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Hi Radi, That is a bit normal. The reason that it appears to happen is the browser is trying to render HTML data. If you come across this it could be because of a slow internet connection or a problem with the server hosting content. I would suggest a force refresh Windows & Mac CTRL+F5. Usually that fixes the problem. Good luck, Don

Hi Radi! Have Matt and/or Martijn answered your question? If so, please mark one or both of their responses "Good Answer." Otherwise, what's still tripping you up?

Hi Radi, I would get rid of all punctuation except for "-" as it is seen as a space. If you use othe punctuations they are ignored. When added in a query the results are without the punctuation. Same goes for Bing. More info: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?rd=1#exceptions_punctuations Makes it easier for you I hope Grt Tymen

The Google Search Quality Guidelines has an article about "Link Schemes". https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en

Thanks for pointing that out Matt will do.

Hey there!  You can indeed add local tracking to your keywords through your Moz campaign once it has been set up. Just pop over to the Add & Manage Keywords tab, and click the 'Add Keywords' tab here: http://screencast.com/t/xwESEFqi You can add new keywords and click "Track Locally" to do just that. Or you can add a geolocation tracking option to your existing keywords. Just click “from your existing list”. This is what it looks like: http://screencast.com/t/uKuZ9WOZr You can read more about the keyword rankings tab here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/keyword-rankings/add-and-manage-keywords If anything is unclear please do let me know Cheers! Jo

If 2 links come from different sites, but they are in the same IP, those links will pass less juice than if they were in different IP. Likewise other have responded. I recommend you to not worry about that. After all, there are finite IPs and there is able to be infinite sites. Of course, you should not abuse. Even more, if you're running a PBN, be extremaly careful on the external links you create. Gaston.

Hey Radi, Sure! Send over the details and I will take a look.

There are a couple of methods to help reduce any ghost/referral spam you may be getting, one is to use your htaccess, (this reduces crawled traffic only) and the other is to set up filters in GA. This post from Carlos Escalera, is one of my favourites. https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter Hope this helps.

Thanks, great answer - will update the template I think

Hey Radi, The link metrics section of your campaign pulls from our Mozscape index, which updates about once a month. Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Mozscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for a variety of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. Just so you know, here's how we compile our index: We grab the most recent index We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains) We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 180,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index) Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update), then it won't show up in our index. We update our Mozscape Index every 4-8 weeks. Crawling the entire Internet to look for links takes ~2-4 weeks, but our crawlers are always collecting data. When we need to put the index together, we grab all the data they have collected and start processing, which can take up to 3 weeks to determine which of those links are the most important. Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. This means that we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. But deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates until we catch all of these. If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that point to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Mozscape must be linked to by other documents on the web, or our index will not include them. I hope this information helps! While the site and links may not be indexed yet, give it some time - maybe we'll see them in OSE next month!

Cheers Peter. As usual with the dark arts of SEO, no one size fits all solution That's helpful though - Thanks

Hi there. Exactly same IP? or same C-Block? I would recommend having different IPs if possible, also do keep your and client's websites on several different hosting servers so if one of them goes down, all of your websites are dead at the same time - you'll save yourself lots of pain. As for how valuable those backlinks are - I'd say as long as you're not using spammy techniques (lots of footer links, all of them are follow, to the same page, with the same anchor text etc), you will be fine. Of course, it would be nice to have every single client website with different C-block, but in real world it's close to impossible. Hope this helps.

I'd expect it to be more consistent moving forward, but it will likely never be void of fluctuations. That's just part of the nature of the metric. For an in-depth look at DA, I'd recommend checking out this post: https://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-story-on-mozscape-updates

Hi there. I think that the "problem" lays behind the idea of OSE - not to get all possible backlinks, but important ones. At the same time OSE crawls only down to certain depth, which means that for facebook link to be crawled it's gotta be at the top of the list for backlinks on facebook domain. The page you specified has about 7.5k backlinks, which is not a lot at all, if you compare to other pages on facebook with tens of  thousands of backlinks (https://www.facebook.com/VinDiesel/ - example). So, the chances that MOZ will crawl a page with several thousands backlinks are pretty slim. It's the same reason you rarely see local directories in your website's OSE report. I hope this helps.

Remove the trailing slash and it shows some links. Not "many" but it definitely shows up in OSE.

I would recommend Klout. It has a list of new and hot posts and content.

Hey Rafi, I took a look at your campaigns but I didn't see one that is specifically returning an 803 error for the homepage, so I really need a bit more information in order to investigate what might be going on here. If you don't want to share the specific site publicly here, you can email us directly with the the campaign details or just click the blue circle on the bottom right corner of your account to message us directly from within the app with the details. I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Thanks Matt and Erica. I think we'll have to take the band aid approach at first, but it's definitely something I'll now think about with future updates and developments

My response is a big fat NOPE. If the client isn't happy with the speed of back linking, then it's time for an education session in which you stand up as the expert they hired you to be and explain exactly why it's a bad, bad idea. Brokered links are often not contextual, which means they're not actually all that helpful. They tend to come from low quality sites, which means they're not actually all that helpful. And that's just if you don't get caught. Getting away with black hat tactics is an intense, highly skilled, full-time endeavor. It's not a quick and easy way to anything. So even if you are willing to go there, given your inexperience with shady link building tactics, it's still a wretchedly bad idea since you've got no idea how to not get caught. Best thing to do is to build a content and outreach campaign that builds links in an above-board manner that no one can take issue with. Believe it or not, that's actually probably easier than anything that link buying would steer you into.