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Thanks Federico !

Would appreciate your response/answer re the 404/nonexistent urls question i asked earlier this week of you get a moment ? http://moz.com/community/q/strange-traffic-viewed-content-in-analytics

many thanks

dan

ok thanks David

as an aside note is it possible to set up subdomains etc as were with pro on new MA, i didnt see an option to but may have missed it ?

cheers

dan

Hi

I have just completed setting up a new campaign in Moz Analytics but when i press finish theres a graphic representing somehting updating/loading and then nothing happens like a message saying campaign set up complete and it just stays on same page.

Does that mean its set up or theres a problem ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for that very interesting info Anthony !

I never had it down as a ranking factor but have been showing to clients as a trending metric to show improvement against competitors, which i feel i can still do so long as in comparison to competitors rather than looking at the number by itself ?

All Best

Dan

Ok great thanks for the update,

As a suggestion it would be good to have that kind of info as a 'newsflash' or mentioned prominently somewhere so we know its happened rather than spending ages analysing backlink profile for drop in other metrics trying to find causes of the overall DA drop.  Apologies if such an area exists and i just havnt seen it yet (such as a service status update area etc)

Specifically though any ideas why a site that has earn't some really high quality/authority links over november/december authority not have increased its DA. Is it that those links are likely not being factored in yet ? (i thought that they would be since so high authority and hence easily identified)

Thanks
Dan

Hi

Is anyone else seeing a drop in DA across the board ? Has Moz changed the criteria/scoring method ?.

I have a client/project that naturally achieved some great links from high authority sites on contextual pages yet the DA has dropped by 2 points in the month or two since, when i would expect it to have gone up or at least stayed the same.

In addition the link profile has otherwise improved with an increase in subnets, ips, links, domains etc etc so combined with above would certainly expect a rise in  DA

Anyone else experiences similar or someone from Moz can confirm if scoring method changed or possibly not yet discovered these links ?

All Best

Dan

Thats great thanks Phil !

Hi

Pls advise when these have been regenerated once fixed or will they just be emailed out automatically ?

My clients all after their New Year monthly & quarterly reports hence this info is needed urgently, pls advise ?

Also when will reports start showing social data in the reports and also when will the data that currently shows on the dash start to be accurate ? (or are you leaving this 'as is' on pro since your migrating to Moz analytics ?)

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi Ash

Personally i would wait and see since G has been known to drop rankings for recently 'improved' pages just to stop people being able to correlate changes with ranking improvements.

I would give it a couple of weeks and see where you are then, if no improvement then change one thing at a time to undo possible over-optimisation.

Also keep an eye on a couple of competitors (who have similar domain authority to you) rankings too since if they are volatile over same time period then could just be general volatility

Having said that I have noted some of my clients/projects pages achieving an A grade with previous good rankings have recently dropped quite significantly and hence im testing reducing the numbers of keywords on page and using synonyms and plurals/singulars as well as the broadest of broad match combinations.

All Best

Dan

Is the https://www.youtube.com/keyword_tool the best solution for researching keywords to help with your YT descriptions and tags etc ?

I'm finding that huge numbers of the keyword ideas suggested by this tool are being listed as 'Not Enough Data'

Should you ignore them, or because they are being suggested they are being used but just not much ?

Any other resources for kw research for YT ?

cheers

dan

Can you have one for each region such as Uk & US like you might with FaceBook etc:

I know its a good idea for Geo-targeting reasons to have country specific social pages to promote country specific websites (i.e. UK FaceBook for .co.uk website and US Facebook for .com site etc), does the same apply to YouTube ?

Does YouTube allow this (since videos will be effectively the same on both channels) ?

I would hope so since say if you wanted to exploit annotated links to the main site from the videos then you would want the US viewer following a link to a US product page not a UK page and vice versa ?

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi

I have a UK based e-commerce client/project who has authorised a US distributor/dealer to set up their own US site along with US focused Facebook & other socials etc etc

Should they also have country specific YouTube channels (even if both target countries English language i.e. UK & US) ?

They brand has lots of video content of 2 main types:

1. Product reviews to host on the website (to win serps, snippets and hence conversions from search)

2. Longer more entertaining productions to put on YouTube channel to captivate, entertain and eventually drive YT target traffic to website via 'in video annotations' external link feature etc.

Hence it makes sense to me that the US agent should set up their own YT channel along with their other social pages like FB etc, since annotated links go to different sites (US & UK).

1. Does Google allow this (multiple channels)

2. If not and sticking with the one channel is it possible to geo-target in video annotated external links so depending upon viewer location serves up relevant country link ?

3. Any other ideas, help/advice, comments from anyone who has experience in this type of scenario ?

Many thanks

Dan

Hi Branden , sorry but i have no idea what that even means pls advise ?

Many Thanks

Dan

sorry, just saw both this q&a question and the news article within a few minutes of each other so just posted in case of interest, certainly not advocating an opinion either way just sharing the info.

My pleasure and good luck

International SEO is a bit of a minefield with no absolutely correct way of doing things, so enjoy the challenge & best of luck

All Best
Dan

possible ethical considerations with Go Daddy to:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372007/Is-worst-branding-GoDaddy-boss-Bob-Parsons-filmed-shooting-elephant-Zimbabwe-villagers-wearing-company-logo-hack-carcass-Bob-Parsons.html

heres some other resources and threads since ive been looking into this in depth recently:

This International SEO checklist is great:  http://moz.com/blog/the-international-seo-checklist

And a Q&A thread i started with some questions i still had after looking at the checklist

http://moz.com/community/q/international-seo-subfolders-user-journey-etc

Hi

The preferred and best geo-targeting strategy is to have individual sites targeting individual countries but as you mention this is usually reserved for big brands with big budgets since is the most expensive option.

However you already have both so i would be tempted to keep that going if i were you

You can avoid dupe content issues by correctly deploying hreflang attributes as well as geo-targeting both sites to their preferred regions in Google Webmaster tools (you should also do this for .com and .com/uk if you go that route too)

In addition you should have country specific content and other signals like local addresses and country specific social media sites pointing to each

All Best
Dan

many thanks

thanks Michael but who do you call ? i have never seen a phone number for Google (UK) ?