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Hi Blake, What I'm suggesting with those links is that you need to do a thorough analysis of any competitor to discover whether their high rankings are a case of geography, organic strength, reviews, citations and a host of other factors ... or, if the pack in question has been spammed. If the former, you then know what the factors are that are contributing to rank and can identify which factors (if any) you can target to surpass the competitor. If the latter, then you can always report spam to Google. There are believed to be several hundred factors that contribute to rank, and a Local SEO or local business owner who is feeling astonishment over being outranked by what appears to be a weak competitor needs to sit down and put the time in to discover whether these high rankings are the result of strength that Google is responding to, or the result of spam that Google is failing to catch. In the scope of a forum, it's not likely that a community member is going to be able to take the time to do a full competitive analysis for you, so I'm hoping the links I've provided will get you started on doing one. I totally get how frustrating it can be to find your business or your client's business in this scenario of being outranked, but fortunately, we can use skill to divine the probable cause of this outcome and, hopefully, figure out how to overcome any issues, whenever possible. Hope this helps!

Hi Charles. I don't work for Moz, so my recommendations are my own. Also, I pay for a pro subscription here as well, and also combine resources from multiple sources when I'm really trying to get into the minutae of each and every back link.  Ultimately it's a lot cheaper than creating my own crawler and index to try and duplicate Google. In your example with clients on local, you were likely involved in developing those links so why not keep track of them in-house versus 3rd party tools?  Personally my only need I have for trying to get 100% of backlinks reported is if I run into a situation with a manual action client and need as robust as a disavow list as possible.  Often times you can find these sorts of links via Google searches alone due to repetitive exact match keyword usage. The most value I get out of OSE is when I'm comparing the back link profiles of my sites versus those of the competition that are appearing in the rankings. I can usually come up with more than enough work to keep myself busy when using the tool in this manner. If you're specifically trying to manage local listings, Moz Local may be a better tool for your purposes. Cheers!

Hi Nevil Google does support cross domain canonical tags as they announced here: here http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.htm However I am not sure this is the best strategy for you. When you use a canonical tag you are basically telling Google not to index that page but the one in the canonical tag instead. If Google listens to this it means your job pages will not be indexed in Google. The better strategy for this would be similar to Indeed's where you take a snippet of the job, add your own unique content to the page and then have the call to action button link to the original job itself. This should give that page the best chance to rank. Indeed is a tough example to use. They are pretty much number 1 for every job related term with a site that is extremely thin. I believe Google has listed this site similar to Wikipedia where it is a credible source for jobs and they give it additional weight. How fair Google is being here has been a long debate of mine I hope this helps

Hi, I took a quick look at your site, and it appears that you have a problem with category pages. When I took the following text from your site's homepage -- "Minha esposa trabalha como manicure. Tá sempre trabalhando no salão ou atendendo nas residências. Faz tempo que trabalha num salão perto de casa" -- and searched Google, it found 3 instances of it. http://www.acervodecontos.com/ http://www.acervodecontos.com/diversos/ http://www.acervodecontos.com/busca-contos-sexo/esposa-recem-casada-liberada/2/ All were category level pages. The good news, is this is a pretty common problem for lots of sites, which means there's been a ton written about it. My suggestion would be to noindex those secondary category pages if you aren't going to put unique content on them. Here's a discussion from a similar Q&A post that adds great insight.

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the moz bar says they are 301'd so presume so but will double check with dev i suppose if all definately are 301'd for sure, then just wait and see what haps after the sitemap is updated correctly and then take it from there

If the entire page where you're writing is about content marketing, on a site that is related to content marketing, chances are the link would line up fine.

Personally I would find a way of thinking laterally about generating new and unique content for your existing and potential users. "Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new," according to marketing guru Rory Sutherland. This rings true with content.

I use Sucuri cloud proxy and it has never affected my sites in any way. If you tell it to block the IP's or referral domain it will do so. If you do not it considers Moz/ Roger Bot & Dot Bot as white hat and does not block them unless you request that it does. their user agents are right here http://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-full-user-agent-for-rogerbot you can request that Sucuri check and make sure you are not being blocked. With that said I just ran a test on the site above and the only bots that are being blocked bad bots. if you find this is not true for you simply tell Sucuri.net support inside the dashboard to Speak to support There phone number is 1–888–873–0817 they will tell security operations Center or( SOC) to white list anything you want white listed Could you possibly share a screenshot of the redirect your talking about? Tt sounds to me like you have a redirect issue on your server that could be blocking dotbot ( the bot for open site Explorer) To determine whether or not a robots.txt file or a no index page is doing this please use the tools below their free and will give us a lot of information quickly & make sure your robots.txt is not blocking it. http://tools.seochat.com/tools/robots-txt-validator/ To check regarding search engines or bots being redirected using this tool http://tools.seochat.com/tools/search-engine-friendly-redirect-checker/ to re-create a robots.txt file that works and will not block anything if that is the case use this tool. http://tools.seochat.com/tools/online-robots-txt-generator/ ( Site maps may not be official but do help if they're in the robots.txt file) ** last but not least run your site through this tool and make sure nothing is out of whack.** http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/ http://moz.com/tools/crawl-test ( do not be surprised if this does not work as may use the same bot being blocked by a number of different things) If you continue to have problems and Sucuri tell you that they are not blocking it. Look into using Deepcrawl.co.uk or screaming frog SEO spider I even run a free audit on deep crawl for you if everything above does not work. I hope this helps, Tom F5IU7Fs.png RznVSse.png

Ah. As outlined above by EGOL the separate subscription model should do well. Plus you'll be keeping inbound links within the blog as a whole so that should help with gains.

Great follow-up Donald. Validates the advice given.

Hi Matt, Thank you for your response. I'm not sure what duplicate content you are referring to? We are in the process of cleaning up our link profile.

For internal linking you should try to be as precise as possible. You can also freely control the anchor text of the links so if you're talking about a specific product, link to that specific product. Google has enough data to know when you link to a page and the content it should be finding is not there (as may be the case with some of your home page links).  I would clean up any and all internal links that don't point to the best page, either deleting ones that just don't apply or pointing them to very specific products. With external links it can vary. A lot of times people link to the home page when mentioning the company, while some sites garner a lot of product specific links (eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, etc.) due to the nature of their content. Wikipedia would be another example. Using OSE you can find some great ideas around how the competition has built links, but also some really spammy examples. Avoid the spam and make it a goal that when you do add a link to a page or work with someone interested in linking to your site, that the link is as user helpful as possible.  Think of the link or mention from a conversion perspective more than as a way to help your rankings and you'll be much better off. Cheers!

Its not matter that, what about your MozRank and the MozTrust. Try to build authority website. Then you will see everything is okey. Main focus is your content, Onpage. Write good content & Increase social signal. I think, When your PA & DA will increasing, then all problem will be solve. So, Just work. Cheers !

As a rule of thumb - if the links add value for the visitor of your site, make it a "Follow" link. If it is a commercial link, or a link to a site with low quality, it needs to be nofollow. Check also https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en rgds, Dirk

Hi Anukul As far as I am aware, it is not possible to fetch and render via an API - however you can double-check the documentation here: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/ It sounds like what you really need to work on perhaps is Crawl Optimization. If Google thinks the site is important enough, they will crawl it fast enough to catch all of the changes. AJ Kohn wrote and excellent post on it here which I highly encourage you check out. Here are a few other resources on getting Google to crawl your site faster: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/googlebot-optimization/ http://moz.com/blog/seo-log-file-analysis-part-2 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/optimize-your-crawling-indexing.html Hope those help!

I think you may have to enter the whole URL, but If you can, I would leave off the HTTP/S. It shouldn't make a difference as long as the code is firing.

Hi Dan, I'm not sure what you are asking. Would you mind rewording your question and being as specific as possible? Thanks! Christy

Hi, Could you explain what exactly you want to achieve? Do you want to validate that the Zopim script is present on all pages? If the script is embedded in the HTML - the easiest way to check if it's present on your page is using Screaming Frog (you need the paid version to do this if you want to crawl - if you have the full list of url's of the site in z .txt file , you could also use the trial version by using it in "List Mode"). Before you crawl the site - make 2 custom filters: Filter 1: contains                window.$zopim Filter 2: does not contain:  window.$zopim => crawl the site (if you only need to check if these scripts are present on the page - in Configuration>Spider uncheck the boxes for Images, CSS, Javascript, External links) => after the crawl - select the "Custom Tab" - applying Filter 1 will show you all the pages that contain the script - Filter 2 the pages that don't contain the script. Hope this helps, Dirk