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Hey!  We were experiencing a slight bug but the engineers put through a fix so all your data should look accurate again.  if you have further issues, please shoot us an email to help@moz.com so we can help out! thanks

Use any plugin and notice that external links are nofollowed. Realize that Google has had years to figure out links in comments versus links in content, and is pretty good at discounting comment spam. Know that there are ways to sort this forum by most recent activity, so even comments on posts that are over a year old do get noticed [source: I was the one who heavily pushed for this feature]. One last thing: I'm no longer an employee, and have not been for some time, so I'm able to add a bit of snark that an employee would not. And as soon as your comment is nuked, mine will likely automatically disappear.

Hey! You can find you SEO competitors in a few steps with  Keyword Explorer, which is included in our Moz Pro subscription. 1. Enter your site into Keyword Explorer https://moz.com/explorer/site/overview 2. Select and search a keyword that you’re ranking on the top page for (the top 10 results) 3. Click SERP Analysis 4. Save the top ranking URLs You can do the same for a target keyword 1. Enter your target keyword  into Keyword Explorer https://moz.com/explorer/site/overview 2. Click on SERP Analysis 3. Save the top ranking URLs You can then go on to find competitor overlap to build on your keyword lists and get content ideas. 1. Enter your site into Keyword Explorer 2. Enter two of the competitors URLs that you just collected 3. Click on the Venn diagram to see the areas of most overlap to see keywords the top ratings urls also rank for 4. Use this ideas to build keyword lists, add them to your Campaign to track and optimise your content. Any further questions, feel free to reach out to help@moz.com

Moz does not have a tool for traffic estimation, Ahrefs, and Semrush already have a traffic calculator, but keep in mind that they are just an estimations not real traffic.

Here's the answer I received. I have to say, I still don't get it. On the site I manage we have internal links in the body of many articles, side widgets, footer, HTML sitemap, Related Content, and so on. Yet MOZ has us -- constantly -- at 66 internal links. Here's the MOZ answer I received to my question about this: I think it may help to understand a bit more about how our index is built. Our index doesn't work like a direct crawler that you'll see with Screamingfrog, or Moz Pro Site Crawl. Direct site crawlers go right to your site and crawl from page to page using links. This would give you an accurate picture of your site at the time it's crawled. Our index is built by crawling and indexing high authority sites and pages and following links internally and externally. If we find a link to a site we may not go on to crawl and index all the other pages on that site. It's likely we won't have a complete map of all your pages and internal links. The index and Link Explorer tool are designed to help you discover prospects to build your backlink profile, rather than give you a complete picture of your internal links. The higher your pages authority to more likely they are to be crawled and indexed. You can learn more about our index here https://moz.com/help/guides/link-explorer/how-we-index

Thanks for the question! Just to clarify, when say "references" do you mean that someone has mentioned your blog, or that someone has linked to you? Actual links to your blog will be more valuable for ranking purposes than just mentions. You can learn more about the benefits of link building here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/links-link-building For link data, our index updates daily. Moz crawls and indexes billions of pages, adding fresh link data every day. When discovered or lost links are found, we'll update our database to reflect those changes in your scores and link counts. We prioritize the links we crawl based on a machine learning algorithm to mimic Google's index. Unfortunately because it is run by an algorithm, we can't say for certain when a particular link will appear in our index. You can read more about our index here. Hope that helps!

Hi there, Jo from the Moz help team here. You're right that Spam Score is based on the 27 factors outlined on our Help Hub. Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it. Which of the 27 features your site triggered isn't currently available. You'll need to look at the 27 features listed in this article and review your own site to see what you could change to improve your site's score. I hope this helps! Jo

Hey, Unfortunately this would not be possible (especially as we recently released a new index which changed how DA/PA was calculated, therefore you wouldn't be able to compare against previous results). You can see history for DA for near enough the past year in Link Explorer. We have a great guide on it here: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll be more than happy to help! Have a great day! ​Eli

Hi there! Sorry for any confusion. If you're seeing odd URLs show up in your Top Pages report within Link Explorer or the Links section of your campaign, it is because we found a link out in the internet that leads to that page. It is entirely possible that whichever site it is coming from has an incorrect or inaccurate URL for your site. We could definitely help take a look at this if you email in the campaign details to help@moz.com! Thanks.

I have this issue can you please explain more in details how to remove it

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. You can read all about how we're calculating those CTRs over in our Help Hub, here: https://moz.com/help/guides/keyword-explorer/keyword-metrics#organic-ctr I hope that helps clear up some of your questions! If there's anything else we can help with, just give us a shout at help@moz.com. Cheers!

thanks for your help, Samantha

I am also having this same issue where I am receiving a duplicate title error for paginated pages even though they have canonical urls set and use the prev and next tags. Is there a solution for this?

Hey Sorin, Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to contact us at help@moz.com so we can take a closer look. Thanks, Eli

Hi Jo, Thanks for your quick reply and investigation. I'l tell our developer to have a look and get back to you. Thanks again

Thanks for the update Ian! Also read something in Twitter from Rand about this issue. Its great to hear that Moz keeps track on the bugs and when they screw up, embrace the problem, do the best to solve it, even rolling back. Keep up like this! Best wishes. GR

HI Adam, Thanks for reaching out. I'm afraid this isn't currently a feature available with Moz Pro, sorry. ​If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know. Cheers! Jo

Hi There, In addition to Eli's reply, I have copied the relevant content from the post and pasting it here for your reference: Which DA is the real DA? The new DA is based on a much larger index that has many improvements, several of which are designed to make the index more like Google’s than ever before. You should consider moving towards the new DA (and the old DA won’t be updated after April 26th 2018, so the sooner the better). While there will be fluctuations as we improve the model and add features to the index, we expect it to remain largely stable and to be a far more accurate picture of a site’s authority according to how it’s seen by Google. Why is Link Explorer’s DA/PA considered better than OSE’s, and which should I trust? The larger link index with improved crawl selection allows us to produce a stronger model that includes a much larger proportion of the web. That being said, DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement. Is Domain Authority/Page Authority an absolute score or a relative one? Both DA and PA are relative to the Internet as a whole. If Facebook acquired a billion new links, everyone’s PA and DA would drop relative to Facebook. Because of this, it’s always best to look at PA and DA in comparison to your competitors. What does a drop/raise in DA mean in Link Explorer vs OSE? How can I explain this to my clients when I’m reporting it? DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop or raise in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement. Reporting that your site has moved from a DA of 45 to a DA of 42 doesn’t tell the whole story, but reporting that your site has a DA of 42 while your main competitor moved from a 43 to a 37 shows that, relative to the sites you’re competing against in the SERPs, your site has significantly more authority and ranking power.

In that case, You might have to look at the pointers given by the Moz team. The links pointing to your page might need to be evaluated and checked. Check if there is any change on the anchor text, linking images etc. Use the link explorer to check the historical changes.

Hey, Thanks for reaching out to us! Unfortunately I am not sure if this will be on our roadmap for Link Explorer but If you're looking for unlinked mentions, though, I'd recommend Fresh Web Explorer! Its whole purpose is to find mentions of your site that aren't linked to, so you can reach out and hopefully get a link! You can read all about that tool over in our Help Hub pages, here: https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/fresh-web-explorer Eli