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It could be some of each. I know it's frustrating when you don't see those links that you know are there, but the good news is that Google does see them. The good news is that we're getting indexes out there faster than we ever did before, so it's every 1-2 weeks these days instead of 4-6 weeks.

The important metrics is actually do the search engines see the link. Whether or not we see the link doesn't help your ranking. It could be that those pages with the links just have low PA and don't have much linking to them, so they don't get crawled. I'd look in Google and Bing Webmaster Tools and see if the links display there.

Thanks! I also agree with what Neil Patel said in that post that sometimes, long copy can interfere with conversions. It's a big "it depends". Sometimes all you need is a brief answer to an FAQ that will take you 100 words, and other times you need 2000 words to properly cover a subject.

Hi! Would you care to share more information about the source of that number? It's always helpful to know background for this type of information.

The best way to test if there's a redirect is to go to the site itself and see if it redirects, or to use a server header checker. OSE will often give you an alert if we detect a redirect, too.

If the question is about the link not showing up at all, it's because we don't quite have the same budget for servers as Google and Bing have, and we don't crawl as many URLs as they do. We could crawl YouTube, G+ and Twitter extensively..or we could try to crawl the rest of the web, but not both.

Or is your question that we are not showing correctly whether a link has a nofollow attribute?

For Moz community members, people with over 200 Mozpoints get one followed link, and the rest have a nofollow. For those with fewer than 200 Mozpoints, all of their outgoing links are nofollowed.

Can you tell me what you're seeing when you try to look it up in the on-page grader? Are you getting an error of any type?

Kraig,

I'd be interested in seeing more about what you're saying regarding the robots meta line. It's specific to each particular page, and doesn't mean to not crawl other pages. Google does currently have a couple of hundred pages indexed from that site right now.

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.

I'd 301 the removed page to the current page.

I don't know exactly. We've been releasing an index every couple of weeks recently, so I'd wait at least a month before worrying. Do make sure that you have all of your redirects set up properly, so that the search engines know where to find the new site.

I used the contact email associated with your profile.

The Beginner's guide to SEO has a chapter on links at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links that can be helpful, too.

Above all, consider the value that you are adding to a site when you contribute content, not just "is this a place that will allow me to leave a link".

I have a slightly different suggestion, and it's about what not to do. I have emailed you privately, but have not heard back, so I apologize but I need to put this in the public forum. Please do not include a link to your site in every single question, response, and comment you make. It makes people think that the only reason you are writing is to get a link, and will result in thumbs down on your answers, and eventual banning from the system if it continues. You are welcome to include the URL of your site when it is relevant to the question, but only when it is directly relevant.

Regarding your question, will you be writing in English, or writing in your native language? Do you have expertise in the area for which you are writing? The quality of the writing itself and of the content will help determine the type of price you can get for selling your writing, or how often people will come to your site to see your content.

It'll take a little bit of time for OSE to catch up and see the 301 redirects. For now, don't panic!

For Twitter, we do have a partnership between Followerwonk and Buffer (more info at http://moz.com/blog/followerwonk-partners-with-buffer). Other than that, no, we don't at this time.

Yes, it is a known issue. We have details about it at http://health.moz.com/ that should help get it working for you. If that doesn't fix it, drop us a note at help@moz.com. Thanks!

We don't have the separate login feature right now, though it is being worked on. For now, it is everyone sharing an account.

Hi Davinia,

So sorry to hear you're having this problem. I'm not aware of a bug with that part of the system. Since this is a billing issue, could you please send us a note at help@moz.com? We'll be able to help you directly that way. I apologize in advance that there might be a delay in response, due to the holiday weekend.

Keri

Your answer doesn't make too much sense here. At one point you talk about pages on a domain, and another point you refer to the same thing as sites. Please make sure that you have knowledge of the topic before responding, and that you leave a logical answer. Thanks!

Would it be possible to write an overview or introduction to the chart, and talk about the concepts and a) give context to the reader and make it easier for the reader to understand and b) give information to the search engines too?

The bigger question should be -- is it worthwhile to do automated social bookmarking at all? Generally, it's better to let it come naturally as users find the content, and not to submit to hundreds of bookmarking sites that may be off topic.

Just to clarify, you're talking about changing the title tag when you mean site name, and not the URL? Changing the URL (even just capitalization) could have an effect.

There is a bug where that message is showing sometimes, even if things were properly saved. I'm seeing your custom URL as http://www.energieleveranciers.nl. Is this correct?

Also, the same analytics or adsense account is a tipoff. Check out spyonweb to see some of this type of information.

Having some level of structure in you site can be helpful for analytics, too. For Moz for example, we can look at everything happening on the blog by looking at /blog, everything on Q&A by looking at /community/q/, etc.

Carl,

Aaron really didn't mean it that way. Our help desk has had higher number of tickets lately, and he skimmed, saw the thanks, and thought everything was OK. I'll have him come back and make sure this gets the proper attention. My sincere apologies for the mixup.

Keri

That would seem to be reasonable, with the information you've given. Best of luck!

Also make sure that the contest abides by the FB and G+ rules for contests. Facebook has recently relaxed some of their restrictions, but it's something to look at as you're designing the contest.

Is the sandbox on its own subdomain or own domain? If so, verify the site in Google/Bing webmaster tools (subdomains verify as their own site), put in a robots.txt excluding everything, then go and request URL removal of the entire site in the webmaster tools.

I'm not seeing an answer that jumps out at me for this one. For the immediate future, don't sweat it if you're not seeing it in GWT. This is assigned to our help desk, and we'll have someone from there investigate more and get back to you, though it might be a few days because of the Thanksgiving holiday (if you don't get an answer today, it may be Monday before we have a chance to respond).

Send an email to help@moz.com and that creates a ticket. Thanks!

If you want nothing on that test subdomain indexed, verify that subdomain as its own site in Google Webmaster Tools, exclude that subdomain from being indexed in robots.txt, then request removal of that site (subdomain) in GWT.

And consider setting up a page monitor like https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php on the robots.txt of your test site (and live site). It'll check the contents of those pages once a day, and email you if there's a change. Handy if there are multiple people working on the site.

Moz doesn't offer SEO services, but you might check out our recommended companies list at http://moz.com/community/recommended. We also have several blog posts on how to hire help with your inbound marketing.

It is a bit of a difficult question, as there are several parts, and the sites are in a language many people in Q&A don't speak. You might want to ask question two as a separate question. Question one may be more appropriate for a paid consultation, though I'll see if anyone can contribute some advice on our end.

Having it there twice can cause issues. I myself have an old post with this exact issue. What happens is that the tracking code fires twice.

My simplistic understanding, which may be good enough here:

Firing only once in a session: visitor didn't go to any other page, they're a bounce.

Firing more than once in a session: visitor did something else! they didn't bounce!

IIRC, my pageviews and pages per visit were also higher. Get the duplicate GA code off, and make an annotation in Google Analytics itself of what happened, so six months or two years down the road someone can look and understand why the metrics are wonky for that time span.

http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection can help. You're specifically looking for the "Redirecting Canonical Hostnames" section.

Briefly, google considers the following as different pages, even if they are the same.

example.com
www.example.com

Other fun things that can also happen are having all of these pages have the same content, but you can use the following URLs to get to that one piece of content:

example.com
example.com/
example.com/index.html
www.example.com
www.example.com/
www.example.com/index.html

Hope that helps!

I took a quick look at your account. The URL and Duplicate URL are ALMOST the same, but if you look closely, you'll see that you've got both non-www and www in there. A simple redirect at the server side to your preferred version will take care of this quite nicely. If you need a hand with that, let us know and we'll help you with the right htaccess file.

I've edited this question to keep it TAGFEE, especially empathetic to both the potential client and to their current SEO company. This can be a good discussion question when talking in general terms, but given how Q&A is visible to everyone and indexed, we need to pull out this type of identifying information.

No, there isn't. So sorry!

I'd go to Rae Hoffman's website at http://sugarrae.com/ and read all of her posts about affiliate marketing. She's one of the top in the business, and gives out good information.

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

I'd say use both links for information that is relevant to the post and serves to enhance the post, and if those two links aren't enough, write such an awesome post that you'll be given an exception because the post just wouldn't work without those resources.

I manage YouMoz, where people can guest post for Moz. We don't have a number limit on links, it's just what makes sense. I'll have a post submitted with no links that I return because it needs links, I'll have a post with links that need to be removed, and I'll have posts that have a valid reason for each of the 25 links they include in the post. http://moz.com/blog/dusting-the-website-for-spring-optimization-seo-cleaning is one post that would not have been published if there had been no links, or we limited the author to just two links.

It's not a regular problem. In this case, it's best to cancel and restart your exports, though it still may take 24 hours due to the backlog. Ugh...gotta love Mondays.

The server got backed up in requests over the weekend. We've given it a swift kick, and things should start working better soon. So sorry for the delays, and thank you for your patience!

Also, thank you for letting us know here and in help desk. The information helps us identify that there is a trend and makes it easier to track down what has happened and get it working again.

S_Curtis is correct in that if you created a campaign in Pro, you'll be able to see it in Pro and Moz Analytics. If you created the campaign in Moz Analytics, you'll only be able to see it in Moz Analytics.

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.