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Are you checking broad or exact match phrases?

car insurance and insurance car are equal because these are broad match types

[car insurance] and [insurance car] are very different because these are exact match types

Numbers are rounded in order to make them easier to read and manage. 195,000 is easier to read than 194,793 and that slight difference doesn't really matter. Same with 590 and 587.

The "reliable source" you linked is a forum where an unknown person posted a message. That is not something I would rely on. Read more about SERP CTR and check your website's data and you will see that the numbers are roughly correct.

OSE is being updated every 4-6 weeks so new links will be showed after the next update. The next update is scheduled on the 23rd August. You can check the update schedule here: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

OSE doesn't cover 100% of the Internet so that can be another reason why your links aren't showed. Read more about OSE here

I was worried too, so I asked SEOMoz on Twitter: I really hope @__SEOmoz__ won't shut down the rank tracking tool, like Raven Tools did.

and they replied: We currently have no plans to change our data service options & are listening to what our community has to say

You can find the tweets here.

I checked the website and it's .com.au

Yes, it can probably read the content of that particular page, but the not necessarily every page on your website. Crawlable is not the same as indexable. For example, Google crawls pages that contain the noindex tag, but don't index them.

Also, even if a page is crawlable, it doesn't mean that Google understands it correctly. Are the meta tags correct? Does it contain correct mark-up/structured data?

I recommend spending some time reading the Webmaster Tools help pages, so you'll have a better understanding: https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en

Google often changes the page titles on the SERP if it thinks that it's not "good enough" and fully related to the search query. I had these problems with page titles that used special characters like | or -, and use repetitive (boilerplate) titles. In your case, the page title is basically a very generic head term + boilerplate.

Try changing your page title to PC Games at Mighty Ape Australia (without the pipe), fetch it in Webmaster Tools and see if it changes in the SERP. If it doesn't, then probably it's still too generic, so try customising it and removing the repetitive part, e.g. PC Games: Coming Soon, Best Sellers & Imports

Repeating the brand name in every page title is not the best practice nowadays.

The most important and easiest step is to use Google Webmaster Tools. Go to Site Configuration, then Settings and set the Preferred Domain to either www or non-www.

Google:
"The preferred domain is the one that you would like used to index your site's pages. If you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we'll treat that link as if it was http://www.example.com."

If you have access to .htaccess and not afraid to use it, then the following will help:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.yourdomain.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]

This redirects the non-www domain to the www version, and also redirects the index.html to the www version. Edit accordingly..

You can set geotargeting in Google Webmaster tools. Subdirectories with a gTLD is a supported solution and duplicate content shouldn't be an issue; however, we have had canonical problems with English pages across .com, .co.uk and .com.au ccTLDs.

Google claims that they're smart enough to understand that your subdirs are for different countries but I'd strongly recommend changing the content as much as possible. Use different spellings, sentence structure, etc, let the client know that it's also better for visitors to see customised content rather than a general marketing copy.

You can read more about the Webmaster Tools settings here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=182192#2

Use a different Google account for each client!

We had 50+ clients in one Google account and the nightmare started when some of them didn't renew the contract. Migrating listings is a pain in the ***, because the listing will have a significant drop in impressions and you can't just pass it to a different Google account.

It takes roughly 4-6 weeks to migrate, re-verify and then recover from the migration and the client will blame you when they disappear for a few weeks, especially when most of the traffic comes from Places.

Having different companies in the same Google Places account was a rookie mistake and I wouldn't do it again.

I had a similar problem with Firefox 4.0.1. I had to log out from SEOmoz & Google, clear cache, cookies, remove the SEOmoz add-on from Firefox, then reinstall and log back in. After that it worked perfectly.

It won't hurt but your pages don't get too much link juice from the footer links and visitors probably don't read it either. It looks like keyword stuffing so I'd remove it and also because it has no benefit for your website's performance.

Check Dr. Pete's recent post about the new page title guidelines: http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool

The max length is based on the pixel width, not the number of characters, so you need to be careful with those long titles.

On the other hand, repeating the brand name 2-3 times is spammy. I don't recommend it, because it will have a negative impact on click-through-rate.

I have a similar client or even worse. The domain is 302 redirected to the default.aspx. It's a super dodgy CMS implementation and no one could answer the question. It's been months and the dev team still hasn't fixed it.

I'm in Australia too. Maybe try re-installing Firefox from scratch. Delete cache, uninstall Firefox, download latest version, install and download seomoz add-on.

try contacting seomoz support...

Hi John

If you want all websites to perform well in organic search, then make each of them unique and don't create duplicate content.

If you want only vietnamvisacorp.com perform well, then add cross domain canonical tags to the duplicate pages on your other websites and mark vietnamvisacorp.com as original. Make sure you set page level canonical URLs and not the homepage (www.vietnamvisacorp.com).

Disavow all the suspicious links, but also remove as many as possible. Google wants to see that you did work on cleaning up your link profile and not just disavowed the links.

If you're busy, then outsourcing link clean-up can be an option. Be prepared to pay $5-20 for link removals, because some site admins charge money for the work.

The tool is not working correctly because I'm having the same problem with two different computers. Both running Firefox 4.0.1, Win7 and OSX Snow Leopard. Australian and European domains show the USA flag.

In this case insert the canonical tag in the section of page on vietnamtravel.com:

You can read more about the canonical tag on Google's page: [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en)

It's not the end of the world, but definitely more expensive.

As you probably know, the folder microsite gets most of the root domain's authority, while a sub-domain doesn't get anything at all, or just a fraction of the authority; therefore, you'll need to invest more in content, links, social factors, etc.

Yes, Google allows you to change location but it seems like the search results are still different, probably because Google uses your IP address as a variable.

I use a VPN provider which has 50+ servers around the world and use their VPN servers as proxies.

As far I know, registering your business in these well known directories is not considered as "link buying". These are "quality" business directories and (according to them) they do filter dodgy, spammy, low quality websites.

I've registered a large number of websites in BOTW, Yahoo, Business.com, etc and never had any penalties.

"We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 59,000,000,000 pages (which is about 25% the amount in Google's index).

Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Sorry!"

More info here

Also, the OSE index updated every 4-6 weeks, so don't expect immediate results.

I'm afraid you have to wait for the next OSE index update. I don't know how to trigger it to index websites. Sometimes I have the same problem, even when the website has a campaign.

I suggest that SEOMoz should prioritise PRO users' websites and make sure that their websites get indexed. For example, a website that is present in a live campaign should be queued for the next OSE index update. We pay for the index updates, don't we?

Hi Lewis,

Tracking correct local search results requires proxies in every state and city which is a significant cost. Basically they need a proxy server in every city because Google identifies local searches on city and suburb level too. Having computers all over the US running keywords ranking reports is simply too expensive.

If they had proxies in every state, then which city should be targeted? For example: California. LA or San Francisco ?