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  • Oiebyut


    Hi! I am Amelia  My site rank 5 keyword in united states show that Ahref's  and I check in Moz but that shows 1 rank key word and Ahref's shows the 59 backlinks and Moz shows 5 to 6  backlink why that shows low keyword and backlinks that's my site problem or Moz issues. Check My website and tell me issues.

    Moz Pro | | Oiebyut
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  • randomghrytu


    I have been working on my site for the last 4 months and still, I am not getting improvement in site DA, PA, and site ranking.  Also, I am generating unique content.  Here is the Website link https://techynewx.com/

    Moz Pro | | randomghrytu
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  • BuiLungTen

    Solved

    Hi, I'm facing an issue regarding Moz Site Explorer. When I enter my blog for check it's DA and PA. All Moz do is keep loading. I have to reload the page for two or more times for checking DA and PA. Kindly let me know is there any issue with my account. Regards.

    Product Support | | BuiLungTen
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  • Jioiebytt


    Hi I am working on a project in which I have a local services website <a target="_self">www.thepcrrg.com</a> I want to be sure its links are getting indexed or not. Please help me.

    On-Page Optimization | | Jioiebytt
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  • coma99


    Hi, Background I have an international site with 32 country homepages within the same domain: eg www.domain.com/en-gb/
    www.domain.com/fr-fr/
    www.domain.com/de-de/
    www.domain.com/es-es/ and so forth We use IP redirection on the root www.domain.com (which has no HTML page of its own) to divert the user to their relevant country homepage. Within each country homepage we include: (a canonical link to itself) ... (hreflang alternates to all instances of other homepages including itself ) Our Google Crawl bot is located in Germany and so when it crawls our root www.domain.com it takes the title and description from its destination url which in crawlbots case is www.domain.com/de-de/ because of the IP redirect. What is the problem I am trying to solve? Every variation of local Google results (eg UK/FR/IT/US) displays at the top the crawled root www.domain.com page with German title/description. How can I stop this happening? Surely adding appropriate hrefs and canonicals to every homepage instance is sufficient for Google to display to you your relevant country homepage variant instead!? Thanks

    International SEO | | coma99
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  • Bdgbye

    This question is deleted!

    Link Building | | Bdgbye
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  • btreloar


    My blog goes back to 2005 and occasionally I find outbound links on old posts that now generate a 404 error. Is there a Moz tool that can find and report on such errors? If not, are there other tools you can recommend?

    Moz Bar | | btreloar
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  • Smarter_Finances


    Hi, How long do the link tracking lists take to update? It's been over a week and each is still showing a red cross. The reason I created it was because I migrated to a new domain name and Moz is still showing the backlinks on the old property and not the new (the domain swap happened in December 2020). I can see that Ahrefs has picked up all of the links - Both new and redirected - but Moz has not. When will this be reflected in Moz as it has already been over three months? Is there a reason for the above questions? I appreciate any response here. 🙂

    Moz Pro | | Smarter_Finances
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  • rankvizguru


    How i can check the moz position of my site . As it is said that the moz  assign a specific value /position  to a site according to its overall performance. Thanks. Regards  glasweefselbehang

    Keyword Explorer | | rankvizguru
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  • seotools103


    I have an uncertainty - when I make a backlink as a piece of SEO in some site when I reviewed similar couple of days after. It hasn't filed and I checked its robots record. It appearing Client specialist: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: User-Agent: * Disallow: However, is this make any backlink uphold or only this with the end goal of not ordering in google. I make it straightforward - "Is this sort of backlink creation my site Best Offset Smokers uphold my SEO action or Not?" In this No-record site. Flag Share

    Link Building | | seotools103
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  • IvanaDaulay


    Hi there, I have been reading up about Domain Authority being important to rank though I have a question about it. When trying a few google searches and using a tool to see the Moz Domain Authority i notice the following. I won't mention sites or keywords, happy to send them via private message if required. A site ranks 1st position for most keywords including the main keyword that related to their industry, a highly competitive keyword. Their Moz Domain Authority 27, Est. Visits: 265,000,  Pinterest shares 72, Facebook shares 191 and unique domains that point to it are 55. Yet when I look at another site, optimising for the same keyword, Moz Domain Authority 50, Est. Visits: 60,000, Pinterest shares 35000, Facebook shares 20000 and unique domains that point to it are 521. I would have thought that the second site ranks 1st for the keyword and the first one mentioned which is in 1st position I would have expected to be on page two or three. as I scroll down the first page for the term, all sites except for one have higher DA, visits, shares and so on. If a high PA is required can someone help me to understand the above example? Whn a low PA site ranks much better for a primary keyword than all other sites that have a higher PA than it?

    Moz Pro | | IvanaDaulay
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  • IvanaDaulay


    Hi there and thanks for the great information, certainly lots to take in. Can anyone suggest the best way to setup product / category  url structure for a store? At the moment we have something like domainname.com/parentcategory/subcategory/product name.html As the product url, we edited url structure using a plugin, we don't use default WooCommerce url settings. domainname.com/parentcategory/subcategory/product name.html.     this can sometimes be long But when you click on the product the url changes to the following. domainname.com/product name.html.      This can shorted the url by 40% and still have keyword in url Is there any benefit in doing his? Re canonical urls, I only have about 15 products that are selected in many categories.the other 200 are under once category only. Product pages don't have many backlinks at the moment. Thanking you so much.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | IvanaDaulay
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  • gamstopbet


    will critical error in wordpress to increase memory limit affect seo rankings?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | gamstopbet
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  • koipl


    Hey MOZ Team, I hope you guys are fine. Actually today I'm reviewing my client site and suddenly saw that their spam score is 39. They don't have too many backlinks. They have few of them and they're not Sammy. Can you Guide me a little bit why these types of things happens. Because the site is almost new. Here's the website link: https://pmpteacher.com/

    Moz Pro | | koipl
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  • seoelevated


    core web vitals

    In preparation for Core Web Vitals becoming a ranking factor in May 2021, we are making efforts to reduce our Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) on pages where the shift is being caused by images loading. The general recommendation is to specify both height and width attributes in the html, in addition to the CSS formatting which is applied when the images load. However, this is problematic in situations where responsive images are being used with different aspect ratios for mobile vs desktop. And where a CMS is being used to manage the pages with images, where width and height may change each time new images are used, as well as aspect ratios for the mobile and desktop versions of those. So, I'm posting this inquiry here to see what kinds of approaches others are taking to reduce CLS in these situations (where responsive images are used, with differing aspect ratios for desktop and mobile, and where a CMS allows the business users to utilize any dimension of images they desire).

    Web Design | | seoelevated
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  • M-Widdows


    Seemingly following the Feb 2021 algorithm update (passage indexing) our site has seen a massive drop in featured snippets (from 39 on 8th Feb to 27 on 15th Feb) and hasn't recovered (still 27 on 18th March). Our site has also seen a steady drop off in sessions in the UK over the past couple of weeks, despite continued increases in the US. This could potentially be due to the loss of featured snippets meaning less traffic to our top pages, but we're wondering if this could also be another change, separate to featured snippets? Does anyone know if these changes are likely to be linked to the passage indexing algorithm update (or another unconfirmed update) or simply a coincidence and either way, what we can start doing to see our number of featured snippets (and then hopefully sessions) start to increase again? EDIT: As of 22th March, these have dropped again to just 10 featured snippets - a total of 290% decrease - any help would we appreciated! TIA 🙂

    Algorithm Updates | | M-Widdows
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  • gogoanimetp


    Does Moz collect information of customers accessing my website https://tructiepbongda.site/?
    Thank you!

    Getting Started | | gogoanimetp
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  • LouisPortier


    Hi, A redirection chain is usually defined as a page redirecting to another page which itself is another redirection. URL1 ---(301/302)---> URL2 ---(301/302)---> URL3 But what about Javascript redirect? They seem to be a different beast: URL1 ---(301/302)---> URL2 ---(200 then Javascript redirect)---> URL3 From what I know if the javascript redirect is instant Google counts it as a 301 permanent redirection, but I'm still not sure about if this counts as a redirection chain. Most of the tools (such as moz) only see the first redirection. So is that scenario a redirection chain or no?

    Technical SEO | | LouisPortier
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  • Nobody1616542228134


    Hi folks. Instead of an archive page template in my theme (I have my reasons), I am thinking of simply typing the post title as and when I publish a post, and linking to the post from there. Any SEO issues that you can think of? Thanks in advance!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nobody1616542228134
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  • Niujbuj76


    I have a website https://www.bodolandresult.net whenever I open the both at same time mozbar occupy space over its header menu

    Product Support | | Niujbuj76
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  • NickJPearse


    I have external links coming into my site going to 404 pages, but i cant seem to find a way to search all broken links pointed at my website.

    On-Page Optimization | | NickJPearse
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  • RMATVMC


    We have some URLs that are being flagged as poor inside Search Console in the Web Core Vitals report. For example, the report is saying that some pages have too many CLS issues. When looking into things we can do to update we have noticed that when we run the same page using the PageSpeed Insights tool we are not getting the same bad scores. This is making it hard for us to actually know what needs to be addressed. Nor can we tell if a change actually fixed the issue because in PageSpeed Insights there is not an issue.  Has anyone else had similar issues. If so have you found a way to fix it?

    On-Page Optimization | | RMATVMC
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  • ElliPirelli


    Hey community, I have a question regarding canonical tags.
    I used the content of one of my domains (nameA.com/ContentA) and copied it to another domain, but on several pages: nameB.com/ContentA1
    nameB.com/ContentA2
    nameB.com/ContentA3
    and so on). So I divided the content from domainA to several pages of domainB. The reason is, that my client wants to build a new business on domainB and wants to use the exact same content from domainA, because he can't afford another copywriter at the moment (and he doesn't want to rewrite it himself). Problem: DomainA is ranking for this content and he wants to keep the rankings, until domainB ranks similar (for the same keywords, of course). So my question is: Can I put a canonical tag on domainA?
    My thoughts are: Not a single page of domainB is 100% duplicate content, as it's always only partialy the same. Can I just choose one of those pages from domainB to put as link-goal for the canonical tag? Or do I need to create a "view-all" page on domainB, with all the content put together, so it's 100% duplicate to domainA, and then put a canonical tag to domainA and link to this "view-all" page? If I do so, do I need to also put canonicals on every single page from domainB, to link to this "view-all" page?
    IMPORTANT: Would the other pages of domainB then be ranked/listed in the SERRPs, or only the "view-all" site? I would really appreciate your help, as I have been seaching for answers to this specific problem since more than a week... Thank you! Best regards

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ElliPirelli
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  • rankvizguru


    I am facing a problem that my MOZ bar is not showing a PA of my website page ipad rental. Kindly, tell me is there a problem with my page or extension?

    Product Support | | rankvizguru
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  • simthanglongdotvn


    Hi all My website is https://simthanglong.vn/ and it have +7000 Referring domains from competitor use tools bad backlink. i want to disavow it but Google Search Console accept export up to 1000 domains. So, What I have to do. Help me Please.67oetuz.jpg

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | simthanglongdotvn
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  • rankvizguru


    Hello, I hope everybody is fine. I am looking for a right way to increase the DA and PA of the website and its webpage. I have a lesco duplicate bill info related webpage which I want to increase the PA. Kindly guys guide me the legit way of increasing the Page Authority. Thanks

    Moz Pro | | rankvizguru
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  • astweb


    Hi to everyone, I used Sitechecker.Pro for a website audit of a client website https://bizpages.org   and there was this warning (not an error!): TEXT TO CODE RATIO<10% https://sitechecker.pro/app/main/project/1839063/audit/summary How  important is this to  achieve good ranking? What are good ratios? I undestand that more text needs to be added to improve it? fcdcfbe438

    Technical SEO | | astweb
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  • gogoanimetp


    Hello Moz Community,   I have sports niche website bongdatructuyen.site. I am in process of link building for my website. May i know what should i do to increase DA of my site? Is there any way to  increase my site Authority through increasing DA of my site and Keyword difficulty? Thank you !

    Link Building | | gogoanimetp
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  • vde13


    Hey guys. I've got a question about the url structure on two different websites with a similar topic (bith are job search websites). Although we are going to publish different content (texts) on these two websites and they will differ visually, the url structure (except for the domain name) remains exactly the same, as does the number of indexed landingpages on both pages. For example, www.yyy.com/jobs/mobile-developer & www.zzz.com/jobs/mobile-developer. In your opinion, can this lead to a Google penalty? Thanks in advance!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | vde13
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  • Nobody1616542228134


    Hi there. I use Genesis and StudioPress themes. I recently noticed that the canonical link for blog pages points to the first page on all paginated pages, which I understand is an SEO no-no. I found some code here that adds a unique canonical link to each paginated page but for categories only. It works fine. I only have one category for my site. My question is: is there a downside (or even upside) to not having a blog page and placing a link to my category page in the navigation bar instead, using the category page as the blog page? It looks good and works. What do you think? I find it odd that this seems to be an issue across the Internet and the only solution that comes up relies on the Yoast plugin, which I don't want to use (don't want to use a plugin for SEO). Thanks in advance.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nobody1616542228134
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  • Iuj873g


    i cant log in my moz account, it keep me showing error. Moreover, i have seen lately that Moz works slow because it shows my ranking keywords late. Other than this my Domain authority is not increasing even though my site have alot of backlinks

    Product Support | | Iuj873g
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  • AliHassanbinali


    HI Team and members We have website related to jobs in Pakistan and we purchased 5 niche edits backlinks to a specific page " MES Jobs 2021" In ahrefs it show only 2 backlinks to that page but in moz 0 backlinks but in actually there are 5 links. Why this happen in moz? We actually love this tool used for Keywords research for jobs in Pakistan find some cool keywords using moz but we facing backlinks issues in it.

    Link Building | | AliHassanbinali
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  • rankvizguru


    Hi, I am Kyle. I have a affiliate related website where I update articles that is related to Dental Tools. I want to improve my Website . Any one can guide me that how can I increase it.

    Link Building | | rankvizguru
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  • Andresia


    Keywords showed volume before but now they say 'no data available'. And this is happening with common words like "prints" - I'm dead certain this keyword should not have 'no data available'.  What's going on? How do I reset or fix this? I only have 12 days left of my trial and I can't even use the feature I need.

    Product Support | | Andresia
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  • gogoanimetp


    I am wondering what is a Good Domain Authority Score? This is my website https://gopaintsprayer.com currently DA and PA are quite high, but the traffic is decreasing, I don't understand the reason, you can help. Thank you !

    Getting Started | | gogoanimetp
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  • Nobody1616542228134


    Hi folks. I would like to discuss pagination. I use WordPress (Genesis, specifically). I ran my site through a site scan and it flagged an error which told me that my blog was producing duplicate meta descriptions because the  blog is paginated - the same meta description from the blog page is being used on Page 2, Page 3 etc. I looked into this and the Internet is awash with many other people scratching around for a solution. My understanding is that using a canonical link on the first page is not a good idea, because it says to Google that only Page 1 of the blog is important. I also read an article that states Google no longer reads the Rel=Prev/Next code that could be used to tell Google to ignore the issue. So, what's the solution? Do I even need one? As a side-thought, it seems to me that pagination is, well, pretty useless. I mean, if my blog has 20 pages and I've worked hard to create content, who is going to click through to anywhere near page 20? Nobody. There has to be a smarter way for people on-site to access content. I would love your thoughts on all of this. Cheers.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nobody1616542228134
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  • KarenElaine


    We have about 100 really old blog posts that are nothing more than a short trip review w/ images. Consequently these pages are poor quality. Would best practices be to combine into one "review page" per trip, reducing from 100 to about 10 better pages and implement redirects? Or is having more pages better with less redirects? We only have about 700 pages total. Thanks for any input!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KarenElaine
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  • LeahH


    There's a section of my client's website that presents quarterly government financial data. Users can filter results to see different years and quarters of financial info. If a user navigates to those pages, the URLs automatically append the latest query parameters. It's not a redirect...when I asked a developer what the mechanism was for this happening, he said "magic." He honestly didn't know how to describe it. So my question is, is it ok to canonicalize the URL without any query parameters, knowing that the user will always be served a page that does have query parameters? I need to figure out how to manage all of the various versions of these URLs.

    Technical SEO | | LeahH
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  • erdev


    lighthouse

    Hi, Many experts cite the Lighthouse speed as an important factor for search ranking. It's confusing because several top sites have Lighthouse speed of 30-40, yet they rank well. Also, some sites that load quickly have a low Lighthouse speed score (when I test on mobile/desktop they load much quicker than stated by Lighthouse). When we look at other image rich sites (such as Airbnb, John Deere etc) the Lighthouse score can be 30-40. Our site https://www.equipmentradar.com/ loads quickly on Desktop and Mobile, but the Lighthouse score is similar to Airbnb and so forth. We have many photos similar to photo below, probably 30-40, many of which load async. Should we spend more time optimizing Lighthouse or is it ok? Are large images fine to load async? Thank you, Dave bg_05.jpg

    Reporting & Analytics | | erdev
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  • deweydecibel


    I have an SEO campaign, where I have about ~100 target websites.  I have an article on a specific topic, that is relevant to their industry and mine.  The article links back to my website, and in exchange for posting the article the owner of the target website receives compensation in free services from our company. The topic is very specific to the marketing campaign and the compensation model.  It is not possible for this particular campaign to create other topics for articles. If several websites host the exact same article that links to my website: Is there a negative SEO consequence for the target websites? Is there a negative SEO consequence for my website? If yes to either of these questions, just how different would the post need to be to avoid the answer being yes to either of these questions?

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | deweydecibel
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  • RyanD.


    Is there a way to see all of the business locations I manage on a map, so it's easy to visualize and check? Like a Google Custom map, but I don't want to create a custom map because then I'd be updating information in two places. I thought this would be a built-in feature of Google My Business but I can't seem to find any information about this. Thanks! -Ryan

    Local Listings | | RyanD.
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  • DanielMaier


    I am using the link explorer to search my website https://bestsportsmask.com/ in Moz. But it is showing no ranked keywords but in other tools it's showing some keywords. What could be the issue.

    Moz Pro | | DanielMaier
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  • rankvizguru


    Can anyone tell me that how can we see a KD of keyword? I want to know the KD of keyword volcano hybrid for adults.

    Keyword Explorer | | rankvizguru
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  • gogoanimetp


    I am counting on some more ads on the site https://gogoanime.city/, is it a problem if I add some ads about sex, porn ..., to make a little more money. So does it affect the PA DA score. Thank you!

    Technical SEO | | gogoanimetp
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  • Nichole.wynter2020


    Can you help with how to fix this 404 error please? It appears that I have a redirect from one page to the other, although the referring page URL works, but it appears to be linking to another URL with this code at the end of the the URL  - %5Bnull%20id=43484%5D that I'm struggling to find  and fix. Thanks

    Technical SEO | | Nichole.wynter2020
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  • Nobody1616542228134


    Hi folks. I am based in the UK. I am about to launch a new blog, and I want to appeal to the UK and US markets. One of my primary keywords is 'generalised', which gets way more traffic (as seen using Moz's keyword tool) in my keyword phrase when spelt with a z and not an s. What do I do? Any guidance would be great. I note this has been discussed before, but seemingly without a conclusion. I would really appreciate any help you can provide.

    International SEO | | Nobody1616542228134
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  • ehtishamkhan


    I want to know how PA works in MOZ? Like I have a website https://myinfo.pk its DA is same on all posts but when I see PA of IESCO Bill Page and LESCO Bill page. Both are different. Why PA is different of many posts when DA is same. Is there any specific reason?

    Link Explorer | | ehtishamkhan
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