SEO Moz Rank Report

[RickyShockley]

Anyone else noticing the rank reporting seems to be off? My reports are showing "not in top 50" for some keywords that my site is on page one for. Not in places listings either because I know that can throw things off! Anyone?

[OrionGroup]

I know you are not talking about maps results, but are there terms you are looking at specificially that have a local/city name in them, or are they non local oriented keywords?

Scott O.

[RickyShockley]

For instance "west palm beach obgyn" is one of our keywords. The rank report shows us not in top 50 or in local. However, if you search that keyword you will find our site on page 1

[SamWeber]

Hi Ricky!

So there are a couple things to discuss here.  The main one is that you're campaign is set to track your subdomain, but you have a 301 redirect from your sub to your root domain.  You're also ranking on your root domain.  This is going to potentially throw off your results since we're looking as how a given keyword is ranking based on the campaign (in this case, sub) domain.

Looking at the search results from Safari set in private browsing for the keyword - west palm beach gynecologist - (I didn't see west palm beach obgyn in the campaign), confirms this as we're showing not in the top 50, but I found your domain in position 7.

Universal results (places, images, videos, etc) shouldn't throw off your rankings either as they're listed separately on the rankings page of your campaigns.

I recommend setting up a new campaign with the root domain in your case.  You can archive your existing one to save the historical content in case you ever need to revisit it.  Thanks!

Sam
Moz Helpster

[OrionGroup]

Ricky,

Here's a screenshot of what I see when doing a Google search for that keyword you provided: http://scott.offord.me/NgRz

I see that your homepage text is copied from another site (or someone else copied your text):
http://scott.offord.me/Ng5v
http://scott.offord.me/NgRL

Unrelated, but if this is your site, I see you still have the hello-world blog post visible to the public. Screenshot: http://scott.offord.me/Nft0

Scott

[RickyShockley]

Hey Sam!

Thanks for the help! My root domain is just "comprehensiveobgyn.net" correct? When I try to enter that, it gives me an error code

Roger has detected a problem:

We have detected that the root domain comprehensiveobgyn.net does not respond to web requests. Using this domain, we will be unable to crawl your site or present accurate SERP information.

[RickyShockley]

Hey Scott, nope that wasn't our site. The one I'm talking about is for Comprehensive OBGYN of the Palm Beaches

[SamWeber]

Anytime!

The root domain for you would be comprehensiveobgyn.net.  It also sounds like there may have been a temporary server issue at the time you tried to create the campaign.  You'll usually only see this message if we get a 5XX response from a sites server when we're trying to validate the address.

I just ran a quick curl and got a 200 ok.  I was also able to set up a campaign ok on my end.  Can you try to create the campaign one more time for me?  If you run into another error, I'll forward this into support so we can take a deeper look at this for you.

Best,

Sam
Moz Helpster

[RickyShockley]

Just tried again and got it to work!

Thanks again!

[SamWeber]

Perfect

Let me know if there's anything else you need.  Have a great day!

Sam
Moz Helpster