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Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback, however Q&A is a place to ask questions and learn from one another. It is not a place to go off on rants whether it's about SEOmoz, any person or any other company. We are all about getting feedback from customers, but let's focus on doing in a productive way that can be beneficial to everyone involved. I won't be removing this post as there are some great things that can come of it.

For the other readers, I have emailed the author directly to get more information. I'd love to take this opportunity for the community to help him out and talk about how SEO has helped your company to grow. Come on, let's hear your answers!

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I can understand your frustration, but this isn't the way to go about getting it resolved. Please respond to my email right away.

Hi Dana,

Thanks for bringing this up! It's an interesting topic for sure, and actually something we've discussed. For us, we find that many people don't come back to mark something as answered, which is why we changed it around a bit. We use the "answered" bit, as a way to see how many questions get asked, replied to, AND "answered."

I'm not sure I totally agree that by marking something as answered, means that it's shutting down the discussion. In our mind it simply means that the original poster got the answer they needed. It doesn't necessarily mean that the discussion has ended. But this does mean that if it's not clear, we should re-think it.

We'll definitely take this into consideration though in the coming months as we discuss changes/upgrades/etc. to Q&A. I love that people care enough to even bring this stuff up!! We may reach out to you if we come up with some changes/solutions, and get your thoughts. I also like the idea of proposing some ideas here in Q&A for changes to Q&A and see how people respond. This gets me very excited!

Thanks again for bringing this up, and getting this conversation started. I know we'll be talking about it soon because of it!

Jen

I'm happy to announce, the first index of the year is out. We did have a smaller count of subdomains, but correlations are generally up and coverage of what's in Google looks better, too. We're giving that one a high five!

We've (hopefully) removed a lot of foreign and spam subdomains, which you might see reflected in your spam links section. (another woot!)

Here are some details about this index release:

• 145,549,223,632 (145 billion) URLs
• 1,356,731,650 (1 billion) subdomains
• 200,255,095 (200 million) root domains
• 1,165,625,349,576 (1.1 Trillion) links
• Followed vs nofollowed links
  • 3.17% of all links found were nofollowed
  • 63.49% of nofollowed links are internal
  • 36.51% are external
• Rel canonical: 26.50% of all pages employ the rel=canonical tag
• The average page has 89 links on it
  • 72 internal links on average
  • 17 external links on average

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PS - For any questions about DA/PA fluctuations (or non-fluctuations) check out this Q&A thread from Rand: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores.

This is a great thread Alan! And not just for new Mozzers, but for everyone really. As you said this is a collaborative forum so please mark questions as answered, thumb up good answers and mark as "good answer" if it helped you!

The SEOmoz staff can't be everywhere and we count on the community to help each other out. We really appreciate all the contributions and I absolutely love hearing stories about people getting jobs through Q&A or gaining significant help, etc. Let's keep that stuff going!

Thanks again for bringing this up Alan, it's great to have the reminder. And Thanks to everyone for being so helpful!

This is exactly why I love my job. #thatisall

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Yep! I totally read it. I'd say this part "For us, we find that many people don't come back to mark something as answered, which is why we changed it around a bit. We use the "answered" bit, as a way to see how many questions get asked, replied to, AND "answered." answers that. We want to see how many questions were answered, and the original posters are notorious for NOT marking things as answered. Even after we started emailing them asking them to mark things as answered.

I'm not saying it's perfect, just giving you our thoughts on why we do it. Also, I don't believe anything happens automatically. But Associates and staff are asked to mark a question as answered if they feel they've answered a question. A lot of this comes from the old days of "private questions" where if we didn't mark a question as answered, we could literally spend hours and hours going back and forth with a member.

Hope this helps bring light to why we do things that way. As I mentioned above, we're totally open to changing, and I'm definitely not trying to say our way is best. Just giving insight as to WHY we do it.

Thanks!

Hello my friends! It looks like the conversation has gotten a bit heated here. Before I say anything else I'd love it if you all would take a read through the SEOmoz Community Etiquette page. This Q&A forum is about helping out our fellow SEOs and not about attacking or yelling at other members.

As you're asking or answering questions, try thinking about the tone the of the message and the kind of responses it might find. I always love to see a healthy debate but please keep personal attacks out of it.

Thanks!

Hey Aaron,

Your opinion always matters here, and it's totally fair for you to jump in and respond to this thread. I also do tend to agree that it's not ok to request changes to a tool if you're not helping to pay for it, which is probably why we give away education for free but 95% of our tools are paid.

However, if you jump into the Moz Q&A we do ask that you stick to our rules and be as TAGFEE as possible. This means not calling people names, and putting people down. I've edited your response to remove those pieces, but have left everything else. Please know that we value your opinion and appreciate you jumping in here.

Thanks,

Jen

Hello friends!

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We look forward to seeing you in July.

Hi, I've edited your response as we ask that all members follow our Community Etiquette in their questions and responses. If you have an issue with another member please contact us at help[at]seomoz.org and we help.

On another note, I know for a fact that EGOL's goal is to help other community members and is not interested in points. There may be other members who are, but he is not one of them. It's always better to assume the best in people, rather than the worst.

He's just a normal guy. Shoot him an email rand at seomoz.org. He's better at responding than most people I know, including myself

18 H1s definitely seems excessive, however in the grand scheme of things this would be a much lesser priority in my book than many other things. I mean if this is the biggest problem, then you're doing quite well. If you're wondering if the developer is doing the right things overall, that might be a different question. I just don't think that worrying about the H1s on the page is that big of a deal. I'd make sure the site is crawlable and all those other high priority things before I spent too much time on this.

Josh,

Please do not throw TAGFEE around without fully understanding its meaning. It is fine to have a disagreement, and for the most part this is a wonderful discussion. You however are being quite condescending and not empathetic to others. I've warned you in the past, and this is a final warning.

Jen

Thank you, I understand the difference between a fact and an opinion. I don't state facts lightly, which should explain how much I trust it to be true.

Hey guys, I'm just about to publish a blog post that talks all about a bunch of new changes. The focus is for people to earn points for not only participating but adding value as well. Sadly we've had people who are only focused on gaming the system and creating silly questions or adding spammy answers just to gain points. So we've taken quite a few measures to give people MORE points for valuable answers/questions and less points for non-valuable ones. The post is going up in the next 20 minutes or so that has quite a bit more information.

Thanks!

Jen

Glad to hear it on all accounts.

Hi everyone! In case you missed it, the videos went live today. Check out the post to get all the details: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here. Also, if you were an attendee, check your email for your discount code!

Thanks!