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It's been just 20 days since our last update of Mozscape, but as part of our effort to make more frequent updates and just in time for Mozcon, we've got another new index ready to launch. Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar our tools...
Algo got you down? We're happy to announce MozCast, the daily Google weather report. Find out how big that Panda really was, and when you'll need an SEO umbrella.
It's time for another Mozscape index update. This one comes with some good news, and potentially some bad news, too. As you're likely aware, the previous two indices, while huge in size (150B+ URLs each) suffered from a lack of freshness due to the additional processing time required to calculate our link graph and metrics over such phenomenally big numbers of links & pages. Toda...
It's that time once again! Mozscape's latest index update is live as of today (and new data is in OSE, the mozBar and PRO). This new index is our largest yet, at 164 Billion URLs, however that comes with a few caveats. The major one is that we've got a smal...
SEO strategies have gone through incredible amounts of evolution over the last year. From algorithm updates like Penguin and Panda to new search engine restrictions on overoptimization and spammy links, optimization methods for getting the best rankings in search engines all across the web have advanced. The recent power ...
Let me help you get started using the Mozscape API by putting the rules of Calvinball to work. I decided to jump in and try to figure out the Mozscape API. My initial plan was not to cheat... that is, not use the help I have as an employee that’s not available to most API users. But I got stuck, so I had to change the rules... You’ve heard of Calvinball, right? I made a new rule that I get to cheat, as long as I share.
Many of you were affected by several SEOmoz tool issues that happened last week, unfortunately all colliding into one colossal day of craziness on May 3rd. Here's what happened last week, and where we are now.
Late Sunday night through Monday, the harddrives responsible for most of our rankings system failed. ...
Over the last few months our engineering team has been working feverishly on a new index. Our crawlers were extremely successful, but, we ran into a few bumps in the road along the way. Those proverbial bumps shifted our expected launch date from the beginning of April... to today. It's not all bad, though. The new index went live today, and it's big. 159 billion URLs big.
When last I wrote, we had added the ability to see local universal search results along with your campaign rankings. We have now expanded this and made our universal results even better. We just launched an update that includes video, photo, and sitelinks as part of the universal results. Now you can get even better visibility into exactly how good that organic link position is, and see how ...
After some wrestling with Amazon's EC2 and the tragic loss of many hard disks therein, we've finally finished processing and have released the latest Linkscape update (previously scheduled for Feb. 14). This new index is, once again, quite large in comparison to our prior indices, and contains a mix of crawl data going back to the end of last year. In fact, this is technically our lar...
Hey gang - short blog post on a topic our product and marketing teams have been noodling around. As many of you know, we've got our Linkscape index, which is crawled, processed and served out on a monthly basis (there's a new index about every 30 days). We also have a newer datasource, Blogscape, aka Freshscape (which is currently undergoing some repairs in Labs) which crawls a few mi...
I've got good news. Today marks a new Linkscape index (only 14 days after our previous index rollout) which means new data in Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, the Web App and the Moz API. It's also For the past couple years, SEOmoz has focused on surfacing quality links and high quality, well-c...
