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Hi Peter, Thanks so much for your insights. I will follow this through and hopefully rectify the issue. Sincerely, Jason

So it sounds like it's intended as a proxy for Google Pagerank.

Thank you Peter!

Hi there. What kind of keyword organizing are you talking about? As far as I know there are no good tools for organizing keywords. I use google sheets - you can do quite a lot with them. Also you can write your own scripts. However, we are in process of building our own custom solution for in-house use. Because it will satisfy every single nuance i need. Quite honestly, it isn't that much work time if you plan carefully. So, I'd recommend talking to your developer team

A Spam Score of 1 is nothing to worry about. I think a general rule of thumb is to remove any with a score above 4/5 (may be wrong but I think I read it on MOZ somewhere). Any link that is that easy to obtain is always going to come across slightly spammy. I wouldn't have thought the link will benefit your site hugely given the type of link it is (a comment on a blog/forum) and I wouldn't suggest that as a technique if you're trying to increase your link profile :). But at the same time it doesn't sound like it's going to do you any harm, especially if its just the one.

Hi Giorgio! It's worth noting that Spam Score is correlative—it simply indicates that the page in question has features that we've seen on sites that've been penalized for spam. It's possible that the issue isn't coming from any one like, or type of link. If you haven't, I recommend checking out this Whiteboard Friday and this blog post. Let us know if you still have questions then.

This the community part of Moz - if you want to be reimbursed please contact Moz directly https://moz.com/about/contact. I would also advice you to remove the password you published. You can already cancel your subscription - go to https://moz.com/subscriptions and click "Cancel Subscription" to avoid that you get billed for the following months. Next time you take a free trial make sure you read the text properly - it clearly states: "Your 30-day free trial begins once you click "Start My Free Trial!" below. We perform a $1 pre-authorization to ensure your credit card is valid — we won't actually charge your card until the end of your trial. If you cancel your subscription in your first month you will not be charged. If you don't cancel by day 30, your card will be charged for your first month of service. You can cancel your subscription at any time." Dirk

Hi friends, Sorry for the delay in responding. I have a great news -- as of today, this bug for Q&A forum emails has been fixed. (Any emails timestamped now 1:20pm PDT and going forward.) Unfortunately, this bug is also happening in Blog comment emails. The blog and Q&A systems are not tied together, and the development work on it rests with another dev team. The good news is that we know the issue (half the battle). We are working on prioritizing the work, and I'm hoping that in the next couple months (at most), this will be fixed. Thanks Update 7/28/16 - The blog comments are also fixed. This bug is fixed!

Page Authority is a measure of a page's link strength, so to raise it you'll likely need to get some high-quality external links to those pages. Check out this article on Page Authority (and this one on Domain Authority).

As Maurice wrote, I urge to remember that American English is different from British English, therefore it would be useful to revisit the content in order to make it fit to how English is spoken/written in the USA. That would have an impact in how Americans perceive the site, for localization and, obviously, for SEO geo-targeting. Then, yes, use the hreflang annotations in order to clearly suggest to Google what version must be shown to whom, geo-target the USA site on Google Search Console (and do not forget to do the same in Bing). Regarding what to choose between a new domain name, subfolder or subdomain for the USA website, that choice must be taken considering not only SEO factors. For instance, if your UK website is already receiving interesting volume of traffic, when you can reasonably think to go for an independent domain name (it should be a generic, because in the USA the ccTld .us is not even considered "american"), so that you could create also a very geo-targeted experience for the USA audience. If you have traffic, but not in great proportions, and if your website is not an ecommerce or one with a very complex and big URL structure and database, then you can think opting for the subfolder option. On the contrary, if your traffic from the USA is not big already and the site architecture is complex and the database very big, then it would be better going for the subdomain option. In the last 2 cases, though, the ideal would be to finally migrate the USA site to an independent domain name once the visibility in the USA, both in terms of Search and Brand recognition, has reached sustainable levels. Finally, remember that the .com is much harder than the .co.uk, so be prepared to struggle more than you have done until now for earning in the USA the same results you earned in UK.

My pleasure, and I hope it was helpful. Regarding developing separate landing pages, that's a decision you'll need to make, of course, but as you've raised a concern about Google not properly showing both locations, what I'm explaining to you is something that could possibly help with this. It's totally fine that the cities are close to one another. That's common for many businesses. But if you want each office you have to be treated as separate and equal, unique landing pages and unique citation sets will be the common best practice advice you'll see for this scenario.

I prefer to think that no new links were added to the internet over the last couple of days because people got off their computers and actually spent time with their family and friends. Wishful thinking

Hi Stuart There could be many nuances to every situation (essentially, what type of sites they are and what type of content it is), but in general I'd go with what's most user-friendly - what will reduce any confusion, and send old traffic to the new home of the acquired company. A subdomain is fine if you want to clearly show to users a distinction between the acquiring vs acquired site. Definitely do your 301 redirects. I would highly recommend reading up on Cyrus' article here about 301 redirects. In general, the content should be basically the same from the old page to the new page being redirected to. I would try to migrate the site "as is" as much as possible to eliminate other factors/changes that could affect things. You can update things later, but this was it makes it easier to analyze if any rankings are lost. In other words, be systematic and keep track of when/what you change.

Thanks for the answer!

Considering the similarity in search intent, I think it would be a bad idea to produce multiple pages each targeting one of your keywords. I'd try and get them all on that one page, using different variants of the keywords on the single page and structure it into sections with headings that would be helpful for the user. If that one page is already ranking well for all three terms, it can easily just be improved. Rather than creating more pages and have them all competing against each other for the same keywords - and effectively sabotaging themselves.

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Hi Chris, You have 2 issues here: 1. It doesn't make sense to put the us version on http://www.camilla.com.au/us/ - .com.au is an Australian domain extension and therefore geo targeted by default to Australia. If you want to have a us version you'll have to put it on a generic domain extension (.com / .net / .org / etc geo targeted in search console to the us) or use the .us extension 2. Hreflang is on page level - not on domain level - on all pages of your site you put the hreflang pointing to the "us homepage". What you should do is for each page on your site (both us & au version) you will have to put at least two hreflang tags: Example http://www.camilla.com.au/collection/my-wandering-heart-resort-15  & http://www.camilla.com.au/us/collection/my-wandering-heart-resort-15 On both pages put: <link rel="alternate" href="http: www.camilla.com.au="" collection="" my-wandering-heart-resort-15" hreflang="en-au"></link rel="alternate" href="http:> If you want to have one version as default - then also add (if it's the us version you want as default - check http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html) The message "reciprocal not found" indicates that you only put the hreflang to the us version - and that on the us version there is no hreflang link to the au version. You can scan all the content on Moz on hreflang - but useful links are: https://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/ https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Dirk

Hello! Sorry, I have the same problem on my site (www.2become1.it). For example, in this page www.2become1.it/wedding-videographer-italy/engagement-chris-caterina/ i find this url: http://www.2become1.it/wedding-videographer-italy/engagement-chris-caterina/feed/ that doesn't exist. I can't clean up head in SEO Yoast because the plugin's author disabled this option in the new version. Any suggest? Thanks Marco