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We use Bing for the search volume estimations regardless of the search engine you select. Google doesn't share their search volume information with us, so we aren't able to include Google search volume in the tool. Still, the Keyword Difficulty score that we calculate does take the search engine into account, so if you're looking to get a sense of how difficult it is to rank in the top 10 in Google, our difficulty score will reflect that.

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Pixelbypixel is right. Moz does offer some strong tools to help with Duplicate Content. Check out this article about how we crawl your site for this and how you may be able to fix it. http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/crawl-diagnostics/duplicate-content

Hey hey hey!

Sorry for the scare there! Your campaigns are probably archived. The good news is that reviving archived accounts is really simple.

Go to your Campaigns section: http://pro.moz.com/campaigns
At the top of the page there is a "Archived Campaigns" Tab, give it a click.
From here, you should easily be able to "activate" your campaigns.

Hope this helps! Please let us know if you need any other assistance.

Best,
Nick

Hey hey hey!

Good question! I have a few good resources to get you started. Check out Moz Academy's keyword research lesson to get some context: http://moz.com/academy/keyword-research

Next check out our Help Hub on SERP Analysis: http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/keyword-rankings/analyze-a-keyword

I also wrote a Q&A post about getting started with KWD here: http://moz.com/community/q/keyword-research-and-tracking-tips

If you have any specific questions, please let me know. Thanks!

We'll have no issue extending it! Let me know when you send in the ticket. I will look for it.

Hey hey hey,

We've been getting a lot of users with this issue. Our engineers are working on a fix. If you want us to send your account over to our talented engineers please send us a ticket with your info from here: http://moz.com/help/contact

Thanks and sorry about the confusion!
Nick

Hey Antony!

Thanks for writing in. As of now, we aren't sure. I know we've had issues getting non-US data providers to open up and let us look at listings, so it has been a challenge. Sorry about the vagueness of my reply, but it's been tough for us to get other "local" data. We hope to have some big changes to GetListed! early next year, so be on the look out. Also please give us more feedback on the feature request forum where others can vote up features they're looking for: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests

Thanks!

Nick
Moz
Communications Chief

Keyword research is elusive thing. Sort of like Bigfoot. Well… not really.

Rand actually does an excellent job explaining how to get started in his Moz Academy lesson on Keyword Research. Check that link out!

I want to get the same type of conversation started on Q&A. I'll let everyone know how I’ve learned to do KW research. Please let me know how you do it!!!!!

The first thing you’ll want to do is create a list of keywords you feel like your brand should target. I would start with what you offer, your brand, and how you want people to find you.

1. Brand – Obviously you want to rank for your brand. First thing you want to do is see how people are searching for you brand. Use Ubersuggest for this. This tool will give a huge list of ways Google is suggesting results to people. Take that list and look at one’s that relate to your service, product, or content and save them in a spreadsheet. This will let you start tackling longer tail keywords before you focus in on your exact brand.
2. What do you offer? – Think to yourself; how would I find my own service? Let’s say you sell air conditioners. You should check out Wordtracker to get a sense of how many people are searching for “air conditioners.” Then look at the other suggestions Wordtracker gives. These suggestions are usually terms that you want to invest some research into, because people are actually searching for them. A lot of people don’t focus their efforts… They end up using a wide net, which is fine, it’s just hard to measure success and build good quality content around too many terms.

Alright! Let’s say you have list ready to go. It’s time to do some competitive research. I’d start with the Keyword Difficulty tool section of Moz Analytics. If you’re new to keyword research you want to try a longer-tail keyword. Something like “air conditioners on sale” instead of just “air conditioners.”

When you put a term in the Keyword Difficulty tool you’ll see the top ten people ranking for this term. These are based on Domain Authority and Page Authority. This is great way to size up the competition based on how strong their link profile is!

Don’t stop there. If you see some lower authority scores in the top ten, then I’d consider it low hanging fruit. Run a full report now.

There’s going to be a lot of information here, but I’d like to focus your attention to the On-page stuff. Check that data out. Look to see how well pages in the top ten are optimized(do they have A, B, C, D, or F grades?). If they’re mostly floating around the B and C grade range; try to optimize an existing page you want to rank for the term or create some new content.

When you have a page built drop it in our standalone On-page optimization tool to get a guide on how should use your keyword. You can also use Moz Analytics’ On-page tool to track these grades in combination with your rankings data. Just keep tracking it here!

How do you go about KW research and tracking? Let me know if you have any feedback on this process and please detail your own if you have time. I’d love to here what ya’ got.

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Awesome! I actually just spoke with our local expert David Mihm and we have around 9 lessons planned around local. We hope to have them all ready to go around the end of October!

We have plans for both!

Keyword research is elusive thing. Sort of like Bigfoot. Well… not really.

Rand actually does an excellent job explaining how to get started in his Moz Academy lesson on Keyword Research. Check that link out!

I want to get the same type of conversation started on Q&A. I'll let everyone know how I’ve learned to do KW research. Please let me know how you do it!!!!!

The first thing you’ll want to do is create a list of keywords you feel like your brand should target. I would start with what you offer, your brand, and how you want people to find you.

1. Brand – Obviously you want to rank for your brand. First thing you want to do is see how people are searching for you brand. Use Ubersuggest for this. This tool will give a huge list of ways Google is suggesting results to people. Take that list and look at one’s that relate to your service, product, or content and save them in a spreadsheet. This will let you start tackling longer tail keywords before you focus in on your exact brand.
2. What do you offer? – Think to yourself; how would I find my own service? Let’s say you sell air conditioners. You should check out Wordtracker to get a sense of how many people are searching for “air conditioners.” Then look at the other suggestions Wordtracker gives. These suggestions are usually terms that you want to invest some research into, because people are actually searching for them. A lot of people don’t focus their efforts… They end up using a wide net, which is fine, it’s just hard to measure success and build good quality content around too many terms.

Alright! Let’s say you have list ready to go. It’s time to do some competitive research. I’d start with the Keyword Difficulty tool section of Moz Analytics. If you’re new to keyword research you want to try a longer-tail keyword. Something like “air conditioners on sale” instead of just “air conditioners.”

When you put a term in the Keyword Difficulty tool you’ll see the top ten people ranking for this term. These are based on Domain Authority and Page Authority. This is great way to size up the competition based on how strong their link profile is!

Don’t stop there. If you see some lower authority scores in the top ten, then I’d consider it low hanging fruit. Run a full report now.

There’s going to be a lot of information here, but I’d like to focus your attention to the On-page stuff. Check that data out. Look to see how well pages in the top ten are optimized(do they have A, B, C, D, or F grades?). If they’re mostly floating around the B and C grade range; try to optimize an existing page you want to rank for the term or create some new content.

When you have a page built drop it in our standalone On-page optimization tool to get a guide on how should use your keyword. You can also use Moz Analytics’ On-page tool to track these grades in combination with your rankings data. Just keep tracking it here!

How do you go about KW research and tracking? Let me know if you have any feedback on this process and please detail your own if you have time. I’d love to here what ya’ got.

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Hey Rob!

Thanks for writing in! I would recommend you spend that money on lights. If you want to light a WB you will need something with a soft box on it. We use four lights to light our presentations. Two on the sides and two in front of the presenter. As far as a camera goes any HD point and shoot would be fine. I usually stick with Panasonic and Lumix lenses. When you are looking at mics, just look for a cheap audio technica with a mini plug in (most cameras you will be looking at won't have XLR).

Again I would focus on lighting.

Hope this helps a little!

Hey Chirah,

Sorry about the odd metrics. If the campaign is set up as a root domain, then the subdomain metrics won't be accurate, we are working on a fix for that now. If you want to see the correct metrics put your URL in OSE and check the Compare Link Metrics Tab.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Best,
Nick

Hey Mark,

Our apologies that the results weren't as you expected. Unfortunately, this is something of an intractable problem. The search engines - Google, Yahoo! & Bing - all maintain multiple indices that run across multiple datacenters. This means if you query different datacenters, you can get somewhat different ranking results. Other elements, such as personalization, geography and search history (even if you're logged out of your Google/search engine account) can also influence ranking positions. Hence, there can be a lot of variation in what different people, searching from different computers/locations might see in the rankings.

Our solution has been to run searches from a variety of IP addresses and IP blocks using non-personalized, search history/location agnostic requests. In our experience, these have provided the most accurate results, showing what the "most" users see, though we know there's still quite a bit of room for fluctuation.

Thanks again, and have a great day!

Nick

Hey hey hey!

Good question! I have a few good resources to get you started. Check out Moz Academy's keyword research lesson to get some context: http://moz.com/academy/keyword-research

Next check out our Help Hub on SERP Analysis: http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/keyword-rankings/analyze-a-keyword

I also wrote a Q&A post about getting started with KWD here: http://moz.com/community/q/keyword-research-and-tracking-tips

If you have any specific questions, please let me know. Thanks!

Hey Leni,

Unfortunately, that Labs tool is still broken, but for a good reason! We're working on a new version that should get put up sometime soon. Unfortunately, I don't have a date for the release, but I think it'll be sometime this month. We don't really support the Labs tools since they're alpha state, but I'll do what I can to get it up fast!

Have a great day,

Nick
SEOmoz

Hey Michael,

It looks like it is function of WordPress to put rel=canonicals on some duplicate pages. It is a good thing though So I wouldn't sweat it.  Remember that anything in the Notices section is just interesting facts we found about your site. They aren't bad things or issues.

Sorry about the confusion. You actually won't lose your historical data. That messaging it just telling that your cached graphs will be reset, so it will take us a hour or so to pull back the historical information from GA. Just go through all of the accounts you are having issues with and reset the connection. If that doesn't work, make sure you are logged in to you Google account that has the GA accounts on them and disconnect the accounts with the scary red button, then reconnect them.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Nick
Moz

Hey There,

Rogerbot will still follow Nofollows because it needs to get a holistic view of the site.

Here are some things you can do about duplicate pages:

Delete content that is similar on each page.

Add some new and unique content to each page that is on the report. This can be done by adding more information, ideas, product descriptions, or anything that can make it differ from other pages on the domain.

You can also add a rel=canonical to one of the duplicate pages. Here are a few ways to do this:

Add a rel="canonical" link in between the  and elements. This should be done on the version of the page you want to be ranking or that non-canonical version of the two (or multiple) pages.

To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.seomoz.org/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool, create a  element that looks like this: <link rel="canonical"href="<a href="http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool">http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool"/></link rel="canonical"href="<a>

Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool&sort=fun.

This should successfully eliminate the duplicate content issues.

AllaO,

Sorry about the odd crawl activity. I pulled up your campaigns and it looks like something blocked rogerbot from crawling. This could be new redirects or changes in your robots.txt file. If you don't think one of those is the issue get a hold of our support team: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums You can submit a ticket from here.

Best of Luck