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- AlexMcKee
AlexMcKee
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Company: Audacious Creative
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RE: Does DMCA protection actually improve search rankings (assuming no one's stolen my content)
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RE: Clarifications on the Moz Analytics package (Medium - $149 per month)
Due to the extraneous text at the bottom of your question I am answering each question with the subject of the question prepended to the answer in parentheses. So in answer to your questions:
1. (tools available) Moz Analytics, Followerwonk, Open Site Explorer, Fresh Web Explorer, Rank Tracker, Keyword Analysis (including keyword difficulty), On-Page Grader.
2. (crawl entire site) Yes, add your site as a campaign and Moz will crawl your site and inform you of any problems and factors affecting your rank. It will also track changes over time without manual intervention.
3. (10 campaigns) Yes, each domain is a separate campaign.
4. (subdomains) This is configurable. You can set in campaign settings whether to track only this subdomain or all subdomains or even just a specific sub-folder.
5. (keywords) The number of keywords relates to how many keywords can be tracked in your account as a whole across all of your campaigns. 750 over 10 campaigns gives you 75 keywords per campaign. The rank of your site's pages is tracked for each keyword, pages are graded for their ranking ability against specific keywords and you can check the rank of any page for any keyword you are tracking.
6. (social accounts) You can track the performance of your social media accounts by connecting them with Moz Analytics. You can also track your competitors accounts to measure your performance against competitors in some aspects such as the level of interaction (comments and shares).
7. (branded reports) Branded reports allow you to export reports on your data with your own branding, a useful feature for agencies and consultants.
I am a Moz Pro subscriber and highly recommend it, Moz Analytics and the various other tools are extremely useful.
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RE: Need help in understanding why my site does not rank well for our best content?
Your site is competing in a very highly competitive field. I did a check in Moz Keyword Difficulty on your example page's targeted keyword (nokia lumia 830 review) and that keyword is highly competitive. The Google India SERP for the keyword is dominated by high domain authority sites with high page authority pages.
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RE: Weird problems with google's rich snippet markup
I'm afraid it is the obvious. Ensure the rich snippets are relevant to the content of the page, ensure that your page is ranking for relevant queries to raise the chance of the rich snippet being shown.
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RE: Weird problems with google's rich snippet markup
Google only shows rich snippets when it thinks it will be useful to the searcher.
As you have said you have had some issues with maintenance, check the structured data against Google's structured data testing tool. However it is more likely that Google isn't showing the rich snippets because it believes your page quality to be low or that the structured data is not relevant to the user's query.
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RE: Csv file for moz local
Great to know that Moz is working on support for other countries!
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RE: Csv file for moz local
Moz Local presently only supports the United States. I ran into this myself a while ago. Hopefully they'll get around to supporting UK and Germany soon.
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RE: Not Getting Clients
Chris has already given you some valuable advice so I will restrict myself to on-site issues.
Your sign up form asks for an awful lot of private information. This is surely not helping you to get enquiries. In general I would advise you to keep enquiry forms quick and simple to complete, remove any extraneous fields such as religion or marital status. Asking for very private information like date of birth, national ID numbers and mother's and father's names could be seen as suspicious. You shouldn't need this information to do business and if you do need some of this information it could be collected at a later time once you have established a relationship with your prospective clients.
Your warning about terms and conditions does not link to your terms and conditions, which would be another element that is probably causing people not to fill out and submit that form.
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RE: Structured Data + Meta Descriptions
Very interesting! I don't recall seeing that before but I checked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine entry for that URL and the quoted extract has been there since at least 2013.
Elsewhere Google has been pretty insistent on structured data being part of the document itself as much as possible so it does seem somewhat contradictory advice. As you say perhaps they've simply forgotten to update that particular entry to reflect current thinking.
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RE: Structured Data + Meta Descriptions
Once upon a time it was possibly a good use of the meta description to include some salient structured data but today we have a proper way of marking up structured data. The meta description is best used for compelling, relevant copy to attract the user to click through to your site as the meta description is your one best hope of affecting what is shown to the user in the SERPs.
Search engines haven't shown any inclination to parse the meta description and I doubt they would do so in future. Structured data belongs in the document itself, marked up accordingly.
Best posts made by AlexMcKee
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RE: Top content keyword in WMT is crap
Your uploads directory is viewable. I would configure the hosting to disallow browsing directories.
Because WordPress creates a directory for each month you have two dozen pages being indexed by Google that show nothing but filenames ending with the .png extension. This is most likely where the keyword in Webmaster tools is coming from.
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RE: Clarifications on the Moz Analytics package (Medium - $149 per month)
Due to the extraneous text at the bottom of your question I am answering each question with the subject of the question prepended to the answer in parentheses. So in answer to your questions:
1. (tools available) Moz Analytics, Followerwonk, Open Site Explorer, Fresh Web Explorer, Rank Tracker, Keyword Analysis (including keyword difficulty), On-Page Grader.
2. (crawl entire site) Yes, add your site as a campaign and Moz will crawl your site and inform you of any problems and factors affecting your rank. It will also track changes over time without manual intervention.
3. (10 campaigns) Yes, each domain is a separate campaign.
4. (subdomains) This is configurable. You can set in campaign settings whether to track only this subdomain or all subdomains or even just a specific sub-folder.
5. (keywords) The number of keywords relates to how many keywords can be tracked in your account as a whole across all of your campaigns. 750 over 10 campaigns gives you 75 keywords per campaign. The rank of your site's pages is tracked for each keyword, pages are graded for their ranking ability against specific keywords and you can check the rank of any page for any keyword you are tracking.
6. (social accounts) You can track the performance of your social media accounts by connecting them with Moz Analytics. You can also track your competitors accounts to measure your performance against competitors in some aspects such as the level of interaction (comments and shares).
7. (branded reports) Branded reports allow you to export reports on your data with your own branding, a useful feature for agencies and consultants.
I am a Moz Pro subscriber and highly recommend it, Moz Analytics and the various other tools are extremely useful.
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RE: Not Getting Clients
Chris has already given you some valuable advice so I will restrict myself to on-site issues.
Your sign up form asks for an awful lot of private information. This is surely not helping you to get enquiries. In general I would advise you to keep enquiry forms quick and simple to complete, remove any extraneous fields such as religion or marital status. Asking for very private information like date of birth, national ID numbers and mother's and father's names could be seen as suspicious. You shouldn't need this information to do business and if you do need some of this information it could be collected at a later time once you have established a relationship with your prospective clients.
Your warning about terms and conditions does not link to your terms and conditions, which would be another element that is probably causing people not to fill out and submit that form.
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RE: How many redirects on a redirect can you have?
In 2011 Matt Cutts advised that Google does limit on redirect chains - he indicated the Googlebot won't follow more than around 3 or 4. No limit on the total number of single-level 301s.
In your specific situation I would redirect both the original and the first replacement to the new replacement so that users and bots can reach the new page in a single redirect hop.
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RE: Structured Data + Meta Descriptions
Once upon a time it was possibly a good use of the meta description to include some salient structured data but today we have a proper way of marking up structured data. The meta description is best used for compelling, relevant copy to attract the user to click through to your site as the meta description is your one best hope of affecting what is shown to the user in the SERPs.
Search engines haven't shown any inclination to parse the meta description and I doubt they would do so in future. Structured data belongs in the document itself, marked up accordingly.
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RE: Is it ok to correct someone who spelled and styled our name incorrectly in a blog post?
It is absolutely fine to reach out and gently ask for a correction, in my opinion. I have done it myself several times recently and all individuals contacted were quite happy to oblige me. The important thing is to be sincere and genuine in your message and remember that the person on the other end is likely busy so keep your message to the point and give precise instructions to minimise any need for back-and-forth email clarifications. Be patient - but chase after a month or so, if necessary - and do follow up to thank them for correcting once they have done so.
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RE: Does DMCA protection actually improve search rankings (assuming no one's stolen my content)
Some years ago people used to make this claim about W3C validation badges too. A badge is a badge is a badge. It really is unlikely to affect your search rankings one way or another.
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RE: Weird problems with google's rich snippet markup
Google only shows rich snippets when it thinks it will be useful to the searcher.
As you have said you have had some issues with maintenance, check the structured data against Google's structured data testing tool. However it is more likely that Google isn't showing the rich snippets because it believes your page quality to be low or that the structured data is not relevant to the user's query.
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RE: Cached status(date & time) not showing
The cache info box shown in Google's cached pages is actually present but is being hidden by the website's design, specifically the div element with the classes "wsb-canvas body".
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RE: Dashboard shows low number of visits
When you say that you know you've had over 100 visits, how do you know this? Server logs, for instance, record hits not visits or unique visitors.
If the visitor stats in Google Analytics and Moz match - which they should - then it seems unlikely there is a problem. Remember to filter by the same period in Google Analytics as your timeframe in Moz Analytics.
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