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The Title Element Too Long is just a warning that your title is likely to be cut-off when displayed in the SERPS. If you've got your website (or company name) at the front of the title then you're going to be pushing your more valuable unique page keywords further to the right. If your title is cut off then you could lose some important words from your title when it is displayed. There's a view that keywords nearer the start of your title are likely to carry more SEO value. Do you need to have your website name in the title? Are people searching for your website + your keywords? Why is it there? What are you selling? Are you selling your website or is the website selling your goods/services? What's more important - promoting the website name or getting visitors to the site? Remember that your page title and meta-description is likely to be the first part of your website that someone is going to see. As well as trying to get your pages to rank as highly as you can in the search results you also need to think about click through. There's no point being #1 if nobody clicks on your SERPS. You need to think about making your Title and Description as relevant, appealing and compelling as possible to the searcher. Think about the search terms and try to match the searchers intent. You want them to feel that they're going to find what they are looking for in you click on your SERP entry. There's some studies that suggest a shorter title tends to be more appealing. Google will highlight the searchers keywords in bold - this helps people gauge how relevant your page is likely to be to their search query. If your valuable keywords are being cut-off they won't get these signals. IF you have a big, reputable brand, then adding this name to your titles is probably a good idea as you'll benefit from the trust in the brand. If you're not a well known brand then I'd put the brand name at the end of the title if anywhere. Hope this helps.

If it's one IP I suppose SEOMoz would be ok with that, but I'd contact them just to be sure ~ http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

Hi Rasmussen,  There are various tools from which you can easily check the back links fro your website. They are mentioned below: 1. SEO SpyGlass 2.Open Site Explorer 3.Ahrefs. 4.Link Research Tools. 5.SEO Attack . 6. Web SEO Analytics. 7.Majestic SEO Site Explorer 8.Blekko 9.Link Diagnosis 10.Linkdex There are some other tools also check them out! 1. Backlink Watch 2. Domain Pop 3. iWeb Tools 4. Check Backlink 5. Search Engine Genie 6. SEO Logs I hope that your query had been solved.

SEOmoz is having a known problem right now with Google Analytics connections, and we're so sorry. Can you please send an email to help@seomoz.org and let them know which campaign(s) you're having connection problems with? Thanks!

I think there's no way to get a real answer. Think of this. Let's say Microsoft.com wants to rank for Debt Consolidation as a keyword which has a keyword difficulty of let's say 75. Another keyword they want to rank for is Software, which lets say is 95. Considering their domain content niche, the nature and relevancy of the links pointing to Microsoft, which would essentially be related to Software, it would be very easy for that domain to rank for Software then Debt Consolidation even though Debt Consolidation might be a lot easier in terms of keyword difficulty. I would read the keyword difficulty in terms of what kind of keywords you currently rank for, the keywords you want to rank for, search volume and the niche of your website to figure out which keywords you should be targeting. I hope that makes sense.

Would you be kind enough to add that to our Feature Request forum on Zendesk at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests? That way other people can vote on it, and it'll let the developers know people would like this. Thanks!

Great thank you for your response... Much appreciated! G

One of the main reasons they stopped looking at them is because it was easy to spam and stuff the tags.  Any site can easily stuff the meta tags, so it's an unreliable ranking factor. A few years back it was beneficial for when directories/info sites would scrape your site.  When they list your site they would use those keywords for categories, and possibly even anchor text.  You don't see it as much anymore, especially since that scraped information is just junk content. The way I see it, it can hurt your site to have the KWs.  Your competitors can easily see what keywords you are going after (which they probably can anyway by looking at a given page).  Giving them one spot to check on every page though will make it much easier for them to benefit from your keyword research. Some people like to use meta tags as product tags on their site.  So if you search for "black cats" on a cat website, anything with the meta tag black cats would come up first.  It also works for when you want to make a black cat page that features every single black cat related item on your site.  Of course, you can just do internal tagging for this, and don't need to use the meta tags. Moral of the story: not much use for them.

Well, First I figured the internal links were simply not indexed. This would mean Open Site Explorer would not show info for pages low in your hierarchy. When I checked, it did, so I was initially wrong. However I also noticed a lot of external links from etoyszone.co.uk so I checked that site, only to find myself redirected to your current site. I think this problem will solve itself over time, since I expect that the deeper pages will not be crawled very often. Therefore I would advise to always double check and use crawler software (like Xenu) to map your internal link structure. cheers!

Hi Erik, In the campaign setup you have 3 different possibilities: 1. Subdomain (Examples: www.seomoz.org, guides.seomoz.org, pro.seomoz.org) 2. Root Domain - Track at root domain level. Track all the different subdomains within this root domain. 3. Subfolder (Examples: www.seomoz.org/tools, guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization) Now, if you want to track the www. version of you site, go and use the first possibility and track www.yourdomainnamehere.com Hope this was helpful! Istvan

Great thanks Casey

Thanks guys, great feedback. I really like the looks of backlink watch; it seems to be a great free tool.

Hi Nicholas, Have you been able to straighten this out, or would you like some more assistance regarding Google Webmaster Tools?

tried the redirect but did not like it and it looks like my hosting company have put the main domain without the www. so will read how to sort this out

Hi Markus, Just like Tom, when I ran the tool myself using the given keyword/URL combination, the page also scored a "B" Here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/cyrusshepard/8g7qf/on-page-report-card-seomoz-pro The report also show the exact keyword usage in both the page title and text. If you have any problems replicating these results, feel free to contact the help team at help@seomoz.org Best of luck!

Thanks for the kind reply, Cyrus. And Herald. I will contact the SEOmoz team, because it has been 6 days since I requested the report. Other reports were created within a day while this report never seems to finish. Thanks again!

I sugest to wait a little longer, or click on the feedback button on the left and ask someone at SEOMoz, they are very good at getting back to you.

Thanks guys!! Much apprciated! thanks gareth