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Hi, Like the new look of Moz.

I got an automated email the other day saying someone had responded to a question we asked on Moz. However, when opening the email, it really held Outlook 2010 up. So slow that it crashed Outlook a couple of times. When trying to forward the email to a colleague, I got the 'Contacting \d1...cloudfront.net\img_users' dialogue box, which just stood there for ages, and eventually I had to give up and force Outlook to quit.

Please see attached screenshot.

Looking at the URL Outlook was trying to reach indicates it's trying to load up the avatar of the person who responded. Which would look nice I admit, but don't really need it in the email if it's going to cause Outlook to crash. There is an 'image not found' icon next to the post, so that's why I assume Outlook is searching for that image.

It's almost as if the image is incorrectly referencing a local source (network drive) which it can never find. Perhaps there is a missing http:// prefix before the image in the tag?

Anyway, was curious to know if anyone else has this problem, or if anyone at Moz can check this out (update template?)

Regards, Rich

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That's so funny, I just got the automated message from Moz to say this forum thread has been updated (from you Roeesa), and I thought "Oh yeah, that Outlook freeze thing". In the meantime,I had clicked on the message, and Outlook instantly froze!

So I would say the issue is NOT fixed!

I use Outlook 2013 now, so the issue is the same as it was in Outlook 2010 (probably same base-code?)

Luckily this time I left Outlook alone for 45 seconds, and eventually it loaded the content of the e-mail.

So there must still be some image, code or script etc. that is causing that issue.

Rich

Hello,

We are a UK based company.

Our Google Analytics account is showing a rise in Avg Visit Duration for 'Direct traffic' since we started using SEOMoz.

Are any other users experiencing this issue?

We tracked it down to City Seattle, and when doing an Advanced filter by removing Seattle, the results are normal again.

What does SEOMoz or other users recommend we do besides continuously using advanced filters?

We have enquired about excluding Roger's IP address, but have been told that Roger uses the Amazon cloud, so the IP is not static.

See attachment for screenshot of our Google Analytics account of Avg Visit Duration since we began with SEOMoz.

Rich Talbot

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Hi Jarno

When a title parameter is added to a tag most browsers will render it as a tooltip when the mouse is hovered over it. So there's a neat (if possibly annoying) feature of it. Furthermore some CMS applications like to flag everything up with a title when they are shown in Edit mode as content blocks.

When it comes to SEO I'm not aware of it being used by Google for anything other than an IMG or A tag. Happy to be proven wrong though!

Rich

He's giving you a nonsense number, because SEOMoz won't reveal the true scale, so use whatever logarithmic scale you want.

ie. an indeterminate amount

If you enter the following in Google:

site:appointeddhq.com

You'll see that there are 9 pages indexed by Google. Most of them seem to have filler text in the snippet at the moment.

It's worth a small PS that the URLs are packed with "hashbangs" (!#) which have mixed reviews at best for SEO.

Hi Elias

Few things are as temperamental as rich snippets. We've been experimenting with flavours of them for about 6 months and now have star ratings displayed for virtually every SERP entry.

However there's one page on our site with great page authority, that has been around for years, that we embedded star ratings on to 3 months ago yet Google refuses to show any snippets at all. Can't see any reason why this one page won't take. We've not yet been able to crack this one so any pointers would be really helpful!

Rich