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Hey Bill,

In terms of Moz Pro, we consider the keywords to be a set of search term+locale. If you decide to target localized keywords, you would have to either add new location based keywords in addition to the national, which would retain national history and add new localized data on top of the national data going forward, or you would need to delete the national keywords and add the search terms as location based terms, which would change the dataset going forward. We don't delete you history from prior to deleting the keywords, but you would have to set the timeframe in your Rankings section to prior to the deletion to see the historical data and you wouldn't be able to see the newly added localized keyword data at the same time.  There wouldn't be a 1:1 comparison between the keywords that were tracked nationally vs. the keywords tracked locally.

It is also important to note that Moz Pro does not currently include localized search volume and that is only available for keywords tracked as national. Local volume is currently only available in the Local Market Analytics tool that Miriam mentioned.

Hey there! You can actually ignore an entire issue type from the top of the page. Just navigate to the issue type and click the "Ignore issue type" button in the top right corner of the page. This will ignore all pages with this issue type going forward.

Here is a screenshot to help:

https://www.screencast.com/t/PQUSt59or9lQ

Hey There! I am sorry for the delayed reply. It looks like this didn't get assigned to our help team, so we didn't see it. I apologize for that!

The error you are seeing is for our old crawler, which had some issues crawling certain sites based on security settings. We launched a new crawler on June 7th, and you should be seeing much better data in the Site Crawl section of your campaign now.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Hi There!

It is a bit difficult for me to tell from this post exactly which URL that you are referring to, but I took a look at your full site crawl and narrowed it down using the page title "Astronaut Costumes", per the code you pasted above. Of the two pages with that title, http://www.interstellarstore.com/toys-and-costumes/astronaut-costumes and http://www.interstellarstore.com/astronaut-costumes, neither is being reported in the site crawl or the page optimization reports as missing the meta description. (Page optimization actually reports that the meta descriptions are too long.)

However, I definitely see that there are a large number of other pages in your crawl that are reported as missing the meta description. For the handful of those I checked, it does look like that error is being reported correctly. It looks like you've submitted a support request to our help team, so it would be very helpful if you could follow up there with specific examples of pages that are reported as missing the meta description, but that actually have the meta description in the source code so they can look into this further for you.

We look forward to hearing back from you there soon.

Chiaryn

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It is important to keep in mind that the Search Visibility metric relates only to the keywords you are tracking, so it isn't exactly correct to say that the Search Visibility score is skewed if you are tracking branded keywords. This is an accurate visibility score for the keywords you are tracking.

You can definitely see the Search Visibility for all of your non-branded keywords by using the filters as you suggested, which will give you a different perspective of your Search Visibility versus your competitors.

However, you could say that, in and of itself, the score is somewhat skewed just by the fact that these are the keywords you have chosen to target, rather than the total Search Visibility for all of the keywords you and your competitors may be ranking for. If your competitors aren't specifically targeting the same keywords you are tracking, you may be ranking better for those keywords, but you may not necessarily be as competitive in the overall rankings for every keyword. Our metrics can only be calculated for the terms you choose to track, so it is really just a view of the keywords you are targeting and not necessarily the full picture of your visibility as a site overall.

Asking questions in the Q&A is actually a paid Pro feature, but you will still be able to read questions and answers and read or comment on the blog with a free account. The Learn section of the site, apart from the Q&A forum, is free to browse and does not require a paid account.

Hey David, thanks for your question.

I took a look at your campaign and it seem that this is a bit different than the case in the previous post that Thomas linked to in his reply.

It actually looks like you have a redirect loop in place which could be confusing our bot, Roger. The robots.txt page redirects to the www version of the homepage, which redirects to an /en/home subfolder, which redirects to /en/home?r=US. You can verify this using the third party tool https://httpstatus.io/ (http://www.screencast.com/t/pk4fvGXJ1).

I can't say with entire certainty that this is causing the error message you are seeing, as I have never seen a redirect loop on the robots.txt file for a site, but I do know that the crawler will only follow two redirects and any more redirects than that will prevent us from accessing the page, which would likely be reported as an error with the robots.txt.

I would recommend fixing that so that you have only one 301 in place that points to a 200 page or by having the robots.txt file for the site respond with a 200 status. This will need to be done by your site administrator or developer.

This is only true for the Large plan level and above. The Standard and Medium plans levels have a set limit of 50k pages per campaign and the limits aren't adjustable.

Hi there!

Any changes in settings for a related section such as adding a Google Analytics profile (or adding/deleting tracked keywords, changing search engines, updating competitors, etc.), you will have to wait until the next scheduled update for that section to see fresh data! In most cases, that means it should be reflected in the campaign's next weekly update.

Let me know if you have any questions, or need clarification. I’m happy to help

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for writing in. We don't have a set "number" for when invites will go out to specific users from the invite list, since we will be letting users into the beta in groups and not one at a time. For example, PRO members that are attending MozCon will be given beta access for their current campaigns starting tomorrow, so that is about 900 users that are all being let in at the same time, users that technically all have the same place in line. Even if we had your exact place in the invite list, the timeline for when you would have access can vary since we are letting testers in incrementally as we determine that the product is stable for current users of the beta. I know it can be frustrating that we don't have an exact timeline for each user, but we are hoping to have everyone in Moz Analytics within the next three months. I'm sorry we can't be more specific for individual users! :[

Please let me know if you have any other questiions.

Chiaryn
Help Team Ninja

I'm really sorry that you're running into this issue! We recently discovered that Squarespace's automated server systems have blocked our bot from accessing sites they host with a 403 Forbidden status. We are working with them to find a resolution to this block, but I am afraid that I am not certain if or when this will be resolved.

I apologize for the inconvenience this causes! Thank you for bearing with us while we work to get this resolved.

Hey Scott,

Again, we're sorry about the odd jump in duplicate content errors!

We just launched a new crawler and it is being extremely sensitive to duplicate content. As of now we are picking up duplicate pages on your domain via:

https clones of URLs

Some pages have a “/” trailing after the URL and some don’t

We are also ignoring some rel=canonical directives

This is an issue that other users are seeing with their crawls. Our engineers have made some changes to the crawler to scale back the sensitivity to these issues on the crawler and you should be seeing the changes within a week or two.

We're really sorry for the confusion.

Best of Luck,

Chiaryn

It is important to keep in mind that the Search Visibility metric relates only to the keywords you are tracking, so it isn't exactly correct to say that the Search Visibility score is skewed if you are tracking branded keywords. This is an accurate visibility score for the keywords you are tracking.

You can definitely see the Search Visibility for all of your non-branded keywords by using the filters as you suggested, which will give you a different perspective of your Search Visibility versus your competitors.

However, you could say that, in and of itself, the score is somewhat skewed just by the fact that these are the keywords you have chosen to target, rather than the total Search Visibility for all of the keywords you and your competitors may be ranking for. If your competitors aren't specifically targeting the same keywords you are tracking, you may be ranking better for those keywords, but you may not necessarily be as competitive in the overall rankings for every keyword. Our metrics can only be calculated for the terms you choose to track, so it is really just a view of the keywords you are targeting and not necessarily the full picture of your visibility as a site overall.

Hey Scott,

Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. Right now, the only way to disconnect a GA account in Moz Analytics would be to completely disconnect from all of the GA accounts you have associated with your campaigns. We will not pull any data from your VA's personal account and he can actually revoke the token for Moz Analytics from within his GA account here: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens

In the future, we will separate out the GA profiles so you would only see the profiles for the accounts that are actually being tracked on your campaigns, but we are still in the process of building that out.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Chiaryn
Help Team Ninja

Hi Craig,

We aren't SEOs or web devs on the help team, so it is hard for me to say how the errors you are seeing effect your rankings or exactly how to fix them, but I can direct you to an insightful post from one of our long time members of our community here: https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-fix-an-803-error

From Sha's answer there, it looks like this shouldn't disrupt Googlebot's ability to index your site and I do see 303 results when I run a site:www.mangofurniture.co.uk search in Google, so it does look like they are indexing your site and I'm not really certain why your homepage wouldn't be ranking. There are a lot of SEO related reasons that could happen.

Since I can't provide more insight into the SEO side of this question, I'm switching the category over to Technical SEO Issues for you, so you can hopefully get a better answer from one of the experts here.

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for writing in with a great question. Unfortunately, there is no way to manually submit links to our index manually. All of the information we collect comes from an actual crawl of data in the internet, starting with the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank. We then crawl from the top down until we've crawled about 70 billion pages and then collate the data that was collected by following all of those links. The information is all automatically collected at this time.

You may consider adding this as a feature request so our product department might look into adding the ability to submit links in the future. Here's the feature request forum we use to collect ideas: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

You can add your request to submit links to the index and vote for other features you'd like to see and suggest your own, both of which help our product team in deciding what to build next.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

-Chiaryn

Hi there!

I took a look at your campaign and it seems that we crawled a lot more page of the site this week in general than we did the previous week. Two weeks ago, we crawled about 500 pages and this week the crawl jumped up to 2800. So it isn't that there are more duplicate pages on your site now, it is just that we are able to crawl more pages now than we were before, which led to us finding even more duplicate pages that had not been reported before.

As for why we are crawling so many more pages, it could be for a few reasons. If you made changes to the links on your site, the page hierarchy of the site, or if you remove noindex tags or updated the robots.txt file for the site, those things could all affect how we are able to crawl the site.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Chiaryn
Help Team Sensei

Hey James,

I'm afraid there isn't a way to transfer keywords between campaigns and you would have to just add the keywords into the second campaign manually. One thing that may be helpful is that you can export a CSV from one campaign and then copy the keywords you want to add in the second campaign so you can just paste them into the Add & Manage section of the second campaign. The keywords would count separate between the two campaigns because they require separate resources to collate the data and pull the information that is relevant to the campaign from the rankings.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Hi Bernardo,

You can certainly share your login credentials with the contractor. We don't put any restrictions on how many people can be logged into the account at one time and that is the only way to share access to the data, so you are more than welcome to share your credentials, but the contractor will have full access to the account.

As ColinSV mentions, you can also create a custom report that cc's the contractor directly when the report is generated, so they can review the campaign data without having full access to the account.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

-Chiaryn