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Again, I tend to agree. But when mapping it out on a whiteboard, and showing how the subdomains would link to one another, for cross selling purposes, it seems so elegant and clean. his is one of those instances where my heart says yes but my reason, according to the evidence, says no.

We would never know that. That "Ranking strengh" is the sum of all the ranking factors google uses (I may guess over 500) that only Google knows and never will reveal. Moz tries to analyze and is a nice metric, I will nor rely completely on it, because it only uses on page  data, that is just a part of what google analyzes. Hope I've clarified, if don't just ask again

OK this is the right way to connect your Google Analytics with Moz Connecting Google Analytics > Moz Official Documentation In the other hands as I understand Moz does not have a Goal Tracking Feature available. Here is a list very useful related to Google Analytics Goal Tracking understanding how to use google analytics event tracking 4 Google Analytics Goal Types That Are Critical To Your Business Create, edit, and share goals IF THIS ANSWER WERE USEFUL MARK IT AS A GOOD ANSWER

Hello, Rankings could be also different for two people in the same region/city/etc since Google SERP's (rankings) are always fluctuating, specially for lower positions. And yes, geographical factor is even more important since some results are geo-oriented and rank better in a specific region/city etc. You are not mising anything my friend I recommend you to read this Moz post: https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors Roberto

I would agree with you, there are pros and cons. One site I keep up with almost religiously is backlinko.com. Brian Dean is a popular SEO thought leader. If you checkout his post sitemap, you'll see he only has around 30 posts - one on just about every topic. You'll find that each post wholly answers his users' questions, with examples, further resources, media, and more. In my opinion, this is the direction the internet is heading. One exhaustive post on a popular topic in your industry, updated yearly, is going to outperform (in terms of overall traffic and individual ranking) 4-5 posts on one single topic. So, the pros of lots of posts on one topic might be the potential of having multiple, specific long tail keywords rank and the opportunity to have a specific and quick answer to multiple searchers' queries. But the big con is that none of those posts will have a great chance of ranking well for a high volume keyword. Hope this helps!

Pete at Moz updated his "How Long Should Your Meta Descriptions Be?" post last night: He says this: "At the end of the day, I think it comes down to control. For critical pages, writing a good meta description is like writing ad copy — there's real value in crafting that copy to drive interest and clicks. There's no guarantee Google will use that copy, and that fact can be frustrating, but the odds are still in your favor..." Like he says, I think it ultimately comes down to what makes the most sense for that page. For some pages on our website, a very short description seems to suffice. These can be as short as 50 characters. For some of our more "weightier" pages, like our services pages, we try our best to entice the user to click with a true description of what they will find on the page, as well as the action they might be expected to take. These may be around 300 characters. We're pretty confident (Dr. Pete is too) that this is a safe number that won't get cut off, regardless any features or "Jump To" links Google may add to the result. Cheers!

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Looks like you did a 301 redirect to / Status Code URL IP Page Type Redirect Type Redirect URL 301 http://idearocketanimation.com/whiteboard-animation-o 162.144.136.148 server_redirect permanent https://idearocketanimation.com/whiteboard-animation-o 301 https://idearocketanimation.com/whiteboard-animation-o 162.144.136.148 server_redirect permanent https://idearocketanimation.com/whiteboard-animation-o/ 200 https://idearocketanimation.com/whiteboard-animation-o/ 162.144.136.148 normal none none Google should recognize this and you will be fine.

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Thank you for your responses! The QS did not decrease. Our hosting support said we had a setting wrong on their end that they had to correct. It was causing the website to go down due to being overloaded. Not sure if that would impact our CPC or not... does CPC go up if your site is having short outages? Or was that just a coincidence? I'm the SEO guru... the owner is the PPC guru.

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Gaston, your answer is correct (albeit not complete... see my answer below). Plus: when linking to posts and guides, even if they are by Moz, always explain why they can be useful.

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According to Moz the Optimal Format for a URL http://www.example.com/category-keyword/subcategory-keyword/primary-keyword.html Source URLs - SEO Best Practices This is another good source 15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs by Rand Fishkin In your case, if this new structure will help to improve the user experience and visibility of your site, then you are in the right way.

Top of the morning to you!! As long as you 301 redirect the old URL's to the current related pages, 90-99% of the page authority will transfer to the current URL. It would also be advantageous, if those old URL's contain duplicate or similar content, to set up "rel=canonical" tags for the current URL. The canonical tag basically tells search engine crawlers which URLs to index. I would also use a tool like AHREFS to research the page authority of these old URL's. If you have thousands of old URL's to transfer, it will really only benefit you, from an SEO standpoint, to transfer the pages with a higher page authority. So, to answer your question, there is not a lot of risk, if you redirect correctly. It would also help, going forward, when there is a URL change, to automatically set up a 301 redirect, that way you don't have thousands to sift through.

The simple answer would be yes. However, the amount of page authority that you receive from these mentions are up for debate. Personally, I use Moz Pro's opportunities section to view link-less mentions and subsequently try to convert those mentions into an actual link. Remember, this unlinked mention will be a secondary signal, not a primary, so, it is always better to try to convert to an actual link. In my experience, I have had excellent luck contacting the person who wrote the article to link my website. Best of luck! John

Hey Natty, Not sure how much organic traffic you consider to be "not much", but either way, there are a few things you may want to consider: 1. Create content for each category page that is unique to them (e.g. create category description for "Body Moisturizers"). This will help create relevancy and reduce your overall "thin" and "duplicate" content throughout the site. 2. While it appears that the page is in main GG's index (as found here), I'd recommend adding links on the home page that deep link to the categories you're wanting to gain more traction with. Doing this will help reduce the crawl depth of the page and would help distribute some of the authority that the home page has, directly to those sub-pages. You could do this in a "categorical module" (e.g. create a visual box for a category "Skin Care") which has a sentence or two description w/ links to the sub-cats you really want to bring further up...could do max 5 links with a "view all skin care products" at the bottom of it. 3. You'll notice in the site search link from above that you have many pages indexed for the single page we searched for. This represents a duplicate content issue. Checking the paginated results pages (which is what those extra results are), you'll notice the URL canonicals to itself (which is fine if the content is truly unique, but in this case, it doesn't appear to be). You'll also notice that the canonical references conflict with the hreflang references. In any event, just some thoughts. Hope this helps! Cheers.

Hi, That is Google answer box and if you know how Google pulls it please watch below whiteboard friday from Rand Fishkin. https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-whiteboard-friday Hope this helps. Thanks

Hi IcarusSEO, As Alick has said, you do not need to write it into the meta description. Although, if you have a local business you might consider include it into your NAP (name, address, phone) if it is necesary as part of your business name. On regard the meta descriptions, Google now allows up to 320 characteres, although best SEOs recommend about 290 characters. Therefore plenty of room for write compelling meta descriptions. Good luck. Mª Verónica googles-longer-snippets

Thanks for your help, William!