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  • Without knowing full details about your business, I would personally use JPShots.com because it is so short, easy, and communicative.  I don't know anything about Yost.

    Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | EGOL
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  • How to check if my site fatjar studios is affected or not?

    Local Strategy | | sne7979
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  • Have a look at how Moz now calculates the spam score, it is done based on correlation with characteristics of other band websites. That is to say just because it's a high spam score doesn't mean to say it's going to do you damage. However I always steer completely clear of any indication of spam. I would consider 20% plenty high enough, at 40% I would completely avoid it and put my effort elsewhere.

    Link Building | | seoman10
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  • Hi Nigel, Don't be a tough guy! Surely your answer was helpful and I'm thankful of that. But your answer led me to another question and that's how similar websites are working if google is against websites which are publishing duplicate contents. Is keeping deleted content is enough to get rid of this problem? Any other suggestions? Thanks again

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jasww
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  • I have seen this is UK as well. If you want to go on .com you can. Best is to do it incognito so that your location can't be detected. Regards Nigel

    Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | Nigel_Carr
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  • Hi Trent, Did of the awesome responses to your question help? What did you decide to do? We'd love to hear from you! Christy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Christy-Correll
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  • Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Thanks for writing in and sorry about the trouble! I took a look at your Site Crawl results and your site, and I believe this is a result of our crawler's inability to work with Javascript. If your site is primarily Javascript, then the data you get back with regards to the crawl report won't be completely accurate because of this. There's no real workaround that I can recommend for this one, since it is a technical limitation of our tools, but there are some good blog posts and discussions in the Q&A about this if you head over to our Help Hub. While the tools and data that rely on our crawl of your site may not return the best results because of that Javascript, your keyword rankings and link profile should work just fine. You might also want to check out a few tools that are compatible with Javascript, like Botify or Screaming Frog. I'm really sorry I can't be of more help here; I'll definitely be sure to pass this along to our Product team as feedback on your behalf. ​If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com.

    Link Explorer | | tawnycase
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  • Hi Marynau Look on the right side of teh Moz bar and they give a rating out of 17. I'd say anything over 6/7 would be considered bad. Having said that I rely on SEMrush to tell me if it's toxic or not. Best Regards Nigel

    Link Building | | Nigel_Carr
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  • Hi Marynau It's considered bad practice to link to other sites through footers. It results in 100s and often 1000s of links coming to you from one site which could be considered spammy. You probably won't get a manual penalty but there may be an algorithmic one if it happens too frequently from a number of different sites. Check the spam score of the site linking to you - use the MOZ bar - if they are a sponsor then they are likely to be OK. Then politely ask them to link to you once from an 'Our Sponsors' page or just one link from the home page (as it's likely to have a higher PA - page authority) I hope that helps, Regards Nigel

    Link Building | | Nigel_Carr
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  • Answer: For best results, provide multiple high-resolution images (minimum of 50K pixels when multiplying width and height) with the following aspect ratios: 16x9, 4x3, and 1x1. Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/product

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Choice
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  • Very helpful, I've never explored the lexical similarity within keyword suggestions. Also – very much enjoyed your recent Whiteboard Friday on profiting as an agency. Thanks Russ!

    Keyword Research | | brooksmanley
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  • Trust me on this one. I've cancelled my  Moz Pro account and sometimes neglected due to expired credit cards or updated payment methods etc and so far have never had an issue with any lost of data in my campaigns etc. in the past 5 years. That's one thing that keeps me coming back to Moz after having been a paid member for so long.

    Technical Support | | NgEF
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  • Hey Dave, thanks for the response! I should have updated my question earlier today, but I was able to find a better way to do this type of research using Moz Pro's page optimization tab. The section in there that was previously labeled "related topics" was renamed "content suggestions", but it worked great. I was able to double content length and put in some genuinely useful information (I hope) that should help it rank better (I hope). It's a darn sight faster than what I was doing before, which was manually copy/pasting all body copy from the top ten sites for high volume keywords into an ngram analyzer and looking for patterns. The results were actually pretty similar, but good gravy, was it boring.

    Other Research Tools | | brettmandoes
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  • Hi Jasmin, Did Nigel's thoughtful response answer your question? If so, please mark it as a "Good Answer." If not, please let us know how we can help. We'd love to hear from you! Christy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Christy-Correll
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  • Basically, your is diluting its own efforts and resources, the idea to publish content in other domain make sense if it applied in the right way. (this not the case). 1- There is no make sense to have the same content in 2 places, so let see what Google has to say about it. Duplicate content Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the no index meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content. Minimize similar content: If you have many pages that are similar, consider expanding each page or consolidating the pages into one. For instance, if you have a travel site with separate pages for two cities, but the same information on both pages, you could either merge the pages into one page about both cities or you could expand each page to contain unique content about each city. Let's take an example assume that your client has an article called 3 Tips About legal requirements to buy a home You Can't Afford To Miss ----> The keyword on this case is_ legal requirements to buy a home._ So boost your SEO efforts is to build other articles on other pages around this content, if you made a quick content research about the topic _legal requirements to buy a home. _ Let's take an example assume that your client has an article called 3 Tips About legal requirements to buy a home You Can't Afford To Miss ----> The keyword on this case is legal requirements to buy a home. how much do you need to buy a house KD=4 Volume=600 the best state to buy a house KD=10 Volume=350 what to do after buying a house KD=4 Volume=350 So the best way to boost your content strategy and your Search Ranking is to create a universe around your content where the center of that universe is your article ( hahaha this just a Marvel joke), Also do not forget to include an internal link strategy and site structure strategy Regards Hope this info will help you

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Roman-Delcarmen
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  • It depends. If you are in Europe (or serve a European market), then you need to comply with GDPR rules. You'll need to specify how you use cookies, and how users can remove their data. If there are nuances with how you use site data, then you'll need to speak to that as well. Basically, if you collect data in any way from a website visitor then you need to disclose and help someone understand in lay mans terms what you're doing with it. If a generic/boilerplate privacy policy fits the need, then go with that. If you have custom applications, then have a lawyer review it for accuracy.

    Content & Blogging | | Eric_Rohrback
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