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Hi Sara,

Right now, there is no way to track beyond the top 50 results. In our help hub page for rankings at http://www.seomoz.org/help/rankings, we mention "Ranking results beyond the top 50 tend to fluctuate to such a large degree that they make any actionable insight almost useless. Also, traffic gained beyond the first couple pages of search results is usually negligible."

Hope this helps!

Bump doesn't work here, as there's no user-facing way to see most recent responses. Also, four hours isn't a long time at all to go without a response on the Q&A forums.

Another reason is that we just don't have the same size server farm that Google and Bing have. We could crawl all of Twitter and get nothing else crawled, or we could crawl some of Twitter, and some of the rest of the web. We aren't able to crawl all of the web, and we release a new index about once a month, so that's why you don't see all of your links or see them right away.

However, what we do offer that is different from Google and Bing is that we show you links for sites that are not your own, we add metrics about the trust and authority of the page, etc.

Adding commentary about Niles District and stuff does make it sound more local, and less like it's a virtual office. In general the site still looks a bit spammy and keyword-stuffed.

What more content are you going to add? Is there a reason why you don't want to add the content to your main site, but instead build up this site?

Hi! Can you recheck today and let us know if this is still happening? We rolled out an index update yesterday, and OSE and the app don't update at the exact same moment, so they could be out of sync for a couple of hours.

A thought for a content idea -- FAQs for someone who is new to oil heating. This comes from my own situation right now, as I sit in front of a wood-burning fireplace and I'm afraid to turn on our oil-burning furnace. We moved into this house a couple of months ago, and the neighbors told us that all of the walls were repainted because of the oil stains, and we're seeing stains by one vent near the carpet. We're using space heaters and the fireplace until we can get a gas line to the house and a gas furnace installed. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has relocated and found myself in this situation. It may not cause me to be a forever fan on your facebook page, but it might turn me into a heating oil customer if I were convinced there was a good way to get heat.

I just moved from Newark, CA (right next door to Fremont) to the Seattle area. This isn't an answer to a question you were asking, but I honestly don't see anything in the home page that makes this look any more related to Fremont CA than Fremont WA. I'd look and more closely examine your first piece of content before adding anything more.

Focus on your customer, and on convincing them that you are a legitimate business and not someone using search and replace and inserting a different city name into each site.

Yes, I do. We relocated up to Washington from SF this summer.

Hi Dana,

I don't know the operation of the toolbar well enough to say, but we did roll out an index update this afternoon. I think it started after you wrote this, but for the heck of it, could you come back and look at this and see if you're still seeing the same PA on every page you visit? If so, it's probably something to send an email to help@seomoz.org about, as they can look into it better.

Thanks!

Diane, the excessive ads for the hypnotherapy/weight loss help reduce credibility of the site. The travel news articles are outdated (the most recent one about holiday deals talks about it still being winter and about the upcoming Olympic games) and the Ryanair incident was from April 2012.Nothing has a date byline on it, so it makes it difficult for me to trust the article.

To a regular user, it looks like you don't have enough content and are trying to stretch it, as I'm seeing the same celeb picture multiple times in multiple locations on the home page.

The site seems to lack focus, or rather be focused on ads. Do people really care about that many bingo news features on a site that's supposed to (I think) be about celeb gossip?

The About section at the bottom looks spammy because it's small and in italics, making it hard to read. It looks keyword stuffed and like people aren't meant to read it, but that it's just there for search engines.

You may want to reconsider if you want to focus so much on the keyword "lifestyle magazine". What is the search volume like for that phrase? Are people really looking for that?

I'm surprised that I don't see a cookie notice like I do on most European sites these days. Is the UK excluded from that?

We noticed this too, and we're investigating what happened and will keep people updated with the status. Edit: We rolled back a change we made, and this is now fixed.

I rank #1 for "Use the shopping cart option available on most pages" but nobody ever searches that and it's nothing that would bring me any money. There's not a way to find out things you rank for but nobody searches, at least that I'm aware of, and it might not do you any good. Still, the others have some good suggestions here.

I know I've seen some people on Twitter point out a FB ad to Matt that was using his picture. I'm thinking it was this ad, but not positive.

We usually don't delete questions, but leave them here so other people can learn. And no worries about gaming the hug system.

Would you like to delete the question? I'm an SEOmoz employee and can delete the question if you would like.

I would be that if you drill down to the browser version, flash version, etc. that it'd also be identical. I've seen this once or twice, and for me, it turned out that it was one computer and either GA was messed up, or the browser was set oddly -- it was really one person visiting many pages on the site, but for whatever reason it showed in GA as multiple visits each going to one page. I can't say for sure that's what is happening for you, but that's what it was in my case (I happened to have a second analytics package and was able to see that it was truly the same user).

Hi! I was a bit too hasty when I made the robots.txt comment. I do see what you did now there.

For the rest of it, I'll come back this weekend -- just catching up after being out of town for three days for Mozcation in Milwaukee.

Sanket is correct; drop a line to our help team and we'll get it figured out.

Here's a post from the help team about why sometimes only one page gets crawled: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages

Great answer Andrea! Diane, Rand talked about exactly this concept during his Mozcation presentation Wednesday (nice meeting you there Andrea). What works for one site may not work for another. Use this as a resource to get some ideas as to what to test, but then test and see if it works for you.

Is it from all search engines that you have a decrease in traffic, or just Google?

Is there any increase in (not provided) that would account for traffic to other keywords going down?

Have you made changes to your site recently?

Has a new competitor moved into your space?

Are the keywords at all seasonal? Extreme example, but in January you would expect searches for Christmas to go down, for instance.

When you say you are not getting crawled, are you judging that by the cache date in Google, or by looking at the log files of your server?

When I do the following search in Google:

site:www.mediaxpress.net october

The blog does pop up, with the October blog post in the snippet. The cached version of the page is still from late September, but information from yesterday IS being indexed.

Have you checked out this post we recently had on YouMoz about pagination? http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/mitigating-mixed-signals-effectively-consolidating-paginated-urls

Have you looked at your competitors? Has one of them done something to move higher, thus moving you lower?

Over what time period are you decreasing for the keyword in question? If you're looking long-term, keep in mind that (not provided) now accounts for some of those declines -- you were seeing all of your keywords 18 months ago, but aren't now.

Is there a reason your blog is disallowed in your robots.txt?

Actually, if you download the report to a CSV you'll see the referring URLs that 404.

Here's a blog post Dr. Pete wrote about the warning at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that may help.

Nikele, I believe Michelle is asking how she would get her site indexed in Bing News, not how to use a press release service.

I would be concerned about hiring any SEO that has a link exchange page. This site really has very little concrete in the way of content or anything to convince a potential customer to give you their information. There's just hardly anything here in the current version of the site.

Nikele, that's a fairly broad statement. I don't think you mean to say that if I use Bing on Firefox that they monitor what I do, provided I don't have a Google toolbar enabled.

They do keep track of many things, but you generally need to be using their search engine, or the Chrome browser, or have their toolbar installed.

They don't always reveal what factors they use in rankings, but have said that they don't use Google Analytics data in ranking.

Why review your products on Squidoo and give the content to a different site that can rank above you? Why not instead make YOUR site the one with the strong content?

Google is quite aware that links from a place like Squidoo aren't exactly natural and are often set up for situations like this.

I would hold off just a bit on updating the links. If you have hundreds of links, and you can update them, and update them all at once to some keyword-rich anchor text, that's going to look awfully fishy to any search engine.

I've asked another associate to also come in and give there opinion on this, but do wait before doing anything drastic.

If you can figure out how to get an answer from Google, especially on an SEOmoz forum, we would love to know.

Agreed. The highest PA backlink for this site in Open Site Explorer is an EDU blog page with over 5000 comments on it, and the comment that leads to this site is:

"My friend recommended I mightiness equivalent this diary. He was totally honorable. This displace truly made my day. You can not ideate just how overmuch second I had spent for this message! Thanks!"

That is not quality link building. Period. Check out the beginner's guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo and especially read the chapter on building links.

It can take a couple of months for links to show up. Our server farm isn't as big as Google or Bing, so we don't crawl as fast or deep as they do. They'll know about links before we do. It probably just needs a little more time is all. If links still don't show up, it could be because they're on pages we haven't crawled yet because they are lower quality, or just buried on a site. For example, we don't show all of the links from Twitter -- we just don't have the power to crawl all of Twitter and still crawl anything else!

Any number of reasons, from as diverse as you have your entire site blocked in robots.txt, to you are targeting one particular country in Google Webmaster Tools and your competitor is not targeting a specific country, to they have 400 pages and you have 10 pages, etc.

There's more than just a couple of numbers that determine rankings. Your backlinks may be low quality, and your competitor may have backlinks from the White House. There are all kinds of reasons, and we're just making guesses without knowing the URL of you or your competitor.

Hi John,

You'll want to enter the www.example.com in the campaign, so we crawl JUST the www subdomain. We don't often think of it this way, but www is a subdomain.

Yes! You're also not limited to sites in your campaign, so you could run them on potential client sites, etc.

In addition to what Dana said, you can run a custom crawl test at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test at any time, and it should be really fast for your eight pages. That'll help you make sure you fixed the error correctly.

Keri

Hi! If you are a PRO Plus or PRO Elite customer, you can add your logo to PDF reports. It's covered in this help section at http://www.seomoz.org/help/campaign-setup and excerpted below:

How do I add my logo or get white labeled reports?
If you have our PRO Plus or PRO Elite, you can upload a logo from your campaign settings page. This will add your logo to the top of PDF reports downloaded from the web app. This is a great way to show off our excellent data with your awesome branding. Enjoy!

Do try a different browser. If it happens in multiple browsers, we'd appreciate a screenshot of it along with browser and OS details in an email to help@seomoz.org. Thanks so much, and sorry you're having problems!

Keri

A different way to look at this: If you sat down with one of the engineers on Google's spam team, and you both looked at this page together, would you feel comfortable saying "yes, that's my link"?

In this case, I think the toolbar PR6 might be for the hompage of the domain. The URL listed has a PA of 1. It's not a strong individual page itself.

On any of the forums I admin, I'd remove that link in a heartbeat.

Before spending more time trying to add links, I'd suggest browsing the Q&A forum here and look at the number of people that are trying to remove low-quality links. The easiest link to remove is the one that you never built. I'd be cautious of finding places where it's too easy to just drop your link. Those are the ones that are unmonitored and going to be the hardest one to remove if you ever get hit for a bad backlink profile. I don't know how your profile does look, but the focus of these posts on building links exclusively, and for ranking rather than any type of converting traffic, is a little worrying.