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We pull the numbers via javascript. If you check out posts.js when you are on the blog you can see where we make a call to Facebook and to Twitter to get those numbers. We also have hard coded the numbers at specific dates just in case it fails so there is a number present.

For the feedburner numbers we do those server side and ping the feedburner api and cache it. So there is one unlucky sole every hour that has to ping feedburner to recache the number.

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Sure looks like either a penalty or a massive discounting of links to me.  You're not banned, but you're way back in the results given your link profile.  I took a quick look at your robots.txt and it looks fine.

If Google is still seeing 13,000 pages as duplicate content, this could be the issue as well, as Google's internal "quality score" on your site is not going to be pretty.  But giving the number of inbound links you have, I'm much more inclined to think that Google has identified your link exchange script and discounted all links related to that.

There's some discussion out there also on whether you can get dinged for over-optimizing your anchor text.  See this article.   While that case study is a pretty small number of sites, if Tim's findings are accurate, you're definitely at risk.  Both your internal and external links to your home page are virtually 99% "watch movies online" and "watch free movies online".

So here's what I would do:

#1 solve the duplicate content issue

#2 see what you can do to change the link exchange process to make it less recognizable to Google

#3 go vary your anchor text, adding new links and changing a few old ones like this profile link to use www.freemoviedb.com as the anchor text.

Hi Michael,

Now a days Google is really Google at figuring out what version of the website you want to go with but with that said, isn't really that hard of a thing to fix.  I'd say that as long as all your internal links are consistent in pointing to the same version, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about.  In the long run of things, by making the redirect you won't see this huge bump in rankings but it is a standard practice that is done.

Casey

After talking with our rep we found that it wasn't needed on all pages so we now only have it on our homepage.

Hi NicB1,

We use Amazon CloudFront here at SEOmoz and it allows us to setup a CNAME for our CDN. So if you look at our images you will see we use a few different ones, such as cdn.seomoz.org, profile1.seomoz.org and profile2.seomoz.org. While I haven't done any studies on this, I can tell you that we have not seen a major change in image traffic in making the CDN switch a few months ago.

I'd check with your CDN people and see if you can setup a CNAME and place it on a subdomain.

Casey

Hi Dstrunin,

I would still use the rel canonical tag even with or without the filter in place.  So if you have a list of products displayed unfilter at companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm, I would add a rel canonical  with it pointing at companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm.  For the filtered results,companyname.com/productcategory/filters/page1.htm , the canoncial tag would still point to companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm.

It doesn't hurt to have a canonical tag point to the same page it's on.

If you can't do that I would meta noindex those filtered pages and remove the robots.txt stuff.  Robots.txt doesn't tell Google they can't index it it only says they can't crawl it.  So they could still index old stuff they crawled before you did the robots.txt stuff or index the title tags.

Casey

Hi Michelleh,

We've been testing things to see what it takes to get the authorship image to show up.  It really came down a two things, one was making sure that your Google+ profile was included in lots of other's circles and second, that you complained a lot that your picture wasn't showing up.  I've had success with both.  There are also a few good blog posts out there that suggest Google is really picky with the setup and if there is even a minor problem you picture won't show up.

Hey Danny,

I've always done 301 redirects from the server and avoided any other method. This was more for my sanity to make sure that I was getting all the equity I could if there was a difference, not saying there is a difference but if there way, I wanted to be safe. Since it sounds like you may be constrained by your technology, the solution you are going with is fine but if you had both options available, I'd go with the server side redirect always.

How does everyone use the mozMetrics (mozRank, mozTrust, Domain Authority, Page Authority) with their clients?  Do they ask you what these metrics mean and if so how do you explain it to them?

Hi Daniel,

When I was working on my own I spent just about zero time on the phone building links.  Like they said below, I did most of my link building via emails since it was much less time consuming.  I've also talked with some of the other people in the office and over at Distilled and they agree that they spend almost no time on the phone building links.

I'd say it's your responsibility to build the links but I would pick a easier solution than the phone.

Casey

Hi Randy,

The Web App will try to find pages that rank well and score well in the On Page Report.  Just because you have added 48 keywords doesn't mean that you will get 48 on page reports.  Usually when I find a situation like this I find that my site isn't well optimized for the keywords that I entered.  If you want to view the on page report for a specific keyword and page you can run it manually also.

Casey

A thing to remember is that OSE doesn't discount any links or websites that may be spammy.  My guess is that Google is discounting those links and pages since Squidoo is known to be very spammy and most likely was effected in the last updated by Google.  My suggestion would be not to follow in the same suite as them and avoid falling into getting links from these type of spammy places.

Casey

Hi Yudhis,

With every update of our metrics, which is almost monthly, we adjust them to try and match what we are seeing in the SERPs.  As always there are other factors that we might not be aware of that could effect things in the SERP you are looking at but we do readjust things with every update.

Casey

Hi Steven,

After looking at your account, it looks like the problem might be that you setup your campaigns to crawl domain.com and really your domain is www.domain.com which are two different domains in the eyes of our software and Google.  I suggest you setup new campaigns to crawl the www version and that should solve your problem.

Casey

Hi, currently OSE does not handle HTTPS request but it's on the road map to be complete in the future.  When our crawler for OSE crawls the web it currently does not crawl HTTPS pages, hence they are not included as an option to pull from.  This hopefully will be coming in the next few months as we just added it to our web app.

As Erica has stated, on our Pro Plus and Pro Elite accounts you can add your logos to the reports but you can not replace the SEOmoz logo.  The report will have both your logo at the top and ours at the bottom.  Hope this helps.

The Cols parameter works just like it does in the Links API.  For example:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991127/Anchor Text API

If you want to display term or phrase, which has a bit flag of 2 and internal pages linking which has a bit flag of 8, your Cols Parameter would be 10.  That would return both the term or phrase and internal pages linking.  You simpily add the bit flags and use that as your Cols Parameter.

This makes it so you don't have to loop through and make a bunch of call to get multiple columns.

Hi MrPaulB,

GWT take average position for a few different things.  For example if you have a few different pages that rank for a keyword it calculates the average rank based on that.  For example, if you have a page that ranks number 1 for the keyword "Blue Widgets" and another page that ranks 20th for "Blue Widgets" the average rank would be 10.  It's a bad metric to use and often confuses people.

Hi Lara,

You can still find your old questions at http://www.seomoz.org/qa/my.  Watch the blog tomorrow for some important info about the old QA section.  Let me know if you have any further questions.

Casey