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301 Redirects a Year Later
Depending on the hosting situation, it might be possible that the issue could be fully resolved without involving the other party but I would not recommend jumping into this on your own. Not that the basics are terribly difficult but there are a number of basics you would need to wrap your arms around and there are numerous non-basic things to check and verify before you pull the trigger on a fix. Doing it incorrectly could easily leave you with a bigger pickle than you have now. I recommend that you get very familiar with the topic via guides here on Moz and elsewhere before doing it yourself or have someone with experience take care of it for you. But to partially answer your question, yes, you can install redirects after a year or even longer. Whether they fix the issue you are describing would be quite another thing, however.
Technical SEO Issues | | Chris.Menke0 -
What defines what words in a title are considered Keywords?
Yes, this can be confusing when you're first starting out. A keyword is a word or a phrase that your target audience would use when they perform a query in a search engine for a product or service, etc. For example, if the target audience for a particular landing page is a professional plumber, the copy on your landing page might really focus in on "40" linear shower drain" because a plumber might know to search for that right off the bat. However, if the target audience for a landing page is a DIY'er who is researching how to build a shower pan for the first time, their initial searches may revolve around simply "shower drain". While both "40" linear shower drain" and "shower drain" may be considered potential keywords for your overall web marketing plan, you might only focus on one of those for any particular piece of web content, while the other would not be considered a keyword for that page. The reason different web pages might be crafted to target these individual terms is that the more specific a page can be in tailoring content to a certain keyword, the better able it is to compete with strong competitors who are also targeting that key phrase. If your page uses terminology that broadly applies to both audiences, Google is less likely to rank your page higher than a competitor page that focuses granularly on only one of them when that's what the searcher queries. Simple, huh! I know, not really. : )
Keyword Research | | Chris.Menke0 -
Huge number of crawl anomalies and 404s - non- existent urls
Unlikely, as long as they're returning 404 errors you should be OK. Maybe update your disavow file and you should be good to go!
Technical SEO Issues | | GFD_Chris0 -
Are RSS Feeds Really Dead? Boating Aggregator Website Looking to Add
RSS isn't really dead. However, people are using different sources to get their news so you will need to share your feed content on those platforms. Here is a not so old article I like on RSS feed that shows why it still matters https://recurpost.com/blog/rss-feed-is-not-dead-steps-on-how-to-use-rss-for-social-media-marketing-automation/
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | vias9960 -
Duplicate content against what?
If google has crawled and indexed your site thoroughly, you can also do a site:domain search with a short phrase from the content Moz has identified as duplicate in quotation marks. The results will show you all the pages on your site with that exact phrase. I like to use a few words at the end of a sentence and a few words at the beginning of the next sentence for this. If google has not indexed all your pages, however, this tactic will not provide you with all the dupe content. So, for example, site:mydomain.com "duplicate content happening. Can someone please"
Moz Local | | Chris.Menke0 -
Can Schema handle two sets of business hours?
What it will break is the ability to indicate that a place is closed over lunch-time with a single OpeningHoursSpecification node, which works currently because you can simply sort the times for opens/closes to reconstruct the intended order, like so: <code># opens 8:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 20:00 opens 08:00:00 closes 12:30:00 opens 14:00:00 closes 20:00:00</code> if you allow <code># opens 20.00 - 02:00 next day opens 20:00:00 closes 02:00:00</code> then there can be cases that become ambiguous, e.g. i. if you use more than one pair per OpeningHoursSpecification without making the case undecidable, like so: <code># opens 8 - 16:00 and 21:00 - 9:00: next day opens 08:00:00 closes 16:00:00 opens 21:00:00 closes 09:00:00</code> It could also mean opens 8:00 - 9:00 and 21:00 - 16:00 next day. What might work is a rule that cross-midnight intervals are only allowed if you have exactly one pair of opens / closes properties. And we need to precisely define how this works in the light of additional statements for the next day of the week, in particular with validity constraints (like seasonal opening hours).
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BlueprintMarketing0 -
Logo Image H1 Tag SquareSpace
Vikasnwu, Yes, those kinds of issues are typical for the super-simple website design tools. Do you want multiple h1 tags? No, you don't. Will it hurt you in this case, no, it won't. In the future, when you move to a new platform, you can take care of issues like that, but for now, I wouldn't worry about it.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Chris.Menke0 -
Keywords and funels6
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Conversion Rate Optimization | | Cokersblog0 -
Covid19 algorithm update
No, it's called a change in search behavior and we haven't noticed in travel, not anything that comes close to an algorithm update.
Search Engine Trends | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Do changing theme would cause the the seo effects?
Changing themes should have no negative impact on your rankings especially if you are using either the Yoast SEO or Rank Math SEO plugins which handle most of the onsite optimization issues for your site independent of the theme you are using. I've changed themes dozens of times over the years and never had a negative impact in rankings as a result.
Web Design | | Nozzle0 -
Am face with same error here https://www.baseloaded.com/
Hi there! Could you please pop an email over to help@moz.com and give us some more information about what kind of error you're seeing? Thank you!
Link Explorer | | samantha.chapman0 -
Does Dofollow links from forumn profiles, blog comments, business directories or article directories etc have any impact?
OMG! NO!, Syndey. There are so many reasons why not to do that and like, zero, why you should. It's a trap many marketers fall into--"Well my competitor did it and look at their rankings." And then you become the next casualty in the SEO wars. At least you asked first. Many throw the spaghetti at the wall first and then ask questions about their penalties later. I try to push people to read the Beginners Guide to SEO (and everything else you find) here because it is solid, whitehat information and that can be hard to find out there on the web. (And while I'm thinking about it, do pay close attention to the dates of anything SEO-realted that you read--if there is no date or it's more than a year old, don't waste your time) Fundamentally, it goes like this be patient and learn everything you can for a couple of months before you even think about making changes to your site. The reason is, if you do something wrong, the recovery process could put you/your site into a tailspin that you might not recover from. Now, back to your competitors' links. Firstly, do you really know that those links are helping them rank, or do you just see them there and assume so? Remember, correlation is not the same as causation, as they like to say here. Secondly, it's not always or necessarily the links themselves that are of value but the pattern of link acquisition that Google pays attention to. If there was a way to view things as Google does, even someone relatively new to online marketing could probably tell the difference between a whole bunch of low-quality links from obtained in a relatively short amount of time (yes you would burn out of your tactic within a few months) and a strong link profile of slow, steady link acquisition from reputable, complimentary sites. If you were Google, which backlink profile do you think you would reward? Thirdly, do you know how many good links it takes to outweigh a bunch of bad ones? It only takes ONE. Focus on getting that one and you and your site will be way ahead of the game--and your competitors.
Link Building | | Chris.Menke0 -
Should I use location in keywords in a campaign?
Bonjour Merci Chris, En ce qui me concerne, je suis dans l'immobilier, et pour mes deux sites **https://www.darrna.com et **https://www.inebgi.com, par exemple, j'ai choisi les mots clés suivants : immobilier Algérie, appartement à vendre, location appartement...
Moz Pro | | Darrna0 -
Duplicate content? other issues? using vendor info when selling their prodcuts?
Thanks for the help guys. I am actually taking about vendor info not products. Like about us and history and summary of services and products offered. I know unique content is always best practice. Main concern is accurate content without using lots of resources. As well as not get penalized by google for duplicate content. thoughts? If i copy and paste 'about us" from a vendor that we see their products. What are the issues??
On-Page / Site Optimization | | bakergraphix_yahoo.com0 -
Page Optimization Error
Hi - Thanks for posting. I checked this url against our user-agent and it looks like we are being blocked with a 403 forbidden response when trying to access the page. This isn’t related to your robots.txt allowances, rather a server level block. You will want to work with your hosting admin or web developer to ensure our user-agent “rogerbot” is whitelisted so we can access the site. We hope that helps to clarify, let us know if you have further questions we can assist with!
Other Research Tools | | Natalie-Alexis0 -
Is there a way to tell if you were doing everything perfectly on the SEO front what your average SERP position and page views could be?
Actually, there is no such thing as an agreed-upon 100% perfectly complete SEO project. Some might call that just doing what's necessary to bring a site up to a basic threshold, some might say there are always more keywords to go after, more backlinks to get or more social signals to go after. Still, others might say that if you're not ranking in Timbuktu, then obviously you're work's not perfect. On the other hand, most might agree that the results of one tool, in particular, would be the best indicator of a perfectly executed SEO project. That would be #1 results ong google across the board for all of your target keywords--and what the heck, having #1 results for all of your competitors' target keywords, as well. Anyway, look at google adwords keyword planner and see what the approximate traffic for the #1 position of your keywords and that will give you a hint of what you could be getting.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Chris.Menke0