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@Architechs - You'll need to follow up with help@moz.com as I'm no longer a staff member.

I haven't heard of this service, but if you can figure out where any of the indexes grab links, then they're doing that. For Google specifically, they're likely going to post your links on G+. Links posted via G+ see a quicker rate of indexation, and that's something a 3rd party could do without having access to your backend, changing code, or fixing your website.

If you're looking for specific studies, I know there's some out there about CRO on payment forms. Kyle Rush talked about the one he did for the Obama campaign for campaign donations at MozCon in 2013.

You definitely want to make any customer/community information you're collecting as easy as possible for the person entering it. Making it less clicks will always improve your conversion.

All keyword rank tracking software, including Moz's, requires you to input the keywords yourself and then they will tell you if any pages (and which pages) are ranking the highest for that keyword. See attached screenshot from Moz Pro rank tracking inside campaigns. This is why in addition to ranking tracking, you need to do keyword research to populate this list of terms.

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There's currently no issues on our end with our API. Since MozCheck.com is not actually run by us and runs by using our API, you'd have to contact them in order to understand what's up with their site. Sorry for not being able to give you better news.

If you can 301 redirect the events page to your recording of the webinar, that would be the ideal situation.

Hi Ikkie,

As explained previously, MozPoints don't automatically update due to caching. Caching makes those internet pages load way faster. You have caching in your browser and cookie-related caching, which means if you're constantly checking the page, you're going to see the same version. We have site-wide caching at Moz. We get somewhere around 2 million visitors to Moz.com each month, and in order to load our site faster, we don't update everything on it in real time. One of these things is MozPoints, which are database driven and refreshes to that database take time. There's a ton of studies about site speed out there that tell you things like 40% of your visitors will leave your site if the page doesn't load within 3 seconds. It's great that you care so much about earning MozPoints. They are definitely being kept track of just fine, even if your page due to multiple layers of caching doesn't appear so, it just means that those points don't show up right away. And yes, sometimes that's a week.

Thanks,

Hi Cornelius,

This is a bit off-topic for our form. While it's related to online marketing, we encourage education questions/discussions or helping each other with marketing and technical web questions. If you have any concerns, please email our team at community@moz.com. I will be closing this thread for discussion.

Thanks for your understanding,

You're welcome. Best of luck!

The problem is definitely the actual page content is almost identical, even if the products are different. This is a very common problem for e-commerce sites. Typically, there are two solutions:

1. You write more unique content about each product. This can be daunting, but it does matter. You can also drive user reviews which are going to create user generated unique content for your products. I'd suggest doing a mix of them. (And yep, I've been there writing unique content for thousands of products, so I feel you.)

2. Instead of selling these very similar products on individual pages, you can make the different designs like e-commerce sites often show different colors. It becomes an option to choose the orca ones or the eagle ones, instead of a unique lander for each.

Going to ping one of our local experts to answer the second part of your questions, but in general, when new social sites pop up, their profile typically grant everyone all the links. Eventually, people start scamming them and they make all links nofollow. You really shouldn't invest in a new social media platform unless you have the time to manage it and actually want to be there, links aside. It may be a temporary link building boost, but it will go away.

Yes, you can use Screaming Frog. It always shows you the status code on all the pages, which you can then sort based on it and find anything not labeled as a 301.

We do cache the pages for quicker loading. This means that you'll sometimes see a lag in MozPoints updating.

You should check out the webinar about when we changed from SEOmoz.org to Moz.com. Our SEO-at-the-time Ruth went through her process and addressed a lot of things like DA drop due to losing some link authority, etc.

Hi Ikkie,

What in your profile are you not seeing update? MozPoints? Other information you've tried to edit?

Thanks

Moz's index isn't a complete view of the web, but we try to crawl quality sites out there. Our index is always growing. But to be frank, no one -- not even Google -- crawls the entire web. There are just too many pages out there and computing power is expensive. Google crawls the most links simply because Google is a bigger company with more money and more servers and more engineers and who's business depends on serving web pages to everyone.

At Moz, we focus on quality sites because we believe (and hope) our customers and community are focusing on high quality links that are still active, which are going to give them the best SEO results. (Also a huge part of the web is just spam nonsense.) Many SEOs -- and I include myself here -- will use multiple sources of link indexing for the broadest view of the web and their sites. I use Moz's OSE and Google Webmaster Tools (free and big, but includes lots of spam, which can be great if you're fighting a Penguin penalty). Others will use OSE, GWT, and OSE competitors like Majestic and Ahrefs, especially if link building is huge for them and they want to account for every penny. Every index is a bit different.

Hi!

I'll start off with a few recommendations. The first being our Beginner's Guide to SEO, which will give you a great foundational knowledge of all the things you should be thinking about. The SEO developer's checksheet is also a great resource.

I won't weigh too much on tools as I use Moz's and have bias. Fresh Web Explorer for alerts and content tracking and Followerwonk for social graphing on Twitter are some of my favorites for what I do. (Which is probably quite different than what you do.)

For project management, Trello is definitely one of the easiest ones I've found to use and a favorite. Basecamp's also pretty good for cross-company collaboration. I use GDocs all the time and Evernote for specific note-taking, usually projects or ideas.

Definitely follow up with our team to make sure your settings are great, but specifically asking our community about your site and your competitors (details and general direction of inquires make it easier) in a new question could be insightful. That's after all, what we're here for.

It will still be seen as the same page.