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What is your experience so far, with the new Google's Meta Description length up to 320 characters?
Hi Brooks, Thanks for the input. It is great to know that it is also working in your ecosystem.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | VeroBrain2 -
A word which has link to some other page, is that word also count as keyword stuffing
Dear Roman, Thank you. Can we discuss on many things, you will get my email id at contact us page.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | sureshworks0 -
Cannot download Mozbar
Hey there! Sorry about the trouble with the MozBar. We do here reports on this from time to time from our users, but usually it resolves fairly quickly. If it's not resolving please check that you're not blocking third party cookies from your browser. Here is a guide to checking this at your end https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/mozbar#more-help Once you've checked you're allowing third party cookies, please close the MozBar out completely, and then your browser out completely and then re-launch. Then activate MozBar and try clicking on the blue "Log in" link a few times. Each time a new tab opens and the log in should register after a few clicks. [image: mozbar_login2writing5frames.gif] Let me know if this helps at all! If you're still stuck I'll send over some more troubleshooting suggestions.
Other Research Tools | | tawnycase1 -
Different results when running spam score tests with and without www in moz
Hi Darko, Sorry, my above comment was more a solution than an explanation. Due to for Google and Moz the www and the non www are different websites, you might have different spam score results. The same applies for the http and the https versions of a website. As Meghan sayd, depending on the inbound links each version of your website has, the spam score result might differ each other. Therefore, the solution is to chose one version, only one and force to that option ie no matter how is written the chosen option will be displayed. Which one? the one that already has better inbound links. If more than one version of your website has already inbound links, a good option is to set a permanent redirect - 301 - from one to the other, so to carry the "link juice". Hope this clarifies a bit. spam-analysis duplicate-content
Link Explorer | | VeroBrain1 -
Do SEOs really need to care about trend in increase of voice search?
I agree that voice search will only continue to grow and grow in 2018. The results that are read aloud as answers are primarily featured snippets. So when you ask how to optimize for voice search, what you're really asking is how to optimize for featured snippets. A few optimization tips I've come across: Utilize a Q&A format: ask questions in your headings, and then include an explicit answer in the following paragraph. Use conversational language: seek to optimize for long tail conversational questions Consider frequently asked questions: by your customers, and other searchers (check out the "People Also Asked" section of the SERP when applicable) Here's a post that answers your question as well. Hope this is helpful!
Web Design | | brooksmanley2 -
Spam score Reduction is possible or not?
Hey there! Unfortunately there is not currently a way to mark links as disavowed in Moz tools. Generally Spam Score should be used a guideline to investigate potential penalization issues rather than a concrete checklist. If you know that you've worked on your harmful backlinks, you can usually ignore that warning! Learn more about Spam score with the following articles: Spam Score: Moz's New Metric to Measure Penalization Risk Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday
API | | moz_support3 -
Website's server IP address is redirected to blog by mistake; does Google responds?
Hi Vtmoz, Google will not respond at all. I mean Google has no way to know that it was a mistake, unless many websites hosted by the same host provider had the same behaviour. Said that, I assume that you fixed the issue and into the Google Search Console you checked the robot texts, updated the sitemap (s) and "fetched as Google" too. Good luck! Mª Verónica
Search Engine Trends | | VeroBrain1 -
Any tool to get all the old or archived links of a website?
This first method is a complete guess if it just went down you might have a chance of grabbing the rest on google of it by typing in sight:thedomain.tld in google I don’t know how old this thing is so it’s a possibility. Try http://archive.is Or time-travel.mementoweb.org http://archive.is/20130504233657/http://moz.com/ You can find just links or html useing http://www.internetfrog.com/mywebsite/archive/ with archive.org Try when in The way back machine take the code and use Regex to grab the URLs https://www.quora.com/Aside-from-the-Wayback-Machine-what-are-other-options-for-getting-screenshots-of-websites-from-the-past Use this inside of archive.org. https://regex101.com/library/V36Bah https://regex101.com/r/V36Bah/1 https://regex101.com/r/fbX1LZ/1 http://network.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic/12459-regex-explained-match-extract-urls/ https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex Use google search inur:thedomain.tld any variation that you think will get your URLs you never know what you might find. The site Get data from any link tools like Majestic, Ahrefs, Moz OSE that will give you a outline of site structure if it was Crawl and I had a lot of back links you can get a lot of URLs that way. One thing you have to do with the way back machine or archive.org. This simply use whatever page they have and click on that look for the site special by going to the homepage and trying to save that . So you can grab the URLs out of the navigation outside of that and doing Google searches for anything depending on how old it is it may still be there I don’t know how long ago this occur? But Google is not going to be a bad place to look. After that going to Webmaster to look for a xml site map or anything you could have useed To crawl the website prior to it coming down. If you know ran a crawl via Moz, screamingfrog or Deep Crawl you’re in luck. call the hosting if you own the domain Are you the new owner? If you are there might be a small chance the hosting company or the old owner had a back up of the entire site never know but you need to ask. I wish you all the very best sorry about the formatting I’m on my cell phone tom
Alternative Search Sources | | BlueprintMarketing0 -
CSS user select and any potential affect on SEO
Nope, no effect, as you suspect, Eddie. That kind of attempt at copy-blocking doesn't change the way the content is available in the DOM of the page (which is why it's so ineffective) so has no effect on crawling/indexing. You can prove this for yourself by going to a page and right-clicking to select the browser Inspect mode. This mode shows the actual rendered DOM of the page that the search engines are reading, and you'll see the content is easily accessible. The other option is to do a Fetch and Render request from within the site's Google Search Console and it will also show you what content Google can see. That what you were looking for? Paul
Technical SEO Issues | | ThompsonPaul0 -
Is it any opportunity to download my competitors' prices from the site?
Depends on what website you're talking about and it's architecture. But it's doable. You can download prices (or anything else) by parsing the element where it's encased from every page. It can be a CSS selector, XPath or plain HTML. Get a crawler with custom settings. Netpeak Spider (I work at Netpeak Software, this is a tool we developed) or Screaming Frog (I guess frog can also do this). You'll have to get your crawling settings right. Here's a brief rundown on the process: Find an element you want to download (price on the product page) Right click on it and click inspect. A console will open and this element will be highlighted. Depending on how this element is built you'll need to copy its XPath, CSS, or entire HTML. Trial and error if you don't know much about web development. Then use the crawler to parse all data from elements similar to the one you've inspected Crawling settings example: https://i.imgur.com/iWVSxyP.png Results example: https://i.imgur.com/966jgHt.png You'll probably have to contact our support to help you with settings the first time. If you have no budget limits or don't feel like doing it on your own there are companies which specify in this. Like Competera, Countly and etc.
Online Marketing Tools | | Igor.Go1 -
FAQ page structure
Makes perfect sense. Thanks a lot. Just the type of feedback I was looking for.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | OrlandSEO1 -
Does Organic CTR from Keyword Explorer show percentage of 1st position clicks? If not, how to calculate?
Hi Meghan, Thanks for replying during the holiday period, I didn't expect a response until after christmas! Sorry to be nit picky, I really appreciate your help, but I'm still not clear on what exactly is calculated or how to solve my problem. Your answer could get interpreted in a few ways so for the sake of clarity (and to satisfy my OCD haha) could you please tell me which statement below is correct... statement 1 or statement 2: Statement 1: Organic CTR gives a relative click-through-rate for ALL the organic search results on the page. Statement 2: Organic CTR gives a relative click-through-rate for the #1 position on the search results page. Also your link regarding landing pages and estimated traffic looks great (https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/rankings/landing-pages) but since I do not already rank for these keywords it won't provide me with the data I need. I need to know the estimate search traffic before I start targeting keywords, not after I rank for them. So I still need to know what is the CTR for a number 1 position compared to the other organic search results. Do you know what I should be using for this number? Research tell me it can be anything from 40% to 20%... but I am yet to find a definitive answer to this. Again, thanks for your help! Thanks, Ben
Other Research Tools | | elementpaints0 -
How is DA and PA calculated?
I am also curious about DA and PA. My website Carpet Cleaner Picks DA is 2 while PA has reached upto 25. PA is increasing constantly since the launching of the website while DA stands still. Why is that? Secondly, I am also curious if DA or PA has any effect on the rankings.
Link Explorer | | glester3610 -
301 Re-direct help
Not sure if this is the way it should exactly be handled, but here are some thoughts for consideration: 1. I'd consider pointing IP address of domain-A to IP address of domain-B, then set up a general 301 domain redirect for domain-A -> domain-B and then do 301 redirects per URL from domain-A to domain-B as applicable/relevant. The redirects would be setup to be managed on domain-b, as domain-a would be pointing to domain-b's server. 2. Since you're effectively "changing site address" here, so you'd want to ensure you have both sites and all versions setup in GSC (domain-a.com, www.domain-a.com, https://domain-a.com, https://www.domain-a.com domain-b.com, www.domain-b.com, etc., etc.) and then initiate a change of address for domain-a.com to go to domain-b.com. Cheers
Technical SEO Issues | | regal_kyle0