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Multiple CMS on one website / domain & SEO
When you blend different architectures you WILL get contextual tag collisions (e.g: canonical tags don't work the same across both architectures, or Meta robots tags, or hreflangs). What you are suggesting is probably the best thing you can do, I stand behind WordPress quite firmly, even when it's used to augment another CMS (instead of replacing it). That being said, if you believe you are going to be able to predict all the issues which arise in advance - think again! Do your best on that front (obviously) but you need to manage your client's expectations. There is going to be some fallout. There is going to be analysis needed. There is going to be dev work needed to create a seamless integration. It's good that you're being diligent and trying to predict everything, but with the complexities of the modern web (the same thing can be coded in thousands of different ways) you really need to accept there will be some problems that will need fixing. You'll need to hold some budget back for that stuff, or you'll be up a gum tree
Technical SEO Issues | | effectdigital0 -
Entire website is duplicated on 2 domains - what to do?
You are correct that you have to delete the duplicate website and set up in the redirects in the htaccess file. Once you have done that I would fetch the home page and other top-level pages to force Google to crawl. This will help with removing the duplicate pages out of Google's index. Also, make sure they don't have a search console set up for the duplicate webiste with a submitted site map.
Technical SEO Issues | | AaronRainsSEO0 -
Canonical Tags for Legacy Duplicate Content
If you add the rel-tag to the master page then no. But, if you want them to rank for color and size and have a unique section of content let them stand along. If you are not seeing major declines in traffic and you say they are indexed. I would keep it as it. You don't get hit for duplicate products but you will if the pages are gateway Keyword pages.
Technical SEO Issues | | AaronRainsSEO0 -
Duplicate Footer Content Issue
If you're searching for external duplicate content, like if someone has stolen your content: https://www.copyscape.com/ If you're looking for internally duplicated content: You can use SEMRush - https://www.semrush.com/ - their on-site (technical) auditing tool, also commonly comments on internal content duplication 'as' a technical SEO issue. You have to create a project for your / your client's site and then run an on-site crawl, 20,000 URLs limit recommended http://www.siteliner.com/ - Built specifically for checking internally duplicated content on your site ... or do it yourself in Excel. Commonly involves creating a grid of your site's / your client's site's content, then running Boolean string similarity with conditional formatting to generate a heat-map of content duplication. Doing the last one is a little more complex but it can come up with some super cool visuals. Right now, it relies upon the pwrSIMILARITY formula which is not native to Excel (it needs this plugin: https://officepowerups.com/downloads/excel-powerups-premium-suite/). If you don't want to pay for that I'm pretty sure that someone will probably have made a VBA script that does something similar
Technical SEO Issues | | effectdigital0 -
For an e-commerce product category page that has several funnels to specific products, for SEO purposes does it matter whether the category page's overview content is above or below those funnels?
That depends on your prior setup and backlink distribution. If most of your backlinks are connected to the pages which you moved, then those links will now be pushed through redirects (if you even did those). Depending on your deployment that could potentially disturb some of your rankings. In reality, when you make larger structural changes like this, you often plan for a small dip in the hopes the the efficiency / UX boosts will cause the pages to rise higher than their previous level(s) of performance. A lot of SEO is long-term thinking, making small concessions for larger future gains. Sometimes when you just add to a site without moving or removing stuff, the gains seem more immediate - but that doesn't seem to be the position which you are in
On-Page / Site Optimization | | effectdigital0 -
Google-selected canonical: the homepage?
That is a very weird situation and I think that, adding some canonical tags may not meet with your expectations. If Google have strong views about what is / is not a canonical URL, they will usually override canonical tags anyway (which is usually when you get the error you have described). I think we'd really need to see some examples of actual URLs to help you
Local Website Optimization | | effectdigital0 -
I already canceled my Moz Pro account
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Moz Pro | | lauren.s0 -
Is there a good tool for finding Duplicate Content?
i will recommend you use the PLAGIARISM CHECKER Tool for Duplicate Content Checking purpose online Free. Moz can't offer the duplicated content tool.
Content & Blogging | | Games30571 -
Links to sub pages
No, a domain is something like yoursite.com. Referral means coming from outside. If you have a link from yoursite.com pointing to another page on yoursite.com, in terms of SEO that is not counted as a 'referring' page (or domain). I don't know how Moz's tool views this, but in terms of how you should look at it, it's not to be considered a referring domain when you are doing domain-internal linking Internal site-link structure can help to push more deeply nested URLs up Google's rankings for more niche keywords (to the point where they should rank appropriately, not beyond that point). Keep in mind though, that links move SEO authority from one place on the web to another. A fraction of the linking URL's PageRank will be lost as it is transmitted to lower-level pages, so don't overplay this tactic or run with it too far, or your linking address(es) may start to slip down (slightly) If your site is big and well known with lots of SEO authority and trust, then there's not a lot to worry about. If your site is relatively green, you might see no benefit from the work or you might see higher level pages bleeding out
Link Building | | effectdigital0 -
Filter pages - Shopify
Hi William, I think it mainly depends on whether there is enough search demand to create specialized "living room furniture" pages. If there is, then go ahead and create those pages and aim for them to rank on their own. If not, placing the canonical to point to the main page is enough. I wouldn't place a "noindex" there. There's a great article that was posted about Shopify SEO on the MOZ Blog last week and can be found here. It could be worth checking out if you haven't read it yet.
Technical SEO Issues | | WebQuest0 -
Filer Keyword Suggestions By Difficulty Score
Thanks Samantha, I appreciate the response. As for adding the keywords to a list to see the scores that's essentially what I've been doing. For me, the issue isn't using up queries it's just that the process takes so long. It would save me countless hours to just be able to tell the sheet to only show me keywords below a certain difficulty. That with the monthly volume filter would let me zero in on perfect keywords VERY quickly. As I read your response though I realize if that were possible it could effectively mean you have an unlimited number of queries. I completely understand that MOZ would have to be conscious of how to price that in order to not essentially make every subscription unlimited. However, I would certainly appreciate the development team looking into it and would be willing to pay a higher subscription price to get it.
Feature Requests | | Brandonrenfro0 -
Empty href lang
That is technically an error. If a page or post doesn't exist in a certain language, hreflangs pointing to it (from other pages) shouldn't exist. When the post is published, then the hreflangs should be written. It's probably not going to destroy your sites rankings by itself, but in SEO, the second you start making concessions on one front - people argue that you should make more concessions in other areas. Before you know it, you have a big tangle of loads of different errors. Optimisation, is about making things 'optimum'. It's not optimum to have hreflang errors like that
International Issues | | effectdigital0 -
Would you get a backlink from a site that doesn't have many ranking keywords?
First I'd confirm that the site actually has no ranking keywords. Moz's keyword index isn't as strong as its backlink index, so you might want to scan the site (at the domain level) in tools like Ahrefs keyword explorer or in SEMRush (to help confirm whether there's a real lack of ranking keywords or not). If the site really doesn't rank for anything, I'd question whether they had manipulated their DA and I probably wouldn't go for the backlink
Link Building | | effectdigital0 -
Will YouTube Popularity Improve Website Google Rank?
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Social Media | | Ewerurt0