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Does a nofollow link from a high DA site count towards trust?
Hi, The best answer to your question is this post https://moz.com/blog/seo-value-nofollow-links Regards
Link Building | | Roman-Delcarmen0 -
What schema markup to add to case study?
You've probably already figured things out since it's literally been over a year since you posted your question, but here's what we're currently working on - We're using Article as the basis for the schema we're adding to case studies, and including the following: Headline Description Publisher Name Logo Date published Date modified (if applicable) Image URL - canonical URL Article body Award Mentions associatedMedia We've been toying with finding a way to try to incorporate exampleOfWork and workExample, but don't feel like it's quite the right fit. Depending on the content you've got in your case studies, there are loads of great elements to work in from the Article type. Where did you end up?
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Danieljacobree0 -
A new client has image urls showing above their page rankings for the same key phrase.
How are your links to these images coded? Sometimes Google has trouble understanding that something is an image. For example, OBJECT tags can be rendered by Google's renderer, but won't be treated as images/show up in image search. The same is true for images in an img srcset set, unles that srcset also has a value for "src= ". Are these images showing up in image search? What format are the images (jpg, png, svg, etc)? If the site is brand new, it could just be that Google is testing out different URLs for the SERP (pretty common with new sites) and will naturally filter out the less-useful ones over time. I can understand not wanting to just wait around on that, though.
Technical SEO Issues | | RuthBurrReedy0 -
Meta Description
Thank that confirms my thinking. I had seen that with trip advisor and other websites but wanted to make sure that was ok. Thank you,
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics0 -
Google Only Indexing Canonical Root URL Instead of Specified URL Parameters
You're right, didn't notice that this was being added by Yoast. Removing that fixed everything. Thanks, Gaston!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nitruc0 -
Page Grader states "includes Canonical Tag" but it's not in the page source at all
Hi there Colton! Thanks for reaching out - Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you pop a message over to help@moz.com about this and include the page you were looking at, so we can take a look into this for you? Looking forward to hearing back!
Other Research Tools | | samantha.chapman0 -
Crawling issue
Hey, Thanks for reaching out to us! You can create a Campaign solely for a subdomain or subfolder by selecting the +Advanced setting in the Campaign set-up; just click the check box there and it will limit our Campaign audit to the pages on that specific subdomain or subfolder. From there, you can see in your Campaign Setting if you've set it up for just that chunk of your site, or for the entire root domain. I've got a guide to this process that I think may help. With regard to your second question, feel free to reach out to help@moz.com so that we can take a closer look Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli
Getting Started | | eli.myers0 -
Mystery URLs showing in Analytics - All 404s
Hi Kristina Problem fixed - the websites analytics was suffering from Ghost Spam URLs. A new one for me! Best Duncan
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CayenneRed890 -
Is there a limit to track number of competitors' metrics in Moz?
Hi there, Jo from the Moz help team here. That's a great question! Unfortunately, you can't add more than 3 competitors per Campaign, at the moment. However, you do have the option to create a new Campaign for the same website using another set of different competitors, if you wanted to do that! If you were looking for extra competitive link data, Link Explorer would give you the ability to compare up to 5 sites within the "Compare Link Profiles" section. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I hope this clears things up. Please let me know if you have any other questions! Jo
Other Questions | | jocameron0 -
Swiss based, USA links only
Thank you for your reply it is good to hear. Concerning the links doesn't google now devaluates the bad links instead of penalising you (meaning you don't need to worry about removing those from your profil do you ? Cheers,
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics0 -
Open graph tags
Hi there! Great to hear you're baking this in from the start. Open Graph is good to include, Twitter also has its own markup and schema could be a real help if you haven't already considered it. Have you read this post by Cyrus Shepard? It has a pretty comprehensive list of different tagging and some good examples. Hope that helps!
Social Media | | R0bin_L0rd1 -
Optimiing multiple sites of a similar nature
It's going to be difficult for a single-page website to do much in the way of organic traffic. You're correct that optimizing 80 sites for the same keywords and phrases isn't going to be very effective; these sites will likely be seen as duplicates of each other, especially if they share the same design and much of the same content. Even if Google doesn't de-index some of their pages for being duplicates, you will still be creating 80 websites that are all competing with each other for the same phrases, which will make it harder for any of them to rank. What makes these 80 companies different from each other? Why would someone choose one one over the other? If they're local businesses, I'd lean heavily into local SEO for this - using MozLocal to make sure each company's local citations are claimed, filled out, correct, and consistent; and making sure that each company's name, address, and phone number are prominent on the site itself.
Technical SEO Issues | | RuthBurrReedy0 -
Avoid landing page redirects
Oh, sorry. Somehow I didn't get any notification on your reply. For IIS you could go with web.config of your website. The code will be something like: <rule name="Force WWW and SSL" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="(.*)"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAny"><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^[^www]"><add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off"></add></add></conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domainname.com/{R:1}" appendquerystring="true" redirecttype="Permanent"></action></match></rule>
Technical SEO Issues | | Keszi0