Thanks to the Moz Team for your dedicated work creating the new Link Explorer. I find it does help to uncover a better overall story to understand DA changes and to compare competitor metrics. It is nice to see Moz consider how Google ranks a site and attributes greater trust, authority, and ranking power to one over the other

I will use this information to update our Healthy Backlink Profiles are Critical to Build Site Authority.

Thanks for the article Ian Watson.

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I am working on a website, https://linkedinforbusiness.net and a ton of 999 HTTP errors have only now surfaced.

I would venture from reading the "Request denied" error in the log, LinkedIn means to block BLCs attempts to check those links. It might be because the site has a lot of LinkedIn links; maybe they find it suspicious that the server is sending a lot of requests for their links.

How do you see this? Any fixes? What level of harm do you think it brings to the site?

I have removed all similar links to LinkedIn from my site to avoid this (https://www.hillwebcreations.com). However, this isn't so easily done for LinkedIn For Business, as her work in all about helping businesses and individuals optimize their use of LinkedIn.

Can you help my place the benefit of paying for Moz Local, if I now need to pay for so many individual directories to update the information. I presumed that Moz Local would have the reach to do that. My score has actually gone down since using it. Rather than correcting listings, new one were generated and now I have more problems than ever with multiple listings and have to go pay additional to fix them.

Does anyone know how I can correct my axiom.com directory listing? I do pay for Moz Local Listings, however, this one refused to updater per my CVS file used by Moz.  Is there a way to do so without paying axiom as well?

The provided website URL fails to display and the city is incorrect on axiom.com's directory. It is correct in the Moz file submitted.

Thanks for your superb help walking through this.

I am thankful for the random error as I learned more valuable information about the Moz platform.

Several test now and no sign of the error again.

The latest Moz crawl returns a normal http status for the four pages.

I can only conclude that this was a one-off misread "somewhere".

As my traffic has dropped and I cannot determine just why, is there another tool or Moz resource that may help me gain better insights?

Backlinks to the site and social shares are both up.

Which highlights how very helpful the Moz Crawl Test Tool is. I use it often. I really appreciate Moz offering this tool.

Waiting for the new results....

Hi David,

The web developer cannot find any cause nor has made changes on the pages that would generate this intermittent error.

The web host says there is no recognizable cause for the error on the server, that MOZ is a third party tool, and that we should ask them (you).

With a fresh day ahead and a cleared Moz cache, I am rerunning the Moz crawl test tool.

The link provided relates to a 404 error. All four of these pages exist and have never had a 404 error.

Wish we could find some answers as to why Moz threw this "Error.aspx?aspxerrorpath"  this one time out of many successful Moz app crawls on the same page.

Thanks to the Moz Team for your dedicated work creating the new Link Explorer. I find it does help to uncover a better overall story to understand DA changes and to compare competitor metrics. It is nice to see Moz consider how Google ranks a site and attributes greater trust, authority, and ranking power to one over the other

I will use this information to update our Healthy Backlink Profiles are Critical to Build Site Authority.

Thanks for the article Ian Watson.

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