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It's just a notice, saying "hey, this is here, take a look and make sure all is OK"

If you pull out dotbot from your exclusions, you should be fine.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot

Not at the moment, but that is a feature request we've heard from users and we will consider adding it in the future. Thanks for your interest!

Hi Duncan,

I see that Joel Day replied to your help ticket on March 7. Have you checked your spam folder to see if that email was by chance caught there?

Is it showing that for every page, or only some pages? If so, which types of pages? What's the contents of your robots.txt file for the US site?

Do they offer information of value to the people who visit the site? Are there some user-facing reasons why the sites are popular?

Using site:yourdomain.com in Google, and then going to the end of the results and telling it to show you all of the results, is a good first start. It should get you enough to get an idea of why there are duplicated pages.

The Moz crawl can also help you figure it out, as often with ecommerce you'll have URLs for sorting products by price, name, pagination parameters, etc. We'll throw up a flag when we see a bunch of duplicate content or duplicate titles.

Also look for the easy stuff, such as non-www doesn't direct to www. Fix that, and you've cut your pages in half.

What you have proposed in your question is using the comment tag, which is generally meant for comments to someone who is reading the source code of the page and working on the HTML of a website. For example, identifying that the following section is the Google Analytics script and please don't remove it.

If you want Google to see the keywords, you need to show your users the keywords.

Keep in mind that Google generally does not want to include search results in their search results.

Just want to make sure that you know Google's guidelines are against the buying of links to pass PageRank.

My guess is that they do this because they get scraped, and scrapers also often leave in the links, but I'll ask and see if I can get an answer.

Most users express that they really don't like these automated replies. Do think about whether it might turn people away rather than welcome them.

Have you thought of instead spending $1000 or $2000 on an audit that can identify your current problems, and give you direction so your staff can work on correcting the issues?

Does AdWords say anything about needing to follow FTC guidelines? If so, that might affect things (need to make sure the FTC rules are complied by).

Can you say why you want to hide this text? If you could give us an example, it'll help us help you a bit more.

You're welcome! The fix was pushed out a few hours ago.

Have you considered contacting some of the people and companies on the recommended list, and ask if they can refer you to an individual who would be more in your price range? Many people in this industry do have a list of people they can refer out to if they're not the best fit for the job.

I think that's a bug and not a feature. I'll send a note about that to the dev team. Thanks for pointing it out!

Hi!

We have published a blog post at http://devblog.moz.com/2014/03/the-future-of-mozscape-indexes/ that has some more information you can use as background and to pass along to your customers.

I'd take the domain authority of blogger out the this equation. That is one downfall of DA, is that it'll show a real high domain authority for a blogspot.com domain, even though in this case it's really the authority of the subdomain that matters.