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We are encountering an issue where the crawler is finding a ton of pages from our wordpress login url that has this dynamic tag in it to kinds of different blog entries.  It's madness.  I can't figure out what is causing these URLs to generate to be crawled in the first place!  Does this sound familiar to anyone out there, any constructive suggestions?  Robots text or maybe meta robots tags that would resolve this crawl issue?

This is very helpful Chris.Menke (and SamWebber)!  Thank you for the feedback and insights.  What we have been frustrated with is that we know we are building quality links on high-ranking, authority domains, yet it seemed to us that Moz was not learning of these links.  What we've tried to understand is how Moz discovers and adds these URLs to its index.  Working on theory alone, that not all of them will be discovered or accepted for index, we just want to be able to tell Moz about these relationships we are building out there - hoping that it does move our metrics from where they seem to have sat for a while.  Again, the key issue is that we want to be able to use the Moz tools, but if we don't [get] the demanded "get results", the subscription isn't going to get approved!  Needless to say, we are working double-time to build quality links from great content, but - not being social media experts - we are sort of throwing stuff against the wall hoping something will stick.  Not the greatest strategy in the world, we know!  But faint heart never won fair lady.

Hi Moz Community!

We have been working hard to improve our Moz metrics, measuring against a high ranking competitor to help us set our goals.

Our Majestic and Webmaster Tools find tens of thousands of external backlinks pointing to our domain.  That's all well and good.  Moz's Open Site Explorer, however, only finds 900 total links - including internal links!

This being the case, we have worked diligently to build a variety of great external backlinks, creating Bitly links and encouraging clicks on those through social promotion.  Yet, our competitor has over 7,000 external backlinks in Moz's index, while ours is not growing relative to their number of backlinks.

Can anyone share with us what they do to tell Moz about their backlinks?  We already know we have many more backlinks than our competitor, from trusted domains with good authority, yet it seems Moz is not discovering them.  We just want to understand how to use these Moz metrics to create meaningful calls-to-action.  Otherwise, it seems like a gargantuan waste of time, and our team has difficulty getting buy-in from our company to put time and assets toward tasks based on our Moz numbers!