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I need to verify all the inbound links I have coming in to my site.  I've tried using OSE but have been told it does not scrape many smaller sites so cannot be sure of it's accuracy (especially since when I ran it, it returned a small % of the link i know are out there).

Is there a way to do this in Analytics?  Or another way?

Thanks

Great, thanks, Keri!

Thank you, Frank, this is a great help!  When I typed in the www.mysite.com, it showed a 301 redirect.  However when I type just mysite.com, I get the following: HTTP/1.0 200 OK =>

Does this mean there is no 301 set up for the mysite.com URL?

Thanks John, what I am wondering is if I need to specifically set up a 301 redirect separately, or would that automatically happen when redirecting one URL to another (https://mysite.com to http://mysite.com for example)?

Say there is a link on an authoritative site to my site, and the link points to www.mysite.com.  However, I have set all URL variations (https://mysite.com, www.mysite.com, mysite.com, etc.) to redirect to http://mysite.com automatically.  Does the link juice from this authoritative site pass through the www.mysite.com URL to http://mysite.com automatically due to the automatic redirect?

I guess my question is does the link juice automatically pass on to the destination URL, even though it is not the original URL the authoritative site pointed to?

Wondering what the best way is to display blog posts, and organize a blog in general, for maximum SEO benefit.

Displaying the entire blog post for the reader to scroll down right on the main page of the blog?  With previous posts displayed farther down on the same page.

Displaying a snippet/paragraph of the post with a link to continue reading - this way each blog post has it's own dedicated page?  And the main blog page can display more topics.

Any additional ideas or suggestions to think about would be great.  Thank You!

Our ecommerce site is currently set up with an SSL on each page.  My understanding is that these would need to be removed on the pages that I'd like a 301 redirect to be placed on.  As of now, we have 302s due to the SSL.

Do I need an SSL on every page or just the checkout pages?  Any real benefit to having the SSL on every page?

Thanks, Keri.  Any idea how frequently Google will index new links?  I see that linkscape was updated on the 25th and as of today I don't see the links being reflected in OSE.  Is there a chance Google hasn't gotten to it yet?

Just wondering, in general, how quickly newly placed inbound links should get indexed by Google, and show up in OSE?

In doing competitor link analysis on Open Site Explorer, I've noticed quite a few links coming from the same domain listed separately. This seems to be especially prevalent with Google directory listings. For example, I'll see a link to the site from google.hu/...., google.am/..., google.kz/..., etc. In some cases, it will be prefixed with an IP address, followed by the subfolder address. Correct me if I am wrong, but these seem to be all counting as separate root domains that are linking to the site. How is this done? Are directory submissions given to each country's google directory? Does an original DMoz listing get re-submitted to all of these? Just looking for some clarification on this and how it's accomplished. Thanks everyone!

Hi beeneeb, I will be using the blog to create credibility and draw in perspective customers on topics within my industry.  It will be a blog within a website.  Thanks for the answers everyone!

I'm sure this has been asked before but I've searched for it in the Q&A Forum and couldn't find any relevant answer.  I was thinking that a weekly post would suffice for my blog because the audience isn't one which would be checking frequently + there aren't very many new developments in the industry I'm in that would necessitate more than that.

However, I was told that if I can't blog consistently 2-3 times per week, I really shouldn't start a blog, as it would need that much posting.  Thoughts on this?