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  • Hi Kimberly, Thank you for coming here for help! I definitely understand—we all started somewhere, and there's a lot of information in your account. Most of our educational materials can be found in the Learn section. Specifically, though, the best place to get an understanding of SEO, and inbound marketing in general, is The _Beginner's Guide to SEO. _It's a solid overview of the concepts, and can be pretty easily read in an afternoon. Then, for drilling into specific concepts and techniques, I suggest spending a little time in Moz Academy. The videos are very engaging, and should give you a good idea of how to apply what you'll learn in the Beginner's Guide. That should give you a great background in inbound concepts and terminology, and make your time in the Help Hub and Moz Analytics much more valuable. If you get in there, though, and aren't sure how to get going, Cyrus Shepard has outlined a basic SEO process in "How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint." Of course, feel free to ask questions if you get stuck again!

    | MattRoney
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  • Hello! More timeframe options is on our list to add but it may not be available for a while. The current workaround is to setup custom reports so you can have a weekly and monthly record of your data you can obtain at anytime. I recommend adding any feedback or suggestions in the feature request forum for this topic here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/23182030-Monthly-Timeframe-for-Reports-and-Dashboards-Views Hope this helps!

    | DavidLee
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  • Hey Carmelo, Sorry about the trouble. I believe you may have encountered the issue Google was having with there OAuth process. It seems that everything should be working now though. Can you update if everything is ship shape now? Thanks! Joel.

    | JoelDay
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  • I'm meeting with one of the Q&A project leads this afternoon, and will show them this question. For monitoring a thread, if you click Email Updates, you can get an email each time there's a new post on the thread, without having to make a post yourself. We don't have a way to show you which threads you've visited, but we do show you if a thread has new answers when you're browing the list of questions.

    | KeriMorgret
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  • This isn't a PRO option yet, but they may have something on the docket going forward. I'm sure it's been something that's been brought up to the product team tho for agency level accounts.

    | RobMay
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  • Hi, My campaign has been updated on last night. I just needed to be patient. Thanks. Sébastien

    | lecercledesgourmets
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  • Hi Ana You can find your crawl diagnostics under Search > Crawl Diagnostics from the left sidebar. Hope this helps and check out our help guide for more info: http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/crawl-diagnostics Cheers!

    | DavidLee
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  • Thanks Sam. And thanks for replying to me so fast on a Sunday!

    | CharlesSleigh
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  • 3 competitors is the maximum that you can add for the rank tracking.

    | Philip-DiPatrizio
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  • Hey Paul, Thanks for the question. Unfortunately if you initially entered the modules as weekly you will need to go through and remove the wrong time frame and add the correct time frame. Thanks, Joel.

    | JoelDay
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  • Thanks for the link. I will request this because it took me an age to add everything! Thank you.

    | CommT
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  • Hi Michele! Campaigns can track sub-domains, root-domains, or sub-folders so if your sites can be accessed on their own as a sub-domain or sub-folder, you can create up to 5 campaigns to isolate the data. When creating a campaign and entering the URL you would use brand1.domain.com or www.domain.com/brand1/ and check the box below to "exclude subdomains" which means this will only track the sub-domain/folder you enter. Make sure you are entering the URL as they resolve on search engines so if you enter a few keywords and one of your URLs resolve as domain.com/brand then you want to add the URL without the "www" or vice-versa. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions!

    | DavidLee
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  • I can share a couple of free tools I find useful (other than Google Keyword Planner)... Google Trends is always a good broad tool to look at to see where popularity for those keywords are at. Of course your keywords will need to have enough volume, but you can get pretty good segmentation now in GTrends. Ubersuggest is a great tool to find a huge list of related variations to your keywords. Very useful for planning out content. Moz's Keyword Analysis tool I find is very useful for judging the difficulty of the keywords you are researching. You want to target keywords that have enough traffic, but also are not to competitive if you are starting some initial optimization. SEMRush is another useful and popular tool for keyword research. You can get traffic estimates and competition level estimates for a large index of keywords in localized Google serps. It is free for limited data - paid for full results. You can also use tools like Fresh Web Explorer, AllTop, Topsy and even Google Alerts to give you ideas of popularity of keywords and different content groups. TL;DR Moz is great for difficulty and competition research, but there are better tools (and free!) on the market for traffic and popularity measuring - use a combination of both! Hope this gives you some ideas!

    | iSTORM-New-Media
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  • Hi Damian! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. Thanks for writing in! I looked briefly at your campaigns, and it looks like the reason you aren't seeing data is because you still haven't added certain things to track. For example, it looks like you haven't added any keywords to one of your campaigns. I also noticed that you haven't connected any of your social accounts to your campaigns. I know our tool has a lot of components! Have you had a chance to check out the Help Hub? It's chalk full of lots of digestible videos and nifty facts to help you learn about our tools: http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started If you have more specific questions about our tools or your campaign, shoot us an email at help@moz.com so we can troubleshoot with you without sharing your private campaign information all over the interwebs. Happy Tuesday! Erin

    | ErinMcCaul
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  • Thank you

    | CommT
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  • Hi Everyone, The solution is simple and I am writing it down for everyone who will have the same problem in the future. 1. since it is using curl the best solution is to run the command and see watch the results. it will give a good idea about the problem. 2. make sure that you have 301 message and not 30X temporary messages for those who do redirect upon location or language. 3. in my case the problem was the ssl certificate was missing the intermediate.crt. so that new browser didn't had no problem with handing the certificate, curl is an "old" browser and had problem with verify the certificate. better using tools to verify the ssl certificate was installed correctly. each issuer has it's own site to test the certificate installation. good luck to all the guys that will run intto that problem in the future. I hope my respond will help you get that stage.

    | mvag
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    | Lucien_Taylor
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  • Hi Adam, Thanks for the question! As Kimberly pointed out, you actually need to wait for your next scheduled weekly update to see the changes you've made to your site. If you don't want to wait, you can head over to the Research Tools page and use the Crawl Test tool. This will crawl any domain you'd like, up to 3k pages, and report on issues found in a csv format. Just a heads up that Crawl Tests are cached for 24 hours so you'll need to wait a bit between crawls to get updated data. Best, Sam Moz Helpster

    | SamWeber
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  • Hi there! Thanks for writing in to Q&A! Marc is correct across the board! If you decide to discontinue your account, you can totally come back and set back up with the same account later. Secondly, while your campaigns are suspended, they won't gather any new data. Lastly, when you discontinue your account your campaigns are archived, and you won't have access to that data. One work around could be to download your old reports? That way you could still reference the information on some level, even if you choose to leave us. I hope that helps! Happy Wednesday! Erin

    | ErinMcCaul
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  • If [hats in chicago] clicks are converting into sales you should be careful about playing with this in case you lose the ranking altogether. Saying that, individual product pages usually convert better than anything else so it may be best to concentrate on those instead of category pages. To rank a category page that lists the hats you have available there are a number of things you can do if you haven't already: If you don't want the homepage to rank, make sure you're not committing keyword cannibilisation Ensure your onpage SEO is spot-on for the hat page e.g. title tag with your keyword (and maybe a price/offer/incentive to encourage clicks, meta description to encourage clicks, descriptive image filenames and alt attributes, useful URL structure Onpage too - add some unique introductory text Show review data (such as AggregateRating) by each product and consider adding a small number of reviews to category pages - user generated content is good for getting unique content. I say a small number of reviews to avoid duplicate content issues Link to your most important category pages from every page on your website via a main menu Add breadcrumbs Make sure you have an HTML sitemap, and an XML sitemap submitted to the search engines - both listen all your pages

    | Alex-Harford
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