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This should happen automatically. It looks like your link is followed to your blog already, too, when I inspect that element.

We've got a known glitch with this right now, and will get updating the known issues page shortly. Sorry I don't have a better answer at the moment, but it just cropped up.

I'd start with our guide to link building at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links and also check out our blog posts about link building at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/link-building

The search engines generally personalize your search results, based on a number of factors -- information from if you are signed in (even to gmail), your previous search history, and your location, for just a few. Different browsers would have different histories and different accounts, which helps explain the different results. Generally, try to use an incognito window of a browser to search, to help minimize personalization.

Bing and Yahoo use the same algorithm and index, so the results there should be fairly similar. Google uses a different a algorithm and index (and tends to have more pages indexed than Bing), so its results will be different.

If you haven't yet, verify your website in Google and Bing Webmaster Tools. They will help tell you of any problems that they spot with your site.

An alt image tag is there to describe the image if you can't show the image, like if someone was browsing using a screenreader. It is ultimately there to help the user. Text and background the same color is there to serve the search engines one thing while the user sees another thing, which is not OK by any of their guidelines.

This is a known bug we discovered this morning, and we're working on it. Thanks for your patience!

Here's our post in the known issues forum about it. Keep an eye on this post, as we'll keep it updated.

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/21120163-google-adwords-not-displaying-in-keyword-difficulty

However, if you use absolute URLs, if your content gets ripped off you have links back to your own content now, and people can know it's your content. It can also help to force http or https.

No ideas, but wanted to say it's great to see you in Q&A again!

In this case, the title element probably means the title tag. Was this with the SEOmoz report? If so, you can send a note via the feedback button at the left of the screen and mention that changing some language could make it a bit less confusing for people.

This would be great feedback for our Feature Request forum at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests. Thanks!

Hi John! OSE usually updates once a month. The last update was February 27th, and we've had a delay in releasing the next update (it'll be about a month late). For some detailed information about the updates and this delay, please read the blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained

You might also be interested in the 2011 ranking factors report that SEOmoz did with experts in the field. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-edition-ranking-factors-for-2011-live

For your question, you didn't state what type of importance -- I'm guessing importance for SEO in general, but it could also be taken to mean importance for conversions, importance for Google, etc.

Often, the search engines prefer to not index search results, so that's something to consider as well.

Hi Michael,

What did you and the client end up deciding? Do you have any lessons learned or anything interesting to share? We'd love to hear it!

Hi! If this happens again, please take a screenshot, and send a note to help@moz.com. Include in text in the email the incident number (it'll be 10-20 digits) too. From there, we'll be able to look up what is happening. Thanks!

Unfortunately, there has been a delay. We've posted information on the SEOmoz blog about it at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained.

Here's a link to Bing's help page on the tool. http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/crawl-control-55a30302.

Actually, Moz Analytics does not require GA to work properly, though it does help.

Open Site Explorer is its own crawler, and is separate from the Google index. OSE just may not have crawled that particular page yet.

Hi! I see you've sent in a request to our help desk as well, which is the best place for this kind of request. Right now, it's 7:00 on a Sunday morning, so it may be a little bit before you get a response from our help team (I believe we have people checking the queue on a Sunday, but it is a reduced staff on the weekends), but we will be getting back to you.

Hi! The help team has written a post about the most common reasons this happens. Check it out at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page and if that doesn't solve your problem, send them an email at help@seomoz.org and they'll help you figure it out. Thanks!

I believe the original poster has just one site and is taking about individual pages within the site.

The keywords are decided by what is showing in the top 50 results for that keyword. We have some more details about the On Page Grader at http://moz.com/help/pro/on-page-reports

That will tell you the number indexed, but it still doesn't tell you which of those URLs are or are not indexed. I think we all wish it would!

Your best bet is to send an email to help@moz.com and they'll be able to get this sorted out for you. Thanks!

You can do an on-demand crawl for up to 3000 URLs at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test.

Is your website showing up if you do a search on the domain name? Is it showing up in any of the search engines? Trying to figure out here if it's an issue with it being crawled/indexed, or if it's an issue with not ranking but actually being in the index.

Often the questions we get are ones that other users are able to answer before a help desk employee can get to them, and this way several people can see the answer as well.

There are sometimes downsides, such as right now when there's an individual problem that needs direct attention by the help desk. However, often the question is more like "how do I unarchive a campaign" and the question will get an answer in minutes, even at 2 in the morning Seattle time, because another user is online and able to answer.

Do you have areas of your site that are distinctively different in type, such as category pages and individual item pages, or individual item pages and user submitted content?

What I'm getting at is trying to find if there's a certain type of page that Google isn't indexing. If you have distinct types of pages, you can create separate site maps (one for each type of content) and see if one type of content is being indexed better than another. It's more of a diagnostics tool that a solution, but I've found it helpful for sites of that size and larger in the past.

As other people have said, it's also a new site, so the lack of links could be hindering things as well.

I see there's a link from the Help Hub. If you go there, there's a link to Contact Help.

Andrea is correct. It's not a feature right now, but it is on our list. We have more information available at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20199538-is-there-a-way-i-could-add-another-user-to-access-my-pro-account.

We're accepting private questions until next Friday, and will answer all that we get. It may take a couple to a few days for a response, since everyone is trying to get in their last private question, but it's probably the best option for your right now.

Hi John,

We did have a problem with GA connections for a few hours, and it's just now been fixed. Please give it a try again and let me know if you're having any issues still. Thank you, and sorry for the troubles!

Keri

We have considered this. While I don't believe we have any type of solution in place right now, we have plans for a better solution in the future.

You can do a custom crawl at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test of 3000 URLs that might help you get started.

I don't know if these are sample or actual domains, but also consider if there is a chance of any legal implications of choosing a similar domain -- for example if you tried to register google.co and put up a search engine, Google would have issues with that.

Yes, the manual crawl test is what you'll need to use in this situation.

What Ryan means is that when you write an article and link to your own site, be sure to use the full "http://www.sitename.com/page-im-linking-to" instead of just "/page-im-linking-to". The first one includes the full URL, which means that if someone else puts it on their site, it will still link to you. Most of the scrapers are lazy, and don't replace those links.

What is your geography? North Dakota versus Los Angeles also makes a difference with this question.

Not right now. You can see a more detailed explanation from the help desk at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20199538-is-there-a-way-i-could-add-another-user-to-access-my-pro-account

I wouldn't know. Never have heard of a company that ever tried to give out any teases when anything new is coming along.

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Hello Brett,

I'm glad things are working for you now. During a birthday party, I responded to you on Twitter via my phone and directed you here, and checked several times and didn't hear back from you with further questions. I also responded to your private message on Facebook, and just again responded to you on Twitter (before I saw this, as your tweets didn't indicate things we working).

In the first paragraph of this Q&A, we do list the contact form for our help desk. I'll bold it to help make sure that the contact information is easier to spot.

I do apologize for the difficulties you've had, and glad things are working for you now.

If you don't know the type of redirect, you can use a server header checker (search that via Google) and put in your home page. The tool will tell you the type of redirect. Or, you can share your URL here and we'll take a look at it for you.

And Lee Gilbert has a lot in common with John Hine, at least in the way they use some of the same exact phrases on their website. http://martialartsbusinessacademy.com/meet-john-hine-2/ =]

Agreed that it doesn't sound very legit at all, and I don't think you're being too harsh. I found the above when I started taking random phrases from the website and seeing if they were copied elsewhere on the web.

For anyone interested, here are the TAGFEE bracelets that Dr. Pete had made:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150291508411246&set=a.293920196245.153433.8489236245

Actually, Google has not used the meta keywords tag in years, and Bing generally doesn't use it in a favorable manner.

I'm asking our expert on local search to step in and offer some advice on this question.

David is spot-on here. You don't need to add any code, but Moz Analytics does work best if you connect it to your existing Google Analytics account.

You should be able to see the referring URL for the 404 pages in your GWT account. If someone links to you and does a typo on the end of the URL, or puts your URL in parenthesis and the final ) gets hyperlinked, that can cause a 404.