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Doug,

Overall, I agree and good thinking. The other issue is impressions can be more influenced by seasonality, etc. I think she would be better served looking at site visits and the associated keywords along with time on site, and bounce rate, conversions,  etc.

If she has 3 terms around widgets: Blue widgets, Green turtle widgets, and moving purple lion widgets that were all fully active during a given period, she can compare apples to apples in each time span.

Best

Edit: And I would still like to see a screen shot.

Miranda, Is there any way you can send a screen shot or two? I am having a bit of trouble getting what is going on in my mind. 
How does the data look for the first two month period compared to the second?

Atul, I think the way Rasmus has it here is correct. The other day I came across a tool for 301's that will write for you.  FULL Disclosure is I have not used it yet. If you want to check it out, the site is

http://seo-website-designer.com/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator

Might be worth a try.

It could have been one of my ex wives. They can be so spiteful!!

No worries, just wondered what they did not like....if I thumb you down I let you know why as do many others. That way we all learn. Your answer was excellent btw. One question would be is, if Google did not like the places page, why just not incorporate the new address as opposed to etelling hm in the WMT or Places dashboard??

But, given what you found, I could see how they would have some verification doubts. Best to you.

Well, someone did not like the answer I gave, but left no reason as to why it was wrong... (my response above is what typically is wrong)

But, I looked at your places listing and no address is showing as you said. I tried junk removal cincinatti to no result then used your 800 number and same and found your Places listing in maps.
Did you by chance get any error message from Google?
Besides the address what did you change?
Did the PIN come via postcard or was it phone.?

Sometimes when you make a lot of changes that will effect your places account for a while (sometimes a couple of months). The account will show in maps but not in general search.

That is the only other issue I could see. Was the 800 number new or has it always been there.

I do not believe that will work for you the way you are hoping. As it stands, what you are doing is redirecting every page on zelda-temple to legendzelda.net, your home page. Since I don't know much about legends of Zelda  (I am more of a Modern Warfare kinda guy) 
I am assuming the site generates money from sponsors and that those sponsors are on various pages throughout. 
If someone wants to go to a given page for say "majoras Mask", your PA there is 21 (you only have one linking root domain) whereas your homepage today is at 51.

So long as you believe all will come to the homepage and stay there long enough to look at sponsors before going on, leave it as is.

If you want to enhance the site and have more people seeing individual pages (through better ranking) as opposed to the homepage, you need to change the 301 so that you are linking url to url.

Best

I would think it would depend on the age of the article and whether or not people were actively linking to that. So even the old article, if all of a sudden people started linking to it (like a bio for a actor when there is suddenly news about him) it would become relevant again and likely good. If it is only a couple of months old, I think it would be more worthwhile than something that is 2 years old.

if your 301 is domain to domain it will not work or will take forever. You need to set up the 301 in the .htaccess file and do it url to url. So, if you had zelda-temple.net/xyz/ and on your site you had othertemple.com/xyz you would 301 the zelda/xyz to yoursurl/xyz.

This way the link juice will be transferred around 90%

Typically we see as much as 95% transferred over several months.

As to showing in OSE, due to the timing of the crawls you will not see changes for 5 to 7 weeks and then monthly thereafter. No need to watch that daily. The schedule for the crawl is here: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule

Hope this helps

Yes, unless your desire is to have the home page rank higher. Typically a link to a domain is to the home page.

When ranking for keywords, remember that SERPs are for pages and not for sites. So, if you had a site with a DA of 50 and a page with a PA of 1 (new page for example) and the keyword was widget, you will be ranked against other widget pages. So, someone with a PA of 27 and a DA of 27 versus someone with a PA of 1 and a DA of 50, the higher PA will rank ahead all other things being equal.

Also, when you get a link from a site, juice you get is based on the PA and not the DA. So if there are 3 links from a page with a PA of 30 you will get roughly 10 for each link. (Even if the DA is 98).

Hope this helps

pqdbr

Based on the recent White Board Friday by Cyrus Shepard and Tim Grice's SEO WIZ post, I would say it is near worthless.

To some degree, for me it is counter-intuitive. But, I have to believe with QDF, etc. that a link from new content is better than an equivalent link from old content. When you speak of an old blog post (two years old), unless there is something happening with it recently I would move on to greener pastures.

Donald,

As a former RN, I feel you

Today, with any client we have, they either already have a bunch of domain names or they want us to purchase a bunch for them. The issue becomes one of proportion. If, you are in a very narrowly defined area of medicine like a cardiologist who only does caths, you might be able to buy up 20 to 40 domains around a given location and make it more difficult on someone to use that as an exact match domain. Given that exact match still matters on some level, but probably a lot less than we think, you could justify it at some level.

But where do you stop with that worry? For me, and for our clients I believe you have to stop at the point where you are protecting a specific domain name: Houston Heart Cath Specialist.com, .net, .org, etc. And then do the same with hyphenated version: Houston-Heart-Cath-Specialist.com, .etc.

To then want to own and redirect: Best Houston Heart Doc, Houston Special Heart doc, etc. is just a waste of money IMO. It is great for the registrars like the one with G and D in the name, but it really does not benefit your MD.

If you give most of those who frequent the Q and A your doctor's domain and five minutes, they will come up with at least 20 domains they could use to easily compete with you if that were the only measure to be used.

I would suggest to the doc that they allow you to focus on more important SEO matters like how to include Google +, the need for Schema going forward, maximizing keywords in site architecture, (let me know if you need more.)

Good luck convincing the good doctor to change his/her opinion.

I would assume it is manual and begin the process of reconsideration (immediately due to them taking a while - some two to three months). The reason I say that is that there is nothing in Site:url. I cannot think of any other reason that there would be zero indexed pages showing. 
Have you looked on Bing for cached pages (out of curiosity more than anything)?

Webfeatseo,

You said you edited and verified it, but address does not show. Did you get and enter a new PIN? If not, in Places Dashboard, does it show that something "Needs Action?"

Typically, if it is an issue it will be here. If you simply changed the address and hit submit, it did not verify. You have to get a new PIN and put it in. If you did not do that, that is likely your issue. If you did, you will need to contact Google Places Support.

Ryan,

I am assuming you have gone into Bing Webmaster Tools, but in case you have not, here is info re determining if a penalty exists:

Bing says:To determine if a penalty has completely blocked your site from the Bing index, log in to Bing Webmaster Tools, and review the messages to the webmaster on the Home tab. If no messages about penalties are found, select the registered site in question from the SITES list, and then review the Index Summary chart on the Dashboard tab. If the number of pages indexed has dropped down to zero, then your site has a severe index penalty levied against it. Note that Bing Webmaster Tools does not currently display the status of lesser index penalties. (NOTE: Italics above are mine)

On the chance you have been penalized, here is the link to reconsideration; Bing Support Re Reconsideration

I have not suffered a penalty on Bing and called a few friends and none have experience. Sorry I could not be more help.

I need to first clarify: your title is Google Places phone number question. The body of your question says: **This phone number is consistent in over 50 directories. **

So, if you are asking if having that number in other directories (Not in Places) for the Spa and for Spa Cuts, will cause the listing in Places to be "penalized," no it won't. BUT if someone goes in and reports that there is a problem with the site and shows Google these identical numbers, Google could potentially take you down until it is resolved.

I am assuming you do not have Places pages that are verified for the Spa and for Spa Cuts. If you do and the numbers are the same, I am shocked. Google will usually catch that.

My suggestion is that if at all possible get new numbers for the other two businesses and have them roll into the Hotel number. If someone calls the "old" or hotel number, they still arrive as they did before. If they call the new number they still arrive as before, but if there is a verification PIN on them, when it comes through the new number Google will have the new number listed. Either way, you are ok. Ultimately, you have three Google Places addresses which can' t be too bad.

Best

Echo1

Based on what we know currently about Google +1, I would have to say that it is much more important right this moment than Facebook. I would ask the customer to +1 you by simply having the bookmark/icon on the pages of the site. For your promotion, I would ask them to add you to their circles.

There was an article on Wired by Tim Carmody on Wired: http://bit.ly/wki28I a few days ago talking about how Google's +1 is essentially a real estate grab. Whether or not you agree with that statement, it appears based on all I have read that +1 is about being able to have yourself in more places on Google which helps you.

When you look at Cyrus Shepard's post of a week ago regarding how Google + is using SEO to steal search from Facebook and Twitter (A must read in my opinion) it is obvious that people are more likely to see something when searching on Google if it is in Google + versus Facebook.

No, haven't tested it out yet, but from all I see Google is after everything. Time will tell, but for today I would go with Google + if I could only spend in one area.

Best

Ryan nails all of the basic issues, so I will just add something: When I went to the site, having never heard of GetSatisfaction.com, for whatever reason my eyes went to kiddiecare and Pampers logos first. I immediately thought it was some type of aggregator of children's items for moms. Then, I was drawn to Start A Community today. Soooo, what Ryan says is correct regarding "no clear message."

Given your client list and your DA and PA, you seem to have something to sell, but I don't think many people would know what that is from visiting the site. Ignoring the slider, the three buttons below are: Get Satisfaction for Facebook, The Age of the Customer, and Sometimes Size Does Matter. With everything on the page, you may be trying to give too many messages. I would clean it up to one or two coherent ideas and then use menu tabs and internal links to bring in the rest.

Hope this helps,

Digi

The way you are doing this is probably not the best way to find out. I suggest editing out the 6 or so ones you have put up here as the thumbs up and down are not for what you are trying. Why not simply put up the question without that. You could still use an ordered list to throw out some names for people to ponder. Maybe ask them to give their top three and then you tabulate them in a couple of days and add as a reply on this question.

First you need to clarify whether you are talking about hosting for a single site or a dedicated server to put multiple sites/clients on.

We use a dedicated for most of our clients and, for me, the best I have used is RackSpace, but they are expensive. Blue Host is used by our dev team along with Network Solutions for hosting a couple of simple client sites.

Who I have quit using (unfortunately a lot of clients are still on server and/or hosted sites still) GoDaddy.com because of service, and their support of SOPA. I also quit using media Temple because we just had too many times when our sites went down.

Hopefully, there will be some good input on this for you as I am interested too. I move all hosting, etc. in June so I need to know.
Best

Diane,

You have asked a great question as it is one that is regularly asked and it points out a common error we all make when looking at a competitor's site. Thanks.

You said, "i would like to know what keywords they are using to gain traffic and i would like to know what tools i need to use to research how they are achieving great success with google." There are two things here: first  what keywords they are using to gain traffic  and, second _what tools you need to use to research how they are achieving great success with Google. _

On keywrds they are using to gain traffic, I would say they are using travel and review (I simply looked at the page and then used the mozBar to look at meta, title tags, url , etc. You could also use the term extractor from SEOmoz.

On tools to research how they are succeeding with Google, I am going to ask that you keep this private (and anyone who reads it as well) because it is a proprietary methodology that I have developed but will share with you. I call the tool - my eyes. Yes, my eyes. I look at the page and see what someone else sees. When I look at this page and then at yours, yours is a travel site and theirs is a news site with fresh content, not cramped, real stories, etc. So, they have made a travel site into a source of information and there is no blatant, in-your-face this deal or that deal. They are not worried about how many times a given keyword is used and that is smart. They simply report happenings, etc. the first two things I saw when I opened the page were: A solitary polar bear and a nipple. In no way was this a screaming travel site.

So, term extractor and my eyes are the only tools I would use for this.

Best,

Thanks Diane,

I would suggest the following: Use your Holiday News page as just that. Put 10 times more Holiday related news, etc. than you do anything with travel. Yes, you can have a couple of links to deals, etc. but really be laser like in your focus on Holiday News, etc.

The minute you start adding cruise reviews, hotel reviews, travel advice, etc. you are going to be a travel site no matter how many times you say holiday. Make this page be about Holiday news, etc. Stay away from the standard travel site format you have if at all possible.

This will help you rank for Holiday news, etc and likely have a higher chance at converting visitors into purchasers.

Diane

I will assume you have done your keyword analysis and that the four keywords here are the best of the best for your purposes. If this is correct, then

Your order based on what you wrote would seem to be - The site is a Magazine. It will provide three things: News, Ideas, and Products at good prices. You want the world to know this all by virtue of your home page -

I would start with Title Tag = Holiday News, Holiday Ideas, Holiday Deals | The Holiday Magazine (I am naming it The Holiday Magazine here)

My H1 would be along the lines of The Best Holiday Magazine for News, Party Ideas, and Unannounced Holiday Deals

I would then have a two to three sentence "why" statement with an ordered list of these three News, Ideas, Products with an example and a link (eg. an outbound link to a great or recent travel deal - if you point out one from this Christmas - "Travel Deal Ghost from Christmas Past...2011" -  that no one could believe, it would lead people to associate you with that great deal - It must be great and even clever) I would bold or italicize each item on ordered list: Holiday News, Holiday Deals, etc.

I would make sure to use good descriptions in alt text of up to about 140 - 150 characters. (Do not keyword stuff)

I would have a meta description that got people to click through.

I would find several holiday links to acquire and I would link to holiday sites, wiki on Christmas, etc. from your home page (two links).

So there is the quick and dirty. Make sure you remember me at Christmas if this works out for you

Edit: Diane, when I wrote this I had not gone to the link to your site (my bad). Your home page is not a Holiday Magazine as it stands now It is a whole lot of content on cheap travel. When I go to the Holiday page, it is better, but if you are just going to fill it with a ton of travel offers, etc. I do not see how you will rank for Holiday News even with the best structure.

Hello Echo1

I am of the opinion that given  the seven pack would be above 90% of the organic results in most cases, that the local is more important. Here is how I arrive at that conclusion:

Without local, we know that the first page results are basically #1 is getting 35 to 40% of clicks, #2 roughly 10 to 12%, #3 - #5 would be approx. 9, 6, 5%. 
Next, we know  people are creatures of habit. So, just the fact the seven pack is above, says they will choose it first.

Also, we have a client who ranks #7 (G) in Places and then shows up in the organic at number 5. He gets most of the clicks through the Places listing.

As to did it just become more important, I think it always has been but Google forced us to clarify the position.

The keyword difficulty/analysis tool uses the Google Adwords API so the results are the same.

The reason that SEOmoz has a month in there is that Rand wants it to appear he is smarter than Google... (NO Just Kidding).

I think for the answer as to why it shows a month we will need the assistance of an associate, etc.

None whatsoever. 
I am assuming you are buying a domain name XYZ.com and not an active ongoing site with pages that would be 301'd to your urls. A 301 says content that was originally here has moved to there...permanently. So, if there was no content and no links, there would be no benefit.

Especially in Chrome, the mozbar will pick up the plugins on most sites. With firefox I don't have the problem. This is not related to the slow site load.

Best

Duncan, 
Yslow is working on page for me (using Chrome). I think based on what I am seeing it is a server issue. On my side it took about 16 seconds to load pre cache.

On YSlow, you have a grade of 82/B in V2 with the following issues:

F on needing Content Deliv. Network

F on needing to add expires headers

F on entity tags

D on needing to use gzip to compress components.

Interestingly, each time I ran Y Slow, the speed at which it could provide the result changed (last time doubled) again pointing me toward server/host. 
Even with issues here, you should not be loading this site, this slowly.

Do you have any other sites on this server and if so how are they doing?

EDIT - Also, if you have other sites, are they on same or different IP address?

EGOL

When you made that change, do you have the video on one page or multiple? Do you have any data or an opinion on effect by virtue of video length?

Thanks for another great insight.

Levalencia1

First, I think you have to get clear as to what your boss appears to be communicating: Boss wants more product offerings over time, not necessarily a change in the Home Page. (If I am wrong here, please forgive)

From a marketing perspective, I agree with your boss. Because, people who come to your site home page are more likely to have a higher percentage of repeat customers than those going to other pages.

If I search on Epson XYX printer today, you have an optimized page that is well ranked for same on your site and has a meta descript I like, I will click and land on your Epson XYX page.

After buying the refurbed XYX and loving your service, on my next visit, I am going to put the sites main url most likely and not the full url of the XYX page.

When I land on that home page then, you should be showing me what you have to offer today. Is there a discount on a general product? Something new and groovy? etc.

So, how to maintain the SEO of the home page and serve up "specials" is then the question. It is done every day and is not hard to do. Your home page is fully capable in that you are changing your featured products and HOT products, etc. Your banner has thumbnails and the big banner. The banner could be a slider that serves up three in a short span, etc. With Featured and Hot products changing, etc. you will be keeping the content updated which has benefits for SEO - freshness.

So, you get SEO, the boss gets lots of products looked at, and the customer gets to see a great selection.
Best

Ade,

For some reason this must be the beginning of the year of International SEO as there are a ton of questions lately around it. Istvan is correct on Rand's WBF being very good. (Note that some of the thread comments are great as well). A point within this is that the answer is not black and white but more based on client/brand capabilities and resources, is having cc TLDs worth giving up the links for or do you need them combined, etc.

As to having it all be separate, I don't think it is necessarily a rule that cc TLD with server "in country" is best. With the two you mention (and I am a Yank) I do not see any type of French bias. Given that, you are more likely at one site on a lot of levels.

Then use sub directories so that the domain as a whole builds authority. So, if you can get a good gTLD and then have all on one, there may be some economies in time, effort, $, and link power.

I am currently dealing with Africa / South America / US ...... and can't find a way yet to get to one site for the client..........

Jared,

In my experience (and I cannot think of a site we have done with Drupal and WP) I do not see where it would cause you a problem from an SEO pov to do both. If it is for you, you should be able to work around any issues with more esoteric differences between the two. On the other hand, if you were doing for a client, I just had a client we switched to all WP whom a previous dev had on a CMS for site and WP for blog on site. (Was cumbersome for client).

As to subdomain or directory, I would use directory.

Best

Do what your client requested. First, because you owe him that as a client. Second, because he is right about the analytics (and rather astute it seems), but lastly, and most importantly in my opinion, Because it will ultimately gain you respect with both clients over time. 
For me, I would hate to lose that business, but I would tell the one who wants the SEO that you have to honor your commitment, but that you also believe there are other good SEO firms. Give him three that you think are good (don't give one as that could be a bit of a rub with your client) and let him speak with them. Or give him some good rule of thumb on how to find a good firm.
You will ultimately benefit.

Keri

Thanks for this. Good info.

It appears fairly basic and like lavellester, I have not heard of it either. Given that it is basic, if you are new to SEO I would first check out the beginners guide to SEO on SEOmoz

Then look at the topics of the conference, after you read the beginner's guide, see what you know. Then look up each of the headings for the conference and see what is on here in the way of recent posts, White Board Friday's, etc., you may find you can save a trip and the boss $200. (Tell him/her how you did it and maybe get a lunch out of it!)

BTW, I looked at their main site. They have very good on page, good PA/DA, linking, rel=canon, etc. So, they likely know a bit about SEO. If you still need to get outta the office.

Good Luck

Jacob,

This is a question any of us ask from time to time. Unfortunately, and I think Google says it too, they are not at a place where everything is "caught" even with all the changes in the algorithm in the last year or two. So,when looking at a competitor, it is easy to get caught up in the, "They have these bogus links and are outranking me." game.
I would suggest you not get caught up in that worry as you will be focusing on the wrong thing. I don't think if you want to go get that link, given you are not in the most competitive space on the web and assuming your site/pages are not repositories of Chinese Gambling Ginseng Sexual Enhancement links by the gross, you should be fine. I doubt that it will change anything drastically though for the positive.

I would focus on the other aspects of SEO and on continuing to build your links to your sites. This will pay off much better. By focusing on quality on page SEO and really focusing on it you beat out 90% of your competitors. By focusing as much as possible in local where you can, you beat out at least 75% of your competitors. By having ripping good meta descriptions that make people want to visit you get more conversions. If you consider that links are 20% of SEO +/- then there is roughly 80% left. By focusing on the 20 you are ceding too much ground to the guy who takes the easy way out. If you want to bust his chops, get the rest of it so tight he cries and continue to build quality back links; in a few months see who wins.

Best

David

I am not sure what you mean when you say when the keywords and industries overlap. With industries I am not sure how they overlap unless you mean in a vertical like law where you could have a bankruptcy attorney and a DWI attorney. Both would in essence be competing for the broadest attorney and law terms. (Lawyer or Attorney for two).

We would take clients like this, within a given geography we will take competitors (5 dentists in a large city), etc. With national accounts (we have a large legal account for example in a very competitive area) we would not take a competitor without some sort of sign off from both sides.

Especially with professional practice clients, one of our biggest selling points is that if a marketing firm does say all the chiropractors in the country...who do they give their best to? If you are serving all are you really serving any? With so many Legal Marketing, Dental Marketing, Medical Marketing, Chiro Marketing companies, we find it fairly easy to get clients when we show them the logic. We don't then turn around and do the same.

We want clients that we help to become best. We tell them from the beginning that if we cannot prove their outcomes in their market they should let us go. We even show them how to measure it in real dollars, leads, etc.

So, we like exclusivity. In an event where we can serve competitors we would only do so if all are in signed agreement for some reason.

Best

You won't see the change right away. Google will take a bit to get it in. From Google:

** Updates to existing listings, including the removal of photos or entire listings can also take up to two weeks. .**

The phone change is causing your problem and you need to request that you get reverified. From google Places:

Note that if you edit your business name, address, or phone number, you'll need to verify again before these changes can go live.

Just go in and reverify and you should get all. If you get the PIN in quickly, you should be up within 24 hours of getting it in.

Good Luck

Now, that was a good question. Why not send a quick email to help@SEOmoz.org and just ask if there is a way to circumvent? LMK please.

TANKS!

OK for the description, click on the box where the description is and it will be available to change.

As to data, can you retrieve any at all? Say from the year before?

Did you change anything with location, business name, address, phone, etc?

First, I think here in the US the Testimonials page still works if you do it correctly.

Second, with customers who you can ask for help, have them put reviews on sites and link to the sites from your testimonials page.

You can also have them do a review on Places, use the same verbiage on your testimonials page & same user name of customer on Places. Then state (from our customer Suzi Q on  our Google reviews!)

Best

This seems to be the question of the day. It was answered well by Rand about a year ago in this White Board Friday

As to directories or subdomains, etc. this answers in variables as opposed to do this or do that. You should be able to decide after reading or watching.

As to language meta tags, yes you want to use them and you want to target the country in your WMT as well. Especially with language variants like US vs. UK.

Best

Unfortunately, I am having a problem with Imgur and cannot process url for some reason. Here is link to my image.

http://i.imgur.com/bErOs.png

It appears there is an issue in that you have changed something other than category and description. This has resulted in the need for a new PIN. Because the images you show are snippets it is hard to tell what is up.

In my  image from link above, you will notice one business still requires a PIN and has nothing to the right. the others have analytics to the right. IF you are not showing analytics, you likely have a need for a new PIN.

When you made changes did you change the account to you from the business owner? If you make any changes like that, or address, or phone, etc. It will require a new PIN.

Hope this helps, (If you can show larger image of page, we can likely assist).

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First question is: Have you thought of using the .cc instead of the sub directory? Rand speaks to the .fr issue in his WBF mentioned by iBiz Leverage.

As to canonical to avoid duplicate content, you shouldn't have a duplicate content issue even with the two languages so long as you set your country target for each. But, read or watch the WBF by Rand as it is full of info on this subject and domain auth, etc.

You will not have a duplicate content problem if the sites all target different countries. For each site, set your country target in GWMT. With sites targeting different countries but using same language you need to insure correct language meta tags (EN-US for US, EN-GB for UK. etc)

First, your dev is wrong. The url your dev has first is a dynamic url and you do not want that. You can spot dynamic url's by virtue of the ?, &, .cgi-bin etc. The problem is more in conversions than in a lack of indexing, etc.

You do want to redirect url to url and most believe you will get 90 to 99% of the juice. (My experience is that it is over 90%). The preference from what you provided would be the http://www.k9electronics.com/designer-dog-beds/

Lastly, since you are going down this road, I suggest you read this post by Dr. Pete. It gives good advice on eCommerce. I think based on your question you would find it very helpful.

Best

The issue is going to be around how you use the name. What Google does not want is what I would call a misdirection by a business (and many unscrupulous ones try often). So, if you are in a town and your business is John's Coffee in town, but your national brand is HotTime Coffee, the issue will be around who you are. Due to the number of people utilizing Places, you need to be clear prior to the upload that you are using a viable (within the guidelines clearly) method or presentment. 
My suggestion would be to first do one or two. You can get those verified in a day or two. Once you have the format of presentation correct, try one more to be sure always utilizing a distant location so you have a good view of the landscape. Then do your bulk upload. 
To me, this would be better as you would spend 2to 4 days getting ready and reduce time on the backend by having had it right to start with.

Best to you

Actually, there were recent adjustments to the SEOmoz page rank system to make it more reflective of where a page would actually be ranking in search results. Since the move was only ten percent, it was probably simply an adjustment based on that change. The change was explained in the following post on the 23rd of Nov. by Matt Peters

Since you are seeing improvement, it shows that the change is based no changes in measurement by moz and not in search rankings or results.

Rest easy, its all good.