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Hi,

Check the answer of Cyrus Shepard on this question: http://moz.com/community/q/are-cdn-s-good-or-bad-for-seo-edmonton-web - I fear it will be hard to find other quantified data.

"We've done a lot of studies here at Moz and what we've found is this:

• There does seem to be a slight correlation between site speed and rankings (keep in mind that correlation is not causation)
• Our studies have not found a relationship between CDNs and higher rankings.

So the evidence would seem to suggest that CDNs can help your website speed, and it's possible to help your rankings, simply using a CDN by itself is no guarantee."

Hope this helps,

Dirk

Becky,

It sounds a bit silly to state here - but actually we don't do a lot of backlink tracking and/or link building. The sites I work for are quite old (10+ years), with an excellent backlink profile. We are in the publishing industry and attract a lot of links in the 'natural' way. For our purpose the backlink tracking in Moz & Semrush is sufficient. Heard a lot of good stuff about ahref - but haven't used it myself.

Dirk

Hi,

This is question which is asked quite often on Moz Q&A. Pages that have a big chunk of source code in common are sometimes considered as duplicated - even if the content is quite different. Recently they did a post on the tech blog on how they identify duplicates (it's quite technical stuff - but still interesting to read - https://moz.com/devblog/near-duplicate-detection/)

If only address & image are different but description is identical - the page will probably be considered as a duplicate by the Moz bot. If it's only for 40 of 1500 listings, I wouldn't worry to much about it, especially because you are unable the content anyway.

I would be more worried if other real estate companies would use the same feed and hence provide exactly the same content on their side, not only the 40 you mention but the full listing.

rgds

Dirk

Hi Dan,

As far as I know geo targeting in Webmastertools in only possible on the domain level (and only for generic tld's like .net, .com,...etc). I agree with Robert, in your case I would certainly not do it, as you try to attract 3 different countries with one TLD.

For one of the Spanish sites I manage we tried the geo targeting in GWT, but it didn't seem to give specific benefits. The only measurable effect we noticed was that the traffic from S-America was decreasing (slightly) , but there was no increase in traffic from Spain. We didn't experience a significant increase in rankings in Spain either, so we removed the geo targeting (this site had quite generic content, so not really linked to a specific location in Spain).

We still have the geo targeting active on a shop specifically targeting the Spanish market, but we still get approx. 45% of our traffic from S-America (which from our perspective is useless traffic as we don't ship to these countries)

Dirk

Are you using Cloudflare? I know Moz used to have issues with https & cloudflare - not sure if these have been solved.
You might want to check these threads as well here on Moz:

https://moz.com/community/q/804-https-ssl-error and this one https://moz.com/community/q/error-code-804-https-ssl-error-encountered

If this doesn't help - contact help@moz.com.

Dirk

This is the Q&A - if you want a refund you have to contact support. There is an online form here: https://moz.com/help/contact/pro - alternative you can use help@moz.com.

Some advice - next time you start a free trial of a tool please read the conditions. The Moz trial page clearly states

"I agree to the Moz Terms of Use and understand that this is a recurring subscription. I will be billed automatically on a recurring basis unless I cancel." (bold added)

It's not really hidden & you have to check the box before you can start the trial.

Hi Ravi,

Google does not guarantee that Rich Snippets will show up for search results from a particular site even if structured data is marked up and can be extracted successfully according to the testing tool. Here are some reasons that marked-up pages might not be shown with Rich Snippets:

1. The marked-up structured data is not representative of the main content of the page or potentially misleading.
2. Marked-up data is incorrect in a way that the testing tool was not able to catch.
3. Marked-up content is hidden from the user.
4. The site has very few pages (or very few pages with marked-up structured data) and may not be picked up by Google's Rich Snippets system.

(source: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-rich-snippets)

As far as I can see point 1 & 3 are not really applicable. The 2nd is more difficult to judge - if I try the page http://www.urbandazzle.com/fiesta-cocktail-270ml.html in this test tool from Yandex there still seem to be some errors in the code. Even with the test tool from Google the results of the tagging for some of the items seems a bit strange.

If you did the tagging recently it's possible you have to wait until all pages have been crawled - on some of the pages the rich snippets are already shown (see screen copy)

rgds,

Dirk

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Strange, it's probably a bug in their subscription system. The free trial is free, they don't charge for it. I'm not sure if support is working during the weekend, so probably you will need to wait till Monday for a reply.

I just checked in my account - upgrading once you have a paid subscription is pretty straightforward, and the calculation of the remaining credit for the current subscription / amount to be paid for the new plan seems correct.

Rgds

Dirk

Hi Justin,

You might want to look at your server configuration - all the domains seem to have some config issues (no SOA record / no DNSSEC processing). I am not really into this technical stuff, and cannot judge if these issues are really important or not.

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=www.zenory.com.au×tamp=1429174636&view=1

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=www.zenory.co.nz×tamp=1429174857&view=1

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=www.zenory.co.nz×tamp=1429174857&view=1

(I noticed when I tried to crawl the .com.au site with Screaming Frog and got a Connection Error)

Apart from that, as mentioned in a previous answer, the fact that prices are listed in NZ$ is probably a bit strange for .com (and .com.au users). Language used is NZ version - in the States spelling is slightly different (ex. behaviour vs behavior).
Did you manage to create sitemaps for the US & AU versions?

Not related to the ranking issues - but the homepage seems to be very heavy - you might want to work on that (http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150416_2D_J3X/)

Hope this helps,

Dirk

Hi,

Don't really understand your remark "it's definitely not a duplicate site" - according to me it is exactly that.

Set-up seems to be quite straightforward: both domain names point to the same server which is a classical case of duplicate content. The domains both are registered by the same company (I guess your client who probably forgot the existence of the old domain) - so all the content is available on both domains

What you should do is to choose a principal site & redirect the other domain with 301 to the main domain which should solve the issue.

rgds,

Dirk

To quote Moz (https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority)

"Unlike other SEO metrics, Domain Authority is difficult to influence directly. It is made up of an aggregate of metrics (MozRank, MozTrust, link profile, and more) that each have an impact on this score. This was done intentionally; this metric is meant to approximate how competitive a given site is in Google.com. Since Google takes a lot of factors into account, a metric that tries to calculate it must incorporate a lot of factors, as well.

The best way to influence this metric is to improve your overall SEO. In particular, you should focus on your link profile—which influences MozRank and MozTrust—by getting more links from other well-linked-to pages."

=> basically build links : check https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building to get you started; having top quality content will certainly help. More usefull resources can be found here: https://moz.com/blog/category/link-building 

Dirk

Hi Justin,

Next Tuesday is the 21/4 - the day the Mobile Friendly update is launched. You can find more info about it here: http://moz.com/community/q/google-s-mobile-update-what-we-know-so-far-updated-3-25

rgds,

Dirk

Hi,

The tagging seems to be on organisation level and looks ok on first sight (you can always check the tag inside WMT or using this tool . From your question I do not really understand where you add the product specific info. Normally they should be in two separate itemtypes: organisation / product (the one for the product should be without the aggregate rating - as this only exist for the organisation & not for the product).

You could check the example on https://schema.org/LocalBusiness (scroll to the bottom) for the tagging of your organisation. For the product - you could check the tagging on https://schema.org/Product (idem).

Hope this helps,

Dirk

Did you check these pages with the robots.txt tester in Webmastertools to be sure that these pages are really blocked for bots? Did you exclude all bots or only the Googlebot?

Hi Eva,

The setup you describe is quite a standard approach in countries with multiple languages - and should work just fine, even without the hreflang attributes. Check this article from https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en. I live in Belgium - as we have 3 languages most sites have this configuration. On first visit -the user is offered a choice of preferred language, which is stored in a cookie. On subsequent visits - based on his previous choice the user is than redirected to the chosen language version

Adding the hreflang can help, but can also introduce new problems  - you can check here how to avoid them -http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights

Hope this helps,

Dirk

It is inline with Google policies as long as you add the rating to your organisation & not to an individual product.

If you check the different guidelines
(sources: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/policies & https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/reviews)

• When you have multiple entity types on a page, we recommend you mark up all entities on that page to help Google algorithms better understand and index your content  
  => OK -both organisation & product are being tagged
• Make sure the review or ratings markup refers clearly to a specific product or service as shown in the examples above
  => OK - aggregate reviews are done on item: organisation
• Review and rating markup should be used to provide review and/or rating information about a specific item, not about a category or a list of items.
  => same as above
• Make sure the reviews and ratings you mark up are readily available to users from the marked-up page. It should be immediately obvious to users that the page has review or ratings content.
  => I imagine you put the rating quite visible on the page, you probably also provide a link to the original source (trustpilot)

Don't see any issue here.

rgds,

Dirk

There is one link in Open Site Explorer (in the fresh discovered section: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/just-discovered?site=http%3A%2F%2Fb5footballcup.com&filter=&source=&target=page&page=1&sort=crawled)

It's quite possible that there are more links to your site, and that Moz hasn't discovered them yet. You should know however that no tool will be able to discover all the links to your site. Most of them can find the links from high ranked sites, but the more links you have from smaller & less well known sites, the more difficulty the tools will have to find these links.

There was a similar question a few days ago - you might want to check these answers as well : http://moz.com/community/q/link-building-links-aren-t-showing-on-moz-or-semrush

rgds,

Dirk

Hi Justin,

If the same page exists as well on the .com version (which seems to be the case) I would replace the .co.nz version by the .com version.

In Screaming Frog under Bulk Export you can export all the outgoing links. This will give you both the pages with outgoing links & the pages where they are linking to. Open in xls - and filter the destination pages on links that contain .co.nz or .com.au (when you are checking the .com version). This will give you all the source pages which need to be updated.

rgds

Dirk

You can put in all your product pages. It seems a logical thing to do both for your company & and your users - a good score from a reliable source will reassure potential buyers that you're a serious company that can be trusted to buy stuff.

I am not sure if the aggregate rating will be displayed in the SERP's (most examples you see are ratings & reviews for individual products), but it will certainly do no harm.

rgds,

Dirk

Hi,

You might want to check the FAQ on OSE which discusses the most obvious reason why no links are showing up and why there is a difference between OSE & Google WMT.

rgds,

Dirk