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How do I use the same keywords in 2 different campaigns?
Hey James, I'm afraid there isn't a way to transfer keywords between campaigns and you would have to just add the keywords into the second campaign manually. One thing that may be helpful is that you can export a CSV from one campaign and then copy the keywords you want to add in the second campaign so you can just paste them into the Add & Manage section of the second campaign. The keywords would count separate between the two campaigns because they require separate resources to collate the data and pull the information that is relevant to the campaign from the rankings. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Other Questions | | ChiarynMiranda0 -
On Oct 1st I set up a report to be sent to my client MONTLY... however it says the next report will be sent out Dec 1st. Same on other clients...is this monthly or every 2 months
Hey Charles, Sorry for the confusion here! In the main custom report section, we only show two dates, the date the report was created and the date the next report is scheduled to run. We don't show the date the last report was run in the main custom report section, but we do show it if you go to the Actions dropdown on that page and select "Download Past PDFs." From there, you will see a calendar pop up for the current month, which in this case displays that the report was sent on November 1st: http://www.screencast.com/t/nU9hH3Sog3H9 This report was also emailed to both you and the additional client email you added on November 1st in an email titled "Your Monthly Report" per the email settings in the custom report. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
Technical Support | | ChiarynMiranda0 -
Some of my keywords I rank well for, others not at all
I'd add to this that you may find the Full SERP Report in the Keyword Difficulty Tool pretty useful. There's a short video on using it for competitive research here.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MattRoney0 -
International SEO Question: Using hreflang tags across two different TLDs.
You are using bad the x-default annotation (I must admit, though, that I did not completely understood the code you copy/pasted in your question). The x-default is meant for showing to Google what URL to show to those users, who are not explicitly targeted by a dedicated version of the website. For instance, if we are targeting both USA and UK, but we know that the USA version has traction also in other countries like AU, NZ, South Africa and Spain, then we could use the x-default so to suggest Google that the USA URLs should be shown to all people independently of the language (in my example, not only English speaking users, but also Spanish speaking ones) and geography (not only the USA, but also all the others countries). The only exception will be the UK, because with the hreflang="en-GB" we are telling Google to shown the UK version of the site to English speaking users in Great Britain. The only solution I see in your case is consistency between the two versions. You must choose with which architecture option to go and use just that. Only after you should think in the hreflang implementation.
International Issues | | gfiorelli10 -
Has anyone seen a ranking boost by adding a GTIN (barcode)
Thought I'd provide a bit of an update on this one for you all, I add the gtin number to two different products one gtin was added as a product attribute (text and number) and the other was added with schema markup (Gtin14 - https://schema.org/gtin14). I've seen no ranking boost to either product on the keywords I'm tracking for them however, I have seen a small increase in traffic to the product which uses schema markup. From what I can tell from my analytics it would appear that some users actually search google using the gtin number! It seems as if gtin14 isnt widely used at present and as such I'm ranking in top spot. So i'm thinking of adding the gtin to all our products as a bit of a quick win to rank top for a small percentage of searches. i suppose it all depends on what products your selling and your user demographic as to wether your potential customers would ever search using the gtin? My personal view after some more reading (gs1 smart search, formally gtin on the web - http://www.gs1.org/gs1-smartsearch) is that gtin is going to become more prominent in the not too distant future, but hey I'm no expert. I'd love to know if anyone else has tested this out or if they try it and get the same results as I have?
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Jon-S0 -
Client WIll Not Rank for Targeted KW Terms
Duplicate page titles Duplicate meta descriptions A number of page titles in the 80-100 character range = too long. Many WAY too long meta descriptions. Meta KWs usually act only as a negative ranking factor, if anything. You have a LOT of the same KWs & KW spam. Anchor text issues for all 4 words: newport, beach, plastic and surgeon. All way over optimised. Majestic historic shows a HUGE number of referring domains but a much, much smaller level of IPs - typically a spam signal so there may be even more in Search Console that needs clean up, removal or disavow. I would assume this site dropped initially during a Panda algo update at some point. It has a lot of content-quality issues and some anchor problems.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MattAntonino0 -
Half of my site is private for members only, should I use the Nofollow on these pages?
If you want to prevent member-only pages from showing up in Google's index (and I assume that is what you're after), then what you want is "noindex", or ideally just to block the pages in robots.txt. A quick look at your site indicates that there's members-only content in the 'resources' and 'presentations' folders (though of course there may be others you also want to hide). Then, in your robots.txt file, you'd put these lines: User-agent: * Disallow: /resources/ Disallow: /presentations/ Now even if Googlebot discovers these pages somehow, it won't crawl or index them, and you won't see these pages showing up in a Google search.
Technical SEO Issues | | StephanSolomonidis0 -
How will this affect the rankings and traffic of the new site once this happens?
Completely agree with John. I saw a couple of cases like this one. Another important thing besides the outreach program, it's to keep all the content and continue developing it. This advertising site StarterDaily (previously Zapping Latam) had this problem with less time (a couple of weeks) keeping their rankings. Now also ranks for the "zapping latam" brand term when it shouldn't.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | antonioaraya0 -
Moz Local, location selector not picking up location in Zimbabwe
Moz Local currently only supports the purchased management of US and UK business listings (source: https://moz.com/help/guides/local). So won't work for Zimbabwe - sorry. Dirk
Moz Local | | DirkC0 -
Does type of hosting affect SEO rankings?
Hi Tom, Thank you very much for the fast reply and helpful answer! I have also posted a couple CDN conversations on: 1. https://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-effect-of-cloudflare-cdn-on-page-load-speeds-hosting-ip-location-and-the-ultimate-seo-effect 2. https://moz.com/community/q/what-happens-with-seo-when-a-site-is-served-via-cloudflare-cfn If you feel like adding your thoughts there as well (entirely up to you) I would value them immensely. Kind regards, Mark
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | uworlds0 -
Redirect non slash to slash
Hello Mozzers, I've the same problem but just the other way round and was wondering about the effects additionally: if I implement a redirect from a slash url to a non-slah url, will this affect my SEO visibility within Google? If so, is there another / better solution? Many thanks in regards!
Technical SEO Issues | | dexport0