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Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to reach out to help@moz.com with the URL of your site and we can take a closer look. Thanks, Eli

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I agree with you that I would probably leave them up. Redirecting those posts would likely sacrifice your ranking positions as you mentioned. Your best bet might just be to create a new Google Analytics that removes the entire blog or at least those two posts. For your core reporting, you could just use that segment. That should allow you get the traffic but report your core KPIs on more relevant pages.

Isn't the key factor that "The decision has been made that e_ach product will have their own site moving forward_. "? It seems like the Suits have spoken on this and that your job is to get the products onto their own sites in the best way possible.  But if you rel-canonical Page A-->Page B,  people will still be able to visit both URLs and that's not what they're directing. To me, it sounds like 301's across the board and then move on, no?

No problem, glad it was helpful. Having a country specific IP isn't a deal breaker when it comes to ranking in specific countries. I've heard that it can have some effect i.e. if your website is hosted in the UK and your primary audience is the UK, then it may help a little. But I haven't seen this first hand. I think the primary focus should be on getting solid hosting and uptime, regardless of where it's located. If I have a UK focused domain, I'd rather have a solid hosting company where my website is fast and based in the US, than a UK based IP address that is slow

Nope! Your email domain shouldn't have any impact on your site's SEO.

Agree!

Instead of paying people for social signals and spending time investigating the value of this paid service, please turn your attention to publishing content that will delight your visitors.   If you do that, your visitors will create the social signals for you.

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Hey! Thanks for reaching out to us! The only way to check for Domain Authority, Page Authority or Spam Score in bulk would be our Links API. You can read all about the API and how it works and what's required over in our Help Hub pages, here: https://moz.com/help/links-api I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or if there's anything that needs clarifying! Eli

Properly implemented, curated, and maintained, there's not really a risk of problems with Google. It's just that for 99% of them there's so little-if any-ranking benefit to it, why bother.  It's not necessarily great for your brand, either.

Agreed, you'll likely want to go with option #2. Dynamic sitemaps are a must when you're dealing with large sites like this. We advise them on all of our clients with larger sites. If your forum content is important for search then these are definitely important to include as the content likely changes often and might be naturally deeper in the architecture. In general, I'd think of sitemaps from a discoverability perspective instead of a ranking one. The primary goal is to give Googlebot an avenue to crawl your sites content regardless of internal linking structure.

Hi there! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you please pop an email  about this over to help@moz.com so we can look at your account directly? Thank you!

Hi there, Sam from Moz's Help Team here - apologies in advance for the long response! 1. URLs too long. URL length and format for SEO is a bit of a balancing act. When considering URLs for SEO you want to make sure that the URL is simple enough to remember and understand for human visitors and that it accurately describes what is on the page. If your URLs do this job, but are a bit longer than 75 characters, then I wouldn't be too concerned. You do want to keep you eye out for URLs that are not within this basic structure:  http://www.example.com/category-keyword/subcategory-keyword/primary-keyword.html, contain long and confusing codes, and are taking a hit in the rankings. As I'm sure you're already aware, changing URLs is quite painful, as you need to make sure the old URLs are redirected and this adds more moving parts to your site that could cause problems down the line. So, if you're happy with the job your URLs are doing currently, but the tool flags these as too long, I would definitely consider holding off on making changes. It may be that you use this information to make amendments to future URLs, or rethink your site structure as part of a bigger project. In the meantime you can "Ignore" those issue either by page or by Issue Type through the Moz Pro Site Crawl interface so they don't crop up every week. You can read more about this on our Help Hub. Here are some resources on URL formating and how to best structure them for SEO: https://moz.com/community/q/what-should-be-the-length-of-page-url-from-seo-perspective https://moz.com/learn/seo/url https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls 2.  Duplicates Our tool has a 90% tolerance for duplicate content, which means it will flag any content that has 90% of the same code between pages. This includes all the source code on the page and not just the viewable text, so often it's a matter of finding the best answer for the duplicate pages in question. For instance, often with ecommerce sites, product pages will come up with duplicate content between two colors of the same item, and in that case it's good to use the canonical tag: https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization. If there are two versions of the page that exist - for instance, example.com/subfolder and www.example.com/subfolder - you can put in 301 redirects to the correct page: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection. If it's just two pages on different subjects but with thin content, filling out that content with an extra paragraph or two can help.

Newly discovered links have the ability to be populated into our index in about 1-3 days, however there are a lot of factors which can affect our ability to find and index links to your site. It's important to note that we add new data to our index everyday but it may take some time for us to discover backlinks to your site based on factors like crawlability of the referring pages, quality of the links and the referring pages, and more. If you are not seeing links that you know you have, you may want to make sure that they can be indexed. It is also a good idea to check to see if we've indexed the page on which that link is found. If we haven't indexed the referring page yet, you won't see your link in our index You can also add links to Link Tracking Lists. Once you add a link to your tracking lists we will add that page to be crawled. As long as it is accessible to our crawler, you should see the link in our index as soon as we can index those pages. Lastly, I have a great guide here with some things to check around why we may not have found your links yet: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/moz-isnt-finding-your-links I hope this helps!