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Hi Jeremy, Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble with Moz Local! I think I found the issues here :). For Google+, we'll need you to be registered as a 'verified local business' in order to show up in the Moz Local system. Here's a link to get that process started: https://support.google.com/business/answer/2911778?hl=en&ref_topic=4596754 On Facebook, it looks like your page's name is listed as 'SearchOutsidethebox.com by Jeremy Wood', whereas on Moz Local your name is listed as 'SearchOutsidetheBox.com'. You'll just want to make sure that those match up as well, and we should be able to find the page in no time! I hope this helps! Enjoy your day, and keep on Mozzing on!

Hi Monica, Thanks for the fast response. I'm a bit wary of 301 redirecting the old pages -- this would be extremely easy to do - however: if we were being penalised on those old pages, wouldn't this just redirect all the penalties to our new squeaky clean pages? I submitted a new sitemap to Google the day we made the changes -- probably about three weeks - a month ago including the new URLs (or as many as we could include with the 500 URL limit) and removing the old spammy ones. Penalty-wise, we've never had a manual warning or anything in WMT. However, this doesn't discount the idea that we may have been suffering an algorithm penalty, right? It'd be great to hear from anyone about their experience with 301's and the likeliness of passing on 'bad' linkjuice from old pages (does this even happen?). Also whether a 410 would help - stops all the 404 errors from continuously occurring and Google assuming there's something bizarre going on. Thank you again.

Hi, No more links than a standard e-commerce site should have... I'm chasing the sitemap as we speak. Cheers,

Hi Pooja, Open Site Explorer focuses on showing you the highest quality links going to your site and so we don't necessarily show all links. Just so you know, here's how we compile our index: We grab the most recent index. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Hope that helps!

Personally I would go fully qualified links ie xyz.com/blah.html. Yoast has a good post here about the subject - https://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/ Also on MOZ http://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link

Thank you Miriam

Many thanks LindaLV Pete

Hi There, So Leonie is correct that Open Site Explorer is the best way to check your backlink profile. As a bit of an addendum you can find an amazing rundown of OSE in our help hub at: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer. This should give you a feel for if OSE is right for you, and if you have any questions on it please feel free to let me know or write into help@moz.com. Hopefully this helps and have an amazing day!

Hey Moosa, Since the value of footer links is very low anyway, the likelihood that they may be seen as manipulative would be of far more concern to me - no following them is unlikely to make any sort of negative dent in search visibility. It will, however ensure that the site does not become an easy target for Penguin. Given the business your client is in, I imagine the most important thing for them is bringing new qualified traffic to their site. The potential for referral traffic from a nofollowed link with anchor text properly crafted to reinforce the brand and entice the click should be the prize they have their eye on. Hope that helps, Sha

Hi Mark, Thanks for writing into us.:) This does appear to be a strange issue, which tool are you experiencing this issue in? Is it occurring in Crawl Diagnostics or On- Page Grader. Once we have a bit more information on the tool we can hopefully begin to track down the issue. Also, if you feel uncomfortable conveying this information on a public forum please feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com. That way we can discuss account specific issues and easily escalate it to our engineering staff if it appears to be an issue on our end. Hopefully this helps and if you have any other questions or concerns please feel free to ask. Have a wonderful day!

Without looking at the links specifically it is hard to speculate. Realistically the site made it through all Penguin updates unharmed. That has to say something. Disavowing the links will have a negative affect on SEO. It will take time to come back from it. It is expensive and time consuming. I would pose the options to your client and see what they decide. Pros and Cons of both options and let them decide.

Definitely get some quality links to that page, and make sure that your content is helpful, unique and engaging. Try not to make so many changes so fast. Give your page time to even out after make changes. If you do too much to fast it will be hard to pinpoint what is working and what isn't. Start with the content, then the meta data, then the links. Sharing the page through social will help too.