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Hi Alan,

Can you give us an update on how things are going? Do you have any more questions? Have you seen any changes recently?

The Google on/off tag is only good for their search appliance, which you use to run internal searches on your own site, and doesn't affect Google's main index.

Thomas, I think part of your answer got cut off or repeated. Could you review what you wrote and edit it a bit to make it more understandable? Thanks!

Are you asking about an existing site that's already in use? What could help then is doing a site audit. We have two Moz posts that have a lot of information about how to do an audit and uncover potential SEO flaws.

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-perform-the-worlds-greatest-seo-audit

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit

Or are you asking if a potential site/theme/template is SEO friendly?

Thomas,

I don't think all of these meet what the OP is asking for. Most of these sites are for prototyping or user testing, and not for examining an existing site for SEO.

Hi Thomas,

Have you been in this situation before? I see where Sucuri will help clean your website, but that's not what the OP is asking. Instead, the OP has already cleaned their site and needs it whitelisted by Facebook.

You may need to tweak the settings of your voice recognition software, or do an extra check on what you post. There were several typos in this response that added a bit of confusion to your response.

I think I figured out the question you had in mind, and changed the status. Having it as "answered" doesn't keep other people from responding to it, thankfully.

As a staff member, I can easily change it, if you give me the URL to the question. If an admin or associate answers the question, we have the option to mark the question as answered, which also might have happened, or if an answer is endorsed by staff, it's marked as answered.

It's not a 1:1 relationship. My site can have three backlinks from moz.com, but that only counts as one linking root domain (since the domain for each of those backlinks is moz.com). Does that help?

You'll want to verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools, so you can get notices from Google of possible penalties, and a lot of other information about your site. Bing also has some good webmaster tools, too.

Does Webmaster Tools have any notices from Google about your site, such as a penalty?

Federico, can you speak to the visitors you get from viralcontentbuzz? Do they have the same time on site as other visitors? How is their conversion rate? I've only had a small amount of experience with them, and I did see a difference in the analytics of the posts I've seen that used it.

I'd tailor the cover letter to the job being posted. I haven't hired anyone from odesk, but I do see responses to jobs that are obviously just forms and they haven't read the job posting at all.

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.

In case it is WordPress, here are a couple of posts about how to optimize the site for heavy traffic. Can you then go to your host and say that you've reduced the file sizes on images, are loading fewer items, etc. and then turn the website back on?

http://codex.wordpress.org/High_Traffic_Tips_For_WordPress

http://wpengine.com/2012/02/22/how-to-prepare-wordpress-for-an-onslaught-of-traffic/

http://speed.wpengine.com/ (for when the site is enabled)

Is your website on Wordpress or another CMS? If so, is there any caching plugin you can use? Can you strip out any extra images temporarily until your traffic dies down, to help reduce your bandwidth being used?

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.

Domain Authority is a metric that Moz uses, but is not a metric that any search engines use for ranking.

This won't work on YouMoz. We will remove links to your own company in the body of the post if they are not related to the post, and ask you to put them in your author bio area. These types of links really stand out to readers, and if the links are left in, readers comment about it and also downvote the post.

Actually, the OP will want to have both www and non-www verified at the same time in GWT.

You may also find this YouMoz about recovering from a penalty helpful: http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal

It'll help us if you say if you've gotten any notices in Google Webmaster Tools, if you've submitted a reconsideration request, removed any links, disavowed any links, etc.

Dr. Pete wrote up a good post about outbound links and the reason for that notice at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help you get started.

Thank you for my morning grin!

Also check out Rand's Whiteboard Friday (with transcript, to help with translation) at http://moz.com/blog/why-visual-assets-are-better-than-infographics-whiteboard-friday

He discusses why visual assets are better than infographics.

It's less accurate than what a teenager tells their parents is going to happen on prom night. It's not accurate at all, and Google has said this for years. Rand actually wrote about it four years ago at http://moz.com/blog/google-link-command-busting-the-myths.

We actually just put this in the navigation so it should be a bit easier to find now.

It's best to look at the terms of use of the site. Our terms say something to the effect you can republish, but we need credit. Sadly, many people ignore that, and try to make it look like they wrote the post.

The only people who would know exactly how it works technically would be the people at Google who work on that section of the algorithm. They don't tend to hang out in forums and give away the inner-workings of how things rank, and likely are under many NDAs so they couldn't say even if they wanted to.

We don't have access to AdWords data in an API format.

Do make sure you use the canonical URL in your links, however. You don't want to be linking to several different versions of the same URL.

Moz Analytics doesn't actually connect up with your Google AdWords or Bing Ads account, which is why you can't find those links.

Here are the most common reasons why only one page is crawled. If this doesn't answer it, send us a note at help@moz.com. Thanks!

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages-

Yes, the DA did drop by about two points beyond normal for this last index, and should be fixed in the next index.

Be aware of the TOU of various sites. For Yelp, you can't ask people to leave reviews for your business.

There's a free tool at http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ that will check up to 1500 words. It takes about half your content, chunks it up into 3-7 word phrases, and searches Google for the text. You paste the text in, it doesn't need to be live already. Quotation marks in the text will sometimes lead to false positives, so be aware of that.

You'll want to check the entire piece, even if you need to break it up into parts to check it, so that you can check for both outright duplicate content and for spun content. Sometimes there will be just one phrase in all of the text that is identical and not spun, then you'll see the result and see that you're looking at a reworded version of a post that's already live. I turn down many YouMoz ever week because of spun content.

Copyscape premium will also check pasted content for $0.05 per check USD. It's quite fast. I've only recently begun using it, so I can't speak as much to the accuracy, especially with spun content, but it is also a nice tool to have.

This is in the product support question, so the OP is actually referring to the Moz Rank Tracker (which is not run on their computer).

I'd check with Google's Terms of Service. You may be required by their TOS to have that on there.

I'm looking in our help desk system, and your account has been cancelled and your money refunded. You can follow up with us in your ticket if you have any questions (since the original poster is no longer a paying member, they can't add a response in Q&A).

Hello Lesley,

I read your post, and wanted to make sure you had seen our blog post about the Just Discovered Links at http://moz.com/blog/announcing-the-just-discovered-links-report. Tela makes a couple of important points in it:

"This index includes valuable links that may be high-quality and topically relevant to your site or specific URL but are new, and thus have a low Page Authority score. This means they may not be included in the Mozscape index until they have been established and earned their own links. With this new index, we expect to uncover high-quality links significantly faster than they would appear in Mozscape.

I want to clarify that we are not injecting URLs from the Just-Discovered Links report into our Mozscape index. We will be able to do this in the future, but we want to gather customer feedback and understand usage before connecting these two indexes. So for now, the indexes are completely separate."

I don't see comments enabled on your blog, so I am not able to make a note of this over there. Could you perhaps amend your post with this information?

Sorry for the delay in responding. The holidays caught up with me! I'm not sure why OSE would still include those links so long after the site was taken down. Could you email help@moz.com and give our help team the details, so we can investigate and see if there's a bug?

Thanks!

Welcome to Moz! Have you checked out http://moz.com/help/pro/on-page-reports? That can help answer some of your questions.

How We Generate Reports
The On-page summary automatically generates reports for any of your campaign keywords that rank in the top 50 of your primary search engine. The URL that it grades is the same URL that appears in the search results.

For instance, if you have 75 keywords ranking in the Top 50, you should have 75 On-Page Reports. This generation happens automatically within 24 hours of when your rankings are updated.

Also, don't forget that you can always manually generate reports for any URL and one of your keywords. Simply go to the Report Card tab in the On-Page section, and cut and paste or type a new URL into the URL drop box. Then select your keyword from the drop down and select "Grade My Optimization." After that, you can tell the Web App to start tracking that combination in the future, and you should start seeing weekly reports. I hope this helps!

We don't have an estimated time at the moment, per Megan's comment at http://moz.com/community/q/can-i-add-another-user-to-my-seomoz-pro-campaign#reply_09021. We'll keep everyone updated when we do have more information.

If you fixed a problem, such as duplicate content, that would mean that we're showing fewer errors and crawling fewer pages, since that problem is fixed. Might that be the case?

Why not have a page and directory structure called /video-statistics, and put the most current year there. When the next year's stats come, put the previous year on its own page and link to it.That way, you're building links consistently to the most current version of the page.

For an HTML sitemap, you don't necessarily need to include every single page. One example that Ryan Kent often brings up in these conversations is Verizon Wireless's html site map at http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp. It lists their major categories, you can find where you're going, but it doesn't list every single page on their site.

I have no stats to share about their site, but it is a useful site map if you're browsing the site and not sure where to go for something.

I don't have the knowledge to address the rest of your questions, but I do want to let you know there's a bit of an unnatural drop in DA for some sites this index, and it will be fixed in the next index. You may see up to a two point decrease that's our fault, not yours, in this most recent index.

I would add to look also at what the search engines think of your site. Has the number of visitors changed? Have your leads changed? If they're not going down, or if they're going up, then don't sweat the DA metric and enjoy the increase.