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API url_metrics Error deserializing POST body
Hi - thanks for reaching out to us. In Postman, if you click on raw instead of form-data in Body, you can get results using the syntax found here: https://moz.com/help/links-api/making-calls/url-metrics. In your example, you could write: { "targets":["facebook.com"] } This should successfully return results for you. If you continue to run into issues, I would suggest reaching out to support at help@moz.com. thanks!
API | | Natalie-Alexis0 -
Crawler doesn't discover the links in the main nav
Hi Kate, Thank you! I followed you on Twitter, my user name is @curetuvana
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | bbop330 -
Even tough after doing many changes suggested by moz, my on page grader score is not increasing
Vidi, Actually, I don't see a title in the header of your home page. What wording do you think you are using for the title?
Moz Tools | | Chris.Menke1 -
Will I have duplicate content on my own website?
Gael, The rule is pretty simple here- there's really no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty" that will hurt your entire site. The question is--do you want those pages with content similar to the original to rank equally to the original page? If so, each page will have to be very unique and build its own expertise, authority and trust (quality content, inbound links, local seo). While there may not be a penalty for content duplicated on your site, google does have a threshold as to what it calls original content and just changing a few words on the page will not meet those requirements. You really should start from scratch and rethink the copy on each page if you're thinking you want these pages to rank well in the future.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Chris.Menke0 -
Should we use Cloudflare
Hi Great question. Google stopped looking at IP address about two years ago. I am sure that there IP wasn’t that factor for SEO unless they where on a PBN or it was over two years ago. Many very large sites use CloudFlare or something else like it I personally would recommend Fastly if you want something that with shrink images & work like CloudFlare but do the things that only CloudFlare Enterprise a $5,000 a month offering can do. I don’t know you’re server config but I know time after time Fastly has been much faster then CloudFlare https://www.fastly.com/ https://www.CloudFlare.com Lastly I do want to CloudFlare has gotten a bad name because they do not regulate who or what content is allowed on there platform booters use them to attack & to prevent DDOS attacks. With a platform that this has lead to there IPs being listed as spam so I have seen a case when I used. 9.9.9.9 or IBMQuad9 as reclusive DNS where I could not see a CloudFlare site because one ip was listed as spam & 9.9.9.9 just shows a 500 error it was fixed when I changed my local DNS to a dns system that didn’t block spam IPs. this also only happened once so it is very unlikely to happen to you. https://www.fastly.com/ https://www.CloudFlare.com Change in IP, or possible sharing of Its with PBNs / bad Neighborhood’s, can really hit search rankings but it is very unlikely that google will think that is your domain if the IP is dynamic like CloudFlare . it not going to hurt you because google looks at domains not IPs now. but this is not something I would worry about from CloudFlare it cleans IPs so if you get one you will have a new one sooner if you tell them also the business & Enterprise plans are much cleaner the the free plan this is just one more reason https://www.fastly.com/ But the short answer is yes it’s safe to use. do you mind telling me what you’re hosting setup is now & who you host with? Hope I have been of help, Tom
Technical SEO Issues | | BlueprintMarketing1 -
Redesign Just Starting - Should I Leave The Previous Incomplete Site or Setup A Temporary Holding Page and Redirect Previous URL'S?
Hi Paddy Thanks for getting back to me, that has confirmed my thinking, much appreciated. All the best with your work
Web Design | | ruislip180 -
Changing a product page from "example.com" to "example.com/keyword" affect SEO and Ranking?
Please clarify. Example.com is your homepage and it cannot be changes. If you change urls it will be taken as a new result by google unless you redirect. I have changed certain urls of this website. Take a look. It may help to clarify you.Check this
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Alexrobi0 -
Indexed, not submitted in sitemap
My site had this problem and the problem was solved by reinstalling the youst plugin
Technical SEO Issues | | aalinlandacc1 -
How Do SSL Certificates Affect On SEO?
Two things to think about with SSL. Google looks at is a trust signal. It shows you are actively trying to protect the users that come to the site. Google had an article on this in 2014. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html How users perceive the site. I personally take less advice from sites with no SSL. Mostly because, to me, it's a sign they aren't up to date. But also, it can deter certain people from making purchases and subscribing to your list without it. There is "technically" a slowing down of the site with SSL, but with proper installation and configuration it's not much. There is encrypting/decrypting overhead when the site uses SSL. The word "slower" doesn't mean snails pace. It is usually a few milliseconds difference if configured correctly. Simply adding an SSL cert isn't enough. It is technically a site change and you'll need to do some things to inform Google that the site has change. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing the upgrade to HTTPS during a time the site doesn't have much traffic. It can take a few weeks to implement correctly in the SERPs. You can read more about it here. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033049?hl=en
On-Page / Site Optimization | | DarinPirkey0 -
Do I have to manually mark as 'fixed' or 'Ignore' manually on Metadata Issues when completed?
Hi there! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! If you have fixed the issues and then recrawl, they will not appear as issues again:). The manual option to mark as fixed is really for your own benefit/tracking purposes in between crawls. Let me know if I can help with anything else!
Getting Started | | samantha.chapman0 -
Links in link lists not being discovered by Moz
For more that three months now I have been building relevant links for my news site but they are not reflecting. can anyone help tell me what I might be doing wrongly without knowing it?
Link Explorer | | cuche8620