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It is certainly a long process, my friend.  The best advice anybody can give you is to keep your nose to the grindstone, create incredible content, and figure out creative ways to get links from the most authoritative websites in your niche.

Hi Mike, I guess the numbers you are seeing are the authority metrics for your site and the competition, although these should not change so drastically, one explanation would be the discovery of new links by RogerMozbot (107k to 806k) and the lost of links from your competition, it could be that those are the actual numbers now and that the information on your campaign is just finishing its update (new campaign maybe?), anyway cases like this are directly related to the tool, so I would advice you to open a help ticket and ask them http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home Also, check the links from OSE, and compare to the links in Google, Yahoo and Bing, to see where those new links are coming from. Hope that helps.

Hi everyone, I've been away from the internet for a bit, but from the SEOmoz twitter account stream it looks like this was a hardware problem last night that has been resolved in the past couple of hours. If you still have a problem accessing your campaign, send an email to help@seomoz.org. Thanks, and sorry for the troubles!

You could basically run two separate reports and join them together in one spreadsheet. One from Google's keyword tool (the competition is PPC based data but a good indicator) and the second from your SEOmoz account for rankings and get a similar view to what you have but much faster. The one thing you would be lacking is the target URL. Raven provides the adwords competition data next to its ranking view as well.

Thank you for the reply. I already have used other tools, just was interested in SEOMoz insights for them. Seems silly to have to wait that long a for an initial run.

Hello! I am seeing a lot of my clients using a 301 when the page doesn't exists redirecting to a well designed 404 page. But, essentially, the server have to output a 404 HTTP Code and show that fancy 404 page to the user. After all, the HTTPs codes exists to be used, and this is a important one! Hope it helps! =]

Chris, I would suggest sending this request directly to the SEOmoz help desk. They are in the best position to reply and add this to the wish list if it is not already being worked on. The help desk does not normally read the Q&A section.

Well, I swear I searched for this before posting the question, but somehow I missed this answer from back in March: http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-doesn-t-the-better-business-bureau-show-up-in-my-link-analysis However, if anyone has anything else to contribute I'd be mighty grateful!

Thanks guys. That's what I suspected, but obviously I wanted to be sure before I went to the client.

Hi Farhad, Feel free to email me casey[at]seomoz.org and I will look into your problem.  Also include the details of your problem and I will find the correct person to address your issues. Thanks, Casey Henry Marketing Ninja SEOmoz

All I can do is echo Ryan's point on this one, he does a great job of summing it up.

There is no SEO benefit to have multiple internal links on a single page which have the same target page. When Google crawls your site, they will take the first link they find and associate the anchor text they find with that link. Any other links to the same page would be disregarded. If we were to change the top nav to be "Gift Vouchers" & "Gift Cards" as different tabs, both linking to the same page, what might be the SEO consequences? Presently the value of your link's weight is given to the phrase "Gift Vouchers & Gift Cards". If you make the split and Google sees the "Gift Cards" link first, then your page will be seen as more relevant to "Gift Cards" and less relevant to "Gift Vouchers".

I have opened a ticket and have got the reply from Shaun The following is their answer " Thanks for writing in, and apologies that your on-page reports aren't showing up as they should be . Our engineers are aware of this oddity and are looking into a fix for it right now, and while I don't have an exact timeframe yet for when that will be deployed, but I do have an alternate method where you can set up on-page report cards manually. I know it's not an exact fix, but it's a solid workaround until the fix is pushed " So it seems that it is caused by some technical issues (that will be fix soon enough) Thanks everyone for pointing me to the helpdesk , i will marked this question answered now

Could it be because it takes far less character to write the same sentence in Chineese than in English. "Blue Widgets" would be 蓝色部件. If you tried real hard, you could probably write a whole paragraph in the title. It might be a good idea to translate it to English and see how many characters it would be.

Hey tommo, you are correct- and I understand your concern. For rank tracking.... Yes, it is 'technically' against Google's guidelines to scrape for rankings, however- Google is very aware of SEOmoz, and has never publicly stated anything against them. (They did ask SEOmoz to stop reporting pagerank a few years back though.) Although this is anecdotal and doesn't prove an endorsement.... at a lot of conferences, and on some whiteboard Fridays, Matt Cutts has been in touch with the Moz team. This puts me at some ease about Google penalizing all Moz users. After-all, this is an entirely white hat community As for everything else besides 'rank tracking'... seomoz uses linkscape, their proprietary crawler and index of the web. This means, whether you are signed up or not, they may still crawl your site (and probably will), because that's how OSE gets data to return in open site explorer. One final point to keep in mind... SEOmoz uses several data centers around the US, so using their rank tracking would lead back to them, not you. Anyone could just as easily track your rankings as you could, so how would Google know to penalize you? They really couldn't because otherwise, all you'd have to do is setup a campaign for your competitors and watch their rankings fall. If you're super concerned, you could use everything in the web app besides rank tracking, and you'd have absolutely nothing to worry about (and the price would still be worth it- in my opinion). Does this help? [edit] Please Note, I am completely white hat, and if I had once ounce of suspicion that search engines frowned on the rank tracker in the web app, I'd stop using the rank tracker. And that's a decision everyone needs to make for themselves. Above all else, I study the hell out of webmaster guidelines and try to follow every rule and piece of advice that I can.

As the others suggested, there are too many factors involved. The major factors are the size of your site and it's navigation. Sometimes a site will offer a calendar that provides 3 years of dates. If the navigation is not set up properly a crawler can get lost in the calendar. Every day on a calendar can offer daily view, weekly view, monthly view, birthdays, etc. Calendar issues are just one example of how a crawler can get "stuck" on a website.

It will find any page on your domain that is ranking for the keyword..I think the exception may be finding pages that rank across different sub domains (dont quote me on that though!) For instance I have www.domainname.com set up under site definitions but the rank tracker is tracking my rank for pages like www.domainname.com/sub-page-that-ranks

I'm no expert but I do know you want to optimize each page for it's own unique keyword. Each page could be optimized for a separate variation of your main keyword and/or related keywords.