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Hi tybi-seochat! I'm afraid there's no native way in Open Site Explorer to pull all of your links to PDFs. One option, though, would be to download the CSV with all of your links, and then filter out the ones whose targets don't end in .pdf. Keep in mind, though, that even that likely won't be every link. The Mozscape index is designed to give you a great sense of your overall link profile, but it isn't exhaustive.

Miss Thumann, My rule of thumb is to deem all content not to be yours, read up on your subject from more than one site and then write your own informed content. I work for a large Industrial Products and Services Company and often carry out spot checks on content which doesn't rank highly on Google. I then send emails to anyone stealing our technical content and ask them politely to take the content down as we own the intellectual property rights to the articles. If nothing happens I send an email to our Intellectual property rights company who then proceed to get the domain withdrawn until the changes have been made. In the eyes of Google new content is good content and it's clever algorithms can soon tell a clone page. Google doesn't care if it's public or not it cares if it's duplicate. I hope this helps in some way.

I've had a look at your site (it's in the htaccess) I've run a crawl on your site, there doesn't seem to be any redirect chains, which is good, so you've got no issues with what you have above. However on a side note, I wouldn't rely on 301 redirects, you still have a lot of "old" links that are going through 301 redirects, I would update these so they don't need to pass through a redirect.

Hey! Thank you for your response, the only thing I am wondering about is why it hasn't picked up any page apart from the homepage. I would expect it to have found something other than the homepage by now? Thanks

Totally agree with this from our experience - always, always, always use a single site if possible but if they are radically different businesses then it can work but there are annoyances on route.

Hello, We are looking into this same issue with Shopify, we've recieved intermittent 803 and 804 error notifications from Moz on a Shopify store. Specific to these errors Shopify put forward a possible cause and we were wondering if this is correct or not. The thread on Shopify is located here: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/ecommerce-marketing/t/crawl-errors-337539#comment-351993 Their suggestion on what the issue may be is as follows: "I've been having a read through of this thread and one possibility for the 803 errors showing up on MOZ is that they may not be able to use SNI (Server Name Indication extension). If they don't use SNI then it would make sense that Shopify stores with an SSL certificate would pull up errors like that. We can't help troubleshoot MOZ's service directly, but that could be a good place to start with some of these errors." Would you be able to offer any feedback on this being the cause of the errors? Thanks!

Yes, for different pages with older content we have recommended to hide them from Google. This specific page, however, could is highly relevant to their audience and we want their audience to be able to find it so we don't just want to hide it. We have looked for solutions on the help forum but haven't found anything relevant to this issue. Does anyone know if there is a way to tell Google that our website is safe to avoid this problem in general? Or is it just a matter of finding other relevant keywords and synonyms that are currently not being used to see if that will help Google better understand the topic of this page? Or could there be another problem that we're missing?

So I have always renamed my file before uploading it.  But what I realized is that while I was occasionally filling in the "title, alt text, description" I was not doing that consistently.  I have started going back into my media library and filling that information in.  As I have thousands of pictures on my sites, it will take some time, but I'm hoping that will fix my issue. I would also love to know if title, alt text and description should be the same.  My gut says "no" because Google would likely see that as "spammy."  I'm certain I could be wrong though.  Would love to hear from others.

Thank you Kristina.  This is a very interesting solution that definitely deserves some further exploration and might just be what we are looking for. Best regards, Keith

Hi Anton, If yours is a local business serving local customers in person, then, yes, a P.O. box will severely limit your local search marketing. Because P.O. boxes are not considered legitimate physical addresses, you'll be unable to build a full set of citations for the business, and that will likely hamper your local search ranking efforts. Definitely better to use an actual address! Hope this helps.

The structure is really going to be up to you. The differences in terms of what helps ranking are so very small today that it is better to choose based on user preference and your own. For consistency, it would be best to get a .co.uk that is on brand, but that route takes a ton of work over time. My favorite route is a subfolder (/uk) off of a gTLD in most instances. If your .com.au is already ranking well, expect that to keep happening until the UK subsite has had a chance to strengthen. And make sure your content is different!

Hi, Basically, you can't have 2 page competing for the same keywords - this will cause you issues in Google and will end up with just one or the other being ranked. There really isn't a way around this. You could have the new page as a link off the existing page though and promote it that way as an "or how about this" feature? -Andy

Hi there, Just to add to the other replies, there isn't really a perfect time to start link building nor is there a fixed number of links that could get you penalized. The focus should be on quality and if you're getting links that are genuine, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. As others have said, you should start as soon as you have something worth sharing. If you publish a page and aren't sure why it deserves to get links, then you're going to struggle to get them no matter when you start. You should also remember that not every single page you publish will generate links and this is fine. You may publish one blog post which is very high quality but not necessarily going to get lots of links, but may rank well for a certain keyword. So try to focus on quality over quantity with the content that you create and promote only your best and more link-worthy content. I hope that helps! Paddy

Thanks for the reply! Yes, the issue is I have no visibility & it's getting the buy in for the product URLs to be managed to provide a similar SKU to redirect to, as this would be quite manual. The pages won't be linked from anywhere on the site now, so is this even still an issue? I just didn't think it looked to good to Google that pages keep getting deleted?

If you want to show reviews for products you sell I recommend gathering and using your own reviews. If you don't have the volume for that and still want to show reviews, maybe consider an iFrame. It depends on the service and how their feeds/scripts work. For example, if the script is in a folder that is blocked in the robots.txt file, Google will not be able to access it and will not be able to render that content.

Think of domain authority like you would the stock or bond market. They fluctuate over time. Sometimes an individual stock or bond's value will go up or down as a result of that specific stock's assessed risk / benefit. Sometimes the whole market will shift based on factors that have broader influence. Stock and bond valuations fluctuate real time. Website valuations (as measured / quantified by Moz) fluctuate roughly monthly. You've observed what equates to a "market shift" likely resulting from the size and characterization of the websites in Moz's sample. Stock and bond valuations fluctuate real time. Website valuations (as measured / quantified by Moz) are derived from a large and lengthy process that involves going out and collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from millions of websites, billions of URLs, and trillions of links. The numbers that spit out at the end vary based on a whole bunch of factors, not least of which is the size and nature of the targets of evaluation. You've observed what roughly equates to a "market shift". It's likely not a coincidence and due to the sampling process.

1 visit, 3 pageviews From an SEO perspective, each page is considered a part of the same article. So the difference is really you get more page views if you split it up (given that users will choose to go to next page)

Hey Becky Marcus pretty well covered things, but wanted to point you to a video Matt Cutts did a few years back about discontinued products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tz7Eexwp_A - a good watch to get an idea of how Google may look at things, and he breaks out some options depending on the type of site you have.

Happy to help, Nicolas!