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Yes, we try not to crawl garbage directories, no matter how large they are. Check out Dr Pete's post, Where's The Love, DMOZ?, where he talks about how a lot of the large directories that are spammy (or even ones that aren't) aren't index by either OSE or Google, especially as the categories get more finite. We currently don't have a place to suggest sites. However, you can head here to vote up the suggest feature for a place to submit/suggest sites for indexing.

Sorry SeoMoz! I usually use Majestic Seo to check my backlink process.  I don't know the timelines for when they update, but their charts make me feel better about my link building (since the usually show growth).

We've had a problem with the crawls doing this lately. Could you please send an email to help desk with your campaign information so we can track it that way? help@seomoz.org. Thanks so much!

Hi Elke, An initial Pro campaign will take up to 7 days to complete and will crawl up to a maximum 10,000 URLs for the root domain or sub domain that you choose to set it up for. The Crawl Test tool is intended to provide a "quick start " option, which will report against the same diagnostic information, but for a limited number of URLs (3,000 & max of 2 domains per day). This allows you to get started on tidying up site issues while waiting for the full crawl to complete. Since the Crawl Test tool allows you to run the quick crawl for any subdomain, it can also be useful for taking a look at the health of established sites you may be quoting on etc. Hope that helps, Sha

Thanks for the reply, but my site is a blog. I'm thought wordpress (or a plugin) was supposed to create the content in a way where those pages I mentioned wouldn't have duplicate content. Plus these are entire categories that are showing duplicate....so basically I'm trying to figure out if the "duplicate content" that's showing is actually hurting me serp or not...and if I need to try to fix it.

There s a lot yopu can do with internal links including giving relevance to a page and pushing your PR aound the site. you can not increase the sites PR by internal linking, but you can make some pages rank higher at the exspence of others. http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

Take a look at the WordPress plugin, ALL IN ONE SEO.  WordPress is notorious for this issue by default (blog index, archive index, category index, post itself will all conflict).  If the issue is between the articles itself, I posted a YouMoz yesterday that explains how a PHP-savvy person could use the levenshtein() function to identify which articles conflict in your database.

Hi Kery, thanks, I just sent to them. Regards, Eduardo.

This is a really interesting question, because Google webmaster doesn't actually display rankings, but "average position." For example, let's say you rank #1 for a keyword phrase, but another URL on your same site ranks #50. In this case Google will report your average position as 25! Now this is an extreme example, but "average position" in Google Webmaster tools is almost always lower than your actual ranking. Or consider the example below. SEOmoz ranks #1 for "seomoz" but Google Webmaster reports the average position as 4. It doesn't really make any sense.

@ Robert - The keyword density os ok for that page. I've seen many sites that have lots of pages linking to itself and a link in header or in footer with the most important kw on all internal pages. I know that it will not boost your rankings but it is easier to place an internal link with the anchor text desired. @SeoShark - The link is placed in footer and yes, without that link and term i am happy with the density.

Hi Fleetway, Are you still having problems? Sorry for the late response. If you are still seeing this, please email help@seomoz.org and they'll work on fixing it for you soon. Keri

Thanks very much for your he Cyrus. I'll give the tools you mention a go. Have a great Christmas

Ok, thanks. I get the overall point you're making, and will indeed focus more on link quality... I guess my gripe is that if the # of linking root domains (for example) are to be counted at ALL - even as a corollary ranking factor - then it would be really good to be sure of the accuracy of the data, which it's hard to be when Majestic, for example, presents such different numbers in each case.

That is not correct, every previous crawl finishes within 7 days of the previous one and new results are updated. I contacted SEOMOZ and they advised that there is a problem on their end which is causing two of my campaigns to not be crawled. This is unfortunate as I rely on this data to make improvements, but i guess it is what it is...

No disrespect, but how does your answer answer these questions: 1.  Why is an image ranking google search results as if it is a normal page? 2.  How did the image become it's on page? I''m not sure how this happened since that image was used in a page. Somehow the image itself has become it's on page and is getting ranked in google. 3.  When a user find that page (which is ranking on the first page of google) they will be confused since it's an image and there is no blog info on there.  I wonder if I should redirect that page to another instead. I don't want a lot of people going to that page and then quickly leaving, which will hurt my ranking. 4.  There are other questions I asked, that you didn't provide details either. You said I should focus on "writing quality content" and "improve my keyword research." Ha,ha...I already know this. That doesn't have anything to do with my question.

Thanks Miranda