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Will this only work on a link by link basis? To confirm I have a list of 300 links I've scraped from Google into Excel, how can I display the PA for all of these sites within Excel?

Thanks Abe, We have subscribed for the updates now. Hope you will fix the issues soon, so that we can manage our SEO processes properly. Right now it is hard to understand the current status. Thanks for your response. Regards, Om

Hi there Whichever site is being redirected, make sure that you prepare a disavow file for that specific site. Reason being, you're redirecting all of the links to a new site, so you want to make sure the links are stopped where they started that you want to disavow. I would also make sure that you do a proper backlink audit and properly assess any potential harmful backlinks. From there, make sure you do the same for the new website, but it shouldn't be the same if links from the old site aren't appearing in the new site's backlink profile. Also, read Google's Move a site with URL changes guide and assess the pages with the most backlinks and optimized anchor text for risk assessment. From this update, I would update any potential good backlinks you find: Listings & citations Partnerships Sponsorships Relevant or authoritative mentions All of the links above from Ikkie are a great place to start with your disavow: Guide to Google's Disavow Tool (Moz) Disavow: Secrets of Google's Most Mysterious Tool (Moz) Disavow backlinks (Google) But then, I would also take a look at Matt Cutts on Common Disavow Link Tool Mistakes & 7 Things You May Not Know About Google's Disavow Tool and make sure you have your bases covered. Hope this all helps - good luck!

Howdy All! Sorry about the delay in response here but we do have an active thread being monitored by Rand here - http://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-story-on-mozscape-updates. If you have any questions feel free to post them here for the best visibility!

Thanks. I fetched both the main page and made a slight tweak to the robots and resubmitted last night. It looks like it is making a bit of progress. There is nothing else blocking the pages. We did add a new sitemap when we first launched the pages with no warnings. I did notice yesterday that we had approx 268 broken links that went to 404 pages in WMT in this specific sub-folder. The discovery of the broken link-404 pages by Google seems to be around the same time Google stopped crawling this section of the site. We took care of the broken links this morning. Thanks for the help!

You could block the site for all bots except rogerbot ( Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot). Alternative would be to use a local crawler like Screaming Frog (and modify the spider settings so that it ignores the robots.txt) rgds, Dirk

Hi I would not do it. Main Google bot is using a California IP address - so depending on the languages you are targeting you risk that the bot is only crawling one version of the site.  There are bots that use foreign IP addresses - but they don't guarantee that these bots crawl 100% of your site. Apart from that, it can be annoying for your visitors if you get it wrong. Check also this article on international SEO https://moz.com/blog/5-dos-and-donts-of-international-seo Better to allow the user to make the choice of language on first visit and store the preference in a cookie. Set hreflang to indicate the alternative versions in other languages. Here is a tool that helps you to generate the Hreflang tags: http://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool and here you can test if the implementation was correct flang.dejanseo.com.au Hope this helps, Dirk

Hi Marty, I don't think this will hurt your SEO, but I'd think of this more in terms of user experience and your goals for the website. For instance, if the site is primarily an ecommerce site, perhaps driving traffic from the money pages to the blog is not advisable.  On the other hand, if brand awareness and the blog are a big part of your overall strategy, then maybe driving traffic to recent posts makes more sense. For user experience, recent posts may not be relevant to all pages like you mentioned, so you have to make a judgement call regarding how many pages they will provide value and how valuable they will be on those pages vs how much value they take away on other pages where they aren't as relevant. Make sense?  Feel free to message me with any other questions Mark

Ok here is how I will respond to this question. There are tons of signal that Google uses in order to rank a website against a query. CTR can be one of them but I see two problems here: Bounce rate. The bounce rate of the traffic will be high and this might give Google a hint that the website is getting a fake or unrealistic traffic. Amount of traffic from one source. The website that you are going to use will send the direct traffic or referral traffic from multiple (yet) limited sources and I am sure none of them will be reputable in the eye of Google which again make the case suspicious. We might see an increase in rankings in the beginning but it might fall down again in weeks of time so I guess for long term, this idea is a waste, plus this can hurt you as well. Now, I will move to the EGOL’s idea of how you should be working instead. I think the better idea is to work on legit ideas that give a real boost to your website rankings will help in the longer run and make you a brand which otherwise is not possible. Hope this helps!

Moosa, Dirk- Thank you both. B.

Hey Gary, The Google stance is that anything paid like what you outlined in #2 and #3 should have nofollowed links on it. It's the same story for giving free stuff to bloggers in exchange for reviews. The official stance can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en. The reality is that there are still plenty of people getting away with this behind closed doors. The ones that are subtle about it can likely keep doing it for a long time with low risk. The ones that are blatantly doing it are much more at risk for being penalized or losing the value of those links, however I haven't seen many public stories of paid link penalties for awhile. If you choose to do this, do so with the understanding that it carries some risk, and your competitors are going to be happy to report you to the webspam team if you make it obvious that you're doing it.

I can't think of any reason it wouldn't be safe to alter those redirects after a month. You may want to resubmit your sitemap in Webmaster Tools to alert Google, but it should be totally safe. I'm afraid I can't recommend a plugin or regular expression—those are both well outside my expertise. As an agency SEO, I placed 301s in .htaccess or had a dev do it for me.

Thanks for the update, Rand, and good luck on getting Mozscape V2 up and running ASAP. I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to see Moz emerge as the leader in this industry, bringing the tools up to par with the amazing community assets that you guys provide. Looking forward to seeing the mustache disappear! -Yair

Hi Craig, If the keyword appears twice in the url it should be acceptable. What I normally do is to look at the url & judge if it still looks "natural" (with "natural" off course is quite subjective). If it looks stuffed, I change, if not I keep it. Check the 'stuffed' examples here: http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2014/09/09/url-keyword-stuffing-spam-filtering/ Sorry I cannot be more specific, it's a bit of a grey area. Dirk

Thank you Calin! Great answer!

Hi Jac, If you keep the content on your homepage quite similar to the existing homepage, you should normally be able to keep the rankings for the keywords that are currently generating traffic to your homepage. If everything goes well, Google should be able to figure out that for some keywords, other landing pages on your site are a better choice than just the home (although it's never a guarantee - just browse the q&a section and you'll find plenty of questions wondering why Google seems to prefer the home page rather than the skilfully crafted landing pages on the site) rgds, Dirk

Hello bizzer, 1. I dont know... it's up to you! Maybe you prefer to start no indexing the forum, check if your users like it, and then start indexing it after a while. In my opinion, create the forum, add the "no index" tag, check if users like it and wait for some results,... and if you decide to keep it, then change the "no index" tag, and do everything necessary to have it SEO-friendly (probably Discourse forums are already SEO-friendly). 2.  I answered you too fast (I was in a rush), sorry. For sure, the best option is going to GWT and delete your indexed URLs. But the other option may work too! Luis

Hi Luis, Thanks for your response! So I managed to update all urls with the correct hreftags and submitted a new sitemap also have used google fetch to index the pages - I went to do a search in australia and it is still showing the new zealand meta tag description can you take a look?  Or something I'm doing wrong here?

Hi Matt, I resubmitted, but still the same.