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This is perfect Ryan, just the type of response I was hoping to find. My website is a database driven website and my opinion has been that the platform does not have nearly as much influence (if any) on organic rankings as the SEO working on the site.

In most every case where I've found an SEO related issue in a open source cms someone else has experienced it too and has already built a solution...and if it's new technology, like you said, an extension is usually soon to follow. The main concern I had and criticism I am trying to refute is that "because my site is built in drupal, it cannot/will not ever perform as well as a static HTML non-dynamic site"

I think your response helped answer this question, but I'd always be interested in additional feedback and other SEOMoz opinions on this matter. I was going to start my own post on this topic, but it seemed to fit so well with this ongoing discussion.

Thanks

This is great feedback. I too have my site on Drupal and have had multiple SEOs tell me that a CMS-driven site will not rank as well as a static HTML site. My question is this, if you had the exact same site on Drupal or any other CMS vs the same content on a traditional static HTML site, is there anything inherently inferior to the CMS site as it relates to SEO? I realize back before CMS had the ability to serve search engine friendly URLS and before canonical link tag was introduced the CMS could be considered sloppy and full of duplicate content, but that argument doesn't seem to hold as much merit anymore. On a purely apples to apples comparison of sites from Static HTML vs CMS does HTML still have an advantage?

Thank you

michael

It let me submit it, so that's better than what I had done up to this point (nothing) I hope it get indexed, thanks for the help!

I've used the "fetch as googlebot" tool in Google webmaster tools to submit links from my site, but I was wondering if there was any type of tool or submission process like this for submitting links from other sites that you do not own?

The reason I ask is, I worked for several months to get a website to accept my link as part of their dealer locator tool. The link to my site was published a few months ago, however I don't think google has found it and the reason could be because you have to type in your zip code to get the link to appear.

This is the website that I am referencing:

http://www.ranchhand.com/dealers.php?zip=78070&radius=20

(my website is www.rangeroffroad.com) Is there any way for Google to index the link?

Any ideas?

Great, that worked thank you Ryan. Yesterday I tried that and it wouldn't work, but today following those same steps, it's working....the only problem now is, I am logged into my SEOMoz account, so the pop up has gone away, but the toolbar is not collecting/displaying any data for any websites.

See screenshot http://screencast.com/t/dprpHkHLHa

I've tried using the toolbar in Firefox and Chrome and in both cases the toolbar is installed and I am logged in to SEOMoz, but no data.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I am getting this pop up on every page I visit:

A username and password are being requested by http://lsapi.seomoz.com. The site says: "SEOmoz"

I've searched some forums and see that others are experiencing it as well. The advice was to log into my seomoz account, however that did not work...any ideas?

I have an error in my SEOMoz crawl report is a 4XX client error on two of my websites, in both cases the error is coming from the link on my wordpress blog which is

http://www.techelectricity.com/blog/comments/feed/

and http://blog.rangeroffroad.com/comments/feed/

(comments/feed/ is always the problem) Should I just ignore this error because it's supposed to open your RSS reader and not a link, or is this really an error I should address? thanks!!

This is great feedback, thank you Ryan. I will start taking into account the PA of the page when linkbuilding (I've mainly been just focusing on the DA, but your advice makes sense)

I am not sure why that link did not work either? Here's one other way to try and navigate to it from the Google SERP

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ranch+hand+bumpers+%2B+"inurl%3Alist"

I think it's like the 8th listing down (just look for turbodieselregister.com in results) If you still can't get it, no big deal, this advice is helpful

thanks

Hi Stephen, I am experiencing the exact same issue. In fact I was about to post a new Q&A on this subject, but see that you already have, so I'll just try and help reinforce, with some examples and screenshots.

I am new to SEOMoz and OSE and wasn't sure if I was doing it right...

my site is www.rangeroffroad.com - in OSE it says that only 4 domains are linking to my site

http://screencast.com/t/pVfnMmtz

I've been using the SEOMoz Link Acquisition tool to discover links and I ran across this one:

http://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/3rd-generation-ram-forum-no-engine-transmission-discussions/218793-bumper-manufacturer-list.html

I assumed my site was not included in the results, and was preparing to submit my link to this forum like I've been doing with other links. But the site is already linking to me:

http://screencast.com/t/2X8tIPmCPMt

I thought maybe they were using a nofollow tag or something that would prohibit OSE from picking it up...but that doesn't appear to be the case, see source code here:

http://screencast.com/t/ghGzMOur

Am I correct or am I missing something? I have a couple other examples I've run across as well if needed, please let me know.

Thank you!

I ran an SEOMoz keyword difficulty report for the term "interim CFO services" and found that all of the websites that ranked really well for that term have good page authority and domain authority scores and plenty of incoming links.....except 1.

result #5 has a page and domain authority of 1 and no incoming links, however it's ranked #5 in google SERP for this highly competitive term.

see screenshots:

• http://screencast.com/t/NJiOn8N4l

• http://screencast.com/t/x6tU1RhX4j

Is this ranking based solely on the domain name being 100% relevant?

Did they just get lucky and hit the google rankings jackpot?

If this is the case, by the same logic I am trying achieve high rankings for the keyword "outsourced accounting firm" and purchased the domain name outsourcedaccountingfirm.com and am not even ranked in the top 50 with google for that keyword. (it's very new though) any feedback on either questions above would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Interesting, thank you both for the feedback. I am new to SEOMoz and am just curious how most users use the crawl tool when they fix errors...do you wait until the next week's crawl to see if the error is resolved? or do you immediately use the crawl test tool to check and see if their changes corrected the errors..(saving time)  No right or wrong answer here, just curious as to how most SEO Moz pro users the tool. Any tips or tricks from other users on how they use the tool no matter how big or small would be greatly appreciated! thanks

I saw at this link:

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

"As a PRO member, you can schedule crawls for 2 subdomains every 24 hours, and you'll get up to 3,000 pages crawled per subdomain."

However I am having trouble finding where to schedule this 24 hour crawl in my Pro Dashboard. I did not see the option for this setting in the crawl diagnostics tab or in the campaign settings section from the dashboard home page.  Can you help?

thanks!

Michael