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Links are what you want in SEO, they are probably the strongest ranking factor (at least for the time being), but the easiest way to get those is to visible create content that people want to create links around. This is the reason that content is so important. If you are doing all your linkbuilding manually, by yourself, you have a long road ahead of you. Google has indexed your page, so it's been crawled but it only has the one link pointing at it and as I said that's not providing any particular context. I don't think that anyone is going to disagree with the concept that knowing more about SEO is an advantage, but it's not a game winner. Your situation will all be solved by sorting out that slider and getting some more links with the right anchor text pointing at KennethLewis, specifically at the page we're discussing.

Hi! What is your budget? Can you afford to have separate sites in the local languages, on local domains, or do you want to stick to English? That will inform how to proceed. As for the LGBT community - I assume you mean the domestic community, not the LGBT communities in those countries? I'm sure some online LGBT websites/communities could be targets for mentioning your product, but I'd suggest you carefully analyse the potential ROI. I may be wrong but I am unsure the LGBT community are looking elsewhere to anyone else for lighting, and/or buying different lighting. Something I'd definitely look into before starting to invest time targeting them. I think a few more details would help answer the question better.

If the current site is built on asp the credentials to access the database must be stored somewhere within the application. It would usually be in a .config file. There is a small chance that the connection details would be encrypted - but in the days of ASP this was the exception to the rule. If you can find these connection details you will be able to get at least a read only view of the database and export the data. I find it strange that the owners of the site (whether that be you or a client you're working for) don't have the connection details of the db. If you really can't get db connection details then yes, scraping the article and importing into the new db would be the best way forward. Screen scraper basic edition should suffice for this (it's free) - http://screen-scraper.com/download/basic_choose_platform.php

Hi Janice, We're working on adding more and more documentation to our Help Desk. So you should definitely check that out! http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home Enjoy!

But SEOMoz also recommends to go up to 300 links per page, per the White Board Video I linked to. I wish I could get the page below 100 unfortunately, the drown menus are 2 layers deep and I am not sure how to reduce their size to the web crawlers.  It also does not seem to be effecting our site negatively.

You may have 1000's of links pointing to your root domain, however, if you are trying to rank a sub-page for a specific term, you may want to find unique domains that can provide direct links to the target page (anchor and generic), thereby increasing your overall linking domain count for both your domain and sub-page

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Google actually specifically told SEOMoz to not include their pagerank in the Mozbar.  Luckily there is a way to add pagerank! Download a 3rd party toolbar that has pagerank.  I use the quirk searchbar: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ You can then take as many or as few fields as you want, I use pagerank and alexa, and move them into your mozbar! Go to options: General: Location and you can set where you want the quirk bar to show up.

Thanks for looking, at least I know it's not just me! Thank you for your help and have a great weekend, will see if the team can help

I would love to be able to organise the tools I use the most at the top - or have them in a favourites link or something like that

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Thank you Harmony.

Exporting data on a regular basis from OSE is necessary to do this; and you need to do the analysis in excel to get the answer. Basically you want to export your links & linking root domains at least once a month or after each linkscape/OSE update. Then you would put linking root domains from last month in a column and linking root domains from current month in a column. In a third column you would do a comparison match with an excel formula to see which are missing. Here is some help documentation on the excel formula: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/use-excel-to-compare-two-lists-of-data-HA001103915.aspx Assuming last month domains are in column A and current month domains you could use this formula in column =ISNA(MATCH(B2,$A$2:$A$10001,0))

I agree with this wholehearedly. OSE is without a doubt the best tool for analyzing a competitors linking strategy. Seeing the competitors strategy is great, but another reason I really like it is because I can know how good the person is that I'm up against. If they have links that I have no idea how they obtained them, then they know something I don't, and vice versa. Have you figured out a way to successfully use OSE or Linkscape to get an idea of how well somoene's onsite optimization is? I'm familiar with the "internal MR passed" but that's one of those metrics I don't trust as much as the others. Do you have any other strategies? Thanks!

Hi Stephen, If your server can't handle the SEOMoz spider, it wouldn't probably survive to all the malicious spiders out there... You should realy think into getting a new hosting account/server (or a new IT dept...). In the "Campaign Settings" you have a "Weekly crawl completed _for campaign: _" checkbox that you could uncheck to disable the crawling of a certain campaign. You might also want to use the "Crawl-delay:" directive into your robots.txt file, I don't know if it is supported by SEOMoz spider, but it might protect your server from other spiders. Otherwise, like Barry Smith suggested, you should get in touch with SEOMoz team and see what they can do.  If their crawler doesn't support the "Crawl-delay:" directive, you might want to suggest them to implement it. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Yeah, it probably will continue to give you skewed results in any of these kinds of tools, not really a way around it that I can think of. I guess you'll need to put more credence into page authority metrics rather than full domain authority when working out a strategy.