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Hi Joel, I have indeed! I'll take all this information to the development team and hopefully have this issue resolved asap. Thanks once again to everybody for their input. Regards, Andy

Hi Kate Likely Causes user metrics - Google has thought to have been using things like click through rate, and when users bounce back to the SERP and click on another result - as part of their algorithm. In other words, they have user metrics (kind of like their own analytics) to detect how happy users are with the results in the SERPs - and I have heard that this is a possible cause for "the Google Dance" **multiple pages alternate rankings for one keyword **- maybe you have a few pages that are similar in content, and Google has a hard time figuring out which is which - and the ranking page for a particular keyword keeps switching - this would cause dramatically different rankings. could be the nature of weekly rank tracking - Moz rank tracking IS accurate for sure - but Google will sometimes move things around slightly. If Moz happens to check the ranking in this small window, where Google has shifted something for just a moment, then it looks like for the entire week you've been in a totally different position. Suggestions evaluate your "search queries" metrics - in webmaster tools they give you metrics like "impressions" and "click through rate" - check them out for the keywords in question that are seeing the Google Dance. You can pull this data from WMT into analytics quite easily. See if you're getting poor metrics for click through rate. ALSO - webmaster tools will give you their average position (ranking!) straight from Google. look at what THEY have for your average position for those keywords - maybe you're jumping there too. look at how many landings pages there are for one keyword - using webmaster tools or analytics data, see if one keyword is resulting in many landing pages. If so, try to focus just one page on the topic for each keyword. **supplement weekly rankings **- run SEO Book's rank checker (free plugin) a few other times during the week and see what you come up. As mention above, look at webmaster tools average position data (rankings!) and compare data. Hope this helps! -Dan

Thanks for that response Pete. I've put in a request for this now. However, it doesn't explain why it only downloaded yesterday's list, as opposed to the 30 days report I was expecting. Is there a reason why it only downloads the current day's URL list? Thanks, Tola

Thanks Chris and Sam. The confirmation and additional resources helped.

Thanks so much, Mike. Good to know I can let this go and I've done my due diligence with checking it all out. I wish our WP would always create the 301's automaticallybushmen needed, but it doesn't seem to. I just installed Redirection plugin today for a URL change I wanted to make.

Thanks Sam, i've always viewed these reports as trend reports, but realised i had never understood the date formats underneath them!

Yes there is an export option. It's in the top right corner of your 'Rankings report' page.  Just choose 'full rankings report to csv' and you will get a column with all your campaign keywords.

I saw your response on my other question and I didn't realise that they could be interlinked. Thanks for explaining

Thank you very much!!

Hey, I've seen nobody answered your question, so here it comes What you see regarding canonicals are notifications(and not errors). There is not system which could tell if the canonical link is pointing to the right one or not(which url is the one that you chose to target), what it can do is to point it out to you. Then you can export the list of URLs and check if you have applied them good or not. Unfortunately this means a lot of manual work, but it can help a lot. Just think about the fact that you might Point a Canonical link from Page A -> Page A and from Page B-> Page B (because you have a script that will point a canonical to itself). Eventually these two pages are the same, it will be quite confusing to a search engine, right? Or Page A -> Page B, Page B-> Page C and so on... that's also something that you would like to avoid. Another case Page A -> Page B, Page B -> Page A. With exporting the data that SEOmoz gives you and analyzing it in Excel (or a similar program), you will have the chance to avoid these problems. I hope it helped and cleared the picture a little-bit Istvan

Qnother vote for Screaming Frog - this kind of task is exactly what it's designed for. If your site's over 500 pages, you'll need the paid version - very much worth it as it can do lots of additional things too. For example, the paid version will allow to check to ensure your Google Analytics is installed on every page before launch as well. Paul.

you can use SEOquake addon for firefox to check multiple urls. once you install it, go to 'check / compare urls and domains' and add multiple urls to the list. when you get the list with all parameters, click the question mark at the top of the cache column. will still have problem to use it for too many urls, but couple of urls in a bulk can work for you yoram, inserp.net

Hello Jason, this is Abe with the SEOmoz Help Team- thanks for reaching out to us! FWE should work great with two words phrases. If you can send a few examples of these queries to help@seomoz.org, we will take a look at these and get an exact answer fro you.

I'll give it a shot, thank you again for your help!

The "Notice" level is just telling you that your pages all have rel=canonical elements on them, and they all seem to be pointing to themselves. This is really just a heads up, and doesn't indicate a problem, per se. As you grow, I think you may want to control how some of your very similar pages are indexed, such as color and quantity variations. These pages can look "thin" to Google, in that they're very similar. Currently, though, your site is small enough that it shouldn't be a big issue, and our notice is the lowest least severe message (notice < warning < error). The rel=canonical element basically tells Google that two URLs are equivalent or very similar, and to only allow one to rank. This helps control duplicates and avoid issues with Panda or having Google filter out pages in unexpected ways.

Thank you so much! I really appreciated your reply which clarified everything for me. I will follow your advice! All the best,

Unfortunately, these crawls are still going. I have a feeling they are stuck as the urls I put in was not a valid one (the lesson here? 'measure twice; saw once') so they are still running after a week or so.

Hi! There wasn't an issue with the latest moz update in terms of metrics, it was a different problem that caused us to roll back, and we hope to be back to the current dataset tonight. Here's a post with some more information: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/23586982-Mozscape-API-Temporarily-Rolled-Back-to-March-19-Index-

Hey there. To answer your first 2 questions: Do "the PA & DA rating(s) in the results page for a domain search takes into account any penalty signals the site may be showing"? Kind of... Page Authority (and DA) are calculated using a number of factors, one of which is MozTrust. MozTrust can be used as a rough indicator of the trustworthiness of a site (as measured by the "distance" in links from trustworthy websites like universities and government websites). I wouldn't describe this as a "penalty signal" however. "whether there is a 'real' way to identify how much value links from the source will give you (if for example, there's already x10 other links away from that page or x100 links away from that domain)" I personally don't find much value in calculating this. I don't care too much if there's 20 links on a page or 500. If it's a high quality site that's relevent to my website, and there aren't links to spammy sites on the page, I still want that link. Furthermore, there is value from the link that goes beyond raw Pagerank. You're still increasing your total Linking Root Domains (a very important link building factor) and other misc metrics that Google may take into account separately from Pagerank passed by the link. "Basically - what else needs to be taken into account when using this app to identify link sources, etc." Assuming you're currently looking through your competitors' backlink profiles in OSE and trying to replicate those links, the only links I would skip are links that appear to be from spammy websites. This is a subjective measure based upon a number of visual indicators, and a handful of objective indicators (like whether that site is indexed in Google for example). Here's a decent post that goes over some of the red flags you should look for when deciding whether or not you want a link from a site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-evaluate-guest-post-opportunities The video links that Branagan left are also good resources to learn more about OSE's link metrics.

Kevin, Keri and Bond13, Thank you for sharing my celebration! Kevin- You nailed it so succinctly. Keri- Happy to brighten up your Monday morning! It's really fun to let you know. Nice to write a happy post for a change, eh? Bond13- Thanks for the empathy and encouragement. I feel like I am passing a lot of new found intelligence and knowledge to our clients and even our leads. I turned someone away from us last week and towards SEOMoz recommendations and companies I've been turned on to by being here in SEOMoz. It felt great to have such fine folks to recommend. And really, things improved for us much much faster than I had dreamed possible. So I'm happy as can be.