes and goes. There were no issues with results 3 days ago. I suddenly started getting this error. Could you please investigate into it and let me know the cause of issues and its correctiveness.

It will great if you can provide us a support email Id for immediate response.

Thanks,

Google confirms it as Panda. More details over here- http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-version-24-1-2-of-search-queries-impacted-146149

Guys,

You can refer to this discussion:-

http://www.seomoz.org/q/january-2013-google-update-affected-my-projects

We track 50,000+ keywords on weekly basis and we saw 6x times SERP movement than we see every week.

dawnieando - Have your results stabilised or are they still fluctuating ?

Another helpful link - http://www.branded3.com/blogs/google-moves-towards-continual-link-devaluation/ .

There is another thread here which you might want to check - http://www.seomoz.org/q/january-2013-google-update-affected-my-projects .

Regardless of what Google officially says, there is/ was an update around 17 Jan 2013. We track 50,000+ keywords on weekly basis and we saw 6x times SERP movement than we see every week.

For us, this was bigger than Penguin or Panda. Would take some time for rankings to stabilise after which there can be some consensus as to what happened.

Marie - thanks for sharing the link. I kind of agree with you that google will use the disavow tool data. But knowing google, I don't think they will do manual checking for more than 1000 sites? They can simply calculate top 1000 domains disavowed across all disavow requests and then use that data ? But I think that update will come in future. This looks like a version or penguin ?

I agree with you. Which is why we avoid multiple submissions. Just wanted few other people to agree so that we could refer our agency clients to answers over here. I would also like to hear anyone who has a counter argument to what you and I agree on.

We know the general consensus among the crowd here is to avoid free article submission directories. But we have to do this as part of our overall deliverables and have hit a roadblock.

A couple of our agencies are insisting that we submit one article to multiple sites - which we contend would trigger duplicate content issue and render all links useless. Any feedback on submitting one article to multiple article sites?

The simple answer is NO. Scraping SERP data is against Google's TOS and they have not given permission/ rights to any company.

The situation with Raven really stinks. In my opinion its Google using its dominant position in search to enforce their rules. And I hope we do not lose access to SEOMoz's Ranking data.

Also, is there a clarity about Google Analytics API? Does that also have the same condition (that you cannot use Google Scraped data)?.

I think this whole thing is counterproductive. Google forcing an SEO SaaS company to change one of its core service - is an example of bullying which reminds me of MS. The easier option would have been to create a rankings API and give it to SEO community. They had a Search API before (which was broken and never worked). And the Google WMT data is unreliable at best. I anticipate more automated search queries to google behind private proxies or more business to companies like AuthorityLabs.