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  • local seo

    We find 404 pages on our company website using Screaming Frog SEO tool. it's important to fix these 404 errors, a web designer can normally help.

    Web Design | | sarahwalsh
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  • ahrefs keyword potential traffic volume moz pro

    Hi! I am curious what is the Moz equivalent of "potential traffic" metric in Ahrefs? Is there any keyword metric I can check in Moz to receive data on potential traffic rather than only volume? Thanks in advance!

    Keyword Research | | Siir
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    keywords list

    where can I see the list for the keywords I selected and that are being tracked?

    Keyword Explorer | | BAYphoto
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    local seo

    Hi we run a Cardiff fencing company, but we also want to appear on Google for another city called Newport, do we need two business addresses, or is it just a matter of creating two separate pages on our WordPress website for the two cities? we want to be on the first page of Google.

    Moz Local | | sarahwalsh
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    moz local marketing tool white-lable

    I am wondering if Moz Pro account users have the option to set up a white-labeled version of the Moz Local Listings Checker? And if so, how? It would be an excellent tool to entice customers to sign up for our services.

    Moz Local | | KoreyKorfi
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    api url metrics v1

    Hi! On one of our servers we get the message "The account does not have access to that quota" when pulling data for v1 URL Metrics endpoint in the API.
    This only happens on one specific server, others have worked flawlessly. Any idea of what might be going on? Thanks

    API | | aheitzman
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  • algorithm updates

    Hello, SEO experts from around the world. We need your help; we have seen massive ranking flux across our website and others. We cannot explain what is causing this ranking flux. The content marketing is top quality, so we don’t know why we are moving from 25 to 50th on Google and sometimes even beyond that. Can any SEO experts explain why our agency is moving so much within Google’s rankings? We don’t know whether to make changes or possibly wait. Any help would be fantastic; thank you all.

    Algorithm Updates | | sarahwalsh
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  • increase da increase moz da domain authority

    I WILL INCREASE DA WHAT I PROMISE:
    100% White Hat SEO
    Permanent High Authority Backlink
    Dofollow Backlinks
    Slow and Natural Process
    100% Manual Work [email protected]

    Link Building | | seeoexpert909
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    google business website

    Google will not publish my website to my business profile. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8sy4VD4Nin4zL2J49 Is this an issue with MOZ local or something else I need to do? My website is https://poolrepairpro.com I am using godaddy as my registrar and also using their website builder. I have integrated my google business profile/ reviews with godaddy website. I have submitted my sitemap to search console, connected google analytics, connected search console to analytics. I am also using gsuite for my email... Thank you, Nate

    Moz Local | | NatePRP
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    da

    Website DA is 4 but Ahref is showing DR 5. Why its different. Top Follow APK
    Top Follow
    Top follow for PC
    Top Follow Mod APK

    Link Explorer | | Be7sjsj38sj
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    local seo

    As we all know, an important part of local SEO, is building business citations. However, we are interested at our white hat SEO Agency, how many business citations do you build for each of your clients?

    Moz Local | | sarahwalsh
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    local seo

    So, this is probably one of the most challenging questions for SEO agencies likes ours to answer. That is how long does it take for a business to see an increase in sales, because of the business investing in organic or local SEO. It ultimately comes down to how competitive the business sector is, we do know that. We are just wondering what various SEO companies tell their clients. Is it for example, they have to wait a minimum of six months of paying for SEO, before they can get the business on page one of Google? Or, instead, do you carry out an SEO audit at the start, and then make an estimate for how long it will take to get the business on page one of Google?

    Moz Local | | sarahwalsh
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    local seo

    Hi, we are an SEO agency with over 10 years experience. We have always used white hat methods, we have only ever built quality links, and written quality content marketing. We have consistently had good organic ranking's in Google. The website recently moved back in the serps, not just a bit but absolutely massively. We cant work out why, we cant justify why neither. We are wondering if any SEO experts know why such moves exist, even if you follow white hat methods?

    Moz Local | | sarahwalsh
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    local seo

    We have followed the guidance of [Google EEAT] and Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. However, our [Cardiff SEO company] has moved back substantially in the SERPs; the links and content marketing are good, yet we substantially back on Google’s SERPS by over 30 places and we have no clue why. We don’t know why; we are an SEO agency with over ten years of SEO experience, we never have had this happen to us, and can't figure out why our business has moved back to Google. If there are any SEO experts here, we would appreciate your help. We called Walsh and Partners, we are a white hat seo company based in Cardiff, South Wales, any help we would be so grateful.

    Moz Local | | sarahwalsh
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  • review snippet serp

    Hi, In Moz it shows that we have a review snippet for a keyword/page, but it is not shown on google SERP. Can anyone explain why it isnt shown on Google search results, and what we should do in order to get it shown ?

    On-Page Optimization | | jensatlieto
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    domainoverview

    Why on Domain Overview are there only 4 countries to choose from? I am in NZ and need to check websites that operate businesses in NZ not Canada, US or Australia?

    Getting Started | | KapitiGirl
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    located in address

    My business is located in small shopping centre and I like to add shopping center name as separate line before actual street address line. Refer to highlighted line in image. Can anyone please guide me on how to get this "Located in" line added?Located In.JPG
    Thanks You

    Moz Local | | PareshDesai
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  • redirect chains on page seo technical seo on page optimization technical

    Hello Everyone, I'm getting redirect chains error on the home page URL:
    http://ebitdacatalyst.com in Wordpress. I've checked my redirection list in the plugin, and haven't found any redirections on http://ebitdacatalyst.com. Can anyone please help me in solving this issue? I don't know where from it's coming.

    On-Page Optimization | | Nikhil_Falcon
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    subscription cancelation

    Please confirm if I've correctly canceled the subscription. I wouldn't want any charges on my card after the free trial expires.

    Moz Pro | | Draganaasf
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  • facebook serp

    Hello! One of my clients' Facebook page isn't showing up on the SERP, even when you search "CLIENT NAME facebook" or an excerpt from a live post. Our social media team looked over all the settings in Meta, and everything looks correct, so we are stumped. Anyone encounter this before?

    Social Media | | GoogleAlgoServant
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  • page authority domain authority internal linking homepage

    I've been looking at the PA and DA scores for the homepage of websites we have built and have been comparing this to competitors. What I'm finding is that the PA score is always higher than the DA, however on competitors sites the PA is much higher in relation to the DA. What could be the reason for this? For example, some of our website homepages may have PA / DA scores such as the following: Website #1: PA37 DA25 (PA:DA = 1.48)
    Website #2: PA31 DA21 (PA:DA = 1.47) However competitors often have figures like this: Website #3: PA40 DA21 (PA:DA 1.9)
    Website #4: PA 25 DA 11 (PA:DA 2.27) I even saw one website with the following scores: Website #5: PA36 DA5 (PA:DA 7.2) How do you explain such a high Page Authority in relation to the domain authority for that site? When I look at the scores for our websites I often feel that the DA is at a good level, but the PA for the homepage doesn't seem as high as it could be compared to competitors. My initial thought was that maybe we had a lot of backlinks to other pages on the website (not the homepage) but this is not the case at all - pretty much all our backlinks are to the homepage. Could it be to do with internal linking structure? Any other ideas? Many thanks in advance for any help with this.

    Link Building | | getnoticedlocally
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  • seo gmb googlebusiness googlebusinessprofile

    Hi all! I have a question. I have a client who is a lawyer and has a personal listing (https://g.page/r/CWGdWgRIQVgVEBM/). The listing has around 70 reviews. However, they also have a listing for their office which is Nowlan Law (https://g.page/r/CVv3Q-QkQf8tEBM/). This one only has 28 reviews. That said, the client wants to change the name of the Steve Caya listing with the great reviews to Nowlan Law so the firm can benefit from the greater number of positive reviews. Everything I see discourages it. Thoughts? Goal is to benefit from Nowlan Law's reviews.

    Community | | simplydonetech
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  • seo gmb googlebusiness googlebusinessprofile

    Hi all! I have a question. I have a client who is a lawyer and has a personal listing (https://g.page/r/CWGdWgRIQVgVEBM/). The listing has around 70 reviews. However, they also have a listing for their office which is Nowlan Law (https://g.page/r/CVv3Q-QkQf8tEBM/). This one only has 28 reviews. That said, the client wants to change the name of the Steve Caya listing with the great reviews to Nowlan Law so the firm can benefit from the greater number of positive reviews. Everything I see discourages it. Thoughts? Goal is to benefit from Nowlan Law's reviews.

    Community | | simplydonetech
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    keyword difficulty keyword explorer keyword rankings keywords

    What are the most effective strategies for managing keyword difficulty (KD) in the Swiss market's competitive landscape, considering factors such as language variations, regional preferences, and search engine algorithms?

    Keyword Research | | digitavision2288
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  • site name international seo cctlds

    We are currently experiencing issues with our subdomain SiteName. Our parent company root domain is a Japanese language site, but we have an English subdomain that is for the United States primarily, and nearly rest of world for organic traffic. Our issue is that we have followed the guidelines here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names There was a large post on here with many responses including Googlers with issues others were having, but it has since been removed. Here is the code in place on our homepage: <script
    type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "name": "Mescius Developer Tools",
    "alternateName": ["Mescius, inc.", "developer.mescius.com"],
    "url": "https://developer.mescius.com" }
    </script> Unfortunately this is what is appearing in the SERP. It is using the Japanese equivalent of our parent company. Screenshot 2024-02-23 at 3.37.55 PM.png Even though the relationship between root and subdomain should not be causing this, it seems like something is impacting this incorrect SiteName, and it is impacting CTR for the subdomain. Has anyone else experienced this and found a fix?

    Technical SEO | | Evan_Wright
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  • wordpress

    good morning I have a wordpress site I have activated the multisite, currently the site has a domain authority of 8, when I publish a post, it is indexed quite quickly, if I publish a post in a language other than the /es ​​subdomain it takes 24 hours why? If the author domain is the same, why does the employee take longer to be indexed on Google? Thank you

    Technical SEO | | alainscilly77
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    elgenero

    estoy tratando dias para aumentar mi seo en moz pero no veo resultados alguien puede ayudarme?

    Moz Pro | | ipautapro
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  • short post

    From an SEO standpoint, is it worth keeping a blog post that only has a few images and a few sentences? I think the post was meant to be a 'Recent Work' type of a post, but there's only a few images in it and a few short sentences. I'm thinking they're basically useless since I've created an image gallery elsewhere and I'm tempted to delete them.

    SEO Tactics | | camerontway
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  • canonical indexing serps canonical duplicate url issue

    My client's CMS uses an internal linking structure that includes index.php at the end of the URLs. The site also works using SEO-friendly URLs without index.php, so the SEO tool identified a duplicate content issue. Their marketing team thought the pages with index.php would have better link equity and rank higher, so they added a canonical ref tag, making the index.php version of the pages the canonical page. As a result, the site dropped in the rankings by a LOT and has not recovered in the last 3-months. It appears that Google had automatically selected the SEO-friendly URLs as the canonical page, and by switching, it re-indexed the entire site. The question we have is, should they change it back? Or will this cause the site to be reindexed again, resulting in an even lower ranking?

    Technical SEO | | TienB24
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  • slug product pages

    Hello all, I have an online store, let's say for example I sell forks of all kinds and colors. So naturally, I have 'product category' pages with titles and slugs like: Big forks
    Small forks
    Plastic forks
    Red fork
    etc.. And plenty of product pages with slugs and H1 like: Small red fork
    Large plastic fork
    18th-century fork
    etc... Some category pages are well-ranked, others are not, the same goes for product pages. The problem is that for the main keyword, 'fork' (exact query in the search console), my site is completely absent. Google should logically have referenced my homepage (which has links to all categories) for this main keyword. I have also optimized the page for it, without overdoing it. I wonder if it's not because I have a lot of pages with 'fork' in the slug, and perhaps Google thinks it's too much (even though it's logical for this word to be present in all product pages because it's an essential word to describe the product). I wonder if I should not modify half of my product pages to remove the word 'fork' from the slug...(only from the slug, without touching the H1 because removing the word 'fork' would remove its meaning). Do you have any experiences with this kind of issue? I wouldn't ask the question if my homepage was behind the competition, but it's completely absent. Thanks

    On-Page Optimization | | Veptune
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    sitemaps seo tactic

    Hi there, I could use your help with something. Last week, I submitted my sitemap in the search console to improve my website's visibility on Google. Unfortunately, I got an error message saying that Google is not reading my sitemap. I'm not sure what went wrong. Could you take a look at my site (OceanXD.org) and let me know if there's anything I can do to fix the issue? I would appreciate your help. Thank you so much!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | OceanXD
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    invoices moz academy

    Hello, in December 2023, I purchased courses at the Moz Academy. To get my administration in order, I would like to have the invoices for these. Unfortunately, I can't find them anywhere. Would anyone know where I should look? The invoices from the Moz Academy are not among the invoices for the Moz subscription.

    Product Support | | Nilsson-SEO
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    moz

    I was searching keywords for my new blog post and suddenly Moz stopped showing KD of keywords.

    Keyword Explorer | | erozgaar5
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    moz pro error

    hello
    i have enter my site faroush.com but i got an error
    Ooops. Our crawlers are unable to access that URL - please check to make sure it is correct
    what is problem ?

    Moz Pro | | ssblawton2533
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  • competitor campaign settings url

    Hello, I am trying to set up a competitor with language slug for my (subfolder) website with a language slug. Let's say my website is something like: websiteholding.com/de/website
    My competitor is: competitor.com/de When I go to Campaign Settings > Comptetitor Sites > type in competitor.com/de > Hit Save Competitor > Then it shows the saved competitor without the language slug as competitor.com I am not sure if this is a correct method of tracking since for my DE website I would like to track the DE page of the competitor, not their global page. Please correct me if I am wrong and help me out on possible solutions? I am quite new to SEO & Moz , so any help on the topic would be appreciated.

    Competitive Research | | Siir
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  • seo googlescholar

    Hi all! We have a client who publishes scholarly research as a highly regarded non-profit. Their Publications aren't being indexed in Google Scholar 50% of the time and when they are, Google is pulling random stuff from a PDF vs. from the html page. Any advice on best practices is enormously appreciated

    SERP Trends | | SimpleSearch
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    subscription

    Hello. I paid for the subscription on Wednesday, January 03, 2024, and they blocked me on Wednesday, January 28, 2024. You set me up, I was counting on the next payment in February.
    Why did it happen?!

    Moz Pro | | bartelbi
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    moz local

    I'm facing an issue with the local Moz listing for my client's 7-year-old business at https://sockgeeks.co.uk Despite following best practices like GMB verification and NAP consistency, the business isn't showing on Moz Maps. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.

    Moz Local | | HarryPerry
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