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Hi Mike, Paul Rogers mentioned that he has built a tool that will query the SEOmoz API using Google Docs in a recent post on the SEOmoz Blog - How to Reach Bloggers, Ninja Style. It might be worth following up with Paul to see if he can help you out. Hope that helps, Sha

I haven't heard back and would really like to figure this out. According to Google webmaster tools, the pages are indexed and crawled and I know they come up in the search results. The main menu is linked to the landing pages. Any reason why you think this may not be showing up in the analytics report? I need to figure out if I need to do something or is it just an error from the analytic tool?

Thank you for suggesting this. I didn't want to submit a ticket if I was doing something wrong (which is probably the issue). However, I cannot seem to resolve this so I think you're right; I'm going to submit a ticket. Thanks!

I always though guest replies would be ignored by Google, is this the case? Guest replies are definitely not ignored by Google. Sometimes you can perform a search for a term and the result will lead you to an article where the search term is only located in the user generated comment section of the page. Our competitor sells clothing but has a reply on a CSS site? Would this be worth doing like this or is it a waste of time? I would suggest working to obtain as broad of a link profile as possible. I like being linked to from credible off-topic sites such as a CSS or graphic design sites for two reasons. First, if it is a follow'd link it offers at least some value and serves to broaden the site's link profile. Additionally if my client's site looks so good it is being mentioned on web design sites, I know the overall design is good. Of course there is the corner case where you are being called out for bad design, but I'll let that topic go In short, receiving mentions or links from design and other off topic sites is nice, but should not be a focus for your link building efforts unless your site is related to those topics.

I am now sure this is working at all at the moment it just keeps displaying an error.  Does anyone know what this situation is with this tool? Thanks Tracy

Thank you!

Hi Mike, @SEOmoz tweeted a few hours ago that the team had completed the latest Linkscape Update a week ahead of schedule. Since there is generally a wait time before you can download your Advanced Report from the Keyword Difficulty Tool, it is quite possible that the numbers you obtained from there were Pre-Update, so may have changed in OSE. There is currently an issue with the Keyword Difficulty Tool producing an error result, but the Help Team are aware of it and working to resolve the issue. If you want to keep up with progress on that you can follow @SEOmoz on Twitter and they will advise when it is resolved. Then you will be able to run your Advanced Report again. You can run a 5 site comparison in Open Site Explorer using the Advanced Reports to get you through with most of the information if you need to. If for some reason you don't believe the Update timing was a factor, then the best solution would be to email the Help Team  help[at]seomoz.org. Hope that helps, Sha

Yes, Google allows you to change location but it seems like the search results are still different, probably because Google uses your IP address as a variable. I use a VPN provider which has 50+ servers around the world and use their VPN servers as proxies.

I'm not sure how your site is setup, but from a coding perspective you just change the text in the text here tags. I would definitely use something more keyword specific for your H1 tags, you can then put other less important titles in H2 or H3 tags. You can always have 2 H1 tags each targeting the different brand/keyword.

Page authority and domain authority are worked out using an algorithm based on other metrics including MozRank, MozTrust, number of links, etc. I tend to use domain authority as a good measure for an entire site when finding links and as it's based on more factors than MozRank alone, I personally find it more useful.

Hi Peter It would be helpful to know how you are redirecting these pages (301 etc) and for what reason? Also whether any of your pages are blocked in your robots.txt file - perhaps to prevent duplicate content?

Talked with the dev today and he checked and they are not being counted in rankings.

Lots of people come to these forums looking for numbers and formulas. If the link is going to be on what looks like a quality site then it doesn't matter what the page authority is... .... and if the site has a high page authority but it looks like a crappy manipulative site then why would you want a link on it?

I just did a comparison and realized that you are right, there is a slight difference. Italy is capitalized in one version since it is linked that way on one page. I had no idea that would make such a difference! The link has been fixed, thank you for your help!

Hi James, There are a number of things that can affect results - A few of the things that may be influencing your conflicting results include: It is my understanding that SEOmoz Rankings are based upon non-personalized and non-regionalized results I believe that SEOmoz take into account embedded local results if they appear, but do not include them if they appear in a 6, 8 or 12 pack. There have been recent anecdotal reports that searchers using the Google Chrome browser are receiving vastly higher ranking results than those seen in Firefox and IE. If you feel that there is a problem with your Rankings Report, the best thing to do is to email the Help Team (help [at] seomoz.org) and ask them to take a look for you. Be sure to provide them any information you have regarding manual checks and results from other tools. Hope that helps, Sha

Thats funny, I needed a good laugh and am u sucker for funny dog photos!  Thanks!

George, I looked at the page you shared and it appears as a solid page for a link. If it is not appearing in OSE, I would recommend contacting the help desk. There has been some issues with the Linkscape index, which is the source data OSE results are based upon. The next Linkscape update is scheduled for Sep 20. The issue may resolve itself after the update. But based on the information you shared, it should appear currently so my recommendation is to contact the help desk so they can investigate the issue. If they can locate a bug or tweak, it may be possible to fix it without waiting another month to see your link.