Hi,

Just curious if people see a benefit from BOTW / HotFrog as offered here in the Moz Local stuff.

I was always under the impression that stuff offered here would be "of quality" however I just did a bit of background checking and both of these seem to be marked with nofollow, and I'm guessing some of it has been for a long time.

Are there other benefits that accrue?  BOTW is not cheap, and while HotFrog is cheap, I feel a need to be somewhat wary of these options - but I SO want to trust the MOZ brand!

Moz is pretty well known for excellent analysis - so...  has anyone done any recent analysis on this?

Is everything going away??

Please tell me it ain't so!

thanks!!

still waiting...

for the original poster - what did you end up doing - and did it make a difference??

(and) similar question but different...

If suddenly some 90% of a 5,000 page blog is changed to have the blog pages no-indexed, will the linkjuice be now more concentrated on the remaining 10%?

in the old days, we sort-of-called this "pagerank sculpting" and the idea was to focus the linkjuce on certain pages and defocus it on other pages.

does this make a difference these days??

keep in mind that the 4,500 remaining pages are still followed, and all backlinks remain in place.

will the site start ranking better for the keywords on the 500 indexed pages?

tia!!

Just had the experience of using OSE data to show what we call "linkrot" to a client -- only to find that GWMT / Search Analytics shows no such thing.

Fortunately the client is an old friend and no face was lost, but it was dicey there for a bit as I have come to rely on and reference OSE again and again and again,

OSE showed Domain Authority dropping by about 1/3 in the last 12 months, presumably due to old links getting broken, linking sites changing their architecture etc.

And of course, ranking is tanking, as you would expect.

But Google shows many more (and much more spammy looking!) backlinks.

Has anyone had any experience benchmarking the 2 data sets of backlinks against each other?  Dr Pete?
Does one update more frequently than another?

Do you trust one more than another?? If so, why??

Thanks!

still waiting...

Hi,

Just curious if people see a benefit from BOTW / HotFrog as offered here in the Moz Local stuff.

I was always under the impression that stuff offered here would be "of quality" however I just did a bit of background checking and both of these seem to be marked with nofollow, and I'm guessing some of it has been for a long time.

Are there other benefits that accrue?  BOTW is not cheap, and while HotFrog is cheap, I feel a need to be somewhat wary of these options - but I SO want to trust the MOZ brand!

Moz is pretty well known for excellent analysis - so...  has anyone done any recent analysis on this?

Is everything going away??

Please tell me it ain't so!

thanks!!