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Hi Eric,

As others have said, you don't want spun content. Spun articles and high quality do NOT go together. You end up with articles about alcoholism that read "think before you beverage".

Look at some more of the Open Site Explorer metrics than just the home page. When you scroll down to the other two metrics on that page, you'll actually see followed links at 98%, but that counts external and internal links. For the entire domain, OSE sees 51k followed external links, 67k total external links, and over 5 million  total links.

OSE is also showing 1,098 linking C blocks for 67,128 links.

Looks like a lot of your links are internal, with pages like this http://www.curadebt.com/settlements/letter147.asp#.T7rB98WuCIw. Tons of pages like this, and I don't think they add too much value to the user.

Hi Martin,

Have you sent us a note at help@seomoz.org so we can look into it? That'd be the best bet. Thanks!

Keri

Look for the "Redirection" plugin for Wordpress, that can help you make redirects easily. It's also an easy way to let you see what's a 404 on your site, and make redirects from the page listing the 404s.

You can check for some common issues in the post at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page. If that doesn't solve the problem, send an email to help@seomoz.org and they'll look into it on Monday for you.

Sorry that I missed this response! You want to find a server header checker tool (doing a Google search on those keywords will get you several such tools) and then put your 404 page into that tool. That will tell you if that page is truly serving up a 404.

If you go to the URL in my first response, the instructions there will explain how it works. Have you tried visiting that URL?

You can run the crawl on demand for up to 3000 urls at a time. That should help you out between regular crawls.

Stephanie Chang wrote a great post about this on the blog a few weeks back at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content

We did have a problem with that for a couple of days, but it should be fixed as of today. If you still can't get it to work, send an email to help@seomoz.org and we'll look into things for you from the help desk. Thanks!

The crawl frequency is weekly and cannot be changed. What you can do is run a crawl test from http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test if you need a crawl on demand.

Not right now. You can see a more detailed explanation from the help desk at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20199538-is-there-a-way-i-could-add-another-user-to-access-my-pro-account

Alan does have the best response here. We do have a bug with some users not getting their credit, so emailing the help desk will help them to track this and figure it out, and they'll be able to give you your credit as well.

Dr. Pete did a great post about just this topic (same exact title for the blog post even) at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

Hi Stayin,

Check out Rand's response at http://www.seomoz.org/q/seomoz-rocks-but-is-it-breaking-google-s-webmaster-guidelines-when-it-comes-to-check-rankings to a similar question.

Ryan, I'm guessing that the OP is referring to display/banner ads, and to using remarketing/retargeting practices. Just like if you visit SEOmoz from another computer (where you're not a pro member) you'll find Roger following you all around the web, that's one form of retargeting.

My guess is that is going to be a tough one to start with nothing unless you've got something really great to add that is not already out there. Look at your keywords and look at the competition, then look at your content. Is your content better than what is already on the first page?

Do people looking for tickets care about current news and analysis, or do they care about tickets? Does your content match what your buyer wants to find?

No time at all if you want to rank for a 12 word phrase that nobody searches for, or if you use a search engine that is easily gamed. Eons if you are trying to rank on the first page of Google in the US for a generic one word keyword like "cars" or "loans".

Dr. Pete has a good post about just this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/penguins-pandas-and-panic-at-the-zoo.

That is certainly an interesting way of asking for a removal, but I could see a potential for it backfiring as well -- having people talk about your client having an infected site, for example.

I suggest reading how Ryan Kent dealt with removing links, and keeping very detailed records of the attempts to remove links, and his ability to get part of the penalty lifted in this Q&A at http://www.seomoz.org/q/does-anyone-have-any-suggestions-on-removing-spammy-links

Wow! I just have to give an expanded thanks (we don't have much room in the Endorsement area) for this detailed response. It's great to get some solid information about what it took to get a partial lifting of this penalty. It's certainly one I'll be sending other people to as an example of what to do.

Stephanie Chang wrote a post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content that talks about handling expired content, that may help with some ideas for you.

Stephanie Chang posted on just this subject last month on the blog at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content. Her post may help you with some ideas -- it was actually because of all of these types of questions in Q&A that she wrote the post.

Michael Gray has a good post about this at http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/get-photos-for-your-website/

Today's YouMoz is also about this subject. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/not-freaking-out-about-the-eu-cookie-legislation

Actually, the bots may not show up in GA because it's a javascript logging system. However, if you have access to AWstats or some log file on your server, you may be able to get the information that way. I'd find out what stats system you have on your server, then start doing searches for people that have already written tools to do what you want.

Diane,

I suggest you work on the content and make it more readable. The first paragraph is likely to turn off some readers and make them leave the site without clicking on any more articles or any ads. Take a step back and read the following out loud and see if it's something you think will encourage a reader to stick around.

Payday Loans company Wonga who have been at the centre of a lot of controversy since they launched their pay day loans company are now expanding their business to target the small business owner where they are going to target small businesses who are struggling and offer them instant cash.

Also, that article just doesn't seem to fit in. When I look at the header of your site, I see LIFESTYLE in all caps and a picture of a woman. Subheads are about health for men and women, gastric band hypnotherapy, gossip, holiday reviews, etc. One of the articles on your sidebar appears in numerous places on the web (duplicate content).

You need content that people will want to read long enough for them to even notice the ads. If the content turns people off, they're going to close that browser tab, and all the positioning in the world won't make a difference.

You can do a custom crawl at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test of 3000 URLs that might help you get started.

Searching the SEOmoz blog itself can turn up some interesting resources. This is a site audit checklist for looking at an existing site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit.

People ask all kinds of website and marketing related questions here, it's not restricted to strictly SEO. The accounting/inventory software question we saw come in today was a tad off topic though.

There are a fair number of people here who do ecommerce, but if you don't get enough feedback, you might try a forum more strictly related to that.

Rand has a good post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions that should help you get a handle on this.

We had a great guide posted about this in February that you might want to look at. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos

To add to what Bonnie has said, proper structure helps the search engines as well as those with any type of screen reader -- it's good for accessibility, too. If you can't convince them from the SEO standpoint, try accessibility.

For SEOmoz, I know some of our most popular (in terms of thumbs and comments) posts have been well over 2000 words. Adam, I don't have that post. What I do have is a roundup of 2011 posts by likes, tweets, etc. and you can look at those individually and see length (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-best-of-2011-posts-people-who-rocked-our-world).

I'd look more, but I've got a backlog of other Q&A questions due to being on the road. Driving from SF to Seattle today and tomorrow. Halfway there, and way behind on email and Q&A.

Just heard from the engineers that the fix has been deployed. Try connecting with your FB account again and all should work. If not, drop a note to help@seomoz.org and we'll get you hooked up. Thanks for your patience!

Hi! We're aware of some glitches going on right now with FB and we're working on them. So sorry for the problems!

Thread duplicated at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-serious-is-suplicate-page-content, closing this version.

Thanks Alex! I'm liking it too.

We did not have an update between February 27th and yesterday. If you run reports now, you should see an update for most metrics (besides anchor text). We have a blog post about the latest update at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mozscape-update-our-largest-index-yet-159-billion-urls

We did update yesterday afternoon. Check out our blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mozscape-update-our-largest-index-yet-159-billion-urls and add a comment or send an email to help if you're still having any problems.

We do know about the delays. We have a blog post being written right now that outlines some of the known bugs that we have, and that should help explain everything. We know how frustrating this is, and apologize for that.

Andrea is correct. It's not a feature right now, but it is on our list. We have more information available at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20199538-is-there-a-way-i-could-add-another-user-to-access-my-pro-account.

We also have a list of recommended companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended that might help you out.

Are you looking at the exact same url? Sometimes this happens if you are looking at www in the browser and non-WWW in OSE, or if there's a trailing slash, etc.