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Yes! We've had this ability since day one Just click "create or upload a new list" and you can create a list of hundreds or even thousands of keywords for analysis and comparison all at once.

Hey Matt - I can get into some of the nitty gritty details on this. Basically - we've been having trouble of all kinds with Mozscape, and while our team has indeed been working around the clock, the reality is that it's an old, clunky, hard-to-understand system that needs to be replaced entirely. That work is also going on, but as you might imagine, has a separate team on it, which means the Mozscape team's bandwidth is split. Mozscape has crawling trouble - we've had issues with our own crawler design, specifically with spam that's fooled our crawlers (it's designed to fool Google, obviously, but has caught us, too), and biased our index. We also had an issue where some code was commented out that helped us recrawl important pages and other issues (along with a couple of longtime engineering departures) made that invisible to us for a good few months (even with it fixed, it will take an index or two to get back to normal). We've had other issues with hardware and bandwidth restrictions, with team changes, with unintentionally excluding important sites and important pages on sites due to erroneous changes on our end, with robots.txt interpretation mistakes. You name it. It's been pretty frustrating because it's never a single issue coming up again and again, but rather new issues each time. The team currently on the Mozscape project is relatively new -- we had almost complete turnover on that team in the last year (a combination of voluntary and non), so there's a lot of rampup and trying to understand what things do, and fix old problems, etc. I'm sure as an engineer you're familiar with those types of challenges, especially when the documentation isn't pristine. IMO - those are crappy excuses. We should be better. We will be better. I don't provide them to pardon our shitty quality the last few months, but rather because you said you wanted detail, and I do love transparency. I think we're going to have a tough slog until the new index system comes out (likely this Fall). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we can repair each new problem and that few others arise, but the past 6 months have made me wary of overpromising and under-delivering. BTW - it is true that the ML model means there's lots of DA flux as the goal is to be as accurate as possible with Google's changes, so if we see a site with certain types of inputs matching patterns of sites that don't rank as well, that DA will drop. Given that Google's rankings fluctuate all the time, that our crawlers fluctuate a lot (more than they should, as noted above), and that the link graph changes constantly, a lot of flux in DA is to be expected. That said, the new model will have DA refreshed daily, rather than monthly, and will also have history, as well as a way to dig in and see what inputs are big in DA and how those have changed. I think all of that will help make these shifts vastly more transparent, even if they continue to be high (which they should so long as Google's own flux is high). One thing I am working on with the team - a different kind of score, called something like "domain visibility" or "rankings visibility" that tracks how visible a site's pages are in a large set of Google rankings. I think that score might be more what clients are seeking in terms of their overall performance in Google, vs. their performance in the link graph and how their links might be counted/correlated with higher/lower rankings.

Thanks, yea didn't think it would be.

Hi Greg, I know some companies use Zerys. They have an abundance of writers who specialize in different topics and are at different price points. They're definitely an option you should check out! http://www.zerys.com/

Sure thing! Glad that was it.

Yea I'd already blocked some duplicates from a BuddyPress issue, so I didn't want to just jump in and block straight away without some further investigation. Good to know that's the best solution to keep things clean. Cheers for answering Dan.

Thanks for your suggestions. The fans have been building, and are in fact more than another Page I created for another client around the same time... and that Page is page 1 in the SERPs along with their website, twitter, etc. I can only see one difference between these two Pages, and that's that the 2nd client didn't have a facebook account, so one was created, and although my own admin for the page is confirmed, his is not ...and that could be a reason internally of facebook not listing it's own page. I'll close the question, as currently this seems to be an anomaly yet to be solved, however I will be getting my client to confirm his facebook account and check his privacy settings in case anything is blocking access there.

Greg Awesome! Glad the mozinar is a valuable resource! Gotta love grumpy cat memes -Dan

haha good to see Roger on his travels, but he has work to do lol! As Keri said he's here: http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test

Thanks Tom, Oh that's your Amazon store too, good stuff then! Haha the niche isn't 'cats in bomber jackets', but may as well be lol! As the niche has many EMD's and matching product URL's I'm paying close attention to the competition in the SERP's. Although, as with many things, testing is probably the best way to find out. I'll see how it goes, with the current structure and if I can only get so far maybe try the 'flatter' approach. thanks again, Greg

Interesting stats there Kyle. thanks!

Thanks for your reply Marcus, and also for the details for moving to root. That may come in handy, and anyone else who stumbles across this thread too. It's good to know there appear to be no issues for SEO in Wordpress residing in a subdirectory, yet I am appreciating more and more the need to keep things as simple and straight forward as possible. Greg

Yea my concern is that the SERPs are looking a bit junky. I don't mind if Sitelinks aren't present, and there's one result listed, but the multiple results definitely look untidy. If it's a Google issue as spoke of in the SEO roundtable post then so be it. I'm in the process of building out the internal pages, backlinks and domain authority, so hopefully that will help to earn the more elegant sitelinks. Thanks also for the clarification with the page titles.