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Hi there Andy, Yes, ViviCa1 is right - a number of factors go into the calculation of Spam Score based on what we've seen of a site. You can take a look at the factors we've found for a particular site by clicking on the bar chart image in the metrics section at the top of the page in Open Site Explorer. You can learn more about the factors we're looking at and what they mean in this article & video by Rand: Article: Spam Score: Moz's New Metric to Measure Penalization Risk Video: Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday I hope this helps to explain what you're seeing!

Thanks Vijay, its only on my windows machine (I really only use it for Server Log Analysis) and the above seems like to much work. Its working fine on the Mac - so will just install and leave it off the windows machine.

I have seen a very definite change on one client site which uses an exact match domain. With that said I believe what was occurring was double anchor text from internal linking and external linking carrying the domain name into the back link. Honestly, this is only a hunch, but the site has been increasing in traffic for the past 2 1/2 years pretty steadily. This was the first big down cycle and as Google has stated this will not affect the domain entirely, but it will change the pages hit by spam. I'm going to run a couple of tests on dummy sites that get at least take 10K of traffic every month allowing for comment spam and link spam to it individual pages and watch the fallout. I do agree with you about what Dr. Pete mentioned it delayed Google has to crawl all the sites depending on your crawl budget and even regional internal Google page rank it could affect some more quickly than others. US sites will be the first to feel the peak of Penguin. For anybody tuning in on the subject here are some good references. https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/09/23/penguin-4-0-is-finally-here-google-confirms/ https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/09/penguin-is-now-part-of-our-core.html http://searchengineland.com/google-updates-penguin-says-now-real-time-part-core-algorithm-259302 I hope this is of help, Tom

Hi Andy! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. I had a chance to sign into your account and I was able to access https://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns without error. Are you still seeing issues on your side? As always, you can contact our team for any technical assistance in the future by emailing help@moz.com, but please let me know if this is now resolved for you? Sorry for any trouble! -Kristina

Hi Andy! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. Sorry to hear about the trouble! We were experiencing intermittent issues with Open Site Explorer yesterday and earlier today but the issue seems to be resolved now. Can you please try again and let me know if you're still seeing issues on your end? If you are, an example of a URL you're experiencing the issue on would be a great example to provide to our engineers. As always, you can email our team help@moz.com any time you're experiencing technical issues within the product for a faster turn-around time. I hope this helps! Please let me know if there's anything else I'm able to assist with. -Kristina

Hi Thanks, yeah I've done arguably the worlds greatest marathon, so every marathon I now do will never have the same atmosphere, but my first ever marathon was a quite one and they do have their benefits. I will never qualify for Boston, maybe if I can still run a marathon at 70 I might have a chance. I've got 19 weeks so I have decided to do it - the medal looks pretty cool. Depending on the legs I may do one of the group runs as well. Thanks Andy

Hi I figured it out, its in demographics - will try out later and see what difference in results I get. Image below, but basically click on Demographics before you post But you do need a certain number of Facebook likes it does seem as some of the smaller pages I manage I get do this. Screenshot-2015-12-09-11.32.30.png Screenshot-2015-12-09-11.32.36.png

Thanks for both your answers. i actually didnt spot it in the category text which is what got me digging deeper. Again thanks Andy

I'm simply going to re-emphasize what others have said here: it's more important how similar the content is than anything else. "Jumpers" is certainly broad enough that you can attack it from several different content angles. If your website sells jumpers, it's not unusual to have multiple pages about jumpers. The key is that every page should serve a specific purpose. If this isn't the case, work to find ways to either: Consolidate or Make the purpose of each page uniquely valuable. Hope that helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

This isn't an answer.  Its a rant.  So if you don't like rants, don't read it. Google is always telling webmasters to "do this" and "do that".   Sometimes they dictate to webmasters because they want to "kick them up a notch" but sometimes they dictate to webmasters because Google is incompetent at certain things and they want webmasters to make-up for their inadequacies.  Sometimes they tell webmasters to jump through this hoop or jump through that hoop and snatch the hoop away after you have left the ground.  Sometimes the hoop is invisible. Google told webmasters not long ago about an "authorship" program that would associate content with specific authors and show your photo in the SERPs.   I never wanted my name on my article and am too old to display my photo in the SERPs but I did this stuff regardless.  You had to connect your articles to your Google Plus page to make all of this work.  After millions of authors did this Google decided that our photos were stinkin' up the SERPs, then they changed their minds and abandoned the idea completely.  I think it was just a ploy to get million of great authors to join Google Plus. Several years ago Google also told authors that they should "write for Knol" and they would be rewarded with adsense.  I was going to put 1/2 of my time into writing "knols".  Good thing I didn't because Google abandoned that too. Matt Cutts told me in the comments of a Moz blog post that I could sculpt pagerank with nofollow.  Lots of people started doing that and Google changed their mind about that and changed how it influenced pagerank flow and never told anybody about it until months later. I could go on and on about Google dumping Reader, ignoring Feedburner and ton's of other stuff...  the bottom line is that if Google says you should do something, it doesn't mean that they actually use it or that it is going to help your rankings or even that it is safe. I also believe that some things that Google promotes are absolutely dangerous to the health of your websites in the SERPs.  I would bet one month's pay with confidence that Google Consumer Surveys is dangerous for the health of your SERPs, but that is just an opinion and a reason why I am not making buckets of money running it on my websites. And, in my opinion, Google Consumer Surveys is an excellent example that people on Silo A at Google don't even know that there are people working on something in Silo B that is totally contrary to their goals.    Mobile-friendly is a coding requirement and has nothing to do with your website being friendly to use on mobile.  It could really stink but they will tell everybody on the web that its friendly. Bottom line, you should be careful about jumpin' through any hoop that Google says to jump.  They have some great stuff at Google but they don't talk to each other and things tend to disappear.

Hi there You can, but it's not often that people link to a mobile site since it's configured to redirect. As long as your site is properly tagged and redirecting, I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you have a disavow file for the desktop site, you should be fine, but run through your backlinks to make sure. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi Patrick I thought that but just wanted to triple check before writing a nice list for my developers tomorrow. Thanks Andy

Hi Gary illyes from Google confirmed today at BrightonSEO that its just mobile that will be affected - tablet rankings WILL not be affected. He also confirmed this wont in the April 21st update it wont affect Google Business listings. Thought I would let you all know. Thanks Andy

Thanks, I tried all the tips on the screaming frog site, but I have just tried to 2 pages a second and lets hope that work.

yeah basically, but I have to convince my MD and he doesn't want to do it. I need to show evidence of companies that have done it right and recovered and improved rankings

I like the direction we're heading to --> Search Experience Optimization!

In understand about dev time and trying to get things put into the priority list - its a real challenge in todays business especially for those in SEO as these days onsite factors help in ranking, its no longer all about links But I agree about images that would be good, if and when you ever do move to a new platform and want some people to test the it, let me know I am always willing to help out where possible.

Just in case someone lands here via a search I thought I'd add a solution/hack.  I found and just tested the method at http://www.richmcpharlin.com/seo/scalable-link-disavow-with-bing-free-tool/.  It works like a charm.

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

I agree with others, and would disavow before it causes you issues.  That is the safest way to protect yourself.