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Sorry, you were looking for ranking factors - I misread the question.

Thanks you are quiet right.  I was puttiing in the correct structure in the wrong dir dur! Thanks so much for your help Catherine

Strange I didn't notice that. (Maybe due to the fact I didn't have that many blogrolls to have significant impact). The only way to find out is to test it.

Hey seo.academy, It sounds like your site hasn't been reindexed by Linkscape or like those other links are deeper than Linkscape is going on your site. Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Linkscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for a plethora of reasons, including crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. Just so you know, here's how we do our index: we take the last index, take the 10 billion URLs with the highest mozrank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains), and start crawling from the top-down until we've crawled 40,000,000,000 pages (which is about 1/4 of the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index We update our Linkscape Index every 3 to 5 weeks. Crawling the whole internet to look for links takes 2-3 weeks. And then we've got 1-2 weeks of processing to do on those links to determine which are the most important links etc. You can see a schedule of how often we update, and planned updates here: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule Linkscape focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Linkscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. I hope this information helps! It definitely sounds like for your issue specifically, it's a matter of those links not getting indexed yet. Also, I'd definitely recommend you use OSE instead of the Linkscape tool - OSE is much better. In the future, if you have a question about our site or tools, please email it to help@seomoz.org to get faster service. Thank you!

Solid point - I was assuming it was a new one and everyone knows, assumption is the mother of all f**k ups!

If you decide you absolutely must use tags I recommend creating or buying a wordpress theme that only shows post excerpts on the tag pages.  That should help with duplicate content. Categories in WordPress are better for SEO b/c wordpress stores a description for categories and SEO plugins can grab this descrption and add it to the meta descrption tag in your posts HTML header.

Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices

I think the general rule is, if you can read it in the "view source" then google can read it. But I agree with Damien scrollbars remind me of 90s web design ( remember the <marquee>tag_)_</marquee>

This article might be able to help a little.  It does not use SEO Moz campaigns to track keyword performance but does discuss how you can crawl search results from google for a to group keywords and then pair those results with data from Open Site Explorer.  You would not necessarily be interested in the second part.  Perhaps the spreadsheets discussed in these articles can help? http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/competitive-analysis-in-under-60-seconds-using-google-docs-12649 http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/how-to-build-agile-seo-tools-using-google-docs/ http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2011/04/linkscape-google-spreadsheets.htm The first article references the second and third article.  The second article talks about how to use spreadsheets to scrape sites (include google SERP).  The third article mentions automatically grabbing data once a mont or so.  Seems like you could get a solution for what you are looking for with these three articles.

I believe they are, yes. Here's another concept.  Yahoo's own search results come from Bing.  What would be the point of Yahoo displaying the exact same results as Bing though?  So it's a known fact that Yahoo takes Bing's data and changes it for the main Yahoo search. So in that same way, I am saying I believe Yahoo then goes even further and provides yet a different result set for "powered by Yahoo".

Nope, that's not it. Thanks though!

I would be intested in knowing what you guys think is the best way to name images? say "rustic-oak-3-draw-bedside.jpg" How long should the names be max and are hyphens ok do you think?

Yes sorry, that's what I meant It can't be exact of course as SEOmoz don't know the algo, but it's as close as anyone is going to get.

My pleasure! Glad I could help.

Dylan, Building up depth of unique quality localized content, combined with links and citations from sites that themselves are devoted to each location / area pointing to that localized content is vital.  How much you'll need depends on the competition in each local market.  Some might be easier to break into than others. It's also easier to go after regions as opposed to individual cities or towns.  So here where I live/work, it's "Bay area" and "San Francisco Bay Area", instead of just San Francisco or just Marin County.