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  • custardextract

    This question is deleted!

    Local SEO | | custardextract
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  • custardextract


    Hello. So, I am aware that it is in violation of Google My Bussiness's terms of service to use register a PO box/virtual address with GMB, but is it problematic to use such addresses for general link building with local citations, such as local directories and resource pages? Would the cons outweigh the pros (more backlinks)? And what about using one of these kinds of addresses on my website, but not GMB? Is it all so interrelated nowadays that I should steer clear of publishing a virtual address anywhere? That just seems hard to wrap my head around as PO Boxes have served a valuable function for small businesses for some 150 years. Thank you, Jon

    Local Listings | | custardextract
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  • bizmarquee


    I have noticed in the past month(s) or so that when I delve into a domain to see what it ranks for, many keywords are listed as #51+ and they clearly rank high for them. Is this a bug? Or is there some other explanation? It makes it difficult to show prospects their current standings. 383540c2-352f-4aac-8c6c-e715e8b4038d-image.png

    Keyword Explorer | | bizmarquee
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  • Slideuplift123


    seo rankings

    Hi Guys,
    We had a consistent page ranking for a specific keyword between 5 and 8 positions on google. This week all of a sudden the page which was ranking for that keyword no longer ranks for it and another page has started ranking for that keyword that too at 20th position. I am so confused why has this happened? I didn't do any changes to that page or to the now ranking page. Can anyone help why could this be happening?

    On-Page Optimization | | Slideuplift123
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  • custardextract


    Hi. I am a solo practitioner in a healthcare field. I have had a traditional office for 4 years but have been working virtually since March 2020 . I have decided to give up my office space completely and make an attempt at running my practice virtually. Can anyone share the best practices for making this transition from an SEO perspective? I currently rank between 2nd to 4th for most of my local keywords (so, in the GMB 3-pack). I will be competing against brick and mortar businesses. Is it even realistic to think I can hang onto my current rankings? I have researched virtual addresses and ruled them out. I have considered searching for someone in my industry and/or a landlord who will accept a small fee in exchange for allowing me to use their address on my website and in GMB, but I'm unsure about this as it seems like a rather unstable arrangement and the shared office space aspect may present a problem with google As of now my plan is to change my address in GMB to my home address, which I will hide, and remove the street address from my website, but maintain the rest of the NAP. I will then create targeted pages for the three primary counties I serve. I have also decided to advertise a limited number of home visit options for clients in my home county in order to maintain an in-person component to the business. Does anyone have any suggestions to improve upon this course of action? As for my current local citations, should I just leave them as is (with outdated address), attempt to remove the street address but retain the rest of the NAP, or something else? Any feedback is appreciated.

    Local SEO | | custardextract
    0
  • ColleenHeadLight


    MOZ Community, I am trying to gauge both the potential upside and downside of buying a few (relatively long) URLs that encompass some new keywords that are surfacing in our industry and creating permanent redirects to our branded website. [This wasn't my idea!] These URLs haven't previously had any content or owners so their domain authority is low. Will Google still ding us for this behavior? I hope not but I worry that there might be some penalty for having a bunch of redirects pointing at our site. I have read that google will penalize you for buying content-rich sites with high DA and redirecting those URLs to your site but I am unclear about this other approach. It seems like a fairly mundane (and fruitless) play. I tried to explain that we won't reap any SEO rewards for owning these URLS (if there is no content) but that wasn't really heard. Thanks for any resources or information you can share! I would appreciate any resources.

    Technical SEO | | ColleenHeadLight
    0
  • KarenJames


    google my business local listings google my business phone numbers

    A client in the skip hire sector contacted me to say that someone is submitting edits to multiple competitors' GMB accounts changing the phone numbers to theirs. It has caused a huge row and legal ruckus as the competitors naturally assume it is them diverting calls. It definitely is not them but could be lead generation companies they use or other competitors trying to discredit them. They are growing fast and are upsetting longstanding players. Has anyone come across this before? If so how did you handle it and is there any chance of Google listening to them and assisting in the situation. Any advice is gratefully received. PS these guys are very ethical and are mortified at the situation they find themselves in.

    Local Listings | | KarenJames
    0
  • Gabijaurbs


    Hello,
    I am having a problem while I am searching for keywords - it just says "Getting serp analysis failed. Please retry your search or refresh this page" on all browsers I try it on. Hard reloaded too and still not working. Could you help me with this?
    Best regards, Gabija

    Keyword Research | | Gabijaurbs
    0
  • TTYH


    As in the title, we have a site with around 40k pages, but around a third of them are showing as "Indexed, not submitted in sitemap" in Google Search Console. We've double-checked the sitemaps we have submitted and the URLs are definitely in the sitemap. Any idea why this might be happening? Example URL with the error: https://www.teacherstoyourhome.co.uk/german-tutor/Egham Sitemap it is located on: https://www.teacherstoyourhome.co.uk/sitemap-subject-locations-surrey.xml

    Technical SEO | | TTYH
    0
  • Feipo


    Dear master,
    I can not get the results from API now. And also yesterday. My id is [email protected].

    API | | Feipo
    2
  • Moeealii


    I'm switching my hosting over from AWS to google cloud, will changing the CNAME record to point to the google cloud server effect my Domain Authority score?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Moeealii
    0
  • dMaLasp


    serp favicon

    Hi, I have a website where the favicon is not showing in the google mobile serps. It's appearing the default icon instead (world icon). This is the tag I have place in the head section of the website: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> The size of the favicon is 48x48 and it's appearing correctly in the browser tag. I've checked that the google robot can crawl it and in the server logs I can see requests from the "Google Favicon" user-agent. Has anyone had this same problem? Any advice?

    Technical SEO | | dMaLasp
    0
  • ciehmoz


    I need to restructure a section of my website, changing some page titles and moving some pages to other sections. This will then change the URLs but the CMS I use will automatically create 301 redirects so the old URLs still work. The question is, will this have any negative impacts on page authority/page rank? From what I've read, it seems having 301's used to have a negative impact but doesn't anymore?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ciehmoz
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  • Stuart93128

    This question is deleted!

    Technical SEO | | Stuart93128
    0
  • MariApps


    Why our backlinks do not show up? Even GSC shows a good amount of our backlinks and other applications show too. But in the case of MOZ, it still shows 0 backlinks and 0 organic visibility. Don't you guys think this puts a user of your software way behind in terms of competition and real data? If my backlinks will be considered by MOZ, when will it be❓

    Link Building | | MariApps
    0
  • kacey.meier


    wordpress

    I'm facing a issue with our website. Our site is on WordPress, We are using Elementor Pro & Elementor Hello Theme for our website!
    The problem is, with desktop it's totally fine but but in Mobile Device it's showing Error. "Largest Contentful Paint" 2021-07-27_111351.png

    On-Page Optimization | | kacey.meier
    0
  • Insightful_Media


    Hi all, I have got a specific SEO challenge. 6 months ago, we started to build an eCommerce site (located in the UK). In order to speed up the site launch, we copied the entire site over from an existing site based in Ireland. Now, the new UK site has been running for 5 months. Google has indexed many pages, which is good, but we can't rank high (position: between 20-30 for most pages). We thought it was because of content duplication in spite of different regions. So we tried to optimize the pages for the UK site to make them more UK-related and avoid content duplication. I've also used schema to tell google it's a UK-based site and set up Google my business and got more local citations. Besides, If you could give me any suggestions, it'd be perfect.
    Thank you so much for your time and advice.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Insightful_Media
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  • Insightful_Media


    Hi all, I have got a specific SEO challenge. 6 months ago, we started to build an eCommerce site (located in the UK). In order to speed up the site launch, we copied the entire site over from an existing site based in Ireland. Now, the new UK site has been running for 5 months. Google has indexed many pages, which is good, but we can't rank high (position: between 20-30 for most pages). We thought it was because of content duplication in spite of different regions. So we tried to optimize the pages for the UK site to make them more UK-related and avoid content duplication. I've also used schema to tell google it's a UK-based site and set up Google my business and got more local citations. Besides, If you could give me any suggestions, it'd be perfect.
    Thank you so much for your time and advice.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Insightful_Media
    1
  • DavidLandManager


    How can a Facebook page get domain authority of 96, page authority of 59 and have 50million linking domains? I come across websites that feature crappy video clips in serp features in google searches, the website.
    It's surely black hat tactics. How do they get away with this? The website has zero content beyond light brochureware.
    Screenshot 2021-07-23 at 06.59.45.png

    Link Building | | DavidLandManager
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  • Maggie.Casas


    For our product page, we want to be able to show the pricing in the local currency of the visitor. I discussed this with our web developer and he said that we can create country-specific pages, so one for UK, Australia, etc. I am afraid that this solution might hurt our SEO as Google might see this as duplicated content. What are your thoughts about this? The website runs on WordPress.

    Technical SEO | | Maggie.Casas
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  • DonFerrari2169


    I was brought on to a project where the network admin has set up a load balancer to distribute traffic but somehow has incorrectly deployed the strategy. Now the site is listed 4 times as links to the primary domain in search console. How can I remove these from the index? I have already requested he no-index them, but they still remain in search console. What else can I do to ensure Google only sees this as a single site?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DonFerrari2169
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  • DonFerrari2169


    The top linked domains in search console are coming from our load balancer setup. Does anyone know how to remove these as unique sites pointing back to our primary domain? I was told Google is smart enough to ignore these as duplicate domains but if that was the case, why would they be listed as the top linked domains in search console? Most concerned....

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DonFerrari2169
    0
  • PaulBarrs


    It's installed, I can see links etc as highlighted - but it won' t let me "sign in". This 20 second video explains: https://www.screencast.com/t/3kEjQFkTHZv Suggestions? Or shall I just ignore? Paul Barrs

    Moz Bar | | PaulBarrs
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  • PaulBarrs


    It's installed, I can see links etc as highlighted - but it won' t let me "sign in". This 20 second video explains: https://www.screencast.com/t/3kEjQFkTHZv Suggestions? Or shall I just ignore? Paul Barrs

    Moz Bar | | PaulBarrs
    0
  • shelbythomas


    For our domain studyville.com, Semrush is reporting 46 linking domains, and Moz is reporting 7. Does anyone know where there is such a large discrepancy?

    Link Building | | shelbythomas
    0
  • b.me


    Suppose two of my webpages from the same site are having 30% to 35% common content. The reason behind this common content is that I put same data and images (in the main content area) since both pages are partially related. But, title tag, meta description, h1 tag, urls are different.
    My questions are Can Google consider it as duplicate content?
    Can it hamper the ranking of my pages ?
    How can I deal with it?

    On-Page Optimization | | b.me
    0
  • ghorbanimahan


    I used http status code as 410 for some low quality pages in my site to Redirect to homepage. is this useful to improve my homepage authority?
    my website is: Nitamoshaver.com

    Technical SEO | | ghorbanimahan
    0
  • Nathan_Nathan


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    Keyword Research | | Nathan_Nathan
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  • Tomasvdw


    OK, been trying to piece together what is best practice for someone I'm working with, so here goes; Website was redesigned, changed urls from url a to url b. 301's put in place. However, the new url structure is not optimal. It's an e-commerce store, and all products are put in the root folder now: www.website.com/product-name A better, more organized url structure would be: www.website.com/category/product-name I think we can all agree on that. However, I'm torn on whether it's worth changing everything again, and how to handle things in terms of redirects. The way I see things, it would result in a redirect chain, which is not great and would reduce link equity. Keeping the products in the root moving forward with a poor structure doesn't feel great either. What to do? Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated!

    Technical SEO | | Tomasvdw
    0
  • MuhammadQasimAttari


    I have a site that has 2,50,000 pages and I want to redirect to another domain. Is it good practice for SEO and google?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MuhammadQasimAttari
    0
  • fuelmedical


    I have been trying to filter this traffic out of my Google Analytics data since it all seems to be related to spam traffic. I have had multiple instances wherein using this filter:
    (Backslash not displaying in message preview - I have written backlash to indicate its placement in the filter) Custom Filter - Exclude - Browser Size - ^backlash(not setbackslash)$ Traffic seems to appropriately filter out - but then the filter ceases working. In looking at a new site with Browser Size = (not set) traffic the filter preview doesn't appear to work either. Am I implementing the filter incorrectly? How do I filter this traffic out of GA data sucessfully? If I use the exact same method using RegEx in Google Data Studio - the filter works perfectly.

    Technical SEO | | fuelmedical
    1
  • jerrico1


    My client is building a new shopping cart that will be mobile friendly BUT will have terrible image quality - tiny images, with text on them. How will these tiny images impact the SEO on the main site? Should they put the store on the mainsite.com or on a subdomain (store.mainsite.com)? Does google see subdomains as part of the main site? I would think that having thousands of shopping product pages could be beneficial to the main site SEO, as long as the images don't negate the content. Thoughts?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jerrico1
    0
  • jerrico1


    I have a client that has a HUGE website with thousands of product pages. We don't currently have a sitemap.xml because it would take so much power to map the sitemap. I have thought about creating a sitemap for the key pages on the website - but didn't want to hurt the SEO on the thousands of product pages. If you have a sitemap.xml that only has some of the pages on your site - will it negatively impact the other pages, that Google has indexed - but are not listed on the sitemap.xml.

    Technical SEO | | jerrico1
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  • jerrico1


    My client currently has a main website on a url and an eCommerce site on a subdomain. The eCommerce site is currently not mobile friendly, has images that are too small and are problematic - and I believe it negates some of the SEO work we do for them. I had to turn off Google Shopping ads because the quality score was so low. That being said, they are rebuilding a shopping cart on a new platform that will be mobile friendly BUT the images are going to be tiny until they slowly replace images over several months. Would you keep the shopping cart on a subdomain, or make it part of the main website URL? Can it negatively impact the progress we have made on the main site SEO.

    Technical SEO | | jerrico1
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  • Studio210


    I would like to see how the SEO amends that I have been making have reduced my Spam score in Moz Pro. Can you let me know if this is possible and, if so, where I would go get this?

    Moz Pro | | Studio210
    0
  • Ijiubu768


    Hey, moz kd is not showing correct result. i searched the keyword best for apartment one time the kd was 44 and again i searched and the kd was 24. which one is the correct kd?

    Keyword Research | | Ijiubu768
    0
  • chris981


    So i have a page that sells say hockey sticks and the website is based in Canada. My keyword focus for the page would be hockey sticks Canada. It seems to be proper to have this key phrase within the page text and also at the beginning of the first paragraph. But how do i write a first paragraph with this keyphrase and make it sound natural. My first instinct is to write the paragraph like so Hockey sticks Canada - We provide excellent quality hockey sticks nationwide which come with a 1 year warranty and have exceptional build quality and exceed performance expectations. But it just doesnt sound natural. If i put it as follows Hockey sticks in Canada are well known for their quality and craftmanship. We provide excellent quality hockey sticks nationwide which come with a 1 year warranty and have exceptional build quality and exceed performance expectations. I add "in" into the keyphrase to make it sound more natural to the reader. Would google look at this and count it as pertaining to the keyphrase hockey sticks canada? Anybody have any info into making key phrases count on the page without looking to unatural to the reader?

    Keyword Research | | chris981
    0
  • hfameraya198


    I want to know is there any way of increasing DA/PA of the website? Is there any benefit in ranking if we increase PA of specific page? Recently my website DA is 6 i want to increase it 30.

    Link Building | | hfameraya198
    0
  • AndyKubrin


    seo audit reporting

    Hello, Mozzers! I'm curious to know how you report SEO audit findings. Do you use a spreadsheet? A presentation? A formal report? Or maybe something else. If you have a favourite audit template, I'd love to see it. A second question: what things do you report in an audit? I currently report crawl findings, authority and trust, link profiles, and competitive analysis. I also investigate a site's security—that's not usually part of an audit, but site owners need to know about it. What do you report to your audit customers? Thanks for sharing your auditing wisdom!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AndyKubrin
    0
  • AndyKubrin


    outbound links outbound links

    Do you report outbound link profiles in an SEO audit? If so, what tools do you use to get outbound links? Moz doesn't seem to include this info in its crawl. What do you tell customers about the SEO value of outbound links? Thanks in advance for your SEO wisdom!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AndyKubrin
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  • khabarta


    Hello, I am conducting a research project around a specific topic with a date range starting at Jun 2019 to the present. Does Moz offer access to keyword volume, search data, going back to this start date?

    Keyword Explorer | | khabarta
    0
  • Lewald1


    We are in a bit of a tricky situation since a key top-level page with lots of external links has been selected as a duplicate by Google. We do not have any canonical tag in place. Now this is fine if Google passes the link juice towards the page they have selected as canonical (an identical top-level page)- does anyone know the answer to this question? Due to various reasons, we can't put a canonical tag ourselves at this moment in time. So my question is, does a Google selected canonical work the same way and pass link juice as a user selected canonical? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | Lewald1
    0
  • Lewald1


    We are in a bit of a tricky situation since a key top-level page with lots of external links has been selected as a duplicate by Google. We do not have any canonical tag in place. Now this is fine if Google passes the link juice towards the page they have selected as canonical (an identical top-level page)- does anyone know the answer to this question? Due to various reasons, we can't put a canonical tag ourselves at this moment in time. So my question is, does a Google selected canonical work the same way and pass link juice as a user selected canonical? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | Lewald1
    0
  • SolveWebMedia


    Hi, As I see it, Pinterest is a search engine. Does anyone have any tips on maximizing reach? Are there any resources that will help? Thanks in advance

    Social Media | | SolveWebMedia
    0
  • hfameraya198


    seo

    What are the factors that matter to increase domain or page authority because we know domain authority is crucial, it's the best and easy way to tell someone about your website that how worthy your site is.
    Is backlinks only the metric to increase domain authority?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | hfameraya198
    0
  • rarbel


    localeze moz local uberall data aggregator

    We have multiple Lite Moz Local subscriptions. The comparison page (https://moz.rankious.com/_moz/products/local/pricing#pricing-table) doesn't show which data aggregators Moz submits to but at the bottom it offers a Data Aggregators add-on for $40 that includes Localeze for the Preferred and Elite plans. However, when I checked with Localeze directly, they said Uberall claimed my clients' listings. I did some investigating only to learn that Moz uses Uberall to distribute its data to the directories. Uberall doesn't list Localeze as one of its partners. Does Moz submit Lite subscribers' data to Localeze? If so, is it through Uberall? For some clients, Localeze listings are not consistent with the info we entered on Moz, if Moz submits data to Localeze, how can we correct them?

    Moz Local | | rarbel
    0
  • ImageSalons


    If this is a duplicate post or someone has already asked this i do apologize. Ive been seeking help in increasing our page speed for sometime now and to no avail. https://tools.pingdom.com/#5e9dc9ab78000000 - Seems our page has just too many scripts which is a drag on the load time. We have a dedicated server and dont think its the issue as other websites on there load just fine.
    Something about this website www.catdi.com that just makes it top heavy. I've tried a CDN and that didn't work in fact it made it slower.. My question is i believe there's a way to remove, or combine all these scripts that are increasing our load time? Carlos

    On-Page Optimization | | ImageSalons
    3
  • sammecooper


    I'm thinking about changing the page titles on my website and wanted to know if it is a good idea to help improve SEO! Using a page 'training and engagement' as an example (as is on the dropdown), the page title itself is actually 'Providing the skills to make the change stick.' Is that long descriptive title negatively effecting me? Or should I change it to 'Training and Engagement'? Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 Sam

    On-Page Optimization | | sammecooper
    0
  • Lewald1


    Hello! We have a powerful page that has been selected by Google as a duplicate page of another page on the site. The duplicate is not indexed by Google, and the referring domains pointing towards that page aren’t recognized by Google in the search console (when looking at the links report). My question is - if we 301 redirect the duplicate page towards the one that Google has selected as canonical, will the link juice be passed to the new page? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Lewald1
    0
  • 123Russ


    Hi, I'm hoping someone can provide some insight. I Google searched "citizenpath" recently and found that all of our our sitelinks have identical text. The text seems to come from the site footer. It isn't using the meta descriptions (we definitely have) or even a Google-dictated snippet from the page. I understand we don't have "control" of this. It's also worth mentioning that if you search a specific page like "contact us citizenpath" you'll get a more appropriate excerpt. Can you help us understand what is happening? This isn't helpful for Google users or CitizenPath. Did the Google algorithm go awry or is there a technical error on our site? We use up-to-date versions of Wordpress and Yoast SEO. Thanks! search.png

    Technical SEO | | 123Russ
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