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Thank you for your response.. i haven't read yet but i will.. it is little hard to understand unfamiliar english words to me.. however,  how to start to get link is.. i need article and find some body who related with us and ask them to post it on there web site? is this right? and i have to find out where do they(competitors) get there link..? i have determined key words which i using on Google PPC. PPC is proportional with money i set up 15CAD a day and they asking me to increase and i getting 3 to 10 clicks a day but i am not getting quote request that much, many 1 or 3 in a week. my main key words are "custom stickers" "custom lables" and some more.. i just them need to rank first page in Ontario CANADA.. from google.ca or instead google.com i can see your title that you are SEO and Web designer.. i am looking for web designer who do SEO together. i am plaining to re create my website because there are very poor contents on pages and not suitable with SEO . i created myself and i was very much new to do this.. same as now.. i did my best but it is not right.. i guess i need a own blog for article and need Q/A pages for the customers communication and get their answers from there.. and more description for each items.. i was very much new for the printing at the beginning but now i am getting more knowledged/experienced about the printing to tell to customers.. i have no time to learn more about website create codes Css something like that.. now.. and also SEO. so i am looking for the person who is really pro for these.. Thank you for your kind response and hope you will understand my poorest english writhing.

Hell David, I still miss Yahoo Site Explorer. It is funny how good some of the tools in Google are and how often we go in search of the holy grail only to return. Best,

If you want to use Moz tools, you could put the top URLs of the site you want to check out into the OSE, and look at the anchor text they use. It might take a little time to go through the URLs and pull the data, but would give an idea of what they are targeting. Also SEMRush is a great tool as mentioned below.

There is a chrome extension called "scrape similar" that is useful for doing small batches of stuff like this. However it does have a couple of limitations in that you have to view each page & google will not show you all pages of a large domain. However it is quite easy and effective for sites with under 1000 pages. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbigbapnjcgaffohmbkdlecaccepngjd The process can be sped up using other tools.  I use tool that is designed for black hat forum/comment spamming to do SERP scrapes like that.  Even if I did such spamming (I don't), I don't actually think this is a very good tool to do it with. However it is rather good at scraping results from google. However, again you are limited to how many results Google/Bing choose to show you. If you need a bigger list then log files might be the way to do.  You can get a list of all crawled URLs for any particular agent (including the likes of googlebot) from your server logs.  Some hosts limit the size of these, so it might be worth checking before you start.  However the data does get collected.  The downside here of course is that you need access to the logs. Of course crawled is not the same as indexed. Once you have that list you might need a further step to see which is indexed. Possibly cross-referencing it against google analytics landing pages or querying the google cache for that page (SEOtools for Excel from Biels Bosma is good for this). Similarly, if you have a definitive list of the URLs on site you could start with that list and query which are cached. Harder than it seems isn't it? Hopefully one of those methods will put you on the right track.

Hi! This is a really great question. I would highly recommend checking out one of our weekly webinars: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/wednesday-webinar with the Help team. Each week they cover a different topic and show you how to best use our tools. You'll get a chance to ask specific questions and get in-depth information. Also, we have an extensive Help Hub that has lots of information on how to use the tools, why you should use them, etc. I'd check that out as well: http://www.seomoz.org/help. I hope this helps get you started down the right path. Thanks again for asking! Jen

Hey Ben how long have you been tracking this client's site in SEO Moz?

If at all possible use IIS URL Rewriter so that you can canonicalize your site structure. http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite If you have a smaller site, and it's in the early stages I'd try using other CMSs and software to see if you can find something that you like. I love Wordpress, and I use it for everything.

My initial thought was along the same lines, the legit way: Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook etc, all of which have geographic targeting options.

I was just writing a client based on their rank tracking data (crawled just today) so this is news to me - which module again? Campaign > Rank Tracker? (I'm not sure why but my client's data was all in tact, or is this another issue?) If it's not overstepping things here, I'd recommend having a few tools to check ranks. One I use is a Firefox extension from SEOBook.com/tools called "Rank Checker" - but it works best if you can run 10-15 KWs at a time, change proxies, and do it again so you don't get banned from using Google...but I'm not sure that sort of thing is frowned on at SEOMoz or not since I'm still new here. I personally use 3 different rank trackers for issues like this - you always want a backup just in case.

Hi ForzaHost! This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  I see that you've opened a ticket that my colleague, Chiaryn, is working with you on.  We'll be following up with you in the ticket instead so we can look at your campaign specific information and help figure out what's happening. Cheers!

Yup - you categorize them by adding labels, David. On your Manage Keywords page, put a checkmark in the box at the beginning of each keyword to which you want to add a particular label (or labels). Then go to the Add/Clear Labels dropdown menu at the top right of the list. Put a checkmark on whatever label you want to apply to your selections (or use the Enter New Label Here box to create a new one to qpply). Click Add Labels in the same dropdown and those keywords will now inherit the labels you specified Paul

Hi Joel, Thank you for your response.

Is this an OSE (Open Site Explorer) export you're having issues with? If so I'd contact SEO Moz support.

Hi Dean, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. I logged into your account and checked several of the URLs that are returning a 404 error and they are legitimately pages that are returning a 404 if you go to those URLs.  I looked into the referring pages, and it seems that these URLs are being created by the RSS feed on your pages. Since the RSS creates dynamic URLs, those URLs would not consistently exist on the site. This won't necessarily hurt your SEO, but our crawler will still report any 404s it finds on your site. -Chiaryn

Jim At this point the only way to use Rank Tracker for geo specific areas is only possible in terms of using the search term and appending the city/locale. Typically, I track for general term: Consumer Banks / Consumer Banks New Orleans, etc. At least this way I feel I have some level of understanding of the searches around the local vs. overall. I have found (and we use a lot of geo specific terms) that by continuing to track for them over time, we are able to take actions that improve outcomes for our clients. So, for your store, use the local city/area added to the keywords and track it over time to gather quality data. BTW - your use of the term Global makes me want to say that Local in the keyword tool is US. (If you knew that, I was trying to help). I hope this helps.

OK but be careful. Read this: http://pointblankseo.com/type-of-links

OSE will download up to 25 links from a single domain. Are some of those site-wide links in a footer perhaps?

Yes, it's weird. I currently have the Pro plan. I'm doing queries using 200 URLs at the same time with no issues ;). The only limitation is the time: I have to make a query and wait for 10 seconds to perform another This request exceeds the limit allowed by your current plan. Thank you Zach, have a good day!

No search volume is a known problem right now, though you can also get that straight from Google AdWords. Since you have heard from the help desk, I'd suggest working with them regarding the keyword difficulty.