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Anyone using this on their websites and if so have you seen and positive benefits of doing so?

Would be good to see some examples of sites using it and potentially how you're using the files.

I'm considering adding this to my checklist for launching sites

With Ravens announcement today (http://raventools.com/blog/scraped-data-serp-tracker/) at least they have gone in the opposite direction to SEOMoz which means as a subscriber to both I can get Adwords info through Raven and SERP tracking through SEOMoz. Evil Google strikes again. 2012 is the year they declared war against SEOs.

Yes I know what you mean here, but if there is any way to "point" the crawl engine at the site and ask it what it knows?

I hadnt thought about it from that perspective, just asking the question to see what is possible to try and get more data if it can be got?!

Is it possible to request that Open Site Explorer crawls a new URL on its next run?

This tool is the first place I go to when working on a new site, and when there is "No Data Available" this is a little frustrating.

I fully appreciate that this lack of data is usually a signal that the website is either very new or of low quality, however that if often the reason that I am brought in and would very much like to benchmark and provide initial analysis using this tool.

It would make sense that OSE crawls the sites that Moz members are working on wouldnt it?

Scott.

Many thanks Keri

Currently the MozBar tool is showing errors and displaying duplicate description tags IF you are using Twittercard Metadata on your site and perhaps even Facebook Opengraph.

Both of these "alternative" descriptions look similar from a code point of view, and I have had it confirmed to me from Moz staff that it's a bug and they are looking to have this fixed in the next release of the plugin.

Thanks Keri. If you could please keep me informed that will help me to explain this to clients.

regards,

Scott.

My crawl diagnosis has suddenly dropped from 10,000 pages to just 250. I've been tracking and working on an ecommerce website with 102,000 pages (www.heatingreplacementparts.co.uk) and the history for this was showing some great improvements. Suddenly the CD report today is showing only 250 pages! What has happened? Not only is this frustrating to work with as I was chipping away at the errors and warnings, but also my graphs for reporting to my client are now all screwed up. I have a pro plan and nothing has (or should have!) changed.

I wish someone had told me that before!!! Will save me bundles. Thanks Jon. Cant believe I missed that function.

All we did was to create a spreadsheet template where we re-mapped the appropriate columns. We then load in the export data from OSE, transform it into the new template, and then exprt this as a CSV ready for import into Raven Link Manager.

Not elegant or automatic, but it works.

Things to do:

1. Plan your strategy carefully after proper research

2. Produce awesome unique content relevant to your target audience

3. Use white-hat techniques

Things NOT to do:

1. Dont plan, just wing-it each day!

2. Create poor quality thin or spun or otherwise low quality content

3. Use black-hat techniques

That should do it!

I asked a similar question to this here http://www.seomoz.org/q/site-wide-footer-links-or-single-website-credits-page and it has possibly useful answers. I'd be interested to hear your views on whether to: A) create site-wide footer links on all pages of my client sites (varying anchor) B) just create a "Website Credits" page and include this inthe sitemap C) create site wide footer links to the website credits page, and link from this back to my site I look forward to hearing your views...

This is definitely a good idea.

I've just done exactly this for a large ecommerce site, as well as implement a new URL rewrite, and by adding this granularity to the sitemap you can really see which pages are being indexed and control it better.

There was a blog post here on SEOMoz which I used for guidance and that demonstrated how the improved site maps actually lead to increased site traffic. (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic)

If you're a Wordpress user, checkout the Wordpress SEO plugin by yoast, as his site maps do exactly this and are set-out very nicely.

Thanks Kenny, I'm using the Chrome Mozbar but I guess the both run the same engine. It's not a biggie but would be nice to see it fixed.

When I use the Mozbar to check a site I am currently working on (in progress) - http://ec.websiteinprogress.co.uk/hire/dior-lady-dior/

I see that it is reporting duplicate Meta Description tags.

I dont see any more than one proper META Description tag, but do have OpenGraph and Twitter Card descriptions on the page.

Is Mozbar picking up one of these incorrectly and flagging it as the duplicate?

If so, which i suspect, maybe you need to add this to the tool.

Thanks,

Scott.

My google listings have disappeared in the last few days. I used to have positions 1, 2, 3, and sometimes 4 on page 1, but since the last update (19th?) it appears I  have been dropped?

My domainn is www.eseyo.com and the search terms I used to acheive results for were "seo in brentwood" and "seo brentwood"

I even created a screencast of my success some time ago for a blog post: http://www.eseyo.com/seo-in-brentwood/

Is there anything that I can do to get these listings back?

I have not done anything too naughty in terms of tactics. Purchased a few fiver gigs to get some fake social likes but that is it the rest was all true links and listings.

your help and advice most appreciated.

Scott.

Absolutely relevant, infact i'd say essential.

A great article posted on the site already here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xml-sitemaps-guidelines-on-their-use

It was a long night last night (working, not playing), therefore forgive the potential stupidness of this question...

Running an OSE report on a website earlier their top linking domain was *.uk.com.

This is a valid TLD, and I know for sure that the website has not acquired links direct from the uk.com website but from some-other-registered-domain.uk.com.

What I am asking is does the Moz Calculation and/or the pagerank calculation give more value to these links?

*.uk.com has a Domain Authority of 71 and 156,497 linking root domains.

If so i'm gonna go buy me a bunch of .uk.com domains.....

Opinions please.

Thanks Steve, this is what I thought was the best method, just wanted to hear it from another professional!

I see that you have already answered this question before back in 2007 (http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/2163), but wanted to ask your current opinion on the same question:

Should I add a site-wide footer link to my client websites pointing to my website, or should I create a "website credits" page on my clients site, add this to the footer and then link from within this page out to my website?