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Hi FCRMedia, Of course it will help. Any links referring to your site will help. But make it according to google guidelines ( follow/ no follow ).

Hi Chris There are multiple ways of doing this, but I will give you a quick evaluation process and pass along some resources as well. I would first pull backlink reports from the following sources: Google Search Console Majestic Ahrefs OSE The reason for multiple sources - different tools provide different sets of data. What you get with Search Console you might not get with Majestic which won't be the same as OSE and so on. By pulling multiple sets, you see different angles. I would then assess the source of the links in the following ways: Does this link help my website? Is this link relevant to my website? Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it? Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website? If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy? Are the links from directory templates? (example) Inspect URLs with blatant spam words Free Porn XXX Submit Directory Paid Links URL Sex etc. Check for multiple domains and URLs on the same IPs This can usually show link farms or spam What you are essentially doing is a backlink audit at this point - defining which links are valuable and relevant, and which links are toxic or spammy, categorizing them for link removal or disavow. You can also look into tools that help score your backlink profile like LinkRisk. You can categorize what you find into a Google Sheet or Excel with tabs as easy as "Good", "Bad", "Remove", and "Disavow". Categorize each tab by: Source of link Anchor Text Type of link IP address Contact information of source webmaster (if you want to update good links or remove bad links) Dates of outreach to webmaster (I usually go 3-4 times) I would make sure you check out the resources in this answer as they provide a lot of great tips and resources to help you. It's a lot of research and common sense, but once you get the hang of it, it's not bad at all - you will learn a lot. There's no right or wrong way of doing it, just stay focused and you will get your own system fleshed out before you know it. Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!

Hi there It really depends on the type of site you have and the purpose(s) of the pages you are creating. For instance, duplication can come in many forms: Product listings Product descriptions Blog posts or rolls www and non www http or https Copied content from other websites International content And more. It really depends on your site. If I were you, I would make sure that I look at the following sources: Canonical tags (Google) URL Parameters (Google) Paginated Content (Google) Duplicate Content Best Practices (Moz) How to Defeat Duplicate Conten - Next Level (Moz) Also, if you are going to be utilizing international SEO, make sure you look into hreflang attributes and language tags. Hope this all helps! Good luck!

For the most part you don't really have H1 tags. A few pages have like "Video" as the H1 - which is not very descriptive. This page: http://brandstenmedia.com.au/aerial  has TWO h1 tags but most of the rest barely have one. I would write more descriptive H1 tags that explain what's on the page (think like a very descriptive book title.)  I would expand your H1 tags and push the weight from H2 to H1 just for organisational purposes, if nothing else. (Your H2s aren't bad ... the H1s are just a bit too simple)

Hi Landon, As Patrick Suggets Google's PageSpeed Insights has recommendations for both your Desktop and Mobile. Follow that and everything will be fine.

Hi Alick300 Thanks for your update! This is great and helpful advice, I ran a few campaigns in early January ~ over 3months to find exactly what you were talking about, I took these results based on reflecting targeted keywords for our organic search, most of the searches and click throughs were coming from NZ, I just find it hard to believe that its quiet low in NZ.  So I'm not too sure whats going on there, and trying to figure out how to go about really digging into what keywords i should be targeting and really digging into.

Hi there What I would do is take advantage of a backlink audit and assess which links are toxic enough for removal or disavow. I would not redirect spamming backlinks to your homepage - try to remove these and if you hear nothing back, disavow them. The way I assess spammy links: Does this link help my website? Is this link relevant to my website? Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it? Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website? If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy? Are the links from directory templates? (example) Inspect URLs with blatant spam words Free Porn XXX Submit Directory Paid Links URL Sex etc. Check for multiple domains and URLs on the same IPs This can usually show link farms or spam Pull your backlinks from a few different sources like OSE, Majestic, Ahrefs, and most importantly, Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools), as different tools pull different data. If you see spammy links, redirecting will potentially hurt your ranking. Be safe and take the proper steps listed above. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hello Or, I just checked the most recent cache and it looks like Google does NOT see the content on the first URL (ending in /71232/) but does see it on the second one (ending in 69811). This is the opposite of the situation you described above. Yes, Google "can" execute Javascript, but just because they can doesn't mean they will every time. Also, perhaps not all of their bots can or do execute Javascript every time. For instance, the bot they use for pure discovery may not, while the one they use to render previews may. Or they could have given the Javascript only so long to execute. I also notice the page that is currently not indexed fully has an embedded YouTube video. Not that this would typically cause any problems with getting other content indexed, in your case it may be worth looking into. For example, it could contribute to the load time issue mentioned above. When it comes to executing scripts, submitting forms, etc... Google is very much at the stage of just randomly "trying stuff out" to "see what happens". It's like a hyperactive baby in a spaceship just pushing buttons like crazy, which is why we run into issues with "spider traps" and with unintentionally getting dynamic pages indexed from form submissions, internal searches and other oddities in site architecture. It is also one of the reasons why markup like Schema.org and JSON-LD are important: They allow us to label the buttons so the bot "understands" what it is pressing (or not). I apologize that there is not definitive answer for your problem at the moment, but given the behavior has switched completely I'm not sure how to go about investigating. This is why it is still very much a best practice to ensure all of your content is indexable by not rendering it with Javascript. If you can't see the textual content in the source code (as is the case here) then you are at risk of it not being seen by Google.

That's really interesting that I show up at #2 in the US I have never thought about ads on my site as I didn't want anything to detract anyones attention from booking me, however if the ads did not show in the UK that that would be awesome - I will look into it. Regards, Roger

Hey there, Could you give me some more information about this. 1 - Will domain A still be live? Could I go to domain and read the content or will I be redirected to domain B? 2 - Is the scenario something like this: Comes to domain A via a campaign, for example: www.domainA.com/?utm_source=moz&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=bonus You want to 301 redirect them to domainB but make sure the source of any business still gets attributed to Moz? Craig www.domainA.com/?utm_source=moz&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=bonus

I watch my traffic increases and decreases.   You can do that with google analytics.  I do it with clicky.  When I see an important page show traffic losses, I go looking. One of my retail sites suddenly was not selling a certain product category very well.  I looked into it and hundreds of "made in China" blogs had scraped my content. Then, I have images that are often grabbed.  I watch image search traffic and watch for them. I have tens of thousands of pages on the web.  Its hard to monitor all of them, but it is easy to monitor when you can download a traffic spreadsheet that has % up and % down, sort it and then investigate.  So, I am being responsive instead of proactive.  And, really, I don't look at it as ROI, it is loss prevention.

Thanks.  Realistically the Currency specific pages are purely for google shopping to verify the right price corresponds with their experience - so I didn't really need to have offers in the page. My workaround was to remove the offers in multi currencies for regular page and only show the offers when a currency was selected.  Snippets ( stars ) have returned Kind Regards Martin

Hi There! The best way to receive troubleshooting support for any issue with your Moz Local account will be via our help hub, where our Helpsters can work with you one-on-one to assist you. You can contact the Helpsters here: https://moz.com/help/contact

Hi there! While there's technically nothing wrong with redirection 404s to the home page, you might want to consider pointing them toward a 404 page, instead. Otherwise, visitors won't know why the link they clicked took them to the home page rather than to the page they expected, which isn't a great experience. Just a thought, though.

Brilliant question. Its a shame we only got two replies. We are at the same situation trying to decide which tool to go with. We did a month with Searchmetrics (fully paid - no trial version or anything). When you purchase the basic account ($69) it is really basic which many features removed. The next level up is for $2000! (yes you read it right), so unless you are a large company its out of the question. If that's not enough, the Searchmetrics support sucks! and there is hardly any supporting videos and tutorials on the other hand, they have just lunched a "Mobile" position tracker which shows you Mobile SERP results alongside the Desktop results, this is something (and please correct me if i'm wrong) i haven't seen anywhere yet. That said, we were able to get some proper data about competitors and their viability and rankings. SEMRUSH on the other hand seems to be much more engaging with their customers (paying  customers and the community). Their pricing start at $69.95, $149.95 and $549.95 and from data point view i cant really see any downside with the exception of the nice mobile SERP feature that Searchmetrics have. I would love to see what other experienced companies has to say about those two competitors. Dan.

Hi There - Here's what I see when I do your 2 main searches, "nail salon pigeon forge tn" and "nail salon sevierville tn". You are ranking organically on the 1st page of Google for both terms but are excluded from the 7-pack. From what you've described, it sound like you may have violated Google's guidelines by having more than one verified Google+ Local page for each location. If you local rankings disappeared after you claimed more than 1 listing for each location, then this is likely what has caused you to disappear from the packs. This is sometimes referred to as a 'disconnected' listing - when you rank well organically but not in the packs. What steps have you taken since then? Do you still have multiple listings for the same location in your Google My Business dashboard? Have you taken steps to close them, as described here: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4569146?hl=en . Have you tried contacting Google directly to ask about this? You can do so via the Contact Us link here: https://support.google.com/business/?hl=en&rd=1#topic=4539639

Hi There Everybody, I hope that everyone is having an amazing day! We had another thread on this matter here: http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-i-fix-608-s-please that may help to provide some additional insight. This should hopefully get you pointed in the right direction but if you have any other questions please let me know. Have an amazing day and look forward to speaking with you all soon.

Hello! I can confirm our tools are capturing the rankings as they appear for the locale and search engines setup. For example when searching on Google directly for "auto shops" with location set to Woodbridge, VA, the home page is not found in the top 50 search results. The issues linked by Kyle are only for delayed collections and we currently have no known issues with our accuracy. You can run manual searches using an incognito window with your location set in Google to try to confirm: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s269/sh/2d300953-e7c7-4977-851d-f86859a0b07d/856c23223ddebededbf9ba82374e3081 Hope this helps!

I have over 800,000 pages total that contain duplicate content "if" that is an issue with my definitions. I would assume that Panda would slap me hard for that, again "if" that is the issue. Since I have never tried to deindex this many pages I am hoping this works and I will take a few coffee breaks waiting because its going to be a while lol I have nothing to lose and I feel like I have tried a ton. Thanks so much