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Ok thanks for the info !

Have a great weekend !

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Dan

cool thanks for confirming cleverphd !

so as far as you know (and practice) most seo's will tell their clients to 'no follow' any banner ad campaigns they are carrying out etc ?

also is it now standard best practice to expect publishers when selling banner ad campaigns to 'no follow' their ads as standard ?

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dan

Hi,

Please can someone remind me how links in display ads are perceived by G ?

A client of mine has purchased a display campaign with an industry related on-line publication that has lead to a massive spike in reported back links in Google Search Console (the new GWT).  Does Google automatically identify these as ads (due to tracker codes etc) rather than paid backlinks or should they, like links in press releases, be no-followed or other advice ?

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Dan

sorry bit confused now since title tags are meta tags ?

Hi

i had the same issue this month (and have experienced it before a few times), its just a bug/issue that support know about. I tried downloading my reports a few hours later and they were fine.

If i were you i would email Moz support, if you havnt  already, but also try downloadng reports again since may be fixed

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Dan

Hi Edward

Sorry for the delayed response went on a brief holiday

Ok i have had a look via the Moz Bar extension at the meta data for each country region and im seeing the same title tag load up on each geographic top level Home Page which would certainly explain this issue.

I'm seeing this title tag on all 3 home pages:

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Dan

I presume everyone here has seen the news about UK Moz local now available but just letting you know here just in case not since at least 3 of you have expressed interest on this thread:

https://moz.com/local/overview

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Dan

hi Edward

I cant see any attachment for your info ?

Generally though - i know Google can and often does re-write meta titles and descriptions

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dan

i didnt notice any changes last time it rolled out, on any of my clients/projects, but commenting here since interested in hearing what others have to say as it rolls out...

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dan

Are you looking at rankings manually on Google results pages OR via rank tracking type software (such as Moz) ?

If the former then have you deleted history/cache etc and/or searched in incognito mode etc etc to help filter out subjective considerations like search & surfing history etc to try and make the results as objective as possible?, since if not that could be skewing the results ?

Have you geo targeted the websites to their target countries in Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) ?

In addition you can also apply 'hreflang' country/language attributes to further try & control which regional search results the various country versions appear in (but only of you definately don't want them appearing in US results too)

Just a few thoughts hope they help a bit !

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Dan

Good Morning Ian

Oh i see ! in that case then yes Screaming Frog would be a good way of seeing what pages have been optimised for what target keywords. Quake probably too although i havnt used that myself for a long while. Also for a quick browser based view of what a page is optimised for is SEOXRay if its still going. As well as Jasons advice to look at OpenExplorer backlink anchor text profiles, although for new sites are unlikely have developed much of a backlink profile and OE wont have indexed all backlinks/pages so i would still concentrate on looking at the on-page optimisation.

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Dan

Hi Ian,

The Moz on-page grader will grade a page for a given keyword and provide a breakdown of important page elements that contain the keyword, and indeed if theres too much keyword usage as well as providing helpful insights and advice in regard to keyword usage for said page elements.

Overall a more holistic and more thorough approach for on-page optimisation than simply looking at just frequency and prominence.

So, unless your looking to carry out specific testing in regard to frequency and prominence, Moz on page grader should provide you with better information & guidance.

Hope this helps

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Dan

cool cheers

So IYO prob is best if i turn privacy on rather than 'potentially' show an administrative relationship by having same details ?

great thanks Andy !

Thanks Patrick !

So having whois data same for two interlinking sites could negate or heavily reduce any link benefit since they do likely use it to determine administrative relationship ? so should turn privacy on except that can also reduce trust in the domain!

So any ideas which is the least worse option if that is the case ? reducing the trust via privacy on option or admitting an admin relationship between the sites via whois option ?

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Dan

Thanks for the quick response Andy !

So your saying that if i use 'who is privacy on' for the new site, it shouldn't have a negative effect for that sites seo BUT Google doesn't look at 'WhoIs' info to establish an administrative relationship between two sites anyway, hence there's no need to use it since same whois details shouldn't cause any issues?

Hi

Do you think Google looks at WhoIs details as a contributing factor to establishing an adminsitrative relationship between two domains (in addition to being hosted on similar hosts/IP blocks etc), and in regard to linkbuilding would having teh same whois details on both sites have a negative effect or be perfectly ok (if the sites are on different hosts/ip blocks) ?

Also do you think whois privacy turned on has a negative effect on trust and subsequent seo ?

Considering the answer to the above two questions: Do you think its a good or bad idea to have domain reg/whois ‘privacy’ turned on for a site of curated content relating to the project/primary sites niche, and linking to this site for contextual link benefit ?

Im building out a site of curated content that i want to perform well in-itself as well as providing backlink benefit to the primary site but worried if they both have same whois details will cause seo problems or would that only be if also had same host/ip footprint ?

Should i enable whois privacy, use a different address for reg, or actually make a point of using the same whois details for transparency ?

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Dan

HI Holly

Pls can you update us as to how this is progressing, any progress or at least aproximate timescales for a UK rollout of Moz Local ?

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Dan

Here's a recent article on the subject: http://marketingland.com/googles-horowitz-no-google-plus-is-not-dead-130328

I think the whole 'authorship' and 'publisher' G+ features; linking real entities (people & organisations) to content, as a way of verifying & qualifying the content as being good quality & from a reputable source must be pretty helpful for Google so i would personally be surprised if they did away with those aspects of G+.

I know they have scaled back some aspects of 'authorship' such as removing the authors image in the SERPS but that could just be due to needing to reduce the 'computational budget/bandwidth' they allocate to it.