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Hi Joshua, You are essentially correct, but it could be a number of factors. Off the top of my head, and this is by no means a complete list of possibilities, the reasons for a loss of DA could be caused by: As you stated, losing links. It's estimated that each year over 50% of the entire web "disappears". Most of this is junk, but it happens to good links as well For one reason or another, Linkscape didn't find certain links during it's last crawl of the web. They may reappear during the next update. The sites linking to you lost Domain Authority themselves. This would effect your score Natural changes in Linkscape from update to update. SEOmoz is constantly improving how it crawls the web (and sometimes there's some rough spot around the edges) which causes natural fluctuation in link metrics. When this happens, it's best to use DA not as a historical measure of your own site, but as a competitive measure against your competitors. If your DA fell, it's possible your competitors DA fell as well and you are just as strong. More than likely, it's a combination of several factors. Usually, it's nothing to worry about unless you see it correspond to a traffic drop as well. Hopefully your DA will be back up during the next update.

I think if you do this you do have to keep the visitor in mind. First of all you have to appreciate that you're potentially creating leaks by creating these links. People will follow these leaks and not return. That said, if you can link to good supporting content that is going to help the visitor achevie their goals then I can see that it's going to help make their experience better. Sometimes it's better to have supporting information from a trusted third party to add authority to your content. As Robert said, make sure it's a good reputable source. Robert, do you no-follow any of these links?

OK thank you, Ralph I can work on that.

Sorry for the very late response, but wanted to let you know that I took a look into this and it appears that there is a bug in the ranking overview which makes it so we only shows the visit data for the first of two duplicates (differing only by capitalization) that is added. The first will show the number of visits and the second will display a value of "pending". As for the data itself, if you go to the ranking history for the 2 keywords, it should show the same historical visit data (and has in our tests), so this is consistent with how we should be displaying this. There is certainly no need to be tracking different capitalizations separately, as our GA data collection is not case sensitive. If you are still seeing something odd aside from the pending on the overview, please let me know. Thanks for catching this and bringing it to our attention! Adam

Ok, that makes sense.  So that is why the A and the F...understood.  Thanks so much!

It would affect tracking.Just add the new name and then take the old one once tracking is in place for the new username.

I got to know that this does not affect the website ranking adversely. Secondly, it's reflected under notices and not under errors or warnings.

Thanks for the feeback, based on the responses I've got, I'm going to leave them as-is (extension-less). Regarding the extensions being needed to work with my Goals setup in Google Analytics, I was having trouble getting it to work and speculated that it was due to the missing extension, but now that I know that doesn't matter. I can figure out what the "real" issue is. thanks!

I miss this tool from my PC !! I would love for them to develop a MAC version now but that just ins't a reality yet. Nice suggestion. I would have done said the same thing!

Another thing you can do, when you know another site has something that relates to you, is to bookmark that external page, using a site that the search engines visit regularly. For example, If that external page is new and it is a useful page about an iphone App, you could submit it to Digg. That should get the attention of other diggers and the search engines. You would be boosting the power of the other site and the link to your site, and getting the search engines to find it. I don't do that often, but I have done it a few times, and I think it works.

¡ Thanks for your help ! ¡ Now it's clear ! Regards ! Pilar.

Hi Mark, I have evaluated the crawl report. The canonical tag for your images is properly set. There are numerous issues the crawl report presents related to your site. 1. Your home page is duplicated. The URL with and without a trailing slash both are accessible. 2. Many pages are missing canonical tags. 3. You have a 302 redirect from your /how-to-find-us page to the same page with a trailing slash. 4. Most of your pages end without any tech extension, but some end in .html. I would suggest being consistent throughout your site. 5. You have some long title tags and pages with missing meta descriptions. More specific to the images which are causing the issue, the system you have in place is a bit odd. Most sites which present various images for the same page have a means to do such without each image generating a new url for the same page. I would suggest investigating a different image viewer. Good luck. | | | | | |

Hey Shinya, I'm guessing from your question that you are trying the above API query and receiving an error (401 Unauthorized - unauthorized api 'links/page_to_page.domain_authority'). The reason is because the Scope and Sort parameters you are using are incompatible. The request you are sending is asking for pages on the same domain to be sorted by Domain Authority, but they will all have the same Domain Authority. However, if you try something like this, it should work to sort the results by Page Authority. Let me know if you are still seeing the results you are hoping for! http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/www.seomoz.org/blog?Scope=page_to_page&Sort=page_authority Thanks, Carin

Thanks Kane, Aran, We will try to do that!

Great- Thanks Keri, I'll do that. As you are automatically taken to the third-party Webmaster screen I wasn't too sure. Cheers Rob

Hi Pedro, You will find your answer in this article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps I hope it helped, Istvan

Hey Joris, As of now it will most likely see it as duplicate content, because technically it still is duplicate content to a crawler bot, they won't know your intentions or target audience for each subfolder. The only way you could get around our crawler seeing it as duplicate is by blocking rogerbot with robots.txt or meta robots from that subfolder. Then there is putting up relconanoicals, which is the best way. Hope this sheds some light on the duplicate content issues. Best, Nick  SEOmoz