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I'm so sorry to hear that! Could you contact our help team? They'll help get you straightened out. There's a link at http://www.seomoz.org/help to open a ticket with them. Thanks!

It is kind of hard to figure out with minimal context. Here are my two guesses:

Could this be talking about an indented listing, where you have a second result indented under the first listing?

Less likely, but could this be discussing some type of reciprocal linking in a directory?

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Can you give us a bit more of a context, or a link to where it was that you saw this terminology? That'll help us figure out a little bit better.

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This sounds more like an error on our part. Could you go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the Contact our Help Team link and submit this as a help ticket? Thanks!

Keri

Here are a couple of YouMoz posts that discuss things that are good to show in reports from an agency that should give you a couple of ideas.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/agent-seo-reporting-maam

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/what-to-include-in-your-seo-reports

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If GA means Google Analytics, Google Analytics doesn't crawl pages -- it reports visits to pages that have the GA code on them. You can have the content behind a password and blocked in robots.txt and if GA code is there, it would still track people.

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages lists some common reasons why only one page is crawled. If you still have problems with crawling, send a note to help@seomoz.org and we'll help you figure things out.

Hi! Are you talking about your SEOmoz campaigns being connected to GA, or your Google AdWords campaigns being connected to GA?

You do want to make sure your sitemap is clean. Bing has stated that if over 1% of your xml sitemap URLs have errors, they'll ignore the entire sitemap.

I do agree with David about the benefits and ability to use it as a diagnostic as well as an aid in getting your content indexed.

Your best bet is to email help@seomoz.org and they'll take a look and see what's up. So sorry about the troubles!

Hi Mark,

Actually, Google can index images that are saved in PDF content. Here's an example from 2009 http://www.seomoz.org/blog/favorite-tidbits-from-pubcon-2009

A quick note to help@seomoz.org would be the fastest way. I'll assign this ticket to the help team, and they can get the encoding error fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!

Here's a post with the common reasons why you get that error. https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages

If that doesn't solve the problem, contact the help team at help@seomoz.org.

The post at http://searchengineland.com/google-now-shows-you-your-most-recent-links-127903 gives you a screenshot and explains where to find things.

I believe this has to do with how Google groups things. A few years back people talked about using this trick in reverse by changing num=10 to num=9, num=8, etc. If the first result had two domains, one that was indented, the second indented result might actually be at result 10, but since they were from the same domain, they were grouped together. If it was result 10, and you should just nine results, suddenly you'd see that "second" place link disappear.

My guess is this is what's happening here. Some of those results are in places 11-50 and showing up in the indented results.

Actually, WWW is considered a subdomain. If you have some links going to domain.com and some going to www.domain.com that would account for the different metrics.

There are two types of site maps. There are XML sitemaps for the search engines, and a regular page for the users.

The sitemap for the users does not need to include every page on your site. Check out how Verizon Wireless has done their sitemap. All of the sections are laid out, but there's just a link to smartphones -- not to each and every smartphone and its color variation. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp When examining what to include on your site, remember users as well as search engines.

I don't know that we offer this at all, but I'll ask around SEOmoz and see. Can I give a little context for your request, so we know if this is something that might appeal to more people -- a bit of information about how this might be used?

I totally agree with the other two responses. Ask what they mean by running macros, and be sure you understand what they are doing for you, and ask for regular reports. If they're building any links, you need to get the list from them about the exact links they have built.

This YouMoz post may also help some too. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos

Google Webmaster Tools just released an option to download your most recent links. As long as you can verify the site in GWT, that should be really helpful for you.

Yes, you can certainly shut down your computer. It's running on our servers. Sorry for the confusion!

Do you mean the SEOmoz social reports? If so, I'd contact our help team at http://www.seomoz.org/help and let them know. Thanks!

To be honest, I would focus on my users and conversions. Not one word has been said about traffic, if people are doing what you want them to, if you have unique content on your site, if you're offering anything of value to your users, etc.

Why the focus on Page Rank as a metric?

Google can tell they're the same image, and even lets you use this as a search. Go to images.google.com and click on the little image icon right by the search. Instead of putting in words describing the image, you can upload an image or point to an image URL and Google will tell you if it finds that image (or a very similar image) on any other pages. That's also a great way to find out if other sites are using your images. I found two other sites using an image from my site, for example. Here's the search results http://bit.ly/MtrXbs

I'd take a step back and stop building links, and start cleaning up the links that have already been built that are a bit fishy.

There's an article directory on a site with a domain about best pet insurance that links to the shoe store (http://bestpetinsurance.org/myarticledirectory/). A UK SEO directory has a link to the same shoe site, under the category of flowers (http://www.seoukdirectory.com/index.php?search=Internet).

If these links were built with your knowledge and you have access to the list of links that were built, go and remove the ones that were bought to just be links and serve no purpose to a reader. Also go through Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Center, and Open Site Explorer to look at incoming links and remove those bad links.

Look at the content in those websites. Clean out the junk and make the content good enough that someone would link there without prompting.

In short, think about if you were sitting down with someone from Google and explaining why these sites should be included in the index and have a high ranking. Make sure that everything under your control can be explained and is not embarrassing or going against their guidelines. Clean things up, then ask for a reinclusion request.

I believe we had a couple of blips earlier with our crawler. Your best bet for support is to go to http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the red "contact our help team" button -- the help team will get back to you on Monday and help you work out what's going on and find a fix.

The site: operator would be going to Google and typing in

site:artistalaska.com

for your search. It's telling google "My search is for everything you will show me on this one particular site"

People who do that are often ones who don't know about SEO or wanting to optimize anchor text and the ones who haven't been asked for specific information for a link. They're the ones who help contribute to a natural-looking link profile. If all of your links have anchor text that looks like someone coached them about what to write, it looks a bit suspicious to the engines and less like someone linked there on their own and more like they were prompted to do so.

I took a quick look at the first site. I don't know about triggering any type of warning, but are you aware that there are multiple pages with lorem ipsum text still? http://artistalaska.com/about.htm You might want to clean that up for a better user experience. Also, some pages are indexed that you probably don't want viewable, such as http://www.artistalaska.com/$_alternate1.htm.

Just those eight sites got targeted, and not the others that you also did (via http://spyonweb.com). Look and see if you can find something in common with those that the others don't have? I noticed this page http://www.whitegyr.com/using_free_link_exchange_directo.htm and while the Google notice doesn't mention linking, I'd maybe clean that up as a preventative tool.

Right now I'm on limited bandwidth and time, but if this were me I'd go through and do a site: on each of the sites and see what google has indexed and see if anything jumps out (like the default text, see if there's evidence of anything being hacked, etc). I'd go into open site explorer and look and inlinks and look to see anything fishy is there. I'd look at the source code to see if something looks off there (like a bunch of hidden text). I'd look to see if I was using unique content on the site.