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when did you add  <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">noindex,nofollow</a>" />, the page was cached on the 30th of may, maybe google has not crawled the page since it has been added.

you can manually check some of the urls, there are loads of tools online that will check it

http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

by default the inbound links page filter is:

Show all links from all pages to this page and show links ungrouped

Change the filter so that is :

Show all links from only external pages to this page and show links ungroupedShow linking pages across

This will give you all external links to that page, If you want all external links to you website change it to:

Show all links from only external pages to pages on this root domain and show links ungroupedShow linking pages across

Hopefully that will fix it for you

Its not a "redirecting to itself", its just tell the user and bots "this is the master/true url"  and my understanding is there would be not problem doing that ( I seen a good few systems doing that with no problem)

This blog post by one of the moz team should answer your questions

http://moz.com/blog/domain-migration-lessons

OK found one problem

on this page

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/ReindersICT.aspx

you have a link to

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

which i think should be

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

Generally it can its about 4-8 weeks before mozscape will start showing the new back link.

More info about when the mozscape updates:
http://moz.com/products/api/updates

As you said this has come up many times and my answer is always the same, NEVER use No-follow on internal links... ever.  No-follow just throws page authority out the window. I haven't seen a good argument for using no-follow on internal links (bar on pages like "create account" that you don't want to index, but I think no-index on the pages themselves is a better option)

moz's bot crawls 10,000 pages on your site and will report every error it finds on those pages.  If your 9999 page is a dup of 10,001 page (ie the a page the bot does not crawl), it will not report about the dup (as it does not know about it)

Also the next time the bot crawls the site it might crawl different pages from the first 10k it crawled (eg if your have changed the site structure etc), so the report might change even if you have not removed the dups

note: the bot normally crawls slightly more than 10k, (eg 10,234 pages)

to add to what Dean said, think about how that title looks in the SURPs,  what would improve its click rate?

I would seriously doubt that it would do any damage.  If it could damage your site then loads of people with use it for neg seo (which is not happening)   I wouldn't worry about it.

The flag in the toolbar is based on where the site is hosted (as you guessed).  Where the site is hosted can* be a factor but really a very small one ( I have a site targeted at N.Ireland that's on cheap US hosting and it ranks fine for brand name).  Have you setup Geographic target in WMTs?

*Edit: some say its not a factor at all, but at best is a very small factor

I would think that you would still get benefit from the link on a domain level, but not as good as link to a proper page (as you pointed out).

You could 301 redirect the links to a landing page for the pdf file, but should you? I don't know.

Still it weird that a government site is hotlinking files on your site, I would have thought that would be bad practice from their side.  Still its good news for you.

You don't have to submit urls to the main search engines anymore (in the US and Europe anyway). All you need is to get google to craw it either by a backlink or submitting at sitemap in webmaster tools. To answer your question, it does not matter if it google.com, .co.uk or even .ie

If you google search "site:abc.co.uk"  you can see all the pages that have been indexed by google

If your site it not ranking in co.uk its because you have not given the right signals to google to rank it in UK.  Have you setup webmaster tools and get the target county to UK? (note this might drop rankings in .com(usa))

I agree with the guys above, it less to do with seo (if any) and more about human error.

I used to help with a uk gaming website that had a lot of american visitors, and I notice over the years people (the old time) would link to "sitename".com instead of .co.uk, which was held  by a domain shark, so lost back links.

But I think this is because of an American audience used to everything being .com

Note:  ultimately we bought the .com off the domain shark, I contacted him and originally he wanted $1000s for the domain, I said $300 would be the most I would page for it and said good bye.  2 month later he came back to me and sold it for $300.  So if you have a domain shark with the .com play the long game with them.

It all changed in 2008/09, and link sculpting in this way does not work anymore.  page authority is shared  equally to all links, but for no-follow its not passed, just just thrown out the window (not retained)

Don't forget about this:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pw1KVOVRyr4a7ezj_6SHghnX1Y6bp1SOVmy60QjkF0Y/viewform

Since apple's products don't support flash you are losing a big chunk of the public from the start.  With Html 5, flash is on its way out but alot of people/ places still use it.  BUT I wouldn't develop anything in flash in this space year 2014!

"However i have double checked that where is no external link to the webmail pages from any other source"

the link might be so obscure that seomoz has not picked it up and google bot has.  Note in WMT there is "latest back links" but there is a few weeks delay on them, so the link might be recent.

I'm 99% sure there has to be a link from somewhere, or there is no way google can find that page.

I have added the No-index as well in  my robot.txt file on my site but yet no change.

It will not take effect until the next time google crawls your site, I think it took a week or so before my test site was removed (i did no robot.txt file too)

Hi Evan

It can take 5-8 weeks for a link to show in OSE, its just depends when in the OSE crawl cycle you got the link. The last update was on the 21st april but that is based on data gathered from the 4+ weeks before that date so if that link appeared in the middle of that craw it could have been missed.  Also there is a chance it just missed that page during the last crawl.

The next update is on the 19th of May, so hopefully your link will show then.

Btw if the link is showing under "Just-Discovered Links" is OSE then you know it will be picked up.  (

more info http://moz.com/products/api/updates