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It'd be great if you can share what your site is so people can check it out and see if they can figure out what's going on. Thanks!

Hi Nicholas,

We're currently having some errors in OSE that are due to a slow down in processing as we're preparing to release a new index. You can see the status on the Health Page. Sorry about the troubles!

Hi friends,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I have a great news -- as of today, this bug for Q&A forum emails has been fixed. (Any emails timestamped now 1:20pm PDT and going forward.)

Unfortunately, this bug is also happening in Blog comment emails. The blog and Q&A systems are not tied together, and the development work on it rests with another dev team. The good news is that we know the issue (half the battle). We are working on prioritizing the work, and I'm hoping that in the next couple months (at most), this will be fixed.

Thanks

Update 7/28/16 - The blog comments are also fixed. This bug is fixed!

Going to close this question as it's a duplicate.

At Moz, we did something similar, and you can watch this webinar about site migration from our then SEO Ruth Burr Reedy, who's super smart and lead the efforts around the transition.

If you're 301 redirecting site A to site B, if you quit paying for or sell hosting/domain for site A, then the 301s will cease to work.

Usually, the reason is because category pages tend to be light on content and thus, not as indexable. And sometimes category pages are noindex due to this. Google is likely looking at your product page and finding it more relevant, based on content, than the category page for people who are looking for "sleeping bags."

Google ignores anything after the ? when it comes to indexing so you should be fine with your testing.

Hi Jared,

The comments below are correct. Moz's index isn't a complete view of the web, but we try to crawl quality sites out there. Our index is always growing. But to be frank, no one -- not even Google -- crawls the entire web. There are just too many pages out there and computing power is expensive.

We focus on quality sites because we believe (and hope) our customers and community are focusing on high quality links that are still active, which are going to give them the best SEO results. (Also a huge part of the web is just spam nonsense.) Many SEOs -- and I include myself here -- will use multiple sources of link indexing for the broadest view of the web and their sites. I use Moz's OSE and Google Webmaster Tools (free and big, but includes lots of spam, which can be great if you're fighting a Penguin penalty). Others will use OSE, GWT, and OSE competitors like Majestic and Ahrefs, especially if link building is huge for them and they want to account for every penny. Every index is a bit different.

You definitely don't want to appear as though you're running a private blogging network for links. Google's gotten way more sophisticated these days about detecting who's connected to whom, even beyond your domain registration Who.is info. That said, if your sites naturally work together, you shouldn't have much of an issue, especially if you're getting outside traffic and links.

I'm pretty tired of the term "10x" whether it's applied to content, marketers, or hell engineers. There's a huge toxic idea that in order to have 10x content, you must have the team and other resources to pull this off. In fact, in many cases and many of Rand's examples, there are big teams with lots of resources putting it together, and this actively discourages those who struggle to get the basics implemented due to bandwidth and other resources. (Which I think the examples misalign with the quote, which I generally agree with that sentiment.)

To me, 10x content is just getting your community/customers/visitors to the information they actually want to know about. Think about how many badly put together sites rank in the Google Knowledge Box. Google isn't (necessarily) putting big value on how gorgeous the execution is, but how useful it is for what people actually want to know. We should be building content (and our sites) around what people want to know. The crap content out there serves no actual person, and it never has.

Unfortunately, our site was never set up right after our rebrand to moz.com so I can't see the data and it's not something I've used before so I cannot give a recommendation on value of data. Just because we're not using it doesn't mean it wouldn't be or couldn't be of value.

And I did some digging into ours at Moz, and the person that it's set to used to work at Moz. So we should probably fix that.

I highly recommend checking out our beginner's guide to SEO to give you an idea of everything included in a solid SEO foundation and to learn more about what your site may need.

Another great resource on Search Visibility and how it's calculated can be found here.

I also highly recommend our Beginner's Guide to Link Building. Tons of useful and helpful information there!

Getting you some help for direct advice on your problem, but wanted to leave a comment about the tool itself. When you are looking at the Moz crawl tool, it only updates once a week, so if there hasn't been that long between the last crawl and when you did the work, it won't be updated. Here's more info.

You'll likely end up confusing Google about which country it should rank the site in, and it could negatively affect your US rankings and still get you no traction in Germany. You really need to build a German site.

Definitely check out our Ranking Factors survey. 

As far as Accessibility, many good practices such as providing transcripts for videos and alt text for images are just good SEO too.

Google can, for the most part, tell the difference between product pages, blogs, etc. With answer boxes, they are looking for the best and easiest answer to the query and they don't really care that it's a services page, not a product page. In most cases, a page that doesn't sell anything is going to be better for Google since they are making any money off that sale and the whole idea of the answer box is that you never leave Google because you got your answer.

Hi Michael,

Glad to see you got help! If you're happy with the responses, would you mind marking this question as answered?

Thanks!