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Hello there! Without knowing anything else about the website, these numbers do sound incredibly unrealistic. Though nothing is technically impossible, I feel that setting realistic expectations upfront is incredibly important. Did you perform an audit of the site and discuss goals and the scope of work prior to being hired by this client? Also, do you know why the client chose those numbers as goals or are they arbitrary? My recommendation would be to meet with the client and discuss your concerns, recommendations (including other methods of generating traffic), and realistic goals for the website as a whole and how that could correlate with increases in traffic over time. I feel that it is better to part ways in advance if you do not feel that you can meet the (albeit unrealistic) expectations of the client versus disappointing them and potentially tarnishing your reputation in the long run. I also personally feel that guaranteeing traffic or using only traffic as a KPI or success indicator is a slippery slope. What is the true end goal? In this client's case, would it be paid subscriptions? Consider educating the client on the value of the quality of traffic versus the pure quantity of traffic and incorporate CRO into your recommendations to define your conversion funnel and optimize your conversion events. Just a few thoughts off the top of my head - hope this helps!

Hey there Amanda, Sorry for any confusion! We're definitely happy to take a look at the rankings results in our tools. I'm not super clear where you're looking at the ranking - is it in a Campaign, Rank Tracker, or in Keyword Explorer? I might recommend reaching out to us at help@moz.com with the specifics of the keyword, URL, and campaign so that we can check for you. Generally speaking, you may see different results between live SERP pages and our results because we use anonymized methods to pull rank data and approximate what a national searcher may see. If you use your own browser to check, things like search history and location can impact the result. Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you!

Hey Steve, I first learned about Pointy from the American Independent Business Alliance a few months ago, and wrote a bit about it here: https://moz.com/blog/local-seos-guide-to-buy-local *See the section subtitled "Digitize Inventory Easily". It's early days yet, but the fact that founder of WordPress and co-founder of Google Maps are Pointy's angel investors makes me think it could go far. While I've yet to hold a Pointy device in my own hands, the potential for it to enable smaller local businesses to get their inventory onto the web so easily is incredibly appealing. If anyone is actually using Pointy, I hope you'll contribute to this thread!

Thank you for your answer. I did use yoast seo with a no index to fix the issue and currently deleting everything in the search console.

Thanks Gaston!

Hi there, IMO, the site that has more traffic, more relevancy and more authoritative, will be the one effects the quickier. That said, you could go testing with all black hat methods, it's known that most of them works for a really short period of time. I'm in no position to recommend any Im against that practices. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

Sorry to say that without an in-depth look, there isn't going to be a way to tell. Unless you changed something, it is most likely testing or an update from Google. I've seen rankings go up and down over the years on multiple sites for a variety of reasons and sometimes what seems like no reason. It can be the negation of the value of backlinks, or an entrant to the market, or Google trying other sites out to see if they perform better in the eyes of the searcher. In this industry, there is only so much you can control. Focus on creating top quality content, focus on the searcher, and you'll come out on top.

Hi there, Jo from the Moz help team here. First off, it's worth noting that 5% is quite a low score. Secondly, I would clarify that the score isn't a calculation based on the Spam Score of sites linking to your site. Spam Score is percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. To improve this score I would recommend understanding the 27 factors used to make up this score  and working on improving them: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score I hope this helps - let me know if there's anything else I can assist with! Jo

Hey Dave, I know all metrics mentioned on url-metrics API. But I already read it many times. Description don't have mentioned what I need. There may be possibility that this API don't have what I need. If yes than you can suggest me other way to get all data mentioned in my question. Do you want total backlinks to a specific page?  root domain? : We want all count page specific. 1. Total Backlinks   2. Total Referring Domains  3. Total Follow Links    4. Total No Follow links Thanks.

Hi there, Would you mind giving us more information about your issue? What crawlers? How do you know that H1 is not found? Are you having any type of hiding via CSS, JS or any other method? Lazy loading? Different version in mobile and desktop? Are you blocking the crawling? (robots.txt and or robots meta tag?) If you dont mind publish the site that has the problem Cheers GR

Thanks so much. It did help!

Hi Meghan, I have no manual action on my google dashboard does it mean I shouldn't worry ? Thank you, I will have a look at the link you sent.

Hey, Unfortunately this would not be possible (especially as we recently released a new index which changed how DA/PA was calculated, therefore you wouldn't be able to compare against previous results). You can see history for DA for near enough the past year in Link Explorer. We have a great guide on it here: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll be more than happy to help! Have a great day! ​Eli