Hi Jennifer,
This is an older question, and it's probably best in this case to start a new thread with your question so it gets a little more visibility. Thanks!
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Hi Jennifer,
This is an older question, and it's probably best in this case to start a new thread with your question so it gets a little more visibility. Thanks!
The Page and Domain authority calculations are updated when Linkscape is update. Usually that's on a monthly basis, but it's been two months since the last update. The next update will be later this week, and you should see some metrics change then.
Your pageviews might also be different now too. This happened to me, when I had a WP site and I had both a plugin for Google Analytics and had put the GA code in manually. I had real low bounce rates, and twice the pageviews I should have.
Be sure to make an annotation in GA to explain what happened, so someone else looking at the account knows, or two years from now it can remind you of what happened.
If you download the CSV, there will be a column in there showing you the referring URL. We're working on making the language a bit more clear.
I'd also check out Meathead Movers at http://www.meatheadmovers.com/. I can't speak for all of their tactics, but I know one thing they do is create local content for many of their areas. For example, the Santa Maria page (which is my hometown) http://www.meatheadmovers.com/movers/santa-maria.aspx includes a video they shot about Santa Maria style BBQ, information about the city in their own words, resources, etc.
They sponsor local athletics, especially at Cal Poly, and also work with the battered women's shelters to help move women out of bad situations for free. I don't know if they get any links from this, but it's something that they could go after that would be very natural.
I'm not affiliated with them, beyond using them as a case study for a blog post and talk about negative keywords earlier this year, and having read about them in the local paper when I still lived in the area.
We're deploying a fix for this today. Thanks for your patience everyone!
Have you checked out the link building section of the SEOmoz blog at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4? The ten best link building places for your site are the ones that matter to your site. What's going to do well for your new website (in whatever niche it is) is going to be different than what would do well for my site about model battleships that shoot and sink each other. For me, a link from Geek Dad or ThinkGeek would be golden. If your site is a B2B site for city streetlamps, those links are going to do nothing for you.
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Are you logged into Google? Are you using an incognito window? Have you tried the search on other computers? I can get different results for rankings just by using different browsers, because sometimes I'll be logged into Google on one browser, and not the other, and have the history enabled on a third even though I'm not logged in.
Are you checking from the US or a US proxy?
If you search for Angela Paul backlinks you'll find info about a backlink building service. It's not usually of the type often recommended on the SEOmoz forums, but a search will tell you a little more about it.
Given that you're new to everything, I'd suggest reading through the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo, especially the sections on links, and read blog posts here as well. It'll help give you an idea of what works and what are cheap shortcuts that may bite you.
You're not alone. Several people reported this in Google forums, too. Barry Schwartz has a post about it at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-structured-data-items-drop-18694.html
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
If you're looking on forums for opinions, you'll likely find that the opinions vary depending on the forum and the type of people that frequent each forum. I don't use Warrior Forum myself, but the people that go to that forum generally have a different viewpoint than the people who go to the SEOmoz forum. Around SEOmoz, some of those types of link building tactics might get you the same type of response that a sales rep for Omaha Steaks might get at a vegan supermarket.
I looked at the English version of this site. The writing is poor quality, and keyword stuffed. As mentioned earlier, this site is NSFW, and also likely filtered out when people are using safe search or other types of filters. I did see that your site is indexed in Google when I did a site: command.
Hi Nextman,
You actually found a bug in Open Site Explorer that we are in the process of fixing. Binary files are mistakenly being counted as links. It's a known problem and is already being reduced, but you'll still see some of these for the next couple of months. Here's what Rand has to say about it as part of his larger post about the Linkscape Update.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/november-2011-linkscape-update
As I noted in the September index update, we have had some serious issues when crawling deeper on large domains and encountering binary files that contain code our crawler recognizes and treats as a link. To help stop this problem, we applied a black list to this index to stop a large number of the files folks had reported to us (our estimate is that ~40% of binary files are now removed). However, we know there's still more than a few of these in the database of links so we'll continue cranking away on solutions to remove them all. Our hope is to have them reduced in the next index (November) and nearly eliminated by the December index. If you're ever curious about the next/previous updates, you can always see data for them on our Linkscape calendar.
Our guide to linkbuilding at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links can also be of help.
And there's a YouMoz explaining how to do this in detail at http://moz.com/blog/how-to-combine-screaming-frog-data-with-google-analytics-data.
Here's a post from the help desk with a couple of reasons for that. http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page. If that doesn't take care of the problem for you, email help@seomoz.org and they'll work with you on getting the rest of the site crawled.
I'm looking at a site:dozoco.com search in Google and all the URLs I see look like http://dozoco.com/#!/store/us-pets. The #! may be the cause of the problem; I'm not exactly sure how Roger deals with crawling that.
This is probably one to email to the help desk staff at help@seomoz.org and ask them directly. So sorry you're seeing problems!
It really depends on the quality and the relevance of the site. If you sell politically-themed merchandise and have a chance to guest blog as often as you want on the Huffington Post, go and take it. If you sell bathing suits and get a chance to blog on a site about raising pet turtles, your efforts would be better spent elsewhere.
I'm so sorry about the frustration you're having. It's not quite 5:00 in the morning Seattle time, so it may be a few more hours before you can get a more complete response. I couldn't sleep and happened to be checking email and saw these replies. What I can offer you right now is Rand's post about this latest update at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/november-2011-linkscape-update. He says the following about the binary file issue:
As I noted in the September index update, we have had some serious issues when crawling deeper on large domains and encountering binary files that contain code our crawler recognizes and treats as a link. To help stop this problem, we applied a black list to this index to stop a large number of the files folks had reported to us (our estimate is that ~40% of binary files are now removed). However, we know there's still more than a few of these in the database of links so we'll continue cranking away on solutions to remove them all. Our hope is to have them reduced in the next index (November) and nearly eliminated by the December index. If you're ever curious about the next/previous updates, you can always see data for them on our Linkscape calendar.
My guess is the reason people do it is because it's easy and they think it will do them some good.
I understand wanting to get links. But you also don't want to wish you could remove those links two months down the road. For example, you'll see sites and gigs that advertise getting a bunch of .edu links, which may initially sound wonderful, but may actually end up looking like https://drupalsites.purchase.edu/journalism/index.php?q=node/52. No human is going to read that and buy from you, and a search engine isn't going to give your site any positive value form that type of link.
Here are a bunch of posts in the Link Building section of the SEOmoz blog about how some of the experts go about getting links. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/link-building
You can also check out the Beginner's Guide to SEO section on links at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
Hi Aran,
First, Don't Panic! You're actually seeing a bug in Linkscape/OSE that we're working on eliminating. What's happening is that as we make deeper crawls, the crawler is finding more downloadable files and chocking on them, and wrongly categorizing them as links. One of the Linkscape engineers has a good explanation over on this thread at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains.
Hope this helps, and so sorry for the confusion.
Thanks for pointing this out! A lot of unhappy people on the thread, but among SEOs that have retweeted the announcement on Twitter, there seems to be a positive reaction that this will help reduce the incentive to create low-quality content.
OpenSiteExplorer crawls a portion of the web, then processes what it crawls, then updates on about a monthly basis. It can be up to two months for your links to show, and sometimes not all of the links show. The next update is on February 29th.
OSE won't show you every link you have, but neither does Google. OSE does offer you a lot of valuable metrics and insights into links and domains that Google does not.
That could actually exclude a number of good blogs. YouMoz from SEOmoz doesn't meet a couple of your criteria -- we require a free account, and we've been around for several years now.
I'm not seeing anything in here about the quality of the blog, if the guest posts are all related to the theme of the blog or if anything on any subject is accepted, if it's related to your industry, what type of content you have to offer, and so on.
Hi Jassy,
Could you also send an email to help@seomoz.org so this can be logged with the help desk? That will get a help desk person to respond to you, and also help us with any trends that might be going on.
Thanks!
What I'm trying to say is that your criteria may exclude blogs in your industry that are high quality with requirements about not needing to register. Everything on YouMoz is about online marketing, so it wouldn't be a place to post about furnace filters.
I think you're missing requirements about the topic of the blog, making sure that the post is a good fit for the blog, making sure existing posts on the blog are high quality, and making sure that the guest post content that you provide is high quality with proper grammar, spelling, references, fact-checking, and formatting.
Hi Kynduvme, I'll take a stab at this, and let others add their comment as well.
Branded keywords are generally those of your brand, such as your company name or a product name. For example, my husband and I run a business called Strike Models where we sell model warships that shoot and sink each other. For us, "Strike Models" is a branded search. If I see that in my analytics, I know that someone is searching for me because they have heard of our company.
If I see "model ship plans" or "rc battleships", that's not a branded search. I'm appearing for some of my keywords, and the people may not have heard of my particular brand before. It's usually easier to rank for your branded terms, and thus helps separate that out from your other keywords.
Does that help?
edit: here's the post we made when branded keywords were introduced:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/introducing-branded-keyword-rules-and-metrics
Hi Juan,
Have you looked through the link building section in the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links? There is a lot of good information there.
There is no easy solution where you download a piece of software and increase your rank. You may see rankings increase in the short term, but then likely will need to spend a considerable amount of time removing these links after getting a notice from Google about unnatural links.
Also, review Google's guidelines about content. Under Link schemes, they discuss unnatural links that violate the guidelines (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356). These links include:
Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature, for example:
_Thanks, that’s great info!
Google also frowns on user-generated spam, including "Spammy posts on forum threads" and "Comment spam on blogs" (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2721437&topic=2371375&ctx=topic)
We're having an issue with LInkscape right now, which OSE (and other tools) uses. We're working on it right now. Keep an eye on the SEOmoz twitter account (@seomoz) for updates.
spyonweb.com will also look for the same Google Adsense and Google Analytics codes/accounts across sites.
Hi Shaun,
Since you put this in the category of SEOmoz tools, I'm assuming you want an SEOmoz crawl. We do offer a custom crawl that will do up to 3000 pages on demand, with results in a couple of days (or hours, depending on the size of your site). Check it out at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test.
If you go too cheap, you're going to get content that could do you more harm than good. I've had people in Q&A ask why a site wasn't ranking, and I went to look, and there was content like "think before you beverage" instead of "think before you drink".
We are all in the same situation right now. The Linkscape update has been delayed, which has affected teh competitive link analysis. We wrote a blog post on it at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained.
That assumes that you can get a link to your website from a guest post on Moz.
April 10th! Our calendar is at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
Go for sites that have readers who are interested in your subject area. YouMoz is a great place for a case study about your marketing efforts, but submitting a post about how to close you swimming pool for the winter and what chemicals to use will get your submission deleted and your account banned -- even if it's a great post that gives information that's really helpful and has relevant links. You're looking for a place where your content is a good match for the site.
We have had a known issue with the CSV export that we're working on resolving. I'll have the help desk chime in here when they get in in the morning. So sorry about the troubles!
There's a great set of answers for a very similar question at http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-get-links-for-boring-niches-industries.
You may want to step back and remember that search engines do not buy from you, they don't fill out your forms, sign up for your newsletters, etc. Real people are the ones who will be visiting your website. Do those 16 pages answer their questions? Do they convince readers to take a desired action?
Before you start doing everything for search engines, make sure that your site is set up for people. After that, as Eblan suggested, the Beginner's Guide to SEO is a good resource (as well as the other suggestions).
If you sat down for lunch with someone from a search engine and they looked at the link, would you be comfortable or squirming?
Hi Chris and everyone else,
Thanks for the comments. I noticed some slow response times yesterday. Right now things seem fine from where I am, but I'll drop a note to the developers and have them take a closer look at things and see if we can make sure the slow response times don't happen again.
Thanks!
Keri
This is a very broad question, and difficult to answer in a forum such as this one. What would work better is if you are able to give your website and a couple of the keywords you are targeting, some of your strategy, and ask for some specific feedback.
Hey everyone,
I wanted to highlight today's blog post in case you missed it. In short, we're using a different algorithm to detect duplicate pages. http://moz.com/blog/visualizing-duplicate-web-pages
If you see a change in your crawl results and you haven't done anything, this is probably why. Here's more information taken directly from the post:
1. Fewer duplicate page errors: a general decrease in the number of reported duplicate page errors. However, it bears pointing out that:
2. Speed, speed, speed: The simhash heuristic detects duplicates and near-duplicates approximately 30 times faster than the legacy fingerprints code. This means that soon, no crawl will spend more than a day working its way through post-crawl processing, which will facilitate significantly faster delivery of results for large crawls.
I just answered this question where you asked it on another thread. In brief, sharing content does not mean copying and pasting the content, it means sharing a link or otherwise telling people about the source of the content.
Hi Peter,
SEOmoz and Google use different crawlers. We're not quite the size of Google, and the server farm we have doesn't quite match theirs either. Simply put, we don't crawl as many URLs as Google, so we won't show as many links.
We DO try to crawl the higher-value links, and we show links for more than just the sites you have verified in Google Webmaster Tools. We also have some nifty metrics along with our links that you won't find at Google.
Things won't ever match up, but looking at the variety of sources for link data will help you get a better idea of the big picture.
EGOL makes good points here. I've seen the opposite happen, too. An SEO firm links to the Wikipedia definition of website, and I can only assume it's meant to show the search engines that they link to authoritative sites. However, it really doesn't fit in the context of the site, and makes things appear very odd.