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It certainly seems to be part of the picture so far. We've had some canonical problems we were chewing through before this and those that had that fixed seem to be on the rebound. Still, traffic isn't back to where it was but the bleeding stopped.

lol well that would be a niche where you'll get some link troubles. But yes you're right it's very likely that some of those outgoing links are causing the issue. Any site that is spammy or in a spammy neighbourhood needs to be removed. Do you really need to keep any of them? Reciprocal links really don't do a lot for you anyway.

Good point, I guess it's partly because it's an 'unknown' factor right now and I want to find out more about it. We rank better than a couple of competitors who have much better page and domain authority scores and I'm curious as to why that is. It seems like there is a big discrepancy between how SEOmoz views our site and how Google views it (search rankings + toolbar PR), and I'm wondering what's causing it. We spend a lot of time on tools, content and website improvement, which definitely has a lot of customer benefits so it's worth doing it for that alone - customer satisfaction is our main focus. We have gained a lot of links and personal recommendations which are massively valuable in themselves, but domain authority hasn't increased at all. Thanks for your reply, always good to keep an eye on the bigger picture

Hey Websensible, No, we haven't fixed it - because it isn't really bug - we are just grouping all anchor text counts (internal and external) together at the moment. I am guessing any similarities between the counts is just coincidence since we haven't changed this behavior. -Kate

Thanks Shaun. My Calendar revolves around Moz.

Its clear the term pagerank is ill defined. I would instead say that it is"clearly defined" but  "poorly understood."  description of pagerank PageRank is merely a measure of connectivity.  It is determined by the number of pages that link to your site, the PageRank of those pages and the number of outgoing links that the hold. KW rank is determined by a very large number of factors.  The greenbar pagerank that you see in the toolbar may not even be used in the same form that you see for determining rankings.

Hi David, Can you send an email to help@seomoz.org with this information? They'll be the ones able to help you. If this is an issue affecting a number of people, they'll also come over and add a comment here to let people know, but they'll work with you via the help desk to get this figured out. Thanks!

Even Rank Tracker only compares to the week before and the guide says specifically that it cannot be changed. Sigh. Thanks, though.

Yeah, good idea Keri. Wanted to challenge mozzers first but will move on to SEOmoz help.

I was thinking of the same exact page to post in reply when I scrolled down to find that you'd already posted it. This is dead on. I absolutely can't wait for search engines to stop placing so much emphasis on domain keywords. I can't tell you how many times I get the dead fish stare from a client when they learn that their business name that they've had for 25 years is NOT the best domain name for their business website.

Hey Aaron. That's a good question for the SEOmoz help desk. I don't think there's a way to do that yet, but you should definitely still ask them to help.

Thanks! Is there a good way for me to check the whole site to identify a problem? In other words, if one is a problem, I should assume that others could be a problem. What is the best way to check? Thank you so much! I am not quite sure what to do and help is most appreciated. Eric

You should have setup a subdomain (which is what you are very linkely to have done anyway) but this linking issue is a real sticking point for you at the moment. It's difficult to give you concrete advise without knowing your friend's business model, marketing strategy and content, owever, lets just say for neatness he wants to keep his main squeeze page as it is - at www.kingofcopy.com - you could separate all of the squeeze pages from the 'subscribers' content by creating a sub folder called 'members-area' for example - so www.kingofcopy.com contains the squeeze page where it is now (and additional sqeeze pages reside at www.kingofcopy.com/maxoutsideusa.html etc) and all of the opt in content is moved to www.kingofcopy.com/members-area/ ensuring all of the good info that shouldn't be visible is noindexed accordingly. Of course, this advise is based on the assumption that you only want to rank squeeze pages. If I were undertaking this project I would do things a little differently - as I believe that sqeeze pages have now lost some of their kick - perhaps due to the huge numbers of them I have seen... So instead I would have a lot of teaser articles and videos - which contain a lot of good keyword targeted content all SEOd to the max, making sure that there are some good nuggets of info in them - so that the reader thinks - Wow! If the stuff he gives away for free is this good then I can't wait to find out how much better the paid for stuff is! In terms of onpage SEO and campaign management - separate content which you want highly visible from the members only content -  store non-indexed pages emembers pages within a sub-folder - link all of the content you want visible and indexing in some way

Hey Adrien, tuango.ca redirects to an inner page. And, that inner page has some links   For groupon.ca, I found 66K+ links. Does this help?

To keep the price down at $99. Devoting resources to bi-weekly ranking reports wouldn't be the best use of them, I imagine. The same resources could be used to analyse better data more often. You could also ask - why only 50 credits for the keyword difficulty tool? They're just delivering what they feel is the optimal balance of features for the $99 you pay.

Thanks for the replies! Yeah, I assumed they might take a few months to update as the pages may not be indexed straight away, so I'll hope that's the case. I've written some good content on our Blog that should filter through and sent out a press release today that's gone out to 10,000+ people via PRWeb. I'm hoping that will build up a few links and create a discussion of some kind on our blog but we'll have to see. Thanks for the tips so far, if anyone else has anything to add. Please let me know. Cheers Lewis

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that I passed along these suggestions some time ago to the team. I can't say a timeline on getting anything implemented, but it is on our list. Even without these features, you guys are awesome with the way you're keeping up on things. Thanks so much!

Thanks Keri, Will do that. Appreciate your quick response. Cheers Geoff.