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I know this is an old question and I don't have anything to add myself but I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any thoughts on this because we're looking at doing a similar thing.

Does this tool still work?  Tried adding it today and no joy.

Thank you Adam, much appreciated.

Thanks for the responses guys.  Although the site is clearly in need of links, Open Site Explorer only shows a very small proportion of the links we have.  Maybe 5% of what's in Webmaster tools.  From what I've read on here it seems most people seem to have 40%+ shown in OSE, however it's much much lower than that for us.

Perhaps a lot of our links are quite deep links that Open Site Explorer hasn't managed to find however they are relevant links from sites in our niche so what I would consider relevant and high quality.

Sounds like from what you're saying, more links are needed anyway so I'll be focusing on that.  That said, I still don't know why my page rank dropped from 0 as at the time it barely had any links at all and it has 10 times what it had then, very odd.

Also, the site has so much unique user generated content, I'm at a bit of a loss on how to make even more content that would be of use!  I'm always getting linkback notification emails so I know there are loads of links, OSE just doesn't show them.

I think I understand the basic idea of mozRank and mozTrust, just confused as to how it's possible for a subdomain to have a lower score.  I guess only by having multiple sub domains can your overall root domain rank as high or higher than your subdomain...

I have set the preferred domain to the non www. site and all www. are 301'd to non www.  In sitexplorer if I view the www. then there is one followed link that is 301'd to the non www. site.  So that's why I'd have thought they'd be the same.

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They are all 0, even the home page.   Thank you very much for the help.

Just wanted to bump this in case anyone had any ideas?  Feel like we're missing a trick by not having good pagination on our forum.  Have been unable to find any way of adding this.

My website is around 2 years old and despite the fact the my site has 45,000 urls indexed and ranks highly for some competitive terms on Google, my pagerank is 0.

I appreciate that pagerank is not the be all and it would never have really concerned me, however around 1 month after the site was launched, it went up to PR1 before dropping to 0 on the next pagerank update where it has remained since (1.5 years later).

I haven't done any blackhat seo, nor would I have lost any good links at the time it dropped.  The site is much more established and ranks well for quite a lot of terms so why is it still Pagerank 0?  Could there be some sort of issue do you think?

Thanks

My site has everything in the root - test.com.   www.test.com is redirected to test.com and all content is in the root; there are no subdomains.

So I'm completely confused as to how the mozrank and moztrust are different.  They have the same number of links yet:

Subdomain:

MozRank - 3.72
MozTrust - 3.23

Root Domain:

MozRank - 3.05
MozTrust - 2.79

This seems consistent with all my competitors too so just wondered if someone could explain why the root domain is usually/often lower?  Surely the root domain numbers should always be equal to or higher than the subdomain?

If anyone has any ideas for this, would be most appreciated.  Thanks.

Yep, have voted here but doesn't look like it's planned so hoping there was a way to add it manually.

Thanks.

I've been looking for quite some time for a way of incorperating rel=next/rel=prev into my vBulletin forum however I've had no joy.

I want to try and consolidate my ranking as I have a very large amount of user generated content, but not enough links.

Any help would be most appreciated.

P.S - I have the vbSEO software and as far as I can see, there's no way of doing it through here.

Cheers Keri

One thing I've only just considered:

What about people who browse at work.  Do many work filters block out sites with profanity?

Thanks William, that's great.

My forum currently has a swear filter in place.  While I personally think in most cases there's better alternatives to swearing, the general consensus is that it should be removed, and I've no problem with that in principal, however my concern is that Google may penalise the site in some way if this is done.

I've searched around a fair bit and haven't found any solid info on this so hoping someone on here may know the answer.

The question - Can repeated swear words effect rankings or prevent a website displaying in Google if safesearch is on?

Thanks as always.

Thanks for clearing that up Rand, I'll stick to the one subdomain.

These links are the one's that got me thinking.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4339166.htm

Also, I was under the impression that sub forums on one domain were viewed as different sites in the SERPs but try searching for 'bodybuilding'.  You'll see www.bodybuilding.com at the top and a list of pages from that site and 2 further subdirectories are included (forum.bodybuilding.com and bodyspace.bodybuilding.com).

Although a personal preference only, I prefer subdomains and think forum.domain.com and blog.domain.com look much better than domain.com/forum and I would do it this way IF the rankings were unaffected.

I've had a good read on this one and just wondered whether the info on the below link is still valid 3 years on:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

My main site is a forum but I want to add further content in the form of a blog.  It seems logical to me that domain.com/blog/ would make more sense than blog.domain.com as the the content and inbound links to the blog would also help the forum where it's on the same subdomain, however I just wanted to make sure that was still the case as I've also read that Google now see a subdomain and subfolder in the same way if set up correctly in webmaster tools and this solution would look neater if that was the case.

Thanks all.

Thanks for all of the replies, much appreciated.  I think I shall leave it as it is as there doesn't appear to be any merit to moving across to the www. apart from the very small loss of link juice when people link to the www. and it gets 301'd.

Is there any benefit whatsoever to having the www. in the URL?

My domain is quite long therefore I've not been using the www. however a few people have mentioned it's good practice to include it.

The www. forwards to the main URL (non www.) and I've set my preferred domain name in webmaster tools to the non www.  so I'm thinking that should all be ok.

Just hoping I could get  some of the experts views to make sure this is all ok.  The site is a year old and I'm just starting to really get going on the link building so it's not too late to change if I'm wrong.

If others link to my site and include the www. will the link juice be passed, as I suspect many will include it without any thought?

Thank you very much for all of that info.  Will have a good read and get link building.

Thank you very much for the advice, really appreciate it.  I've sent you a pm with the web address.

Cheers.

In Google Webmaster Tools I have well over 1000 links.  Now I appreciate that this will vary a lot compared to Open Site Explorer but that's showing just 45.

Previously, before the last OSE update on the 28th I had 182 links so this is a big drop.  My competitors use similar software (vbulletin forum) and have all increased in links and my actual links haven't dropped at all according to Google Wemaster Tools.)

My MozRank has dropped a lot, as has the authority and trust.  I know this is only a guide but it's very frustrating.  My PageRank has also dissapeared (although was only 1 a month or two ago) so really not sure what's going on.

Does anyone have any ideas.  I haven't done anything that would penalise me in Google, just some tweaking of certain pages to try and help relevance and rankings.

Cheers.