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48.8k Unwanted Spam Links Appeared
Hi Chris, If you are seeing an impact, then start to disavow and do this monthly just to keep on top of it. However, chances are that Google would recognise these for what they are and just ignore them. Due diligence would sway me towards disavow though. -Andy
Link Building | | Andy.Drinkwater0 -
Multi Step Form or Standard Form for Data Capture
This makes a lot of sense. So I will not make any assumptions about my visitors and will test so as to obtain objective feedback.
Conversion Rate Optimization | | Kingalan10 -
I have noticed google load times are incorrect in the console
Are you seeing these numbers in the new Search Console? It'd be worth checking them in the old version, while it's still around, just to make sure they two sync up. I've heard people mention some difference (although not specifically page speed). Might also be worth running some checks from different locations. If you're always viewing your load times from one or a couple of locations, you may be seeing ideal speeds and not seeing problems other people could be having. Not to say Google is right, but this is one possible explanation for the difference. You're seeing 1.2 seconds as TTFB in Google or as the overall load time?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Dr-Pete0 -
Problem with regional URL. From regional to international SEO. I need to change the URL
Thank you Andy, You gave me excellent suggestions. Yes, I'll focus on a URL that helps people understand what the business does. So you are suggesting that even if in the past they had a URL with the company name, it will not be a big deal to add a word to the company name, provided that it makes sense with what the business does. As a result, it's not necessary to change the content of the pages as the change is minimal. Best regards, Sara
Technical SEO Issues | | sara.biowatch0 -
Multiple campaigns for one website with multiple services?
Hey, Dave from the Help Team here! Its really up to you how you want to structure your campaigns and by no means would be doing something wrong if you had multiple campaigns for different areas of your website. This is a common practice for Moz Pro users who want to have separate reporting. My recommendation would be to at least use one campaign slot to track the entire site, then use the other ones to have your more targeted campaign reports. Hopefully that helps!
Getting Started | | dave.kudera0 -
Weird SEO Problem - No Longer Ranking in Some Areas
Good for you, Rswhtn, for trying to get your key points into a list. I'm going to agree with Andy here: this list is something you need to take to company that does both local and organic SEO for a real audit. Trying to guess at this, without looking at your timeline, analytics, Google Search Console, competitive landscape, etc., is just going to be making random guesses as to why whatever has happened to your specific business has happened. You could be dealing with filters or penalties, you could be dealing with Google more highly localizing organic results in other places leading to you being edged out of anything but organic rankings for your own city, there could be a technical issue with your robots.txt. It could be so many things. The loss of traffic seems like enough of a reason to get a real audit going for this, so that no more time is being lost with your revenue being impacted.
Local Website Optimization | | MiriamEllis0 -
Keyword Research Using K Explorer for Company with No Competitors
Moz's Keyword Explorer is much nicer. I couldn't find any additional benefit to your tool, unless you can explain.
Other Research Tools | | BobGW0 -
Via this intermediate link issue - for (multiple domains) same brand
thanks James, i will implement them and will inform you once i see a change
Technical SEO Issues | | Vitarockstore0 -
Query string parameters always bad for SEO?
No, I would make sure it's the best use case for you. Sometimes you can store this data in a cookie. But there are still great ways for just SEO that can help you with making sure that it won't hurt. Usually the best way is still having a canonical tag on the page that matches with the page that the content is originally from.
Technical SEO Issues | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Incorrect Reporting
Hi there, Leanne, Oh dear, that doesn't sound right! Unfortunately, we're going to need to take a closer look at exactly which kind of report you're trying to pull. Please write in to help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort things out with you. It's really hard to do this kind of support in the forums. Thanks!
Other Research Tools | | tawnycase0 -
Access all crawl tests
Just a note that we've discontinued the old Crawl Test tool and have launched an entirely new On-Demand Crawl tool based on our upgraded Site Crawl engine (launched last year). The new tool has an enhanced UI, entirely rebuilt back-end, full export capability, and will save your old crawls for up to 90 days. We've written up a sample case study or logged-in customers can go directly to On-Demand Crawl.
Feature Requests | | Dr-Pete0 -
Using posts to make static pages - A best practice or a bad idea?
Yes - that is the gist of my concerns. But I don't know...I think "cornerstone content" is an SEO strategy term, not something that Google defines and associates with only pages. Because there are lots of bloggers who have hundreds of posts and only a few pages and who plan for certain pages or categories to be their cornerstone content.
Local Website Optimization | | Dandelion1 -
Homepage has canonical tag pointing to innerpage
Hi Don, Thank you for your response. The homepage and inner page are an exact duplicate (mirror). Cheers!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nerdieb0 -
How to do effective keyword research with categories and subcategories?
Hey Eric_S, Glad to hear you're starting the SEO 101 journey. 1. You can view which keywords your site currently ranks for on a domain level or a page level through using the MOZ keyword explorer tool, selecting either "domain" or "page" and inputting the URL into the tool. It should then show you a list of all of the keywords and their volumes. This can also be done using tools like SEMrush or AHREFS. In order to view the search traffic on your site, you will have to look at its Google Analytics data, or any other tracking program you may be utilizing and sort the data to find out the number of users that come to your site via organic search. (This is a little vague, and will vary depending on which program you're using for analytics, so feel free to ask for clarification or do further program-specific research.) 2. Excel or google sheets both work well for keyword documents. 3. There are a lot of different analysis that can be made by finding the keywords you currently rank for. You can find keywords with higher volumes that you would like to rank higher for, and try to re target pages to achieve this. Simply having a keyword mapping document outlining the targeted keyword for each page can also be useful when writing things such as titles and h1s on a page. It really depends on your goal. I hope this was helpful! Lydia
Search Engine Trends | | lydiagilbertson2