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Great to hear. Let me know if you have any question when you start that project.

Casey

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.

Hi Danny,

The Moz.com website/blog are running on PHP/Nginx. As Matthew said, Nginx is much faster and less intensive on the servers for both CPU and memory. Nginx has some great documentation and is really easy to get things to redirect. It's as easy as adding lines like the following to your configuration and your good to go:

rewrite ^/q$ /community/q permanent;
rewrite ^/q/(.*)$ /community/q/$1 permanent;

Making the switch from Apache to Nginx was one of the best things we ever did and I would highly suggest you do the same thing for both static and any dynamic sites you may have. I'll most likely never use Apache again.

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

At SEOmoz we use Amazon CloudFront that allows us to setup a CName for our CDN. For example you will see that all our CDN images come from a few different subdomains, such as cdn.seomoz.org or profile1.seomoz.org. I bet your drop is coming from the ugly url that your CDN is providing. If your CDN allows you to create a clean CName I would do that and create  your CDN at cdn.vistastores.com.

Casey

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.

Your correct that pages needs updating an in fact we have a new version rolling out in the next few weeks. As for the "premier" level access to the Site Intelligence API, this is for one of our old PRO levels call "premier". Currently we have 5 levels of PRO, they are PRO, PRO Plus, PRO Elite, PRO Agency, and PRO Enterprise. The PRO Premier level no longer exists which is why if you want access to the Site Intelligence API you need to pay for it separately from your PRO membership.

There is no benefit to having it on every page. In talking with our Google rep they stated they just needed on our site/homepage but since sometimes they don't know what they need, it was placed on every page via our CMS. At this point we haven't seen any negative effects from it but we might try placing it only on the homepage to see if that does anything.

Casey

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

Users who have a certain number of MozPoints don't receive that message since they are most likely trusted to not SPAM their fellow community members. So as EGOL said it's a SPAM protection since most users never send more than a few message a day. If you need to send a large number of PM please contact me and I'd be glad to review you message for you.

Casey

Actually the Rank Tracker Tool will be going away in it's current form.  We are working on coming out with a new version of that tool and you can leave any feedback or feature requests you have here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-does-your-ideal-rank-tracker-look-like-we-want-to-know

All that info will be sent to our product team who will decide on the new features.

There is no tool on SEOmoz that will do that.  We do have the API which will give you that information but you will need to write a script that will pull the information for you.  Maybe some of our users have other tools out there and can point you in that direction.

Hi Alex,

Currently the only way to do it from SEOmoz is to have access to the Paid API.  There may be tools out there that utilize the paid API and will return the results for you though I haven't seen any.  It maybe be worth asking another question and see if anyone knows of a tools like this.

Casey

Hi there,

1. I'm not familiar with Market Samari so I can only speak to Google's KW Tool. The SEOmoz tool compares the PA, DA, and other metrics of the top 10 results for your keyword and give you a score.  The Google tool is most likely looking a true search volumes and not at the actually sites in the top 10.  I get little to no value from Google's tools as it doesn't help me determine how hard it will be to rank.
2. Once again, I feel that the SEOmoz tool is much different than the tools you mention as it compares the current 10 ten results to your site and lets you know what site has the best metrics.
3. The tools scrapes the 10 results from the keyword you enter and calculates the score and data from that.
4. It seems you ran it correctly and you should be able to compare your site to the top 10 results for that keyword.

A thing to remember is that for Niche Keywords the data can be deceiving since there can be strong competition for keywords with low value.

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 Susanna,

The Social Data is pulled daily from the APIs provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.  The numbers might seen low for a few different reasons:

First, the Facebook share count is only for those accounts that are public which reduces the number of shares we can truly see.

Second, Twitter only counts the native Twitter share and not when people do a tweet with an RT in front.  Hence the lower numbers you might see.

If you are seeing any other issues, please let us know by sending us an email at help@seomoz.org.

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.