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Was researching this same topic and the video you shared answered my question. Thanks for including the link.

I ran a new client through the Moz Local Check My Listing and got this: It looks like your business wasn't found on any major search engines.

My client's website and Google Plus page have been live for over a month and he is listed in almost 90 business directories; all verified, live listings. Both his Yelp and Home Advisor profiles show well in search as does his website in organic so I know Google is picking up on the business. Checked all the simple stuff like correct spelling, url, etc. Any thoughts? Is this just a matter of time? If so, how long will it take MOZ to find a new listing usually? I see there is a MOZ index update scheduled for the 28th. Should I run it again after that?

Regards, Dino

Yes, I think you are right. Thanks for the response.

About 2 months ago a new client of mine bought a domain and we built him a nice new site; however, it appears the previous owner of the domain used some spammy SEO tactics. I've had to redirect about 30 pages and now I've found some spammy links. I've only discovered a few of them, but he doesn't have that many links yet so I'm wondering what kind of impact this will have. Is it worth disavowing a half dozen links? The sites are in Chinese and appear to be unmanaged link farms so getting the webmaster to remove them is unlikely. Also wondering what else is lurking out there that I haven't discovered yet...

I suggested to the client we consider a different domain since the site is new, but he's become pretty attached to it. Any ideas?

Thank you. That's exactly the answer I was looking for.

I have a new client who says they have disavowed all their bad links, but I still see a bunch of spammy backlinks in my external links report. I understand that disavow does not mean links are actually removed so will they continue to show in Google Webmaster Tools and in my Moz reports?

If so, how do I know which ones have been disavowed and which have not?

Regards, Dino

Thanks, EGOL. It's definitely weaker, but will ask them to change it.

I've recently discovered large blocks of content on a competitors site that has been copy and pasted from a client's site. From what I know, this will only hurt the competitor and not my client since my guy was the original. Is this true? Is there any risk to my client? Should we take action?

Dino

OK, thanks for the heads up. When did it go live? I'm still seeing inconsistent results with one of my clients .

Dino

It seems I'm still getting results that are not very accurate. Any word on this?

That is what I thought as well. Thank you for taking the time to answer.

Regards, Dino

I was wondering what the SEO impact was of having a blog on a sub domain or sub directory.

Which of the following is better?

1. blog.companysite.com

2. companysite.com/blog

Personally, I like making the blog a more important part of the site so 2) is preferable; however, I don't know which one is best for SEO purposes. Do the search engines consider a subdomain as a different website? Can SEO authority be passed through each equally?

What is your preference?

Regards, Dino

Right on, Alan. That's the answer I was looking for. We will give this a try. Thanks for you help!

I have a client who is struggling to fit crawlable textual content on their pages. I'm wondering if we can add a "Learn More..." feature that works as a mouse over pop up. When a page visitor runs their curser over the link or button, a window bubble pops up and textual content about the page will show.

Not knowing much about code, can text in this format be crawlable by search engines and count as unique and relevant content?

Thanks,

Dino

I do not know how much an optimized url is worth. I also do not know how much link juice would be lost by redirecting. I wasn't aware that any would be lost. If so, then I need to consider if leaving them alone is the best option at this point. Definitely do not want to do more harm than good.

A client site has thousands of pages with unoptimized urls. I want to change the url structure to make them a little more search friendly.

Many of the pages I want to update have backlinks to them and good PR so I don't want to delete them entirely. If I change the urls on thousands of pages, that means a lot of 301 redirects. Will thousands of redirected pages have a negative impact on the site?

Thanks,

Dino

Thanks Gordon,

I'm wondering why the SEO MOz crawlers do not follow the redirect as Google crawlers do?

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My site shows up on page one for many search queries, but I'm "not in the top 50" for those same terms according to the rankings report.

Having troubleshooted the problem, it may be a canonical issue. I did not include www when I originally set up my reports and it seems that my site shows up in search results with www.

However; if you type in the url without the www, it will automatically forward to the page with www. I did this intentionally in order not to get penalized for duplicate content pages.

So here's my question:

If I've got one page redirected to the other, shouldn't the rankings report also follow that redirect? If so, then it should show the correct results, right?

Thanks, Dino

OK, thanks for the heads up.

The ranking tool indicates that a new rank report will be generated every Tuesday. My last report was on November 15th. It is now November 25th. It missed last week. Should I report something wrong or is this normal? How do I keep it updating on a weekly basis like it's supposed to?

I checked in settings to see if I had done anything wrong and couldn't find anything.

Regards,

Dino