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  • Hi.. thanks for the help but I'm sure is not a mozbar problem.... unfortunately I cannot run any extensions on my chrome browser, so it must be a browser problem and I will try to find it... thanks

    | Emanuele_Ricci
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  • Thanks, I have sent an email and hope to get this resolved soon

    | Andy-Halliday
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  • Hi Erin, I'll wait for your contact then. If I can help with any other information please let me know. Cheers, Guilherme.

    | Guilhermealvesc
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  • Happy to help! We crawled roughly 49k pages because there were that many links on the site that we could find. 50k is also the new standard crawl limit for campaigns in Standard and Medium subscriptions. Adding a rel=canonical to a page doesn't mean it won't get crawled by our campaign crawler, only that the crawler is to refer to the canonicalized link for reporting purposes. Without going into too specific of URL details, these pages are considered duplicates because their canonical tags point to different URLs. For example, DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR?booking_date=&booking_days=&booking_persons=search_location%25252525253Dcabo-san-lucasbooking_date=&booking_days=&booking_persons=search_location%25252525253Dcabo-san-lucas&limit=20&offset=20 is considered a duplicate of DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR?booking_date=&booking_days=&booking_persons=limit%252525253D20 because the canonical tag for the first page is DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR?offset=20 while the canonical for the second URL is DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR Since the canonical tags point to different pages it is assumed that DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR?offset=20 and DOMAIN.COM/charters/search/mx/QR are likely to be duplicates themselves. Here is how our system interprets duplicate content vs. rel=canonical: Assuming A, B, C, and D are all duplicates, If A references B as the canonical, then they are not considered duplicates If A and B both reference C as canonical, A and B are not considered duplicates of each other If A references C as a canonical, A and B are considered duplicated If A references C as canonical, B references D, then A and B are considered duplicates The above example from your campaign actually falls into the fourth example I've listed above. Hope this helps clear things up

    | SamWeber
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  • Hi there, Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. You can choose Google as a search engine and we'll show you those rankings, but as Keri stated we're only able to show search volume for Bing. All of our searches run as if you're doing a search in an incognito or private browsing window. This means that if you choose google.com to check a keyword, we'll show you global, non-biased results. Your location won't come into play at all. If you are interested in local keywords, you can try added a geo modifier to your keyword. So for example, instead of tracking "pizza" you could track "pizza Seattle." I hope this helps! Cheers, Erin

    | ErinMcCaul
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  • Hi there! Thanks for reaching out. My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. We're going to need a little more information to help you troubleshoot this. Can you email us at help@moz.com and let us know the query you're using in Fresh Web Explorer? We'll help you dig into this from there! Cheers, Erin

    | ErinMcCaul
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  • Hi Alan! Thanks for reaching out. My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. I'll do my best to address all of your questions! I have a list of the top 350 keywords sending volume to my site, sorted by volume. I am using your On-Page Optimization tool to look at the top 10 keywords and the grade for each of the relevant pages on the website.  So for "hard wood flooring," I am searching for that term on Google and finding the first listing for my site lumberliquidators.com that comess up. Then I paste that page link into the On-Page Optimizer. Is this the best way to do this to determine performance for the most relevant page?  Moz gave this keyword an F (home page) even though LL came up #2 in the organic Google rankings. On-Page looks at more than where you're ranking for a keyword. This tool is telling you how well optimized your keyword is for the URL your ranking for. You can read more about it all here in this handy article from our Help Hub! Who long does it take a campaign to run before all the final data is there? I have ran 3 different campaigns here because I made some changes int he keywords used. Is the last one, "LL SEO 3 - Lorry Terms" complete? When you initially set up a campaign you'll see GA data (if you have a profile linked), Keyword Rankings (as long as the were added during campaign set up), and your competitive metrics within a few hours. All of your other data should populate within 7 days. After that, your campaign will update every seven days. So for example, your LL SEO 3 campaign was created on August 21st. That means that your next update will occur on August 28th, and show your data from August 21st-August 27th. Your campaign should also update on the same day every week. It says there is a crawl error for Duplicate Content - 42,983 pages on www.lumberliquidators.com have duplicate content - is this possible? Yes, it's possible. It really just depends on how you have your site set up. Campaigns have a 90% tolerance for duplicate content. This includes all the source code on the page and not just the viewable text. So if a URL is at least 90% similar in code to another URL, this warning will appear. You can run your own tests using this tool: http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php We don't know what standard Google uses, but it's safe to say they are a bit more sophisticated than us - so you might be okay in this regard as long as you have a couple hundred words of unique text per page. Google won't say how much duplicate content is too much, so we like to be better safe than sorry. I noticed that when I search for www.lumberrliquidators.com on Google it seems to "redirects" to http://www.lumberliquidators.com/ll/home. Could this be impacting numbers in some way? As long as you have your 301 set up correctly, this should be fine. I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to email us at help@moz.com! Cheers, Erin

    | ErinMcCaul
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  • We're meeting internally to discuss the best solution to this. Only a very small percentage of our users exceed the 400 per day, and it does account for a but of an unreasonable load on our system. I'll be keeping the thread at http://moz.com/community/q/kw-difficulty-daily-limit updated (and closing this thread, since it's essentially a duplicate).

    | KeriMorgret
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  • Hey Alex! Can you send us an email with the user handles you are searching at help@moz.com so I can forward it to our devs. Let me know when you have submitted.

    | DavidLee
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  • Hi there! Without specific examples, it's really hard to diagnose/research questions like this. High level, campaign will grade a keyword based on the search engine and domain. When we do, we take a look at whether it's set to track all sites at that domain or just the specific domain. If it's just set to track that specific domain (let's say a root domain) and your ranking on a subdomain, the rankings will reflect that - in many cases that you're not ranking in the top 50 of SERPs or if you are ranking on both domains, what you're ranking for the given domain. Rank Tracker on the other hand defaults to provide rankings data for all sites in the domain that you type in unless you choose otherwise. Reviewing a couple of the keywords in each of your campaigns, the rankings do look accurate and if you're ranking in the top 50 of SERP's, the URL you're ranking for is displaying for the keywords. If you're still running into issues here, please reach out and let us know with some specific examples so that we can review this further for you. Hope this helps!

    | SamWeber
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  • Moz.com is my second favorite competitive link finding tool, but I used a Windows SEO program (dont think I'm allowed to mention the name.), and it was fantastic. Third favorite is plain old Google. The program I used would  crawl for hours and hours and also have the database from other users.  I found all kinds of incoming links to competitors sites I never would have thought existed. But yes the tool here works and is worth using. (OpensiteExplorer) You can also get a very, very basic backlink profile on Google by searching: link:www.site.com  which for me brings up 314 sites that all link to the site www.site.com.  Bing|Yahoo (Microsoft bought out the search part of Yahoo so the results are the same.), has same feature as well but their database has way less sites but still for sure worth using as I sometimes find they don't hold back as many links like Google does.  (Bing uses same syntax as above:  link:www.moz.com) Wait nevermind I take that back.  Bing now has whole tools dedicated to finding backlinks.  Nice http://www.bing.com/toolbox/link-explorer   Remember dealing with them you are also dealing with Yahoo.  As terrible as both the sites are, they still have a huge part of the search market.  Personally I think someone needs to stepup and make another search engine. (Maybe Apple?) that uses their own algorithm.  I'd try Bings new backlinks tool!! As for Google they hold back most incoming links, but here are some for the site you posted: Program and Portfolio Management Role | Gartner ... <cite class="_Ed">www.gartner.com/technology/.../program-portfolio-management.jsp</cite>Even though program and portfolio management (PPM) is a growing area of need for many organizations, the results it delivers often don't live up to ... Gartner Identifies China's Top 10 Strategic Technology ... <cite class="_Ed">www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2764217</cite>Jun 11, 2014 - A new report from research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends that CIOs in China should consider in ... Gartner Acquires Software Advice | Gartner Acquisitions <cite class="_Ed">www.gartner.com/technology/about/software-advice-acquisition.jsp</cite>Software Advice helps buyers choose the right software, offering detailed reviews, comparisons and research to assist organizations in finding products that best ... Big Data | Technology Research | Gartner Inc. <cite class="_Ed">www.gartner.com/technology/topics/big-data.jsp</cite>Big data - information of extreme size, diversity and complexity - is everywhere. This disruptive phenomenon is destined to help organizations drive innovation ... CIO Role | Gartner Technology Research & Events <cite class="_Ed">www.gartner.com/technology/research/cio.jsp</cite>IT strategies for many CIOs in 2011 aim to redefine the essential elements of IT from infrastructure, to cost structure, to people, to processes. These strategies ... Welcome to Intellisys Technology <cite class="_Ed">www.intellisystechnology.com/</cite>We are a global Information Technology solutions company. We help organizations address their business challenges effectively through IT. Through our proven ... 100+ sources that every innovation professional should know. <cite class="_Ed">www.boardofinnovation.com/.../100-sources-that-every-innovation-prof...</cite>by Nick De Mey  - Apr 16, 2012 - Running innovation projects is hard. By definition you're doing new things so you can't rely on old habits and routines. If you and your ... Vorsicht, heiße Luft: Die IT-Luftblasen des Jahres 2013 - Gulp <cite class="_Ed">https://www.gulp.de/.../Vorsicht-heisse-Luft-Die-IT-L...</cite>Translate this page Es ist weniger heiße Luft in den IT-Trends als in den letzten Jahren: Die 411 Umfrage-Teilnehmer haben nur zwei der zehn Zukunftsentwicklungen eindeutig als ... บริษัท คลาวด์ คอมพิวตึ้ง โซลูชั่นส์ จำกัด <cite class="_Ed">www.ccs.jasmine.com/</cite>Translate this page HOME. Welcome to CCS. บริษัท คลาวด์ คอมพิวติ้ง โซลูชั่นส์ จำกัด เป็นบริษัทในเครือ บริษัท จัสมินอินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล จำกัด (มหาชน) ... IT Vision@2015 | California State University, Northridge <cite class="_Ed">www.csun.edu/it/vision2015</cite>Cal State Northridge engaged in a collaborative campus process in 2010-2011 to create IT Vision@2015, a campus digital master plan. Much like the campus ... [PDF] Enabling actionable analytics for mobile devices - Journal of ... <cite class="_Ed">www.journalofcloudcomputing.com/content/pdf/2192-113X-2-15.pdf</cite>Oct 1, 2013 - Lee et al. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013, 2:15 http://www.journalofcloudcomputing.com/content/2/1/ ... 10 estratégias tecnológicas en 2014 y por qué - ChannelBiz <cite class="_Ed">www.channelbiz.es/.../10-tecnologias-estrategicas-en-2...</cite>Translate this page Jun 11, 2014 - Gartner explica que la convergencia entre movilidad, redes sociales, cloud y datos creará diversas situaciones donde será importante para ...

    | eugenecomputergeeks
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  • Hello! Keri is correct in our tools regenerating a fresh report if new information is collected and to add more clarification, this will include data that isn't built into the custom report as our tool does not have a way to identify which modules are awaiting data. I don't believe there will be an update with this behavior as we want to be on the safe side to make sure reports are generated than none at all. Hope this helps!

    | DavidLee
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  • This absolutely sounds buggy to me. Thanks for the heads up! Can you send this explanation of the issue with the CSV attached to help@Moz.com? From there, we will peek at this with our engineers and figure out the cause of the inconsistencies and conflicting data.  The fact that it doesn't happen with every item is definitely an indicator that something is weird.

    | Abe_Schmidt
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  • Thanks for your patience! I took a look at the crawl test for www.nasscoinc.com and I've checked the site in our index, Open Site Explorer, and I do see that we have currently only indexed 2 internal pages on the site. This usually means that we haven't found enough high quality links to the site to consider the site valuable enough to fully index. Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. While we have found some external links to www.nasscoinc.com, we haven't really found any to the internal pages of the site and the links we have found to the homepage aren't very high quality links. For now, the best thing you can do to help your domain become indexed is to work on link building for links from sites with high mozrank. If you need help with that, you may want to ask the Moz Q&A community about it. I hope this information helps! While the site and links may not be indexed yet, give it some time - maybe we'll see it in OSE next month. Chiaryn

    | ChiarynMiranda
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  • Hi Keri, I agree with your this statement: "Honestly, when people are looking at tools, I almost never hear someone talking about Alexa". Tanveer

    | Sequelmed
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  • Another way is to simply view what they've inserted into their keyword meta tag.  Although that tag has not been used by Google for some time, many websites still populate the tag with the terms they would like the page to rank well for.  To view the keywords meta tag, right click (if you're using windows) on the web page you're investigating and select "view source" or "view page source" and look near the top of the html page. There you'll see some code that looks like this: name="keywords" content="keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, etc."/> While you're looking at the page source, you can also look at the title tag (usually just above the keyword tag by a few lines).  It looks like this: <title>...this is the page title....</span><span></title> If you see overlap between words and or phrases in the title and the keywords tags, you can be pretty sure they are trying to rank for those terms--maybe successfully, maybe not.

    | Chris.Menke
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  • Hello ReniaEats, Googlebot and Google's algorithms are much more sophisticated than those at Moz. If you are sure that the keywords are only used a couple of times on the page, with the exception of templated items like those in the menu, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just write in a language that you think will be compelling to visitors and don't be too concerned with adjusting keyword density on the page. With that said, you may also want to look at the code just to make sure there is no hidden text. Just do a CTL+F (Find) search when viewing the source code and type your keywords to see where they show up outside of the navigation/menu. If you wanted to share the site I'm sure someone could have a look and let you know if there is anything to be concerned about.

    | Everett
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  • Sounds like management will end up sabotaging your SEO efforts with their ineptitude.

    | Kingof5
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  • Thank you, I posted this to the .htaccess file and it now works. DirectoryIndex index.php

    | werkbot
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  • Thanks Keri for your help. All working now. You was correct, turns out I was clicking on a button which shouldn't be there. Again thanks for your help

    | Andy-Halliday
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