Keyword Difficulty Tool

[alholliman]

Hello,

I've been using the above more and more - with some great results.

I have just run a report for a brand term and that brand has the new style sitelinks - 12 in total.

So the output from the Keyword Difficulty Tool is focussed solely on the main url and then 9 sitelinks, rather than 10 different domains.

Is there anyway around this?  What do people think I should do?

Is it:

a) ok to use the output or

b) because the output is skewed to one domain is the data not robust enough or...

c) something else??

Thanks

Alex

[StalkerB]

I think you should submit this as a bug to help@seomoz.org

The tool obviously takes the links as it finds them, limited to 10, and these new sitelinks have thrown a spanner in the works

[KeriMorgret]

You might also want to check out this thread with a related question about ranking reports and the new super site links. I've asked Aaron to come over here and comment as well, so the rest of the group can also have the answer.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-the-latest-ranking-reports-counting-the-new-large-format-site-links-as-positions

[AaronWheeler]

Hey Alex,

Sorry that you're having that issue with Keyword Difficulty! These new in-site results do seem to have thrown off our tools, so we need to consider how to address them. Obviously, in-site links take up a lot of real estate in the SERPs, so the fact that they're there does add a lot of competition. However, I'm not sure if we've decided yet how we're going to treat them in the KWD tool, so stay tuned for that. Also, if you could send an email to help@seomoz.org with your PRO email address, the KWD search you're doing, and the example SERP, we'll take a look for you ASAP. Thanks Alex!