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I believe Moz's servers are in Texas, but in any case that wouldn't be it.

Do a landing page report to see what page/pages this direct traffic is landing on. You can usually get some good insight from there.

(As far as I know) You cannot add a column or field for domain name in the advanced reports (for inbound link reports). you will have to use the linking domain reports or use excel to extract (manipulate) the data you are looking for.

There is another solution though. If you are a pro member, you can use the Moz API to pull exact fields you are looking for (http://apiwiki.moz.com/url-metrics). You can pull the url of the link (uu) and the root domain of the link (upl) as well as well as any other parameter from the Mozscape.

If you are a pro member (have an API key) and have some Excel knowledge, I would check out the SEOgadget for Excel tool which uses your Moz API (and other backlink tool APIs) to pull data into excel for you to use. And it's free!

Hope this helps!

What I am seeing for "Nickel Alloys" is the page for nickel alloys under neonickel.com (http://www.neonickel.com/alloys/nickel-alloys/). This page is optimized very well for this and Google thinks it is the most relevant page on your site, which it is. Even if this page has less authority than your homepage, the relevancy of this page is why Google is ranking this over the homepage.

If someone is searching for nickel alloys and they get this page which is specifically about nickel alloys on your site, why would you not want them to land on this page?

The artificial grass is an interesting case. I don't see that site in the first 5 pages of search but if I search only under that domain, the homepage is ranked near the bottom compared to all your other pages. Was this page possibly just resubmitted to Google via Webmaster Tools or removal of a noindex tag? Your homepage has good authority and relevance so there is no reason I'm seeing as to why it is not ranking. Has it ranked higher in the past and been a big change in organic traffic?

Something I would definitely recommend is plugging in Webmaster Tools and check the crawl diagnostics there to see if you can get any insight. You should also submit a sitemap as well if you not have not already done so. This will help Google recognize all the pages on your site and increase the number of pages Google crawls.

Hope this can help

The '40-50' is the actual amount of links on that specific page (internal and external). The '1150' is the total amount of internal links on the website (up to 3000 linked pages).

This is a problem I have encountered with SquareSpace. SS does not automatically redirect non-trailing slash pages to the trailing slash version. This creates duplicate content issues and reporting issues, as:

www.kidsandart.org/artists

and

www.kidsandart.org/artists/

will be recorded as two separate pageviews on your reporting.

If you want to know more about why it's recorded as two separate pages, read this blog from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Unfortunately this is just a problem with SS and since you can't use htaccess to redirect pages or use the built in Redirect Tool to do this, you are kind of just stuck until SS improves their system.

I'll just add that make sure you don't overlook t.co referrals. This is Twitter's link shortener that can appear in your referral reports instead of social traffic.

display=none

As a CSS style for your header. Won't be displayed but is still there for the links to be crawled.

Not sure what you mean by "blacklisted" by Google here.

I would agree with Andy. Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a good tool for this. Just check all the "In Links" from the external urls you need to find on your site.

As Marc has pointed out, you can't choose them, you can only increase your chances of having them appear by having the correct markup and appearing higher in search results.

One other thing to note is that you can demote a sitelink in Webmaster Tools under the "Search Appearance" tab. For each search result page, you can demote specific pages you wouldn't want to appear as a sitelink.

But I would absolutely recommend having Schema markup to have full descriptive sitelinks for search results, especially your branded ones. More real estate you can have in search the better

One thing to note that I forgot to mention is that SquareSpace does use rel=canonical tags on their pages. So while your reporting may be off, link juice will not be split between / and no-/ pages. This also takes care of duplicate content problems, as the tag defines the source content.

Nofollowed links still have value (especially in the fact that great traffic links can be nofollowed), but you want pure SEO value. Take a look at Moz's latest Search Engine Ranking Factors: http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

This is their list of the highest correlated ranking factors which include link totals (follow and nofollow) - look at #12 on the list. So yes, they do correlate to ranking factors, but they are a much smaller factor compared to the value of a followed link.

Agreed. URL A is now a higher authority page because of the proper canonical, which in turn means a link from URL A could have more value. But the equity from that link to URL B is not directly passed to your site.

OSE (Open Site Explorer) is great. But Moz has another tool many others do not know about call Competitive Link Finder: http://moz.com/labs/link-finder 

It does exactly what you are looking for.

When you say knowledge graph, is it a knowledge graph box returning info on the company from wikipedia (such as when you search for "IBM")? Or is it a a Google+ Local box (like when I search "harper's burger bar kingston")?

I've had this issue before with Google+ Local. It happened because of duplicate places accounts for the same business. Getting the one account removed and the other verified (both location and website), got this fixed however. The box like the one for the burger bar is to do with Google+/Places. Also, do you have any publisher tags set-up? That may help as well.

Hey Moz Community!

Looking for some input on a site migration.

When redirecting some old pages that aren't going to be moved over to the new site, do you prefer to redirect to a homepage (or similar page) or to throw up a 404/410 on the new site?

What have you found works best?

The issue is that two places listings for your business have been made under different accounts. Is your's the original and has the listing changed at all with that message? As long as you log in to your account and verify the message your account and listing should be fine.

This happened with my account that has multiple business and multiple places listings (some of which I know were duplicates and mine weren't the original listing). As long as I verified the account, nothing happened to my businesses listings.