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Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you. As the article brought up cloaking I'm going to guess yes, however I haven't got any source or test for it.

Yes, that's the one. I couldn't live without SEO Tools in Excel. It's a necessity for the way I work.

A natural backlink profile has diversity - get ready for it - naturally. While in a perfect world, you want a strong variation in the number of domains linking to your pages, however if the same site chooses to link to your page(s) on their own, without your or any other outside influence, I don't see an issue with this.

Hey Turkey Well I have just read a good case study, which amazed me: http://mattjanaway.co.uk/link-bait-mrcake-case-study/ I do not know about the exact number of links they have got, but the quality was really good:  The Guardian, Fox News, Huffington Post,Metro. I hope you like it Istvan

Thanks Dana, I just needed a bit of affirmation really - which you certainly provided. I believe the brand anchor should be segmented under the umbrella - the difficulty is getting an accurate % that may correlate with rankings across multiple niches - a bit of an algo chase admittedly(well a small part of it anyhow!) I survived thanksgiving this year! I hope that you didn't feast on any relations.

I don't know the exact composition of seed sites that SEOmoz uses, but it's believed to be similar, at least in theory to a process that search engines use. This would include seed sites such as universities and government agencies and other highly respected sites, for example the Red Cross would be considered a high trust site that would make a good seed. The set is updated frequently as sites can be gamed. But I wouldn't go as far to say that all newspapers and media sites go in the "bad" category. Some do, some don't. It's funny that you mention a "cynical" algorithm. It's believe Google does use something similar to a "SpamRank" algorythm.

Its a interesting situation which we will test. we are sectioning off the sites for the language, but i think its a interesting problem around language. Thanks for your time guys!

I agree with Bevelwide, but as well as checking the authority scores I'd determine which page best appeals to your target audience, and which page they're more likely to visit!

interesting, thanks very much for your thoughts and time

HI Wildner Thanks for the ideas, i was thinking along these lines. Thanks for your input!

For external links a straight division of of PR by links per page isn't the best correlation to Google's ranking and PR system. Things like link location on page, number of links to the same site, anchor links, link text, nearby text, and more all play a part in calculating how much link juice to pass.  The short answer, they don't exactly say.  The long answer can be found on the pages referenced below, but you still won't get an exact number.  The take away is that SEOmoz is constantly working to correlate their Linkscape produced data and rankings to Google's data and rankings. References: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/determining-whether-a-page-site-passes-link-juice http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagerank-sculpting-parsing-the-value-and-potential-benefits-of-sculpting-pr-with-nofollow http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991139/Juice-Passing http://www.seomoz.org/blog/early-ranking-factors-data-an-april-linkscape-update http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscapes-august-update-better-domain-authority-numbers-new-partners-and-more

Yes, it sounds like Google has indexed both copies, so that would be duplicate content.

Hi, I confirm this problem is not new, it already existed 5 years ago when I started doing SEO. At that time, I ask about this and I've been told that is might be because the 10 results and 100 results queries were not returned by the same servers that might have not use the same algorithm. I also noticed a strange behavior from Google two weeks ago that navigating from pages 10 to page 1 wouldn't display the results in the same order than navigating from page 1 to page 10. Like if once you reached the 10th page, I would be then using a different server using a different algorithm. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.