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Thanks for the link. I'll go read that.

Very much appreciated CleverPhD!

thanks Moosa - it does

Thanks for the response Sean, I have sent an email to help@moz.com with some example keywords.

Hey, I don't think there is any such tool exist yet, you have to do this manually. Umar

This is a great answer. PA and DA are relativistic measures, meaning they are relative to other sites in the index. If Facebook went out and doubled their links relative to everyone else, your DA might go down, but in reality your site is still just as strong as ever. As Tim describes, you should be most concerned about your scores relative to your competitors. As long as you are keeping pace or gaining, you should be fine.

We have had this very same thing occur, XXX spammy links, among many others attacks. We found this was a competitor wanting our market share.  They hired kiddy scripters to do the dirty deed of the spammy links which apparently is easy to find people who are always trying to hack XXX sites.  The end results is to ruin your Google backlinking ratings, i.e. in general hurt your overall Goolgle authority and rankings. The secondary result it ties up your time and takes you away from running your business which also is to their advantage. The sad part is that there is no way to protect your self from these low life tactics. Unfortunately, we expeirenced simultaniously robo call attacks taking down our phone systems and over filing our voice mail and at the same time, had every email account know to the general public submitted to spammers to fil up our servers and mail boxes.  Definetly a planned set of events. They topped it off with constant DDOS attacks, and attempted SQL injections and any other thing they could think of. Of course this makes the customers unsure if were still in business because the site was up and down and of course they wondered if it was even safe to shop.  This has gone on for 3 years, until we finally found a safe hosting arrangement, 12 moves later and have extra phone and email security measures in place.   We are still fighting to get back in Google's good graces. Again all taking time away from running your buisness. So a few spammy links to keep up with disavowing, no problem. Count your blessings. (-:

Hi Tom, I'd definitely have a go at the suggestions provided by Verb Interactive and see if that makes any difference. It could be a case of Google not yet approving your domain for rich snippets in search results. Have you ever had rich snippets appear in search results yet? If not, it can take some time and Google need to see the right markup and quality signals in order for this to happen. Cheers. Paddy

As Matt indicated very difficult to compare as it is rarely apple for apples. An exact impression match would not be the same, unless in the same position & it appeared at the same time - which is impossible. It is a rare a paid ad appears every single time a page is searched and certainly not in the same spot. Organic again has its weakness, as the page may not be optimized for search - hence reading its impressions might not be beneficial as being accurate. I am not sure you can choose anything as accurate as such, but often after we have optimized a page we get more impressions for that keyword - than say what semrush states. We use semrush as the target and try not to settle for less than what they state we should achieve. Most of the time it works.   WMT's is now the best way to measure impressions as it has redacted the double up count, where two urls' or more appeared on the same page. What does WMT's state for impressions? In short to answer your question however use keyword planner or semrush as your base.

Keep it easy man.  If it is a one position drop, monitor your CTR and whether there are new competitors in your SERPs that have maybe just pushed you down.

Hi Marina, I have come across issues with redirect plugins on WordPress when trying to deal with http and https. They can have bugs which can cause redirect loops or other issues causing your page not to load. When you say your design is messed up do you also get a warning about the page containing insecure elements or similar? This often happens when moving a site to https - you may find this plugin helpful for dealing with this issue - https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-insecure-content-fixer/ - then you can choose to have your site fully https if desired. In terms of the redirect what server are you on? If you are on an apache server you can easily take care of this redirect by logging into via FTP and then editing the .htaccess file. The following code will allow you to redirect the whole site to https if you fix the layout with the above: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L] replacing your www.domain.com with your domain. I personally would go down this route and have your whole site on https once you have dealt with design/content issues - but in order to help with your decision take a look at this great post from Cyrus Shepard - https://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-ssl *Note many sites have now moved to https - look at Moz for example. Hope this helps! Matt

Hey Marina, Yes, this method will work out without affecting your root domain. This question has already been answered at the following threads, please refer them for more details: https://moz.com/community/q/how-to-remove-an-entire-subdomain-from-the-google-index-with-url-removal-tool https://moz.com/community/q/dev-subdomain-pages-indexed-how-to-remove Hope this helps! Umar

I reshot the video with shots from google images that are filtered for reuse. That completely covers me right? Bob

*now fixed

I just now noticed this response. That's some helpful information. Thank you for the response. We appreciate it!

This is definitely going to be a server-level configuration issue. Are you on Windows or Linux? What webserver are you using (IIS, Apache, nginx, Lighttpd?) Any chance you would PM me the URL so I can troubleshoot?

Really appreciate this, thank you!

Hi Laura, Has your question been answered? We'd love an update, thanks! Christy