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Hi Nick, It is pretty normal to see discrepancies between data from different sources. Google and Moz have different crawlers with different datasets, so it is often the case that you will see different numbers - I've never seen them match up! I very much doubt that crawl errors like this would be causing big fluctuations in your rankings. Google have gone on record saying that crawl errors are very unlikely to directly impact rankings. Having said that, it's still best to try and fix errors wherever possible. As pointed out below, you can use a tool like Screaming Frog to verify the data that is being show to you by Moz and Google and then go and check those pages. I hope that helps! Paddy

Hi Federico, Sorry for the delayed response. Yes. The extension should do the trick. Thank you! Dino

Strange, I tested on my site and the load time is 2.69 without the plugin and 2.75 with the plugin. In 2008 our "friend" Matt Cutts wrote a post where he suggested 5 plugins, I am not sure how relevant those plugins are after so many is years, but is worth a try. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-related-posts/

Hi Jason I wouldnt think the duplicate content is the issue, especially assuming the main keyphrase you are after had the homepage ranking for it (which doesnt have the dup issue) right? Moz is not showing you anywhere near as many links to the domain as ahrefs is, I would look at GWT also and have a good look through all your backlinks, at first glance there seems to be a chunk of obvious spam/seo type links in your profile that might be a more likely cause of the trouble. If you are not getting any more of those and have a marketing plan in place then it might just be a matter of keep doing what you are doing and you will start ranking again. But you will want to make sure you know where those dodgy links came from and that you are not going to be getting many more.

Hey Robert, Thanks for the question. The API can be tough to use if you don't have the coding knowledge to develop your tools. You may want to consider just using Open Site Explorer if you're not able to make or find a tool that you're enjoying. Here's some examples of things people have put together using our API: http://apiwiki.moz.com/gallery/apps I hope that helps. Cheers, Joel.

As well as parameters mentioned you may possibly have heaps of duplicating categories, tags etc.  What I would also do is start searching Google with something like site:www.example.com/directory/ or possibly site:www.example.com/category/directory/directory/ so you are tightly narrowing down the results, switch to 100 results per page and manually look for clues.

OK, I see what you mean now. I am not sure how they are doing that. You would normally see that if the content of the page was output through an iframe but I couldn't find one in the source code. It's possible it is something OpenCart is doing It's not a great idea from a user experience basis really, but search engines are not going to read the URL in the address bar. They will use the links that are in the pagination links at the bottom. For example, this is page 2: http://www.manhattanfruitier.com/index.php?route=product/category/shopall_Data&osc=0&page=2 So that is what will be indexed. Peter

I see the Keyword tool, but it really acts differently than the one I'm used to in Hubspot. I did not thumbs up your answer because I really didn't get the response I was hoping for... I've dumped in my words, but I don't see where we rank for these terms, nor do I see how I can modify descriptors for lower volumes of traffic when the we're focusing on more local and regional traffic rankings, especially in the situation when local searches for those terms are low volume. Do we just remove the local descriptor and assume local traffic would be relatively porportionate to national rankings for those terms? It's not as easy to use as Hubspot, and it's a bummer to not get that for what this costs per month.

Okay, thanks.

Don't forget oDesk.com.

There are many link-based algorithmic actions that can hit a site, including Penguin, so just because you don't have a warning of a manual action doesn't mean that you're not in trouble. I can't see the data, but this doesn't seem to be speculative - you're basically saying that certain pages and keywords have clearly been devalued. If you've ruled out technical issues with the pages (including duplicate/thin content issues), and you know the spammy links are targeting these pages, then I think disavowing is probably a good way to go. Ideally, try to have some of the links removed first, as that will make Google take the request more seriously (and disavow is basically a request, although it's semi-automated). It's entirely possible, too, that you're already headed for a manual action, so even if you do nothing, the situation could get worse. If you were unaffected, I might suggest pruning some of the bad links and focusing your future link-building on better tactics, but you're already taking damage.

Thank you Jeff! Your answer is very in depth and helpful.

Thank you for the feedback Tim. We have added a note to OSE when you run a report that exports are running behind, as well as to the recent CSV reports page. Hopefully this will help people in this situation in the next couple of days. This morning's internal status report showed that we are getting ahead on the reports and things are starting to move a little faster now.

Hi Reece, Data for OSE is collected straight through the APIs of the various social services, so whatever they return is what we display. As others have mentioned, metrics are URL specific. For Facebook, we display the activity of the URL you are examining, which is different than the activity around your Facebook page. Hope this helps explain things a bit. Best of luck!

Hey Lauren, Thanks for writing in. Have you tried reauthorizing the connection to Facebook on your campaign? You will most likely need to log into the Facebook account that you originally used to authorize the connection (if more than one account has admin access to the page) and then reauthorize the connection to Facebook. If that does not correct the error, please email us at help@moz.com so we can look into this further for you. Chiaryn

Ian I don't think anyone is going to be able to help you without being able to see your site, do some checking around the SERPs, etc... If you don't want to provide that information, we understand, but I don't think anyone could provide you with a useful answer. As far as new sites going up and then dropping down in the first few months, we used to call this the "Google Sandbox effect". Nobody talks about it anymore for various reasons, but many of us believe that there is still an amount of time for a new site where Google will give it the benefit of a doubt in order to collect metrics about it from the SERPs, such as user's reactions to it appearing in the search results for different queries. Once that data is crunched the rankings often go down. That's just a theory, but I thought I'd throw it out there. It doesn't seem to make sense in this case though, as it doesn't explain the Moz metric drops, which are not associated with Google at all. Google recently cleaned house a bit on structured data in the SERPs, which might explain that part of it. Even if your data markup was using the correct syntax it wouldn't help if you don't have the trust metrics necessary for Google to deem the sight worthy of structured data in the SERPs.