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As good as you advice is... I'm a dreamer and would take on a challenge like that!

The metrics are in a constant state of update I'd guess.

Sure do! Read to have your mind blown?  I've seen the struggles you have been having with getting new users engaged.  I get it... SEO is tough stuff after all - I'm here to help.  Watch the attached video before continuing.

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How about combining gaming elements along with leader board type tracking of progress.  Kind of like launching a campaign for a site (but now it will be called a game).  You progress as if playing a game and the result is your site gets "SEO'd."

The beautiful part about this, you track where other users get stuck / give up and how others have overcome these difficulties - share this data as part of the game.  Build a big enough user base and what do you get?  Precise answers to the hardest of SEO questions -> e.g. why did my rankings fall?  because you did this, this and this!  incoming thunder cats reference Machine learning Ho!

I wouldn't suggest this idea to anyone but SEOmoz - it's hard but is totally doable for someone who created open site explorer.

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Thanks Keith.

This question was more of a subtle suggestion for more personalization

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Right on! Thanks Chiaryn! Thanks engineers!

Glad I could help!

Hi Nile

I've found this for you: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409441

It summarizes why access denied shows up.

My initial thought was that your robots.txt file was maliciously updated to block many of your pages.

Hi Nile

I've found this for you: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409441

It summarizes why access denied shows up.

My initial thought was that your robots.txt file was maliciously updated to block many of your pages.

Without accurate WHOIS info you face a big problem.  I have had success tracking those people down (but i had to WORK for it). These ideas are geared towards inaccurate and not private registration (save the first one which applies to both):

1. You can place a backorder and wait until the domain expires to snatch it up.  Google how to do this effectively because you aren't the only one who is after that domain.

2.  Search for the whois email in the search engines to see if you can find any sites that have that email on them.  Go through each site and do some investigating and you might get lucky by finding their profile somewhere.  Use any alternate forms of contact you find.  Repeat this step with each form of contact that you find.

3.  Use location information from the whois and whatever names they have there and look up old phone records. i.e. If they gave you st. paul, alberta canada and only part of their name you would find the phonebook (call the local phone companies in the area...they sometimes have old ones that they are happy to mail) that was published just after the domain was registered and go down the list calling each potential match.  This works if they typed their phone number wrong.

4.  Go to the domain you are after and have a look at the website.  If it is a standard template looking thing then you can run some of the words on the page through copyscape.com and see any other domains he has registered.  Also try googling those phrases as well.  This one is hit or miss.

5.  Submit a whois complaint: http://wdprs.internic.net/

Hope this helps!

Jason Jackson

This sounds like a bug!

Write down everything you can to reproduce the errors:

Brower version, operating system,  steps to reproduce the error etc.

This will help SEOMoz to find and fix the bug!

Hostgator has the best customer service around.  They have great reliability too as far as uptime goes.  Not sure if they do design but they do offer reseller packages.

Know of anyone who is currently active?  (I spent 10 minutes trying to phrase that sentence in the nicest way possible)