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  • Hi Dan, Actually it looks like ctrl L will do it (you are creating an excel table). You usually need to erase the first few rows from the export so you have the column header in row 1 and then select all and create the table checking the 'my table has headers' so that you can then filter using the headers

    Technical SEO Issues | | LynnPatchett
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  • Ya, a 15% non-indexed rate is not bad. There was a Q&A here earlier that was looking at similar things: http://moz.com/community/q/some-urls-in-the-sitemap-not-indexed. That should help ease your mind! DA isn't a function of how many pages your site has, but how many other credible sites link to your site: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority.  Cheers!

    Technical SEO Issues | | RyanPurkey
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  • Thanks Keszi for your great advice, I will take on board what you have considered and look at starting there.  I have been told good quality content will produce its own backlinks eventually....

    Link Building | | edward-may
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  • Hi Alec, There are various tools that you can use, but when it comes to the real "deal" I usually go for Screaming Frog + Excel. Back, when I had a Moz Pro account, I remember their crawls provided quite a good data to start with. This is how I usually do it (doesn't mean that there are no good tools for SEO). The most important IMO is to collect data, as much data as possible. Understand it. Prioritize it. Then take action accordingly. (I think Moz Pro is a perfect tool that can help). I hope it has helped. Gr., Keszi

    Inbound Marketing Industry | | Keszi
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  • I do get myassignmenthelp scam as a suggestion I am afraid.  There are quite a few similar suggestions coming up as well.  You can check them at ubersuggest.org "Is this work of a hacker..." Impossible to say for sure based on how much I've looked at it, but if those domains are legit then I would say that it probably is. It looks like a hacked wordpress plugin or something allowing them to create additional pages.  It's quite clever really. If there is a referring URL it  doesn't redirect. So, if you follow the link from a search result (or anywhere else) it redirects, but you can view the page if you do directly - or if you are a web crawler. "Most Imp how do I counter this without  starting a spam-war???" Tricky.  I'd start by setting up alerts to find any new occurrences.  I'd be looking to try and contact the owners of every website this vulnerability is being used on.  I don't think that Google has a means of reporting redirects, only malware.

    Reviews and Ratings | | matbennett
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  • They look super tiny. Moz DA of 1 and only like 58 likes on their facebook page.... I would be very cautious with them. Seems sort of shady.

    Online Marketing Tools | | PaulEastTeak
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  • Hi Scott! We've experienced situations where we moved a site to a new server, a new IP address was assigned and the rankings dropped for a month or so, then leveled out and we regained all original rankings back. However, like Ryan stated, we did not make any changes to the url structures, page names, etc. in this case. Also using a site like he referenced helps a lot. You can also use this site to find out what other sites are on the server you are hosted on: http://www.ipfingerprints.com/reverseip.php We have also migrated another site to a new server, keeping the same IP as the previous server and the rankings did not fluctuate at all. I would think that the answer lies in "HOW" you perform the migration and be sure to "measure twice, cut once". As the move could be very smooth if done properly, however it could turn into an absolute disaster if rushed and done improperly. If you haven't already, check out this website migration guide. Study it. Know it. Implement it. Hope this helps!

    Web Design | | Bryan_Loconto
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  • Google has not updated their pagerank since December 2013. It is an outdated metric and you should not be worrying about it. The url was changed so the new url has no pagerank and never will, but it doesn't make the page any less strong.

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | TheeDigital
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  • I appreciate the help. I do build quality pages. for the most part. I would not include a wall of zip codes or other spam text. I would write a 2-300 page paragraph outing the services a little more and just using 1-3% keyword density and maybe throw in some h3 tags with it.

    Local Website Optimization | | Spartan22
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  • Yes, this is the stuff I am looking for ! Process , process, process Thanks

    Moz Tools | | iamgreenminded
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  • Hey Keri, Sam here, I'm still getting this issue with Q& A emails. Not sure what causes it but it seems to be isolated to Moz. Sam

    Other Questions | | Sam.at.Moz
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  • Thank you all for coming back to me - since i posted this question it seems the results have now changed to something more accurate, maybe Moz was just a bit slow to update? I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks again to you all and apologies for the late reply I've been unwell.

    Other Research Tools | | Brabian
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  • I see. If you have some idea of what section of your site might be in there that you don't want, you can use site:company.com inurl:whatever  to narrow it down. You should know the file or call for search and shop pages and can put that name after the inurl modifier.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RyanPurkey
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  • Hey Thanks, that's a weight off my mind, some of my pages only have the word "Sussex" in the copy once or twice I was just trying to see why the other site has such an edge over mine and wondered if ti could be down to that. Thanks for your insight Ben

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | SussexChef83
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  • Hi There! What you need to do for a multi location scenario is have a unique Google+ Local page for each location. Whether you use the social features on these or not is up to the company. Will Scott recently wrote a really good and simple explanation of the different types of Google pages here: http://searchengineland.com/how-to-get-google-my-business-right-for-your-medical-practice-practitioners-212768 I think you if read the above, you'll be able to get a good strategy together for managing your social/local presence with the right types of Google pages. Hope this helps!

    Local Listings | | MiriamEllis
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