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Our number of external links has dropped by over 50% in mid-September!

So far our domain authority hasn't been impacted and traffic is only slightly down.

I did not hear of any major Google changes . . . did this happen to anyone else?

I think I have resolved the issue where the links are. Waiting for another crawl to see if the errors disappear . ..

SeoMoz is reporting a number of weird client errors. The 404 links all look like the following:

http://www.bluelinkerp.com/http%3A/www.bluelinkerp.com/corporate/cases/Nella.asp

What might be causing these weird links to be picked up? I couldn't find any way within the SEOmoz interface to track down the source of these links . . .

Thanks for the video. It's a somewhat older video but hopefully it still applies today. Thanks!

So there's nothing I can do about this? Will Google not look at our high bounce rate and penalize us in some way?

My company ranks very well for the target keyword "blue link" but as it turns out Hyundai launched a new "Blue Link" service. Given that we are a much more niche offering, many of the searches for blue link are for hyundai.

Because people tend to click on the first results without even reading anything, we have seen an increase in traffic as well as a huge spike in bounce rates once they realize we are not the right company.

Our listing on Google is pretty clear what we are so I'm not sure how to fix this problem . . .

Wow, no idea how I missed that! Thanks!

I don't see them mentioning anything about

Does that mean it is not an acceptable option?

I swear I just read an article that advised using the html lang tag.

Only one page exists . . .

Yet I link to the page with different URL parameters for tracking purposes and for some reason it is showing up as a separate page with duplicate content . . .

Help?

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Google has declared war against the practice of excessive internal linking - which is why SEOmoz warns you about these excessive links within its tools.

Is it going to get you de-indexed? Maybe not. But as Google comes down harder on these practices it could certainly affect your ranking.

Having links for navigation is recommended, but taking up 1/3 of the page with footer links is obviously not benefiting the end user.

The general SEO community consensus is that you should:

A. be doing what is best for the user (so not concealing the H1 tag)

B. not doing anything that could make Matt Cutts and the Google team upset

They have advised against attempting to conceal content for SEO gain so I would strongly recommend avoiding it. They have been dealing with these issues now for a LONG time, so presumably their bots can easily pick up on those tricks.

The Google bots can now "see" what is visible on the page. They discount things that are not in the visible content area so the benefit to an offset H1 would likely be none. Also: They're watching you.

I have read about a number of different tags that can accomplish this so it is very confusing.

For example, should I be using:

OR

If the "content" is the same, but is used in separate articles written in entirely different languages, will Google see the articles as duplicate content?

How do international companies handle information that needs to be distributed in different languages?

Where did you find those graphs?

I could not find a way to look at past data dynamically via the SEOmoz interface which would be an amazing feature. For example, people able to change the time period like in Google Analytics to see past results.

Has someone developed an excel template to keep track of this data historically if this cannot be done within SEOmoz itself?

No, we simply redirected all pages from the old domain to the new domain's homepage. We also got rid of some of the historic pages with links. That was probably what we did wrong.

For example, we redirected our old domain to a new one (leaving no duplicate content on the old domain) and saw a 40% decrease in domain authority. Isn't a permanent redirect supposed to transfer link authority to the place it is redirecting to? Did I do something wrong?

Of course! Why do I keep forgetting about Webmaster Tools? I suppose I just think of SEOmoz as my one-stop shop for SEO activity and then start neglecting some other great tools.

Thanks!