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Have you tried using our Crawl Test, which allows you to crawl 3000 URLs on demand? http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

Hi Fred, Great question! What can happen if you start a campaign using the same domain as another of your campaigns, it could potentially use a cached crawl if it's within a few days. You should see the crawl diagnostic reflect your changes on the next crawl. If you have any specific questions, we'd be happy to answer them. You can send URLs to help@seomoz.org and we can take a closer look. I would still suggest waiting until the next crawl. Cheers, Joel.

Yup, Thats what I thought guys, I have been checking page rank and only targeting those between PR3-6. I also have a Siberian Huslky website because I have nine dogs, so instead of it being a two way link I am offering posts in my Husky site and links back from there coupled with advertising on my Facebook page which houses over 2,000 dog lovers. So I do most certainly want to give something back but it a way that will be most beneficial to the cause. Thanks for looking. Craig

Donnie, Thanks for the info, i saw the "whiteboard friday" video on this topic and its really helpful. You are right on the money with putting them around content that people will like and will want to share. Regards, Jesus D

Ah, you know what the problem with SEMRush is, they don't cater for Traffic in South Africa, which is where I am based

Yes : )

Looking at this more I am seeing that I can get this by running the report on top pages, downloading that, and summing it in excel. Is there a way to show the whole domain stats at once within OSE though?

Using the Screaming Frog SEO Spider (free version to download will crawl 500 URLs, paid version [99 GBP for a yearly license] will crawl as much as you want), you can see all of the inlinks to a particular page. So run a crawl of the site, you should find those pages with Screaming Frog, and then you can view the inlinks to those pages. Visit the inlinks, and check the code for the links to the page you're looking for - this will quickly show you where the links are to the pages you're trying to hide. Also, have you checked the sitemap - the CMS might create links to these pages in the sitemap. good luck and let me know if you need any more help with this. Mark

hey got it workin, I sent u a private message with a Q for a sort. cheers!

Ah i see, thank you case_closed.jpg

I agree with James.  There's not an "SEO software" that I use, just tools that help me do my job better. Some of the better tools include Open Site Explorer Google Analytics aHrefs.com. Hootsuite Most of these tools vary depending on the user, however it's important to stress again that the best SEO software is "you" and the content that you create.

Here are a couple of other Q&A posts with alternatives: http://www.seomoz.org/q/juicy-link-finder-working http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-can-i-use-instead-the-juicy-link-finder

Hi Diane, We're not aware of problems with the site being slow, but we have had some problems with Rank Tracker. When you're having problems with a tool not working properly, visit our Help Hub at http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the "Contact our Help Team" button and our help desk will be sure to get back to you. The Q&A is more for how to use our tools, and SEO in general, and while I try to look at every question here, it can sometimes take a couple of days before I see everything (especially on a weekend).

Hi Nagul, it not mymatesrates it is www matesrates.uk.com sorry I entered the URL in a hurry and made an error. Thanks Craig

As Rand said above, the web app is pretty cool. Whilst there are a few other options / companies offering SEO campaign tracking, for me what makes the Moz guys stand out is: Q&A forum - Great for asking questions, or even answering them to get Kudos! Youmoz - the ability to write posts (I keep meaning to do this!) One-off tools... for times when you just want to run a quick check on something, produce something in a rush for a meeting etc, these tools can be handy But all in all, I guess its the 'package' of some of the industry leading tools, mixed with a wicked community , that makes seomoz an excellent 'one-stop shop' to monitor lots of metrics for your SEO campaign, produce reports, and also have a ub where you can read about the latest SEO happenings or techniques, and also actually ask questions when you need a hand. The allowance of 1 private question per month is actually pretty handy too. That's just my thoughts anyway!

Hi Robert Htaccess uploaded, however the code you provided i think was relying on the sites sitting on the same I.P where in fact they are on different servers with different a I.P so only the bottom line was needed , if we put your code up all looked good but some tools reported 403 Site explorer and site crawler now see the site as 301. so fingers crossed Just need google to visit the old site and see the change and its not been there for ages , ill just ping it and add it to twitter or something

Hey there, Thanks for jumping in Doug. You're spot on. The Rankings we display for your page as exactly what Google displays when we pull the SERP. It has nothing to do with your sites status (whether up or down) and has everything to do with what Google says you rank at. I do see that it's also been about 16 days since those rankings were pulled (thanks so a Server failure). You should be seeing new rankings in the next few days. In the meantime. I checked in the Rank Tracker tool and see that your rankings appear to have gained some ground and are back around 17-20+. This is of course one of the things that makes my job so fun and you SEOs so important. Google is extremely volatile and likes to change things all the time. Check out this site we set up to monitor algorithm changes at Google. http://mozcast.com I hope that helps clear things up. Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers, Joel.