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Woops! Thanks. Should be all fixed up.

Hey Q&Aers!

I just wanted to create a discussion thread here to talk solicit some feedback and help with Moz Academy! We want your help coming up with future lessons so we’re getting you the content you need. So, think about what you’d or your team would like to learn from Rand and others at Moz. Let us know!

“So, what is Moz Academy?” you may ask. Well, Moz Academy gives subscribers the power to be better marketers, which will enable them to use Moz’s products with more depth and awesomeness. We want to provide a hub of marketing knowledge that will create a stronger community where people can teach each other while using Academy as a frame of reference. The key to this project is empowering you to kick even more ass than you already do!

If you have any questions about Moz Academy, feedback about lessons, or ideas on a future curriculum please feel free to get involved in the discussion below.

Looking forward to see what everyone comes up with.

+1 to Matterhorn. It was an amazing book and brought me to tears at time.

Hey!

Good question and Mike's answer is partially right. In addition to their awesome turn around for transcriptions, Speechpad is also a great company and we like their values! So we decided to stick with them. Wistia launched their transcription service after we had been using Speechpad for a while, so rather than just jump ship on Speechpad we stuck with them because we think they are cool. We also think Wistia is the coolest ever and have stuck with them and will continue to until the world ends ;).

Also, check this out! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-for-filming-whiteboard-presentations  I wrote a blog post about a lot of our processes for WBF. It could be helpful for you in the future.

Hey there,

There is not way to track ROI or revenue through our SEO tools. Sorry about the confusion. Here is a good article about ROI and KWs http://voices.yahoo.com/web-analytics-tracking-seo-keyword-roi-success-10801793.html?cat=15

Thanks for the great question and your patience.

Nick

Hey there!

Thanks for writing in.

I downloaded the CSV from your Travel Pack campaign. It looks like all of the duplicate content pages are in the CSV that I exported. I found them by sorting the the rows in Excel. Here is a good guide on how to get started sorting in Excel: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/sort-data-in-a-range-or-table-HP010073947.aspx

Thanks!

Nick

Hey there,

Rogerbot doesn't look for rel alts. The bot will follow meta robots, rel canonical (more used way to controlling duplicate content) and 301 redirects. Sorry about the confusion.

Best,

Nick

We got it!

Hey Jake,

Thanks a ton for writing in! We are hoping to add G+ and LinkedIn in the future. We don't have a timeline for that though.

We really appreciate feedback and feature requests; they help us decide what parts of our software development to prioritize. Here's the feature request forum we use to collect ideas:

http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

You can vote for features you'd like to see and suggest your own, both of which help our product team in deciding what to build next. Add your request there and hopefully we'll see it come to fruition sometime down the line. Thanks again, and best of luck with your SEO!

Have a great day,

Nick

Hey Carolina,

Sorry about the confusion! It looks like the last QA question you have submitted was an hour ago under the title:

How important are tags on blogs?

If you have a link to your private question to send me I would love to take a look at it. If you didn't get an email confirmation, then my guess is that it didn't post and was lost in the internet wasteland. Sorry about that.

Best,

Nick

Hey there,

Thanks a ton for writing in! We really appreciate feedback and feature requests; they help us decide what parts of our software development to prioritize. Here's the feature request forum we use to collect ideas:

http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

You can vote for features you'd like to see and suggest your own, both of which help our product team in deciding what to build next. Add your request there and hopefully we'll see it come to fruition sometime down the line.

Thanks again, and best of luck with your SEO!

Have a great day,

Nick

Hey William and Alan,

Thanks for writing in. We actually aren't able to do it from the back end. We are looking to add this feature soon though. Really sorry about that. What you will have to do is create a new campaign with the new domain.

Best,

Nick

Hi there,  We don't typically provide QA support for the Free Mozscape API.

I encourage you to post your question to our Dev Discussion forum: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293196-developer-discussion-group. Our engineering community monitors that and you will probably get a response within 48 hours.

We prefer to do any API support through our forum because that way other people in the community can benefit from the discussion. Making the support scalable allows us to keep offering the API as a free service. I hope you understand.

However, if you would like increased rate limits (10 r/s), additional metrics and email support, we suggest you upgrade to the paid version of our Mozscape API. If you'd like to upgrade, send a note to andrew@seomoz.org or just respond to this email and we'll get your account set up.

Looking forward to seeing your post in the Dev Discussion group!

Best,

Nick

Hey Rob!

Thanks for writing in! I would recommend you spend that money on lights. If you want to light a WB you will need something with a soft box on it. We use four lights to light our presentations. Two on the sides and two in front of the presenter. As far as a camera goes any HD point and shoot would be fine. I usually stick with Panasonic and Lumix lenses. When you are looking at mics, just look for a cheap audio technica with a mini plug in (most cameras you will be looking at won't have XLR).

Again I would focus on lighting.

Hope this helps a little!

Hey everyone!

You can track either a root domain or subdomain in our rankings tab. You are going to want to track the domain that is ranking in Google. For instance don't track amazon.com because www.amazon.com is how they appear in SERPS. You can't track directories in rankings for competitors because it is a very narrow view of rankings. We include all directories for the domain you are tracking so it will be automatically pulled in and you will get the directory rankings regardless. Sorry about the confusion. Check out some of our documentation on rankings to get an even deeper look at what we offer: http://www.seomoz.org/help/rankings

Hope this helps!

• Nick

Hey Rich!

Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion there! It looks like the number that you're looking at in the Web App Competitive Domain Analysis tab is the total amount of links to the entire subdomain, but the number you're looking at in Open Site Explorer is the total amount of links to that page only. Sorry about the ambiguity there! The numbers at the top of OSE all pertain solely to that URL rather than to the whole subdomain or root domain, but you can get information about the whole subdomain or root domain by going here (as an example): http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.seomoz.org/a!metrics. Here's a screenshot of the numbers: http://markup.io/v/djd8djeptg5n. You can also look at all the links going to the sub/root domain by changing the filters in the "Linking Pages" tab.

I am going to open a help ticket. Since it looks like a bug.

Hey Raymond!

This is Nick from the help team. You mind pasting in the favorite topics you would like to add so I can try to repo it? Also have you tried in a different browser?

Hey Larry!

Sometimes larger sites will spin for a while. Sorry about the delay on the starter crawl. I just checked your campaigns out and it looks like you have full crawls for each of them.

Not sure what happened there.