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Thanks for reply, all of that helps.
Some other questions:
Q. When are the updates usually rolled out from SEOMOZ?
Q. How does one go about explaining to their clients the differences between Google Analytics and SEOMOZ? Traffic seems to differ somewhat as one example.
Q. How many new links would one hope to create a week for a client?
Thanks all 
Yep agreed, would be interesting to know what happend to your site some months on.
Hi All,
How would you identify how succesful you have been to date when link building and trying to improve rank?
I have been running a campaign for a client that I think has been going pretty well. However, I would now like to show this but I am finding it hard to explain in my first report.
Its only been around two months and the client is use to looking at google analytics for their information but I wondered if someone might be able to give me an idea of what I should include in my report intially. I dont want to swamp with information so really want to be specific if possible.
Domain Authority: 29 now 28
Domain Moz Rank: 3.30 now 3.98
Domain Moz Trust: 3.47 now 3.76
Total Links: 3,053 now 6,123
Ext. Followed Links: 2,995 now 378 (hoping someone might be able to explain this also!)
Linking Root Domains: 21 now 28
Followed Linking Root Domains: 18 now 26
Linking C Blocks: 16 now 22
Are these poor results or are they clear signs of progress?
I guess I want to end up with a report saying some key point and giving some information on the above results, why the changes have happend etc. Obviously I would like to continue and up the link building but would appreciate some feedback from others as to whether the time has been wasted (i dont think it has incidentally but proving it might be another issue)
Thanks all
I was aware that it did not count for much these days but it appears to me that 'every little counts' in terms of ranking etc. So its got to help in someway surely?
Hi All,
If I had a site about a cartoon character (for example).
When I add keywords to the 'keywords' meta tag, would I be best to put specific phrases such as
Cartoon Character, Cartoon Character on TV, Cartoon Character on Television
or would the following have the same effect:
Cartoon Character, Tv, Movie, Television
I was wondering if having the above instance might be less effective as the search engines might read TV, Movie, Television as less relevant to Cartoon Character.
Hope that makes sense!
Hi All,
This may be a silly question but I like to ask the obvious
If i had acround 3,000 twitter followers and wanted to embark on a link campaign, would it be wise to simply tweet out to all and essentially say, please link to my site XXXX or would it be better to select individual followers and email them directly?
I was wondering if its just a 'win win' with tweeting followers or whether poor links from some users might cause more harm than good.
Thanks all
Great thank you.
Duplicate content is a good point. Using SEOMOZ tools should make that easier to manage
Useful thanks!
Does anyone have any tips that are off the beaten track ?
Hi People,
This may have been covered before (i am sure it had) but I was wondering if people use the same SEO tactics for blogs as they do for other sites.
Really wondering if there are any tips for blogs specifically ?
Thanks all
Thanks guys, exactly what I was looking for
Hi All,
Seeking yet more advice.
SEOMOZ tools have told me I have duplicate content on one of my sites and I am keen to clean this up. I am not to familiar with the following so thought I would ask.
The duplicate content is shown on :
Obviously I only see index.html when I check the code so what is the best method of resolving the duplicate content, Canonical or 301?
Can you give me an example
Thanks all
Hi Keri, OK thanks i will try those suggestions. I guess the more information I can gather will help identify the problem if there is indeed one
At least I have now learned that its not that common
OK so on left hand side I see:
Traffic Sources>Keywords and then I click the big long entry:
The hits are all on different days over the last month or so.
Does that help?
Its difficult to give a screen shot as its for a client that I am helping out.
Need less to say within Google Analytics>keywords>it shows all the keywords that have been used to find the site in question.
So if you had your above answer on my site it may show something like:
1. The information you are sharing certainly does not sound like a reasonable result.
2. Information
3. Sound
4. etc
5. etc
Next to each one it shows the amount of hits and it shows about 50 hits next to number 1.
Very odd indeed.
Thanks for reply Ryan (again)
I understand the concept but its saying that I have had 43 searches for a big long sentence. Who does searches for exact sentences? Surely that cannot be right, can it????
Hi All,
Question for you Google Analytics pros.
In the keywords section of my account I see the various words that have been used to find my site. The top entry shows a big long line of text from my site and I wondered why this appears on the keywords.
e.g Lets say I had "Today I went to the shops and bought a football"
In the keywords I would normally expect to see 'football', 'shops' etc but instead I am actually seeing things like " went to the shops and bought a football".
What causing this?
Thanks all
Hi Martin,
Thanks for coming back to me.
You are spot on... I think I have been sitting at the desk to long today. Zoned out!
Yep, webtools in google shows the URL in full so I can find it now.
Thanks for your help
Hi All,
If you find a crawl error on your page. How do you find it?
The error only says the URL that is wrong but this is not the location. Can i drill down and find out more information?
Thank you!
Excellent, thank you for taking the time to come back to me.
(*note for the admin... just tried to reply to this via my HTC Desire and clicking this text box does not bring up the keypad on the phone. Not sure if this is a phone issue or the site not being recognised as a text box.)
Great that was what i thought also which means I am learning!
The 1500 links are coming from another site owned by the company and I was going to say that the Linking Root domains are higher on the www site so I would probably go with that. However, I just check the Full List of Link Metrics and it shows :
Moz Rank 3.86
Moz Trust 5.59
Moz Rank 4.49
Moz Trust 5.68
Am i therefore correct in saying that mydummysite.com would be the better one to go with?
Sorry for the silly quesions, your help is appreciated. Its nearly 12pm here I should go to bed!
Thanks for reply Ryan.
That helps a lot.
Am i correct in saying that I should select the site with 1500 links? Seems like an obvious question.
I guess I am really trying to work out whether my current site rank and position can be improved on with a simple change and understanding the stats.
Hi Guys,
New guy here with some questions regarding the difference between www and non www.
I am helping with a site at the moment and gradually working my way through bits and learning all the time. I was watching one of the seomoz videos and it brought my attention back to www vs non www.
I understand that google will treat these as two seperate sites but wanted to check what the stats are telling me.
I was under the impression that www.mydummysite.com was getting most links etc as this is what I have always used. However when I used Opensite explorer it told me something different as follows:
32/100 29/100 5 16
32/100 29/100 2 1,500
Am i correct in saying that i should be adding a redirect from www.mydummysite.com to mydummysite.com ???? I am thinking that this is telling me that I am potentially missing out on 1,500 links to my site but it could mean I am missing out on just 16. Eitherway I guess its something I should fix right?
Do I just redirect that page or would all pages beneith it such as mydummysite.com/news also need redirect???
Can i use Canonical Rel links for this now?
Thanks for taking the time to read and reply!