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Two parts of their pdf at http://artificialintelligenceseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/AI-Product-overview-2.pdf raised my eyebrows.

For example - if 70% of your customer base is predominately Spanish speaking, Artificial Intelligence SEO will learn and understand that your potential customers looking for Mexican Restaurante are actually looking for Mexican Restaurant, and return to the search engine Mexican Restaurante making it an ideal match and creating a potential customer.

In order to better serve our customers and allow them to maintain their relationships with their long standing web designers, Artificial Intelligence SEO has developed the ability to “clone” a site which creates an aesthetic copy of the home page design and then automatically redirects the customer to the original site. This allows us to serve virtually every customer with no security risk to them, and allows us to protect our software by keeping it centrally located strictly within our server.

A more technical person can add better comments, but looks like they're making a copy of your website and changing things at will and presenting that to the search engine. It raises warning bells in my mind, and I look forward to someone being able to add more specific comments about why this is likely a bad idea.

Dr. Pete also wrote a post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that helps explain things.

Dr. Pete also wrote about this warning at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many.

Yes! If you go to the How To tab at http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/fresh-web-explorer, you'll see a list of the operators you can use and explanations of how to use them. Hope this helps!

Keri

Use relative paths, and you lose all link juice when someone scrapes your content and reposts it.

Looks like they're being real selective at this early stage. http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/05/comparison-ads-now-part-of-new-google.html "At this time, AdWords Comparison Ads remains available only to a limited number of advertisers. Over time, we hope to increase the availability of Comparison Ads to additional advertisers. You can find more information about AdWords Comparison Ads in our Help Center."

I can't find anything more specific than that. Barry at Search Engine Roundtable keeps a close eye on things like this, and would be one to blog about it when it's opened up for more people.

One idea off the top of my head is to look for mentions of your brand or URL where there are not links, and ask them to link. I'd also read through the link building posts from SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4 and get some ideas from there.

Am I understanding you correctly in that 90% of your content is automatically generated? Is there any value in the content for the users, or is this strictly for the search engines?

We do check for duplication within your site. For duplication across sites, there are services like Copyscape out there that I've heard do a good job of it.

There's quite a bit of programing involved in having a machine judge the quality of content, and it's not quite the focus that we're going for at Moz right now. I am interested to hear what other solutions people have found for these questions, as you might find some additional resources with other responses.

I haven't found any list that's newer than a year old in the brief search I did. I did find these comprehensive user agent lists at http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/ and http://www.user-agents.org/.

Are you more interested in every variation of bot there is, or more after the top 20 bots?

Remember, the moderators are watching (and laughing).

When Roger crawls, he looks for similarity in code as well as the content a user sees. If you have an ecommerce site that sells apples and oranges, but only has two sentences describing each, and 95% of the code between the two pages is the same, Roger's going to say those pages look alike to him, even if they look different to a user.

I asked the Q&A associates their opinion, and several people also responded that a 503 would be the way to go.

With Moz, you're not going to be able to press a button and have us give you a list of 100 perfect sites where you can add your link. However, what we can offer you is education and tools to help you find places that are appropriate to contact for a potential link.

For education, we have the Beginner's Guide to SEO linkbuilding section at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Open Site Explorer is a great tool for finding the links your competitors may have, and for giving you metrics about the strength of those pages and of the domain. Fresh Web Explorer is a good way to find mentions of your brand or of your product, and then perhaps contact those people, thanking them for the mention, or asking them to link to you.

You might also consider writing the redirect so that you don't have any extensions (see the SEOmoz URL for an example). That way, whenever you next change technologies, your URL will still stay the same.

I looked at the examples used in their blog post about the 12-pack sitelinks, and those examples are now only showing six results. With half a dozen queries on brand names, I couldn't find a single instance of a 12-pack result.

You can do an on-demand crawl test of up to 3000 URLs at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test, which might help.

Can you give us some more details about the shutdown (the reasons, why it needs to be so long, etc)? We can help you a bit better if we know more information.

When we switched from SEOmoz.org to moz.com, we were only down for half an hour, if that. If this is about upgrading, is there a testing server that you can use to get the website rebuilt and tested on the testing/staging server before you make it live? We used multiple staging servers to test out the site and did lots of checks so that we had minimal downtime when it came time to move the site.

Branded reports are available right now, and can be set up via campaign settings. Sorry for the confusion! We'll be updating the appropriate pages this week.

If the vanity URL is a brand new domain with no content, there shouldn't be any SEO value passed from the keywords in the URL in the scenario you describe.

You might want to read what Outspoken Media has on reputation management at http://outspokenmedia.com/reputation-management/. They're good people over there with a lot of helpful resources.

Specifically in this post, Rand says "Because this update is much smaller in total URL size (~50% of the prior, 165 billion URL index), your link count totals will likely be much smaller, even if you've grown your link building efforts."

It's not you, it's us, as part of the balance between deeper indexes and faster indexes.

Could you include your URL? That could help us out.

I've had some filters block access to strikemodels.com presumably because of the "models" in the URL (it's actually model warships), but haven't had a problem with Google filtering it out.

Download the CSV report and take a look at the URLs to see if they offer a clue. It could be that suddenly there's new pagination or session IDs that are being indexed.

Not a direct answer to your question, but I personally use and like the Redirect plugin for Wordpress. Have you tried something like that? I'm not an htaccess expert, so can't help you out otherwise.

Hi Steven,

Can you attach a screenshot and highlight the part you are interested in? Are you speaking of the sitelinks perhaps?

You've got the right approach there. We do our best to look at the web like Google does, but we don't have quite the resources they do. We do have to make tradeoffs between getting an index out in a more timely manner and getting one out that has a lot of data. The bigger we go, the more problems we run in to. This last index was about half the size of the previous index, which would account for much of that drop. So sorry to scare you!

I enabled safe search, then did a site:blackcupid.com search on Google. There are a lot of pages that show up as indexed, though I didn't see the home page right off. If I search for Black Cupid, I do see pages from that domain, but not the home page.

I took a snippet from the help page at http://www.blackcupid.com/help/helpcategory.cfm and searched for it in Google, with safe search on. Google is showing dozens of results from similar sites, such as Brazil Cupid and Japan Cupid (then I went to the home page and saw that all of those sites are indeed related).

How are the other sites performing? Do they have the same problem? Have you always had this problem, or is it new?

Any messages from Google in GWT?

We also have a great Getting Started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started that should help!

My mistake, it's the Redirection plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/), not Redirect. I use it on my site, and use it to redirect incoming links from another domain that's blanket 301ing to my site, and it was never on wordpress. There's an easy way to look at the 404s to your site and set up a redirect from the 404 page (handy if someone did a typo on a URL to you, accidentally added a period to the hyperlink, etc.)

You're seeing Google Instant Previews. If you click again on those two right arrows by the link, you'll be able to toggle it off. Likely, you've been browsing with it disabled and clicked at just the right place to turn it on. You should be able to see that for many sites. It's something Google is doing, not just something Northface is doing. Check out the links in my other answer for some more information.

It does look like we're having some troubles. The best way to report a problem with the app is to contact the help desk rather than Q&A. If you could go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and click the big red "contact our help team" button at the top right, you'll be taken to a screen where you can let us know that you're having a problem. That'll help us to be able to track it down, and contact you when we have a resolution. Thanks so much!

And here's the place to ask that you site be reconsidered:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/contact/safe_search

The crawl test will show the results in a CSV file, but not update on your dashboard. It is a way to spot-check and see if the changes have been made.

When you go to your crawl diagnostics page, it will tell you the date of the last crawl. We crawl on the same day each week.

Don't forget to think about maintenance friendly and user friendly. It doesn't matter if you have the best SEO out there if people come to your site and the shopping cart software is so confusing they never order, or if the backend doesn't suit your needs.

I use Foxycart with Wordpress and the Thesis theme, and have outgrown it a bit but don't have the time to do an overhaul right now. For me, shipping is a big deal (an order can include a three foot long piece of balsa wood and 20 pounds of ball bearings in the same order). What may work for one person may not work for another, depending on their needs.

Can you give us a little information about how many products you have, and if you would like any advice about other features or just SEO?

Here's a good FAQ from Google about Instant Preview http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews.

They're showing up for your site as well. I searched for [freight monster] in Google and when I hovered over the links I saw the instant preview.

If you download the CSV report, the source page will be listed there.

Can you share some of the information that led you to that conclusion?

Hi, and welcome to Moz! Here are some of the resources we have that can help, and some answers to your questions.

Our help hub is at http://moz.com/help, and the getting started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started is a great place to start.

We offer a series of onboarding emails to help with your site. In the first couple of days after you sign up for Pro, you should receive a message with several tips for improving your site with Moz Analytics.

Here's some background about why we don't have a help desk phone number anymore: http://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/phone-support. As a side note, I've been in the help desk area when we did take phone calls, and there would often be phone calls that would last half an hour while we determined that what the caller was looking for was an SEO services company, and we wouldn't be able to help them, but it took considerable time away from valid help desk tickets.

For billing and account questions, we do have live chat available from that section of your profile.

We do know it's complex, and we're trying to help out new users by adding more getting started information. Thanks so much for your feedback!

From a user's perspective, be sure to look at how the site will show up on a mobile device. Here's a great post from The Oatmeal about what users want vs what they get from a restaurant website in general. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

A couple of things to keep in mind that no everyone who searches on a word (especially a broad single-word query) will actually click a result. They may look at the result and realize that they need to narrow it down, and not click on anything.

It's really hard to tell search intent from a one-word query like gold. Is it a fifth grader who is searching for a classroom assignment about gold? Is someone wanting to know about gold so they can buy gold jewelry? Do they want to know the current price of gold? Are they interested in investing in gold?

Open Site Explorer does not report page rank. PA is Page Authority, is that what you're asking about?

Only the title was tweaked, making it apparent that there was no physical attack.

That information will show up on the next Open Site Explorer index update, if the competitors weren't added right at the very creation of the campaign. Our next index is update is scheduled for August 28th. Alternatively, you can re-create the campaign and enter your competitors at the setup, and we'll get that information from the current index.

Hi Michael,

Let us know if you have questions about how to implement this. You will want to chose one version of your site, either www or non-www, and stick with that. Using Open Site Explorer to see whether www or non-www has the most backlinks can help with this decision.

Usually you do use an htaccess file to set this up, but sometimes you're on IIS or you don't have access to that file and need to work around it. If this is your case, let us know and we'll give you some help.

Google wrote a post about this at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/find-out-what-people-are-searching-for.html.

I believe we had a couple of blips earlier with our crawler. Your best bet for support is to go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the red "contact our help team" button -- the help team will get back to you on Monday and help you work out what's going on and find a fix.

MozCast doesn't use Domain Authority in its calculation.

Hi Chris,

If it's a product-related question, you can often get your question answered faster in Q&A than in our help desk. If there's a billing question, or question that involves a URL you'd prefer not to share, out help desk is available at https://moz.com/help/contact or by email at help@moz.com.

The Getting Started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started that Lesley mentioned is also a great resource for getting your feet wet with Moz.

Using GWT is easy and a great help, but it doesn't affect the site itself when people come to the site from something other than Google, nor does it help the other search engines.