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Moz keyword search took
Hey hey hey! Good question! I have a few good resources to get you started. Check out Moz Academy's keyword research lesson to get some context: http://moz.com/academy/keyword-research Next check out our Help Hub on SERP Analysis: http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/keyword-rankings/analyze-a-keyword I also wrote a Q&A post about getting started with KWD here: http://moz.com/community/q/keyword-research-and-tracking-tips If you have any specific questions, please let me know. Thanks!
Other Research Tools | | Nick_Sayers0 -
Long tail keyword research
I can't believe it has been almost a year and there has been no response to this. I am currently looking for the same thing and found http://www.keywordtooldominator.com/k/google-auto-suggest/ is ok. You can also read this article http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/03/12/how-to-use-google-suggest-to-grow-your-long-tail-traffic/ to get a better idea of how to get long tail keywords on your own.
Keyword Research | | Michael4g0 -
Press Mention with No Link
Great question Ricky. I deal with this all the time. It really depends on the publication. The first thing I would do is browse around a bunch of their other articles and see if you can find an example of where they linked to a source or a source's company website. Get in contact with the writer/editor and find out if they have a policy against linking or if perhaps it was just an oversight. The print world still doesn't necessarily think "on line," so sometimes they just need to be reminded that a link can be really helpful to their readers who want to find out more about the people, places and things mentioned in the article. Almost every time I've ever gone back to a publication and asked for a link in context, they've been more than happy to comply. I did have one hold out, that flat out said "no." The person saying no was not a writer, or an editor, but the VP of sales. I chalked it up to her just not wanting to be bothered with it, so I got on LinkedIn, found out who the online editor was, sent them a connection request (they also turned out to be the SEO). I asked them to include a link in that very same article, and Voila! We got the link. My advice is just to be very gracious and appreciative in your tone. The fact that you have a positive mention at all is awesome. I usually say something like " We have been big fans of your publication for years [only say that if it's true!] and it was so nice of you to mention us in this recent article. We thought it might be helpful to your readers if you included a hyperlink from our name to our site, Would you be kind enough to add that? We'd love to reference your write up in our blog."....or any variation. The more genuine you are, the better off you'll be. If you can, pick up the phone and call them. They have a way harder time saying no via phone. Hope that helps! Dana
Branding / Brand Awareness | | danatanseo0 -
Duplicate Content on Event Pages
A penalty is something google will have to manually remove and you will be able to see that in webmaster tools. A devaluation is when you are adjusted by the algorithm and lowered as a result because each thing that google does not like acts as points against you but you can quickly change and see your results return. Does that make sense?
On-Page / Site Optimization | | gazzerman10 -
We are having difficulties connecting to your "Facebook" account.
Hmm it seems like it might be a temporary issue, I would try to reload and try again, try a different browser. If not feel free to use: http://moz.com/help/contact to submit a ticket/question directly to the quick and mighty moz help team. Hope this helps
Technical Support | | vmialik0 -
I have upgraded my account but I can't add another site. What to do?
Hey Sabina, Sorry for the confusion. It looks like you wrote in an email to our support desk on the 14th and Sam Weber responded to you there. I'm really sorry if you didn't see his response! It looks like you had used your entire account allotment of 50,000 pages crawled on the first campaign you had set up which is why you were not able to create another campaign. It looks like you've archived the original campaign and set up another campaign with only 1000 pages crawled so you should be able to set up other campaigns on your account now. If you would like to have the original campaign active on your account again, I would recommend temporarily archiving the campaign you currently have active on your account then activating the old campaign and adjusting the page crawl limit to a lower limit for that campaign from the settings page. You would then be able to reactivate your current campaign, since the total pages crawled would then come up under the 50,000 page crawl account limitation. I hope this helps clear things up. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja
Technical Support | | ChiarynMiranda0 -
No data in one of my Moz Analytics accounts
Hi, checked again today and they have started to come through, very strange .... ok now but do not know what caused the delay. Thanks, James
Other Questions | | chameleondm0 -
Keyword research
Hi Tony, the video seems up to date (or near to) as far as I can see. It shows the breadth of things that Moz can do in terms of keyword research. I am wondering if you are referring to keyword suggestion? That is one area which Moz's tools don't provide much support with other than on the Find New Keywords tab which only lists keywords that your Google Analytics reports your site has been found for. What Moz's tools don't do is take a seed keyword and provide suggestions based on that seed that you may also optimise for. Peter
Keyword Research | | crackingmedia0 -
Facebook page monitoring
Although our index is large, there are a number of reasons why we may not have data for the page you've requested. These can include: Recency of Page Creation: Mozscape crawls the web constantly, but we update the index only once every 30-40 days. Thus, pages and links created since the last index update won't be available until we've seen them. A typical timeline for getting a page/site included in Mozscape is 45-60 days, sometimes less for very important or well-linked-to pages. Deep Down in the Web: Our crawl focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. Blocked Pages: If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching your URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available) No Links: The URLs seen by Mozscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. Hope this helps!
Online Marketing Tools | | StefPachall0 -
SEO Internationalization - URL Architecture
HI Paul First to say congratulations on your site. My daughter used it recently before taking her UK driving test! I expect your site is quite a labour of love keeping it up to date? I have to say looking at your current site I don't think there's a lot wrong with what you have now. OK, it doesn't follow the country code / language code convention (which you have included in the new structure), but there is no particular URL structure required by Google I know and I guess it's the same with Bing and Yahoo. Have you had a look at Google's FAQs on internationalisation here: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-internationalisation ? So, for your URL structure proposed above there is nothing in particular I would pick up on. Just one things re SEO on your site and one on commericiality... Your best asset re building the site SEO wise will be your articles area. Grow that and add lots more useful articles for learner drivers. Commercially, I think it is a great idea to add Insurance searches on your site, but (1) I think they are hidden where they are in terms of encouraging a call to action and (2) at the moment the dropdown combobox doesn't seem to be working. Again, well done on your site. All the best to you. Peter
International Issues | | crackingmedia0 -
Is it Safe to Migrate from All-in-Seo WordPress Plugin to Yoast Plugin ?
Yeah any custom of the AIO custom fields you've configured will probably need to be re-entered into Yoast's custom fields. You can just copy and paste these out to a spreadsheet or something and then paste them back into the Yoast custom fields. So yes, the functionality is retained to have separate search engine titles/descriptions and blog page titles/descriptions
Search Engine Trends | | PeterAlexLeigh0 -
I can't activate a campaign...
Hey Mike, This is definitely an odd one, and I believe it's something specific to your campaigns. You did the right thing by sending in an email with the details. Our team is working through the queue, and we'll get in and check it out. Did you make sure to specify which is the problematic campaign in your email? Thanks! Jen
Technical Support | | jennita0 -
Google Local Carousel in the UK?
Thanks too Mat for your feedback. Yes, I can see it displayed for that search too. In fact testing further if you type "things to do in portsmouth" it shows for that as it does for "things to do in <location>" so that implementation seems consistent.</location> I haven't found any carousels displayed for service type searches in a location, e.g. hotels bournemouth. In that case it still just shows the Google Places results, but I guess carousels for that may come. Thanks again, Peter
Online Marketing Tools | | crackingmedia0 -
Google Analytics data not loading into Moz
Turns out the data was loading, but the Timeframe field was showing a week for which there was no data. When I changed the timeframe I saw data. And now that bogus week is gone from the list. I would have thought there was data for every week for which there is data in GA, but apparently Moz doesn't look back in time to before your Moz account was started.
Getting Started | | RLodato1 -
PR Web vs, PR Newswire - Which Is Best For PR Optimization & Distribution?
Great advice. The DIY way could easily be better. An informal study I read found a pretty strong correlation between featured stories and use of the standout tag.
Online Marketing Tools | | FootprintsTeachingJobs0 -
Any good experiences outsourcing programming/development overseas?
I use overseas development team but generally for small fix & maintain issues. After working with different developers now I have a good contacts that i work with but I did have pretty bad experiences in the past... such as messing with codes and not fixing it, leaving the task half and once I had to pay double to get it fixed etc.. You need to be very careful with overseas agencies as it is not easy to reach them as it looks. However, working with local agency doesn't mean that you will get a good quality job. One of my client, worked with agency in Brighton, I can easily say they weren't good at all and company lost quite a lot money for small fixes and maintains until they move to another agency. I think the best way is to work with an agency who has a good reputation and good reviews. It seems it won't be a inexpensive project. I know couple of good developers in Turkey, just to get an idea if you want to get a quotation i am happy to drop them a line to find out for you.
Online Marketing Tools | | sedamiran0