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Thanks Ken, I did find that tab but the keywords there aren't very good

As your own agency told, I too consider that when the hreflang will be implemented, this kind of issues should terminate. Regarding the sitemap error, it was surely something that could be confusing Google about what site to target. However, I see that you have also an .eu domain name... I imagine that that domain is meant for targeting the European market and I suspect that it is in English. If it is so, remember: In countries like Spain, France, Germany, italy... we don't search in Internet using English, but Spanish, French, German, Italian... Therefore, that .eu domain is not going to offer you those results you maybe are looking for; The .eu domain termination is a generic one, and cannot be geotargeted via Google Search Console. This means that - by default - it targets all the world, hence, you probably can see visits from English speaking users in countries like South Africa, UK, IE, Australia, New Zealand or India, where English is the main language or one of the official ones; When it comes to domains like .eu and hreflang, it is always hard to decide how to implement it. In your specific case, as you are targeting UK, US, AU and IE with specific domain names, the ideal would be to implement this hreflang annotation for the .eu (the example is only for the home page): <rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.eu" hreflang="x-default"><rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.eu" hreflang="en"><rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com" hreflang="en-GB"><rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.us" hreflang="en-US"><rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com.au" hreflang="en-AU"></rel="alternate"></rel="alternate"></rel="alternate"></rel="alternate"></rel="alternate"> With those annotations, you are telling Google to show the .com to users in Great Britain, the .us to users in United States, the .au to Australian ones and the .eu to all the other users using English in any other country. That will mean that your .eu site surely will target also users in others European countries, both using english when searching (hreflang="en") and other languages (hreflang="x-default"). 2 notes about the hreflang="x-default": People living in the UK and searching in Spanish will see the .eu domain name, because it is the default domain name for searches in every language but English in GB, IE, AU and US; Again, even if you pretend the .eu domain to target only European countries, that is impossible, because the .eu termination doesn't have any geotargeting power (and regions like Europe or Asia cannot be geotargeted via GSC). So it will be normal to see visit also from countries in others continents.

Moz Analytics only updates rankings automatically once per week, but your Pro subscription also includes Rank Tracker for on-demand rank checks. There's more info on it here.

Thanks for the link Nitin, I will check it out!

There are a couple of methods to help reduce any ghost/referral spam you may be getting, one is to use your htaccess, (this reduces crawled traffic only) and the other is to set up filters in GA. This post from Carlos Escalera, is one of my favourites. https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter Hope this helps.

Hi Eric, Without having too much info to work from, it does sound like you're on the right track here. If the tags aren't really serving a purpose there's no reason to have them junking up your site with duplicates. If those tags are removed correctly they won't generate 404s because nothing should be linking to them. The only way you might end up with an internal 404 through removing them is if you've linked directly to them in your content. It's always a good idea to crawl your site with something like Screaming Frog's SEO Spider after the removal to make sure. The other thing to double-check is your referral traffic in Google Analytics and your backlink profile. Between these two you can confirm that you don't have any links pointing to a tag page that's actually sending real traffic. It's unlikely but still worth checking!

Dear, Moosa Hemani thank you for the respond. I kinda just felt that would be wrong but asking makes me feel good. lol Happy New Year.

I guess I pretty much understand that. But my partner always wants a second opinion. So I like asking for advice to show her that I'm not the only one who thinks this way. @MattAntoinio thank you.

It is not priced exactly the same. They’ll charge based on the bid adjustment applied to the RLSA list (e.g., increase by 10% on the RLSA list) or based on the bids you apply for a specific RLSA campaign.

You can contact with Help team here: https://moz.com/help/contact/account How do I cancel my Moz Pro subscription? "You can cancel your account by logging into Moz and then heading over to the Billing & Subscription page. From there, just click on the “Cancel Subscription” link. Find out more about this in our Help Hub!" What happens if I cancel my account in the middle of my subscription period? "Your account will remain active until the end of the subscription period but will not renew. No refund is processed during this period." I hope that this help you.

I'm afraid that our tools regularly encounter issues with non-Latin characters that I would expect you would end up running into. Concerning RTL languages in general, I don't believe that there are any that features of our tools that make accommodations for the different order used by these languages. So, I wouldn't think Moz would be a great fit for sites in those languages. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hi Armands, This might be a bit shocking, but I've never been a big fan of any free keyword research tool I've tried for Local SEO purposes, but then, keyword research hasn't been a daily task for me in a couple of years. It's really important for me to mention that it has been at least a couple of years since I've looked at whatever paid tools may be new, so I can't say whether their accuracy has improved, specifically for correctly representing local search volumes. When I was doing more of this, I simply used the old strategy that I remember first being recommended by Matt McGee of performing non-local keyword research and adding geomodifiers back into your list of findings, knowing that people search for most things that exist in most cities, regardless of what tools say. This may not sound sophisticated - and it isn't - but it has always made good horse sense to me. Do note, however, that Rand did an important Whiteboard Friday on this topic of how we can't do keyword research like it's 2010: https://moz.com/blog/cant-do-keyword-research-like-its-2010-whiteboard-friday Where this gets a bit more complex is when you have geographic vocabulary differences (soda vs. pop, lawyer vs. attorney, stick horse vs. hobby horse), in which case, knowing the way your audience speaks is either going to be something you research in person, or something you approximate via Internet research of social media to see how people talk locally about the products you sell. Now, that being said, there is one trick I'm totally fond of - the wildcard search Mary Bowling spoke of at a recent conference. I had never seen that before, and it's awesome: http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2015/02/18/how-to-use-wildcard-searches-for-local-keyword-research-lightning-round-with-mary-bowling/ And, remember to pay attention to the 'related searches' section at the bottom of most Google results. There are some really obvious clues there. And, finally, I've always thought that Google's categories provided some of the most important keywords one should be optimizing for, when you are aiming to rank well in Google's local product. So, while I want to be sure to note that I am not a local keyword research expert in any way, I think much of keyword research is actually just common sense, but with the understanding that some of it isn't common sense and findings can totally surprise us about the way people search. Further Reading: http://www.localsearchforum.com/local-seo-tools-software/38694-free-keyword-rank-software-competitive-analysis-pre-consultations.html https://www.brightlocal.com/2014/07/22/effective-local-keyword-research/ http://www.localsearchforum.com/local-content/38255-keyword-research-blog-posts-local-content.html (see CodyBaird's comment)

I actually have tons of goals set for 2016, I will update a post regarding that on my blog tomorrow (I am sure not many will be interested in that but it’s a good performance tracking indicator for me). But above all the most important thing I have to do in 2016 is action. There are so many things I know I can do but obviously people will only believe when they see you doing that. So, this year I will talk to people with my actions.

Thanks Jordan and Eric for your input. In the meantime I've gotten a response from JohnMu in the Webmaster Central Help Forum. Apparently it has to do with duplicate content on our website: "We're taking some of these duplicates, and folding them into a single URL." https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/q0jjp9bHDgAJ

A noindexed page can still accumulate and pass link equity, although results vary on whether or not some of that link juice "evaporates" along the way. I'm inclined to agree with Chris, though, that there's probably no need to noindex a page that redirects to a page that you do want indexed.