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  • I found this useful for blog topic creation - https://moz.com/blog/generate-100-blog-topic-ideas-in-seconds Hope it helps you too.

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | PeacefulConquest.com
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  • Hi there! Unfortunately, our tools don't have a good way of discovering keywords your site is ranking for in that way. Our tools are set up to help you gauge your site's performance for keywords which you enter, rather than finding keywords which are already doing well and presenting them. Our tools also do not pull tails from keywords as a feature. We do have a helpful White Board Friday that may be helpful: https://moz.com/blog/long-tail-seo-target-low-volume-keywords-whiteboard-friday If you have any further questions, please email us at help@moz.com!

    Other Research Tools | | Natalie-Alexis
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  • From 40-50 characters are enough getting a look in search engine, you must have already few info about ranking as I know. I found one simple look site that is: http://amazeinvent.com/ having not what you think.

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | seotoolshero02
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  • Hi DylMar, You are right to guess that, yes, it's up to Google to decide if they want to show a two-pack like that for a branded search. If your geographic scenario is similar, in terms of distance and terrain,  there's definitely hope that you could see this same treatment of your client. Your best shot is building up the authority of both of the locations so that Google feels confident about listing them both for users when a branded search is done. However, it's definitely not something I would set as a client goal or make promises about. There could be reasons why Google is treating your client differently that have to do with Google's understanding of user intent in that specific region. If, for example, Google felt that users near to local A definitely want location A, a calculation could be going on just to show A instead of showing both A & B. Another scenario could be that your locations are being considered too close together by Google, and one of them is being filtered out, because of that. But, as with most things, if you can drive up the overall authority of both locations, it's your best bet to see what you can squeeze out of the SERPs. Some things to work on: Earn reviews for both locations Be sure you've got strong landing pages for each location Be sure no guidelines are being violated by either location Earn some good local links for both locations Likely you're already working on these things, but without being able to see your actual client, the best I can do is offer general advice. Good luck!

    Local Listings | | MiriamEllis
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  • DA is not a ranking factor but it is a nice metric made by Moz to help us get an idea how we're doing compared to our competitors in terms of quantity and quality of links. So having a higher DA doesn't automatically mean you should rank higher than your competitors. Also, since the EMD (exact match domain) update back in 2012, sites can't rank better just because of the keyword in the domain name if their site authority and optimization isn't great. My main suggestion for you would be to acquire more backlinks with "dental emergency" as the anchor text (making sure they are linking to the correct page on your site, of course). Obviously, don't over do this and build hundreds of links with exact match keywords in the anchor text but don't be shy about it either. As an example, one of the owner's of my company has a personal site and I asked him to change the anchor text of the link in his footer to our company's homepage from "Nozzle" to "Keyword phrase - Nozzle".  After Google recrawled that page, our rankings jumped up 10 spots. To be fair, I'm aware that jumping 10 spots while on page 3 is different than trying to go from #4 to #1 though. My point is to not be afraid to use exact match anchor text sometimes. Also make sure that your page that is ranking #4 also has internal links from other pages of your website pointing to it with the keyword in the anchor text. Test out things like moving that phrase to the front of your title tag and even trying to get it in there twice if at all possible. These will be tests and can be changed back if your rankings drop, so don't be scared to test. Pay attention to your CTR as well inside of Google Search Console to make sure you don't drop in CTR because of the changes too. Also, test out adding that phrase more times in the content of the page. Good luck!

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Nozzle
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  • Hi there, You should email the support. Ross

    Technical Support | | RossKernez
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  • Hi there, Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Could you pop a message about this over to help@moz.com with your account information/site URL, as well as some examples of some of the links in question so we can take  a look at this for you? Thank you!!

    Link Explorer | | samantha.chapman
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  • Are you wanting to track the changes in rankings on the first page of search results for one specific site or are you wanting to be notified when any change happens in the SERPs? Either way, you can use any rank tracking tool to monitor your website ranking changes for a list of keywords that you care about.  Some of these tools take screenshots of the SERPs and give you the raw data to be able to analyze any movement for all URL's on the first page of the SERPs. A couple good rank tracking tools are: Nozzle.io (I work here) getstat.com (Moz purchased them a year or two ago) There are also plenty of other rank tracking tools that aren't as robust but will monitor your keyword list just fine. And if all your looking for is to track a few hundred phrases and you're already using their other tools you should just use one of the following: Moz Pro Ahrefs.com semrush.com agencyanalytics.com

    Moz Tools | | Nozzle
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  • Hi there! Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Thanks for writing in and sorry about the trouble! 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 — let me know if you have any further questions - if you're still running into trouble, it would be great if you could pop us an email at help@moz.com.

    Link Explorer | | samantha.chapman
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  • Use a system like Fastly.com to quickly and easily easily use the reverse proxy to you make your subdomains into sub folders. So shop. Becomes /shop you can do this using Fastly or “CloudFlare workers” can do it or other reverse proxies you can simply create the subdomains as you have been doing and then we route them through the reverse proxy to a sub folder it will not be hard work once it’s installed. outside of doing that interlinking and using canonicals but you’re never going to actually catch up to using some folders unless you institute a reverse proxy https://twitter.com/randfish/status/955933680416931840?s=21 look at The first response from Rand https://moz.com/community/q/the-great-subdomain-vs-subfolder-debate-what-is-the-best-answer https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/subdirectories-vs-subdomains-for-2019-and-beyond.htm my friend John has a lot of good examples https://www.getcredo.com/subdomain-vs-subdirectory-whats-best-for-seo/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdomains-vs-subfolders-seo/239795/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/subdomains-vs-subdirectories-best-practices-workers-part-1/ Hope I was of help, TOM

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | BlueprintMarketing
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  • Whilst you can't do much about it you can take solace that normally you'll be paying less than them and that clearly you have them worried which is also good: it means your strategies are working

    Paid Search Marketing | | GPainter
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