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I'm afraid that our tools regularly encounter issues with non-Latin characters that I would expect you would end up running into. Concerning RTL languages in general, I don't believe that there are any that features of our tools that make accommodations for the different order used by these languages. So, I wouldn't think Moz would be a great fit for sites in those languages. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I just wrote a better  reply so forgive me the file was deleted by hit post. But I do think this information will help you get acquainted much better with a crawl budget One thing that may not incorporate your domain however is that is not centered a external link is a content delivery or CDN URL that is not rewritten to the traditional CDN.example.com Content delivery network URLs can look like https://example.cachefly.net/images/i-love-cats.jpg https://example.global.prod.fastly.net/images/i-love-cats-more.png So you may see URLs like one shown here should be considered part of your domain and treated like a domain even if they look like this but these are just two examples of literally thousands CDN variants. Examples for this would be the cost of incorporating your hostname to a HTTPS encrypted content delivery network can be very expensive. CDN's https://varvy.com/pagespeed/content-delivery-networks.html Crawl budget information http://www.stateofdigital.com/guide-crawling-indexing-ranking/ https://www.deepcrawl.com/case-studies/elephate-fixing-deep-indexation-issues/ https://builtvisible.com/log-file-analysis/ https://www.deepcrawl.com/knowledge/best-practice/the-seo-ruler/ ( image below) Tools for Crawl budget https://www.deepcrawl.com/knowledge/events/key-takeaways-from-septembers-brightonseo/ I hope is more helpful, Thomas zv5l0VL.png CfJUjMf.jpg D5epQgb.png iXDlByk.png KXJFXFK.jpg

Hi Guy. The Corporation schema is probably best suited to markup for publicly traded companies: http://www.schema.org/Corporation as it has the following uses... tickerSymbol: The exchange traded instrument associated with a Corporation object. The tickerSymbol is expressed as an exchange and an instrument name separated by a space character. For the exchange component of the tickerSymbol attribute, we reccommend using the controlled vocaulary of Market Identifier Codes (MIC) specified in ISO15022. duns: The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. legalName: The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name. And a few others. It may be a question of using some Extension markup to better indicate the nuances of stock quotes. For example, maxPrice and minPrice could conceivably be used for High and Low price quote values, while price/open could reflect Opening price quote, and price/close the close.  With those you'd have the structure of an OHLC bar.

thanks and it helps. are you saying that those article links are beneficial and is considered a good strategy? I am handling a website with over 3 million pages, highly ranked and I am considering implementing the technolgy to add internal text links to my pages. I imagine a database that includes all keywords and links to their pages and having this system scan my pages and insert links. again any opinion will help.

Hi Guy,  I remember seeing you at SEOChat a while back. If you have figured out how to fulfill the giveaway with no problem then it sounds like a great thing. I don't see anything about giveaways that suggest that they are anything less than white hat. Almost everybody loves freebies.. So, I would go for it.

Hi Guy, You've received a couple of great responses here from experienced SEOs. Did they answer your question? Please give us an update, thanks! Christy

Guest blogging as an activity isn't frowned on.  Guest building as a way to manipulate link authority (or in fact anything as a way to manipulate link authority) is.  In that video Cutts says this in the first sentance "Guest blogging for links" Like most things in SEO it is how you do it.  If I write some quality pieces for well respected blogs and these include followed links to my sites (as do many other types of sites / pages of varying types) that is very unlikely to ever cause a problem.  That is very different to having a strategy that involves large amounts of guest posts on sites of questionable value with a high proportion of guest posts and I have little else of more weight to back up my link profile. I really think the "black hat / white hat" metaphor doesn't help people with SEO.  In truth there is a LOT of grey - it's almost all just shades of grey.  Most methods lose their shiny whiteness if you try to scale them up - particularly if you dumb them down at the same time. Most "frowned on" methods can still be used very effectively if you are selective and intelligent in your link building and keep focused on quality over quantity. Don't believe me?  Start another question here on moz.com and ask "If the Huffington post (#1 blog in the world according to Technorati) asked you to write an article about something you are passionate about and said you could have a follow link in it, would you use that link?" .    I don't know many professional SEOs that would say no.

Thanks for stepping in everyone, though it looks like we were trying to answer the wrong question. This one is with Roger's crawl of the OP's own site, rather than links indexed in OSE. Guy, do you have a feel for how many pages SHOULD be in the index? If you only have a couple of thousand pages, then it could be that Google is crawling and indexing some parameters. If you've got 20k+ pages in the index, then Roger isn't finding some things. Also..are you looking at perhaps just the www.domain subdomain in SEOmoz and is GWT looking at the entire site? If you had a compact www.domain site, but then had forum.domain and wiki.domain, and GWT was reporting pages for all of the subdomains on domain.com, that would explain things too.

Hi Guy, I am experiencing the same thing. We have performed site: searches with negatives to narrow down where all the junk is coming from, and we have disallowed those subdirectories in our robots.txt file. It has worked somewhat but only cut the number of indexed pages in half. We still have well over our number of real pages. If you learn anything new, I'd like to hear about it! thanks, Katherine

thank you all for all your valid pointers. the site is fairly new and yes the blog is getting newly created content. this might be it. that leads me to this question. since I do want particular pages to rank should I transfer authority from blog pages being ranked and if yes how?

If you have overgrown My Blog Guest, I do recommend you try going straight to high-profile bloggers directly. MBG is good for a start as well as for scaling: you try your hand at guest blogging meeting people who are there exactly to receive guest articles. You can learn to meet other people's requirements, brainstorm interesting topics, etc. It's easier in terms of hearing back and getting your article placed. The truth is, high-traffic blogs don't use platforms because they receive hundreds of guest post pitches weekly. They hardly need more. So if you want to go to the next level, use Marks' suggestions below and go to Google.

I completely agree with EGOL on this one. I always let my clients deliver me the content for the website. I use the following argument for this: My expertise is SEO, yours is X. If you would have to write about SEO you would also not know where to start, I do. If I have to write about X i would have to do lots of research on the topic and still would not always be correct. You know a lot more about X. So if you can deliver me the content I can do what you hired me to do. My experience is that this works really well. Let them know that everything about their product of service that they feel is logical is not necessarily logical to others. So you could write content for them, but it will be low quality that no one will link to or share on Social Media so their is no point of creating low quality content. my 2 cents Regards Jarno

Adding full length articles on Google plus will not give you that impact. But short paragraphs with good info get shared often. Photos, links that go with that make it more sharable. Full articles can be divided into different points and can be posted one by one as a special series... Eg:  Internet Marketing Tip #1  or anything similar... On Google plus(or any social media) no one is going to read an entire article, line by line..so make it short and with bullet points.

In what context is the link being placed? What is the link linking to? The anchor text should make it clear to users what they should expect if they click on the link using natural / clear language. Don't just think about the SEO value of the link, but consider the value of qualified referrals too. If this is realistic (and if the linking site is relevant to your site then there should be a good chance that it is), can you treat your link as a mini call to action with a clear benefits/compelling offering? Donnie and William are right to say that you need to be careful about making sure your backlink profile is not full of blatant exact match anchor text.

Ah I see, if that's what you are wanting to do then yes there is benefit to removing links to unnecessary pages and putting these on a customer service tab. I would also consider the effect this has on user experience, not just search engines. If those pages have useful information for customers then it is worth having them easily accessible.

The only way this would really be beneficial at all would be if the content did not already exist on the internet. You should ask your client to allocate some budget for media, if that's the route they want to take!

The best bet is to start playing around in Photoshop! Perhaps you have a contact that you could call in a favour from?