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I agree with SilverDoor & donford!

Relevancy! Relevancy! Relevancy!

Don't get too caught up in your domain authority or page rank. Build naturally (for the users of your site)... and it all shall come

Hey YNWA! I can't imagine it is bad by any means but we haven't used it. I mean, its MOZ, how can it be bad

We got set up as a Yext Certified Partner about a month before Moz local rolled out. So far we're having a great experience with Yext but we plan to experiment with Moz local sometime very soon. The pricing is quite a bit different between the two but it wouldn't be comparing apples to apples. Yext has quite a bit more to offer at this time.

Hey Roselawn!

I see you are using some sort of template for the site. Also when viewing the source code of the page, I am seeing quite a few "titles" as well. Are you using any SEO plugins on the site? Those along side the default WP settings may be creating the multiple title issue.

For example: If you are using a plugin such as "All in One SEO", you need to ONLY place your title & description in the AIO settings and not on the actual page. Also be sure disable the "Use original title" setting in AIO. AT that point, it will only pull the title from the plugin as opposed to the default WP settings or the theme settings.

Let me know if this works or if you need further clarification. Hope this helps!!

Hi Revive Media!

I ran a quick search and found you as letter G. Check out the screenshot I attached.

Maybe you need to clear your browser cache? There's some room for improvement being letter G of course. Do you have any local directory listings established? Maybe a service like Moz local or Yext will help give you a push?

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From a UX perspective: This allows the visitor to refer to the linked page/info but be able to continue on with the article/page from your site.

From an SEO perspective, IMO This helps your bounce rate from jumping when people engage the links you have on your site.

Check out this previous Q&A posted by our buddy Max Minzer! Hope this helps with your question!!

http://moz.com/community/q/when-is-it-good-to-use-target-_blank

Hey Paddy Displays!

Sounds like an older penalty to me. I would highly suggest creating an email filter for @google.com so that future emails from WMT or other G related services won't go into spam. Just to play it safe!!

There we go! Keri to the rescue!!

Moz is awesome Jeannie, just have to keep in mind that all software gets buggy from time to time (and it ALWAYS happens when we dont have time to deal with it unfortunately lol).

The will definitely get you straightened out as soon as possible. At least from my experience they always do

Best of luck on this!!

Hi Jeannie!!

Have you tried submitting a ticket to MoZ? Or try sending them a message on FB!

http://moz.com/help/pro

Hope you get this sorted out asap!!

Ahh ok I follow you! Well, we haven't run any actual experiments using 2 online shops like the example you mentioned (one using Woo & the other using another platform). But we have taken existing OpenCart & Magento sites that were already ranking for competitive terms and migrated them over to WooCommerce. The rankings dipped for a short period but recovered and have since superseded the rankings they had before.

I was skeptical of WooCommerce at first but it has become our preferred solution for eCommerce. I'm not saying the others are bad or anything.

To answer your question, I don't think it would make a difference if you used one platform over another if they were both structured the same and had similar social engagement, etc. As long as you keep things RELEVANT and keep the site geared around your target audience needs, you should be fine either way.

Hope this helps!!

Certainly Robin! I'm happy to share my experience and opinion

In terms of rankings, Google simply bases it on relevancy. I don't think you should worry too much about blog vs ecommerce. Woo Commerce is a great tool and IMO delivers the best of both worlds. It gives the ability to have an online store while at the same time, gives the blog platform where you can post relevant content for your site users.

To answer your question, I first need to clarify what you mean by:

"If you have the same content on all pages and one system WooCommerce (WordPress) and one Magento, would that make a difference?"

Do you also have a Magento store?

Hey Robinl!!

We have several projects that use WooCommerce. All have an online store and blog. No problems with any of them!

I am not sure where he is getting that idea from as I am certain Google understands that WooCommerce is a WP plugin that allows you to run the online store on the WP (blog) platform. Was this just his opinion or was there any supporting information that he gave you? Maybe based on another project he'd worked on?

IMO and experience, you are fine to use this set up. We have several sites set up using this same structure without any issues. We've even moved some Opencart and Magento sites over to use WooCommerce. They too are doing just fine!

Hey Unigenitus!

Something else must be causing the drops in BING. I can't imagine it has anything to do with acquiring links from G+

You can also run each of your competitors in Screaming Frog and get ideas of their keyword focus based on their meta data.

Agreed Donna! It would be nice if Screaming Frog did that but it doesn't. I'm not sure of any existing tools that would do that.

You can run each site from the SERP through Screaming Frog to get all that data exported but that would take a good amount of time!

The struggle is real!! We have clients and internal projects that get outranked by competitors with the same, thin content and unnatural link profiles. Hopefully Google will get this nonsense addressed. But we can't hold our breath waiting around for that to happen...

1. I would certainly recommend submitting to relevant directories.

2. You can run an OSE link profile report on competitor sites to find relevant directory/link opportunities.

Question:

The content you are creating now, are you sharing it on your social platforms in relevant groups/communities?

Also, are you creating any infographic content? We've found this to be a very effective approach to build links from relevant sources.

Hmm... yeah I can see how it could get a bit pricey having 70 locations!!!

From the looks of it, the Moz Local tool does "Find duplicate Listings" but to play it safe, you should drop them a line and ask what they suggest. Im sure they would be willing to help clarify how to carry out your scenario.

http://moz.com/help/guides/local

At the bottom of their Moz Local page, I saw this. May be the best bet for you! Good luck!

Do you have hundreds of locations, and need help getting started?

Email enterpriselocal@moz.com

Hey Sarah!!

I am not 100% on Moz Local since it came out right after we got set up as a Yext Partner (although I am CERTAIN Moz Local is a top level product), but I can tell you this... Yext just released a duplicate listing suppressor feature in their system.

Have you looked into Yext at all before getting started with Moz Local?

NOTE: I'm not trying to get slammed by the Moz gods or anything or promote a competitors service by this comment, I'm just trying to help you and give feedback based on OUR experience with Yext. Please be gentle with me. Im fragile

Yeah, they should change it to ONLY give the archive option. That would be nice!! But yes, we just archive them all, just in case!

Yeah, if you remove that noindex from the home page it should fix your issue. Afterwards you should use Screaming Frog to test it and make sure it can be crawled. Hope this helps you out!

Hey NFTECH!

Few questioins...

1. Did you move to a new server? And if so, did you change IP Addresses?

2. Have you resubmitted the xml to WMT?