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Hi again! Rank Tracker as well as Crawl Test are a part of our Research tools that are included with your Moz Pro subscription. This means that if you are not a subscribed user of Moz Pro you unfortunately will no longer be able to use these tools. The report that you receive in the Crawl Test tool is completely separate from the full Site Crawl that occurs within your campaign. This is meant to be a "in-the-meantime" report that you can run while you're waiting for your weekly Site Crawl to update within your campaign. So, the answer to your question is no, unfortunately. You will need to wait for the weekly update to occur on your campaign in order to see the Site Crawl area of your campaign to be updated with any new findings. As for the funny characters in your crawl test report, I'm going to open up a ticket for you with our Help Team so that we can troubleshoot this for you, outside of this forum area. You should receive an email confirmation shortly of your created ticket and someone should update you soon with some additional information on your CSV download. Thank you! Again, you can reach out to our team for questions about the product by sending an email to help@moz.com or clicking the blue chat icon on the lower left of the tools in the future. -Kristina

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I don't really know any best practices in this topic. Me, in your case, I'd leave them just as they are now. Applying the canonicals, of course.

Hey Matt! Hmm, I don't think I've used Keyword Explorer for that purpose, yet. I still need to go back and really dive into the tool. I'll check it out! Thanks!

As Dmitrii mentions, disavowing links isn't going to change your rankings, especially overnight. Removing poor back links is an excellent first step, the next step is to get a well balanced SEO campaign planned out. Start creating some entertaining, helpful content pieces, then get that content in front of people. Build some high quality back links to the site, and continue doing it. Show the search engines you've made changes to move in the proper direction. It'll take time, but it'll be beneficial. Chris Adficient.com

Hi there. Do you see any negative results so far? Any hints at it? How spammy are those links (anchor text, DA/PA of linking pages etc)? Did/do you have manual actions taken by GWT/search console? How is your MOZ OSE spam score? What I would recommend, if you have a suspicion that disavowing those links would help, is to disavow small part of them, let's say 100-200 and see the effects on your rankings, DA/PA and other metrics. Hope this helps.

Keep in mind that infringers post images on their website without any references to licenses.  They stole the images, why would they point to a license ? !! Many of the "free image sources" on the web contain a significant number of infringing images.   Furthermore, many of the websites that sell or license images are offering images that they have no right to offer.  I have found my own images on such sites and have done something about it. On many of the free image websites and some of the websites selling images the images are uploaded by "members".  The owners of these sites simply claim "safe harbor" when infringing images are found on their sites.  They simply blame the member and take the images down when someone complains. I am not an attorney, but I can say that I would not use your proposed method because a lot of the images that you think are OK are not OK.   Furthermore, the images to which I hold copyright do not have licensing information posted with them because they are not available for license by anyone at any price.  They are for my exclusive use. People who are serious about protecting their images from infringement will probably do at least two of the following if they see their images on your website.... DMCA to search engines, DMCA to hosting services, complaint to Adsense, complaint to other revenue sources, send informal notice to you, demand payment for your past use, add your website to the list that their legal team will look into. It might be a good idea to make an appointment with an intellectual property attorney and discuss the concepts of copyrights, permissions, licenses, documentation, fair use, safe harbor and how copyright laws vary outside of your home country.  I have had these types of meetings with more than one attorney and found that it is not as expensive as you might fear.  After that meeting you have a person who knows you and can be a quick source of assistance if needed.  Time and money well spent.

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. That page is taking you to your Mozscape API credentials - when you follow that link, you'll get one set of credentials, and when I follow it I see my own credentials, etc. It's related to our API. If you're not using the API, feel free to remove that link - it really only serves to take you to your credentials information. If you've still got questions, feel free to write in to help@moz.com with all the details of what's going on - we'll be better able to investigate any potential issues through a support ticket.  Thanks!

Hi there. Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. The Crawl Test tool is limited to only 3,000 pages by design as the full Site Crawl that happens within your campaign(s) is a much larger, weekly crawl that occurs. All Moz Pro Standard & Medium subscription levels (you currently have access to a Standard account) default all Site Crawls within a Campaign at a max of 50,000 pages. If you're interested in crawling more than 50,000 pages within a single Campaign, it would require subscribing to a higher subscription. You can view all of our subscription plans on our pricing page here: https://moz.com/products/pro/pricing As always, you can reach out to our team in the future with product questions such as this one by either emailing help@moz.com or clicking on the blue chat box on the lower right hand corner of your screen while in the product itself. I hope this helps but please let me know if there's anything else I can assist with! Thank you, -Kristina

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Unfortunately, none of our products are ideally set up to track this sort of thing. You could conceivably use Moz Content to see how many shares on social media a review has gotten, but it wouldn't be able to show you what other bloggers have also reviewed that product, and it would only provide a count of shares, not links to where those shares occurred. I'm not aware of any of our products that would help you out with this particular task. Wish I could be more helpful!

The best thing I would do Jonathan, is take a look at this Whiteboard Friday from Rand, because it should answer a lot of questions that you have. It is specifically about what to do when the wrong pages rank. From what you are telling me, it sounds like the category page might be a doorway page, but clearly Google isn't seeing it as such. Would I advise pointing it with a canonical tag? Probably not, but I would work on making your homepage much better. Look to add not only amazing content, but do some keyword research and add in synonyms / LSI / similar keywords to help Google better understand what the page is about. -Andy

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Mark, The Moz tools offer some excellent competition comparisons. You can create a campaign, input keywords to track and follow competition. The tracking shows DA, linking C blocks, etc. and will track on a line graph how your site is doing against the competition. As far as selecting an industry or niche, this will take lots of research. My suggestions would be to find something that you're knowledgeable or passionate about. This way you have lots of content you'll be excited about creating. There are many things you need to consider when selecting a keyword to go after. But in your situation i would tell you to look at these two, keyword competition and indexed pages for the keyword. This will help you see how much competition there is for a specific niche. There's lots of tools you can use to get more information, and if you're going to go forward with launching a site do your due diligence and research. Good luck to you. Chris Adficient.com

Hi holdportals! Are you able to provide any of the information Dan asked for?

Hi Chris! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. It looks like you have quite a few Crawl Test results, so it is difficult for me to look into what may be the issue here without a bit more detail. If you don't want to share which test you are referring to here, can you please email us at help@moz.com or click the blue message icon in the bottom right corner of the product to send us the details of which test you had this issue on so that we can investigate further? I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Hi Paul, Thank you so much for replying. I don't think they're as concerned about ranking for the recipes as they were about doing something that would be harmful to SEO (as far as adding so many extra pages/URLs to the site). It's a hunting gear website so the chances of ranking for recipes are probably extremely low I totally agree with you that from a social sharing standpoint it is necessary. Thank you so much for the taxonomy/search tip also. That's a great idea!

Hi Igor, thanks for the reply, I will check out Serpstat.

I'm afraid link building really isn't something that can be outlined like that. It's about building relationships and putting together useful content that other web site owners and influencers will be interested in linking to, and there are countless ways of doing that. The best advice I can give at this point is to read through the Beginner's Guide to Link Building and go from there.