
Moz Tools
These are the latest posts on Moz's suite of SEO tools. If you'd like to learn more about the tools we offer, check out our offering of free SEO tools, or our premium tools overview.
These posts are for product announcements, new features, and how-tos. You can also sign up for a free trial of Moz Pro to take our most popular SEO tools for a spin.
Finally, if you're interested in SEO tools in general, check out the SEO Tools category.
Moz Link Explorer : Our most popular SEO tool, Link Explorer lets you accurately explore the backlink profile of any site.
Keyword Explorer : The most accurate keyword research tool on the market, explore over 500 million keyword ideas for your site.
MozBar : The essential SEO toolbar. See critical SEO metrics as you browse the web with our free Chrome extension.
MozCast : The original Google SERP weather forecast. See major algorithmic changes over the past 30 days, as well as tracking of popular SERP features.
The 55 Best Free SEO Tools : Includes an overview of free tools from Moz, along with other free SEO tools.


Announcing MozCast - The Google Weather Report
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.
July Mozscape Update
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...
May Mozscape Index Update:164 Billion URLs
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...
Updated for 2012: The Beginner's Guide to SEO
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 ...
Getting Started with the Mozscape API
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.
Colossal Day of Craziness!
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.
Drive Failures Affecting Some Customers' Rankings and Reports
Late Sunday night through Monday, the harddrives responsible for most of our rankings system failed. ...
Updated Tool: Moz API Data for Google Docs
Moz's API is a great resource for SEOs. Getting your SEO data into a spreadsheet can be very helpful for competitive analysis to link building. But getting that data (if you're not a programmer) can be a royal pain. This post contains drop-in code that gives you easy access to Moz's API firehose directly in a spreadsheet. You'll feel right at home!
February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs
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...
Help with Nomenclature for Links & Brand Mentions
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...