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Root domain change - how do we best handle existing backlinks from our own content platforms on youtube, etc?
Thanks so much for the clear and helpful response. Amending the links is easy enough for us to do, we'll get to it.
Technical SEO Issues | | WP331 -
We recently updated a large guide that takes the place of the original. The original has some nice organic traffic to it and I don't want to risk losing it. Should I 301 redirect to the new version, or update all the info directly on the original page?
A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link equity (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Zohaibkhannn1 -
Google Image Search - Is there a way to influence the related icons at the top of the image search results?
Don't have an exact date, but the UI feature is relatively new. I agree with @effectdigital that this is a general capability that Google has been building/expanding for a while. It's helpful to look at that underlying logic, as it will spawn new features over time.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Dr-Pete1 -
Is there a way to connect Moz to Databox?
Hello, I'm not sure for Databox but I do know DashThis (reporting tool similar to Databox) allows you to connect and pull data from Moz (https://dashthis.com/integrations/moz-dashboards/). Hope this helps! Pam
API | | pambourgault1 -
Moz took money from my account?!
Hi there! When you sign up for a 30-day trial, we do ask that you agree to Moz's Terms of Use which does state that free trials roll over into a paid subscription unless otherwise marked as cancelled within the first 30 days. This is very common practice for free trials asking for a credit card when signing up for it, apologies it took you by surprise! If you'd like to reach out to our Help Team here at Moz, we can take a look at the account for you as we do consider refunds on a case by case basis. Feel free to email us at help@moz.com from the email tied to your account and we'll take a look for you! Thank you, Kristina Moz Help Team
Technical Support | | KristinaKeyser0 -
Redirect to http to https - Pros and Cons
Do you know how long it takes Google to drop pages from Google's index/cache?
Technical SEO Issues | | FreddyKgapza1 -
Is there still any value in tracking keyword rankings for desktop?
Hey Unique Digital, It's a good question, and I hear what you're saying. If Google is crawling everything as a mobile crawler only, desktop rankings should basically be the same, right? It might get there eventually, but I can say that it's definitely not there now. For one, Google is crawling mobile first, but it's also keeping an eye on desktop versions of sites. At the very least, I'm pretty sure Google is separating mobile and desktop UX metrics. Also, on queries for my company's site (international money transfers), I can tell you that 1) Google does not show the same rankings between desktop and mobile. Mobile has more answer boxes, and I've noticed that if a site has an answer box, they're less likely to also have the #1 organic result. So, at least for now, yes, you should track both. Best, Kristina
Keyword Research | | KristinaKledzik1 -
Migrating to a tag-driven global website - Need opinions!
Hi! I have similar questions. It sounds like you are posting articles in the main language it was written in and not doing any geo-targeting. Is that right? I'm not sure because you mention "the correct homepage shows up in the appropriate geography." If an article is written in Portuguese, you aren't translating it? Let us know some more details and we are happy to help!
International Issues | | katemorris0 -
Sitemap issue
seoelevated is correct. Reference example from Google here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
International Issues | | Tom-Anthony0 -
Could I set a Cruise as an Event in Schema mark up?
I don't know of an absolute / definitive answer. If it were my site, I think I would be happy to take the chance with Event markup since there is no perfect match, as you say. Evidence in each direction: Yes - this is OK - Google's schema page talks about "If the event happens across several streets, define the starting location and mention the full details in description. No - this is not OK - the same page says "Don’t promote non-event products or services such as "Trip package: San Diego/LA, 7 nights" as events". The reason I wouldn't be too concerned about the "no" side is that I think it is reasonable to read that as being about things like flights where the point is getting to the destination rather than things like cruises which are arguably events in their own right. Good luck!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | willcritchlow1 -
Subdomain and nofollow backlinks are used to calculate the domain authority?
Hey, thanks for reaching out. All links that are pointed to your site are weighted in your Domain Authority score, this includes follow and nofollow links. Hope that helps, let me know if you have further questions.
Link Explorer | | dave.kudera0 -
Why is this site ranked #1 in Google with such a low DA (is DA not important anymore?)
A brand new website, even here in Calgary, AB. These sites outrank DA50's while they might have a DA05, but the content is 10 X more valuable. Also, the technical & on-page SEO from this new website could have been perfected, & this plays a major role, as well!
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Code_Web0 -
Structured data: Product vs auto rental schema?
Not 100% sure if Google even reads AutoRental schema on web-pages, though there is some evidence to suggest that Google sees valid usage of AutoRental in emails If you go here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product On the left-hand sidebar, you can see a list of all the different schemas which Google documents that they support. AutoRental isn't present there. A Google search helps to confirm this. But they do list "LocalBusiness" schema, of which "AutomotiveBusiness" and "AutoRental" are valid sub types, so I assume that using AutoRental would be ok and acceptable by Google It does seem that this site: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kayak.co.uk%2FCheap-Leicester-Car-Hire.6700.cars.ksp (Structured Data results for a car rental site) is indeed using product schema to list all the vehicles on offer, so I think it could be a good supplementary schema to go alongside AutoRental These guys: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enterprise.com%2Fen%2Fcar-rental%2Flocations%2Fus%2Fny%2Fnew-york.html - are using AutoRental, and Google's structured data tool does indeed pick it up Check more of your competitors using Google's Structured Data testing tool, if enough of them are using product schema on the vehicular product listings then I'd see no good reason to omit it
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | effectdigital0 -
Website blog is hacked. Whats the best practice to remove bad urls
Technically 404 means "temporarily unavailable but coming back later" so you might want to consider Status 410 instead of 404. You could also supplement it with Meta no-index, if you can't use the HTML implementation then fire the no-index directive through the HTTP header using X-robots: https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag (scroll down a little to find the relevant part) E.g: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:43 GMT (…) X-Robots-Tag: noindex (…)" ... something like that. You can't use Search Console to remove URLs from Google at all. The remove URL tool, only removes URLs one at a time and it only does so 'temporarily', the URLs pop back again after a bit. The best thing you can do is give Google some harsher directives and hope they listen, in a month or two most of those should be gone Don't use robots.txt on the URLs as, if Google can't crawl them it won't find the 410s or the no-index directives
Technical SEO Issues | | effectdigital1 -
Is a Wordpress AMP plugin sufficient, or should we upgrade our WP theme to an AMP theme?
Hi We have had no success using WP plugin's for AMP. In fact still cleaning up one site. Would recommend customising - takes a little longer not too much and results are outstanding & no issues. Hope that helps.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ClaytonJ0 -
Keyword rank tracking across subdomains
Hi Amy, If you set up a Campaign for the url 'website.com' we will automatically track rankings for all the subdomains on your site. However if you want to separate these out to show results just for a particular subdomain vs another you would need to set up two Campaigns one for www.website.com and blog.website.com You can read more about Campaign setup here on our Help Hub. I hope this helps! Jo
Getting Started | | jocameron1