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Open Site Explorer last updated mid-January, and the next update is due for February 29th, so that's why you haven't seen those links yet. It can take 1-2 crawl cycles for new links to appear. The calendar is available at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule to let you know when the previous updates were, and when the next one is scheduled. Keri

Thanks. This has been my side on the internal discussions I've been having with co-workers and I haven't used the defense of the long-tail keywords.

I dont know if anyone can give you a correct answer on this, i did read that it is not done by where you content is in the code, but where it is positioned. My own personal opinion, is that you will be ok, as your first slide has text, but thats just what i think. to be safe i would make the affect smaller and get some static content in there. i have seen a lot of CMS site that have the image affects taking up almost all the area above the fold, there i would say you would have trouble. here is the tool for testing

Brian, i build websites with webpages that contain 500+ words or even 1250+ words with keyword density's close to 3 % and above and for the appropriate keywords they all rank #1. I also feel that you should talk about the things most important to you and stay focused on the subject. Another client of mine mostly talks about car specifics in stead of talking about what the tuning will do for the car. When i correct the page by keeping it on subject he immediatly ranks better. For my private websites i sometimes have webpages with only 100 words and some with over a 1000. They all are able to rank as high as i want them to. I also see competitors with only 100 words and some images ranking higher then i do for important keywords. I asked myself the same question you did. My advise: stay on subject. keep your patience and above all: don't dispair. Make sure you talk about usefull information, with some keywords in it and you should be doing just fine

I'm with Asaf on this one.

We found out that we had 2 other domains that were duplicates of our site. Could that be a problem?

Thanks for the responses, its sounds like the SEO programatic stuff is all about even. It the human factor that is really up for grabs here, what's easier to read, remember, speak, and trust. In my case its all about personal brand so a hyphenated .com maybe easier to remember and trust then a non-hyphenated .net which could get confused for a .com Sounds like i'm still choicing between two good options but not the best option And yes I'm looking at ronsparks.net vs ron-sparks.com and other future domains with a simliar issue. ps @EGOL ronskickasssite.com is available tho its a bit hard to read with all those S's

If you take a look at what changed first, there may be clues as to whether or not you changed something that should not have been.  With any change we make in sites, we are very clear there will be fluctuations in the rankings for up to a couple of months. Now, typically, you will begin to see movement after a few weeks but it is not guaranteed. I would wait a couple of more weeks and see if you are moving back up.  If we had a few more details we could likely help a bit more. Note, you do have a few on page issues you might wish to address. (title tag length, keyword cannibalization, etc ) Best

Hi Perri, No, this is compeltely different. Have you seen the search queries tab in Google Webmaster Tools? Or pehaps if you have Google Webmaster Tools you'll have seen keyword postion data in Analytics too? This is what the change affects - the data within these two sections. SEOmoz is completely separate to these tools; they have their own tools to track positions so in short, no, SEOmoz reports will not be affected by this change in any way.

To the spiders, would the content in the lightbox be considered on the page?

We have this across about 30,000 products (yea, that many). I can't stress enough how much of a duplicate page/title content mess it can become. If your system allows for canonical and pagination it's totally worth the effort.

oh totally, what I meant is that we have actual human copy writers who write, once written we run the copy into the software to spot any error or enhancement.

winner, winner, chicken dinner. Interesting article. Anyone have experience testing these? Bing/Yahoo can definitely be worth it to my sites & clients if the keywords are broad enough. I've also noticed how my Google & bing/yahoo results only have loose correlation. Interesting to see if I can boost bing w/o trashing G results

The Google link; command is notoriously inaccurate, to the point of being worthless. Rand wrote a piece on it a couple years back. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-link-command-busting-the-myths Unfortunately, as for manually checking for backlinks, your options are limited. The good news is that OSE is getting much quicker at indexing new links. Other good ways of discovering links include checking your referring sites in Google Analytics. I could be wrong, but I believe this is the principal behind Linkstat.com Moz is releasing a new update to Blogscape soon that should solve some of these problems. Majestic SEO sometimes has good backlink information.

Google will never show its cards And I've never gotten really accurate data from ComScore, etc. so there's only so much you can uncover, eh?

Hi Ari, I believe setting up host only matters now for "site speed", but that factor can be important, if we look at user experience. In rest, as in term of SEO, I believe that less important now. I hope that helped, Istvan

Hi Paul, I took a quick look at the OSE for your site and your competitor. It seems to me that we are both running into a similar issue. How old is your site? When did SEO work on your site begin? Your competitor has forum posts from 2009 here: http://www.thephotoforum.com/ Have you considered joining and posting on this forum? Perhaps there's another one that you could join as well? check out this thread that I started for where I'm coming from. http://www.seomoz.org/q/aged-sites-or-5-year-old-seo