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I used to use Tweetadder version 3 to help create some variety to the tweets we published for some clients. This had a great little Spintax parser that would create a list of unique tweets if you input the spun text for it to use - something like this:

{Do you {own|have} a|Have you got a} {Septic Tank|Cesspit|Cess Pit}? When was {it last|the last time {|that} it was} {emptied|serviced|drained|discharged}? etc...

From this it would create all of the unique versions from which I would select some and then schedule them to publish among the other content we had for them

In version 4 of Tweetadder this tool was removed. A real shame. Does anyone know of any similar tool that can be used to provide a simple parsing of a short string of spintax? It'd be even better if, like TA3, it would reject any variations that were greater than 140 characters.

Ideally a web based tool?

Your links and thoughts welcome...

http://humanstxt.org

Anyone using this on their websites and if so have you seen and positive benefits of doing so?

Would be good to see some examples of sites using it and potentially how you're using the files.

I'm considering adding this to my checklist for launching sites

With Ravens announcement today (http://raventools.com/blog/scraped-data-serp-tracker/) at least they have gone in the opposite direction to SEOMoz which means as a subscriber to both I can get Adwords info through Raven and SERP tracking through SEOMoz. Evil Google strikes again. 2012 is the year they declared war against SEOs.

Yes I know what you mean here, but if there is any way to "point" the crawl engine at the site and ask it what it knows?

I hadnt thought about it from that perspective, just asking the question to see what is possible to try and get more data if it can be got?!

Is it possible to request that Open Site Explorer crawls a new URL on its next run?

This tool is the first place I go to when working on a new site, and when there is "No Data Available" this is a little frustrating.

I fully appreciate that this lack of data is usually a signal that the website is either very new or of low quality, however that if often the reason that I am brought in and would very much like to benchmark and provide initial analysis using this tool.

It would make sense that OSE crawls the sites that Moz members are working on wouldnt it?

Scott.

Many thanks Keri

Currently the MozBar tool is showing errors and displaying duplicate description tags IF you are using Twittercard Metadata on your site and perhaps even Facebook Opengraph.

Both of these "alternative" descriptions look similar from a code point of view, and I have had it confirmed to me from Moz staff that it's a bug and they are looking to have this fixed in the next release of the plugin.

Thanks Keri. If you could please keep me informed that will help me to explain this to clients.

regards,

Scott.

My crawl diagnosis has suddenly dropped from 10,000 pages to just 250. I've been tracking and working on an ecommerce website with 102,000 pages (www.heatingreplacementparts.co.uk) and the history for this was showing some great improvements. Suddenly the CD report today is showing only 250 pages! What has happened? Not only is this frustrating to work with as I was chipping away at the errors and warnings, but also my graphs for reporting to my client are now all screwed up. I have a pro plan and nothing has (or should have!) changed.

I wish someone had told me that before!!! Will save me bundles. Thanks Jon. Cant believe I missed that function.

It was a long night last night (working, not playing), therefore forgive the potential stupidness of this question...

Running an OSE report on a website earlier their top linking domain was *.uk.com.

This is a valid TLD, and I know for sure that the website has not acquired links direct from the uk.com website but from some-other-registered-domain.uk.com.

What I am asking is does the Moz Calculation and/or the pagerank calculation give more value to these links?

*.uk.com has a Domain Authority of 71 and 156,497 linking root domains.

If so i'm gonna go buy me a bunch of .uk.com domains.....

Opinions please.

http://humanstxt.org

Anyone using this on their websites and if so have you seen and positive benefits of doing so?

Would be good to see some examples of sites using it and potentially how you're using the files.

I'm considering adding this to my checklist for launching sites

Absolutely relevant, infact i'd say essential.

A great article posted on the site already here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xml-sitemaps-guidelines-on-their-use

With Ravens announcement today (http://raventools.com/blog/scraped-data-serp-tracker/) at least they have gone in the opposite direction to SEOMoz which means as a subscriber to both I can get Adwords info through Raven and SERP tracking through SEOMoz. Evil Google strikes again. 2012 is the year they declared war against SEOs.

Things to do:

1. Plan your strategy carefully after proper research

2. Produce awesome unique content relevant to your target audience

3. Use white-hat techniques

Things NOT to do:

1. Dont plan, just wing-it each day!

2. Create poor quality thin or spun or otherwise low quality content

3. Use black-hat techniques

That should do it!