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Hi James! I'm not sure what happened, but your 2 queries are most definitely not in your question. What can we help you with?

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I'm not directly involved in the project, but I think that's actually part of what they're doing - using Google de-indexation and obvious penalties to train the system, but trying to avoid a system that would have to go look up the site on Google every time it needed to make a prediction.

Thanks Miranda, that would be great. I really hope its added - this could be a very positive differentiator between Moz and other link research tools out there. Combining this citation link finder in with the 'Just Discovered' links - will in my view make a killer feature well above the competition. James

I guess I am unsure of what you are looking for then. ahrefs does separate them out in terms of showing a percentage and being able to look at the sitewides versus non, but there is no way to exclude them overall when you have used the disavow tool, etc. When you have someone nefariously linking to a site with 20000 links from a single site, it muddies the water to have them all there. Even though they show what is or is not sitewide, it would be nice if you could see the reports totally excluding them. Best of luck

Hi Sam, That's great to know. IMO the ability to get these 'just discovered' links into the main index is a significant advantage to Moz over other tools. Given a just discovered link must first be tweeted, these links are (generally) more important than non tweeted links, and therefore of more importance to the overall link profile. Cheers

As @keri has said, it would be a little odd to do it to all external or indeed internal links. (the later of which would be better suited to having no-index tags on them rather than being no-followed). In terms of your question, it maybe better phrased as "how can i keep all the link juice and never let it go" ... many people have that question, but it's not a good idea to try and keep link juice / equity. If you did as you suggest and have all links externally no followed then search engines will see it as some kind of manipulation and if done on a large scale will ignore that command and potentially others across your website. Search engines, like Google, don't look very nicely on manipulation and beyond ignoring your commands you may end up with a penalty. Search engines look for rounded websites which are both linked to and from, such that they are part of the community and not a silo.

Thanks Rand - that good to hear.

Thanks Anthony - that's perfect.

Typically, no, Javascript links won't be indexed and therefore won't pass value. Google has frequently claimed to be improving their parsing of JS, but i certainly wouldn't rely on it. Conversely, it's probably best not to assume they can't either (eg using JS to cloak spammy links etc.).

I'd add a thumbs up for Zopim too. Been looking for a live chat system and although I found Click Desk to be really clean and simple and with a help desk too. However in the end I preferred the fact that Zopim has an "operator is typing" notification which I personally think is important so that you know there is actually some life at the other end of the chat! Would also concur that their customer support is spot on too.

Cheers Mate - Will take a look. Thanks

As far as I know, there's no way to merge accounts. I tried figuring this out recently, but couldn't find a way to make it happen.

No, there are too many open variables: age of pages, localization, keyword popularity, etc. Edit: look at mozTrust of urls and domain mozTrust of various sites. This will show you that a + b is not equal to c. hope it helps clarify.

Ok - let me put this another way - Your an SEO company right - I assume blog posting on your clients niche is part of what you offer as part of your SEO services? If your in business I assume you charge for this service - therefore it has a value (in $ terms) to both you and your client. What I am asking is how you would put a value on this service as you obviously would need to put a value on it to invoice you client.

Thanks Jackie - I'll do that now.

You might be better with a server side tracker like http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ The answer from Mat probably has the best logic, but the only problem is are you legally responsible for mitigating the possibility of fraud? I would make sure you add this to the contract, as I am not sure you are going to be able to defeat a proxy or spoofer, just in case the referrer gets smart and decides to work the system. An anti fraud system can be put into place, but LOL I am not sure you will have the access to the multi million dollar fraud monitoring tools that Google does, that are contstantly updated and algorithmically and systematically monitor as well as have auditors who manually do random checks...

Besides the google images thing you said you dont care about, I dont think you will have a problem. I have seem where Matt Cutts has said that having items blocked from indexing is a signall of spam, but should not be a problemm alone. But if somthing else gives a signal of spam, then hiding css, js and img files can be seen as suss.

Thanks - They do look pretty dubious - I will have a scout around.