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That was the one! Thanks Matt-POP

Need a fast answer here. I remember two years ago I came across a tool that would provide a list of common questions people asked based around a selected keyword. Anyone know what that tool was called? I have a special content project and aside from using Google Instant, having that tool I mentioned would be most helpful. Thanks!

Thanks Miriam. They do at least have the correct format on their G+ listings, but if it's a mismatch everywhere else, then they're a fish out of water.

It's great to read some solid resources advocating against it. I know this client is willing to do the right thing. I just needed the right pieces of information to make my recommendation stronger.

Thanks again!!!

Thanks Miriam. It definitely does output an invalid address because the city & zip don't match. Do you have any specific resources you'd recommend that I can use to back up my recommendation that this is not a good idea? Aside from the traditional you need a correct address and your NAP must be consistent? I have a feeling their argument might be "But if all my address citations match (even though it's incorrect) in the major local ecosystems, how will Google know? I'd love to be able to counter that with something more solid, or an example where someone else did something similar and their results went sour.

No. They're not an SAB. Brick and mortar.

I have never seen this before, but I recently took over a client that for all intents and purposes is considered to be in Metro A. They're just south of the border and everyone (customers, etc.) consider them in Metro A. The problem is their physical address puts them in Small Town B. For whatever reason, this client has decided that they are going to put their address as follows:

Street 
Metro A, Zip Code Small Town B

They've mismatched the city and zip code in attempts to have a stronger showing in Metro A organically. I've never seen this strategy before, my gut tells me bad, bad, bad. So I'm looking for a better strategy, advice, etc.

Thanks mucho!

This could be all inclusive of both Google and Bing (a la webmaster tools), or, add more specificity with two additional categories:
"Google Webmaster Tools"
"Bing Webmaster Tools"

(It was suggested I post this on the forum and see if anyone else would upvote this.)

Thanks!

D7s6zJm

Not back during the fall of 2013, but more recently there's been a change, and it's likely because of the website vendor switch.

Will the links eventually disappear from GWT? If so, do you know the timeframe?

Taking a long, Ace-Ventura-like breath here. This question is loaded.

Here we go:

• No manual actions reported against my client's site in GWT
• HOWEVER, a link: operator search for external links to my client's website shows NO links in results. That seems like a very bad omen to me. OSE shows 13 linking domains, but not the one that's listed in the next bullet point.
• Issue: In Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed 1,000+ external links to my client's website all coming from riddim-donmagazine.com (there are a small handful of other domains listed, but this one stuck out for the large quantity of links coming from this domain)
• Those external links all point to two URLs on my client's website. I have no knowledge of any campaigns run by client that would use this other domain (or any schemes for that matter)
• It appears that this website riddim-donmagazine.com has been suspended by hostgator
• All of the links were first discovered last year (dates vary but basically August through December 2013)
• There have not been any newly discovered links from this website reported by GWT since those 2013 dates
• All of the external links are /? based. Example: http://riddim-donmagazine.com/?author=1&paged=31
• If I run that link in preceding bullet point through http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php, or any others from riddim-donmagazine.com those external links return 302 status.

My best guess is at one time the client was running an advertising program and this website may have been on that network. One of the external links points to an ad page on the client's website.
(web.archive.org confirms this is a WordPress site and that it's coverage of Bronx news could trigger an ad for my client or make it related to my client's website when it comes to demographics.)

Believe me, this externally linked domain is only a small problem in comparison with the rest of my client's issues (mainly they've changed domains, then they changed website vendors, etc., etc.), but I did want to ask about that one externally linked domain.

Whew.Thanks in advance for insights/thoughts/advice!

Agree with all the ones above. Just adding Open Site Explorer to this list too

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

In Webmaster Tools, when you click on the 404 and the popup window appears, what is showing in the Linked from tab?

Hi Moz,

A good amount of my clients that I'm have set up in Moz Analytics/Moz Pro are set up as tracking www.

Recently, those clients have all changed website vendors and now operate under the non-www version.

I read that the only way to switch them in Moz is to start up new campaigns. Is there any alternative?

Thanks!

Thanks Andy! I'll add the second step of the URL removal tool.

Recently one of our clients switched web providers. We've been implementing 301 redirects to the new URL structure for the most important pages.

We noticed upon doing a site search, Google has indexed a .swf URL on page 3 of search results. Please see attached image.

1. Should I implement a redirect for this? There are no links to this filetype.
2. There are three others (.swf) that are indexed

I would think the best thing to do is to have the new website return a 404 for this page, as it's currently doing, and it will eventually drop out of the index.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

g2tur4r

Vahe is correct. You don't need to have a PPC account to access the tool. Just a Google Account. You could also generate a gmail to be used by everyone for this purpose if people didn't want to create their own. Something like:

mycompanykwresearch@gmail.com

Count me in for this request also!

Do you have any secure pages on your website at all? Do you have any secure pages on a mobile site that uses the same domain name? Also, could you provide the domain name?

Hi TimDickey,

How about Google's Keyword Planner? https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner
Here are some additional resources with other tools too:

• http://moz.com/blog/keyword-volume-tools
• http://moz.com/blog/keyword-targeting-density-and-cannibalization-whiteboard-friday

I recommend setting up a process doc that can be easily followed by anyone across the publishing teams. It will take some time, and also some updating as algorithms change. Make it a shared doc that everyone can comment on or ask questions on, but all the protocol for keyword research always has one main source point.

That way everyone is researching the same way and keeping your entire organization on the right track. You can also make it required training that they view specific tutorials/webinars, etc., that will better educate them.

Hope that helps! I'm sure you'll get some additional great feedback in other responses too. Best of luck!

Thanks masdigitalmedia.