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Hey Alan, that isn't a bug. We're asking people to mark questions as "answered" and until they are, they say unanswered. Even though someone has left a response, the question may still not be answered.

Hey guys, I'm just about to publish a blog post that talks all about a bunch of new changes. The focus is for people to earn points for not only participating but adding value as well. Sadly we've had people who are only focused on gaming the system and creating silly questions or adding spammy answers just to gain points. So we've taken quite a few measures to give people MORE points for valuable answers/questions and less points for non-valuable ones. The post is going up in the next 20 minutes or so that has quite a bit more information.

Thanks!

Jen

Hi! We do have a discount code for SMX Advanced. Just use smx10seomoz to get 10% off. You better hurry though. As of last week there were only 50 tickets left!

We'll be launching MozCon registration tomorrow.

I highly recommend checking out the Webinar Friday Rand did on this very subject: Getting Value from XML Sitemaps, HTML Sitemaps & Feeds.

I forgot to add, that even before we found out the value of Tweets for rankings, I would always push the notion that although the links are nofollowed, they are still quite valuable. Just because those links are nofollowed, there are simply countless ways of turning them into a nice followed link. As an example, there have been many times that I've linked to a post that I found from Twitter, in an SEOmoz post. Another example is that there are many sites out there that create links to your content from Twitter, like Topsy.com, backtweets, etc.

Thanks!

Jen

Hi guys! Check out this post from Rob Ousbey talking about How to Allow Google to Crawl your AJAX Content. In it he explains how both Twitter and Facebook are using the "hashbang" or "#!" to let Google get to their AJAX content, in turn showing the URLs to Google as twitter.com/randfish and the like.

Hope this helps!

Jen

Hi! Yes, our crawler does read wildcards in a robots.txt file. This change was made in the past 3 months or so. Hope that helps!

Jen

Hi Thomas! That's a great question. Rae Hoffman actually wrote a really excellent post recently talking about she swtiched from the TweetMeme button vs the official Twitter one. I highly recommend checking it out: Why I Switched from TweetMeme to the Official “Tweet Button”.

The feature I like best is that you can set up the official twitter button to recommend Twitter accounts!

Hope this helps,

Jen

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

Hi Greg!

Sorry about the troubles you're having. One thing you want to check in both browsers is that you have "third-party cookies" turned on since the login needs to resonate between more than one site.

Here are the steps for Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Enabling and disabling cookies and for Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95647

Hope this helps!

Jen

Specifically in Open Site Explorer, check out the "Top Pages" tab to see if any of your top linked to pages are returning a 404. This tab is actually the first one I look at when running analysis of a site.