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thank you so much, i am going to look into these right now, i have been using scrapbox as a tool to find high quality backlinks for my campaign, plan on using kontentmachine to build up some articles then heard gsa or marketing demon might be my best option to use to publish these. Nothing i am doing i hope is black hat, just looking to automate my whitehat tasks you know.

Most of my work is writing articles that take between three days and a week to author.  I also have employees who assist with these articles by taking photos, making graphics, doing research, collecting data and posting them to websites.   Some of these articles attack very difficult keywords. After doing this for about 12 years on the same website, I still don't know how these articles are going to rank.  A year or two after posting some are on the first page of Google defeating popular websites that surprise me.  Others, perplex me because I am being beaten by pissants - in SERPs that I would judge to be much easier.   I suspect that semantics, keyword diversity and titles that elicit clicks help the pissants beat me but I don't know for sure. I can't predict how my own rankings will turn out on a website that I know well, in an industry where I have worked for 40 years and against competitors who are often people who I know by name or are even my own customers.  The SERPs can be very difficult to understand.  One thing that I will say with confidence is that DA and PA explain nothing and give zero guidance in winning a fight.  They count as zero importance in my decisions.  I can't even tell you those numbers for my own websites unless I go look.   That's how little attention I give to them.

Nice work!

Big showoff! Just kidding, well done! Robert

Hi, I currently have two seats: the owner and an assigned seat. I would like to swap ownership between the current owner and the assigned seat. All goes well, until I want to change the email address of the current owner to the one of the assigned seat. Although I removed the assigned seat, upon changing the email address of the current owner to the (removed) assigned seat, Moz indicates 'the email address is already in use'. What should I do? Thanks, Ton

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Update: 5 months later, the problem has long since gone away.

For your SSL issue, take a look at Let's Encrypt. As far as SEO and duplicate content, search engines typically can't index content behind pay walls and logins unless you're using a CMS with this feature (bots allowed access to articles). Beware of your visitor interactions, like sharing page or product URLs that are access controlled. This would have negative consequences for SEO as potential visitors would be redirected to a login page instead of the intended content, but many people would bounce away from this page. That's a signal to search engine that nobody is finding what they're looking for on you site for those related links. A 100% bounce rate would not be great.

Jarred, Whenever you move to a new domain name Google will keep the old domain name indexed for up to a year (or longer!). It's just the way that Google does it, I suspect that it's because you may change your mind and go back to the old domain. Having the old domain indexed in Google isn't a problem, as users should be redirected to the content on the new domain. It will take up to a year for Google to stop indexing the old domain. By the way, make sure you use the Google Change of Address Tool in Google Search Console, it will really help.

Hello, Since you are talking video files, Google has a tough time identifying what they are about. The main concern is not the file itself but the textual titles and metadata surrounding the video. First video published with keywords etc. will be featured first, but a Youtube video has a natural bonus given it is Google's domain and Google likes Google. I would say this is probably a low-concern issue - if you have it on a Youtube channel and have access to a domain, I would incorporate it into an iframe on your site so it gets canonicalized with your domain rather than through a 3rd party video hosting service - this also gives you greater access to SEO options (both on-site and off-site) than video hosting domains do. Hope this helps and fire any follow up questions my way if you like - I'll help as best I can. Cheers, Rob

Hi Jono, Yes, you have to check into Google Analytics for this. You can also try to change the model attribution of the conversion to see what's the part of the Adwords Ads into the process. Regards, Jonathan

Thank you, Rob! I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks Dirk. Very insightful tip about not using campaign tracking to check internal links. There was an old blog post that had anchor text with campaign tracking that was causing many SEO issues. As for the latter part, it is unknown why a string of gibberish can be placed after /blog/ and also for our locations page. Our team's web developer is looking further into this issue. If anyone has any more advice on the matter it would be greatly appreciated.

If you're canonicalizing duplicate pages to a single source, assuming it's the one you want to promote, then no, it shouldn't hurt your SEO. The site you're pointing at should see some benefit, and the ones doing the pointing will take a backseat, possibly drop a bit. I'm guessing that's the whole idea? But why do you have multiple sites that have the same products and descriptions if you're not trying to drive organic traffic to all of them? Is it more for paid landing page purposes? If not, why not 301 them to the main site instead? Or, as EGOL suggested, build out content that makes each site uniquely helpful and authoritative so that those canonicals aren't necessary?

Hi Lars, My first questions is whether or not a disavow is strictly necessary. It is absolutely normal for websites to showcase a small amount of spam in their link profile and in many cases I have seen a link profile that is "too clean" merits as much skepticism as a website with spammy links. The purpose of the tool is to alert you to potentially spammy or harmful links, but this does not mean it is causing your website, rankings or traffic any harm. The first thing I would do would be to determine exactly how problematic this issue is based on your overall link profile rather than focusing your efforts on a few spammy links. Additionally, it is worth determining whether the links you are referring to are follow or nofollow, since a disavow merely creates nofollow tags instead of removing the links entirely. If they are already nofollow links, then there's no point in conducting a disavow. If you are dead set on removing them, however, here would be my process for your 3 questions: If the page featuring the link to your page no longer exists, then the link no longer exists. At the very least it is not providing you with any metric-enhancing data and won't have a follow attribute. Nothing to worry about here. This is a disavow situation if you don't have access to Webmaster Console. Same as 1) above - if the page linking to you doesn't exist, then the link doesn't exist. If the page exists and you have no option for removing it or contacting the webmaster, then you have to run the disavow here as well. Again, I will stress that disavows should be treating as a last-ditch effort when facing a ton of spammy follow links. If you are not meeting these criteria, then it's probably not worth going that route. Hope this helps - if you have any other info that might help feel free to get in touch and I'll help as best I can. Cheers, Rob

Ok, thank you.

Hi Anoop, It looks like a hosting issue. Might have something to do with your DNS. I would check with your hosting provider to start with and then work backwards, checking your pages one by one to determine which ones are throwing you 400 error codes. You can use Screaming Frog or SEO SpyGlass from SEO Powersuite for this. A basic website audit through SEMrush or Site Auditor would also work. Based on the results of that research, you will know if it is sitewide (almost definitely hosting) or page-specific (almost definitely coding and site architecture). Let me know if you need any further help. Cheers, Rob

Could using canonical links help in this situation? I guess if I have no external links to the category pages then canonical links wouldn't be appropriate here?