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Disclaimer: I just answered a question just like this on another thread, so I literally copied and pasted my response from there, and edited where necessary. The SEOmoz web app uses a similarity threshold of 95% of the html code. This takes everything on the page, both hidden and visible into account. In this case, it's counting all of the navigation and sidebar as well, which is significant. What's left of the unique content - the part that matters, makes up less than 5% of the code.Here's a tool you can use to check the similarity: http://www.duplicatecontent.net/ I ran the pages through a couple of tools which showed 98% similarity. (but only 75% text similarity, which is good, but not great) SEOKeith is absolutely right that there's very little on those pages to help them rank. Without text, you're fighting an uphill battle. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

hi, you can start by doing an analysis on Open Site Explorer - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ Then you can do on page analysis of the website too see what factors they have, you can use SEO Xray, you can do an onsite audit, check the internal links. I would also advise to use other software such as majestic, I would also look over google to see onsite metrics, also check social metrics for the website. Many factors come into play when a website is ranking number one for a highly competitive term. Kind Regards

yes that would be very good

Yeah I have several sites that are in site explore all of them have links that point to it but still no luck, the twitter thing is a good idea. Ill make sure FB and G+ have them as well.  I need to know my DA and PA on those sites

This question was answered in an awesome way here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/open-site-explorer-facebook-likes-accuracy I hope that helps

Thank you both for you responses. Yes the site is relatively new. I shall implement your suggestions and hopefully they will do teh trick.

Yes, I`m looking for a site (or soft)  that shows OSE data for multiple URLs at once. Something like this (image), but this soft is not working now. Thank you 3VfFz.jpg

Hi Adam! This is Megan from the SEOmoz help team.  Unfortunately, we don't have a way to download social information other than into a spreadsheet at this time.  I do think that adding a different export option is a great idea, though, and would be perfect to post on our feature request forum: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests You can vote for features you'd like to see and suggest your own, both of which help us determine what to build next. Add your request there and hopefully we'll see it come to fruition sometime down the line.

Technically the pages are the same - but using a 301 will point the search engine to just look at and rank the link "domains.com/keyword-is-here" versus the index.html that goes along with that keyword? Is this correct? Thanks!

Robert, you are a nice guy and very helpful - so appreciate you and all your help for this newbie...

I don't think so, however I have written my own link management software that on acquisition adds an enty into a database then its crawled regularly to determine the links status. This gives me a supposed acquirement date.

Hi Barney, Thanks for letting us know. Sometimes when you click through to OSE from the MozBar, on rare occasions Open Site Explorer will drop the "www" and show you metrics for the incorrect subdomain. The best thing to do is make sure that you're reading the right subdomain in OSE. So if your url contains a "www" make sure it is entered in the OSE address bar, and if the URL you are checking doesn't have a "www" make sure this is also reflected in the address bar. I believe the engineers mostly fixed this bug recently, so it shouldn't come up to often. If you are seeing something else or this doesn't seem to fix it, be sure to let us know. You can also write the SEOmoz help team at help@seomoz.org. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Just an FYI, I figured out how to go about this once the campaign was set up. Go to the campaign settings page, then the GA settings and there it was, a drop down to chose from. If the SEOmoz team can make it part of the initial sign up process, it would be helpful. Thanks

Its not really an inconsistency from what I can see. If it is we need more info I think. URL specifics or what links you are seeing, etc.. Pertaining to your Google metrics question: Our metrics provided by Linkscape are completely different than Google's data. Especially PR (PageRank), which isn't really used too much anymore or relevant. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is a lab's tool and isn't really going to be supported(or even used) much.

In my experience, it does a good job of picking up the canonical tags. In fact, if you go into your campaign, go into the Crawl Diagnostics section, then click the blue "Notices" button, it will show you how many "Rel canonical" URLs were picked up. If you're not getting many pages shown here, perhaps you should recheck to be sure your tags are implemented properly.

Hi Dan, The only difficulty is that OSE limits the number of links from each domain to 25 per report. This limit is meant to display a greater variety of linking domains. Without this limit, the reports could be filled with 10,000 low-quality, repeating sidebar links all from the auto-generated blog. One option would be to use the SEOmoz API to find the data you're looking for, but building a tool just for this purpose might be a bit overkill for this application. Here's a solution that should work easy. Check out Dr. Pete's post on Link Profiling with Open Site Explorer. He provides some tools for a deeper analysis of link distribution you should find insightful. When your done with that, try out these Excel speadsheets from John Doherty. They look both at PA and DA of your backlinks, as well as the added bonus of anchor text distribution. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.