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Hello,

Moz does not report this kind of information. You need some code on each page that tracks the users sessions. Google Anaylatics does this, but there are other sites out there that can do it as well.

Hope this helps,

Don

Hi Vick,

To be sure I understand it correctly, the titles look like this
Olive Garden Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com
Walmart Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com
BestBuy Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com

In such case that makes perfect sense to me.
Title 1 would be going for keywords like:

• Olive Garden Voucher Codes
• Olive Garden Cashback
• Olive Garden Discount Codes

And depending on the [sites name] they could actually have more keyword combos using this method.

Your concern is valid, and this site may have an issue if they were just trying to target broader keywords like "Voucher Codes" & "Discount Codes". Since those keywords have a broader scope, and they are repeated on many pages search engines may have a trouble assigning a certain page to those search terms. However, those keywords while broader may have less search volume then the targeted keywords.

My thoughts,

Don

Hi Dirk,

The point about PPM made me smile, the great thing and the worst thing about data is that it can be viewed so many ways. I really see your point here.

Another thing that didn't quite make sense to be is on the Thumbs % tab. I'm not really sure how somebody could have less MozPoints than thumbs up as you should receive 1 point per thumb. I guess some people could have had some thumbs down which I didn't take into account and actually increased their ranking in this category.

Don

Wow, that is really cool.

I was about to mozzie off to bed and thought I would give Moz one last read and saw this.

I'm glad my little project was enjoyed by others. Big thanks to Peter Nikolow for parsing the data to ensure all active users were aggregated and ranked.

Cheers,

Don

I edited the post to include all active users. I don't see the need to calculate inactive at this time, perhaps if we do it every 6 months or so we can catch those inactives.

Here is a link:

Nice work grabbing the data,

Don

Hi Peter, nice work there.

I'll run some formulas on this today and post a new link.

Hi Peter,

If you want to grab all the data, sure I would make a new one with all members.

You can email me at my user name just as it appears @gmail.com

Don

Hi Wolf,

I can add to this.

Wordpress is very well noted for creating duplicate content. It does this in other ways not just categories using archives and tags. It has been awhile since I played around with my Wordpress sites but there plugins that claim to fix this by using just what Dirk suggested, or by using the noindex no follow tag.
Duplicate Content Cure
Yoast SEO

I can not vouch for any plugin as I don't use Wordpress regularly, what you have is a common issue that these plugins claim to address.

I hope this helps,

Don

On December 30th, 2015 I decided to look at the Moz Community Rankings, I find it fun to do for time to time, and I always like to see how close I am to getting that special dinner with Rand I have heard so much about in the past.

One thing I noticed right away is that Moz ranks members just on MozPoints, and not on other factors like, how helpful they tend to be. This means had I joined in a few years earlier, I could be at the top.. or could I be???

Again, it is just something I did for fun, but I decided to look at a few additional factors to get my True MozRank

By examining just the top 50 active members I added some additional ranking factors and aggregated them to find a true Rank. The ranking factors are..

• Moz Points Per Month (Using the users points divided by months they have been a member)
• Thumbs Up percentage (Using the percentage of Thumbs Up they receive per point)
• Good Answer percentage (Using the percentage of Good Answers they receive per point)
• Endorsed Answer percentage (Using the percentage of Endorsed Answers they receive per point)

After that I gave each of the top 50 a rank in each category based on their respective scores. I then totaled the ranks, and assigned a new final rank based on the lowest totals (which means they ranked the best).
Edit (01/18/2016): With the help of Peter Nikolow I aggregated all active users as per this post.
Link to all 4291 active users ranks

For example EGOL category ranks:

• MozPoint Rank (1)
• Points Per Month Rank (2)
• Percent of Thumbs Up Rank (27)
• Percent of Good Answers Rank (29)
• Percent of Endorsed Answers Rank (23)

Total = 82
Final Rank = 5

His closest competitor RyanKent MozPoint Points rank 2

• MozPoint Rank (2)
• Points Per Month Rank (3)
• Percent of Thumbs Up Rank (39)
• Percent of Good Answers Rank (9)
• Percent of Endorsed Answers Rank (20)

Total = 73
Final Rank = 2

Well it was a fun experiment for me, a couple people are out of place in the rankings based on other factors but for the most part MozPoints are pretty accurate.

You can view the spread sheet on Google Docs and play around with the data as you wish.

Don

EDIT: After looking at the document again I noticed an error with rank assignments I have since fixed it.

Edit (01/18/2016): With the help of Peter Nikolow I aggregated all active users as per this post. Link to all 4291 active users ranks

Thank you everybody for all the private messages, and those who choose to post here. I will be reaching out to 2 people today and notifying the others of my choice via private messages.

I think it is really great that this community is so invested in the positive intents of other members to be willing to lend their time. I really love this community. I am very grateful for the response I had in just 24 hours.

Please check your private messages today for more details,

Don

Hi Ruchi,

Can you provide an example of a page and the expected page?

There could be a number of reasons why this is happening, for anybody to get specific we need to see what we are working with.

Thank you,

Don

Hi James,

An interesting question, my initial thoughts is that the Yoast article is wrong, or at the very least kind of wrong. In the sense that no one strategy is going to work for every site.

Do you have a link?

Interested to hear other opinions as well.

Don

Hello everybody,

After being here for 4 years I decided to write a post for YouMoz. That was about 3 months ago, and while I have read, re-read and proofed this thing a dozen times since, I know my own limits. I honestly want the post to be the best it can be, and while I stand by my article, I know my forte is not with writing.

My article is about Beginning SEO and Where to Start, yes it maybe cliche but I find myself answering many of the questions on these QA boards that I address in this article. It would be nice to have a post I could point to when such situations arise.

What I'm looking for is one or two persons with a strong knowledge of basic SEO, the ability to understand me (a cluttered mind), and strong grammar skills. Credit will be given to those who want it.

The article is basically in what I consider a finished state, I just need to add a compendium video for one of the sections. I have done my own artwork, research, and document design. I just need a keen eye to snuff out those grammar errors I always miss and somebody to tell me if a section doesn't make sense.

If you are interested please let me know here, or send me a PM. I would like to have something to review to make my selection so if you're not active here, a link to where you are would be beneficial. I know that might be asking a lot; help and you also get vetted, but the idea is I don't want to send out what I think is a very good article only to see it appear on another site.

Thank you,

Don

P.S. To the Moz staff.  Once I make my selection I will mark at least one response as Good so it don't keep annoying you as an un-answered question.

Hello Gemma,

Title tag is one of the most important things on your webpage. Like me, this was also my first question here on Moz about 5 years ago. Back then I was referencing Rand Fishkin's post from 2008 about how to structure a title tag. At the time it was recommended to use no more than 80 characters in the title, today that recommendation is 60 characters. In practice I still refer to Rand's original post for guidance and I love to reference it for people who want to learn.

I think you pretty much got your title tag right, but I would think about removing the last bit, "Asbestos Surveyors UK". So you end up with "Asbestos Surveys & Removal, Kent & Sussex - MyBusinessName". 58 chars depending on the length of your business name.

As you can see in Rand's post on how he was able to target multiple keywords, your title tag follows that logic to the T. The last bit is somewhat redundant and just takes up more space. Breaking down the last bit..."Asbestos Surveyors UK"

• Asbestos is already stated and at the very beginning of your title tag which means it has the most weight.
• Surveyors is a noun that can be derived from the act of the survey which is already in your title
• UK while important, is somewhat implied by Kent & Sussex. Having your address on your site, or server in the UK will likely get you that correlation by Google anyway.

To answer your questions specifically;
Did you jam to much in? - No, I don't think so. You want to use as much of that title as you possibly can!
By breaking the location bits away from "Asbestos Surveys", will it rank poorly for "Asbestos Surveys Kent"? - Its hard to say how it will rank because the title tag is only part of the equation. Obviously Asbestos Surveys Kent is stronger when those words are together, but your example will still show strong for that keyword.
Should I only target "Surveys" OR "Removal"? - Well again this comes down to other factors, but I wouldn't remove either one if they are both part of your business model.

All in all I think you did a good job on your title tag creation, it hits all of your keywords and doesn't sound spamming. I would really consider removing that last bit and run with it.

My thoughts,

Don

HI Juan,

It's a bad thing. Will's and Bryan's responses are great.

My personal experience provides another side to this. Years ago I ran an ecommerce site in a smaller market. Business was good, and then I started getting these random emails about orders that I could not find any record of. I spent literally hours going through documents and the database trying to figure out what was going on and came to the conclusion I was getting trolled. But these people were insistent they just wouldn't let up, I was stealing from them and they were threatening me with lawsuits and what not.

About a month after this started I found the problem, 2 copy cat websites had popped up and copied some of my content word for word, markup for markup, resulting in pages on their site with links to "my contact page". Turns out the people did have an order they were just complaining to the wrong company. Though I did convert a couple of these people into customers, the time I spent looking up erroneous orders and responding to emails made it a bad experience.

My thoughts,

Don

You're welcome Clare.

Glad to help,

Did your name used to be James? Not sure where I got that from in my original response...

Don

Hi James,

I know you marked an answer as "Good" already but I want to add a little something to it.

I think what you maybe running into here is Keyword Cannibalization not over optimization. What I mean here is you are using the same "big keyword" on each one of your product pages. This means your are not only competing with everybody on the web for the keyword "vintage moschino" but yourself as well.

If you look at those ranking above you for some of these types of keywords (vintage moschino, vintage kenzo...) you'll see one thing in common, they have a landing page for the keyword "Vintage X" then products that fall under this category. Though the products maybe named "Vintage Kenzo Flower Print yada yada", they aren't targeting the big keyword "Vintage Kenzo" on the subsequent pages.

My advice, target your keywords in a hierarchy. Just like most CMS systems have a page hierarchy, you should target your keywords the same way. For example

Homepage (Vintage Clothing & Accessories)
   Category 1 (Vintage Women's Shoes)
       Sub Cat 1 Type (Vintage Women's Pumps)
         Sub-Sub Cat 1 Manufacturer (Vintage Chanel Pumps)
            Product 1 (Red Chanel Open Toe Pump)
            Product 2 (Beige Sand Chanel Leather Pump)
        Sub Cat 2 Type (Vintage Women's Flats)
          Sub-Sub Cat 2 Manufacturer (Vintage Chanel Flats)
        Sub Cat 2 Type (Vintage Women's Scarfs)
.......

That is a bit of a simplified example, but the goal here is to create the content at each level for broad keywords. As you go deeper in the site keywords get more specific. This does a couple things, one it creates many more keyword opportunities, and second it draws a high correlation on the broad keywords which are notably harder to rank, to your more specific keywords, giving each level more strength.

I hope this helps,

Don

Hello,

Yes, multiple sitemaps are okay, and sometimes even advised!

You can read Google's official response here."..it's fine for multiple Sitemaps to live in the same directory (as many as you want!)..."

And you can see a case study showing how multiple sitemaps has helped traffic here on Moz.

Hope this helps,

Don

Hello,

To answer your question, yes it is possible to rank sub-domains. In general they tend not to rank as well as root domains but they can and do rank. Depending on the difficulty of keywords, you'll have different results.

I think your going to have more challenges using Wix in general than other CMS sites. While I don't have any personal experience with Wix, I have seen many post here about problems with ranking, and more often with reporting.Google "Moz SEO Wix" to see some of the other questions and concerns raised on these forums.

Wix uses Javascript to load data to your webpages. The problem with this is that Javascript is client side script which basically means the page is loaded after you get to a page, while crawlers expect the content to load from the server (server side). This is basically a way to say "most" crawlers / spiders will not be able to read your site. Which makes reporting, and SEO particularly difficult. That is not saying your site will not rank, Google has one of the most sophisticated crawlers and likely can read through it, but trying to tweek anything will prove challenging without the help of many of the SEO tools out there.

I will also add, "free sub-domain" sets off an alarm for me. In general sub-domains are inherently free. Wix may mean that you may use their tools to design the domain, but it just sounds funny. Kinda like saying free water with every car wash.

Anyway hope that answers your questions and gives you some help,

Don

Hi Doron,

I see 2 problems. 1 your title tag is located in the of the page when it should be in the . 2 you actually have 2 titles on the page one of which is blank.

1.) <title>שמלות כלה נפוחות - סלון כלות - נעמה ניומןtitle>

2.) <title>title>

While I'm guessing Moz can deal with the title in the Body (it should still be fixed), you defiantly don't want 2 of them on the page, especially if one is blank!

Hope that helps,

Don