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Having trouble uploading CSV file to Moz Local?
Hi there Joseph, Sorry for the trouble! There could be a few things wrong here, but it is difficult to troubleshoot from just that error message. I would recommend reaching out to us at help@moz.com and attaching the spreadsheet you were trying to upload so that we can check on it. Thanks!
Moz Local | | moz_support0 -
Issue with GA tracking and Native AMP
Lots going on here, so, a laundry list of follow up questions and thoughts for you... Are you seeing AMP results showing up in the Search Console? Are you seeing them indexed as intended? If you're doing Native AMP, you won't be able to diagnose pages by /amp URL types of formatting. It might be worth trying to fire off an event, or custom dimension in GA, for AMP = Yes / No or something like that. For the sitewide view, have you tested loading pages on a private browser and incognito mobile browser and seeing if they show up in GA realtime in each of the 3 views when they're supposed to? It looks like you might be using Cloudflare - I haven't dealt with an AMP site that uses it, but have you checked whether there are compatibility issues or anything you need to activate? Are any Google Tag Manager pages set to fire on HTTPS only? Are any GA filters in place that specify HTTP/HTTPS that need to be broadened? Your Amp Analytics code seems to match the one on a site that is functioning as intended, so I don't think it's a formatting issue. For the GA view filter - it seems like you should be able to simply include/exclude traffic to shop.winefolly.com - why the added complexity beyond that?
Technical SEO Issues | | KaneJamison0 -
Moz Pro > Links > Top Pages: many are images, useful?
Thanks Roman. I am good with doing redirects, and it is not many pages, so making coding mistakes that cause chaos is not really the issue (though it is always good to avoid). My question is really about using some of the "link juice" being directed to useless outdated images to improve the ranking of some deep but related pages on our site.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | GregB1230 -
Related Keywords: How many separate pages?
Instead of trying to group pages by keyword, try thinking about searcher intent and task accomplishment. Can you write one comprehensive page that addresses the searcher's needs and includes all the keywords? Or does it make more sense to break into a couple different areas, such as a page that's specific to a plaintiff and a page specific to a defendant? Try this: create a venn diagram of the different audiences that may visit that section of the site you're contemplating building out, and group the keywords that you suspect each audience would use and see where the overlap is. If there are areas that are completely blank, you don't need a page for that specific audience or task. Doing this will help you determine which pages need to cover which keywords for the right audience. For example, for an optometrist there's probably searches involving "contacts", "glasses", and "lasik". You might be able to address all three on the same page, but that's probably a horrible experience for someone who is just looking for a specific eyeglass style to have long text about the benefits of lasik. Very little overlap there because the audiences and intent may be different, so they get different pages, and that shows up in the venn diagram. Hope this helps!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | brettmandoes0 -
Why is the blog link so often found in the footer?
it is one of the link building strategies. Please want to take credit of design theme or do indirect advertising.
Content & Blogging | | sne79790 -
HTML Copy in Image Alt Text Field
Yes including copy would be beneficial. Plus Title and H1 obviously. You could write an additional blog post about it and internally link to it with decent anchor text. A social media drive would also help an infographic to rank. If you can post it in relevant facbook groups and google groups and get it to be shared by interested parties on twitter and facebook (include some good text) then this will also help it to rank.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Andrew-SEO0 -
Google: What factors contribute to rank a landing page in a specific country?
Localization of the content of the landing page (from IRL to title tag and meta description to text in the page itself. Geotargeting the landing page: if it is in a separate subfolders and the domain is a generic domain name, then you can eventually create a Google Search Console for that folder and geotargeting to the intended country in the International Targeting Page of the prope itself. An alternative to subfolser is having the landing page you want to geotarget in a subdomain and then geotargeting it as I describe above. If you want to create a landing page in a separate domain, then it would be better a country code domain name like, for instance, .es for Spain. if the landing page exists in different country versions, then it would opportune to implement the hr so to indicate to Google What landing page to show in the SERPS depending from where the searchers is searching from. Finally, links from site targeting the country the landing page is targeting too. having a hosting in the targeted country is not anymore and international seo ranking factor.
Search Engine Trends | | gfiorelli10 -
Does the Moz crawler ignore the robots.txt file?
Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Our Crawler does obey robots.txt directives. Would you be able to reach out to us at help@moz.com so that we can do some investigating. I.e. So we can access your Campaigns and take a look at your website etc. Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli
Other Questions | | eli.myers0 -
OSE 'request CSV' for links blank
Hi there, Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you please pop an email over to help@moz.com along with your account email address so we can take a look into this for you? Thank you!
Link Explorer | | samantha.chapman0 -
In this situation, should I consolidate two pages into 1 for stronger SEO?
Hi DAGU, This is an interesting question and one that requires research. Google rank brain will identify words intent that are essentially the same. You can see this with keywords by typing them into the search engine. If you type in 'How much is a haircut' in bold you'll see in the entries to the SERP 'haircut prices' 'average costs' haircut cost 'hairdresser cost' etc. So you know google considers these to be the same things. So if you mention 'price', 'cost', 'average price' loads of times you're going to get slammed for keywords stuffing because these are variants on the same words. Now with products it's a little more difficult but the same principle applies. You need to find out what people (and google) considers to be in the same topic and where the edges of that topic are. This takes testing and time and research. But the best place to start is with googling. On the highest ranking pages do they group the products together or have them on separate pages? Also use your brain (I don't mean that in a derogatory way) but shut your laptop and think critically about what your customers want to see on each page and what type of customer might be looking for what product and why. Even better go ask them! But looking at successful pages will give you a good start. Make sure you have your Mozbar on and discount the pages with very high DA or PA because they may be ranking because of factors not related to on page or smart information architecture but because they are just established players. You want model the small players who are newer and doing it right. There is basically a balance to be struck between the serp entry (very important for people looking for something specific) and the page content which needs to have the depth and comprehensiveness to rank. And there's no tool out there except your own brain and your customers/staff that's gonna give you those answers. Also don't be afraid to test. I treat 'gummy smiles' with Botox so had that as part of my botox page. I just took it out this morning and made a page dedicated to gummy smiles that includes laser gum contouring, crown lengthening and all sorts of other stuff. Let's just see what happens. You can always change it back if it doesn't work. But be aware of volume. If you've got one page for the "Nobel Biocare Straumann Titanium Implant" it's just not gonna pick up enough search and google's not going to get enough data from chrome to rank it. So I have it as a tab on my Dental Implants page and if someone does a search it it's marked up & H3 so it comes up as a hyperlink in blue. Good luck. But this is a critical thinking job and a research job so get googling and see what google considers the delimitations of your topics. Spending two days just googling products and making notes will not be time wasted because you'll get a feel for it. And once you start to get a feel for these things then you can start using your intuition and taking shortcuts. Most of the stuff I do now I just wing it and do a few tests and pick a winner. Because i've done so much painstaking research I feel I have a pretty good idea of what google's got in mind for my categories and topics.
Technical SEO Issues | | Smileworks_Liverpool0 -
Site with 2 domains - 1 domain SEO opimised & 1 is not. How best to handle crawlers?
Hello! I can answer this from a Google / SEO perspective (a non-moz tool perspective). First you want to be sure the secure subdomain content is not indexed. If the secure subdomain is NOT indexed, leave the robotos.txt crawl blocking in place. You don't want and don't need Google crawling secure pages and payment pages. Just be sure they truly all are private pages. If they are NOT indxed, the crawl block is best - this will prevent google from crawling, and if they can't crawl they can't index. If the secure pages ARE indexed remove the robots.txt crawl block. Add meta noindex on all the pages Wait for them to be noindexed (removed from google) Then, block them from being crawled with robots.txt - which will prevent them from being crawled, and thus prevent them from being indexed as well.
Getting Started | | evolvingSEO0 -
Descriptive domain vs business name domain
Sounds like something left behind in your meta tags somewhere or possibly page headings (H1, H2 etc). Out of preference I would utilise a shorter domain name. Domain name will have a small impact, but it is very small, hardly detectable. I would look at it from a branding perspective, JP Shots is much more brand friendly.
Search Engine Trends | | seoman100 -
Ecommerce Site Structure -- "/our_locations" page: helpful or harmful?
Hi there! I do not have any resource or study for those statements. for the extra clic, it a well known fact that, for any extra clic that the user does, the conversion rate decreases. On how usefull is that landing hub, it is something to be experimented in your case. Theoretically it helps, but its really difficult to estimate how much. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR
Local Website Optimization | | GastonRiera1 -
Metered paywall & seo
Hello idosmaccount, Sounds like your site is a news site? I'd probably need more information to help out. There's multiple approaches to this issue. If you've no-indexed or blocked off the pages in your robots.txt, you also lose the possible search traffic that those pages could bring. What other news sites have done to try to resolve this is to build in a on-page paywall similar to this https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/pocket-rocket-packs-a-punch This approach allows for a 'sneak peek' of the page's content, also allows for the page to be indexed, and also allows for the user that comes in via search traffic the chance to convert to a paid subscription that unlocks the page's content.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | NgEF0 -
Are you Able to keep 100% traffice when do domain redirect?
I agree with Gaston. The most important thing to do is to plan and execute carefully. In my experience, failures are usually caused when insufficient time and care has gone into planning, executing, testing the migration. You'd also be wise to benchmark existing metrics and settings before pulling the plug. It'll streamline problem-solving should an issue arise. This post is also helpful - https://searchengineland.com/take-back-lost-links-220462. It explains how to reclaim lost links when it's not obvious why rankings have dropped. It's possible you've lost backlinks that pointed to previous versions of the site that haven't existed for years and this post provides a step-by-step technique for reclaiming them.
Technical SEO Issues | | DonnaDuncan0