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  • page authority on-page seo internal linking site structure content development

    Hello, I've got a high traffic site I'm building. Is 20 articles enough to start or should I start with 40 or 60 to not flop? I've got good internal linking. I've got: 3 10X articles
    17 cornerstones so far. Worked hard so far. Do I launch? or wait for 40? 60? I know thousands is best. Competitors have much more. Thank you, Bob

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BobGW
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    api

    Hi everyone, I'm trying to retrieve data for a specific URL using the Moz API, specifically the data.site.metrics.fetch method. The URL I'm querying is: https://www.fiftyfiveandfive.com/ai-agents-marketings-new-means-of-production When I make the API request, I receive the following 404 error: { "id": "unique-id-testing", "jsonrpc": "2.0", "error": { "code": -32655, "status": 404, "data": { "key": "site_query.query", "value": "https://www.fiftyfiveandfive.com/ai-agents-marketings-new-means-of-production" }, "message": "That query was not found." } } However, when I check the URL in Moz Link Explorer, I can see that the page has a Page Authority of 23 and a Domain Authority of 36, but no backlinks or ranking keywords. What I'm Trying to Achieve:
    I’m attempting to retrieve metrics for this page via the API, but it seems like the API does not recognise the URL, even though it’s visible in Link Explorer. Questions: Why does the API return "Query Not Found" for a URL that is indexed in Link Explorer? Is there a way to request Moz to crawl or re-crawl this URL to ensure it's accessible via the API? Are there any additional criteria the API requires (e.g., backlinks, ranking keywords) before it recognises a URL? Additional Info: I’ve verified that my robots.txt file allows all bots, including Rogerbot. list itemThe page is included in the sitemap, and the URL is accessible without any restrictions. list itemI’d appreciate any insights on how to resolve this issue or steps to take so that the Moz API can retrieve data for this URL.

    API | | Chris_Wright1664
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    api data accuracy token consumption support

    Dear Moz Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my concerns regarding the performance of the Moz API, which I have been using for domain information retrieval through Zapier. Despite paying for your API service, I am encountering several significant issues that are affecting my ability to use the service effectively: Incorrect and Inconsistent Data: When I query domain information, I receive incorrect results for Page Authority (PA), Domain Authority (DA), and Spam Score (SS). Specifically, PA and DA are always returned as 1, while SS is consistently -1, which indicates that the data being provided is either incomplete or incorrect. This discrepancy is preventing me from relying on your service for accurate domain insights. Excessive Token Consumption: I have noticed that the API token usage is significantly higher than expected. After querying only 250 domains, my token consumption has already exceeded 6,000 tokens, which seems unusually high. I had understood that the token usage would be calculated per query, but it appears that the consumption is much higher than anticipated. Given that I have invested in this service, I am frustrated that I am not receiving the expected level of performance and data accuracy. Could you please investigate these issues and provide clarity on why this is happening? Additionally, I would appreciate any guidance on how to resolve these discrepancies and ensure that I am using the API in the most efficient way possible. I look forward to your prompt response and assistance in resolving these issues. thank you

    Product Support | | tkddh1323
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    api da

    I am using the MOZ API to check domain authority (DA). Recently, I noticed a discrepancy: the DA value retrieved via the API differs from the result on the MOZ homepage. Specifically, the API returns a DA of 10, while the homepage shows "NO DATA." Additionally, other services like Ahrefs report a DA of 0. I relied on the MOZ API's result when purchasing this domain and now feel misled. I would like to understand the exact reason for this inconsistency.

    API | | Skys
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    api domain authority

    I wanted to test the API and while looking on the documentation urls, I cannot find details on how to get Domain Authority. is that not available to query ? was it replaced by Brand Authority ? is it only available for the paid API or for the free one too ? I looked at many documentation pages but I find it very confusing and frustrating, there are many versions of the documentation and various URLs and not clearly labeled, I understand some are V1, V2, V3, etc, but I didn't find sample API calls for Domain Authority. Thank you.

    API | | adrianTNT
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  • spam

    I make the list of disavow links every week, plus they keep popping up. Does anyone know any techniques to remove them all at once ?

    SEO Tactics | | Gabriel171
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  • redirect redirect chain technical seo 301 redirects

    Technical SEO question regarding redirects; I appreciate any insights on best way to handle. Situation: We're decommissioning several major content sections on a website, comprising ~18k webpages. This is a well established site (10+ years) and many of the pages within these sections have high-quality inbound links from .orgs and .edus. Challenge: We're trying to determine the best place to redirect these 18k pages. For user experience, we believe best option is the homepage, which has a statement about the changes to the site and links to the most important remaining sections of the site. It's also the most important page on site, so the bolster of 301 redirected links doesn't seem bad. However, someone on our team is concerned that that many new redirected pages and links going to our homepage will trigger a negative SEO flag for the homepage, and recommends instead that they all go to our custom 404 page (which also includes links to important remaining sections). What's the right approach here to preserve remaining SEO value of these soon-to-be-redirected pages without triggering Google penalties?

    Technical SEO | | davidvogel
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    moz academy moz community points

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    Moz Tools | | Saudedm
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    moz bar

    Hello, I have installed the new version of Moz Bar in Google Chrome.
    My problem is that it analyzes all domains except mine: https://elchesemueve.com
    I also can't find my country (Spain) to configure the site.

    Moz Bar | | Alberto D.
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    mozbar 2024

    I am a premium user and i am still not able to use mozbar
    ec22b5ba-4430-4fc7-9825-7fce7b1ca300-image.png I don't know how its works.

    Moz Bar | | Josh_Eligon
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    website website optimization

    Hi Moz community! I run aauditing.com, offering audit, tax consulting, and accounting services in the UAE. I’m looking for effective SEO strategies to boost visibility and attract clients. Any tips on content optimization, backlinks, or local SEO would be appreciated!

    Getting Started | | HFM97
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    travel industry

    My question is regarding my current learning of SEO and keyword research. I have been leaning towards Keyword Everywhere, SEMrush, and Google Keyword Planner for keyword research. What do you recommend? I know you might suggest Moz, but I'm looking for something that will enhance and help me find valuable keywords for the travel niche. If I sign up with Moz, will someone from the team help me with keyword research for the travel niche and my website? I haven't found any resources or lessons specifically focused on travel websites and their keywords.

    Moz Pro | | RavenBhutan
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    crawl error 404

    Hello, I've receiving these very weird 404's that seem to be crawled by Moz. I contacted rankmath first but they told me to turn to you. So how are the url's crawled? Because these seemed to be 'glued' together. They start with myurl.nl/PAGE/NUMBER/myurl.nl again. These are two existing pages that are now stuck together and are causing 404's. Please help alt text

    Support | | loes2911
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    apple maps

    Hi there! I have been using Mozlocal for a local client for a few months now. They recently opened, so I began the syncing process a few weeks ago. Apple Maps is reporting as synced when I view it in my Listings, but when viewing the actual listing on Apple Maps, the hours are very wrong. It is an important time of year for this business, and appearing as not open for 6 days a week is not great. Is there anything else I can do through Mozlocal to get this listing fully synced?

    Moz Local | | Beth_Shockley
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    increase da

    Google itself has been troubled by ranking factors. On top of that, the https://moz.rankious.com/_moz/ has worn a new garland of domain authority. It is even more regrettable when a website DA suddenly decreased. As recently on 22nd September, my website's DA was 16. As usual, on September 23, I posted a new informational blog related to QuickBooks antivirus exclusions on my website. The very next day my website DA was decreased. Can anyone who knows SEO help me understand why this always happens specially to me every time? I read the whole forum and all I found out is how my site's DA is decreased.
    Can anyone let us know whether we can increase the Domain Authority of our website only by creating backlinks or there can be some other activities also?

    Moz Bar | | ravigaurav
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  • keyword rankings domain

    I used to use Searchmetrics (years ago) which enabled me to add in the domain name into their website, and it would provide all the keywords that rank for it. Does Moz do that do you know? Thanks

    Keyword Research | | patn_studio
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    payment issue

    Hi, I’m trying to upgrade from the Starter to the Standard plan, but I keep encountering an error: "Failed to send subscription update to Stripe." Could you please assist me in making the switch?

    Product Support | | Devesh_Chauhan
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  • keyword ranking keywords

    I have a blogging website where I post about famous food, home remedies, and more. When I started my website's keywords were ranking on Google But Now a single keyword is not in the ranking list. That's why I have concerns about how I can fix it.

    SEO Tactics | | worldviajar.com
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  • editing guide

    Hey Moz community, I’ve recently noticed a significant drop in organic traffic on my website, and I suspect it might be due to an algorithmic penalty. However, I’m not entirely sure how to confirm this or where to start with recovery. Could someone please guide me on how to identify if my website has been hit by an algorithmic update? Additionally, what are the best practices to recover from such penalties? Any tools or strategies you recommend would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

    Community | | ghambirgoutam45
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    domain authority

    https://aljoodservices.com
    I am working on improving this site now, but while searching, I found a site that allows me to create a blog and the site ranks high 77. If I create a blog for us and direct it to this site, will I get a high domain authority through this site? I don't know if the domains are spam or something like that.

    Moz Tools | | rashedkhalaf1991
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  • locksmith west palm beach emergency locksmith locksmith near me auto locksmith

    Hi, I'm trying to find better high-volume and low-competition traffic keywords for my business. Can you share the strategy about volume and competition grade that are good for the keywords list that I'm planning to use for internal blog articles? I am just looking for more organic traffic. Thanks.

    Keyword Research | | FIT
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  • canonical & redirect

    I'm working with a website that has turned one of its pages into its own website within the main website - mostly for the ease of customers, making it simpler to access that page using www.page.com rather than www.mainsite.com/about/page.
    As a result, there are two urls for that page (the ones just mentioned), both pointing to the exact same page, but with different urls. Now, they have made it so www.mainsite.com/about/page permanently redirects to www.page.com. which I thought was a good call. However, what do I do about canonicalization? Is it good to point the canonicalization of www.page.com to www.mainsite.com/about/page so that the rankings and link equity are maintained in the main website? Or would the fact that the www.mainsite.com/about/page redirects to www.page.com mess that up? I hope this makes sense!

    Technical SEO | | Shrine.SEO.Gal
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  • seo expert seo ranking seo tactics

    I have a site that has been having problems ranking. Initially, spam rate was at 18%. I have since changed the URL and forwarded to the original so now the spam rate is under 5%. Phone calls started picking back up very slowly but then by August 2024 things came to a screeching halt. Phone has been dead and very little business has been written. I did notice on the robots.txt file it had this: User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow:
    User-agent: bingbot
    Disallow: /no-bing-crawl/
    Disallow: wp-admin and now I have since changed it to this:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Sitemap: https://urlishere.com/sitemap_index.xml My question is what else do I need to do to get this site to start ranking again? We are blogging once a month, writing press releases once a month, updating the social media a few times a week. I feel like maybe there is something on the backend that needs to be done to get this site back to ranking. I am using SEO by Yoast and I have filled in the title and meta description fields for all pages. There is a spot in Yoast where I can validate the site with Google, Bing, etc. I'm trying to figure out how to do that. I do see in the site's Google Webmaster Tools there are several pages not indexing. Any ideas on what else I can do to get this site to start ranking again? Thank you.

    Technical SEO | | SOM24
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  • tree service tree removal bronx tree service

    Hi, we've had a page which was ranking top 1 on the Google rankings but has complete dropped out to 5. We don't have any duplicate errors from that page on here. Do you have any suggestions?

    Technical SEO | | FIT
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  • backlinks backlink profile blog post backlinks

    Hello, I need to make sure I understand this correctly. Will it help my SEO if I: find local businesses with a good DA & low spam score select businesses that are somehow related to mine (Insurance Agency) offer to guest post and include a backlink on their blog ( ask them if they'd like to reciprocate) For example, businesses such as
    Roofing companies
    Contractors
    moving companies
    etc Please let me know if there's anything I'm missing? Many thanks

    Link Building | | laurentjb
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  • spam score spamscore technicalsupport

    Hi folks I just registered a new domains boring magazine but I forgot to check the spam score. Recently, I checked and it showing spam score of 46% without any backlinks. You can check the domain age is 30 Days only till now. Need your recommendations on how can I reduce it and on which basis Moz showing it as spams? sp.PNG

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | ImranZahidAli
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  • seo page treatment

    I would like to hire an SEO contractor to assist with some technical/SEO issues on our site (Schema, etc). Can anyone make a recommendation? I am looking to work with a small company. Thank you in advance for any referrals!

    On-Page Optimization | | JulieALS
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    crawl error

    Recently we start having random error messages about crawling issue:
    2024-08-30 edweek:Ok
    2024-08-29 marketbrief:Err. advertise: Err, edweek:Err, topschooljobs:Ok
    2024-08-23 edweek:Ok
    2024-08-22 marketbrief:Err. advertise: Err, edweek:Err
    2024-08-21 topschooljobs:Ok, edweek:Ok
    2024-08-15 marketbrief:Ok. advertise:OK
    2024-08-13 edweek:Ok
    2024-08-12 marketbrief:Ok
    2024-08-08 marketbrief:Ok, advertise:Ok
    2024-08-03 edweek:Ok, topschooljobs:Ok
    All for 2024-07 - are Ok Yesterday I set 2 more crawls for the same sites (edweek and marketbrief) and I get a morning email about original edweek site is ok (still have some problem but crawl occurs and all is fine) but for test crawl for the same site "EW Test" I just got error email.
    Also I suppressed ALL email communications and frankly surprised by this email. Can you please check what is wrong with a crawler or stat collection or I don't know who produced the issues.

    Product Support | | DTashjian
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  • redirect redirect chain

    How do I carry out a redirect? Is there a code I need to use? Thank you in advance.

    On-Page Optimization | | laurentjb
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  • seo link building blog post outreach blog post backlinks

    We do our SEO in-house, and I don't have the time for blogger outreach. Does anyone know of a reputable place where I can submit our content to be pitched to relevant outlets for backlinks and US traffic? I am not in it for someone creating our content; I write it myself and have a degree in the content I produce. I am looking for a place that gets REAL US traffic, not some P.B.N. sites or those where I can create accounts at a post myself. I want real traffic from relevant, reputable blogs or a place where I can have them use my content and find niche sites for me.

    Link Building | | tammysons
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  • blog post blog post backlinks

    I have an article that gets a lot of hits, way more than any other I have. Is there a way I can figure out why? For example, Is there a tool to help me find out where people are finding it? Or another important factors I should look at? Thank you in advance

    Content Development | | laurentjb
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  • redirect redirects

    We have an insurance agency website with 47 pages that have duplicate/low content warnings. What's the best way to handle this? I'm I right in thinking I have 2 options? Either add new content or redirect the page? Thanks in advance 🙂

    On-Page Optimization | | laurentjb
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    content development content optimization

    A long time ago I'm pretty sure I used a tool that helped me write content for a webpage. It checked my writing as I typed and gave suggestions. I can't find the tool anymore. I hope I didn't imagine it as it was really useful..

    Product Support | | laurentjb
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    url issue url

    I've got way too many long url's but I have no idea how to shorten them?

    Getting Started | | laurentjb
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  • keyword ranking

    I've recently implemented the page optimization recommendations provided by Moz Pro to help our site rank for specific keywords on certain pages. It’s been about a week since we made these changes, and we’re happy to report that our optimization scores for the targeted keywords and URLs are looking strong. I did create these pages with our intended keywords in mind. However, two questions about the page optimization tool: Ranking Expectations: Since our optimization scores are good, when might we start seeing improvements in our keyword rankings? We know that SEO results can take time, but we would appreciate any insights on a typical timeline based on your experiences. Optimization and Search Intent: While the tool’s optimization suggestions have been helpful, we’re curious about how they factor in search intent. How does Moz Pro’s advice take into account variations in search intent, especially if users search using slight variations of the keywords we’re targeting?

    SEO Tactics | | Cricket93
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    copywriting writingtool

    A long time ago... I used a tool on Moz that helped me to write content for my website. It told me all my mistakes and errors and made suggestions on how to fix them to help rank the page. Great tool! But now I can't find it.
    It's similar to SEMrush's SEO Writing Assistant, but better. Can anyone point me in the right direction please, I need to find it asap. Many thanks in advance.

    Moz Tools | | laurentjb
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    robots.txt crawl error

    I'm trying to setup a campaign for jessicamoraninteriors.com and I keep getting messages that Moz can't crawl the site because it can't access the robots.txt. Not sure why, other crawlers don't seem to have a problem and I can access the robots.txt file from my browser. For some additional info, it's a SquareSpace site and my DNS is handled through Cloudflare. Here's the contents of my robots.txt file: # Squarespace Robots Txt User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: CCBot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: AdsBot-Google User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps User-agent: * Disallow: /config Disallow: /search Disallow: /account$ Disallow: /account/ Disallow: /commerce/digital-download/ Disallow: /api/ Allow: /api/ui-extensions/ Disallow: /static/ Disallow:/*?author=* Disallow:/*&author=* Disallow:/*?tag=* Disallow:/*&tag=* Disallow:/*?month=* Disallow:/*&month=* Disallow:/*?view=* Disallow:/*&view=* Disallow:/*?format=json Disallow:/*&format=json Disallow:/*?format=page-context Disallow:/*&format=page-context Disallow:/*?format=main-content Disallow:/*&format=main-content Disallow:/*?format=json-pretty Disallow:/*&format=json-pretty Disallow:/*?format=ical Disallow:/*&format=ical Disallow:/*?reversePaginate=* Disallow:/*&reversePaginate=* Any ideas?

    Getting Started | | andrewrench
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    sso

    Looking for steps to configure the single Sign-on for MoZ system for my organization.

    Feature Requests | | Sandeep_amplity
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