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    • IanWatson
      IanWatson last edited by

      Hey Moz Community,

      Link Explorer is now open to the public! Everyone can access it via a subscription or a free Moz ‘Community’ account.

      As you may know by now, the brand-new Link Explorer tool is primed to replace Open Site Explorer as Moz’s link building and analysis tool. The Link Explorer project is the result of an incredible amount of perseverance and hard work by the team, and we’re proud to be able to finally share it with you — we know it’s going to revolutionize how you approach link building and make your job easier.

      You can read more about the tool here in Sarah Bird’s announcement post.

      Because Link Explorer improves on almost every aspect of Open Site Explorer, the metrics have improved, too. That means you’re likely going to see some Domain Authority and Page Authority discrepancies between OSE’s index and Link Explorer’s index. We definitely suggest you use the new DA/PA from Link Explorer, as they’re more accurate and refresh daily rather than monthly, as was the case with OSE’s index. However, we also realize that many of you use these metrics to report to your clients and colleagues, and a sudden change or fluctuation could potentially make your job harder.

      Which DA is the real DA?

      The new DA is based on a much larger index that has many improvements, several of which are designed to make the index more like Google’s than ever before. You should consider moving towards the new DA (and the old DA won’t be updated after April 26th 2018, so the sooner the better). While there will be fluctuations as we improve the model and add features to the index, we expect it to remain largely stable and to be a far more accurate picture of a site’s authority according to how it’s seen by Google.

      Why is Link Explorer’s DA/PA considered better than OSE’s, and which should I trust?

      The larger link index with improved crawl selection allows us to produce a stronger model that includes a much larger proportion of the web. That being said, DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement.

      Is Domain Authority/Page Authority an absolute score or a relative one?

      Both DA and PA are relative to the Internet as a whole. If Facebook acquired a billion new links, everyone’s PA and DA would drop relative to Facebook. Because of this, it’s always best to look at PA and DA in comparison to your competitors.

      What does a drop/raise in DA mean in Link Explorer vs OSE? How can I explain this to my clients when I’m reporting it?

      DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop or raise in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement. Reporting that your site has moved from a DA of 45 to a DA of 42 doesn’t tell the whole story, but reporting that your site has a DA of 42 while your main competitor moved from a 43 to a 37 shows that, relative to the sites you’re competing against in the SERPs, your site has significantly more authority and ranking power.

      What’s happening to MozTrust and MozRank and why, and what should I replace those with?

      The improvements to our DA/PA and Spam Score metrics now now account for more important nuances in helping you determine one site’s ability to rank higher than another. Because they no longer correlate with Google’s ranking model as well as they used to, MozRank and MozTrust are being deprecated for better metrics. Users should rely on Page Authority, Domain Authority, and Spam Score to determine the importance and quality of pages, domains, and links.

      I have historical data I use to help my clients benchmark their progress. What do I do now that DA is calculated differently?

      You should annotate any KPI changes referencing the change in DA and PA. However, most importantly, you should compare those changes to your competitors, as this will best show how strong your site’s authority is relative to the sites you’re competing against in the SERPs.

      We take updating our metrics very seriously, and our last major update to the model was 7 years ago. Users of Domain Authority and Page Authority can expect us to continue to produce steady, reliable metrics for the long haul, and only make changes to these metrics when we believe the benefits dramatically outweigh the stability of the metric.

      Do you have any questions about the new metrics? Anticipating a tough time reporting changes to clients or bosses? Metrics, features or functionality missing that you would want to see? Let us know in the thread, and we’ll work to find a good answer for you.

      Hope you enjoy the new Link Explorer product and the amazing new link index powering it. We are very excited to provide this valuable data to our community and customers.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Usman__Baloch last edited by

        Hey!

        You can find you SEO competitors in a few steps with  Keyword Explorer, which is included in our Moz Pro subscription.

        1. Enter your site into Keyword Explorer https://moz.com/explorer/site/overview
        2. Select and search a keyword that you’re ranking on the top page for (the top 10 results)
        3. Click SERP Analysis
        4. Save the top ranking URLs

        You can do the same for a target keyword

        1. Enter your target keyword  into Keyword Explorer https://moz.com/explorer/site/overview
        2. Click on SERP Analysis
        3. Save the top ranking URLs

        You can then go on to find competitor overlap to build on your keyword lists and get content ideas.

        1. Enter your site into Keyword Explorer
        2. Enter two of the competitors URLs that you just collected
        3. Click on the Venn diagram to see the areas of most overlap to see keywords the top ratings urls also rank for
        4. Use this ideas to build keyword lists, add them to your Campaign to track and optimise your content.

        Any further questions, feel free to reach out to help@moz.com

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        • Usman__Baloch
          Usman__Baloch last edited by

          Hello Moz Team Please Tell Me How To tackle Competitors Keywords any tool to find competitors keywords Office.com/setup

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          • Roman-Delcarmen
            Roman-Delcarmen last edited by

            Hi

            I made some test comparing the new Link-Explorer vs other tools, I made a quick test and the results are impressive if you compared with the old Open-Site Explorer.

            For the test, I had evaluated a site and linking domains

            • Semrush > 12
            • Moz > 223
            • Ahrefs > 233
            • Majestic SEO > 159

            The results of the new Link-Explorer is equivalent to Ahrefs. It beat it to Semrush and Majestic with a big Margin.

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            • michel_8
              michel_8 @martinxm last edited by

              hello mam can you please tell me how to rank inner keywords through moz tool please

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              • IanWatson
                IanWatson @GregB123 last edited by

                Hey Gregory,

                For 1, we are really close on our work to pass links via redirect. Once we have that work complete you will see those links automatically passed to the current page.

                For 2, in our customer research phase of this project some folks wanted to see this type of comparison. We wanted to share as much data as we could in that table. This could provide some insight into how much content that site is looking to get indexed, or show that the site is not quite technically optimized.

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                • GregB123
                  GregB123 last edited by

                  Hi Ian Watson. We have 2 questions (hopefully you are still monitoring this thread)

                  1. In the case of an old-page.html that is 301 redirected to current-page.html, will Link Explorer automatically assign inbound links going to old-page.html to the current-page.html ?

                  2. What is the purpose of showing "Internal, followed links" and "Internal, nofollowed links" on the COMPARE LINK PROFILES PAGE?  What good does it do to know or compare those counts?

                  Thank you!

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                  • IanWatson
                    IanWatson @erude last edited by

                    I cannot speak to the count of inbound links that Google Webmaster Tools is reporting, but they are reporting far less than Moz and the other third party link indexing services. Without being able to dig into the link in your Webmaster account it is tough to say for sure, but within our index and others I am seeing a lot of follow links from site like Tumblr, Wordpress and Blogspot so there is a chance that Google is counting only one link where we treat each Tumblr or Blogspot subdomain as a domain and a link from that domain.

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                    • paupastorlopez
                      paupastorlopez Subscriber last edited by

                      Thanks Moz team! you did a fantastic job with the new link explorer! 🙂

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                      • Kevin-XWORK
                        Kevin-XWORK last edited by

                        Very good, works like charm. I do not need to wait long before my DA/PA updated !

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                        • NickW816
                          NickW816 last edited by

                          Yasss! So the past few years I have been a die-hard Ahrefs fan to be honest. However, the new Moz Link Explorer is my new favorite tool for link analysis by far. Well done on this tool and the stout index as well Moz team!

                          Nick White
                          SEO Services KC
                          https://seo-kansas-city.com/

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                          • erude
                            erude last edited by

                            When looking at Inbound links, why is there such a discrepancy between Moz and Google Webmaster Tools.

                            Moz: 10.3 million
                            Google: 217,833

                            EDJrXt9

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                            • jessential
                              jessential last edited by

                              Thanks to the Moz Team for your dedicated work creating the new Link Explorer. I find it does help to uncover a better overall story to understand DA changes and to compare competitor metrics. It is nice to see Moz consider how Google ranks a site and attributes greater trust, authority, and ranking power to one over the other

                              I will use this information to update our Healthy Backlink Profiles are Critical to Build Site Authority.

                              Thanks for the article Ian Watson.

                               

                              .

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                              • IanWatson
                                IanWatson @Libra_Photographic last edited by

                                Hey Nathan - Great to hear that you are digging the new visual. Could you please give a bit more detail about your request for clicking through to view competitors stats?

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                                • Libra_Photographic
                                  Libra_Photographic last edited by

                                  Love the new graphic, far easier to follow.

                                  It would be nice to click through from the graphic to a breakdown of competitors stats too.

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                                  • IanWatson
                                    IanWatson @m.gallagher last edited by

                                    We are still hard at work on passing links via redirect. That paired with not picking up all of the Linking Domains to your site just yet is more than likely the culprit here.

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                                    • m.gallagher
                                      m.gallagher Subscriber @IanWatson last edited by

                                      That's a good point, we changed domains on October 9th last year and redirected all pages from the old site over. Link Explorer seems to be picking up all these though. Could there be a delay on the linking domains to the old site being passed through?

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                                      • IanWatson
                                        IanWatson @m.gallagher last edited by

                                        I am sure that must be a frustrating event to see the drop in DA, and I agree that nothing majorly obvious stands out.

                                        Could you let me know how long this site has been around? It does appear to me that we may not have picked up all of the linking domains to this site as of now, which could be a factor in this DA change. I will dig in a bit more.

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                                        • IanWatson
                                          IanWatson @ianeahref last edited by

                                          Would you mind following up with me at ianw@moz.com so I can get some more details about the expected functionality of this export? Thanks!

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                                          • IanWatson
                                            IanWatson @Jacob.Redfin last edited by

                                            Hey Jacob,

                                            The API is currently pulling from the old index, but we plan on making the switch over very soon. If you are eager, you can update your calls to use lsapi-beta.seomoz.com to get the new data through the API.

                                            Cheers!

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                                            • m.gallagher
                                              m.gallagher Subscriber last edited by

                                              Whilst I appreciate this will be better in the long term, we've seen a 27 point drop on DA whilst our competitors haven't changed! Will be digging though all the data but there's no obvious reason for this huge change.

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                                              • ianeahref
                                                ianeahref last edited by

                                                Love the site and the updates.  I noticed that when I use the Linking domains, I can view all the Linking domains on the page, but when I export the results for my reports, the Linking domains, don't export like they did with OSE.

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                                                • Jacob.Redfin
                                                  Jacob.Redfin Subscriber last edited by

                                                  Hello!

                                                  Is your API pulling from the old OSE index or the new link explorer index? If the old index, will/when do you plan to switch the API to the new index?

                                                  Thanks!

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                                                  • APH
                                                    APH @IanWatson last edited by

                                                    Hi Ian,

                                                    This is a much-improved tool now - well done! it will be good to see a pie chart with the domains which are linking to you and your competitors and unique one.

                                                    Thanks

                                                    Tahir

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                                                    • martinxm
                                                      martinxm last edited by

                                                      Hi Ian.

                                                      Right now, I can't think of anything to improve it. It's fascinating to have everything like that on the same screen. Visually, it is very complete and powerful.

                                                      Thanks again.

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                                                      • IanWatson
                                                        IanWatson @martinxm last edited by

                                                        Very happy to hear that!

                                                        Is there anything missing on this page that you would like to see when you are doing this type of comparison?

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                                                        • martinxm
                                                          martinxm last edited by

                                                          Thanks to all the Moz team. I've been using it for some time and this graphic for me is pure magic.

                                                          Thanks again.

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