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Read up on localseoguide.com and use getlisted.org. But first, do some research. Type in your terms, either by using implicit or explicit searches. Example: Implicit search = "web design" (and using the auto geo/IP detection from Google and settings on your page) Explicit search = "web design san diego", "web design san diego, ca" If no local results are shown, still go thru getlisted.org - but you will focus more on SEO, or "hybrid" SEO, not pure Local SEO pack optimization. Didn't see any local pack results for web design in san diego for example. Local citations are important, for example (links). But, so are reviews and other factors. Learn about the local ranking and optimization factors from the annual survey reports: http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/ and what to focus on. Watch the 50 minute local seo training video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hJzQd-ZdA Enjoy!

Since you don't care whether your sign-in page ever ranks well, and since the member content behind the paywall will never index/rank anyway, I don't think is a big issue, Jonathan. If you wanted to, you could "nofollow" the links to the paid content pages and you could set the signup page to "no-index". That would at least signal to the crawlers that the page isn't intended to be a viable content page of the site. Paul

Hi there!  All rankings should be back on track now.  Sorry for the delay!  If you're still having problems, please send us a message with your account details to help[at]seomoz.org.  Thanks!

Glad I could help!  You can check out more information about rankings in our help hub:  http://www.seomoz.org/help/rankings  Hopefully you'll discover some more nifty tips!

Thanks for the feedback, Michael.  I've sent it to our marketing department to review with our affiliate team.  I'm really sorry that this hasn't been a great experience!  We're definitely working to make this process better, so your feedback is much appreciated!

Hi Scott, You can absolutely rely on the tools. It is 100% accurate. The problem was that you are tracking a specific subdomain and your ranking for that keyword is not in that subdomain. You could resetup the campaign as a root domain campaign as a catch all. That will get you anything off of that domain regardless of whether it's www, blog, store, or whatever. I know it's frustrating and seeing your ranking suddenly drop off can be worrisome to say the least. What you can do in the immediate is to set a 301 redirect from http://ssihvac.com to http://www.ssihvac.com and once Google catches up with that, you'll likely see your ranking position returned to the www without having to archive your campaign or anything like that. You really don't want the www and non-www to resolve independently anyway, so that's something I recommend in general anyway. I hope that helps. Cheers, Joel.

Hi Jenny, Thanks for writing in. There isn't a way to sort by date in OSE because the index is updated to a new, current index with each update (usually about once a month) and it isn't compared against previous indexes, so each link in the current index has been discovered again that month, even if it has been in previous indexes. Technically, the way our index is created means that all of the links in the current index are "discovered" or "rediscovered" within the past 3-4 weeks. We don't retain historical link data in the index because we think it is important to show the most current data that we can so our index doesn't necessarily show you what are considered new link, just what would be considered current links. We do show historical link metrics regarding the number of links and linking root domains in the link analysis section of the campaign web app, but I'm afraid that they don't show specific links in the historical section. Let me know if you have any other questions about OSE. -Chiaryn

I was just wondering what's SEOMOZ term "brands" meant in their application|tools so that I can take advantage of it. Thanks.

Thank you!

Hi Cristin, This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  I'm really sorry that your rankings haven't updated.  This is a bug on our end that our engineers are working on fixing.  We hope to have it back up and running again  soon! Cheers!

Thanks!

Hi Joel, Just wondering if you guys came up with a fix for this one? I have the same issue myself... Thanks!

That's not unusual. We outrank people with higher DA & PR for thousands of keywords. I would consider things on a page by page basis. Authority for a domain and page are not the same thing; this applies to PR as well. If you have a super high PR on your homepage, you might want to flow it around to pages which need it, for example. Your call. If I was to post a response on answers at yahoo with a link back to my site and there was nofollow, it would not mean that DA:100 would be a determinant factor. It's the PAGE itself which is relevant - there are several pages in that site with PA of 1 (i.e. 1/100).

Hi Robert!  This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  Unfortunately, we don't have a share of voice feature.  Sorry about that!  I think this is a great idea, though, that would be perfect to post on our feature request forum: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests Thanks!

Hi Jake, This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  We definitely plan on adding Google+ to the campaign social section in the near future (sorry, I don't have an exact eta).  As for other social networks, we're hoping to at least start including some kind of integration with our tools.  You can follow this thread from our feature request forum for updates:  https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20901363-g-linkedin-youtube-integration Cheers!

I'm going to look into our canonical tags first - I think this is the best place to start. Once this is done, I'll wait a week and see if the next scan yields fewer errors. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.