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Yes, SEOmoz did change the way they calculate DA and PA. That blog post (and the other referenced in it) give a lot of the background information that'll help explain things for you. For this update and future updates, I'm going to have a Q&A discussion question that also alerts people to these types of changes, as I know not everyone has a chance to read the blog for those notices.

this is a great idea. I think that the view all is most likely my best option.

Yes, a full crawl will generally be completed once a week. You can see the date when the current crawl is due to complete at the bottom right of the crawl diagnostics overview for your campaign. This is what it looks like Last Crawl Completed: Nov. 29th, 2011 Next Crawl Starts: Dec. 6th, 2011 Hope that helps, Sha

That was an issue, but the internal email from the helpdesk said they were all fixed. I'll contact the help desk and make sure they get back to you, so sorry this is still a problem.

I'd add a comment on the blog post itself asking about it, though it may be something that we don't share because it is proprietary.

A few thoughts regarding your guidelines: It can take 60 days for the PA of a new page to be updated in OSE. If the page you are attempting to acquire a link from is new I would not be concerned about the page's PA at all. The Domain Age is not a factor I would consider at all when acquiring a link. Toolbar PR is only updated every 3-4 months so you wont know the true PA of a page, especially if it is a new page. I would recommend the following primary considerations when acquiring links: site DA, popularity of the page which offers the link (if it is a new page, what is the expected PA/PR of the page in 90 days), relevance of site and page and the location of the link (in content, footer, etc).

Thank you for your informative response Cyrus. I'll rest easy with the trackbacks and I'll have a play to see where I was going wrong with OSE!

It's okay... I should have deleted this question. I brought it up in another thread and Rand was like "Wha?" so I checked again and it turns out I was being moronic and must have dreamed the issue up from nowhere lol. Thank you anyway hehe... see, you guys are that good with support you're even there to fix problems that imagined!!

Bah, I haven't read the white paper yet, but now I'm even more confused! Both previous answerers veered towards "use the keyword difficulty too, go for keywords you think you have a good chance of hitting the first SERP for," whereas this study would suggest doing otherwise might not be a bad strategy. Hmm.

Oops, you're right about the 200, fixed to a proper 404. Another related issue might be there you might have an advice for, what would you do with the 30 tags in the footer? nofollow, robots, removing the whole block or keeping it as it is - do follow links? Regards,

OSE does not index the whole internet, but it tries to index them that count. the links you dont see are likely not good links.

I can't find the reference right now, but I believe I've seen something about if you have a second page at a lower position that's also ranking for that keyword it can throw off the average position. GWT position data always seems way lower than reality for me as well.

For the record, we did have some issues with the rank tracker, but everything is fixed now.  I didn't update this thread as we were in contact with Diane via the help desk.

Unfortunately at this time it is not possible to view historic Domain Authority metrics. There are a couple of reasons for this, including the prohibitive cost of maintaining older indexes (my understanding is they are extremely large and to maintain/store/serve.)This may change in the future, but right now there is no access to historic indexes. The other reason is that metrics like Domain Authority are comparative metrics that change from index to index. This means that it's best to use these numbers to compare yourself to the competition, but not to your own previous metrics as the base calculations can change. DA measures relative strength - so it's completely possible to improve 10% by raw numbers, but if your competition improved 10% as well, your relative DA really didn't change. For this reason we caution against folks measuring DA over time, and instead using it as indicator of ranking potential in real time against other competitors. That said, SEOmoz does offer a Historic PageRank checker that does work for many domains. It's kinda fun.

Hi Felipe, You raise an excellent point about paid keyword traffic in GA. The reason SEOmoz hasn't offered this until this point is that: Integration with Google Analytics is still pretty new to the PRO platform - but new features are being added all the time. Most of our historical focus has been on promoting organic traffic - but we could definitely do a better job of making room for paid traffic as well. This fits most of SEOmoz customers needs. That said, there's a lot of validity in wanting to look at paid search volume and it would make a great feature request. (I encourage you to submit and vote for this feature) Part 2 - If I understand correctly, you want to combine/import paid traffic data from Google Analytics with the keyword report csv from your PRO campaign. The good news is this is simple task in Excel and easy once you get the hang of it, but it takes a little learning to get there. The full answer would require a short book (or really long blog post) detailing each step - but fortunately by learning the basic functions, you can do all this yourself and more . It might take and hour or two to get the hang of it, but you will be armed with the knowledge to tackle all kinds of common Excel challenges. To combine data like this, what you are looking for can be achieved in Excel using VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH functions. The best place to learn these is in Distilled's excellent Guide on Excel for SEO. I worked myself through this guide about six months ago, and now I tackle "advanced" Excel tricks with a bit more confidence. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Thats not the ones you get with a pro account, but it prooably does much the same. I use the Bing SEO Toolkit to crawl your site. But SEOMoz should find much the same

Thank you.  I was concerned I might have split my juice between two versions. "OSE will also calculate redirected metrics into calculating scores such as MozRank and Domain Authority, and I believe there are plans (if they haven't been implemented already) of including canonical metrics into these calculations." This is interesting.  If I understand this correctly, this tells me that when you have inbound links with affiliate codes and such attached to the URL that MozRank is not calculated correctly; it is split between two "versions" of the same page.