Linkscape, SEOmoz’s wonderful tool for pulling all sorts of useful data from web results was recently updated again, and Rand Fishkin had a few things to point out.
The tool pulls an enormous amount of data for its monthly scheduled run. Some of the more impressive statistics are below:
- Pages – 40,152,060,523
- Subdomains – 284,336,725
- Root Domains – 91,539,345
- Links – 420,049,105,986
- % of Nofollowed Links – 2.02%
- % of Nofollows on Internal Links – 58.7%
- % of Nofollows on External Links – 41.3%
- % of Pages w/ Rel Canonical – 4.3%
The data shows that Nofollows and Rel Canonicals are down slightly overall whereas it’s actually up for the entire year. This definitely has a lot to do with the data selection.
One of the most common requests to SEOmoz is the ability to track specific sites’ metrics over time. This present challenges mainly in that the data differs from index to index, and it’s hard to keep up, particularly for multiple ip hosting. For example, the crawl statistics from one site vary widely over the course of a month and it’s even harder to believe that in 6 months, 60% of SEOmoz’s chosen sites became obsolete!
The best suggestion for sites looking for this data is to compare yourself to competitors. If you’re doing better, your footprint is performing in the way you want so keep it up!
SEOmoz is now partnering with Conductor to host their Searchlight software, which is a very impressive tool. It’s nice to see Conductor moving more into software and some of their new releases are really promising.
iPhone has also jumped on the bandwagon and there’s now a great SEO app, Linkjuice, that’s getting rave reviews. Apple’s even taking suggestions straight from the SEOmoz guys and integrating them into the product! There should be an android version out soon, so stay tuned for even more useful info on that front.
Summary by Heather Jean Hendrick