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Hi, You're able to track a maximum of 250 keywords in your Moz Pro account. What you could do is add the 181 keywords to a project and then add your competitors to the project so you can see their progress against yours. I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for but that's the best you could do on such a basis in your Moz account. Otherwise I would look into other tools.

Thanks a lot Lesley, really appreciate it! We currently use a Creare SEO plugin for Magento which appears to solve the issue of duplicate content but then creates another issue of temporary redirects. Will try Yoast and see how things go. Thanks again.

We have a self-grown tool at work but when I was on my own I used Link Assistant's Rank Tracker and it's pretty good when you get it setup right.  I reported month on month ranking changes.  Still probably the best & easiest way to do it for clients - but check out services like SERPS.com as well.

OSE looks at Facebook likes for your page/domain, NOT for your Facebook page on the Facebook domain. If you look at it that way, does it explain the numbers? For example, OSE shows moz.com has having a couple of thousand likes, compared to our FB page on Facebook.com that has 151,000 likes.

Hi Robert, as this original question is quite old and not marked answered, would you mind opening a new one? This will give the question more exposure. I'll keep my eye out for it. Thanks! Christy

I think something missed about duplicate content is what Google actually does with it. Say you have those two urls, Google is not going to penalize your whole site for the duplicate content. What they do is try to figure out which one should be shown, and sandbag the other one. More than likely the login one would be sandbagged, because it is not linked. You could always add a canonical url to really solve the issue.

The '40-50' is the actual amount of links on that specific page (internal and external). The '1150' is the total amount of internal links on the website (up to 3000 linked pages).

You can use Copyscape. You can also take a small piece of the copy and wrap in quotes and enter it into Google search. I would do the latter, before the former. Copyscape costs $.05 per page.

I presume that you are talking about a page that is a category page that lists multiple products? The general rule is that any page will tend to rank more highly when it has quality links pointing towards it. So, the same is true for a product category page. However, I would add the following caveats on the types of links for which you should aim: The links should be good ones and not from junk directories, article sites, and so on Don't use exact-match anchor text Are the websites quality and relevant -- one way to determine this is to ask if you would want a link from a site for the referral traffic even if Google did not exist. Is the page and website talking specifically about that type of product? Is it a website that your potential customers use and is relevant to the industry? Look at Domain Authority and Page Authority Will the link appear natural or as though you "built" it Will the link be an editorial one (placed in the main text of a page) and not in other places that are targeted by spammers (header, footer, sidebar lists, etc.) My personal rule is to try to earn links through natural PR and marketing (that's a Moz post I wrote on the topic) rather than to "build" them artificially Don't get too many artificial links pointing towards the category page -- it will look like an unnatural link profile. Most natural links will always likely point towards the home page or to pieces of content (like blog posts) that have added to the site. I hope this helps! For links, quality matters more than quantity. Good luck!

These are kind of some big questions with a lot of possible answers. So I'll go with the most general response. Top 40 Results: That can be a terribly unrealistic goal, or one that's tough. If these are branded queries (e.g. Product/Service Your Brand), it will be tough even for an established brand. Someone else always sneaks in there, somehow. Given that you've been tasked with doing that for hundreds of keywords, it sounds closer to the terribly unrealistic side of the spectrum. Competition With Yourself: It can be good and it can be bad. It really depends on the pages. Some pages can be better than others, given their purpose. So if you want someone to call and for some reason there isn't a phone number, they won't find what they need and you've lost the sale. If someone has many options from only one source, they may choose not to click at all for some reason. Better KPIs: A good KPI is something that's achievable and in line with real business goals. Good KPIs keep the lights on. Higher rankings don't always guarantee business goals will be met. Honestly, there's some real garbage pages out there that rank well for certain queries. You can virtually guarantee they aren't worth the cost of hosting. Perhaps you want more service calls? Maybe you want to increase your email database? These are things that you have to establish with decision makers/stake holders within the business. A good set of performance indicators pay the bills. Rankings for the sake of rankings often deviate from that purpose. Hopefully this was helpful. Edit: I forgot to touch on the .net to .com migration. There are a lot of variables there as well. I really don't know how well the migration was handled. If it was handled well, you might see some cached results from the .net version, but eventually everything will swing over to the .com. If the migration wasn't handled well... you have a whole set of other problems.

Hey Jeff, Thanks for the question. I took a look at your campaign and the traffic is showing perfectly on the dashboard. Additionally I checked the traffic section and it's had consistent updates on schedule since it was connected. If you're seeing something different than that can you send a screenshot over to help@moz.com so we can check it out? Cheers, Joel.

I suggest you should go with Jane's suggestion. create folders. Subdomains are actually seen as different sites. Will not carry the domain authority of the parent site.

Federico, Thank You for your response. What I'm trying to accomplish is setting up an Anchor Text to link to content to a deeper internal page that goes into more detail. Regards, Nick S.

Hi Jane, I really appreciate your taking the time to go over all this with me. Thanks, again! Cheers... Darcy

Hi there! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. Sorry for the confusion here. There was some miscommunication in our FAQ, and this isn't actually a bug. Chris gave you some great advice on how to fix this though! I know you have a ticket open with us as well, so if you have any other questions you can follow up with us there! Happy Monday! Erin

Hi Kimberly, Sorry this question has gone so long without a reply: I've just been directed to it. If the internal links to /default.asp (relative links) result in a 301 redirect, taking people to www.site.com/, there is technically no problem with that set-up. It would be better if the links pointed directly to www.site.com/ as a small amount of authority is lost in a 301 redirect, but is not disastrous by any means. I am not sure that updating internal links to point to www.site.com/page.asp instead of /page.asp is the solution to the home page will solve this problem though - did you manually update the relative links to absolute links that have been fixed?

Hey Ryan, Thanks for the question. I just logged in as you and tested that URL in the on-page tool and it worked perfectly. If you're still having troubles can you take a screenshot of the error you get and send it into help@moz.com? Thanks! Joel.

Google handles special characters in URLs, titles, etc. just fine now - a page like http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Versailles uses the proper accent on the a, and is displayed properly in modern browsers as well as in Google's results. There should be no impact on rankings, although it's safe to say that best practice would include using the proper characters, as they certainly benefit usability.

Thank you Gordon.  I enjoyed reading your reply and can relate to it. Since Google has changed so many things about the way that they rank websites, a lot of the advice for improving your rankings that was given just two years ago is now deadly to the health of your website.  And, there are some SEO forums today where an awful lot of the advice that is given is really bad in general and often inappropriate for the question being asked.  (Moz Q&A is generally pretty high quality IMO and part of that is because the Moz staff keeps an eye on it, participates in some threads that are jumping the track and uses endorsements to highlight good information.  There are a lot of forums where bad stuff persists and grows.) I am sure that I have given a lot of bad advice simply because of my beliefs and understandings are different from how google works - or I might not understand the person's question.  And, that is where a forum works well.  Since nobody knows many things about Google we answer questions that start an argument and many times being wrong advances ultimately advances your knowledge and understanding. For years I have read most of the questions that have a title like.... "Wah!  My traffic dropped".... or "Wah!  My site fell out of Google".  Those are the most valuable to understand and when my traffic dropped from a Panda problem, I had a really good idea why and how to fix it.  If I was not watching those threads I would have been wondering "What happened?" and not realize that something can be done about it. Q&A is where you can keep your ear to the ground.  And if you are helpful here, people will really be extra helpful to you when you ask a question.  Thanks to all who have answered questions for me.