Should we be bracing ourselves for a YSE to OSE mass migration?

[SteveOllington]

I was just thinking, now that YSE is finally about to become no-more, that's likely to mean OSE and Majestic get an influx of people who previously used that mostly... I wonder if there will be numbers enough to clog things up and slow things down?

Maybe it just seems like their are millions of us SEO's in giant herds marauding the plains of the web when in-fact there's not that many of us really, and we get a distorted, non-relative view of numbers due to being immersed in it.

There's definitely ten times more than there was three years ago... I know some of you old fogies (just kidding) have been going a lot longer than that but the UK had a tiny fraction of agencies offering SEO of what it does now.

*I reckon there should be a new question topic added for people like me, called random nonsense or something... I didn't know what to select for this question

[Malarowski]

SEO just did or is about to hit mainstream. Many more people know what SEO is and try their luck at it than even a year ago. So far OSE is holding up fine, and I don't see how that would change. I do not foresee a sudden explosion in use. (Unless Apple decides to put it into the iPhone, then people will use it, no matter if they need it or not)

[kpaulin]

Search Engine Watch published a "Farewell Yahoo Site Explorer" article today which touches on some alternative options here http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2126582/Yahoo-Site-Explorer-Shuts-Down-Today-What-Alternatives-Are-There

Having been in the SEO space for over ten years, yes the number of players has grown, but as they say, the cream always floats to the top...

[randfish]

Funny you should mention this. On a thread with some engineers last night, we noted that the shutdown could bring a lot more traffic, and they're planning to scale up the infrastructure (we're in the cloud so it's pretty much all on-demand anyway) to make sure no one has a subpar experience

[kpaulin]

So does this ramp up the SEOmoz IPO timescale?

Seriously, OSE has been so much more than an alternative (and now replacement) to YSE - although I will always have fond memories (remember Alta Vista - I still have a soft spot) - as always, you guys are just way ahead of the curve...

[randfish]

Ha! We'll see. Glad you're enjoying it; we certainly are planning to continually invest in data quality, index size/freshness and functionality.

[kpaulin]

Cheeky to ask I know but....whilst I have your attention...

Can we please, please have a data source/proxy for down under here in Australia for rankings - pretty please

[randfish]

Are you getting inaccurate rankings in the web app? Or just the old rank tracker tool? If it's the latter, we haven't yet switched it to the upgraded version of rank data but if it's the web app, please write in to help@seomoz.org and give them examples of what you're seeing so we can try to sort out the problem.

Thanks!

[kpaulin]

Thanks Rand...

Will do...

KP

[SteveOllington]

In the theme of Keith's "While I have your attention..." On the campaign on-page report cards, could we have something (at some point) implemented so that we can input upto three keywords instead of just one?

Also, are you aware that there are more results fed back for the on-page reports when using it as an external tool rather than going through the campaign manager?

Hehe you're going to wish you did answer the question in here as more people use the "While I have your attention..."

[SteveOllington]

Could be awesome for Moz... think of all those potential new Pro memberships! People that exclusively used YSE that now need an alternative, testing out OSE, seeing how good it is and checking out the 30 day free trial then staying once they realise what they've been missing

[randfish]

We've been noodling on some ways to make the on-page tool support multiple keywords. I think it's possible, but right now it's sitting behind a number of other priorities so could be a while. In the meantime, you can just hack it by running the tool for multiple keyphrases on a page

Not entirely sure what you mean by the second question... The ways the tool runs is precisely the same whether you're "in campaign" or using the "one-off" version. If you're asking which gets more runs, it's definitely the "in campaign" version.

Hope that helps!

[SteveOllington]

You're right of course, they're exactly the same... I could have sworn there were more factors in one than the other a couple of weeks back.

No wonder you weren't sure what I meant, it made no sense lol

Thanks Rand

[seoneogames]

Does DA and PA Seomoz parameters have all it takes to replace YSE?

I'll really appreciate your inputs!

[randfish]

Just FYI - our data scientist, Matt Peters, has written a great blog post about PA/DA that's launching in the next couple days, and that might help with this question.