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Great add Joseph! Totally agree with you that there is much more to it than just creating quality content from the link earning perspective. I was just making the point that focusing on your sites DA & PA shouldn't be the focal point of one's efforts. I could have elaborated more but I appreciate you doing so! Cheers!
Hey Esteban!
OFW12387 makes some great points, but I am not sure if the approach you're referencing in your question is a good plan of action. IMO you should not focus on building links with high or low authority (especially for the purpose of increasing authority). Instead just focus on creating valuable content for your users. The links should and will develop naturally once you implement this course of action. Focusing on DA & PA is a losing game and a waste of your time since it is ultimately out of your control. Focus on doing things clean and for the best interests of your site visitors.
Unless you discover that there are malicious or toxic links pointing to your site, you should leave them be and focus on new content that provides value. Just keep it simple. I think you may be doing TOO much.
Hope this helps!!
Have u tried any of these?
https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/sitemap-generator.aspx
Or take a look at Chapter 8 of the Moz guide. It has insight on xml sitemaps as well.
Hi Scott!
We've experienced situations where we moved a site to a new server, a new IP address was assigned and the rankings dropped for a month or so, then leveled out and we regained all original rankings back. However, like Ryan stated, we did not make any changes to the url structures, page names, etc. in this case. Also using a site like he referenced helps a lot. You can also use this site to find out what other sites are on the server you are hosted on: http://www.ipfingerprints.com/reverseip.php
We have also migrated another site to a new server, keeping the same IP as the previous server and the rankings did not fluctuate at all.
I would think that the answer lies in "HOW" you perform the migration and be sure to "measure twice, cut once". As the move could be very smooth if done properly, however it could turn into an absolute disaster if rushed and done improperly. If you haven't already, check out this website migration guide. Study it. Know it. Implement it. Hope this helps! 
Hey TLR711!!
Oh man that's unfortunate that he is just sitting on it like that. But what can you do?
I would go with the .net as it is a TLD.
Absolutely Michael! That is what this community is all about
Yes if you read carefully in the Keyword Difficulty and SERP Analysis tool page, it states...
"Enter keywords to see keyword difficulty and Bing search volume." Even though you have the "Google" selected in the drop down. This had me very confused for a while until I emailed Moz and they helped me understand better how they are gathering the data. It is limited due to the amount of information Google's API allows Moz to access. Unfortunately we can only blame Google for that! haa haa!
Good luck and always keep learning!!
Hi Heather!
There are some strong suggestions here, but I really like Donna's suggestion about the Barnacle SEO. Makes a lot of sense and the WBF was great!! Definitely look into that
Hey Michael!!
Have you given SEMrush a shot? I find it to be quite useful although I don't believe it will analyze the way Moz does. Even with Moz, the whole Bing data mixed with Google data could really throw you for a loop. To properly perform keyword research, you truly have to do much more than just use a tool such as Moz or SEM Rush, etc. Although this is a great starting point, you should them manually perform more in-depth research based on the sites that are actually ranking for "said" kw terms.
Not sure if this helps in any way but check out http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research
Hope this helps!!
Hey Neil!
Check out this post on the topic. It should shed some light for ya!
Which one are you using currently that is having issues?
Cheers
http://moz.com/community/q/the-best-automated-xml-sitemap-generator
No problem Bradley!
The redirects will pass authority but not 100% of it. I wouldn't worry too much about it honestly. Here is a post on the topic, its a bit old (2012) but hopefully it helps explain in more detail.
http://moz.com/community/q/how-much-juice-do-you-lose-in-a-301-redirect
Cheers!
Hey Stephen... Ray and Rob make some great points here!
Here is my personal explanation on the importance of proper image alt attributes... my mother lost her eyesight back when she was young. As she uses her computer each day, knowing my profession, she constantly tells me how bad most of the sites are that she visits. The reason she feels they are so bad is due to improper structure and poor usage of image alt tags. When her computer reads the contents of a web page to her, it reads similar to the way a web crawler would. Images are a very important factor and the alt attributes should be a clear explanation of the image itself. Thus explaining what the image is to both a web crawler and most important, your visitors.
I would recommend catering your website, its design, content and the optimization (including images) to your users first. End of the day, without them, does being on top of Google even matter that much? Good luck with your project!! Cheers
Hey YNWA What a nightmare!
Yes like Mat said... use http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx to check and monitor your domain. If the emails are going to spam, you are more than likely listed somewhere. You can find where the domain in question is listed and (once you've corrected the issue) submit to be removed.
NOTE: The sites that require you to pay a fee to be removed are not important and you can disregard them. Only submit to the main ones. Those do not make you pay to play. Good luck!!
I agree with my man Ray from Compton! You should choose one URL (my preference would be the non-www since it is shorter) and set everything else to redirect there to avoid the duplicate issues you're seeing in Moz.
Cheers!
Wow this is a tough question... Asking us to choose one is like when you are at a fine restaurant and they bring out the plate with all the different desserts on it!! I never do well in that scenario and just order one of each LOL
Being that some tools are better than others at different aspects of SEO, I would have to agree with Robert and go with SEO Powersuite. It encompasses just about everything and covers them well in my opinion.
However, I would not be able to make it through a day without Moz, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs and more recently I've grown to like SEO Review Tools. Interested to see what else is favored!!
Ahh I see! Yeah each of them have their ups and downs. In my experience I've come to the conclusion that AIO does things in a much cleaner fashion. And for us it just works better. Nothing bad or wrong with Yoast, I guess it is simply a preference thing.
I don't believe you can disable specific features in Yoast but if anyone else has experience with that, please feel free to chime in. Inquiring minds would like to know
Hey World Learning!
Check out this Q&A from a few months back about the same topic. Might help you understand better but Ray-pp and Linda are absolutely correct!
http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-moz-and-google-search-volume-so-different#reply_273733
Hey Noah Glaser!
We've also experienced issues with Yoast. Have you tried using All in One SEO Pack? I am sure there are good and bad that come along with this one as well but in my experience, AIO is much cleaner and a more useful tool that Yoast. Hope this helps in some way! Good luck!
Absolutely! Yeah I'm just not sold on...
A) The amount of work it would take to transition each site
B) The risk of something going wrong
C) The actual ranking benefit/advantage it would actually produce
D) The value of it for our users
And for that reason... I'm out! lol
Awesome! I'd be happy to take a look at the projects and see how I can be of assistance
Oh and welcome to the community!!!