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Adwords Express Vs Adwords for small business
That's a great response from Ramon. My thoughts... I wouldn't touch Adwords at alluntil you thoroughly understand the various match types, for both positive and negative keywords (they do differ in their impact somewhat). And also how Quality Scores impacts Ad Rank. Ad words can be a real killer if left too broad. I highly recommend this tutorial. It will teach you everything you need to know about Adwords. P.S) I think it's a great idea to offer as an additional service to your SEO work. They can work hand in hand nicely.
Paid Search Marketing | | isaac6630 -
Where can i find my api key
Have you signed up to mozscape first of all? You can try it for free. If so, hopefully this might help. https://moz.com/products/mozscape/access
API | | TimHolmes0 -
Orphan Duplicate is created as Subdomain in Google Search
It's been 301 all the time (at least few years), we have rewrite if doesn't match the domain pattern. That subdomain only shows up in the DNS records.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | rkdc0 -
Non Published Wordpress Pages
William and Ramon have good answers here. Roman also has good points but some of it may be a bit confusing for this thread because it's not fully explained. If the pages haven't been published they shouldn't be indexable to Google based on standard Wordpress functionality. Having a bunch of messy unfinished pages could slow down use of the cms (if only because you have to paginate through them) but as Will and Ramon have said they're unlikely to slow down the site front end unless they are truly huge amounts. Most relevant is the opportunity cost for not having all those pages published, if they aren't published they can't rank. So if you're posting this to get reasoning to finish the work I'd start by considering the keywords those pages are targeting; use semrush, stat, or similar and pull out the search volume for the keywords. Then you can point to what you're accumulatively missing out on. Hope that helps
Technical SEO Issues | | R0bin_L0rd1 -
Does optimization of PDF files for search matter in 2017?
Google crawls billions of documents a day. Documents can be for instance pages, images or PDF files. Often people forget to optimize their PDF files. That’s a missed opportunity as PDF files have the potential to generate enormous amounts of traffic. This articles will give you a better compresion PDF Conversions for SERP Rankings 10 Tips for Successful PDF SEO with Acrobat Files PDF SEO in short Just like your website’s pages, you can optimize PDF files for search engine findability. Keep the following things in mind when doing so: Choose a SEO friendly filename. Define a good title and description. Use headings and include relevant outgoing links. Make sure they don’t cause duplicate content issues. Don’t save PDF files as images. Optimize for mobile and file size. If my answer were useful don't forget to mark it as a good answer Cheers
Keyword Research | | Roman-Delcarmen1 -
.co.uk and .co coexistance?
Ups! My mistake, was not aware of that article from google. Im deepl sorry if i´ve confused you. Yeah! Following the recommended precautions and steps in the cited articles you will be perfect! There is no need to do any further than that. Best luck! GR.
Local Strategy | | GastonRiera0 -
Do I need 301's if I use HSTS in HTTP to HTTPS migration?
I have been using backlinko (Brian Dean) as a reference, and as I see it was a mistake. I didn't know Fili Wiese and as I see he knows what is he talking about.....thank for reply
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Roman-Delcarmen0 -
When Google is going to penalise webpages with autoplaying videos?
Hi Vtmoz, Couldn´t agree more with you, they are a pain in the ... specially when they have sound and i have no idea where the vid is. As Google rolled out there mobile interstitials penalty at the beginning of this year and this is also a usability issue, who knows... Apparantly John Mueller from Google also said he didnt like them and asked if they should penalize. Would surely be a game changer.
Search Engine Trends | | Moreleads0 -
Does putting Disallow: / at the end of a robots.txt file override the Allow: /xxxx that come before it?
Yes agreed with james wolff, If you are adding Disallow:/ at last no need to adding any other disallow. Thanks
Technical SEO Issues | | Alick3000 -
Campaign in subdirectory
Hi Jon, I have sent you more information via your support ticket in regards to our crawlers inability to find links from the subfolder used to set up the Campaign to the rest of your pages. Please do let me know by replying to the support ticket if the information I provided helped at all. Best Jo :]
Other Research Tools | | jocameron0 -
Is a recent hack or the disavow tool causing my alarming dropping in rankings!
Hi Kristin, I have left a pretty detailed message in private messages I hope that is helpful please feel free to contact me with any questions. Respectfully, Thomas
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | BlueprintMarketing0 -
PPC Manufacturer Keyword Question
Hi Chuck, Yes i have seen this before. I understand this manufacturer is also your supplier so they would also be cutting out a middle man (more clients would purchase from them directly) and leaving them with higher margins whilst at the same time reducing there cpc´s. If you remove all competition but one from a keyword auction it would lower cpc (how much depends on the minimum cpc for that keyword) but it has nothing to do with "low search volume" which is a result of a keyword having very small amount of searches (this is influenced directly only by the buyers and not by the sellers). Google will handle this by reducing the cpc that was increased because of competitor bidding auctions. Its not a pleasant situation and in my case there was nothing to do about it (or it must be a generic product for which you could find another manufacturer, which i think is not an option in your case)
Paid Search Marketing | | Moreleads0 -
Is there a way to take notes on a crawled URL?
Hey! Dave here from the Help Team, There are a couple different things you can do to mark items that you have done. One of the new features we have implemented into Site Crawl is the ability to mark items as "Fixed". This tool can be handy if you know that you have fixed issues with your site but are still waiting for your next update. Another trick you might want to do is download your "all crawled pages" CSV and then create a "notes" column. It wont live in the Moz dashboard but at least you would have a good record! Hopefully those options help you out!
Feature Requests | | dave.kudera0 -
Where to promote a blog post?
Hi, I'd use social media - Twitter, Facebook. If you have good images you could also use Instagram and in the accompanying text say that there's a post about it over on your site. I'd look at what others have done by searching the keywords on that social media platform and seeing what comes up. if they used a good hook or hashtag then use that in your post too. You could post a few times on your chosen platforms with different text each time and see what works best - don't overdo the posting though as people will get annoyed. If your topic ties in with something upcoming eg a national awareness day or big event, make sure you post during that period and use the relevant hashtags (which you can usually research before).
Content & Blogging | | Houses0 -
Authroity
Ok I understand now. Kind of slow I guess sometimes so thanks for spelling it out for me. i appreciate the direction again.
Local Website Optimization | | SignGuyMike0 -
Moz is flagging my callto: links as 404s. I "fixed" with tel: & nofollow and lost 2 DA. Help?
I think I found my own answer, I switched the links to the tel: format and wrapped them in Schema.org markup, and that seems to be working, When I re-crawled the 404's went down and I'm not seeing them anymore. Still waiting on October 25th data dump to see if my DA goes back up. I'm not sure which one resolved the issue though.
Feature Requests | | OCPmusic0