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Hey, Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to write into help@moz.com so that we can take a closer look / gather some more information if necessary. Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli

Hi there! I'm afraid we do not return error reports specific for "hreflang" issues within our Site Crawls. To see the types of "href" errors we return, check out the site crawl for a campaign or the on-demand crawl tool. I hope this helps - if you have any follow-up questions, feel free to reach to out to us: help@moz.com

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Thank you Dave!

If you're talking about the Moz spam score of the domain, it's higher than many would like but it's not extremely high: https://d.pr/i/4WwfDq.png (screenshot) A score of 80 or higher is indicative of very, very spammy sites. Although lots of strong language is used within the tool, 50% isn't super awful really. By the way, Moz is not connected to your disavow file and cannot see it (something many have requested many times, which I continue to request at any given opportunity). As such, disavow work will not decrease your Moz spam score Moz's spam score is not something which Google use within their ranking algorithm(s). Google have private spam metrics which they do not share with webmasters. Moz's spam score is simply an attempt by our industry to make our 'best guess' at how spammy Google 'might' think a website is. Ultimately though, it's just an indicator and a 'shadow metric', it's meant to mimic the decisions that Google might make but Google (again) does not actually use any Moz metrics (at all) within their ranking algorithm(s) Your disavow file goes straight to Google, so even if Moz doesn't see it and their best 'guess' is that your spam score is still high, you know that 'actual Google' have seen your disavow work and thus Moz's spam metric is not likely to be accurate for your domain (which is why it's only an indicator, even when looking at other domains, as you don't know what link removal and disavow work they have carried out) If you want your actual Moz spam score to go down (though there is no reason for such vanity, as Google doesn't use Moz metrics) then you have to actually remove the links and that's that (sorry) Remember that the spam score is derived based on factors which Moz perceives as being common to penalised websites: Spam Score: "Represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google." ~ Moz This is not necessarily linked to backlink features in isolation, I would expect that some on-page features may be counted. The site just doesn't look and feel very legit: 1.) A review site, with only seven reviews, one of which appears to be for a gun or fire-arm (paintball or not, it's a gun) 2.) No seeming ability for any users to add their own reviews, so this is just one person's biased voice. Why does the internet need this website? 3.) Logo is blurry and low-res and doesn't look 'proper' 4.) Only three pages seem to exist. One of these pages is a 'disclaimer'. Webmasters put up disclaimers when, they should be taking more responsibility for the content of their own website but they refuse to do so. Disclaimers are a low-quality signal, and unless there are thousands of contradictory positive signals (which there are not, for this domain) then this is how this will be viewed 5.) The site has no value-add for end-users, or unique value-proposition. People can find more in-depth reviews from product critics they trust, or shallow yet more numerous reviews from review aggregators like Trust Pilot. Either way, they would be on a better site with a better value-proposition for the end user. Why would Google rank this site? 6.) Site claims to be a review site, yet does not make good usage of review schema and star-ratings for prettier SERPs. Seems more like a blog with aspirations to be a review site, which didn't quite make it. The site marks up the supposed 'reviews' with BlogPosting schema, not with review schema 7.) Content is dry with poor layout and feels boring. In most reviews no numerical evaluation is made, no star ratings are given. There's no point at which the author accepts: "I am a reviewer now, I must give an opinion, I must give something useful to the user which they could use at a glance". The unwillingness to take responsibility for giving an opinion, combined with the disclaimer which reinforces the author's 'shunning' of their own content (are they worried their own content is bad? Why are they so careful not to give or take responsibility for opinions? The images all look like stock images, are these fake reviews? Right now it feels like yes they are) 8.) It feels as if this site has bee made 'for the sake of' SEO. That's not the kind of site Google wants to rank ... so as you can see, even if you tackle your poor backlinks, this site doesn't really have much hope of ranking well on Google. Google is ultimately looking for trust and a value proposition. Over the materials which Google already has indexed on their first page of results for the reviewed products, the pages on this site don't really add anything. In addition the domain is giving off multiple off-page AND on-page mistrust signals, which will really stand against in the rankings In this case I think you'd better head all the way back to the drawing board Look at this video in which Miley from Google (think she's an ex-Googler now) outlines the #1 common SEO mistake as 'working without a value proposition': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AmRg3p79pM You only need to watch her outline issue #1, the rest of the video isn't that relevant to you Also watch Moz's video on how unique content isn't good enough to rank any more: https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday ... and how you should craft 10x content to replace the prior 'plague' of 'good unique content': https://moz.com/blog/how-to-create-10x-content-whiteboard-friday After watching these videos, you should begin to understand why what you're doing isn't working and why it won't work

You'll find what you need here: https://moz.com/community/q/local-keyword-search-volume As they point out, you should use Google Ads Keyword Planner. Best of luck.

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! It sounds like it could be a server block - would you be able to contact us at help@moz.com Thanks! Eli

We had a similar situation and a Moz rep (thanks Samantha) pointed out in the Help material (very close to what she wrote in the earlier post) about the 90% figure. We realized the reason for the message -  because the affected pages had very little content and the page header section and the page footer section (word press site) dominated the page content. We realized the issue could be ignored in our case.

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! We recognise exact matches found within the source code of your page. We struggle with parsing Javascript so typically the Keywords are found within HTML. Feel free to reach out to help@moz.com with any further questions. Best, Eli

Hi there! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you pop an email about this over to help@moz.com along with the name of the affected campaign? We'll be able to take a look at the specific site then and find out where we're locating those URLS:). Thank you!

For broader, larger keywords it's better to have specifically designed content on stand-alone pages that does 'the best job possible' of answering Google's queries. Look up the 10x content initiative For smaller keywords, they can often survive on blog posts as competition is lower and blog posts are lower-brow content. Lower-tier content can win keywords which no one is really competing over, but the second there's competition - you need to be building pages, resources, tools and content pieces which are 10x better than what Google's current search results supplies https://moz.com/blog/how-to-create-10x-content-whiteboard-friday

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Hi there, Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you please pop an email about this over to help@moz.com, along with a couple of examples of keyword and URL combinations you're testing, so we can take a look into this for you? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hi there! Sam from Moz's Help Team there! Those units specifically (501-850) are in the hundreds. Higher volumes are represented by 'k' for thousands - e.g. 6.5k - 9.3k, and millions are represented by 'm', e.g. 300k-1.5m. Let us know if we can help with anything else!

Thanks so much for your input and advice! Your insight is appreciated and I hadn't thought about it as technically as you did.

Eli Myers (via email) says: Content Suggestions are topics that we've seen used on pages that are ranking well for the keyword that you queried. If you're looking to help a particular piece of content rank well, they are topics that you may consider including. The idea is that the topic content may be helping those pages rank if they're a relevant and useful. For example, here is a report from the keyword "seo": Pages who rank well for "seo" are also talking about '"search console", "seo keywords", "seo agency", among other things. I can hit the arrow on the right to expand the box and see which exact pages on the SERP for "seo" are talking about "seo keywords". This area can be used as ideas for content generation - for example, in a new blog article on my SEO site I might want to talk about Google's Search Console, keyword research, agency topics, etc, as it would seem that searchers are finding this topics relevant and useful. You can read more about Page Optimization and Content Suggestions here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/on-page-optimization

Some people believe that the most reliable way to determine keyword difficulty is to visit the SERPs and see who holds top positions and then you will know "who you must defeat". If you want something a bit more reliable, then click into the top-ranking pages, examine them and then know "what you must defeat". The combination of who and what is very informative. Who and what have informed in advance of battles for thousands of years over all types of terrain. I don't use keyword difficulty scores.  I want the information above.  Then, I match that against my skills and the resources required to become competitive. Great mistakes are made when skillful people allow keyword scores to scare them away from competition and when low keyword scores lure less skillful people into battles above their abilities.

Hi there Jake, Thanks so much for reaching out - Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you pop a message over to help@moz.com about this, along with an example (a screenshot would also be really helpful) so we can look into this further? Thank you!

HI thanks you for your helpful replay can you please suggest me how i can remove spam score because i just appear in 1 day.... orther the moz show 1% 2% and so on but may be that was due to update now how i can remove spam score