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Google made a post in their Webmaster Central blog about what makes a quality site, and offered a number of questions for people to think about in relation to a site or a page on a site. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html

One of the questions was "Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?" which would make me think they look at ads to some degree.

The crawl test will show the results in a CSV file, but not update on your dashboard. It is a way to spot-check and see if the changes have been made.

When you go to your crawl diagnostics page, it will tell you the date of the last crawl. We crawl on the same day each week.

Google just discontinued the Google Directory, so it's now a bit of a moot point. There's a post at http://searchengineland.com/final-nail-in-the-google-directory-coffin-86505 with more information.

We did just have an index update this afternoon, and it may not yet have reached the campaigns. I'd take a look in a few hours and see if there is still a difference in numbers.

Also, are you planning on paying $1 or so to get into the user's regular inbox? If not, you may wind up in their "other" mailbox, which many people don't know even exists.

Why not try Facebook advertising instead?

Hi! We're going through some of the older unanswered questions and seeing if people still have questions or if they've gone ahead and implemented something and have any lessons to share with us. Can you give an update, or mark your question as answered?

Thanks!

We also have a great Getting Started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started that should help!

Hi Dunamis,

Check out the post Justin Briggs made about How to Build Links with infographics. He does talk about the landing page for an infographic, and mentions this in relation to one specific example.

This landing page removes almost all distractions, except for engaging with the content via social or embedding. It links back to the post and the site’s homepage. There is this wonderful share bar at the top, which allows visitors to easily share the graphic. It even sticks at the top as the user scrolls down the page.

If you look at the link for this example, the link goes directly to the infographic with almost nothing else on the page except for social sharing. It does link back to the infographic in the context of a post, where the site looks more like a regular page on the site.

Hope this gives you an idea of how other people balance the layout options you have.

And we've updated! Thanks again for your patience everyone.

Tread carefully on LinkedIn. If one group puts you on moderation for self-promotional content, it can trigger moderation for your other groups, even if they never put you on moderation explicitly (see http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38735).

Do a little bit, and see if anyone actually reads what you post in the groups (by looking at the referral traffic in your analytics program). All too often, the groups are filled with everyone promoting their own posts, and nobody commenting on the posts or questions that other people have. You'll need to decide if LinkedIn is worth the time you spend on it.

Hi! I'm guessing that you're seeing Google deploying some listing rich snippets for your meta description. Take a look at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-real-estate-snippets-13928.html and http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-snippets-for-list-pages.html for a little more information about what may be happening. Does that help explain things at all?

Hi, and welcome to Moz! Here are some of the resources we have that can help, and some answers to your questions.

Our help hub is at http://moz.com/help, and the getting started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started is a great place to start.

We offer a series of onboarding emails to help with your site. In the first couple of days after you sign up for Pro, you should receive a message with several tips for improving your site with Moz Analytics.

Here's some background about why we don't have a help desk phone number anymore: http://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/phone-support. As a side note, I've been in the help desk area when we did take phone calls, and there would often be phone calls that would last half an hour while we determined that what the caller was looking for was an SEO services company, and we wouldn't be able to help them, but it took considerable time away from valid help desk tickets.

For billing and account questions, we do have live chat available from that section of your profile.

We do know it's complex, and we're trying to help out new users by adding more getting started information. Thanks so much for your feedback!

Linkscape is updated about every four weeks (rather than the more frequent crawl of Google), so it can take a bit longer to show up in OSE. You can check the release dates for the Linkscape crawl at http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule. It might take a couple of cycles to show up in OSE, and keep in mind that Linkscape only crawls about 1/4 of the web that is out there.

It's likely on our end. We did have a smaller index this time, and will have a smaller one next time as well. I know it's frustrating to see your numbers go down one month, but it's actually best to look more at how are you doing compared to your competitors rather than absolute numbers each month.

We have information about each update at http://moz.com/products/api/updates. Here's the information from the most recent update from the engineers:

One note: With this index release, there is a slight reduction in link counts across the board, but the majority of them should be there.

The reduction is due to some scheduling issues we ran into a couple of weeks ago (and have since fixed) for the crawlers. So, we will have slightly reduced counts for this index and the next, and we'll return to normal after that.

No problem! Also, one other factor is that even if you did know that they didn't pay FB to boost, you don't know if there was a third-party service they used to get likes.

Francisco, you've probably thought about this, but be sure to look at all of the banking rules about privacy and sharing of information as you build this. When I worked at an agency, I remember how it would take weeks of turnaround to get a simple banner ad approved, as all of the wording had to go through legal, and how resistant another bank was to even install Google Analytics on some of their https pages.

I'm taking my experiences there and thinking there must be a lot of rules regarding how a site is to be secured so that type of information isn't hacked, how to ensure proper information displays for each level of person accessing the system, etc. Cost of compliance may be something to consider, and I don't know if WP would be quite compliant enough out of the box.

That information will show up on the next Open Site Explorer index update, if the competitors weren't added right at the very creation of the campaign. Our next index is update is scheduled for August 28th. Alternatively, you can re-create the campaign and enter your competitors at the setup, and we'll get that information from the current index.

This may be a known bug in OSE where some downloadable (binary) files are incorrectly being counted as links. Please see a Linkscape engineer's comment on a similar post at http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer, as I think that will answer your question.

After we switched from SEOmoz to Moz, we lost a link to that tool. We're looking at making it more visible again, but right now it is just having to know about it, unfortunately.

What are the positive effects of 300 fake google+ likes? What do you hope to achieve? Is it worth the time involved?