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I haven't upgraded so I'm not sure I'm afraid. Maybe try to export the report and see if you get an option?

The new Linkscape index is now live! We hit a small snafu rolling it out. Sorry for the mix up.

Hi Alexander! I just assigned this question to the Hekp team. One of them will be able to help you out soon! Thanks! Jen

Generally speaking index pages have a lot more trust and link-juice than sub-pages.  That's why part of link building is making sure you have some quality links pointing to 2nd and 3rd tier pages as well as the home page. For example, if your home page is about "Basket Weaving" and your sub-pages are about "Underwater Basket Weaving" - you would need to make sure the "Underwater" page has a bunch of relevant links, otherwise your "Basket Weaving" page is going to trump it. Can you PM me your specific URL and the keyword examples?  I can give you a more specific answer then.

My pleasure buddy! Marcus

I have Google reporting different capitalization as duplicates, so now I ensure all pages have a with the lowercase version of the page. This ensures Google does not split the juice between, what it thinks are two different pages. It is a spin off from when Fresh-fish.hmtl could refer to a different page to fres-fish.html etc. so, the two terms being accepted as different keywords is just mimicing how Google handles these terms. Check Google Webmaster tools to ensure no pages are being reported as duplicates, or let Roger do his weekly scan and check the results.

No, I didn't know, that's great. Thank you Keri.

Hi Dmitri, Go ahead and send this to help@seomoz.org, as they will be able to answer it for you. I regret that I don't know the answer, but they'll be able to help you.

Is your question related to the SEOmoz Webapp? Because, if it is so, the answer is: you can do both. Which is the problem choosing one campaign for all the languages' versions of your site? That you are going to spend more time in order to separate the datas for any version. For instance, if you track 20 keywords per language, you're going to see how your site ranks for an english keyword also in the spanish Google or the german one... Also, when you are going to make link research, you will need to use the Excel filter a lot, in order to see what sites really links to one version or another. If this is not a problem for you (or you have limited campaign spots, being just 5 on a basic Pro level), then, you can create just one campaign... but the ideal (for better job organization) would be to create one campaign for every language version. Ciao

I may be wrong, but I believe the competitive analysis link report is based on the Linkscape index. Every month or so they reindex the web. Sometimes they don't visit all the same pages that they visited the previous month, so they might miss out on some links one month that they found the previous month. This "sampling" of the web is identical to what Google has to do, although their sample is much larger and is indexed more often. This is why your rankings too can dance around in Google. The same is true for Domain Authority. A good metric that we often use is what we call Competitor Comparison Rank. Basically, choose 5 or 10 competitors and track them along your site. Each month, find the average of their domain authorities and the average number of backlinks. Then, subtract your backlinks and authority from their backlinks and authority. Is the gap growing larger or smaller? Are you falling behind or pushing ahead? This is a safer way of doing it because if SEOMoz just crawls fewer pages in one month than they did the previous, it would appear that you lost links, when in reality they just spidered fewer of them. Your competitors would appear to have lost links as well. It is all about comparison. After all, it is a competition.

Thanks everyone! Sending this over to the dev team to make sure it's on the list to fix.

Hi Kyle, Great suggestion!  I'll pass it along to the team to see if sometime down the line we can add "meta refresh" to the crawl notices section of the web app. Also, did you know we have a feature request forum? It's a great place to share your ideas. Other people can vote on them and it will help us determine priorities. You should check it out: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums

This happens to me often at new sites. The OPE takes a while to start reading the links on new sites, we have to wait for updates. Keep doing the work normally linkbuilding from time to time we receive an email informing you of updates OPE. If you want to check out more new links, try the Majestic SEO, is also very good.

I'm on board for wanting such features.