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Thanks for your answer! There's no need for a signature line on Q&A answers, however. Interested people can click through to your profile page to see your contact info (and all of our links in Q&A are nofollowed in any case).

Signature lines tend to make the answer look a bit self-promotional and can result in thumbs down by some users.

With Moz, you're not going to be able to press a button and have us give you a list of 100 perfect sites where you can add your link. However, what we can offer you is education and tools to help you find places that are appropriate to contact for a potential link.

For education, we have the Beginner's Guide to SEO linkbuilding section at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

Open Site Explorer is a great tool for finding the links your competitors may have, and for giving you metrics about the strength of those pages and of the domain. Fresh Web Explorer is a good way to find mentions of your brand or of your product, and then perhaps contact those people, thanking them for the mention, or asking them to link to you.

I would need to look online at a reference myself to see if that's accurate.

One thing you can do is go to http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/check-server-headers-tool/ (or your favorite search results for server header checker) and put in your non-www URL and see the server header code that is returned.

There have been a number of discussions about Alexa in the Q&A forum, including http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-can-i-improve-alexa-rank-of-my-website. Generally, the consensus is to not worry about it, and it's not real accurate, though it can be used when selling advertising as a rough measure of traffic.

Moz doesn't offer SEO services, but you might check out our recommended companies list at http://moz.com/community/recommended. We also have several blog posts on how to hire help with your inbound marketing.

I've added a disclaimer that the sites are NSFW. I looked at each for about two seconds, but didn't want them up on my work computer for too long either. It appears that the two sites are offering free porn videos?

Google's notice is that there is very little content of value. My question to you is what unique do you have on these pages? Where do you get the content? Is it all the same as you can find on many other sites? Is there any copyrighted content? What can you tell us in general terms about the content and what you've done with the site, since it will be difficult for many people to examine the sites?

Branded reports are available right now, and can be set up via campaign settings. Sorry for the confusion! We'll be updating the appropriate pages this week.

Generally school ends in mid-late May (semester system) or mid-June (quarter system) and starts mid-late August (semester system) or mid-late September (quarter system). IT staff and department staff are often there year-round, even if the professors are not.

If you're specific in your targeting, you can look at the department or program home page and it will tell you the schedule, and even which professors are teaching which terms.

There's a difference between tracking everything your website is ranking for, and tracking what your website is ranking for and people are actually searching for. My husband's site ranks in first place for the phrase query "We also run the R/C Naval Combat forum" but no one is actually searching that and it has no impact on our business. There are literally an infinite number of things your site could be ranking for.

I don't have a solution for you, but did want to bring up the difficulty in providing "everything".

Was the warning that you had unnatural external links pointing to your site? In that case, adding a nofollow to the links going from your site to other sites won't do any good. Instead, you need to look at the links pointing to your site.

You might want to look at the links Google included about this warning, as well as these following links:

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2292495/thin-content-with-little-or-no-added-value-manual-action-google-on-how-to-fix-it

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604719?hl=en

You've got a tough niche in that there are a ton of other people try to do the same thing as you; you have some serious competition and Google is wanting to show unique results to users, not just pages of results that all lead to the exact same videos.

We do check for duplication within your site. For duplication across sites, there are services like Copyscape out there that I've heard do a good job of it.

There's quite a bit of programing involved in having a machine judge the quality of content, and it's not quite the focus that we're going for at Moz right now. I am interested to hear what other solutions people have found for these questions, as you might find some additional resources with other responses.

Product reviews are a great source of content. If you're not the manufacturer, rewrite the description and enhance what the manufacturer provided. Make your product page the ultimate source of information on that particular product.

Why would I choose this product over another one? What's the best use for this particular product? What type of people use it? Is it for beginners or for advanced people? What is the product made of? Is it made in the USA? Has it won awards? etc. etc. etc. All the stuff that's a lot easier to sit here and write about doing than actually taking the time to sit down and do (which is why there are product pages on my site that are nearly empty ).

Howdy,

We don't have that feature right now, but something like that is on our wishlist for the future. Thanks so much for the confirmation that this is something our community wants, and so glad to hear that you find Q&A this useful!

Jen wrote a good post about that at http://moz.com/blog/social-engagement-metrics-that-matter that may help you get started.

Don't overlook the usefulness of folders when it comes to Google Analytics. Lunametrics has a post on designing a site that is friendly with GA at http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/.

Download the CSV report and take a look at the URLs to see if they offer a clue. It could be that suddenly there's new pagination or session IDs that are being indexed.

On the dmoz site, they state a couple of weeks to several months, but that page was last listed as updated in 2004 (http://www.dmoz.org/add.html). A high-level user in the Google Webmaster Help forums had this answer  earlier in 2011:

"DMOZ produce an updated rdf file every month for downstream users to update their directories. There is no pattern to when Google does this.  At times they have done it monthly; recently they went over 9-10 months before they updated. Your guess is as good as mine as to when it next happens." (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=52726d7f6beba62c&hl=en)

So, best answer that I know of, based on what I've seen on other threads here in Q&A and on the web, is it'll take a while. It'd be great if you updated this thread when you do make it in the directory so we have an idea of the current timeline.

You're right, we did have to scrap the index that was supposed to be released this week.

A little background first. Before we release an index, we look at the quality of the index, data correlation, and a bunch of stuff. This time, the correlations did not match up, and we decided that it would be worse to release this index than it would be to keep with the old index.

We've got a post about it at http://moz.com/products/api/updates.

Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the delay.

If it's someone from high school or my early work career, where they would have known me under my maiden name, I send them a note and let them know who it is. Otherwise, I personally only do friend / connection requests with people that I know will know who I am.

When I get a LinkedIn request from someone I don't know (and we have no connections in common, I have no community history, etc.) I'll report them as spam. When I get it from someone who might be familiar, I ask them to remind me how we know each other.

In short: be personal and don't spam.