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  • Direct traffic is almost always going to be one of your top traffic sources. There are a number of reasons people end up in this bucket. They open a new browser and go straight to your site. There is no referrer to track here and is what people think of when they see the Direct bucket. A user was on your site, but kept the tab open. Hours or days later, they get back to the tab and engage again. That is a direct session since there was not a referrer. A user is blocking the information of the referring site through their own computer settings. You can't control this. A mistake happens on the referring site's side. You can't see this either or do anything about it. A company I worked for saw a spike in Direct traffic that ended up being Snapchat ads once. There wasn't much to be done. A mistake is happening in your setup of Google Analytics. This is unlikely, but if you have a custom setup, talk to the person that is in charge of that on your site. There are more instances here: https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-direct-traffic-google-analytics and some tips on cleaning this up if you suspect some traffic isn't being tagged correctly.

    Moz Pro | | katemorris
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  • i have problem like this i enabled yoast seo for breadcrumb but breadcrumb dont display all sub category you can see the problem on this url : https://www.revdl.com/faceapp-apk-download.html/ i have many url like this. this problem is more for Apk Mod Games Thank you

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | ham35841
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  • You're right that the best plan is likely to look at adding that content onto the mobile versions of the category page (though it's worth rolling out slowly and carefully if you can't split test because we have seen it be good or bad in different circumstances - see this whiteboard Friday for example). In theory, with mobile-first indexing, Google will be crawling your site with a mobile user agent, and so as long as you are treating googlebot the same as you treat other similar user agents, it should see the page exactly as you do when you visit with a mobile browser (or emulate mobile using chrome for example). There are various ways to check different parts of this: Check what is actually indexed - by viewing the cached version of the page and / or searching for unique text that only appears on a specific category page "in quotes" Check what google sees using the URL inspection tool in search console and selecting "view crawled page" Good luck - I hope that helps.

    Technical SEO Issues | | willcritchlow
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  • Terrefic+Relevent Page+Site Age and No-FOllow|Do Follow link matters. Now 2.0 PA going to roll out soon, you should work on getting good quality backlinks.

    Behavior & Demographics | | shehrozsipra123
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  • Obviously. But from my experience there was'nt really an upside to it. Basicly saying i might as well create a website with only H2 instead of the H1 till H6.

    Moz Tools | | Vanderlindemedia
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  • Because putting https://www.utahattorneys.com/privacy-policy/ or just "/privacy-policy" tells the browser where the location of the Privacy Policy is. Otherwise, the browser will think the Privacy Policy page is located in the same folder as the page you're on.

    Other Research Tools | | sean-parnell
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  • @ampiano2019 your website had good DA how did you manage to get those links?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Melissacarter
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  • Don't take shortcuts like buying a blog. Even if it has a huge domain authority / PageRank and visitor volume, which it probably doesn't if it's for sale and you can afford it, it's still only one site linking to yours and you need a lot more than that to increase rankings and traffic. Build new, original content yourself or pay someone to do it for the money you would have spent on buying the blog.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | sean-parnell
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  • Hey don't worry about it Azad, I submitted a contact form to them for you letting them know you were looking for ways to help them rank higher.  Maybe they'll help you out with more money for a real link building campaign.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Chris.Menke
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  • Hi there, It's unlikely that ranking for low difficulty keywords on one URL will directly help another, more competitive page rank better, but there could be an indirect effect. If you can build up your traffic and authority over time by starting small and ranking for lower difficulty keywords, then the cumulative effect of this may lead to more traffic, more positive user signals and possibly more links which may help the domain as a whole rank better. So overall, it's something that may help but I wouldn't worry too much about the cause and effect of this and just focus on getting your SEO and content right, then over time you may see a positive effect on both types of pages. I hope that helps! Paddy

    Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | Paddy_Moogan
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  • Hi Keith, I meant the physical bandwidth - i.e. your time. I probably should've been more clear in a technical forum! For the architecture, there are a few common setups. What I am in the middle of doing here at my company is through Google Cloud services. Duplicating the website app or script (I.e. Wordpress, Ghost, Drupal, CMS, Python App, Rails app, etc) across the several servers and using a load balancer to determine the fastest server. In the app's configuration I am using a single Database server also set up on Google Cloud, so when one server executes a command, it is reflected for all users on all servers. If you're Cron-jobbing all the servers you have set up but no common database, you're going to have some integrity issues, with some servers having some comments or edits, and some servers not.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Advanced-Air-Ambulance
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  • I'll certainly take Miriam's  word for it. I guess I'm out of date on google local.  Thanks for the heads up.

    Local Strategy | | Chris.Menke
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  • From a purely SEO perspective, I don't think there will be any negative impact from using the acronym URL for your email addresses and the longer URL for your domain — the only concern I might have would be that people might try to link to the acronym domain after seeing your email, and those links would be passing through the redirect, but that would probably be an edge case. I do think that 25 characters is a very lonnnngg domain name. If it's your brand, you're likely to rank #1 for it without having the exact new brand as the domain name, so you'll be capturing that high search volume anyway. You also have to think about this as a long-term play: there's a lot of search interest for the two brand names together now, because of the merger, but that's not the best reason to select a new brand name or a new domain name, both of which are things you'd want to persist for as long as possible, well after the merger is old news. I know it might be too late for this, but I'd echo GrouchyKids' recommendation that you rethink how you want to brand the merger of these two brands. High search volume for one term isn't a great reason. If you do decide that you still want that to be your new brand name, you might still want to explore shorter versions of the new brand for your domain name. A 25-character URL is going to lose out on some direct traffic, as it will be difficult for repeat customers to remember and type in exactly (something your company must already be aware of, since they're looking for solutions not to have to type out the whole thing themselves every time they send an email!). Good luck with the rebrand in either case!

    Content & Blogging | | RuthBurrReedy
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  • am still waiting for peoples comment, I really need to understand it

    Web Design | | sahub
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  • Hi AK - Thanks for posting. Can you please submit this to our support team, help@moz.com with the report that you are referencing? That way we can make sure we are looking at what you are looking at. thanks!

    Link Explorer | | Natalie-Alexis
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  • If the rankings of the criminal defense pages have direct links then those links are helpful to any query that any page of the site competes for.  So, I would not delete them. There are law firms with strong websites that rule the SERPs for everything in their town.   Their office takes any call that comes in, accepts the cases in practice areas where they have interest and expertise, and refers the rest to other firms for a referral fee.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EGOL
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