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Thx.  watched it, makes good sense.

I have considered this, but I suspect something else is playing a much bigger role.

Here's why --- a couple months ago we were not optimized for "exact match" and we were still below them.  We've only been building exact match in the last couple months.

Also, if a site beats another on so many factors, is it really possible that just one factor like "exact match" links being over 20% could put you below them?

Seems like something else is in play here.  No?

anything specific you have in mind to "clean up" the link profile?

2 years v 9 years; theirs is older, but ours is over 2 years old

Any insight into what's driving these results would be appreciated.

Another site ranks #6 and we rank #22 on a keyword that scores 67% for "Keyword Difficulty", but we score significantly higher than them on almost every ranking factor including having nearly 10 times more backlinks along with higher PA and DA scores,etc. Here is a comparison from the Keyword Difficulty Tool report.

Question: What could be going on?

Factor and ranking comparison (us v. them) with our higher rankings are listed first.

PA: 61 v. 39,

mozRank 5,85 v. 4,54,

mozTrust 6.00 v. 5.49,

mT/mR = 1.0 v. 1.2,

total links = 4,198 v. 90,

internal links = 4198 v 90,

external links = 275 v. 57,

followed links = 4171 v 85,

no follow links = 27 v 5,

linking root domains = 46 v 30

on-page grade = A v B

broad keyword usage in title: yes v yes

broad keyword usage in document: yes v yes

keyword used in url = no v no

keyword used in domain = partial v no

KW exact match - no v no

exact anchor text links = 2373 v 13

%links w/ exact anchor text = 56% v 14%

linking root domains w/ exact anchor text = 7 v 8

% linking root domains w/ exact anchor text = 15% v 26%

partial anchor text links = 0 v 0

Domain Authority = 54 v 27

Domain mozRank = 5.4 v 3.2

Domain mozTrust = 5.8 v 3.7

DmT/DmR = 1.1 v 1.2

External links to domain 9261 v 63

Linking root domains to this domain = 355 v 33

linking c- blocks domains to domain = 267 v 30

tweets = 4 v 3

FB shares = 13 v 11

Google Plus one shares = 1 v 0

Our Domain Authority has been at 42 or 43 for a couple months and it just increased to 54.  Why did this happen?

I would like to think that it is because of out SEO and linkbuilding work.  However, I suspect something else may be involved because the 3 competitors we track also all increased between 10 to 25 points at the same time.

What happened?  Did you make changes in the way you score DA or is this the result of changes in what pages you crawl?  Or what?

I've been building backlinks for about 2 months now, but the links are not showing up in seomoz.  What is going on?

I've built backlinks across many different domains and using a variety of techniques including:

• directories
• blog posts
• blog commenting
• pr websites
• industry sites that allow blog posting and press release posting
• industry forums

Some of the links I built were from finding links competitors had and then creating a similar link, like blog commenting.   In some cases I took blog articles from our site and published them on industry blog sites.

I've searched for many of the pages and I CAN find them, so they ARE being indexed by Google, but they are not showing up as backlinks.  I've read some posts that say it can take anywhere from 2 to 5 months or longer before the links show up.  I've also read that Google's Webmaster Tools may show the links before  seomoz does.

Couple questions:

• Why don't the links show up as backlinks in seomoz?
• Will they show up eventually in seomoz and, if so, when?
• Should the links show up in Google Webmaster tools before they do in seomoz?
• Is there any good reason to believe some of the links will never get recognized, or should I be confident that they will eventually get recognized?