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RE: What Q&A Forum Platform Does SEOmoz Use?
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RE: Is duplicate content in social media ok?
I agree with Brett, plus there was a study that showed that Facebook doesn't show posts made by outside apps in the feed as often as it does if you post directly to Facebook. So not only do you want to keep that content unique to your users, you want to make sure you getting as much prime time as possible.
I'm not sure there's an issue with "duplicate content" in social, as it is in general SEO best practices, but from a user perspective, definitely keep it unique.
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RE: Why hasn't my site info shown up yet?
Hi James,
Thanks for checking in! We're definitely finding that it's taking closer to a week for the campaigns to pull in all the data. If after a full week, you're still not seeing anything, send us your info here: http://moz.com/help/contact and we can dive into your account and see what's up.
Thanks!
Jen
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RE: A sitemap... What's the purpose?
I highly recommend checking out the Webinar Friday Rand did on this very subject: Getting Value from XML Sitemaps, HTML Sitemaps & Feeds.
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RE: Toolbar not working in Firefox
Hi! Is the toolbar still not working? I'm wondering if perhaps this was happening when we were having issues with the website. Normally as Rich stated, uninstalling and reinstalling works, sorry that didn't work! Another thing is, you need to make sure and have 3rd party cookies enabled.
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RE: Facebook Fan Page Title
Hi Sara! I'm not sure that adding keywords to the title will help much for SEO purposes. It may look a bit spammy actually, and I'm not sure you want your Facebook page to rank (or possibly outrank you) for your keywords. But the main thing is that most people when they link to your Facebook page they'll normally use the anchor text of "brand name" or "brand name on facebook" or sometimes just "Facebook".
I think just adding your brand name is good as it helps for those brand queries.
Hope this helps!
Jen
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RE: All my campaigns have gone!!!
Hi folks! For people who are wondering what the answer here is, I grabbed this from our FAQ post we recently published: http://moz.com/community/q/trending-bugs-in-moz-analytics
Where did my Campaigns Go?
Whenever your account is suspended, your campaigns are archived. The good news is that reviving archived accounts is really simple.Go to your Campaigns section: http://pro.moz.com/campaigns
At the top of the page there is a "Archived Campaigns" Tab, give it a click.
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RE: Use of Robots.txt file on a job site
Hi Oliver!
Before coming to SEOmoz I used to work for OntargetJobs which is a company that has multiple niche job boards. Here's what I would recommend:
- Keep those pages followed because people will link to them and you want to preserve as much of the link equity as you possibly can. So how do you do that?
- Make sure that when a job expires (or gets removed, whatever) that the page gets 301 redirected to the category page the job is posted under. Depending on the niche, it may be locale based, in that case redirect it to the location. The idea here is to send the user to a helpful page for good user experience and conserve some link equity at the same time.
- On the page that gets redirected to, program it so when a redirection happens that it displays a message at the top of the page. Something along the lines of "Oops! The job you were looking for is no longer active. However here are similar jobs in XYZ category"
Again as I mentioned above, this is a good way to help user experience, plus keep some of that link equity from the inevitable links job posting pages get.
I hope this helps!
Jen
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RE: Possible to force the SEOmoz Ranking Report to update?
Hi everyone! We had another question open up about the same topic and our VP of Engineering, Kate left a detailed response. I wanted to add a link to it here as well so if anyone came across this question they'd see the response as well:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/forcing-an-update-revisited
Thanks!
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RE: Open Site Exporer Social Media Data Accuracy. Anyone notice this?
Hi Francisco!
I've noticed also on my personal site that the numbers aren't quite accurate. I'll ask the dev team and find out how those numbers are calculated. But you might want to try getting those numbers from the Social tab in campaigns now instead? I'll let you know when I hear back!
Thanks,
Jen
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RE: Can't setup new campaign
Hi James! We're having some issues right now with email, but if you send us the details of your campaign here: http://moz.com/help/contact, we'll dive in and get things sorted for you.
Thanks!
Jen
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RE: Google + button
Sadly it looks like there isn't an option to change the color. Maybe they're trying to compete with the Pinterest button.
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RE: Open Site Explorer Page Authority
Hi guys! So sorry about this, it looks like it is related to our latest index update that went out today. Our engineers are looking into it right now to get it fixed. We'll report back wen it's updated. Thanks!
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RE: Open Site Exporer Social Media Data Accuracy. Anyone notice this?
Hi Francisco,
Ok first, you should send an email to help at seomoz.org about the reauthorization problem. That shouldn't be happening and the Help team can help you out with that.
As for how the social numbers are calculated, here is a response from the engineering team:
"For the social metrics in OSE, first - they're not part of our Linkscape index. We compile those metrics from different APIs. The Twitter metrics are coming from Tweetmeme and they are page specific - not domain specific. So it's not how many people have tweeted his domain - it's how many times someone has tweeted that exact URL.
Facebook is a bit more confusing. The metric in OSE breaks out FB Likes and FB shares - however, on Facebook, when you see the number of Likes, that is a metric that combines shares, likes, and comments. It is confusing when we use Likes, because in OSE we are strictly counting Likes (like someone_liked_ it) which is not the same definition of Like on actual Facebook."It sounds like we're looking into fixing the way FB numbers work though, but it's a lower priority.I hope this helps!Jen -
RE: Oops! This does not appear to be a valid URL. Please try again.
Hello!
Since the avalonu.org redirects to www.avalonu.org you should try adding the final URL in there. See if that works ok for you.
Thanks!
Jen
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RE: How to block "print" pages from indexing
Rather than using robots.txt I'd use a noindex,follow tag instead to the page. This code goes into the tag for each print page. And it will ensure that the pages don't get indexed but that the links are followed.
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RE: What is the time range of social media metrics of Open Site Explorer?
Hi Cristian,
The numbers shown in OSE are pulled directly from APIs, and are not connected to the Linkscape index in any way. Also, I should note that the numbers shown only show the data for specific page you are looking at. They are not showing total FB shares, likes and Tweets, etc. for the entire domain. You can get more of that information for your client by using the Social tab inside of a campaign.
You can get more detailed information about the data used for the Social information in OSE here.
Hope that helps,
Jen
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RE: Best practices to add Facebook comments to wordpress blog?
Both Aran and Keri have given great responses! One thing I want to add about using FB comments, is that I believe that you lose all your previous comments once the FB comments are implemented. But perhaps Aran can verify that. One post I always refer to on the subject is this one from Jon Henshaw over at Raven: http://raventools.com/blog/facebook-comments/. Not only is the post helpful, but the discussion in the comments is valuable as well. I'd definitely give it a read.
I agree with Keri that while it can be frustrating to see more comments on FB than on the blog. But at the same time remember, you're not just building a blog, you're creating a community. Some members of the community are simply more comfortable using FB than they are commenting on the site. Since your site has such a wide reach, I could see my mom wanting to comment but only understanding how to do that on FB, so that's where she'd do it. It takes more work to moderate comments on both the blog and on FB and perhaps Twitter and anywhere else for that matter. But people are actively talking about your "brand" and getting your name out there.
Please let me know if you have more questions!
Jen
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RE: Moz health check for newbies
Hey Ben! I'd also like to add to what Christy mentioned is that we do have a welcome webinar this Friday at 10am PDT: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/355765902. It's an hour long, and we'll walk you through Moz Analytics and other tools, and you'll have plenty of time to ask direct questions to the team and such as well.
And welcome!
Jen
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RE: How to block "print" pages from indexing
True but using robots.txt does not keep them out of the index. Only using "noindex" will do that.
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RE: SEOmoz toolbar log in chrome wonky!
Hmm darn! Your best bet would probably be to open a support ticket. I'll go ahead and open one for you with your original question posted.
Jen
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RE: Using ReTweets for Outreach
You can use http://rowfeeder.com for that! Depending how much you're going to need, it may even be free for you. You enter your search terms, then it creates a Google Spreadsheet for you with the Username, name, actual tweet, their home page (listed on their profile), location, followers, friends, and time of tweet. It will backfill as well as track going forward as well.
We use it all the time here at SEOmoz. Hope this helps!
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New to Moz Pro? Join our latest free webinar this Friday!
Hello everyone!
We'll be holding a webinar on tomorrow to help new members learn about what all Pro has to offer, show some off our most popular tools, and get you comfortable with the dashboard.
Register here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/355765902
Date: Friday, September 26th (this Friday!)
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Hope to see you all there!
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RE: Our homepage currently uses a Meta refresh. Is it worth $1,000 to get it fixed?
Thanks!! I'm happy to help
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RE: Rank Tracker
Hi everyone!
So sorry about the issues with Rank Tracker. Our engineers are currently working on some fixes that we hope will go out very soon. Also, we're working on some major upgrades to the tool, so in the future you won't run into these sorts of issues.
Thanks!
Jen
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RE: Facebook like box error
Hi Bob,
This is interesting, the code you have there looks right and usually if you have the age set to 13+ it's not a problem. One thing, did you add the Javascript to your page? I'm assuming you used this page: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ to create the box right? And selected the HTML5 option? If so, then also make sure the correct JavaScript was added right beneath the tag.
I did a little searching as well and found this post on stackoverflow that might help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7268100/facebook-likebox-showing-fine-but-only-if-logged - although it sounds like you're doing it right.
Hopefully this helps!
Jen
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RE: MOZ Monthly Custom Report Question
Hello there!
This is a great question, and one that can be a bit confusing. When you set up a monthly report in a campaign, we run all those reports on the 1st of the month, and start sending them out. It may take until the 4th of the month for all of them to run and get emailed and show up in your campaign.
If you don't see the report by the 5th (since it looks like you're in Australia), please send us an email at help[at]moz.com so we can dig into your account a bit more, and take a look at specific campaigns.
I hope this helps answer your question!
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RE: Increase Search Ranking for CEO
I might do a combo of adding a page to the company website's about section, as the company site already has domain authority and could easily rank well. For example, if you do a search for "Rand Fishkin" his SEOmoz bio is the first thing to show up in the SERPS: http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish. Make sure to link that page to any other page on the web about her.
It also wouldn't hurt to set up a simple website with her matching name domain (for example mine is http://jensablelopez.com - that other pesky Jennifer Lopez has all other domains taken up.) and make sure that site links to the company about page as well as social channels.
But if you want the images to change, then make sure that the images on the company website and the new domain, as well as the social sites really, are all optimized for her exact name. Make sure the image name is her name and the alt text is her name and any links.
I'd also set up a google+ account and add a few images of her that she's ok with and tag herself in them. Google is showing G+ images in image search now and this is a good way to get your photos out there.
Hope that helps!
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RE: How are you implementing TAGFEE?
haha love it! And you're right we say that all the time. Often times when I'm dealing with a tough situation, I'll think "How would Rand respond?" and do that!
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RE: Facebook like box error
I wonder if it's because it's set to only show the page to users in the United States?
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RE: MOZ Monthly Custom Report Question
Unfortunately right now there is not. We try to get them out as quickly as possible though. If you're having issues again this coming month, please email us at help[at]moz.com and we'll see if perhaps there's something specific going on with your campaigns.
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RE: Keyword Difficulty Tool
Hi everyone,
We've just updated the Known Issues page and I wanted to reiterate what Nick said over there:
Hey everyone! Some good news from our engineers.
- Keyword Difficulty is back up for Google.
- Rankings are in good condition. We have identified and are in the process of fixing the calendar icon issue. Most campaigns should be fixed late tonight. However, some locales are not available yet.
- Rank Tracker is still a little sick, but we hope to have it up soon.
Thanks for the patience everyone.- Nick
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RE: Last Linkscape index update: 05/30/2012
As of right now, we're on schedule to update the new index tomorrow (July 6). Thanks!
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RE: Facebook likes - how can I tell how many likes a product page has?
Hi! A while back Tom Critchlow wrote a great post on how to use tools and APIs to gather Social Media data, I think this would help you out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-track-your-social-media-strategy. Check out the post then scroll down to the part about using Google docs to connect to APIs. I think you should be able to do the same thing for your site if you have some sort of feed for your products.
Hope this helps!
Jen
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RE: Will Ranking Reports be Affected with the new Google Changes?
Hi Kathy,
Raven made a decision to stop showing ranking reports on their own, I don't believe they had to give them up (as far as I know). We currently don't have any plans on changing our services, but we did recently ask folks to help us understand what data is most necessary for them: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/which-data-matters-most-to-marketers-take-the-survey. It'd be great if you could fill that out as well.
Thanks!
Jen
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RE: Navigation Links in Footer
One thing to know is that Google often devalues footer links, so while it's usually not a problem to have links in the footer, don't expect them to bring you lots of linkjuice love.
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RE: Facebook Like on URLs
One way to see the differences is to use a free tool like http://sharedcount.com/ it shows you Facebook likes, shares and comments which are all different items.
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RE: Should I use this Facebook comment content on my related blog post?
Sorry for being a bit slow to respond to this one. I agree that the less aggressive option might be best here. I see that there area a ton of comments on that already. You have quite the community there!
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RE: How to un-answer a question?
Hey guys! Thanks for jumping in here. You definitely bring up a good question and the answer is unfortunately that right now you can't change that. We do have a number of issues in the queue to be fixed, and I'll check to see if that's in there as well.
Sorry I don't have a better answer right now!
Jen
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RE: What is best way of using facebook share
I believe that the "like" option now also includes a comment, so that would be my suggestion. For example if you like one of our blog posts, you have the option to add text as well. Facebook has made some changes in the last 6 months or so where a "like" is generally thought of as the same as a "share". So I think a like is just fine!
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RE: Why do I not see any data in Open site Explorer for my site www.mtg-sg.com
Hello!
It looks like your site is fairly new, and while most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, it can sometimes take even longer for many of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories.
Just so you know, here's how we compile our index:
- We grab the most recent index.
- We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
- We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).Which means, 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!
You can get a bit more info about our crawl here: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer.
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RE: Do you think Seomoz is worth the monthly fee if you're not a professional SEO ?
Hi Alan! I'd also like to add that we'd love for you to attend one of our weekly Help webinars to help you get the most out of SEOmoz.
Jen
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RE: Using twitter to boost organic rankings
It's important to look at Twitter as a way to engage with your fans and get your content out there rather than solely as a way to increase your rankings. If you're not there to interact with people, you'll find that they get uninterested quickly. The same goes for Facebook, Google+, etc.
I love the idea that Aran mentioned about having a Youtube channel. You can do a lot with that and even could post the videos on your site and tweet those links. One of the greatest things I've found though is to simply ask! Ask your Twitter followers what they'd like to see from you on Twitter. People LOVE giving their opinions so I'm sure you'll get some feedback. You could try that on Facebook and Google+ as well.
The idea really is to get a group of fans who are interested in what you're writing about or posting on your site as well. Maybe it's tour dates, or posts about your concerts, but something that gets people interested enough to tweet and retweet.
Hope this helps a bit!
Jen
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RE: SearchLove Videos
LOL! Omg I'm so sorry... SearchLove videos!! haha We just released MozCon videos so I totally thought this thread was about that. Sheesh I'm so so sorry!
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RE: Benefits of +1ing a Sub Page vs. Root Page
Hi Dylan! So I'd definitely say that having people +1 a specific page is going to be useful because it will show up in the SERPs if it's relevant to the query. However, check out this post from Rishi: How to Get a Celebrity to Endorse ALL You Products on Google. He shows where Aaron Wall shows up as +1ing the UK ebay site, but he never did. He did however +1 the US site. So Google is showing his +1 for essentially any page on the subdomain.
Major takeaways:
- He DID plus eBay.com, and NOT .co.uk. Google merged it to the .co.uk domain.
- He later REMOVED his plus. Google ignored the fact.
- He plussed the root domain. Google indicates that he plussed the SPECIFIC Ad Page.
- Its false endorsement, manipulated by Google.
In other words, it may not even matter! Hope this helps.
Jen