Yes, it really is butt-kickin'. The Page Strength Tool is designed to replace the often inaccurate and infrequently updated Google PageRank score in the toolbar. Sure, we don't have access to nearly the amount of data they do and we're not purporting this to be 100% accurate or even a perfect metric for relative importance (though, in our testing, it was very good at that).
Nifty graphics never hurt, right?
What the Page Strength tool does do is to give you a great idea about a lot of the important factors affecting how search engines consider the importance of a page. For link data, we pull from links to the page, links to the domain, edu, gov & mil links and links from places like Wikipedia, DMOZ, etc. This isn't to say that these are always going to ensure rankings, but, like it or not, more often than not, more important sites do find themselves with more links from these sources than less important sites. It's not a universal truth, but it's enough of a trend to make it worthwhile to have them as factors.
A few of the scoring factors used in the tool - the percentage bar indicates what portion of the maximum is contributed to the final scoring.
We're also pulling from sources like del.icio.us and Alexa, offering a peek into whether the sites are popular with techie types. Again, neither are perfect metrics, but the data is relatively accurate for the majority of sites (i.e. those not spamming or being spammed).
Finally, we pull some additional pieces to help complete the puzzle - domain name visibility as measured by the number of results for a Google search, internal link percentage (how many links point to deep pages vs. the domain), the age of the domain from the Wayback Machine and yes, even the Google PageRank itself.
Along with a score, we provide a bit of droll commentary ;)
Even if the number we spit back isn't all that valuable, the data certainly is, and having it neatly collected in one place (typically in under 30 seconds) makes for my definition of "kick-butt."
Kudos go out to Matt, who built the tool in between at least 3 other projects. My favorite part about this tool is actually the browser toolbar hotlink. You just drag the link over to your favorites and use it on any page on the web to run the tool on that page and get all the factors. I've already used this 3X on the phone over the past week to great effect. I suspect it will be great for live demos, conferences, client meetings, etc. too.
Oooo... Browser buttons are cool and useful.
Like it? Hate it? Experience problems? Please do tell.
This is an AWESOME tool. Great job guys!
Hooray, at the time of this writing the page strengths for 5,000 unique URLs have been fetched. Our server is a bit taxed, but it's holding up well.
Thanks to all who had input on the tool.
I'm still having issues with the old pagerank being picked up. See: https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
I don't know if it's possible to have a "clear cache" option for a website, so that if this sort of issue occurs or if a connection is not made, you can re-run the report and try again?
Hmm. Now that's strange. The other day I thought I looked at yours, and it was updated. However, now I looked again, and it is indeed PR4.
Just a suggestion for improvement to this nice tool. Alexa toolbar is only available for IE users. Many technology related sites report that 65-75% of their visitors use Firefox (my site has about 60%).
As a solution I suggest taking the Netcraft Site Rank (also based on toolbar stats, but the toolbar is available for Firefox too). Consider the following example: Slashdot.org: Alexa rank: 225, Netcraft rank: 81.
An URL example for a Netcraft site rank querry:
https://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=h...
By the way the Netcraft toolbar was the only major toolbar that provided antiphishing protection/warnings for many years (now IE7 and Google toolbar are joining the club too).
Another example (showing that, unlike Alexa, there's no bias in Netcraft that would be caused by its relatedness to the topics of the internet and web):
www.seomoz.org:
Alexa rank: 1,079 Netcraft rank: 20,319
My site is around 20,000 on Alexa and around 5,000 on Netcraft (and we're not webmaster-related nor web/net-related in the slightest bit). It's caused by the fact that 60% of our visitors use Firefox, and Alexa completely ignores such visitors (the Alexa toolbar is for Internet Explorer only). The Alexa rank is seriously skewed and unreliable.
Sic - the netcraft site rank does indeed look like a very useful metric. I'll look into using it in the next release of the page strength tool.
Great. Thanks, Oatmeal.
I just wanted to add another note... :) I just can't say enough how much I like and respect your work on this. I really hope it becomes a "standard" for defining site strength. It says so much more than PageRank. For example, take these two sites:
https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php... https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
Both have PR7, but with your tool, you can see that there's really a big difference between the too, and your tool correctly measures what it should be. It's hard to put into words my exact thoughts on this, but I just feel that your tool is more accurate, detailed, and a MUCH better representation than PageRank.
Thanks Chris, I'm glad you find the tool useful.
Keep in mind the majority of the value behind the tool is in the actual data it shows. The overall score is effective for quickly assessing the strength of a site, but if you want to get beneath the surface a bit the factors (incoming links, domain name visibility, etc) are where it's at.
Yes, I find that information very useful too. Very good for quick facts about a site and also the del.icio.us and Wikipedia information is quite handy...something I usually do not think to look at myself.
Great tool. Works well except for two items: 1. The browser button drag to toolbar is not working for me. Can you share some more specifics on how this is suppose to work? 2. Do you plan on coming out with an export feature to save into .xls, .doc or .pdf format? Keep up the great work.
1. Just click, hold, and drag the link that says 'GET SEO Page Strength' to the toolbar of your browser. If you're using IE, right click it and choose "add to favorites."
2. We're going to be providing aggregate reporting functionality soon so you can do things like view your page strength over time and compare different reports with each other. I doubt we'll do PDF or word, but this aggregate data could potentially be exported into a spreadsheet.
Hello there. First off, thanks for creating such an interesting tool. I am, however, experiencing a problem with certain URLs. For example while https://davecardwell.co.uk/ is fine, https://davecardwell.co.uk/cv/ gives the error:
The pages are generated essentially the same, have exactly the same response headers, and I can see the request and 200 response in my apache2 logs. Any ideas?
Hi guys. Any progress on this one?
Hi
Great tool - many thanks.
I have one or two problems though:
1. when I try to view a report of a previous test on my URL I get 'We were unable to fetch the URL you entered. Please verify the URL is active and try again.'. 2. when I re-run a report on my domain the data never refreshes - it shows very stale data.
My URL www.redcardinal.ie
I really wish I could track my progress :(
[UPDATE] scratch the above - BadBehaviour WP plugin was blocking you bot.
Can you tell me the useragent and IP so I can locally whitelist you?
I think there is a bug in the "Position at Google for first four words of title tag on target URL" section. For example, if you try https://www.mailbigfile.com it comes up with 0% and the Google link has an empty query string. Is it something to do with, perhaps, the lang attribute being present on the title tag?
-Glen
Yep, the lang attribute was the problem. I adjusted the code and re-ran your report and the page title was picked up properly this time. Thanks for the heads up.
Did you have a chance to look at the PR issue I mentioned? It's strange since it seems to be working properly for other sites. Thanks.
I just re-ran your report and it picked up the new pagerank this time (7)
Very strange. The page strength was 6 with PR4 and now 5.5 with PR7. :)
There was a title tag bug from my other fix this morning, it's updated now. (showing a PS 6.5)
Great; very nice tool. Excellent work you two have done. Congrats.
Great work - this helps a lot. I notice that the WayBack data for my blog - https://www.stuartd.com doesn't seem to be getting back to you correctly...
I am curious how the " Number of links according to Technorati" is calculated. I assumed that I didn't have any links at Techorati, but when I checked there was a bunch.
Reference https://www.cbravo.com
We're scraping technorati's search results for the number of sites linking to your URL. There was a bug that was causing your technorati links to be empty, I fixed it and adjusted your report.
Hey all, Strength report shows No data from Wayback machine https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php... but in reality there is some data: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.almy.ba Is it becouse it's country tld? Any clues anyone?
hi, i try t use page strength since a month. with https://fdogs.free.fr
but it doesn't work. it always was some missing value. i.e.: in my last test i have a value of 2.
with 0% -> in Position at Google for first four words of title tag on target URL
wich is not true, cause when i click to the source link, i could see it was the first.
is there something to do to have the real value ? or i still have to wait for 3 or 4 day and not to be sure it was the good one ? ps: sorry for my english
I wonder if anyone can help please..
I have used the page strength tool (which is good)
however i checked my url the other day and all was fine.
I have just checked it again and the Yahoo! Site Explorer (the first result) Links pointing to the full URL = 0 and my page strength is 2.5
Now I know becasue if i go on to site explorer its self I have 2,513
yet if i do the same search again using the page strength tool but adding index.html at the end of the url it shows 2,916 and my page strength was 3
the other day when i did it, everything was fine... and the results showed for my url without the index at the end..
PLEASE PLEASE ADVISE I AM REALLY WORRIED!!
Please help
What's your URL? If you don't want to post it publicly email it to me and I'll have a look
Hi
I have sent you a private email, i appreciate you taking the time to look
I love this tool, but I have also been having problems with missing data from various sources the past few days. Like:
- no data found on Wayback Machine, even through our site has been around for over 2 years. - no Alexa rank - Inaccurate Google pagerank
Any thoughts on why this is happening?
What's your URL? If you don't want to post it here you can email it to me
It's www.nationalmortgagealliance.com
I'm receiving the message: We were unable to fetch the URL you entered. Please verify the URL is active and try again. I know my URL is working fine-any suggestions? https://afrogtokiss.net
Your webserver appears to be denying the page strength tools requests to fetch the page. I even tried running it through a few proxies with varying browser user agents, but it still denied it. Perhaps your server administrator doesn't allow clients who aren't accepting cookies.
I use DreamHost- any others have issues with using the tool with them?
I love this site and always will but the Page Strength tool has an issues. Several areas show one week as a strength and the next they are missing like the connection is not made for those data areas. Specifically, Alexa, Google Pagerank of full URL and Domain, Site age and DMOZ, all seem to be zero sometimes and then other times shows. It's back and forth. Understanding the difference between strenth and rank, we are a PR3 at Google and PS2 here. However, right now we are a PS1 with 4-5 factors showing the zero, when in fact that is not accurate. This happens with many SEO tools on the net. I hope this help. Our domain is theledsigncompany and we are a dot com.
Sincerely, Thomas
I don't think there's much they can do about a connection problem or the external site not returning the information...
I suppose one thing that could be done is retry a couple times when data is not returned, though.
I re-ran your report and it appeared to fetch all the data this time.
Quick question. Every other site (whether mine or someone else's) I have checked shows the updated PR through your tool now. However, this one does not. I have checked it over a number of days. Any idea why? Thanks much.
https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
I think we're just hitting some old DCs. I'll ask Matt to check on those to get the new PR numbers. Thanks for the heads up.
Thank you; much appreciated.
Really a great tool, and it as well one way to get YOUR knowledge, experience and science. I have a problem for a site of mine, with the "wayback" information. The report says "no data" while following the link it provides https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.multi-source...gives 26 pages. MAYBE this is due to the fact that I had let the site sleep and slip, and so the wayback machine has no data either for 2005 nor 2006?
Hi Fibo, The API alexa provides to fetch data from the wayback machine is very unreliable. Try running your report again in a few days to see if it shows up.
I am curious, is there a way to integrate results into directory script, so directory script can read and display Page Strength besides listed link?
Please friends, someone get a small FireFox extension .. Which just have Page Strength, nothing else. And we should be able to adjust it placement like we do in "Search Status 1.8" extension.
Thanks
I don't understand why my Technorati link count is 0%. If I go to Technorati directly I've got nearly 300 links.
The site I'm trying to score is www.hells-handmaiden.com
thanks
My site https://geocator.us is getting:
I can not find any entries in my logs indicating the server tried to even pull my page. Please advise
And yes, another thing -- dont you guys think that it should include ONLY those factors on which domain owner have less control?
Like, google position for first 4 keywords in title -- If we use our domain name in title's start we get 100% ..
Please make some updates and make it more rigid, I love this tool.
Page strength is an excelent online tool. I have worked over 3 month to a desktop tool doing similar checkings. The application is named Website Popularity and is recently launched. Maybe you guys and gals at Seomoz can take a look if you like it.
The bellow are the criterias checked:
Inbound links (IBL)
AllTheWeb, Altavista, Google, Inktomi/Hotbot, Msn, Technorati, Yahoo, Alexa Linking
Popularity (PageRanks)
Alexa rank, Yahoo rank, Google page rank, Netcraft rank
Indexed pages
Google's indexed pages, Yahoo!, MSN, Gigablast, Exalead
Social taggings
Del.icio.us bookmarks, Digg.com mentions, Reddit mentions
Important directories and site listings
DMOZ links, .EDU links, .GOV links, Wikipedia listing, Yahoo Directory listing, Google groups listing
Press and media mentions
Google News, Yahoo News, Google blog presence, IceRocket blog presence
SEO informations
Domain visibility, Domain visible from, Actual IP
Statistics charts informations
Charts statistics for each criteria, Export statistics for each criteria
I have noticed that after SEOMOZ revamped the website that page strenth tool sometimes is not getting correct information on links poiting to full url (Yahoo) as well as links pointing to domain (Yahoo). Otherwise it is nice nifty tool that provides great information about your websites popularity. I hope that "masterminds" can fix the problem with Yahoo data.
I see incorrect link counts too. This is happen for second level domains. May be because yahoo actually returns link count for "From All Pages" on "Except from this Subdomain" command. For example you can check report for page2rss.com.
great tool. thanks
I notice a peculiar problem for my site.
My site is targeted for keywords accounting visual basic.
According to Google - Common Words found on your site analysis-
On our site             Incoming links
Visual                                 Basic
                                         Visual
Notice that the word basic is missing from our site analysis. It is no t present anywhere on the 100 words list.Â
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Even though the phrase " visual basic " is found a number of times on our site, Google somehow has not recognized the word - basic.
Why is it So?
Anyone can throw some light on this.
Now there is no Alexa data (Rank and Wayback machine info)
This is cool BUT using it in France its not giving me relevant results. Search results in google.fr will be very different from results in google.com, for example. I'm also not sure that Alexa is relevant for a French site. Another local site probably is though.
So the Page Strength is only judging the site for a US audience listing. And this is an important point for companies who look to the Internet as a means of international marketing : being #1 in Google.com is no guarantee of being #1 in the international versions of Google. There are hundreds, there are even at least 3 versions in Spain (for the 3 main languages).
The last point is what makes exactly makes the difference between a google.fr and a google.com result ?
- Neil
I have noticed the same thing of late. The Google results are consistently not showing as well as the wayback machine data.
Also, my DMOZ listed sites still don't get picked up.
I've been following the strength of my site over the past few months and have noticed it slipping constantly.
At present, your tool says my site (www.logitech.uk.com) isn't in the top ten positions at Google for the first 4 words - but Google has it an #1
The wayback machine can't find any data but the site is listed and has been since 2001.
The site doesn't ahve any alexa data but when you visit alexa and do a search it comes up at 605,239.
These 3 factors combined have given me a rating of 3/10, which compared to Google's PR of 6 makes me wonder why this data isn't being picked up?
For those who are interested... pagestrength.com is being sold at the moment at SP
A spotted a minor problem: A couple of metrics are coming up with 0% for some reason:
example report
- position on Google for first 4 words of title tag - age of domain
I made some upgrades to the tool that should make the date according to archive.org (wayback machine), alexa rank, and the position at google for the first four words of title tag all be more reliable.
Google changed its markup in the serps so my scraping mechanisms were broken, and alexa is generally unreliable anyway.
I love the tool, but the results for Del.icio.us keep showing 0 which isn't the case for SearchBliss, or any other site I've checked.
still some problem from wayback machine... sample... the tool say no data found but the site is in wayback machine since 2002...
great tool anyway, thanks!
Sweet tool Rand. I was working on a Website Ranking Weight tool that would take the page strength based on a simular matix and suggest a Overture searches per month range the site should be targeting.
I've just used your tool to prepare a comprehensive page strength ranking of all the major directories here: https://www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-direc...
Some surprising results. Some very popular directories aren't all that strong, while others that I've never heard of before are very strong.
Good Work! Very usefull!
One little issue: When you test an old style compuserve-Site like https://homepages.compuserve.de/fritz7469/the domain is checked instead of the folder. (Maybe i should get a domain on my own instead of bothering with that.)
Another issue: Getting .mil + .gov links from Yahoo does not work properly. Maybe it is because of the de TLD. On www.equiphysio.de yahoo gives back 50k+ Links fom .mil and .gov, but there is not even one link.
There is one concern: the position on Google for first four words in title tag - is that collectively or individually - or in quotes
for example:
Search Engine Optimization Placement
It's not in quotes
Great tool - thanks very much.
Now I can't stop playing with it :(
Cool tool. I was particularly pleased to see my site has 62400000 .gov & .mil links!!!!!!!!!
Mine too, do you think we are being targeted by the US Military?
Um, help an old lady out here. Where exactly do I find that browser button?
Donna - on the right hand side of the tool results page there are instructions - you basically can just drag the link onto your bookmarks in Firefox, or in IE, use the right-click and "bookmark this link."
BTW - mad4, all the sites I checked after about 10pm last night had that same issue, too... Not sure why Yahoo! was returning that data, but Matt will look into it.
any reason you can think of that I wouldn't be able to "Bookmark" that link? I am using IE, but a right click does not yield that option. (and you meant the left side of the page, right?)
nevermind, I got it.
I'm pretty sure with IE you right click > add to favorites
Much obliged Matt. It's a pretty rockin' tool!
ah, it never occurred to me to look on the results page. just assumed it would be on the tool's home page. thanks.
Nice one. Maybe that you add this tool to "My Account" (members.php)?
I fixed the .gov/.mil link numbers being off.
I was trying to calculate the number of incoming gov/mil links by running: linkdomain:host.tld site:.mil OR site.gov
Unfortunately this randomly returns a few million results.
Originally I was using: linkdomain:host.tld AND (site:.gov OR site:.mil), but grouping the two site commands resulted in it including results that mention .mil or .gov in the content of the page rather than being in the tld of the page itself.
I could just use two queries, but I don't want to add the extra time to the tool. For now I've simply removed checking for .mil links - barely anyone has those anyway and both .mil and .gov links only account for 5% of the total score.
Also, I've reset anyone who had over 100,000 .gov/.mil to 0.
Thanks for your input, let me know if you guys see anything else that's weird
There is an error in the .mil and .gov links for yahoo. https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%...
It says I have 59800000 links from .mil or .gov sites... I wish.
Love the tool - Kudos all around. The only issue I see is that some new SEO will decide that they must put their target keywords in the first four words of their title because "Well the Page Stregnth Tool says..." - lol. I kid... sorta
BTW: Happy Bday Rand.
Thanks Natasha - that's very sweet of you!
"Domain name visibility" isn't working properly for cc tld domains - it used this query for one of mine: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22com.au%22+-... Not really going to report what you think it does :)
Is the actual url for your site: https://com.au?
I think the funky domain might be throwing off the numbers.
{looks confused} No, of course my domain isn't com.au Whats funky about a cc tld?
In your comment you linked to: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22com.au%22+-...
I assumed you were running the page strength tool against a domain with a .com.au
I checked the db and no reports have been run on a .cc website yet
'cc tld' means a country code tld, so it includes .com.au, .co.uk domains, etc :) I can't remember which of my domains I tested, but of the form https:// www.example.com.au/ so the tool is making false assumptions about the correct URL. ... you know, it might make sense if the visitor icons had some sort of marker for semoz employees and posters? I assumed you were just someone giving me a hard time :)
ah ha, I thought you meant a cocos islands TLD :)
Yeah, I figured that out eventually :) That would be .cc tld See the huuuuuge dot that makes all the difference? ;)
I looked into it and it appears that the part of the tool that fetches the link numbers (the back-end) was parsing the .com.au domain extensions correctly (as well as .co.uk, etc..), but the front-end PHP/HTML that displays the "Source: [ some link]" was not.
Apparently parsing TLDs in PHP is a bit of a challenge.
It´s a nice little tool. Possibly a little problem with .de-Domains and del.icio.us?? For https://www.internetmarketing-news.deand https://www.internetmarketing-news.de/suchmasc...the tool shows 0 del.icio.us results. If I follow the link to del.icio.us I see 18 and 208 bookmarks for this urls.
thanks jojo, i'll look into that.
Its a useful tool, i have 1 suggestion, is there any chance to add option to compare 2 urls at once or it will be to slow?
I agree. A cool comparison like Google's Trends would be very neat, but making your own comparison isn't hard either.
...would make for some great eye-candy though.
Great tool, keep 'em coming.
Looks very useful. Do you think it would be worthwhile to look at links from del.icio.us to both the page and everywhere else on the domain?
Nice work Matt & Rand, seems accurate for the sites I tried, it's quick and very useful.
Very nice job guys...this should catch on very well once it gets some traction. GREAT way to evaluate links.
Thanks!
very nice :)
Note: If you're seeing "data not found" for the wayback machine and alexa data Alexa has been up and down all day (their site appears to be down at the time of this posting), and as such the data fetched through the amazon/alexa API will be missing.
Liking the page strength tool, seems accurate to other reports we've done, however, reports us as not being linked in DMOZ, which we are and have been for approx. 6 months now. Is this a bug? Keep up the good work, SatOne.tv
It's not a bug - we determine if you're in dmoz via the Y! linkdomain command, which reveals no links to your URL.
Your site does indeed have a link from dmoz, but unfortunately the link data yahoo provides is not 100% accurate.
Do you know why the link data from Yahoo! isn't accurate? I was surprised to find no links to our site from Yahoo!, although we do in google (but not many i must admit...we are only new!)
None of the major SE's provide entirely reliable data, I'm not sure what their motivations are behind this.
It makes you wonder doesn't it! Eitherway, this site is excellent and combines a few sites into one which is ideal, i will be using more often to assist me with my SEO requirements.
Hi Oatmeal,
I got the same: No links found in dmoz. If I try the search with google it works fine. Couldn't you use google or direct dmoz for this search? Another mistake with the WayBack M., you could not find it, but if I use the wayback m. directly it says: Oct 16, 2003
by the way: a nice tool!
Ciao, Mike
Hey, great tool. Only problem is that it ignores international country-coded domains. E.g.: my domain is "vilago.com.br" but the tool thinks it is ".com.br".
Keep the good work. ;-)
Thanks Cris, international CC domains should be working now.
Aaaawesome. ;-)
When I run the page against my home page, it shows the results for a split second, and the gives me an error message.
https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
I tried running the test in both IE & Firefox. When I run it against the subdomain www, it does work: www.theeggeadventure.com
Any idea why this is happening?
Hey Brian - had a little bug in the refresh system. You should be able to view your report now.
Excellent. Thank you.
Very cool, but I do have one suggestion. Stats can be very different for a domain depending on if you enter domain.com or www.domain.com because the services you poll can collect both separately. How about combining both for the final results?
Doug - interesting suggestion. I can see your point but I think fetching separate page strengths for each subdomain is ultimately more accurate.
If you've got a www and a non-www version of a site both offering the same content, you may be suffering from duplicate content issues. You're splitting up the value of incoming link data. Our domains typically 301 any non www requests (such as https://seomoz.org)to the canonical version (www.seomoz.org). This dramatically lowers the chances of a user finding https://seomoz.org in the SERPs and therefore giving it a lower page strength would be more accurate.
Also, if a user has a subdomain other than www, such as foobar.seomoz.org, this subdomain might have an entirely different page strength depending on links, etc.
Good points. I had attempted to do the same thing, but the reverse. I've been doing a 301 to the non-www version for a shorter URL. Unfortunately, people still link to us via the www version because they're accustomed to typing it. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to redirect to the www version. But unfortunately, the search engines now have a year's worth of data out there split across both URLs.
For some reason, even though I'm supposed to be able to get an update after three days, it's not refreshing the data. I know we have a Wikipedia link now, but it's not "crediting" us for that.
Rob - we get our link data from yahoo which can be delayed when recognizing links.
Oh, duh. I knew that ... but for some reason, the ol' synapses were misfiring. Must be the Seattle Sunshine, or the Sonics getting bought or something.
Hi, terrific tool but it apparently fails to find any of my DMOZ-listed sites. I know I can do waaayy better than my current 3s and 4s. Thanks!
Does a search at yahoo for: linkdomain:yoursite.com site:dmoz.org return the right number of links?
We depend on yahoo so if their link data is off so is ours.
Nope, they don't show. Why would that be? Some of the sites have been in DMOZ for 5+ years ... it's a puzzlement.
Yahoo's index simply might not contain the page with your link on it - perhaps that dmoz page is not linked by anyone or it has something that's preventing any link love (nofollow maybe? requires cookies?)
I've noticed that sometimes google will pick up a dmoz link but yahoo won't. Yahoo, however, is USUALLY more accurate so we use that instead.
I tend to paddle around in tight niche markets, but all of my sites/client sites are in different sections of DMOZ. No cookies, no no follows. Guess I'll live with it :=)
Here is possible solution. It didn't find my 2 dmoz listed sites in Yahoo but it did in MSN with the same search. Maybe you could check both. linkdomain:yoursite.com site:dmoz.org
One site was https://www.best-web-directories.com/
Rand mentioned the other day that google is the most accurate when reporting dmoz listings, so I'll be integrating that in a few days.
That would have been my guess too, but both my sites didn't show up with Google but I found them with MSN.
Your page strength tool is fine.
But, it does not seem to recognize dmoz.org entry of our site www.vkinfotek.com.
Incidentally, this site shows up in dmoz.org search.
Krishna
Again, if Yahoo! doesn't count your links, neither do we
Hi Oatmeal,
Now SEOMOZ does recognize our listing in DMOZ ..
Not yet 100% for the entry. How do we reach 100% ? Multiple entries in DMOZ ? Is it possible ?
Sorry for my ignorance !
Krishna
hubba nice! Had me droolin just with the title of the post. About time there was a compiled tool to give a general idea about a site/page.
Speaking of new standards, what happened to OpenRank?
Now if only you could store everyone's data and provide a toolbar. I'd much rather have an SEOmoz toolbar than an alexa toolbar. ;)
Not a bad idea at all - providing an analysis of the aggregated data we collect would be very, very cool.
Matt and Rand - kudos to both of you for a job very well done! Thank you for this tool, I'm loving Page Strength more and more each time I use it!
OpenRank - haven't thought about that project in a while, now. Basically we talked to some folks who had spidering projects running and determined that without tens of millions in backing and a very solid revenue model, it just wouldn't be feasible.
Pagestrength is actually like a substitute/bastard-child of that effort in many ways. We have to use other folks' data since we can't accurately or affordably get our own.
I bet. Getting data of this size of your own would be a very daunting, if not impossible, task.
Ultimately I think Page Strength (even if you refer to it a substitute) came out bigger and stronger than OpenRank since you aren't reliant upon a single source or data. With all the sources compiled together, it makes for a very nice tool.
Hey Rand!
Good to see the ideas of OpenRank evolve...
I like the PageStrength tool a lot... and it's actually funny that I have something pretty similar in the making... seems like we both went the way to create a "quick strenght site value" tool in the last months as we remembered that the last talks were still 1 year ago...
I'll come to the SES in San Jose again, so I'm looking forward to meeting you there again...
best regards, Christoph C. Cemper - the marketing fan
PS: I really love your Drupal implementation - this MUST be drupal, right? heavily customized and very "cloaking" url aliases - but hey - Drupal is my own platform as well...
PPS: The post-comment following plugin is cool - did you share that somewhere?
No drupal here, the site is 100% from scratch
wow... amazing... I really thought you were using drupal :-)
Yes, it's nice. And I can see a need for this type of tool. I like it! BUT, one small comment, you don't seem to have a printable version of the report/results?. This could be useful. That way I can compare the results I get today in a few months. I also can't seem to be able to drag the link to my browser. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Hi Lisa, I just created a stylesheet that creates a printer-friendly version of every page on SEOmoz. I printed out a page strength report and it looked fairly decent. It's got some spacing issues but overall it's readable.
If you're using IE you won't be able to drag the link, you'll have to right click and choose "add to favorites."
Is this tool only for sites in America?
I run a website for a school, with inbound links from .gov.uk and .sch.uk domains, yet these don't seem to count for anything, so it's difficult to get an accurate answer from your site.
What would be fantastic would be if you could specify a country at the start, and only use Google and Yahoo searches on that country (where applicable), with relevant .gov and other official TLDs. I know I'm asking a lot!
The tool works for both american and international domain. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well on international domains - it's something we're working on.
It pukes on my website
https://www.freejose.com/
Any idea why?
Thanks
Fixed now - our caching database was having troubles.
https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
So, is the "Page Strength" the same as the "Quick Strength" rating that is contained in the Keyword Difficulty tool? I would test this myself, but with the Page Strength tool being temporarily disabled...
The Quick Strength tool tests individual keywords, while the Page Strength tool tests actual web pages/URLs.
pdstein - yes and no. The page strength tool evolved from the quick strength metric used in keyword difficulty - we simply beefed up the formula and added some new and improved factors. In the next version of the keyword difficulty i'm going to use pagestrength instead of quick strength.
Ah, crap, I think I confused the two tools, thereby making me a tool. Oh well.
Rand... this tool rocks. Any thought as to providing sigma charting of all sites submitted? Kind of like a ranking within the ranking.
Great tool! I enjoyed trying it out on several sites.
Small item, can you add a print stylesheet to your pages? I tried printing a report to PDF for a client (they like the printouts), but the resulting page layout was off. Thanks again for such a wonderful application.
Funny, we were just talking about that today while Rand was reading SEOmoz on a portable device.
It's definitely in the works, I know a lot of people print out content here and there's no reason for us not to have a print stylesheet.
Very nice tool. One glitch however. I ran my company's site through it, and it returned nothing for the "first four words" in Google. Everywhere that I've checked Google on our main keyword, listed in our page title, we come up number one. I'm curious why it didn't find us?
Let me know what your site is and I'll look into it - if you're not comfortable putting it in this blog entry feel free to email it to me.
No I don't mind, as long as the snickering is kept to a minimum. It's https://www.saloninteriors.comand our first four words are Salon Design Salon Furniture. We do pretty well with that in most engines and I've checked both from work and home (about 50 miles apart) and while visiting friends out of state. Mind you, I am not complaining, I think that this is a great tool.
I love the tool. Has lots of good info on where we can improve our visibility. I did have a little trouble getting it to run the first 2 times, it seemed to just hang on the "please wait up to 30 seconds" message for several minutes. At that point I just went back and tried again. Probably just high server demand with people checking it out ;)
hey steve, we got slammed really hard on thursday and I was unfortunately traveling at the time so the tool was having all kinds of problems. I've got a 'duct tape' solution on it now and will take care of it properly when I'm back in the office on monday.
Another fun tool Matt (and Rand). It's my latest quicksearch in firefox now :)
Keyword: moz Location: https://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php...
Great tool! It however did not recognize my site as being listed in DMOZ (actually been listed for over a year) www.navycs.com
I think this is an awesome tool and I thank you for making me aware of it at SES. :)
I also think there may be a bug in the dmoz listing part. My site is actually listed in dmoz but your tool said it is not. I guess it could be a Google/Yahoo thing but I don't use Yahoo enough to know for sure..
yep - got the exact same problem
3 dmoz listings, but only 1 used in the tool...
but i like the PS tool anyway