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Hi! This is probably a question for the help desk team. If you send them an email at help@seomoz.org and let them know your campaign name, they'll take a look at it and help you figure out what happened.

You need to look at your site as a whole and then look at your SEO tactics and backlinks. We recently did an audit for a prospective client who had dropped nearly 40 places this week. So look at Does your content read well or does it seem to be stuffed of keywords Do you have too many internal links with exact match anchors Is the page that dropped providing real value Copy & Paste some of your site's content into Google and check you don't have a massive duplicate content problem. Look at your backlink profile. Use OpenSiteExplorer and see if many of your links historically were low PA/DA. Check some or all of them out to see if those sites even exist. The site we audited - 40-50% of their historical links no longer existed in Google's index (low-quality) which could be the issue Do you have unnatural 'link profile' - are they all the same time of site doing the linking, too many exact match links When you've started to gain some understanding about the cause then you just follow through and remedy the situation so create great content that reads  well to humans, build some good quality links from authoritative sources (focussing on quality rather than quantity), get your content out on social media, build your brand. It won't be a quick fix, but make sure you do the right things and you will gradually pull your rankings back up, if you have something great to promote.

Thanks for the good advice everyone. I really appreciate it. Keith

Hi! The answer to this is to wait a little bit until the next linkscape update is out, and Open Site Explorer updates with fresh information. The last crawl was done before your site existed, which is why nothing is shown. Linkscape and Open Site Explorer don't have quite the same computing power of Google, so they lag behind a bit.

I see ! Now that I've heard your feedback, I am confident that it is a just  bug of system. Thank you (and diligent Help Team)!  

If you have any subdomains, such as wiki.my-debt.co.uk you'll see that data as well. If you don't have any subdomains, it'll be just like you had the www.

I think there's a very good chance that adding the Meta Robot instructions will resolve the problem. It's a pretty easy fix so I'd definitely try it out, and if it doesn't work, continue to troubleshoot. Notice the last few lines of the report: <dt>Recommendation</dt> <dt>Ensure the URL returns the HTTP code 200 and is not blocked with robots.txt, meta robots or x-robots protocol (and does not meta refresh to another URL)</dt> Though you're not technically "blocking" the meta robots, there's no instruction for them to index or follow the page. Also if the meta refresh is to another URL, that is an issue. well.

Hi wwmind, I was going suggest Xenu, but also Screaming Frog. There's a both a free and paid version. To crawl more than 500 URLs, you'd need to get a license for the paid version. http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ The other option, if you can't find all of your broken links, is to redirect them via a 301. Installing a bunch of 301's via .htaccess or another means isn't as good of a solution as fixing your links, but it might offer a more scalable solution. Regardless, best of luck with your SEO!

I have also noticed when answering questions myself and also when viewing unanswered questions that people regularly have their questions answered on here, but don't give credit to the people that are answering them. Are all mozzers aware that after so many automatic thumbs up from Q&A they no longer count, so answering a question and getting no recognition from the poster leaves the exercise almost pointless. I think that it is a case of lack of knowledge and forgetfulness, as I have regularly seen verbal acknowledgement of an answer but no thumbs up given. Is there no way round this? I know how busy the SEOMOZ staff are but to keep this community improving I think that this should be addressed as it is disheartening and I can imagine that some have already been put of from answering questions! Maybe look at appointing some specific Q&A moderators and not just associates?

are you speaking about the crawl report from seomoz?

Glad to help anytime Simon. I know it's probably hard to believe right now, but I'm sure it won't be long and you'll be explaining stuff to others here in Q&A! Once all the pieces start to fall into place everything becomes much easier to understand and if you spend some time around the SEOmoz community you'll be flying in no time! Here's a post with links to all of the most important resources here are SEOmoz which might help you find your way around. Look forward to catching up with you around the community Sha

It sounds like you have 404s redirecting to the home page. do you have any soft 404 warnings in GWMT? try entering yourdomain.com/blahblah into the address bar, where do you end up?

Hi yes there are some tools available in the pro version of SEOMOZ the you can use the rankings and history section to show your positions for that keyword and also shows the actual result page and where you and your competitors rank for that keyword.  you can also use the  on-page tool which allows you to setup a report card for a targeted keyword  and  it grades your results based on the on-page optimisation  of that page for the individual keyword. Rank checker: 1.) setup and campaign for your domain 2.) add your competitors to that campaign 3.) check under the  rankings section for your keywords and where you rank 4.) click on the targeted keyword to view more in depth detail  ( it shows you graphs and stats for that keyword) scroll down the page to view the current ranking for that keyword it highlights you and your competitors positions. On-page optimisation 1.) use the on-page tool to generate a report based on the keyword optimisation of the page url. this returns a graded report of how well optimised the targeted page URL is for the keyword. You can also check the back links of a competitor  using the link analysis section hope this helps

This post from the help desk should help too. http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page. If that doesn't fix things, please open up a ticket with the help team by sending an email to help@seomoz.org. Thanks!

Hi William, Don't worry, you can change that easily. Got campaign settings, In that Google analytics connections and just click on the Change profile button and you are done. Thanks,

Hi Darren, Sorry, but I'm a bit confused. Technically, both duplicate content and 4xx errors (404s) both qualify as "errors" instead of warnings. An error is usually considered something that could harm your SEO. For large sites, a few errors wont hurt you much and are to be expected, but these are definitely something you want to address. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.