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  • yacpro13


    june 2021 core update core web vitals

    Hello everyone,
    We've observed a 50% drop in our Visibility score in the last week. This is our biggest drop ever, which coincides with June Google updates. We're an established ecommerce website located in Canada. This has obviously severely impacted sales. I'm frantically searching for information regarding fixes / implementations to recover asap, but if anybody could point us in the right direction, that would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

    Algorithm Updates | | yacpro13
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  • AspenFasteners


    We have a very large store with 278,146 individual product pages. Since these are all various sizes and packaging quantities of less than 200 product categories my feeling is that Google would be better off making sure our category pages are indexed. I would like to block all product pages via robots.txt until we are sure all category pages are indexed, then unblock them. Our product pages rarely change, no ratings or product reviews so there is little reason for a search engine to revisit a product page. The sales team is afraid blocking a previously indexed product page will result in in it being removed from the Google index and would prefer to submit the categories by hand, 10 per day via requested crawling. Which is the better practice?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AspenFasteners
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  • passJohn

    This question is deleted!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | passJohn
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  • Ijiubu768


    Hello Moz community, I have created a lot of high domain authority backlinks for my official service website but my DA still less than 15, why my site DA does not increase as I have created huge backlinks.

    Link Explorer | | Ijiubu768
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  • Bhisshaun


    Hi The Service area pages created on my Shopify website is not indexing on google for a long time, Tried indexing the pages manually and also submitted the sitemap but still the pages doesn't seem to get indexed.
    Thanks in Advance.

    Technical SEO | | Bhisshaun
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  • Milad25


    Hello, first sorry for my bad english,it isn't my first lanugage.
    I have a website with 13 years of history and activity. 5 Months ago we received an warning message from our domain provider which would seize our domain because of sanctions (i live in Iran), and they have seized many of iranian domains since then, therefore i have decided to quickly change my domain to another address so i could save my website as much as possible before they take out my domain...
    I have moved my website successfully to a new domain address and have done everything necessary for a good domain move (301 all links, change template and...) I have also used the "Change of Address Tool" provided in google search console so google knows my new domain address and change all of my links...
    Unfortunately 90% of my traffics comes from google, therefore we are hevaily depending on organic traffic.
    Since i have changed my domain address my traffic has been declining, and now i have only 30% of the traffic input left from google compared to my old domain 5 months ago. (i had recently some SEO troubles too which could effect this decline even more)
    Fortunately my old domain wasn't seized by the domain provider and i have successfully transfered it to another provide recently so there is no danger for my old domain anymore.
    My question is, should i move my website back to my old domain (cancel the google "Change of Address Tool" and use it again to move the new domain back to the old domain)? My old domain has more than 13 Years of history,has many backlinks within this 13years, and till now, i cannot get good rankings with new posts on the new domain, sometimes google even does not index my new articles several days, but my old domain ranks still well (i have tested a new article on the old domain to see how it performs and it was not very good, but i think it ranks still better than my new domain).
    My top pages and categories has been redirected successful and are still ranking well on google on the new domain address and hasn't been affected negativly, my main problem are new posts that are not ranking well o even does not get indexed for several days!
    I don't know what to do now, are 5months not enough for google to completly transfer all domain scores from my old domain to the new one? Will all scores of my old domain even transfer to my old domain eventually? How about the many Backlinks i have pointed to the old domain? (which 90% i cannot change or ask to change to my new address) Will the backlinks scores pointing to the old domain transfer to the new domain?In other hand i fear to move my site back to the old domain because i don't know how google would behave, would all my seo score and rankings come back after i move back to the old domain? Also as far as i know, after 6months of using the google "Change of Address Tool" i cannot cancle the domain change anymore, therefore i have roughly 1 month to decide to cancle the move or not...
    Please if anyone could help or guide me what to do it would be life saving for me, because my whole income and my family depends on my website...  😞

    Technical SEO | | Milad25
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  • Bhisshaun


    Hi, I am working on an eCommerce website on Shopify.
    When I tried Indexing my newly created service pages. The pages are not getting indexed on Google.
    I also tried manual indexing of each page and submitted a sitemap but still, the issue doesn't seem to be resolved. Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Bhisshaun
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  • Nilss


    Hi I'm brand new to SEO stuff, and I'm trying to monetize my blog. I have a Q from you about optimizing my blog for an international audience. So I thought where is better to ask my question 🙂 My q is: Does the country that you are living in and publishing your post affect your SEO if you blog in English? For instance, if I live in turkey, but I publish my whole posts in English, will Google hesitate to show my content to an English audience? In other words, Does the publishing source country make it harder to contest with native English bloggers for google's page 1? Thanks in advance for your attention

    Content Development | | Nilss
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  • isabelledylag


    Hi there, We upgraded our webshop last weekend and our moz crawl on monday found a lot of errors we are trying to fix. I am having some communication problems with our webmaster so I need a little help. We have extremely long category pages url, does anyone have a guess which kind of mistake our webmaster could make:
    https://site-name.pl/category-name?page=3?resultsPerPage=53?resultsPerPage=53 .... And it keeps on repeating the string ?resultsPerPage=53 exactly 451 times as if there was some kind of loop. Thanks in advance for any kind of hint 🙂
    Kind regards,
    Isabelle

    Technical SEO | | isabelledylag
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  • GrouchyKids


    A company I work for ranks well in the Local Pack under its primary service offering i.e. "primary service Bristol". And also under some other services it offers. However, under other services that are offered, it doesn't show in the local pack despite ranking No 1 in the natural SERPS for the target phrase "example service Bristol". We have pages covering all main services in the main site navigation bar. Is this just the way it is or can something be done to resolve this? Does the detail in the third-party citations have a significant impact? What about the content of the reviews? I note that we are doing better under the services mentioned within the reviews. Should I add additional categories and emulating those used by the competition under the search terms? Or am I missing something else?

    Local Website Optimization | | GrouchyKids
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  • zubair0192

    This question is deleted!

    Link Building | | zubair0192
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  • terentyev


    Can you share your experiences in managing SEO QA automation of large websites with millions of pages?
    what are the things you are regularly testing for, besides the most obvious - hreflangs/canonicals, robots.txt, sitemap, non-200 status codes, redirect rules?
    do you use in-house developed tools or external tools?
    if external - which ones?
    how do you run your QA automation scripts? external server or some online tools? upon every release or hourly/daily/monthly?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | terentyev
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  • RoyaMarketingTeam


    I manage an account for a client and the zip code appears wrong in the Moz Local Report Score. How do I correct this?

    Moz Local | | RoyaMarketingTeam
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  • markellw


    Hi there, Quick question on mobile SEO. Basically, I don't think I can effectively format my mobile website design unless I just build it as a collection of pictures. This way it'll be possible to format so it doesn't look a jumbled mess. My question - if my mobile version is just essentially HQ screenshots/pictures put together, how will that affect my SEO for mobile? PS if anyone has suggestions on how I can design my mobile version without affecting desktop I'd appreciate it. I'm using shopify and across many of the themes I've tried whatever I design on desktop has to format on mobile as well. To my knowledge only wix allows you to independently edit the mobile and desktop versions.

    Content Development | | markellw
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  • MuhammadQasimAttari


    Hi everyone,
    I have one issue about canonical. kindly guide me about it. I have a site example.com/abc and I convert it on an amp and know its URLs is example.com/abc=?amp. but the search console tells me to add the proper canonical URL but both pages are the same. kindly guide me about it. what will I do?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MuhammadQasimAttari
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  • Daie8


    I want to know that how it is possible that global and country-wise keyword difficulty should be the same. Please help me out understand this confusion.

    Keyword Research | | Daie8
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  • SaraClay


    What are the best way to do on page and off page seo in 2021?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SaraClay
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  • awilliams_kingston


    Our company implemented Google Shopping for our site for multiple countries, currencies and languages. Every combination of language and country is accessible via a url path and for all site pages, not just the pages with products for sale. I was not part of the project. We support 18 languages and 14 shop countries. When the project was finished we had a total of 240 language/country combinations listed in our rel alternate hreflang tags for every page and 240 language/country combinations in our XML sitemap for each page and canonicals are unique for every one of these page. My concern is with duplicate content. Also I can see odd language/country url combinations (like a country with a language spoken by a very low percentage of people in that country) are being crawled, indexed, and appearing in serps. This uses up my crawl budget for pages I don't care about. I don't this it is wise to disallow urls in robots.txt for that we are simultaneously listing in the XML sitemap. Is it true that these are requirements for Google Shopping to have XML sitemap and rel alternate hreflang for every language/country combination?

    Technical SEO | | awilliams_kingston
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  • YvonneDupree


    moz local backlinks

    Hi There, I purchased Moz local for the directory submissions, however I am not seeing any backlinks to my site. How long should it take before the directory submissions are picked up? Thanks

    Moz Local | | YvonneDupree
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  • aogden

    This question is deleted!

    Local Listings | | aogden
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  • chrisjordan0i1


    I have a woo commerce shop in the firearms industry which makes advertising even more difficult because no FB, IG, or Google campaigns. I do have other sources of advertising but I'm a complete noob when it comes to SEO and the like. I know it exists and its important and that's the extent of it. I was thinking of hiring someone on Upwork to take care of this on my website but what kinds of questions/things I should look out for to keep from getting scammed? Any tips would be appreciated

    Content Development | | chrisjordan0i1
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  • Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine


    As of June 1 doctor pages on our website that say "No ratings are available yet" are being Soft 404ed in our Google Console. We suspect the issue is that wording, due to this post. https://www.contentkingapp.com/academy/index-coverage/faq/submitted-soft-404/ Just wondering if anyone with more expertise than me on 404s or local seo can validate that it is likely this issue. Some examples:
    https://www.nebraskamed.com/doctors/neil-s-kalsi
    https://www.nebraskamed.com/doctors/leslie-a-eiland
    https://www.nebraskamed.com/doctors/david-d-ingvoldstad 63647547-aa09-42a8-afe5-4431f277f611-image.png

    Technical SEO | | Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine
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  • vaskrupp


    Hi! We are trying to rank https://windowmart.ca for various local search terms. Our head office is in Edmonton where we try to rank https://windowmart.ca/edmonton-windows-doors/ for such terms as "windows Edmonton", "replacement windows Edmonton", "windows and doors Edmonton" as well as others. The website was the leader in its niche for around 2 years. Then we've got some server related issues, moved to a new server and connected CDN Nitropack that really improved our google speed test results. Recently we noticed that our rankings started to drop. Do you know if Nitropack can negatively effect local SEO rankings? Thank you!

    Technical SEO | | vaskrupp
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  • obgproject


    I have several pages that get a lot of visits, and 90% of the traffic is from Google searches. How can I discover what the search terms are that bring people to these pages?

    Keyword Research | | obgproject
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  • Liamis


    seo search results

    I have an insurance client that is represented in three states. They need to present different information to users by state identification. They prefer to have one page with all the information and then present the information relevant to the state by the users selection from a pop up window. Spiders will be able to index all the content. Users will only see the content based on their selection. So, I wanted to ask the Moz community what SEO implication could this have? The information available on the web is very thin with this situation so really appreciate any guidance that can be given...thanks,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Liamis
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  • sora.ya0468


    I think there is no point in indexing service request pages for a service site. And it causes the indexing of the main pages to be done with a delay. Does anyone have experience with indexing service request pages and their results?

    On-Page Optimization | | sora.ya0468
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  • PeaksAdvertising


    moz local additional user

    Hello, I use Moz local for clients and would like to give them access to it as well. Is this possible?

    Moz Local | | PeaksAdvertising
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  • nandaMesa


    What should be done with forum questions that go unanswered for a long time (i.e. year or longer)? Are these types of questions valuable content? Should we opt out of having these types of pages indexed? Since these pages are just one sentences doesn't seem like it is adding value to the site.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nandaMesa
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  • cmavroudisyahoocom


    Hi, We currently have a relatively low DA score of 26. We have been working to increase it but of course it takes time. We are starting to adapt our approach and rank for non-competitive, long-tail keywords. If our DA is very low, will this affect our longtail keyword ranking even though there is very little competition for those? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | cmavroudisyahoocom
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  • cmavroudisyahoocom


    Hi, We have an ecommerce store and currently have topic pages setup for each category/location combination, each topic page lists relevant products available for sale, so for example Most Popular Birthday Party products in UK
    Most Popular Birthday Party products in London
    Most Popular Birthday Party products in Manchester We are now looking at ways of capitalising on longtail keyword searches and a potential solution is to expand the number of Topic Pages/Location combinations so for example Most Popular Birthday Party products in UK
    Cheapest Birthday Party products in UK
    Birthday Party products for small groups in UK
    Birthday Party products for large groups in UK
    Children Birthday Party products for in UK
    etc In general would this be a positive or negative thing to do for our site to give each longtail keyword its own dedicated topic page (given that our crawl budget is not necessarily high). Or should we just try to add longtail keyword to the original topic page itself and make that one rank better? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | cmavroudisyahoocom
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  • bradyknaus


    Hi Moz family i have a website relate to air purifier and i purchased 5 to 10 gigs for different sort of backlinks but 4 weeks gone still i have not seen any backlinks are indexed in moz but 40% are indexed in ahref Any body can please explain how can they will indexed? Any best indexing method? Thanks

    Link Building | | bradyknaus
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  • shinawebnavid


    Hi, I am trying to track a page optimization feature for one of my project, https://shinaweb.com but i keep getting this below error: "PAGE OPTIMIZATION ERROR
    There was a problem loading this page. Please make sure the page is loading properly and that our user-agent, rogerbot, is not blocked from accessing this page." I checked robots.txt file, it all looks fine. Not sure what is the problem? Is it a problem with Moz or the website?

    On-Page Optimization | | shinawebnavid
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  • adojs1jj

    This question is deleted!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | adojs1jj
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  • jamestown


    Absolutely no idea what is going on. All of our category / subcategory and other support pages are indexed and cached as normal, but suddenly none of our product pages are cached, and all of the product / offer schema snippets have been dropped from the serps as well (price, review count, average rating etc). When I inspect a product detail page url in GSC, I am either getting errors or it is returned as a soft 404. There have been no recent changes to our website that are obvious culprits. When I request indexing, it works fine for non-product pages, but generates the "Something went wrong
    If the issue persists, try again in a few hours" message for any product page submitted. We are not SEO novices. This is an Angular 7 site with a Universal version launched back in October (new site, same domain), and until this strange issue cropped up we'd enjoyed steady improvement of rankings and GSC technical issues. Has anyone seen anything like this? We are seeing rapid deterioration in rankings overnight for all product detail pages due to this issue. A term / page combination that ranked for over a decade in the top 10 lost 10 places overnight... There's just no obvious culprit. Using chrome dev tools to view as googlebot, everything is kosher. No weird redirects, no errors, returns 200 and page loads. Thank You

    Technical SEO | | jamestown
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  • AndyKubrin


    Hey Mozzers! I received a duplicate content notice from my Cycle7 Communications campaign today. I understand the concept of duplicate content, but none of the suggested fixes quite seems to fit. I have four pages with HubSpot forms embedded in them. (Only two of these pages have showed up so far in my campaign.) Each page contains a title (Content Marketing Consultation, Copywriting Consultation, etc), plus an embedded HubSpot form. The forms are all outwardly identical, but I use a separate form for each service that I offer. I’m not sure how to respond to this crawl issue: Using a 301 redirect doesn’t seem right, because each page/form combo is independent and serves a separate purpose. Using a rel=canonical link doesn’t seem right for the same reason that a 301 redirect doesn’t seem right. Using the Google Search Console URL Parameters tool is clearly contraindicated by Google’s documentation (I don’t have enough pages on my site). Is a meta robots noindex the best way to deal with duplicate content in this case? Thanks in advance for your help. AK

    Technical SEO | | AndyKubrin
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  • robhough909


    Hi,
    I'm wondering will my site be impacted with some of the primary links in our primary menu being moved into a burger Menu? Many Thanks,
    Rob

    On-Page Optimization | | robhough909
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  • jeffriley


    Hoping someone can help us with Moz Pro reporting issues that we can't see on a client page. Screenshot 2021-06-07 at 11.36.58.png Screenshot 2021-06-07 at 12.54.48.png The mobile performance metrics are awful (apparently) but we aren't seeing this at all. Both mobile and desktop sites are very fast and pages are loading in under 1s. I have attached the Moz Pro report and a google page speed screenshot to see if any can shine any light on this issue. Thanks,
    Jeff

    Moz Pro | | jeffriley
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  • Moxoms1


    Hi, One of my GMB listing suddenly stopped ranking in the 3Pack Results. It used to always rank in 1st or 2nd position in the 3Pack results, Suddenly since 24th May it completely Flatlined, I don't know why but It doesn't show up in the results, or when I click see more. It completely vanished for that term locally. My Listing is based in Brisbane, QLD, Australia and it doesn't show up for that term in The Brisbane area. But when the Location info is Australia and not Brisbane, Australia it shows up again. I don't know what is the problem in this case... Any Suggestions will be much appreciated.

    Local Listings | | Moxoms1
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  • KristinaKeyser


    Exciting news, Moz fans! We are thrilled to announce that Moz has been acquired by iContact Marketing Corp! Check out Sarah and Michael's chat discussing the details in our blog post here, and please celebrate with us as we chart the future of Moz together.

    Moz News | | KristinaKeyser
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  • chrisjordan0i1


    When I create a website for my clients, I always put our website link in the footer of the description, just to say 'powered by ieatdoorframes' with a link to our website. On SEMrush, its showing as a negative backlink with the reason 'compound', suggesting its a 'money term'. I add this link as I've had success getting new work from clients who like the site we built. I'm new to these terminologies and wondering what I should do?

    Link Building | | chrisjordan0i1
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  • mary31


    A new article on Search Engine Journal asks even though anchor Text Ratios are considered important by many SEOs for ranking in Google, are they really something to worry about?

    Link Building | | mary31
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  • tuomashaapala


    seo international

    Hello, rankings.jpg I am becoming a bit clueless with our business website. Our site is doing really well in Finland and with Finnish language. Even though our business is fairly new, we have been able to pass many of our competitors in the search only after about year of operating. What confuses and worries me though is the fact that our English content is not ranking at all. The aim for the English content is to be general and reaching audiences worldwide. But as you can see in the image attached, we are doing really bad for example in UK, which is one of our main markets. I've been doing active keyword research, built high quality and natural links and writing long and keyword rich content on our blog but still our rankings don't seem to change outside Finland. I would be interested in knowing, what I am doing wrong and what would be the right steps to start improving the situation?

    International SEO | | tuomashaapala
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  • akhter8761


    A new article on Search Engine Journal asks even though anchor Text Ratios are considered important by many SEOs for ranking in Google, are they really something to worry about?

    Link Building | | akhter8761
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  • ImeuOkou


    Is it possible for a blog to rank only with fantastic content without any purchasing of backlinks... And how long does it take (on average) to get for example 500 active readers daily?

    Link Building | | ImeuOkou
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  • vibelingo


    Our company site is, in general, performing great in organic search, but we've lost about 10 featured snippets throughout the last 5-6 months, and I'd like to know how to best approach analyzing this.

    Algorithm Updates | | vibelingo
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  • jamesfin123


    forum backlinks forum posting link building backlinks

    I am working on a "digital marketing service" website. I want to create forum backlinks. Can I create forum backlinks for this type of website? If yes, then what is the possible strategy.
    Looking for an expert guide.

    Link Building | | jamesfin123
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  • chrisjordan0i1


    Let's say I want to write a guest post for a website that is relevant to my website. Should i guest post on a website with high traffic but the traffic country is not mine? (eg// My website sells products in Canada only, should i guest post on a high traffic site from India?) Or would it be better to find a lower traffic website to guest post on but their organic traffic comes from Canada? Thanks!

    Link Building | | chrisjordan0i1
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  • ImeuOkou


    Hi all, i own a small business in an extremely competitive marketplace. I have also educated myself greatly about seo over the past 3 years and currently do my own. The one thing I cannot figure out, for the life of me, is how my two competitors keep beating me in rankings without backlinks. I mean, I have about 3K solid backlinks, mostly do follow, from top notch publications, sites, citations ect. In ahref, it shows that he has almost no backlinks. I cannot crack th third spot, but they dominate with zero backlinks, and the domains are only a bit older than mine. Thoughts on this?

    Link Building | | ImeuOkou
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  • Cheebee124


    Hey everyone, I run a website that publish articles about pets. I have read some great things about Google Discover and the potential traffic it can bring to publishers (Condé Nast reported up to 20% of traffic coming from Discover in the US, at a certain point). I am currently trying to get indexed and after reading Google guidelines and a Ahrefs guide, I have made many optimizations to my site: structured data, creating an author page, fixing image size and publishing date... so far, it's not working. I feel the lack of a knowledge graph for my business may affect my chances. I'm currently building a GMB page to fix this. Do you have other recommendations or success stories of your own experiments with Discover? An example of an article I tried to get indexed was https://www.lebernard.ca/teletravail-chien-guide-survie/. Obviously, I'm not expecting feedback on the quality of the content since it's in French, but I'm curious if you see anything from a technical perspective that doesn't work. Thanks a lot for your help! Charles

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Cheebee124
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  • judieboscopqk78


    In the toolbar I see there is a Subdomain section. What is it? What does it mean in SEO?

    Moz Pro | | judieboscopqk78
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