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Remove spam url errors from search console
Hi Ruben, I had the same issue with one of the websites and what Bas has recommended is great. We've done both methods and it cleared 90% of them. We are still getting a few in the search console and I am planning to update the disavow list, and hopefully they will disappear completely. Hope Bas's recommendations will work for you. Good luck, Monica.
Search Engine Trends | | monicapopa0 -
Twitter Analytics: Follower Count & Reporting Inconsistencies
Thanks for the clarification! I've looked at quite a few different Twitter follower tools and ran this by a couple of other people on the community team and I've pretty much come to conclusions #2 or #3 that you mentioned. Unfortunately, there's just not really a clear cut way to figure out what happened. Sorry I don't have a more definitive answer. You might want to consider tracking your account in Followerwonk going forward if you aren't already. It's a good way to see if you've lost a bunch of followers, who those followers were, and look at the date to see if you posted something in particular that could have led to a dramatic follower loss. Doesn't really help your current situation, but might help if anything strange happens in the future.
Social Media | | MeganSingley0 -
Redirecting M Dot Mobile Website to Responsive Design Website Questions
Hi Robert, They don't hurt so leave them in place for some time. It might be quite some time before the index is completely as you want it to be. So just let the redirects to their thing just in case Google, Bing, etc keep indexing the old URL's. Hope that helps. Bas
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BasKierkels0 -
Is there anything I need to worry about if... We show/hide header navigation based upon visit from external traffic?
Hi CJ, I can't imagine a situation where I'd want to do this, but I'm sure you've done the analysis to determine that it's better for your UX. Just make sure you consider this: Not sure what you're using to make the nav dynamic, but you should make sure Google sees it the way you intend. You can use the Fetch and Render in Search Console. You can also use the first part of this inforgraphic to set up a browser to view your site in a live environment the way search engines see your site. You'll want to make sure that once you've disabled CSS and JS that your navigation is still visible. A lot of authority/juice/whateveryouwantocallit is passed through your nav. Having your nav visible this way also ensures quicker crawling/indexing of new content on your site.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | LoganRay0 -
Is it okay to post my blog posts to both an internal blog on our domain and an external blog?
The only safe move here is to create amazing content for both blogs - but why have 2 blogs? Why double your effort when you could be using all the content to prop up the main site? Andy makes a very good point here. If you have a good article about Brass Widgets on your website and you decide that you want to write a second Brass Widgets article to publish on another website, then you are going to publish a second article that will compete with you and take some of your traffic. Even if the articles are slightly different or very different they will still be "competing" - either at the short tail keyword level or the long tail keyword level. The result will be damaging to your traffic. The amount of damage will be proportional to the strength difference of your domains and the diversity of keywords in the articles. If the second domain is a lot more powerful than your own domain you could lose almost all of your traffic to the second website. I have a website that publishes only unique articles. Some of those articles have been written by other people in my industry who have similar articles or entire websites about the topics that they gave me to publish. I never asked any of these people to write an article for my website. Every one of them came to me with an offer. With content written by these other authors, my website frequently outranks their website for primary and secondary keyword of the industry. They might have a website that is powerful for the topic, but I have a website that is authoritative in the industry. It can be hard to predict who will win at different levels but my site now competes and brings in lots of traffic for topic areas where I have never written. Publishing on your own site, as Andy suggests, builds the strength of your site and does not invite potentially strong competitors into your keyword space. There are benefits of sharing articles. You get exposure as an "expert" on another website, which might have amazing traffic that includes visitors who will seek you out to do business. You can often get a link on those websites that will send lots of traffic to your website. The best situation for all is if you simply want to get your message out to as many people as possible, but if there are competitive concerns then you must weigh the value of a link with the value of the exposure and the risk of a very strong competitor moving permanently into your space.
Link Building | | EGOL0 -
YouTube Ads - Disable?
Hi Becky! You should be able to find the answer on here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/132596?hl=en Let me know if you have any trouble with that, thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BlueCorona0 -
Yodle Possible Nightmare? Help Please!
Hey There, Like Andy said - oh, dear! Just want to confirm: No, you do not want more than 1 website for the business Call tracking numbers, if utilized improperly, can really harm a business Never give GMB access to anyone you don't trust I have never worked with Yodle, but I do recommended reading and sharing these with your client: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/11/25/guide-to-using-call-tracking-for-local-search/ https://moz.com/community/q/yodel-anyone-have-insights-into-their-process
Local Website Optimization | | MiriamEllis0 -
International SEO Mobile directory
Hi Paul, Both are a bit unconventional. If you would use .com/fr/mobile/ then the mobile version would become part of the regular site. if you would use .com/mobile/fr/ you would basically do the same but with the default language, non-mobile version of the site. You would have to make absolutely sure that you ise your canonical tags to prevent duplicate content. This setup might be more difficult to check and maintain. I would therefore never use this setup but go for "mobile.domain.com/fr/". This way both structures are clearly separated. You would still have to make sure you use canonical tags to prevent duplicate content but at least this way the mobile and non-mobile version are clearly separated. Bas
International Issues | | BasKierkels0 -
How should I handle ecommerce pages targeting individual cities?
Hi Derek, Could you please tell us if i have answered your question? If so, please mark the answer. It's nice to get some credits for the work Thanks very much. Bas
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BasKierkels0 -
My Q&A links to Q&A Forum
Hi again! Just wanted to give you an update that our Community developers have received word that this link isn't going to the right place and will be working on resolving it in a future update. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention and hopefully we'll see it routing to the correct page in the near future. Thanks again, -Kristina
Feature Requests | | KristinaKeyser0 -
Moz Pro Question: Does the amount of keywords you are allowed to search reset each month?
Hey Joe! The KWE limits do reset each month. The day of the month they update is different for every user and it looks like the limits for your account reset on the 6th of each month. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Other Research Tools | | ChiarynMiranda0 -
Would two telephone numbers on a website affect NAP consistency? One is the "actual" business number with Schema, the other is a call tracking number.
Recommended reading on call tracking: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/11/25/guide-to-using-call-tracking-for-local-search/
Local Listings | | MiriamEllis1 -
Infinite 302 redirects on a site using Angular JS
Indeed: thanks for the update. AngularJS is a great technique but relatively new and so much different from the techniques we've gotten used to working with in the past couple of years that this is an interesting case. Good luck with the project and cool to see more people using AngularJS!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BasKierkels0 -
Squarespace Images
I would ask on the Squarespace forums then rather than here - you are more likely to find others who have had these same issues and if there is anything more up to date, you will find out. -Andy
Technical SEO Issues | | Andy.Drinkwater0 -
How can I fix New 4XX Issue on Site Crawl?
Andrew is right: Yoast uses different code for breadcrumbs. I would start searching inside the theme-files for: "void(null);" or "void(" or "ilny-breadcrumbs" That should give you a clue to where the code actually is inside your theme. To show the difference: Yoast's plugin produces code like this: NAME OF THE PAGE Hope this helps a bit as well. Bas
Web Design | | BasKierkels0