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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

Great, thank you Lynn

Hi,

Regarding the topic of Link Balance (anchor text from external sites).

Is there an external tool you can point to your site or an individual URL that can give you the link balance (branded terms, exact match etc).

This article is great:
http://moz.com/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization

But it's a lot of work to do for individual pages (of which we have many).

Just trying to see if there's a tool out there (Moz or otherwise), that can report on such balance on a page-by-page basis (paste in URL, hit 'Go').

Thanks.
Rich Talbot

Hi,

We are adjusting our external Link Balance profile, but we're not 100% sure on what we should be adjusting it to in terms of Anchor text balance (branded, exact match etc)

We found this resource:
http://dashburst.com/seo-balanced-link-profile/

And closer to home:
http://moz.com/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization

But has Moz done any actual research they can share on what is the best balance to have?

Thanks.
Rich Talbot

Ah thanks both.

Did try to search before posting, but couldn't find anything. Sorry for duplication.

Sounds like they are working on it.

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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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

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

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.

It's a way of controlling the link power from a site. They're passing on the link juice to you.

If you want the search engines to see that link on the external blog, then what they have done is a good thing. They could have also just left that parameter out altogether.

People can put rel="nofollow". This means "don't pass link juice". You could interpret it as a directive to the world that whilst you are providing the link to the site, you don't endorse it.

From Google:

"Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link."

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

Thanks Nick, but that article doesn't seem to be about blocking Rogerbot, as Rogerbot seems to use 'Mozilla' equivalent as its browser value (from what I can tell).

After I posted the original question, I experimented with GA filtering, and managed to block City:Seattle. This is probably of not much use to USA websites as Seattle may count for a large chunk of traffic, however as we are based in UK it won't make much difference, and at least won't skew our Avg Time on Site results.

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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Thanks JaeRae, I have done as you suggested.

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

Hello,

Can I just check why the number of competitors per campaign is limited to 3?

ie. We have up to 20 URLs we want to monitor for the same keywords as us.

I understand I can add another campaign to track another 4x URLs, but this will not show those in relation to our main URL/campaign.

We would prefer to have space for 12 competitors rather than 12 campaigns.

If we upgrade to Elite is the number increased?

Might be missing something here, as we are new to SEOMoz, so grateful for any advice. SEOMoz is really great, we have learned so much already.

Rich