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Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.  I think the reason you're not able to find inbound links for those sites is just what you mentioned: you need a VPN to be able to access the sites with a Japan IP address. Our tools won't be able to get around that IP block, so we won't be able to find links pointing back to those sites. Sorry about that! If you have any more questions we can help with, feel free to send us a note at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to answer all your questions.

Hello Nicholas and mkupfer112, Thanks a million for your advices! It's clear for me now! I will go for A. Sylvain

Hi Obi Yes - a rather annoying new feature of MOZ which says that a noindex is an error when it clearly isn't. You have done exactly the right thing to avoid a ton of duplicate content. Just ignore the warnings. I can understand the ethos - but are you going to go through thousands of tags and canonicalise them? no, me neither. I have seen huge success no indexing tags on massive websites. It instantly sorts out the problem and frankly I never even click on tags - they just take up space in Google for no reason. Regards Nigel

Hey Mothner As Joy mentions, the best bet for getting targeted advice here would be to share the identity of this client and the precise search you're trying to rank for. Otherwise, we can only speculate. The possibilities could range from the Possum filter to whether you've got the right categories, to a lot of other things. If you're unable to mention the client, that's perfectly okay, but it does leave the community here guessing rather than investigating.

You can also submit to Google without using Search Console. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=submit+url+to+google&oq=submit+url+to+google&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2372j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (Search "Submit URL To Google") and then just paste your url in. You can do this to any url.

It's being seen a lot recently, https://www.seroundtable.com/webmasters-upset-with-google-featured-snippet-images-23786.html

You can too disallow the link with this google link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main So it will not hurt you

Thanks Kevin! You know something just occurred to me that maybe Google sees that they have used the same image and it occurred on our website first.  So Google may recognize that they are using the same copied image?? Or something else I considered, if I ask them to remove it then that may spark them to create better other images of their own (which they should do anyway). My theory therefore is possibly to just leave it alone?  Anyway, it's just a thought.

I hear ya, loud and clear! I'll pass this along to the team as a feature request!

Hi there, In Google's basic SEO Starter Guide, they do specifically recommend that you "use heading tags appropriately", and to use them to emphasize important text. They state that multiple heading sizes creates a hierarchical structure for your content, making it easier for users to navigate through your document. That said, it may not be a huge deal, but I might suggest taking care of the issue just to be on the safe side. Best, Zack

Yes, I'm ware on that one and as we speek it's getting fixed. But I'm curious on x amount of irrelevant subdomains on rankings

I absolutely agree with what Chris stated about guest blogging. I would say also, that branching out and submitting either article ideas or actual articles where relevant in the publishing sphere could also be a beneficial strategy to enhance your link building content efforts. I know larger publishing sites like the Huffington Post allow for freelance submissions.

I also leave the old profiles. My guess is that if Google does try and crawl the old sitemaps, they'll hit the redirects and will index the new urls quicker. It also helps if you have any urls that have somehow avoided the move.

Long ago, the same question was asked at the forum I give you the link: https://moz.com/community/q/alternatives-to-seo-book-s-rank-checker There are a lot of answers that can help you

Pleasure jurginga

In case you still have any doubt about it, I have searched for a link to complement the information of the other users: https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/ I hope it helps you

A jump in 404 errors in and of itself isn't harmful to the site. I'd say as long as they don't KEEP trying to access those URLs you should be OK. Keep an eye out for "soft 404s" as well. And you could also change the status code to a 410, which means the page is permanently GONE, as opposed to just "not found" at the moment. Here's a flowchart that I hope will help: http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/444100/Out_Of_Stock_SEO_/Out_Of_Stock_Product_Flowchart.pdf

Gross - that is the worst feeling to see that kind of drop for a client. I would need a look at your GA data for landing pages/keywords from Search Consule to accurately diagnose. But, here are some solid threads to chase: Google Knowledge Graph - We saw this when Google added graph answers for medical terms for one of our clients. Action: do the search incognito to see if Google Graph screwed you. GA tracking broken - make sure there isn't anything odd with your filters, check an unfiltered account. I have seen interns accidentally filter out a part of site or subdomain. Relaunch issues around 404 pages. Use MOZ to track your top traffic keywords. Falling off of SERP 1 / Page 1 can cause this kind of drop Seasonality - make sure you are looking at year-over-year, if the keywords are seasonal it could be normal. IE Christmas traffic is going to drop in Jan... Hope that helps, feel free to post some more data and I can take a look. GL!

Honestly, we've seen such high flux in April -- including that week -- that it's really hard to pull anything useful apart. We have no confirmation of an algorithmic event (other than the usual "There are events every day" line). There was talk last week about "Project Owl" -- Google's multi-pronged attack on fake news, but it appears that only a part of that is algorithmic, and that part has been rolling out over the past couple of months. I don't think the flux from the week in question is related to Owl. Hopefully, someone in the community has some more insight on the vertical-specific data you're seeing.

Having been there and done that I would warn against having two or more websites selling the same products with the same titles, numbers, pictures & descriptions. If you must set up different domains with the same products then you must create two, three, (however many sites you have) different on page descriptions and preferable photographs, style titles, numbers and meta. You should also consider the fact that it is likely that the sites will share a server and have the same cross site company information. Both of which can send negative information to Google and other search engines. It is pure folly to expect to rank well for two or more sites selling exactly the same products with identical information. Not to mention the additional work associated with writing all the content, producing graphics and keeping the site up to date.