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  • local ranking factors local seo multi-location city name service pages

    I have a question. I just got a full-time job at Zavza Seal, an upstanding insulation contractor targeting neighborhoods of Suffolk and Nassau counties in New York. I was hired as an SEO content specialist. (Thanks Rand! You're one of my mentors~!) So, they handed me a spreadsheet of pages for city-specific terms, and they had a system in place for local rankings. But I was taught to do service-specific city pages a certain way. If the search term is for people looking for a service in that town, that's what you give them. However, I was told to proofread them, and as an SEO specialist, I couldn't keep my hands off of them. The pages were skimpy. (Example: h2, paragraph, bullets, short paragraph summary, short paragraph about the city.) What threw me off is that the content, while it was service specific, it was blog topics localized. Those are great (when long enough and optimized to compete in SERPs) but I've never seen them done on service pages. (Example: Why is Mold Remediation Necessary in Baldwin?. Now, this went in two directions in my mind. (and I wanted to do the best for the company, because I'm a wicked brat for teams, AND I get commissions on leads, so that was motivation, too.) 🐷 Anyway, 1. This could be a new approach and worthy of an SEO study on my startup site, where I take on part time clients after work, because I've never seen it done before and it could, if optimized for the target service and city rank high in SERPs AND build thought leadership and authority as a local expert. (Whereas city service pages in standard format would just promote your service. ..) What do you guys think? I just put the topic up for discussion for my team, asked them about it in detail and asked if they wanted to A'/B test a few to see what get's better traction organically. Mr. Fishkin was one of my mentors. I really wish I just had his number for this one LOL.

    Local SEO | | ThisTimeWereOn
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    moz local

    I have several locations on MOZ Local. I haven't had any trouble before, but now when I try to update anything (on any location) I get this error "Your location could not be saved" and if I attempt to navigate off the page it reminds me that my changes won't be saved. ???? I don't see anything wrong with any entries.

    Moz Local | | c3ajeff
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  • seo consulting google

    This is my personal website. I wonder, will the articles written about artificial intelligence rank on Google, or will the site not rank? https://withpositivity.com/

    Community | | lowzy
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  • reviews seo comparison marketing advice

    Hello Moz community. I’m looking for feedback on how
    to improve this national company review/comparison website. We bring in experts in the industries we are writing reviews on. Well then conduct extensive keyword research and provide an SEO optimized recommendation content briefing to the writer. The writer creates the content including the high search volume and most relevant keyword phrases that people are searching for. We also make sure to match the intent of the keywords to Commercial intent for the content to ensure it matches our audience. For example, we brought in a leading audiologist and created the top Hearing aids for tinnitus.. How can we improve the process and site, any recommendations?

    Content Development | | Paul-Paquin-Golden-Financial
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  • aitoolsonlinefree aitoolstonlinefree ai tools online free age calculator fancy text generator

    Go to Google and search "aitoolstonlinefree. com" Enter a lot of free AI tools as per your need. And a lot of tools are coming soon...
    ss 1 homepage.PNG

    Moz News | | somialvi
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  • redirect chain 301 redirect

    Most products on our site have redirects to them from years of switching platform and merely trying to get a great and optimised URL for SEO purposes. My question is this: If a product URL has alot of redirects (301's), would it be more beneficial to me to create a duplicated version of the product and start fresh with a new URL? I am not on here trying to gain backlinks but my site is tn nursery dot net (proof:)
    I need some quality help figuring out what to do.
    Tammy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | tammysons
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  • keyword namingstandard

    I have a client whose business name can be abbreviated. In the previous version of the website they referenced all 3 naming standards. We are in the process of setting up a new website and my question is - do we use one name throughout the website or incorporate the other abbreviations to catch all options?

    Keyword Research | | LisaBabblebird
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    crawl error crawling crawl

    Hello,
    I don't understand why MOZ crawl only the homepage of our webiste https://www.modelos-de-curriculum.com We add the website correctly, and we asked for crawling all the pages. But the tool find only the homepage. Why? We are testing the tool before to suscribe. But we need to be sure that the tool is working for our website. If you can please help us.

    Product Support | | Azurius
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  • local seo landing pages localseo

    I'm trying to understand how to optimize landing pages to appear in local search. For example, if someone in Chicago searches for "plumber", Yelp has a page "Top 10 Plumbers in Chicago." They are generating these pages for numerous business types and cities. I can't see anything on the page or metadata that indicates a geographic location or business type. What optimizations are they doing to get Google to know that it's a page for a specific city and type of business?

    Local SEO | | Tourizee
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  • citations city name

    Hey everyone, I have a question about what city to use for citations in this case. My client is a service-area business in the Seattle area. The business is home-based, in Everett, WA, which if you’re not familiar is in the northern part of the Seattle metro area. They only serve clients outside the home. For their GBP that’s no problem, as of course their address isn’t shown. For all the citations we’ll be building though, I’m not entirely sure what we should do. The client does not want their street address anywhere online. So, since their city won't be listed on their GBP, should we still use Everett as the city for all the citations, or should we use Seattle? I'm unsure here because with some citations you have to list a full address, and then you're able to hide the street address later. And since they don't technically have a Seattle address, I'm not if that would be the way to go. But I’m wondering because no one will be searching for “[service] in Everett”, they would search for “[service] in Seattle”. What do you think?

    Local Listings | | SamB47
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    domain authority

    when i am searching my domain http://mqiexplore.com/ its showing no data found. fix it

    Moz Tools | | qasimiqbal22
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  • dashboards client access new features

    Re: Client Dashboard Options Wanted to bump this. Adding a feature where you can share a link to clients to be able to view their dashboard at any time would be a great value add for our SEO clients!

    Reporting & Analytics | | EWeaver
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  • keywords blog post e-commerce

    I'm trying to improve the SEO for an e-commerce store that I'm working for that sells custom car air fresheners where you select the shape of the item and then upload the photo. The site has been around for almost 10 years so has authority in the field and ranks number one for custom car air fresheners and other related high-traffic keywords. However, there is no blog, no social media and has 8 total pages: landing page, FAQ, contact, guidelines, shape/product (page that starts the ordering process with little text), scents, terms, and samples.
    I'm struggling with how we rank higher for specific keywords that we are not number 1 with ok traffic (such as dog air freshener, custom air freshener for car with picture, custom photo car air freshener) and not affect the current keywords that we are ranking number one for. In addition, how do we rank higher for other keywords, if we don't have that many pages like a blog to create content? I was thinking of creating a blog to target more keywords, but I don't think there is enough relevant content to make. And I feel Google would find a blog about "top gifts for dad" or "top gifts for the holidays" not relevant. I was also thinking of adding more text to the shapes/product page which could be tailored towards a keyword. Maybe I could create another product page that goes into more detail about the air freshener with images, descriptions, and other use cases. On MOZ, the Domain Authority is 18 (really low), so I am thinking about working on getting backlinks from relevant sources with authority to improve our SEO. Or do we not mess with the text on the website since it works and not worry about the other keywords and focus on technical SEO items and backlinks to help with SEO? TLDR: How do you improve SEO for new keywords for an e-commerce business that doesn't have a lot of pages for content without affecting its number 1 ranking on other keywords?

    Keyword Research | | campionn
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    reviews moz local

    My google reviews are not transferring over to the directory sites how do we fix this? im looking at the chamber of commerce and it says 0 reviews

    Moz Local | | Roberthodges
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  • zero ranking keywords pescoonlinebill.com

    My website, pescoonlinebill.com, shows many queries in console but there are zero ranking keywords in MOZ dashboard.

    Link Building | | realdy
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  • reduce the spam score

    My website is https://usapickleballrules.org it is a informational website and Moz shows a spam score of 8,may i know why my site spam score is high and how can i reduce it,after all it is a dubai store portal.

    Community | | rameezmirza
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    reduce the spam score

    My website is https://usapickleballrules.org it is a informational website and Moz shows a spam score of 8,may i know why my site spam score is high and how can i reduce it,after all it is a dubai store portal.

    Moz Pro | | rameezmirza
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  • displaying domain authority

    I wanted to bring a pressing matter to your attention regarding our website, https://usapickleballrules. We've noticed a significant problem with the way our Domain Authority (DA) is being displayed, or rather, not being displayed.

    Community | | rameezmirza
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  • seo consulting seo expert seo page treatment

    Hi, My website has a few SaaS products, to make my website simple i want to move my website some pages to its specific folder structure , so eg website.com/product1/features
    website.com/product1/pricing
    website.com/product1/information and same for product2 and so on, the website.com/product1/.. menu will only show the links of product1 and only one link to homepage (possibly in footer). Please share your opinion will it be a good idea, from UI perspective it will be simple , but i am not sure about SEO perspective, please help thanks

    Technical SEO | | webbeemoz
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  • canonical ranking issue subdomain indexation

    Our company recently rebranded and launched a new website. The website was developed by an overseas team and they created the test site on their subdomain. The only problem is that Google crawled and indexed their site and ours. I noticed Google indexed their sub domain ahead of our domain and based on Search Console it has deemed our content as the duplicate of theirs and the Google selected theirs as the canonical.
    The website in question is https://www.spaziointerni.us
    What would be the best course of action to get our content ranked and selected instead of being marked as the duplicate?
    Not sure if I have to modify the content to make it more unique or have them submit a removal in their search console.
    Our indexed pages continue to go down due to this issue.
    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Community | | Spaziohouston
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  • international seo

    We've just recently launched our website in Canada and our web crawler is showing some pages with "&Country=CA", even if the current page already includes Country=CA. Why is this and how would we go about resolving?

    International SEO | | nicole.nelson03
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  • indexing request rejected webmaster indexing

    when i try to index my posts in google webmaster tools i see this eror : Indexing request rejected
    During live testing, indexing issues were detected with the URL
    Crawl
    Time
    Sep 23, 2023, 11:05:05 PM
    Crawled as
    Google Inspection Tool desktop
    Crawl allowed?
    Yes
    Page fetch
    error
    Failed: Hostload exceeded
    Indexing allowed?
    N/A
    Indexing
    User-declared canonical
    N/A
    Google-selected canonical

    Only determined after indexing my website : http://123select.ir/

    SEO Tactics | | sasansasyino
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  • azeem safi azeemsafi who is azeem safi tech

    I am Working on Tech Niche Website My Website Title is Azeem Safi: Technology News, Gadgets, Howto, Reviews & More and I want to Rank on Google and Drive more traffic on Google. Please Guide me

    Link Building | | ciwili3115
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  • seo spam score

    Hello There,
    Few days back, Spam Score of two of my sites drastically increased from 1% to 31% for one site and from 1% to 36% for another site overnight. Here are the two websites https://simpalm.com/ ducknowl.com Site background for 2-3 months ABC link exchange campaign was started for both the sites. Links where built on high quality sites with DA40 above and most of them are Saas sites No reciprocal link exchange was done Same new pages are created on the site for on page SEO Both the sites are hosted on GoDaddy Can someone please tell me what is the reason of this Sudden increase in spam score of both the sites and at same time?

    Technical SEO | | rohit.c
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  • snippet

    Hi I write a json+ld script for star snippet in my website but not work in my first page. you can see it in this URL https://www.tehran-borj.ir
    when I googled my keyword my competitor show with star snippet in SERP but my site doesn't show.

    On-Page Optimization | | pifpaffarm
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  • indexing crawling noindex

    Our staging website got indexed by google and now MOZ is showing all inbound links from staging site, how should i remove those links and make it no index. Note- we already added Meta NOINDEX in head tag

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Asmi-Ta
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  • seo

    My website has many pages like this: mywebsite/company1/valuation mywebsite/company2/valuation mywebsite/company3/valuation mywebsite/company4/valuation ... These pages describe the valuation of each company. These pages were never identical but initially, I included a few generic paragraphs like what is valuation, what is a valuation model, etc... in all the pages so some parts of these pages' content were identical. Google marked many of these pages as duplicated (in Google Search Console) so I modified the content of these pages: I removed those generic paragraphs and added other information that is unique to each company. As a result, these pages are extremely different from each other now and have little similarities. Although it has been more than 1 month since I made the modification, Google still marks the majority of these pages as duplicates, even though Google has already crawled their new modified version. I wonder whether there is anything else I can do in this situation? Thanks

    Technical SEO | | TuanDo9627
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  • ranking homepage sub-pages not ranking

    Hey Community! I am facing an ranking issue, I am trying to rank on multiple quires with my sub-pages. The issue is homepage is ranking on every single query. Even the homepage's content is not relevant to that query! I have made sure to remove any sort of content relevancy from homepage which i trying to rank with my sub-pages. Business/Website Details: We are a recruitment agency based Pakistan providing manpower around the globe and other recruiting services. We are targeting each country with a sub-page. Even after I have done some necessary things but still there is not effect on rankings. Let me share some examples: Query: recruitment agency for gulf in pakistan Home Page Showing
    1.jpg Page i want to ranking:
    2.jpg This issue is not only with this page, it's appearing on multiple quires but I think it should clear the issue I am facing. Now: Any Possible Solutions to this technical or ranking error. Backlinks on this query don't matter because you can check the other search results don't have any backlink data on them. Please share some quick thoughts on-page content. Even I make a page that have the word recruiting/recruitment in it google will automatically rank homepage and not the page i want! Thanks in advance for help 🙂

    SEO Tactics | | xShams
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    productsupport

    We are using only 4 of the 25 seats that we have available. When assigning a new user, the individual receives the email, but when accepts the invitation, I cannot see him as an assigned user/seat. Does anyone have any suggestions/guidance please? Thanks in advance.

    Product Support | | lizmale
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  • seotrends voicesearchoptimization

    Absolutely! Optimizing for voice search is becoming increasingly important, especially when it comes to niche topics like sewing machines. If you're writing about Singer sewing machines, it's essential to consider how people might voice their queries when searching for information about these machines. Incorporate long-tail keywords and conversational phrases that sewing enthusiasts might use. In your articles about Singer sewing machines, you can provide answers to questions like 'What are the best Singer sewing machines for beginners?' or 'How do I maintain my Singer sewing machine for optimal performance?' By offering comprehensive and insightful answers, you're more likely to align with the needs of voice search users. If you're interested in exploring more about Singer sewing machines, you might find this resource helpful: Best Singer Sewing Machines. It's always great to have in-depth articles paired with valuable external sources to enhance the reader's experience. Happy sewing and optimizing!

    SEO Tactics | | Uvuvvuuv
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  • domain analysis domain authority domain migration domain

    I'm looking for some advice on switching domains for my survey/giveaway website.
    I purchased a website that gets around 1,500 in traffic and makes a few hundred in Adsense. The previous owner had rebranded the site and changed the domain which ended up hurting his SEO and traffic. Before that it was getting 10,000 in traffic on the old domain.
    It's been a few years since the rebrand but the original domain still holds a lot of authority and got way more traffic. Should I consider switching the website back to the original domain to try to improve rankings again or should I just focus on the new domain?
    The website now is snipon.com and the previous domain name was surveyh.com
    I'm wondering if switching back to the original domain will still be beneficial or if it will just mess up what's happening now on the rebranded site.

    SEO Tactics | | courtney.lou
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  • icons alt images alt attributes

    How effective is to add alt tags to icons?

    On-Page Optimization | | Asmi-Ta
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    serps ranking issue

    Hi all, I am facing an ranking issue, I am trying to rank on a query:
    "Recruitment Agencies In Pakistan for Saudi Arabia" Google is ranking me correctly #1 in singular version on the query, but not in plural version. Even my competitors in SERP's are same and ranking correctly on both teams. And yes, the real/in-search keyword is ""Recruitment Agencies In Pakistan for Saudi Arabia" and not the "Recruitment Agency In Pakistan for Saudi Arabia" I have gone through my on-page and off page but sill can't find the solution. Here is the image of current SERP's: "Recruitment Agencies In Pakistan for Saudi Arabia"
    1.jpg "Recruitment Agency In Pakistan for Saudi Arabia"
    2.jpg Can anyone please guide me on this, like what should i do?

    SEO Tactics | | xShams
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  • google webmaster seo rankings seo page treatment

    Although we do all the SEO work on our website, we do not rank in the words computer repair and laptop repair, although our backlink rate is good. The address of our website is https://trueonefix.com, one of the keywords I gave to the homepage that I was really curious about, for example, computer repair, I created a page on this page ( https://trueonefix.com/computer-repair/ ), they told me it was cannibalization and I removed it, now the site is getting less rankings than before. Can anyone help as to why this is? No matter what I do, I can't rank the words. #trueonefix #googlerank

    SEO Tactics | | Trueonefix
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    google my business google penalty google

    We respond to almost 100% of our quote requests, yet every quote email that comes in from Google shows a 27% response rate and it never changes. Has anyone else seen this or have any insight into it?

    Local Listings | | r1200gsa
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  • international technical

    Hi I work for a British company which has two well established websites - a .co.Uk for the UK, and a .com for the US and rest of the world (in language directories). The Uk site is hosted in the Uk, the .com in US. The websites do reasonable well in Google on both sides of the Atlantic. The company is a small but quite well known brand. The company is now thinking of redirecting the .co.Uk to the .com as it would be cheaper to maintain. What would you advise? Thanks.

    International SEO | | fdl4712_aol.com
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    seo audit

    Hi there, I'm new to MOZ Pro and have a question. My scan shows Archive pages as having crawl issues, but this is because Yoast is set up to block robots on these pages. Should I be allowing search engines to crawl these pages, or am I fine to leave them as I have it set up already? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
    Marc

    Moz Pro | | mhenshall
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  • seo

    Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on this... I'm working with a client whose website is experiencing some odd organic traffic patterns. See screenshot attached. As you can see, there was a sudden cliff fall about a month ago, and then it recovered (almost) entirely. Then, a month to the day later, the same thing happened again. What is the likelihood that this is a data glitch vs an algorithm thing? Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated. Thanks,
    Marc
    Screenshot 2023-08-18 at 09.37.26.png image url)

    Search Behavior | | mhenshall
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    keyword rankings

    I keep getting the following error "Getting ranking keywords failed. Please retry your search or refresh this page. " when using this tool. It has been ongoing for a while and is getting really frustrating. Any ideas?

    Moz Tools | | csiproducts
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  • seo audit seo rankings

    Over the last few months my rank has dropped by around half and for the life of me I can’t see why. There are no warnings on Google Console. Am I missing something? Website: thespacecollective.com

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | moon-boots
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