Hey Robert, glad to hear it!

I’d be interested to hear what you think their respective pros/cons are in more detail as there will be a follow up to this post next week. Feel free to email me if you don’t want to air them here.

Either way, I’d recommend both to inhouse and agency SEOs.

Hi Jen – no worries it’s proved very interesting! It’s great to see so many people who are really excited about their jobs tbh, certainly bodes well for our industry as a whole to have so many awesome people involved in it

Thanks for getting this conversation going! I agree that the labs area is really exciting. I specifically use the backlink analysis and top pages tools in labs every single day usually for answering Q & A (also a pro feature). I’m obviously slightly biased, but as an SEO I love our tools.

Also – absolutely love labs although it’s very easy to get carried away playing and forget what you were trying to do in the first place.

In particular the visualisation tool (pro only I’m afraid) is really helpful to show clients to give them an idea of the ’size’ of a campaign. Looking forward to seeing where that one goes!

@Matthew Oxley I agree both Linkscape and MajesticSEO could be 100x better. I hope that the work we’re doing will make some progress against that. Check out http://www.seomoz.org/labs for some of the stuff we’re hoping to roll out in a more easy to use, contextually relevant way soon.

@yoshimi_s one of the things we can do with mozRank, once we’ve got it, is examine how individual links contribute to a page’s mozRank. We call this “mozRank passed”. It’s not 100% perfect, but it’s better than just looking at a linking page’s pageRank (what if it’s no followed? what if there are dozens of links?)

I think you’ll be pleased with some work we’re releasing soon that isn’t just another PageRank like measurement.

@Mike we’re working really hard on index coverage. We only keep track of what we can verify within the last month or two. This means our live index is smaller than our “forever” index (~50 billion pages, ~500 billion links vs ~500 billion ~5 trillion or so). But it also means we don’t have a lot fewer links which expired many months or even years ago. I think this is the best decision for SEO. But we’ve got a couple features we’re working on right now to balancing that against coverage.

Cool, sounds good. As soon as @Yoshimi_S gets a subscription sorted out I’ll have a play.