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Hi SimplyNutrients! A subdomain will still beat an entirely separate domain. Sometimes it can even be treated the same as a subfolder on the main domain. For the best shot at that, do what you can to make the navigation, the footer, the design, the UX, etc. match the main site -- some combination of those seem to be what matter to Google on this front.

Best of luck!

A) Generally yes, but hard to say for certain. There are correlations suggesting that maybe some of them do pass influence in some way.

B) Probably, but again, likely based on engagement, i.e. if a social link gets very little engagement, it probably won't do much to influence search rankings, but if it gets a lot, it often seems to have at least some positive impact.

I don't think there's much value there. We haven't seen the c-block metrics correlate any better than linking domains of late (not surprising given that c-blocks aren't as popular a way to hide link networks anymore), so removed them from the new product.

Thanks Jack! I've been pushing the team to get a pie chart of anchor text (there's a lot of folks at Moz who think pie charts are evil and bad UI, but I like them), so I appreciate the +1 for that feature

Thanks Clive! Thrilled to hear it's been helpful for you. I'm excited to see it get even better

Thanks Andrew! We're very glad to have that in the product, too. Been far too long

Funny you should ask Russ Jones from the Moz team has been working on testing a mobile-first type of index for link data to see what that does to the link graph. He should have a post out before not too long on that topic.

As for what mobile en-GB means as a setting in Moz Analytics, it's basically where/how we rank track - the geography and language that's used to check rankings (in your case "En - English" and "GB - Great Britain").

Thanks Ajaz - outside of this beta product, all the other spots in Moz Pro will still use the DA scores (and link counts) from OSE (including Mozbar). Once we launch publicly, that'll change to the new one though.

Thanks Adam!

Re: 1) There is a toggle in the panel above the link lists to filter out common syndication and shortening URLs. Maybe try checking that? If it's not catching everything, let us know what (here or via a ticket to help@moz.com) and we can try adding those to the filtration.

Re: 2) Yeah - we have the "linking domains" view in the tool but adding a "one link per domain" or "up to X link per domain" in the links view is certainly something we can consider, too.

Thanks Ed! Britney (Muller), Russ (Jones), and I have been pushing the team really hard to get keyword rankings data alongside link data so you can see how the two correlate and connect up. I totally agree that's where the magic comes from in SEO -- accurate rankings + comprehensive link graph = SEO heaven. Hopefully Moz will get there soon!

Thanks dMa - very glad to hear it. If there's things you think are missing or that can be improved upon, please let us know. Still in beta, obviously, and there are a number of new features and data improvements coming, but we're hoping to regain the lead in the link tool space (I'm with you, it's been way too long).

Thanks! Look forward to your thoughts on how this new version works for you/your business.

Hi Gary - yes! That's what the thread I posted above includes - details on what the differences between this new index and tool are vs. the old one. The bullet points basically cover it

Sweet! Glad to hear it John - let us know if items come up that you'd like to see improved upon.

Thanks Ed, really appreciate it (and fascinating to hear how much progress you've made on the solving query intent side! That's awesome).

Thanks for the feedback Ed! I agree with you that in addition to link metrics, Moz needs to get better at measuring on-page factors like searcher task accomplishment and markup and relevance to the query intent. Those are (hopefully) on the plates of team members at the company.

Well, we still have some features to add and some kinks to work out, but yes, in the near future, if this beta goes well, we'll be replacing Open Site Explorer entirely (we may archive it in its current state, with the current index, for a while before killing it entirely, depending on feedback).

I agree it's awkward having both scores, but hopefully it's also very helpful to observe (as you did), that the new one has much better correlation. Just know that links aren't everything in the Google algo! Thus DA/PA can't be expected to perform perfectly in ranking predictions -- they're still just one element.

Thanks Ed! Agree that this has been a long time coming (we've been working on this particular iteration of the tech underlying our link index for 18 months, and on trying to get here for almost 7 years!). Glad to hear it's looking good to you. There's even more features and improvement to come, but yeah, I'm super proud of the team for all the hard work, and especially for how screaming fast they've made it to access trillions of individual links. That's no easy problem

Hi Humanique - you don't absolutely "need" a canonical tag on every page, but it is recommended. For example, say I had the URL: https://sparktoro.com/contact and I used a tracking parameter when I shared it on Twitter, like this: https://sparktoro.com/contact?share=twitter. Technically, it's a new URL, but it should be treated exactly like the regular version by search engines. Rel = canonical is a way to do that.

You want to take the cleanest, most standard version of any page's URL and make that the one in the canonical tag in the header. Then any alternative versions that crop up through social sharing or tracking or any other way can be easily canonicaled to the right version. Again - you don't have to do this, but it is recommended by search engines and most SEOs.

All the best!

Hi Joy - yes, that's correct. The new DA you see in Link Explorer has a stronger correlation with Google's rankings (which is our bar for performance). Don't forget, too, that this new DA updates daily and is derived from a much, much larger group of links and sites (20X+ what OSE uses) than the previous index. So we're discovering a lot more links (to you and your competition), and we're using a better machine-learning system to calculate a score that's more representative of how the sites are likely to perform in Google's rankings (at least, based on the link metrics side of things).