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Hey James, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. Unfortunately, we are currently only able to provide Bing search volume because Google does not allow us access to their AdWords API. The search engine you select will be used to provide you with the top sites that are ranking for the keyword you are research, so you will see results ranking results for Google when you choose that search engine but you will only ever see Bing search volume. The search volume is not used to calculate the keyword difficulty score and it is just used to provide supplemental information about how many users may be search a particular term in general. I hope this clears things up. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja

Glad to hear Chris! Have a great day

The campaigns came in a day or so after your response. Thanks Steve

There was a Moz blog post published last year that gives a complete rundown of the Whiteboard Fridays production methods. Includes lighting, sound, editing, camera choice etc. That should give you a great headstart. Paul

There's not a hard limit, but it is recommended to not have hundreds/thousands of links on a page. Dr. Pete's post that the Frutiko team linked to is a good place to start to understand the origins of the warning.

Also, due to the recent Google Hummingbird update, searches in Google are now secured whether signed in or not.  The (not provided) keywords You see in Google Analytics will increase from this point on.  I hope this doesn't mean the end of organic keyword data - how useful will the Keyword Planner tool be from this point on? Maybe someone could shed some light on that topic.. Will we be forced to rely on Bing to estimate search volume for keywords?

Thank you Miriam, I'll look at Bright local and yes the technical team where very helpful!  Sorry form the delay in getting back, I was struck down with a bug!! Regards Catherine

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THAT'S SHENANIGANS! I'm sending this issue straight to the Help Team! You should hear back from one of our Helpsters very soon. The Q&A Forum is a wonderful land of answers and information, but if ever something about your account seems buggy, feel free to email "help@moz.com" and you'll receive the personalized attention you deserve! Thanks for hanging with us, Rob!

I'm so sorry to hear you've been having trouble! We'd love to dive into this problem in greater detail. The Q&A Forums are a great place to start when searching for answers, but it sounds like you need some personalized TLC. Please email "help@moz.com" with more details on the campaigns you've been struggling with and our Helpsters can work to resolve these issues. We really appreciate you sticking with us during this transition period! We're doing our very best to smooth out these wrinkles and all your feedback is valuable.

Hello Dustin, this is Abe on the Moz Help team. This question is a bit intricate, I apologize if i am not reading your question correctly. With AJAX content like this, I know Google's full specifications https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification indicate that the #! and ?escaped_fragment= technique works for their crawlers. However, Roger is a bit picky and isn't robust enough yet to use only the sitemap as the reference in this case. Luckily, one of our wonderful users came up with a solution using pushState() method. Click here: http://www.moz.com/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate to find out how to create crawl-able content using pushState . This should help our crawler read AJAX content. Let me know if this information works for you! I hope this helps

Hey there, Thanks for the question. Unfortunately you won't be able to have specific errors filtered out from the Crawl Diagnostic. Your best bet is to start using the CSV files and generate your reports and sprints that way using Excel or whatever spreadsheet program you use. You may also want to suggest this in our feature request forum here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests to start a dialogue with my Product Team. Thanks! Joel.

OK - glad to hear that. If you ever encounter an outage that's longer than 10-15 mins, please don't hesitate to ping our help team (help@moz.com). Hope you're well EGOL!

Did I misread the article? How will this affect Google's keyword planner data? We appear to be picking up momentum in the direction of pay-to-play.

These kinds of questions are often worth running through a quick Q/A search, James. As the staff response in this question indicates, the PDF export functionality is still being worked on in the Analytics Beta. Hopefully won't be too much longer before it's ready. Hope that helps; Paul

Hi, The tool is designed to tell you the difficulty of the keyword across different engines, so in your case, a 62% in bing and a 74% in google. However, it is not designed to tell you the search volume across the different engines. As you can see in your screenshot, all the numbers are based on "Bing Search Volume (Exact Match)," so all the numbers will be the same, because they are coming from the same place. The only difference will be the difficulty. I hope this helps, Ruben

Hi Darren In order to view backlinks to a specific sub-folder or directory you will need to use the advanced report feature to filter the results. Here is a screenshot of the settings: http://www.screencast.com/t/qeit2kc2 You also want to makes sure to end your URL with a trailing slash, however you will only find links to pages in that immediate sub-folder. So if your URL is domain.com/blog/ The your results will show links that are finding pages within /blog/ and not /blog/other/ If you need to go deeper then you would run the same report with /blog/other/ as the search URL. Let me know if this helps!

It is easy for us to understand that getting into the top three positions for a 45% keyword is going to be more difficult than getting there for a 28% keyword.  So, at first glance this is really easy to comprehend. That is the basic value in the keyword difficulty tool. =========================== To understand this tool fully, you need to build a few websites that each have some content out on the web.  Then you will see a piece of your content ranking for a keyword and know what it took to produce that.  Now you have "experience" that you can use as a gauge.   Now you have a number and it will be like holding a rock in your hand, hefting it a bit and having some idea of APPROXIMATELY what it weighs. However, keep in mind that this scale is from 1% to 100% and it is probably not linear.   A rock that gets a keyword difficulty of 58% probably weighs about ten times as much as one with a 48%. The scale is logarithmic (or something close to that - but definitely not linear). Now.. you asked about easy vs hard and how long it takes to rank.   That depends upon the amount of resources that you have to put into the battle.   If I have a powerful site, I can toss up a page and it might immediately be competitive and on the first page of the SERPs for a 45% keyword.  EASY. But you put the same content on your site, which is new and has not developed a strong track record, and it might not be visible in the first five pages of the SERPs.   HARD. The difference is that I have the resource of a strong website behind me and that makes the KW easy for me.  You don't have the luxury so the same KW is hard for you. Other differences in resources can be budget for site promotion, relationships with other webmasters, and an enthusiastic tribe of website visitors who will tweet... "Chapman nails it again!  Woohoo!"  That can be like throwing gasoline on a fire. Another difference is the quality of the content.  My strong site might get that first page of the SERPs for a 45% keyword with junk content.   But you write something really impressive that attracts links, likes, tweets, and attention.  Although you rank initially on page five of the SERPs.  People who see your content share and link to it at a much faster rate than the junk article on my site... so over time your rankings will climb.  My page will eventually be defeated as superior content is published on other sites. The bottom line...  SEO is a "battle of resources".   Knowledge, talent, wit, verve and dedication to quality are amazing resources in the long term.   But the resources of a powerful site, a huge budget, established relationships and an enthusiastic tribe give Goliath a huge and immediate advantage - even if undeserved. So, easy vs hard is relative... but the number scale ranks keywords in their approximate order of "resources required" - which we could substitute for the word "difficulty".

I agree with Jesse you are already a Pro member and the ability to track keywords in the SERPS comes with your complete package. I would use http://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker or This is a fantastic tool it allows you to check almost every country on the map except for North Korea and even get as granular as by zip code This link will take you to the free check however you will have to enter it manually and you must sign up for the trial and then pay for the software after 30 days to continue tracking rankings all over the world. https://serps.com/tools/rank_checker this is free You can also use the trial versions and keep in mind you must pay after 30 days both of the tools here https://serps.com/ http://authoritylabs.com/ can give you the zip code level searching. I utilize Moz, SERPS & AuthorityLabs I find it very comforting to have that ability and honestly most of it was from interest in which was better at what and what made them different. I would recommend connecting Google analytics to all of them The only time I would not use Moz is an extremely rare occasion where local matters a lot for instance you want the zip code of whatever country or state has the answer you're looking for lies in whatever countries Providence, broken into zip code via state or Providence I would then consider using SERPS.com they have a free tool as well that will allow you to check your zip code rankings in any country for free however you must sign up and use the trial than pay if you wish to track them. I also agree search metrics & sistrix are outstanding tools and unfortunately is not free but will do the job as well. Great answers everyone. Sincerely, Thomas

Thanks that's exactly what I needed!!