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Nope, they don't.

Good article here explaining it in more detail: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2325343/matt-cutts-facebook-twitter-social-signals-not-part-of-google-search-ranking-algorithms but basically any link from Facebook or twitter does not help your rankings.

Would be way to easy to manipulate to get rankings.

If your new to link building, then this is a great beginners guide to it: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

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Andy

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I have to agree with both, having links to external websites isn't a bad thing, IMO it adds value to your website.

A simple way of looking at Google is that it was create by some university graduates who we're taught, like everyone at uni is to reference where you get your information from. So when they started 'Google' (I know it wasn't called Google initially), they used the fact if you linked of to somewhere it was like saying this website is a good source of information and the more links pointing at a page the more authoritative it must be, then came along SEO's who realised this and abused it and now you have a situation whereby too many spammy links will actually hurt your rankings.

But the core part of the algorithm which still helps rankings is outbound links, so if ever webmaster remove outbound links, google would suddenly struggle to rank websites.

Just image you are writing a university essay, does the link (source) add value to your article.

In terms of links in your footers, this is a bit different, this was an old black hat SEO tactic to stuff keyword anchor text links into your footer to boost other websites you owned, so links in the footer, think of more a user experience point of view rather than SEO, but a great question was asked on here (http://moz.com/community/q/sitewide-footer-links-bad-or-not).

Hope this was useful.

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Andy

depending what Data you are after SEO doesn't happen instantly and what you change in a week can actually take a while to affect SERPs rankings.

Even data about technical fixes you have will only be updated once Moz has done another crawl of your site.

But I have to agree emailing them is the quickest way. but getting rid of Moz because you can't get historical data seems like a bad idea to me, I use Moz for numerous functions, but I also do pay for multiple pieces of software as I don't believe one software offers everything you need.

I would agree with Pixel by Pixel, DA is all about links, but its not the quantity you need to worry about, its the relevancy of the links.

Also you don't want to get links, you need to earn links - then you don't need to worry about penalties from Google and other search engines.

To earn links there is plenty of great articles on Moz about improving your DA but I would start from this one http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

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Andy

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I would install it on part of your site so example.com/blog if possible, if you have to put it on a sub domain that is not as good, but still better than trying to embed (i.e. blog.example.com).

We use wordpress and is very easy to use, never used blogger so don't know what can and cant be done, but we was about to install wordpress on our server.

Hope this is helpful.

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Andy

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That link is pointless from an 'link building' point of view, however I still go after links from places like the Sun even though I know they are behind a paywall because they drive a lot of traffic.

So if your looking at it from an old school SEO point of view - they are a waste of time, but if you are interested in traffic and sales then these links are still very important.

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Andy

Please Ignore SaraSEO.

Google Page Rank hasn't been updated to us since the 6/12/13 nearly a year ago, so the data you see is all ready a waste of time.

Google will still use and update Page Rank, however they won't be updating the tool bar.

But SaraSEO comments about being useful the coming months is not true - its over a year out of date so why would this data be helpful, we had had three major updates since then and not to mention all the little updates that will have taken place.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-toolbar-pagerank-dead-19256.html

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Andy

Google announced a few weeks ago that page rank won't be updated going forward.

Moz Domain Authority is very similar to Google's Page Rank (they have tried to backwardly engineer Page Rank and they are pretty close). They don't crawl as far and as deep as Google, but with each month refresh they are getting closer.

Moz DA is very accurate in places like US, UK etc but in more of the developing world, where they have few few customers they admit they don't crawl as much as they would like at the moment.

Also they only tend to crawl the larger, more established sites (which is where you want links from, not Joe Bloggs website that has a DA of 1, no good content or links pointing to it), so Moz might not pick up on every link you might get - but Google isn't perfect as well and doesn't guarantee to pick up on every link pointing to your site.

You are best ignoring Page Rank as this is an old metric that no longer will be refreshed.

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Hitwise is a great tool for this, but its pricey.

The data I can get from this is amazing.

SEMRush is good for telling you Organic and Paid traffic to the sites, there is a free version and its not to expensive, if you want the full package.

But Hitwise is the best tool for this, but it depends on the country you operate in, they are not fully Global.

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Andy

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I was going to write a in-depth answer, but this previous blog article is my bible for link auditing. I would only be duplicating everything that is mentioned and as we know duplicate content isn't good for SEO.

http://moz.com/blog/link-audit-guide-for-effective-link-removals-risk-mitigation

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Andy

Its not to do with losing links, its a score out of 100, so a drop isn't always a bad signal. Because the score is out of 100, you can't keep on increasing indefinitely.

Its probably Moz has crawled further and deeper and has a a refresh of data as it now knows more.

You have to compare your score with your competitors and hope your drops aren't as big your competitors and your increases are larger than your competitors, thats the only way you can really judge DA.

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How about Facebook Ads, I have used this in the past and a good way to reach your target audience. It can be reality cheap as well to advertise.

Can you use the company's social media to post the articles.

Alternatively look at the key influencers in the industry (if you are in the UK, then Lad bible) and try get them to repost your content, they will be a relative audience that drives a lot of traffic.

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Andy

I use ahrefs (they have just added a new feature, which lists all your broken links).

nope - you would be fine.

As these sites have very different audiences, why not spend the time writing individual articles to meet there readership (thus more likely to be used), for techcrunch, focus on the tech element, for CNN, the news part of it.

whats more likely is that most of the sites won't cover it especially BBC unless it is really news worthy.

Would be worth reading http://moz.com/blog/tips-from-a-recovering-journalist-how-to-write-effective-press-releases-that-help-seo

thanks, I thought this was the case - but wanted to double check as I have quite a few to add.

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Andy

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I have just set up Bing Webmaster tools, and wanted to submit my disavow file.

However I can only work out how to add one link at a time, does anyone know how to add a csv file.

Thanks in advance.

Andy

yes I wouldn't wait for them to appear in WMT - just disavow them straight away.

thanks for this, I will book the hotel in the coming days and wait to book the flights, thanks for the link.

its more the principle I don't like - getting paid traffic to the site, they aren't causing any site issues and I will disavow the next time I upload a file.

None of the traffic can convert, as we only ship in the UK and not abroad and the traffic is usually from the far east in the early hours.

yeah, but as I am travelling from the UK, I could do with booking things early.

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Andy