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Right now, OSE doesn't measure backlinks to an https site. Rand suggested in a similar thread at www.seomoz.org/q/two-pr-5-websites-but-little-to-no-link-data-in-ose-how that Majestic could help you, as well as Google Webmaster Tools (if you have access to GWT for the site).
Here's a great post about migrating a website that you might find useful.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos
You can also use a private Q&A question credit to ask this in private Q&A. It can take a few days for a response, but your question will be confidential, not indexed in Google, and only viewable to SEOmoz staff and associates -- and we're all under NDA to not discuss the contents.
What do you want your long-term results to be? I'd stop building links for the moment. Most are crap links right now -- if you sat down with a rep from a search engine, I don't think links like http://www.txtlinks.com/19/Business_and_Finance_Weblogs/72/ and http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/tips-to-eliminate-fear-of-public-speaking would they pass the quality guidelines?
The site comes across as quite confusing when I try to examine it. The title tag and some text says it's for India, but it's on a dot com and it looks like the site is trying to hide the fact that it's for India and instead hoping you'll click on one of the many ads. It's hard to find information from the actual site, given the number of ads on the page.
If this were my site, I'd verify it in Google Webmaster Tools and see if there were any warnings about either my links or the quality of my pages. Google has started cracking down more recently on sites with a ton of ads on them above the fold. If it were my site, and I was wanting to attract visitors from India, I would also set that as my geographic target in Google Webmaster Tools.
I'd go through and make sure that my content was unique and valuable to the visitor. I'd ask if it was something that someone would want to link to, then go out and tell people about the content. I'd also tell them about my point of difference / unique selling proposition. Let people know what they can get from your site that they can't get from other, similar sites. As you build links, build them for your users, not for Google. Ask yourself if you would want to explain these links in a reinclusion request, or if you would want to remove them later. It's easier to never make the link then try to remove it later.
I know this wasn't the answer you were looking for, but you need to make sure the site is something that can earn natural links.
Hi Christian,
It's likely a setting in the Platinum SEO plugin related to canonical URLs. The notice from SEOmoz is just a notice letting you know they are there, and not an error.
If you have specific questions (like if your plugin and template is set up correctly), I suggest starting a new question thread and including your site's URL.
Some of the important information from Facebook says you basically can't use FB to run the promotion, so no "your like enters you into the contest". There are several external companies that have a business model of using FB as part of promotions and will help you do that. I believe you can use FB to make people aware of your contest, but not as a means of entry.
There are several companies that have a business model of helping you run promotions that you might investigate. There are a lot of legal things to consider, such as age of entrants, if the nature of the product is permitted to be promoted, restrictions on promotions in different states/countries, etc
Thank you Irving! I don't always get a chance to go back to the older posts, but I do like to do this when I have time available. It's often interesting to get the follow-up report and see how things turned out.
In addition, there are basically two search engine indexes to worry about -- Google and Bing (as Bing now powers Yahoo!). If you're in Google and Bing, that covers most of your organic search traffic right there. They each have their own way to submit if you're not already in their index, and they each have their own webmaster tools that can give you a lot of information about how your site is performing and what might be causing problems.
Hi Kara,
Welcome to SEOmoz! Thanks for coming here to ask that question. It might help if you think of it the other way around -- are there credible sites that would allow a magic software to create links from them?
You might want to read the chapter on building links in our Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links. It will give you a good introduction to quality link building.
Do you have any results yet Cyril? Curious as to how this is going.
Hi! I'm following up on older questions. Did Irving's answer help you? How is the site doing now?
There's not a way to manually start your normal crawl, but you can do a crawl test of up to 3000 URLs at any time by going to http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test.
If you're having a delay, feel free to contact the help team at http://www.seomoz.org/help
If I'm understanding the original poster correctly, the new site is not on SBI! -- they are trying to get the 301 from the old site there to the new site that was built.
Just a quick note -- I've seen Google index PDFs that were scanned images of a cut-and-paste newsletter from the 1980s with a variety of different fonts. This is not a guaranteed way to keep Google out, and images will also make your files much bigger than just text.
Hi Mark,
That's an interesting statement about the keywords tag being more important than the robot tags. Google has said they totally ignore meta keywords. Can you provide a little more information about the source of this information?
I haven't done this in a long time, but I used ISAPI Rewrite, and did what is talked about in this thread at http://www.webmasterworld.com/microsoft_asp_net/3951672.htm. An alternate method is discussed at http://www.stepforth.com/resources/web-marketing-knowledgebase/non-www-redirect/#microsoft. Hope this helps you get started!
Hi Andrew,
I went to that URL and found the following phrase:
"Packs which are designed especialy for those on holiday with"
I put that into Google as a phrase search, and that page from your site DID show up. Along with 14 other pages from your site. Have you looked at how much unique content is on each page versus how much is duplicated across pages?
We update the OSE data about once a month, and the crawls can take a couple to few weeks to process. So, the links were likely there when the site was crawled and have since been removed and those links just haven't been recrawled.
Hi Steven,
A notice is just that -- it's a notice that "hey, this is here, make sure you want it here" and it's not a warning. Feel free to ignore it if it's set up the way you want it to.
We did have a bug with new keywords not showing up earlier in the week, but I think it was fixed. Could you go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the contact our help team button? Let them know which campaign it is, and they'll get things fixed for you. Thanks, and so sorry for the troubles!
Hi Chase,
I want to let you know that one of our Associates, Miriam Ellis, specializes in local SEO. She will be included when we next update the recommended companies list. I do not know what her rates are, but suggest that you PM her and she can help you herself or help you find someone in your price range in her network of people who specialize in local search. Her profile URL is http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/13017
Are you running IIS6 or IIS7? Things are a little different for each of them. If you let us know what version of IIS you're running, we'll look up the proper configuration for you.
Hi Sanket,
The person asking the question is on IIS, so an .htaccess file won't help.
Here's a post from our help hub that talks a bit about the ranking tracker at http://www.seomoz.org/help/rank-tracker. Usually people have the opposite problem, where they see themselves in a good position and SEOmoz doesn't, though this page does explain some of the differences.
Seeing Global results is tough, and there's not an easy way to do that. One is to go to a non-US Google and tell it to search the US (this may need to be done by using a parameter in the URL, I can't remember if there's an interface option for this).
To check rankings and get as much personalization out of the way as possible, I go and use private browsing in a browser so at least my history, cookies, and logins aren't affecting the ranking.
Another thing I've seen people use is Tynt at http://www.tynt.com/. If you copy and paste something, it automatically adds a "see more from" and the URL to the end of the copy text that shows up when you paste it.
A higher-level question is regarding HOW people are copying your content. Are they going to you website and copying and pasting it, or are they grabbing it from your RSS feed? If they're scraping it via RSS or a non-manual means, doing things with right-clicks won't help much.
Verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and check for warnings.
paginas/ensaios.html is mostly images, with very little text. Hard to rank with no content.
paginas/ensaios.html also has hidden text (black text on a black background) which is against Google's guidelines.
Do you mean meta descriptions, or things like product descriptions on the page itself?
Yep, that's your problem. I just talked with the help desk to confirm. OSE/Linkscape can't crawl https for measuring your links, so it's only seeing links that are going to http and not the links going to https.
Hi Scott,
We have rolled out a fix for this! I'm waiting to hear how long it will take to get through the backlog of crawls, but did want to let you know that your campaign is being worked on.
Keri
And for OSE, you can find the update schedule at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
Also, the beginner's guide to SEO has a good overview on linkbuilding at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
I insert the image via the image icon, then I put the link in as the URL of the image itself. There's a button that talks about which to link to, can't remember exactly what it's called, but look for that option in the link page.
Duplicate thread, closing this thread and directing future responses to http://www.seomoz.org/q/negative-backlinks
I think there's a difference between looking at forums for ideas in general and using an aggregate of several questions to write an awesome blog posts that answers most of the questions people have about that topic, and writing a specific answer on your site to a question on another site, and going to that other site and just dropping a link to your site.
Using the posts for inspiration is fine IMHO, but as a user (or an admin) of a forum I'd quickly get irritated at a poster that is using the forum solely to link drop.
We have some type of bug that's doing this, and we're working on tracking it down now. Thanks for emailing help, as that will help us figure out things faster. Sorry for the error!
I think we've had a bug, Scott. A couple of SEOmoz staff also got emails that the starter crawl had finished. We're looking into this to figure out what has happened, and really apologize. I'm assigning this to the help desk, and they'll commenting when we have some more information.
Google makes no promises that it will show you all of the links that it knows about, and also makes no promises that the links that it shows count for anything. They have publicly admitted they do not count links from UpDowner, for example, to the relief of many webmasters.
At the beginning of your response, you state your website rankings have improved. That is one report you can show the client. Other things to look at for your client are their traffic and how that has changed -- have those links given the client any referral traffic? has the client's organic traffic increased on keywords you've been targeting? has your client made more conversions? Page and Domain authority are nice, but they don't pay the client's mortgage. Find things that help show to the client what you have done is my suggestion.
Hi! The last data update is showing link information from crawls in Mid-May to Mid-July, with more details available at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/august-mozscape-update. Have you looked in Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Center for your incoming links and see if they've shown up there yet? Google and Bing both have bigger server farms than we do, and can show you the information a bit faster.
When I take a quick look at the site, I'm seeing very little in terms of unique content. I grabbed a phrase from the first two articles in the news section, and they appear to be copies of other articles. A new wordpress blog nobody has heard of is going to have a very hard time outranking the Wall Street Journal by copying their articles.
Turned around -- why should Google be ranking this site?