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Facing problems in baidu webmaster installation
Hi Gopi, I think that you're unable to verify a site on baidu unless it's registered in China and has a .cn domain. Let me know how it goes! I'm interested in baidu optimization as well, but there isn't too much information available online so far. (In English anyway!)
Online Marketing Tools | | NgEF0 -
Any Advice for Image SEO?
Flood and Dilute: I would add more images that are optimized for the query. Flickr, client's own sites, wikimedia, any other site where you can upload images that will appear on a relevant page that is optimized for the query. These must be a diversity of extremely relevant, high-quality images that will draw clicks. **Purchase Exclusive Rights to the Provocative: ** And have them taken down, then submit DMCA against any infringers.
Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | EGOL1 -
Forgot to cancel and never used this service how can I be refunded??
Hi there! Visit the Moz Billing/Accounts page to contact them: https://moz.com/help/contact/account Good luck resolving your billing issue!
Technical Support | | BlueCorona0 -
Wordpress #comment links?
Yes, they are being counted towards that number.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Moving site from html to Wordpress site: Should I port all old pages and redirect?
I recently did something similar and left behind a bunch of "thin" pages, just be sure to check your internal links to make sure you are not linking to a page you are 404ing. [Screaming Frog is great for this—if you don't have it, you should get it.] You can always "revive" any that you see a lot of people trying to reach. My redirects took hold quickly—I couldn't even say how long, it was that fast. [Mine was an old domain and frequently crawled.] Good luck!
Technical SEO Issues | | Linda-Vassily0 -
Do we need to maintain consistency in page titles suffix?
Hi, I think I have already answered your query in old thread. I'm saying again you don't need to maintain suffix as you mentioned in your query. https://moz.com/community/q/does-google-ignores-page-title-suffix Thanks
Search Engine Trends | | Alick3000 -
One locations page, or multiple pages?
Makes sense and this clears up a lot of our questions. Thanks Miriam!
Local Website Optimization | | kimberleymeloserpa0 -
DA without PA, Does it help?
It probably depends on the site. There are some high-authority sites that are basically platforms for other sites, so in that case, no. I would think a relevant link from an integral but low-authority page on a high-authority site would be a plus, especially because the authority of that page might be higher than you think (maybe Moz just hasn't found its other links yet, for example). As far as your problem, to start, I'd take a close look at the pages that used to convert and see if there are any on-site improvements you can make. Use the on-page grader and make sure you have your bases covered on that end.
Link Building | | Linda-Vassily0 -
804 crawl error Squarespace site
Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Oh gosh, I think I have to be the bearer of bad news here; our tools aren't going to be able to crawl this site. Unfortunately at this time our crawler isn't compatible with Server Name Indication (SNI), which appears to be in use on your site. In general, SNI is a totally acceptable security configuration, but our crawler simply isn't equipped to be able to handle these settings. The good news is that our team has been working hard on a new crawler that will support this configuration and this crawler is currently in its Beta phase. The bad news is that this beta crawler has been blocked by SquareSpace, so it won't be able to crawl SquareSpace sites. I'm afraid that means we don't have a good solution for this site. If you were to use our primary crawler, you'd continue to get these 804 errors related to SNI compatibility. If you were to use the beta crawler, you'd be blocked with a 403 forbidden error from SquareSpace. I'm sad to say that we don't have a solution for crawling your site at this time. I'm really sorry about that! We totally understand if that means that you need to cancel and look for other tools to better fit your needs. If there's anything else we can do to help you out, feel free to drop us a line at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort things out for you.
Other Questions | | tawnycase0 -
Hit by an unnamed Google update on November 30th - Still suffering
Hey, just wanted to address this. While I believe that is most certainly possible for some other sites that were hit in the latter half of 2016, I'm convinced that is not the case for me. My competitors' positions (All smaller blogs like mine, for every important keyword) have not moved at all - I have simply dropped. Of course, the ad results show up for certain keywords, but they are not relevant to what these keywords are targeting, thus they don't get much traffic - consumers in my niche are pretty savvy about that kind of thing. If I'm looking for a guide going over how to build a computer, and the ads show ""Selling Computers", that isn't going to offer much value to the person specifically searching for one thing. They know they can buy a computer, but they don't want to - they want to build it themselves, which is why they googled that phrase. No bigger companies or websites have been pushed to the top with the little guys getting pushed to the bottom, in my case. And I wasn't just going by traffic dropping, I am also actually tracking positions - while a few keywords did drop to page 2 or 3, the vast majority have dropped well into the 100s+ positions. In both cases, it is purely small blogs (Sometimes with worse DA and backlinks than I) out ranking me. My strategy right now is to simply get as many quality backlinks as I can. We'll see where I am 6 months from now!
Search Engine Trends | | polycountz0 -
Date in permalinks. Bad?
I'm assuming the permalink is the domain.com/blog/year/month/date/postname type structure, the Wordpress default? Going from so many unnecessary folders to fewer seems like it can only speed things up a bit. I'd recommend a structure such as domain.com/recipes/�tegory%/%postname%/ if you have them categorized by types of meal. Google likes to see a logical folder structure. Makes for solid human readability as well. And don't forget to redirect old permalinks to new permalinks. If there are any posts linked out there, you'll want to be sure they redirect to the new permalink.
Technical SEO Issues | | c_estep_tcbguy1 -
Penalty because of logo banner in sidebar of external website?
The website linking to you shows a low spam score. I don't think this is the cause of your problems. Seems you are looking for a cause of the ranking drop but I doubt it is because of this website with a low spam score. I can't read Polish but just analyzing the site that is what it is telling me.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | baskingrock1 -
Schema or Microdata Formatting Creator
Web Code Tools is relatively new, I'm sure it'll be expanded to include more schema types in the future. In the mean time, give this one a shot: https://supple.com.au/tools/local-business-schema-generator/.
Local Website Optimization | | LoganRay0 -
Why Moz use mz.cm for social link ?
Some people shorten their links differently to make them more memorable. In the case you mention, MZ.CM is like MOZ.COM. This is done through bitly: "A Branded Short Domain (bsd) is a the domain that takes the place of “bit.ly” or “bitly.com” in a shortend URL. Adding a Branded Short Domain to your bitly account is free of charge although you must purchase a bsd from a third party domain registrar. Domai.nr, GoDaddy, and 101domain are great places to begin your search, also visit our help article “Common Domain Hosting Providers”. Keep in mind that your bsd must be less than 15 characters, including the dot."
Content & Blogging | | Linda-Vassily2 -
Keyword Research - Min "Volume" recommendations
I just inherited a new site with a similar issue...we're currently tracking more than 200 keywords. As I did some analysis on the search volume for each keyword, I found that about 50% have super low search volumes (>10 monthly searches). Should I stop tracking/optimizing those low search volume keywords? It seems like from what you guys are saying, it's not bad to keep it. Just wanted to confirm. thank you.
Keyword Research | | davidwang1 -
Link backs from same IP? Can it hurt?
James, what is PBN? Why would we want to do a nofollow? We want to build link backs to our site,
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | idlwebinc0 -
Company Rebranded - Domain/Page Authority Question
James, do you know what specific values of the domain registration? We have domain privacy on both domains.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | idlwebinc0