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No data of activity on my site is being reported. How can I determine the cause and correct? Is there a debuging proceedure I could refer to for instruction?
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
Getting Started | | ErinMcCaul0 -
SEO Checklist for eCommerce?
This is not an extensive list but here are a couple. http://moz.com/blog/perfecting-onpage-optimization-for-ecommerce-websites http://searchengineland.com/best-practices-in-e-commerce-seo-176921
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SoleGraphics0 -
Error: Missing required field "updated"
Hi Martijn, I found them in webmaster>Search appearance>Structured date>hatom and when you go to live test data you see the mentioned error. Any thoughts on it?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AlirezaHamidian0 -
Content Marketing Management Software???? Please Help!!
I just wanted to post an update to this Q&A, because I found the most amazing software to manage SEO Projects, thank god!!! It is called Trello it is amazing for managing projects step by step through completion and it is a visual medium. Check out this video to see how it can help you organize your projects http://youtu.be/aaDf1RqeLfo. I never post anything like this, it is just too amazing not to share. I used it to set up a board for each site I am working on so I can organize all the tasks that need to be done, collaborate with others and can see visually what needs to be done and at what point in the process I am. It is perfect since you often have to leave one site to work on another and you can quickly pick back up where you left off.
Online Marketing Tools | | photoseo11 -
Affordable SEO?
Hi Gregory, That's a nice idea, I think I'll give that a go. I think all I want at this point is for someone to take a couple of hours every month to take a look, see what work we've done, provide some fresh ideas, point us in the right direction and then leave us alone for another month while we work on the points given along with integrating our own ideas. Thanks again
Moz Tools | | ChrisHolgate1 -
Moz Pro won't stay connected to my Google Analytics profile
I'm having the same issues, revoking access, and reauthorizing does not work.
Getting Started | | mr_w0 -
Question About : Redirecting Old Pages to New & More Relevant Ones
Yes, if the old pages are completely outdated, then it makes sense to redirect them to an up-to-date page. If the old pages still have some value, then you may also consider just adding a prominent note at the top of the page linking to the new location.
Search Engine Trends | | TakeshiYoung0 -
Can an incorrect 301 redirect or .htaccess code cause 500 errors?
Just to follow up on your last question about 404s, Kim... No, having a bunch of 404s like that will be no more work for the server than if they were landing on actual blog pages - in fact somewhat less work as the 404 page generally has less content and far fewer database calls. Also, a page timing out due to server load (server working too hard) doesn't generally result in a 500 error, it just returns a timed-out error. 500 errors are delivered when something actually breaks the server's ability to deliver the correct page content. Paul
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ThompsonPaul0 -
What is the best way to pass link juice?
Definitely don't use nofollow. Using nofollow won't solve the problem of having too many links, and will just end up hurting your site. It is almost never a good idea to use nofollow on internal links. What you should consider instead is to have navigation that changes in response to what section of the site the user is in. For example, if the user is in the automotive category, it makes sense to have links to tires and oil, but it's not necessary to link to a subcategory for perfume. Having contextual navigation is great from an SEO perspective, and also provides for a better user experience of not overwhelming the user with a hundred choices. That being said, limiting a site to having 100 links per page is a very old Google recommendation and is not a hard and fast rule. Having a lot of links on a page makes it more difficult for Google to crawl and dilutes the link juice on a page, but is sometimes necessary. Amazon.com, for example, has 300+ per page. How many links Google is willing to crawl is a factor of your site's Pagerank.
Link Building | | TakeshiYoung0 -
This does not appear to be a valid URL.
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.
Getting Started | | mvag0 -
Inbound Links Sorted by Linking Domain
(As far as I know) You cannot add a column or field for domain name in the advanced reports (for inbound link reports). you will have to use the linking domain reports or use excel to extract (manipulate) the data you are looking for. There is another solution though. If you are a pro member, you can use the Moz API to pull exact fields you are looking for (http://apiwiki.moz.com/url-metrics). You can pull the url of the link (uu) and the root domain of the link (upl) as well as well as any other parameter from the Mozscape. If you are a pro member (have an API key) and have some Excel knowledge, I would check out the SEOgadget for Excel tool which uses your Moz API (and other backlink tool APIs) to pull data into excel for you to use. And it's free! Hope this helps!
Link Explorer | | iSTORM-New-Media0 -
New domain purchase 301 and 404 issues. Please help!
This is what scares me about some 'SEO's'... "An SEO has advised we redirect all pages to the homepage, but won't that mess up the link profile?" Terrible advice! I hope you have all sorted out now James. -Andy
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Andy.Drinkwater0 -
What's the best way to add phrase keywords to the URL?
Depending on the client the convention can change. Here are two traditionally used ways to deal with titles Keywords and phrases - Brand ( seems to be better because the keywords are first) Brand - Keywords and phrases or Keywords - Location - Brand (adding more than one location would probably not work well) Make the home page you primary location and deeper pages covering other locations. The example you provided does look a bit spammy due to the keyword being present multiple times and different locations being there. Obviously there isn't a perfect way to do this. So do what makes sense and is considered best practices and then record the results and tweak it as necessary.
Local Website Optimization | | SoleGraphics0 -
Local Listing Question for Vet Office
Thanks John. Yes, I would definitely verify the individual doctors page so they can get a custom url like you say.
Local Listings | | Ryan-Bradley0 -
Custom Filter: Organic Traffic Growth VS Paid Traffic Growth
If you look at your GA you should see All Visits to the left there's a drop down which allows you to filter your traffic using segments instead of creating a new view. In here there's a segment for Paid Search Traffic Here however is a Segment for Search Only Traffic : https://www.google.com/analytics/web/template?uid=uU7kkJBMR9OiwPYvEasNUw This will allow you to add the segment to your own GA account. By adding both segments to the graph you will see the vs effect
Paid Search Marketing | | danwebman0