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Hi Nikita,

Welcome to Q&A! I noticed you left a nearly identical answer on another thread. Just wondering if there was a glitch in our Q&A system where this answer got posted in multiple places?

We still get plenty of people trying to make link drops in here, and not everyone has a nofollow highlight on their browser or looks at the source code.

Sorry, I've asked for a copy of the algorithm so that I could know for sure, but nobody's given that to me yet, and I haven't done enough independent testing to know what the search engines think.

As a moderator, I will sometimes still remove hyperlinks even if it is nofollow, just because it looks spammy to users and distracts from the flow of the discussion in Q&A or the blog.

Just an FYI, all the links in Q&A are also nofollow.

Thanks for the great (and speedy) answers, Matt and Jesse!

We (along with any other integrator) do need some proof of permission to access an analytics account. Otherwise, I could just go grab the GA account ID off any site I wanted, hook it into a third-party tool, and see all their data; as well as the reverse happening and someone doing that to you. If you explain it that way, it may be a little easier to get permission perhaps.

Is the comment itself relevant? Would you have made the comment if the search engines didn't exist? If you're commenting just to drop links, that's not a real effective way of doing things and can get your comments removed, get you banned from a site, and help develop an unnatural linking profile.

Thanks for stepping in everyone, though it looks like we were trying to answer the wrong question. This one is with Roger's crawl of the OP's own site, rather than links indexed in OSE.

Guy, do you have a feel for how many pages SHOULD be in the index? If you only have a couple of thousand pages, then it could be that Google is crawling and indexing some parameters. If you've got 20k+ pages in the index, then Roger isn't finding some things.

Also..are you looking at perhaps just the www.domain subdomain in SEOmoz and is GWT looking at the entire site? If you had a compact www.domain site, but then had forum.domain and wiki.domain, and GWT was reporting pages for all of the subdomains on domain.com, that would explain things too.

SEOmoz has a recommended list at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.

Jeepster, that I can't say for sure. As an editor, I go for what is trusted by my readers.

How original is your content? I copied " suggestions on what songs would make the best candle-lighting ceremony, " from the home page, and found several sites that also have the exact same wording.

Have you had rankings before that have dropped, or have you never had good rankings in Google?

Without a URL or any more details, it is a bit difficult to give more advice. Can you share any information with us?

The OP is on wordpress.com, not self-hosted wordpress, so that may not be an option. I'm asking another associate to come in and add some comments to this post.

It looks like the original poster knows of these sites but is having difficulty finding good freelancers from these sites. Do you have recommendations for finding good freelancers through these sites?

As far as Google choosing their own title tag, they've been doing that for years now, even to sites such as Apple.com. Barry Schwartz has written about it a few times, including at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html

It can make a difference to to a picky editor who is reviewing your guest post. I can't tell you how many YouMoz submissions start out with "I was talking with my coworkers at my seo company [link drop] about xyz". Both SEOmoz and the author would get called out if we published the YouMoz post like that. Those types of links get removed and the author is invited to put them in their bio.

Thanks for our laugh for this morning Mike. We had no idea we were ranking for that!

I wouldn't know. Never have heard of a company that ever tried to give out any teases when anything new is coming along.

Beep!

Hi Pavan,

William has the best answer here. Contact our help team, who can look into your account and help straighten all of this out. Thanks so much, and sorry for the troubles!

Dr. Pete has a good post about this topic at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help.

Hi David,

This post https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages- has some common reasons why only one page is crawled. If that doesn't fix it, please open a ticket with our help team and we'll help you figure it out. Thanks, and so sorry for the problems!

Keep us posted, it'll be interesting to see if that changes things. We haven't done anything to profiles on this end that I'm aware of.

Marie, EGOL, and others: I'll forward this thread to the appropriate people at Moz, and agree that it would be helpful to update it. It was updated about a year ago, but I'll see if there are any quick changes we can make.

Hi! There wasn't an issue with the latest moz update in terms of metrics, it was a different problem that caused us to roll back, and we hope to be back to the current dataset tonight. Here's a post with some more information: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/23586982-Mozscape-API-Temporarily-Rolled-Back-to-March-19-Index-

Hi Gerd,

We also have some more information at http://www.seomoz.org/help/ose-overview. Some of Rand's presentation does have video working for it, and we'll take a look to see what happened with the first part. Thanks for letting us know!

This is an older thread, and it's probably best to either start your own thread, or email help@seomoz.org directly and we can help you that way. Thanks!

YouMoz posts also use NoFollow when you submit them, but I believe the system removes the nofollow if they are published. Keep in mind that the main purpose of YouMoz is not to get a followed link to your site, and we often let authors know that non-relevant links in posts need to be removed.

I'd first check in Google Webmaster Tools and see if you have any notices there.

Next, I'd do a site:domain.com search in Google to see if you are indexed. You need to figure out are you not ranking, or are you not indexed at all.

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.

Can you write case studies of how a business improved x and increased efficiency and reduced costs by having their company records scanned and available in a digital format? Perhaps subscribe to HARO (Help A Reporter Out) and look for reporters writing about topics where your service could be of assistance.

Who uses your services? Libraries? Law firms? Newspapers? Do any businesses and individuals use it for keeping track of their own paperwork?

If newspapers used your services to scan their old issues, seems like you could make your site become the best resource ever on scanning. How to choose which scanner to use, how to hire someone to do it versus doing it inhouse, etc. Make it the place that everyone in that industry would go to for information.

I can empathize with niches. My husband runs a business that sells kits for model warships that shoot and sink each other. The number of people in the world who participate in this hobby is in the hundreds. We do have the "cool" factor going on, but really understand about the fun of being in a niche.

I've collected several resources for negative keyword lists, as well as techniques for making your own, in this post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/negative-keywords-for-positive-roi. I'm asking another associate who has more PPC experience than I to chime in with any additional experience.

You might consider opening a help ticket where we can take a private look at the URLs and figure out why Roger isn't happy. We're a little more backed up than usual at the moment in help, so it may be a day or so before someone can get back to you, but it's something to try.

Have you run the page through a server header checker to see what response code it's giving?

We're not able to provide audits in Q&A, but the community can help provide some help. First, do you have any messages in Google Webmaster Tools? Has the traffic drop come from just Google, or from all of the search engines? Have you had traffic drops from your referral traffic? From direct traffic?

Do they have a service area where the company goes to other locations to perform the business? There are ways to deal with that in local. Otherwise, it may be a little more tricky or not appropriate to be in local directories. If you can share a little more information I'll make sure the correct person sees this question. Thanks!

Just a quick note to one part of your theory here. Google has publicly penalized Google properties. One example of that is penalizing Google Japan. You can see the news about it at http://searchengineland.com/google-penalizes-google-japan-16541

Rae Hoffman recently made the switch to Genesis from Thesis. She has a post about it at http://www.sugarrae.com/reviews/thesis-vs-genesis-and-why-i-made-the-switch/ that may be helpful.

Something like this would make an awesome post for YouMoz.

Do you mean your site isn't ranking on Google, or do you mean there's a problem with the SEOmoz reporting of ranking?

Can you elaborate on the inserting keywords in meta tags? Google doesn't look at the meta keywords tag. Maybe I'm not mis-understanding?

Is there a reason to not post on your own site and build up the authority of your site, rather than put the content on a new external site?

I think of it as why did my mom tell me I couldn't go to the mall when my dad told me I could. Same question, asked of two people with the same goal (to parent their child), yet Mom took into account that I had been playing video games instead of doing homework, while Dad took into account that I had cleaned my room the previous weekend.

The two engines have different indexes and different factors they look for in ranking things. I'd be sure to check in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any notices to you there. Also look at who is ranking above you on Google and see if there's a reason you should be above them (do you have higher-quality content? more links? etc).

Hi! Here are some common reasons why only one page is crawled. If this doesn't solve it, opening a ticket with the help desk would be the next step.

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

I would also suggest make sure the links are quality and relevant. I'm seeing some links to your site from URLs like http://paloma81.blogspot.com/2011/11/dream-home-savvy-home.html and it's really not relevant or helpful to you, and likely to be removed by the blog owner as spam.

Hi! Generally, the Q&A forum is a place to get advice. For specific SEO work, we recommend that you hire someone to help with this.

There have been a number of discussions about Alexa in the Q&A forum, including http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-can-i-improve-alexa-rank-of-my-website. Generally, the consensus is to not worry about it, and it's not real accurate, though it can be used when selling advertising as a rough measure of traffic.

Here's a good starting place for learning about Linkbuilding: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

We have a list of recommended companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended that could serve as s starting point for you.

You might find the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo helpful for some of this information.

The most common reasons for this are at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages- . If those don't solve it, send an email to help@seomoz.org and we'll help you figure it out.

Keri

I'd specifically look at the Link Building section of the Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links. Submitting to directories and article websites may not be the highest quality links that your client could good, and may not do too much to help them.