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Hi, It is a known issue with the on page grader (I get the same with Greek characters and there are reports on quite a few other non latin character sets also).  Might be worth adding the issue to the list here, I don't see it specifically mentioned. Not much help I know. The only thing I can suggest is using the grader report as a guide to make sure you you are not missing any of the major on page factors. To be honest I have never found these reports to be that useful other than as a quick check that I am not overlooking something obvious...

Thanks- we have seen Unnatural links warnings come in as well (other domains) -ranking dropped we left it for a week- and it came back to the same place.... Undecided at this point what i will do- might start with Disavow of links....and go from there...

The grading tool is used as a 10,000 foot view of the page.  It analyzes to the webpage to look for the proper usage of exact keyword phrases throughout the webpage.  It is not designed to analyze for synonyms or variations of keywords. If you wanted to score a good grade for the variation you specified, then you would need to through that exact phrase in your Title, etc.  Keep in mind, though, the grading tool is not an indication of great SEO, just an indication that you have used keywords in the locations most highly correlated with positive results.

The best (most surest post-panda) and more time consuming and expensive method would be not going with YEXT and custom creating each local listing description and creating your own listings. Having said that, in the local SEO world many will still agree that quantity of listings over quality still prevail, even in the post-panda current state of SEO. Hope this helps

Thanks! Oh, it's not a break-break. It was just a mental one over the weekend LOL!

Hi Steven, Can you please provide some more detail? What, specifically, in the dashboard is pointing at the Google+ page? Do you mean the website URL field in the dashboard now lists the URL of your client's Google+ page instead of the URL of their website homepage? Please, provide as clear a description as you can.

Send an email to help@moz.com and that creates a ticket. Thanks!

I suppose that technically if you really wanted to come clean you could ask the currently linking domains to remove their links since the subject of the site has changed.  Those that don't, you could disavow. I'm not saying to do that or not, and I don't know if I know anyone who would but it's an option.

thanks for the feedback. Will stick to few dynamic footer category links and test it.

That sort of helps,However most of our clients prefer the PDF version of the reports. We could send both, but it would require a training course to teach them how to understand the information in the CSV. Is it not possible to add this feature to the PDF version of the reports? When the PDF is generated, just check for the icons, if the icon is present, include it in a table. With very little programming experience I am sure adding this feature would be quite simple. I can't imagine that I'm the first person to ask for this feature. It seems like a low effort modification to the site that would help immensely. Here is an imaginary situation to put it in perspective for you. Client A isn't happy because the reports he/she is receiving don't show all the maps results they appear in. We tell them that they are ranking well in maps thanks to the work we have done, but Client A can only search manually to find them or sort through a convoluted CSV to determine where he/she is or isn't. Client A cancels because we are unable to provide adequate reporting at a reasonable cost. We are forced to develop our own program to parse CSV's into a visual report at a great cost to ourselves and our clients. This development is not shared with the rest of the Moz community who are left to deal with the same issue on their own.

Just to be clear and sorry to hijack this thread. With the KW Diff and SERP Analysis page you can only get search volume from Bing? Irrespective of the SE and selecting New Zealand I get no volume whatsoever? With Google keyword tool been very unhelpful compared to previous version this has made life a lot harder! Any suggestions as to best method to obtain country specific search volumes? Bing Ads Intelligence via excel is about as good as i can find atm!

Hi Steve, So far as I know, we're still waiting for this! You might like to read: http://localu.org/blog/merge-google-pages-usually-cant-now/ It's a good one.

Hi - The best of all is Google Adwords - Keyword Planner. You can access it from adwords.google.com. In there under options 'Tools & Analysis' -> 'Keyword Planner'. In there, the option I use is 'Search for new keywords and adgroup ideas'. Here you can give your keywords and google give you suggestions. Now start filtering by what is more relevant for you and go with it. Regards, K

It's hard to diagnose the problem without seeing it. Does the Fetch As Google results show any errors or report anything but "Success"? The report just shows you what Google is seeing so look for anything missing from the page. Usually if it can fetch, then Google can see your site. Double check there isn't a noindex added into the meta somewhere.

Right on. Whenever you make big changes to the structure of your site (or in the case, completely taking your site down), you can choose to submit a new sitemap to Google. This is more or less a "heads-up" to Google that things have changed on your site and to recrawl/index it when available. It does not mean that Google will go ahead and crawl/index things right away, more of a "friendly reminder". Your 301 redirects will immediately work if someone sees your old site in the SERPs and clicks on it, so you will be safe there. Once Google recrawls your site, it will see the 301 and take note that it is a permanent redirect and slowly remove your old site from the SERPs. You definitely can submit a sitemap listing all of the URLs that now have 301 redirects, omitting any of the URLs that are now "broken" or you are not 301-ing to the new site (if that makes sense). Hope this helps. Mike

Amy, I'm sorry you have to deal with a snafu like this. I noticed that the content most relevant to the keyword on the page tends to be pushed down below what reads like "SEO copy". For example, on the page about moving from the UK to Adelaide, Australia the entire first screen's worth of content is general info about Adelaide, and you have to scroll down pretty far to get to anything specifically about the UK. Another example is on the country-level pages (e.g. /spain, /thailand) the "Top Cities" with their score-bar and relevant links are pushed down below several long paragraphs about the country. Perhaps your users are already aware of the basic information about the country if they want to move there, and the more visually-appealing and helpful "Top Cities" area should be moved above? If you're worried about the SEO ramifications of moving the text content down you could just try this out as a test on a few country landing pages. Let's think about the visitor for a minute. If I searched for "Moving to Dallas from the UK" and landed on this page I would not be happy: http://www.movehub.com/usa/dallas/move-to-dallas-from-uk . I would be looking for information on how to move to Dallas from the UK, things like visa requirements, good Vs bad neighborhoods, cost of living, job market, etc... Instead, all I see on my screen is a lot of fluff copy about how Texas isn't all about oil production anymore, and sidebar links to content about international container shipping costs, and moving to cities in Australia and Canada. The site needs a more intelligent way to show relevant content and links on a per-page basis. Some examples: Instead of showing links to Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Toronto... on that page, show the cities closest to Dallas, like San Antonio, Austin, Houston... Instead of showing the general "about Texas" type content at the top, move it down or get rid of it alltogether and show the content that was once hidden below the fold up top: Moving To Dallas from the UK, and Comparing Dallas Vs London. Put in some links to pages about things like visa requirements from the UK to the US, and some job-search assistance (top employers in Dallas?) and you'll have a much more useful page. More specific to the problem you experienced, however, if the content is no longer on the page it may just take Google some time to recrawl all of the old URLs again and see the updated content without all of the "keyword stuffing" they may have misunderstood. My advise would be to refresh your XML sitmap with new lastmod dates and resubmit it to entice Google to recrawl the pages again and see that the excessive keyword use has been fixed.

hey Sam! Happy to have been of help, I'll double check if I find the way google calculates it just for knowledge. Happy remarketing!!

If the new website is related to the old website, redirect as many individual pages to the new site as possible. Match up the pages and that'll create the most seamless way of moving the site from the old to new. All your old traffic will end up in the right place on the new site. Benefits there include any SEO or inbound links will pass pagerank over to the new site as well giving you a bit of a boost. If the old site has nothing to do with the new site but it's your new brand, company, or project that you want to draw attention do, just do a straight 301 redirect and explain that it's a new project somewhere on the page. Any existing traffic from the old site will follow through and learn what you're currently up to on the new site. If the old domain has no traffic, no SEO, no inbound links, and really doesn't have anything to offer, keep it parked.