Does SEOmoz work for fully secure sites (https)?
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We have created a large file sending service (https://digitalpigeon.com) and for obvious reasons we have secured the entire site (we used to have a trial file send form on the homepage so it made sense to secure everything with 301 redirects from http to https)
Because we, somewhat naively, started out with a memorable name and domain - Digital Pigeon - where all of our competitors just keyword stuffed their domains we don't really rank for any useful keywords yet.
For me, building domain authority via links is more important right now that any on page SEO that is going to be trumped by google's infatuation with domain keywords anyway.
Here's the problem though, it seems SEOmoz and even Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools all fail to take into account inbound links for both http and https for any reports or analysis!
I'm wondering if utilising SEOmoz PRO for keeping tabs on our MozRank is pointless if it's not accounting for all inbound links
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Hi Jim! This is actually in the works as we speak! We should have OSE working with https in the next month or so.
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Any updates on this? I noticed it was still not working, so wondering if we should look at other solutions.
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Hi Stuart!
This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team. Your question is a great one! While we won't be able to crawl your site in OSE, we will be able to crawl links going to your site, which are used to calculate our metrics. So, in other words, the metrics in your competitive link analysis will be accurate. You can also check out www.opensiteexplorer.org for more details on these links.
I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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Thanks, I appreciate that OSE wont work for https but more importantly to me (and probably more a question for the SEOmoz team) are the link stats and therefor MozRank stats found in our Competitive Domain Analysis report accurate or do they exclude our https inbound links?
Or is it all one and the same, because Linkscape ignores https links all the tools making use of it are skewed by this limitation and I should perhaps save my $100/month for now until https in implemented?
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The last I heard https support for OSE was planned for Q4 of 2012. Please refer to Adam's responses in these two posts:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/one-giant-leap-for-link-data-announcing-open-site-explorer
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20770156-open-site-explorer-to-crawl-https
If you need to view https data now, you will need to use a different tool. I know AHREFs supports it: http://ahrefs.com
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