The Core

Here's what we monitor for you to see how you're performing against your competitors:

    * Google Backlink Totals
    * Google PageRank
    * SEOMoz MozRank
    * SEOMoz Backlinks
    * SEOMoz Authority
    * SEOMoz Trust

"Spam reports are prioritized by looking at how much visibility a potentially spammy site has in our search results, in order to help us focus on high-impact sites in a timely manner. For instance, we’re likely to prioritize the investigation of a site that regularly ranks on the first or second page over that of a site that only gets a few search impressions per month. A spam report for a page that is almost never seen by users is less likely to be reviewed compared to higher-impact pages or sites. "

The same applies to redirecting legitimate sites from one top level domain to another, e.g. example.de redirecting to example.com/de. As long as the content presented is not spammy, the technique of redirecting one domain to another does not automatically violate the Google Webmaster Guidelines.

We generally use spam reports to help improve our algorithms so that we can not only recognize and handle this particular site, but also cover any similar sites. In a few cases, we may additionally choose to immediately remove or otherwise take action on a site.

these would be good reasons to report a site through the spam report form:

    * the cached version contains significantly different (often keyword-rich) content from the live version
    * you’re redirected to a completely different domain with off-topic, commercial content
    * the site is filled with auto-generated or keyword-stuffed content that seems to make no sense

Now, as you can see underneath that Custom Alert there is a new sub-section called “Major Contributors.” When Google Analytics detects causes to a major change in traffic, this section will display up to 5 segments that have contributed to that particular change.