Here's an explanation from an SEOmoz staff member about what that notice means and when you might want to do something and when to not worry:
Best posts made by KeriMorgret
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RE: Too many on-page links
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RE: Google Website Ranking Problem
I'd make sure the site is verified in Google Webmaster Tools, and see if there are suggestions there about the site, or notices of anything wrong. Run it through the crawl diagnostics in Moz and see what we might pick up. Take a couple of phrases from your site, put them in Google, and make sure that it's original content and not on several other sites, or a dev site that was accidentally left up. Do a site:yoursite.com in Google to see what is indexed already.
Those are just my first few thoughts of things to look at.
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Reminder: PRIVATE Q&A going away
Hello everyone,
Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to ask a private question before we shut down private Q&A (see the full announcement at http://www.seomoz.org/q/private-question-shutdown).
We encourage you to submit your private question before 12:00 Pacific Daylight Time today (so in the next two hours). After that, you will no longer be able to ask new private questions, but any questions that have been asked will be answered over the next few days.
ONLY private Q&A is shutting down. Public Q&A is here to stay! You'll be seeing more activity in public Q&A from associates as they answer questions and endorse answers, and more feature development in public QA during the year.
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RE: We're back. THANK YOU SEOMoz!
Gina, thank YOU for letting us know, and a big thanks to everyone in the community as well. Posts like this are great to see, especially on a Monday morning. I'm glad that Q&A has made such a difference for your company.
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RE: Massive links to TIER
So, on the off chance this isn't just a shill question/response, and for the benefit of others reading the answers, I'll explain what I meant a little more.
Using an automated tool to create a bunch of links is not natural, and goes against search engine guidelines. In addition, you're likely to leave some footprints to the engines that will identify your blog network, and could result in getting the whole network slapped.
If you were at a conference and met with a search engine rep, would you be comfortable explaining these links when asking about your site?
Is this your own site, or a client site? If it's a client site, are they aware of any potential risks this type of linking brings to the site?
There are other forum sites that are better for a discussion of GSA versus ScrapeBox. The Moz Q&A area isn't a site where you're likely to get a lot of positive responses on this type of question.
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RE: How often do you update Link Analysis tool?
Hi Justin,
SEOmoz aims to update the API and Linkscape every month. The most recent update has had a two-week delay, and is now due out on Wednesday, July 20th. The update calendar is available at http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule.
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RE: Finding Related Keywords and/or Phrases
What do people calling the business ask for? The way potential customers describe things can help you figure out keywords, too.
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RE: Seomoz Customer Service does anyone feel let down
Hi Diane,
I checked with the help desk, and they looked at the questions associated with your profile email. There was a reply from the help team to your most recent question, but maybe you didn't receive that? If you can give us the ticket number you got with your initial request, we can look that up and get back to you. The email from the help desk would have zendesk in the domain, which might help with a search to see if that email got filtered somehow.
For questions, we did have a problem for about two days where people could submit both private and public questions and they wouldn't be displayed, even to staff. This happened at the same time as the new OpenSiteExplorer was released and MozCon started, so it took a little longer than usual to reply. I do see a question from two days ago that had a response written earlier this morning. If this is not the question you're referring to, please send me a private message and I'll investigate further. Private questions can take a few days for a response, and combined with the Q&A being down stuff did get a little slower. We're so sorry about that, and Associates are going to be working this weekend to help clear up the backlog.
Keri Morgret
SEOmoz Associate
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RE: How long for authority to transfer form an old page to a new page via a 301 redirect? (& Moz PA score update?)
Moz Page Authority is a separate metric. Sadly, we have no pipeline from Google where they tell us exactly what they think of a site. We update our metrics about every month, so it may take a couple of months to see authority changed to a new page in Moz.
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RE: Local SEO Rankings Report Tools (based on several locations)?
Thanks for clarifying things! It can look a bit odd to come to a two-year-old question on the day you join and have a link to a product with no context.
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RE: Whether or not to remove a link from a website with high spam score on Open Site Explorer
I was searching on freedownloadhub linkexchange and happened across this thread. It look like the site has taken down all of the link exchange pages. They still return a 200 (found) response code, but have the following text:
Link Exchange Update
Due to changes in Google's ranking rules this service has become outdated. Due to a number of requests to de-list URLs, we have decided to end this service.
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RE: How to start a new SEOmoz crawl immediately?
You can do up to two custom crawls a day on any subdomain if you'd like to force a crawl, though they can take a couple of days to finish. Here's the URL that you're looking for. http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
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RE: How is it possible to create unique content (never blogged or discussed before) content on common topics? Is it practically possible?
What questions do your customers or potential leads have? Answer these questions. They're obviously not already finding the content, and it's content that they want.
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RE: HELP, My site have more than 40k visits by day and the server is down, I do not want all this visits...
Have your images been optimized for the web? Perhaps with the smush.it plugin? Making sure that if it's a fairly simple image it's only taking up 20k and not 100k. Perhaps there are images on the page getting all the traffic that make for a nice header, but you could remove or replace with an image that's a smaller file size? Are there widgets loading facebook and twitter information that could be temporarily disabled?
The links I sent also have some suggestions for situations like this.
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RE: Mozcon Sold out
I'm glad you'll be joining us dmac!
Ryan, I've now gotten a couple of weird looks here in the library as I giggled at my computer.
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RE: Huge in crease in on page errors
Hmmm...my first thought is that if it's sudden duplicate content and doubling of errors is that perhaps Roger found both the www and non-www versions of the site?
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RE: How does google decide what city a blog belongs to?
I don't know of such a tool, but one thing to try would be to set your location in Google to the city you want to target, and see if that site (blog in question) ranks when your city is set to that location.
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RE: Is there a way to see all SEOMoz questions, comments, posts, responses that I've given a "thumbs up" to?
Hi Tait,
There's not a way to see that right now, but that is an interesting suggestion. I'll pass it along to the team and see if we can add a "threads I want to watch" type feature to the queue.
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RE: Style Attribute of Anchor Text
If I'm reading this correctly, you're wanting a link to show to the search engines but you don't want your visitors to easily see it
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RE: How to rank in Local Google Without physical address and phone number?
No, for two different reasons.
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You are not local to New York City.
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Web design is not considered a local business by Google, and has not been for several years. Even if you were in New York City, you wouldn't be able to show up in local for web design.
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RE: MozCon Seattle 2011
I stayed at the Mayflower Park Hotel for SMX Advanced for $180 a night plus tax, and had a great stay. http://www.mayflowerpark.com/
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RE: Huge in crease in on page errors
If you give him a 301 redirect it should help him, and the search engines, which is the most important part.
If you can touch base with your IT team and see if they changed something and ask them to change it back, that'd be a good place to start. If you can share your URL here, we can look at it and help direct you to the easiest way to fix things (if it is the www and non-www problem), or help identify the source of the problem.
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RE: Does Anyone Have Resources for Infographs
Check out BlueGlass. They often write about infographics on their blog (this post http://www.blueglass.com/blog/avoid-ordinary-infographics-with-these-7-steps/ is from yesterday), and they also offer infographic services (I can't personally vouch for them, but did see information about it on their home page).
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RE: Have been pro member for 1 month+ now, but 0 on page report
Ryan is correct. The help desk staff is busy responding to questions from the help desk. It's a small percentage of the questions in Q&A that are related to the SEOmoz software, so it makes less sense for them to spend time over here instead of in the help desk.
Do send a request to the help desk (as easy as emailing help@seomoz.org) and if you want you can tell us where what they've said.
Thanks so much!
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RE: Style Attribute of Anchor Text
You can hyperlink the artwork itself back to the source site.
Again, if you're linking just for SEO purposes, and you're trying to hide links from the search engines, it's not the best course of action, and goes against multiple search engine guidelines.
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RE: Does building multiple websites hurt you seo wise? Good or bad strategy?
I'd focus all of your efforts on one site, and make that site be the authority for your particular field. You'll have only one site to maintain, one site that gets authority from people linking to your content, one business name to maintain, etc.
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RE: ...Link-Building...Y U NO WORK!?
Have you explored some of the resources SEOmoz has regarding link building? They might also provide you some advice. Check out the following:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/the-professional-guide-to-link-building-2011
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
and the link building category of the blog at
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RE: Huge in crease in on page errors
Hi Pete,
This is going to need a bit more digging than I can do from where I sit. I'm going to ask a colleague of mine to come in and lend you a hand. Thanks for your patience!
Keri
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RE: How to get video content indexed (incl. example)?
For the hosting question, see Phil Nottingham's post on SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo.
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RE: Traffic Data Lag
Hi everyone,
Since there are multiple people with this question, I've asked the help desk to come over here and let you know what's up (as I'm not sure myself). So sorry you're having problems.
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RE: Blocking non-U.S. traffic to fight referral spam?
I'll let people with more accounts chime in on the management. I'm using this on just a couple of accounts right now, and keep an eye on my refers to see if anything new pops up.
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RE: Does building multiple websites hurt you seo wise? Good or bad strategy?
Also, be sure to read Craigslist's terms and conditions for frequency of posting, and where you can post pets. If people think you are a puppy mill, you're likely to have your ads quickly flagged.
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RE: Anyone attending SXSW Interactive? Meetups?
This is a fine place to post this question. I know at least two Moz employees (Joanna and Andrew) will be at SXSW, though I don't know their schedules. You might also try asking on Twitter!
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RE: We have a situation with the domain www.curadebt.com where 90% of the links are no follow.
Hi Eric,
As others have said, you don't want spun content. Spun articles and high quality do NOT go together. You end up with articles about alcoholism that read "think before you beverage".
Look at some more of the Open Site Explorer metrics than just the home page. When you scroll down to the other two metrics on that page, you'll actually see followed links at 98%, but that counts external and internal links. For the entire domain, OSE sees 51k followed external links, 67k total external links, and over 5 million total links.
OSE is also showing 1,098 linking C blocks for 67,128 links.
Looks like a lot of your links are internal, with pages like this http://www.curadebt.com/settlements/letter147.asp#.T7rB98WuCIw. Tons of pages like this, and I don't think they add too much value to the user.
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RE: Campaign Not Crawling
Hi Don,
So sorry to hear about the problems. Check out this help topic addressing what to do when only one page is crawled. If that doesn't solve your problem, send an email to help@seomoz.org
http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page
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RE: Rich Snippets Displayed in SERPs?
Thanks for the report back. It's always helpful to have data points about how long it takes for this type of thing to come through.
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RE: Has anyone had any success buying a local domain website, getting it on first page and then selling it to a local business? I have found some good domains that this might work for but I am wondering if anybody has tried this before.
Thanks to David, Patrick, and EGOL for their great answers. You all help make Q&A such a great place!
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RE: Follwer wonk is inacurate
Do you mean Fresh Web Explorer at http://freshwebexplorer.moz.com/?
If you can give a couple of examples of your terms and the resulting pages, we can troubleshoot what's going on. Send me a PM if you're not comfortable with putting it in the general Q&A forum.
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RE: Web 2.0 seo
Is that something you would feel comfortable explaining to a Google engineer? Also, if search engines did not exist, would you still want to do it?
The search engines want to see content created for users, not for trying to get rankings. Spinning articles doesn't do anyone any good, and they can make the brand look very silly.
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RE: How do you delete a campaign
When you're in your campaign, go to Edit Campaign then look at the very bottom of the page. There's an option there to delete your campaign.
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Preparing a DotNetNuke Active Forums site for SEO push
I'm in the process of buying and running an existing forum that is running on DotNetNuke 5.2.0 and Active Fours 4.1. As part of the transfer, I'm asking that the site be upgraded to the latest version of DNN and AF 4.3. AF 4.3 has SEO-friendly URLs instead of the current long, ugly default URLs, and I'm looking forward to implementing that feature.
My specific question is:
What would you do to prepare for this upgrade in terms of the content, especially related to the URL changes?
I've gone into Google Analytics and downloaded content by page title, exported the first 1000 results, and put those titles into Word and corrected spelling errors in the title so URLs will be based on correct spellings.
General background:
- The site is not currently monetized, and there will not be an initial focus on monetization and likely only smaller efforts (affiliate Amazon links in a resource section) in the future.
- The site is free for users.
- I'm fine with taking a hit in organic traffic in the short term. About 1/3 of the traffic is from search engines right now, and less than 30% of the visitors are new visits.
- The site is going to continue much the same as it has until now. Same moderators, same purpose, same skin, etc.
- I have access to GA, site is verified in GWT, need to verify in Bing, and I do have root access to the server.
- I've already started working on image file sizes, both of user-submitted images and site-related images like the header.
- Until now, I have no experience with DNN or AF or any of the extensions (and am appalled at the price and lack of features of some of those extensions, compared to what I'm used to for WordPress).
More general questions:
In terms of SEO, I'm intending to treat the upgrade of the forum with the friendly URLs as a re-launch. I'm wanting good URLs, put in a site map, fix non-www to www, etc. When I start making the changes and submitting the site map and generally drawing Google's attention, I want Google to like what it sees, and have as much optimized as possible when googlebot comes around. My goal is to draw more targeted visitors from search that are interested in the content in the site.
What other suggestions do you have for the site prep, both from being a forum in general and specifically on DNN/AF?
I'm not putting the URL out just yet, as we haven't announced to the users the change of ownership is taking place.
Thanks everyone!
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RE: Search Result Discrepancy: Keyword "Dresses" shows international sites in the search results of Google.co.in.
A point of clarification here related to the first part of your answer. Google does not use PA and DA, those are Moz metrics. They're not looking at the Moz metrics for a site when they use their algorithms.
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RE: How many updates google do ?
I don't believe there is a set schedule like you're looking for. Google tends to crawl active sites more often than inactive sites. For example, questions asked here in Q&A get indexed within just a few minutes of being posted. The rankings are calculated each time a query is run. There are several hundred algorithm changes a year, so things are always changing.
Toolbar Pagerank can go months without being updated, but Google's internal Pagerank calculation is updated constantly.
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RE: Follwer wonk is inacurate
Could it be that FollowerWonk is looking for just both of those words on the page, instead of as a phrase? Sorry for the delay in response, as I was out on vacation for a week.
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RE: Why does YouTube NOT appear in my backlinks?
Moz doesn't have quite the number of servers that Google does (or even Bing), so we are not able to crawl as deeply into as many sites. If we crawled all of a site like YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook, we wouldn't be able to crawl anything else at all. It's likely that your links just don't have enough authority at the moment to be picked up. The important part is that Google should know they are there.
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RE: How do I cancel?
Hi Matthew,
So sorry to hear that you want to cancel your Pro service. Gianluca and Sha both have good answers. Is there anything we could have done better to keep you as a member?
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RE: Newish site dropped out of rankings - is this normal?
On Monday Google announced they're taking the Panda update to English-language Google searchers worldwide, not just in the US, and that they've also made other updates that affect about 2% of US queries. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-quality-sites-algorithm-goes.html
New sites can fluctuate, usually getting an initial boost then settling out a bit. In your case, launching right before a couple of major algorithm changes may have made for even more fun.
Can you give us any details about your site? If not the URL, can you give us location of the site and type of site? Is it a forum? A blog? A small business? Original content? User reviews? etc.
Have you looked in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any messages or information for you there?