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Also: You can use site:plan-trip.com in Google Search to see which pages of your site are indexed. This way you don't have to manually check if a page is indexed or not. To see the position on Google you can use "Rankings" in Moz or a tool like: http://www.whatsmyserp.com/serpcheck.php To see the rankings for your best keywords/url’s you can also check SEMrush: https://www.semrush.com/info/plan-trip.com+(by+organic)

Hi Madlena, For SEO both are important. XML and HTML sitemaps help search engines crawl your site. The main difference being that a HTML sitemap helps visitors gain a comprehensive understanding of your site, while XML more specifically caters to the search engines. When you add new pages or content to your site, you can use XML sitemaps to notify the search engines. Hope this helps. Thanks

Thanks man!

I believe that Google ranks your pages on the basis of what they deserve with minor modifications.  All of my sites have double listings where they are strong.  Some have triple or quadruple listings where they are outstanding on multiple facets of a topic. There are no "tricks" to getting these.  You need content that answers the query, there can be multiple ways of answering the query, and your content needs to blow the competition out of the water.

Awesome! Thanks Bas. Thats a great idea. I'll give it a shot.

Hi, If you are hiring a PPC company then finding keyword would be the job of that PPC company. As you have mentioned that you have 10 years GA data so you should share the profitable keyword list to PPC company. **Use BMM keywords to find long tail keywords and SEMrush will also helpful to find competitors low cost & profitable keywords. I am running PPC campaign on both Adwords and Bing and my personal experience is cpc is less on Bing with significant revenue so you must try Bing. In fact I would suggest you to first try on Bing because you have mentioned that your budget is not very high. Hope this helps. Thanks

I'm not personally aware of anything that would make it inherently bad, but I do think you should take some time to consider why people visit your blog, and who you'd like the audience for your blog to be. If your blog is mainly for content that's reasonably "evergreen" and that will draw repeat visitors, then using it for this sort of promotional material might not be the best idea. If you're just looking to draw one-off visitors or fill your funnel, it might be fine. For example, take the Moz blog—the vast majority of our posts aren't about Moz products at all, and when we do post about our own products and events, the posts are in addition to our regularly-scheduled, educational posts. Our blog has a large readership who are generally looking for information they can apply to their own marketing. If they saw posts that serve as little more than advertisements for our products, they'd have no reason to come back. Running the sort of content we run helps us keep our position as an industry thought leader, and keeps us front-of-mind when members of our community are in the market for tools like ours. You note that property listings tend to draw a lot of clicks, but those clicks are coming from folks who are actively looking for property listings. Those types of visitors strike me as pretty likely to see the listing on your blog, consider whether they're interested, and then bounce along to the next search result. I don't see them sticking around to read and engage with your blog. If you're fine with that, go ahead. If you'd like your blog to be a knowledge source for your visitors, though, maybe leave the listings to the listings.

Nice! Thanks for confirming, Andy.

Really sorry to hear the new site is still struggling, Nicolas. In some quick indexing tests, it certainly appears that your blog posts are being indexed, and I'm seeing them in the search results for the specific post titles. [See screenshot attached] It's possible this may have picked up in the 10 days since you posted this. I'm assuming you submitted your site's xml sitemap to the correct www version of your Google Search Console? What does the sitemaps report indicate as far as the number of pages indexed compared the number submitted? Certainly one of the tradeoffs of a site tool like Squarespace is that you have far less control of the code to implement technical SEO, but it shouldn't be so problematic that you lose rankings completely. If you're interested, I'd be happy to share a short Skype chat to try to narrow down the issues. You can send me a private message through my account here at Moz. Paul

Hi there! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. Matt pretty much nailed it - you can create custom reports for each of your campaigns, and including the different sections of your campaign in the report. You can schedule the reports to generate automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. The reports do run on set schedules. The weekly reports are based on the campaign’s weekly update schedule. The monthly reports run by the 4th of every month. By default, the reports will be sent to the admin email on file, but you can also send it to other email addresses as well. Matt's link to our Help Hub area on custom reports is a great area to get more information on this area of the tool and has some pretty nifty screen-shot walkthroughs, as well: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/custom-reports As always, you can contact our team if you get stuck or need some additional information on a specific area of the tool by emailing help@moz.com. I hope this helps - have a great day! -Kristina

Hi Jamie, For the reverse proxy method, the search engine will perceive that the blog is on the main domain (domain y). As far as any user or Googlebot is concerned, the blog is on domain y in a subfolder – they never see domain x. If you do this, your main challenges will be: Making sure that domain x can't be accessed directly (otherwise, your entire blog will exist in two places). They should only be able to access the blog by visiting the correct subfolder on domain y. Domain x can be configured to only accept connections directly from domain y. Making sure to configure the proxy correctly. They can be tricky, and may take up some of your team's time. Making sure everything remains fast. Although Googlebot has nothing against proxies, if the inclusion of the proxy introduces a big delay to the page load time, that's going to have a negative impact.

Hi, Install the Moz Toolbar (Chrome Extension) this is a great indicator for the structure of your website. The <title>for instance is too long and not to the point. The alt text behind your images is a little vague.</p> <p>15 second load time needs obliterating! Mine loads in 2 seconds when it's slow! avg 1.3 seconds.</p> <p>The homepage is returning a 403 Error too! WOW that's not good Forbidden! This could be some external code which cannot load. That would kick you right off the top!</p> <p>Then think about implementing Schema, backed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex!</p> <p>I hope this goes someway to helping you Good Luck.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dave</p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>

Glad to help!

Hi there! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. I can completely understand where your confusion comes from around these different figures you're seeing! Hopefully I can help explain the discrepancies here. The score within your listing report is representative of what our system observes at this exact moment. So, it is a snapshot in time of how your listing distribution looks. This means that if, for example, one of our partners had an API outage at the time which caused them to be unable to report your listing's status to us, then that listing would appear as blank within your listing report and be reflected as such in the snapshot score. However, issues like the one that I described above are completely temporary and do not impact your actual listings on those sites. So, we also include a "golden" score on your dashboard which is calculated with the best status we've observed from each aggregator over a longer timeframe. This score is intended to give you a more normalized impression of your listing score which is not impacted by unimportant volatilities. I would say that both are useful in their own context, but you're absolutely right that it's not especially clear. As usual, you can always contact our team with any questions about the tools by emailing help@moz.com, but please do let me know if I can help further. Thanks so much! -Kristina

As far as I am aware, the association file is just about which paths the app can handle - I think that if you register the root domain and handle all paths then it will handle all paths across all sub-domains (but you should test this). When you are actually linking individual web pages to the universal page in the app, it uses a fully-qualified URL with protocol and subdomain so should work fine (see this documentation).

Why not add utm parameters (Google URL Builder tool) to the redirect URL? These will get passed over to the new domain and you can then take a look at the Acquisition > Campaigns > All Campaigns report in Google Analytics.

You can't use how a site looks or feels to you to get an indication of if it is safe or not... You need to be checking, aside from the MOZ spam score, through something like SEMrush, what their traffic is like. Have they had any penalties that might be affecting them? Use The Wayback Machine as well to check the history of the site. This can tell you if it was ever a site you would rather not be associated with or if it has been recently purchased because it has good history and links. Expired domains can surface very frequently and people will charge for gues blogging and lins etc. You should also check who else links to the site. Are there reputable sites that link to it for a good reason? Just a few more tips to keep an eye on. -Andy