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Hello Trevor,

It is really likely that it has a nofollow tag.
Even though, I dont see that it could harm you. Its a totally natural link.

Best Luck.
GR

Hey grocare,

Its a little bit confusing what you are saying because canonicals are used when there is actual duplicate between pages. Internationalization is a specific case where two pages targetting different countries **ARE NOT **duplicate content, even there are really small differences.

I don't see that you are having an issue with canonical setup, as long as you are using them correctly. More info about canonicals:

• What Google says officially: Consolidate URLs with rel=canonical
• A Moz resource: Canonical tags - Best practice Moz

What I did see is that you are using hreflang tags incorrectly: pointing to the home page.
Consider THIS PAGE, for instance, your hreflang tags are:

When it actually should be pointing to the current page:

Its always good to remember that there are some really good resources about internationalization:
Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi Shawn,

Yes there is a difference in SEO. 
On one hand what you're proposing is somewhat called depth in the URL structure. So the more subdirectories, the more depth it is.
On the other hand, it is better, in my oppinion, to have the whole keyword in the same subdirectory. Something like: domain.com/category-1/some-keyword-long-tail is focused better in "some keyword long tail" than domain.com/category-1/some-keyword/long-tail

To sum up. Go with Option 2: http://dwellarizona.com/luxury/grayhawk-scottsdale-arizona

Best Luck.
Hope i've helped.
GR.

Hello there!

Yeap, It is advisable to use a short frase as a brand term in the title, then add the title corresponding the topic or something descriptive for the content in the page.

Yeap, it also helps to have some selected search terms in the title but also remember that every page in a site should have different titles.
A very often used format is: brand | title.
eg: Gaston´s Blog | What about Electronic Engineering

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hello Sean!

Fist of all you should keep in mind that Moz, as any other backlinks profiler, crawls from time to time the web searching for those backlinks. Ahrefs does it every day, and some times several times a day. Moz does it once a month or so, and they usually find less backlinks (in number) than Ahrefs.
It is a good opportunity to mark and advise to never use only one tool/platform. Always complement with others. Nowadays, there 4 great tools and complement each other in the backlink profiling: Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and SEMrush (just my opinion).

It is really possible that in the last crawls your site wasnt in the radar of moz's crawls. It might be because of not being linked enough or not being linked in any way from the bunch of pages that RogerBot (the Moz's crawler) starts its crawls.
You should be worried about OSE not showing your backlinks. They will eventually be indexed in.

Hope I've helped.
Best luck!
GR

Hello Fabrizio,

Just to add (and trying to add more information) to what Dimitii said.
Remember that subdomains are treated as separate sites, from the main domain. So if you're not in any black hay SEO or spammy tecniques, you shouldn't have any issues.

Also, there will be no problem with sharing some links with the main site, as a internal linking.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hi advertisingtech,

Yeap, as lon as you clearly identify those links as spammy and/or really harmful. 
Google said (through their people)  several times that you should not worry THAT much about spammy links, today's algorithms are really good at detecting and not considering them.
The latest resource: Glenn Gabe tweet_1 and Tweet_2. Also useful to watch that whole Webmasters Office-hours Hangout

Also just a reminder, do not rely only in one tool, try to (if possible) complementate with other tools, such as ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz OpensiteExplorer or others.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hello Gareth,

There are 2 separate things to say here:

1. PA and DA drop. Having lower PA/DA metrics is not always a problem. You should not always relate them with a backlinks losses or with bad backlinks pointing to your site, there is a great chance that the best sites that Moz considers got better, so their metrics will not go further 100, those site that are below them will have lower metrics. 
So, even if you have gotten exceptional backlinks and everything is just fine with your backlink profile ou might not increase PA/DA, and also get lower metrics.

2. (IMO) The best 3 backlink profile tools in the market  are: Ahrefs, Magestic and Moz. The most of the time the 3 reports combined result in the best accuracy in backlink discovery and backlink analysis. For Broken backlinks, Ahrefs has a whole page also some tutorials.
Check it here: Broken Linkbuilding - Ahrefs Blog

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi,

I you discover low quality backlinks (and your experience and expertise say are bad links for that site) they should be disavowed. It doesn't care that those links are improving your ranks, disavow them anyway. Sooner or later will harm the rankings. Think that if there is no need to disavow, then why Google would keep the tool online?

Google and it's messages were always ambiguous and sometimes opposite. They will never ever tell you the whole story behind the algorithm.

Best luck

GR

Kirk,

If the domain level 301 redirection is correctly done technically means the same as 301 redirect manually each page.
Here some information about the redirection PR loss: 301 Redirects Rules Change: What You Need to Know for SEO - Moz Blog

Best luck.
GR.

Hi Malik,

That difference is because Moz and SEMrush uses their own index.
Also keep in mind that they update their index in differente paces. Moz does it nearly once a month. Also.
I can only tell you how Moz bot works: It starts with a base set list of domains, where following all links inside that sites. If One of the sites having links to your website is not linked previously and Moz bot does not get to that site, you will never see it in OpenSite Explorer.

It may be tricky to understand. Is it clear?

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hello Bee,

In my opinion, the non-risky way to use the other site content (owning that site) is removing that site from Google's index.
So, you should first (after buying those sites) apply noindex robots meta tag  and wait intill there is no result whem performing a site:website.com search.

Even though, be sure that other sites aren't using that content when you de index the first (and old) site. I've read some grey/black hat techniques that scrape web.archive.org looking for taken down sites' content.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hello there,

In my experience it depends on the case, some cases  took a few days and some other took over 3 weeks.

Remember that there is no guarantee that new page will ocupy the same ranking position because depending on the optimization and page rank, google will rank that page in the position it deserves.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Thanks for the update Ian!

Also read something in Twitter from Rand about this issue.

Its great to hear that Moz keeps track on the bugs and when they screw up, embrace the problem, do the best to solve it, even rolling back.
Keep up like this!

Best wishes.
GR

Hello Tay,

Take a look on these three articles. They might help you.

The Big List of SEO Tips and Tricks for Using HTTPS on Your Website - Moz Blog
The HTTP to HTTPs Migration Checklist in Google Docs to Share, Copy & Download - AleydaSolis
Google SEO HTTPS Migration Checklist - SERoundtable

And, regarding the serverside redirect: (Credits to wikipedia: server-side redirect)

A server side redirect is a method of URL redirection using an HTTP status code (e.g., 301 Moved Permanently, 303 See Other and 307 Temporary Redirect) issued by a web server in response to a request for a particular URL. The result is to redirect user's web browser to another web page with a different URL.

One method of implementing server-side redirects is the .htaccess file supported by most Apache web servers.

Hope it helps
Best luck!
GR.

Hi!

Yeap you can target UK market with US site version. Always keep in mind that its possible that you might perform as well as in the main market (US).

Also, before making any desition and/or implementing, take a look at these articles:
Multi-regional and multilingual sites - Google Search Console
International checklist - Moz Blog
Using the correct hreglang tag - Moz Blog
Guide to international website expansion - Moz Blog
Tool for checking hreflang anotations - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR.

Hi Akiedo.

To my knowledge, there is no difference. Links will appear in your website's backlink profile once Moz's bot has crawled that pages and understands those links.
I'd worry that much, eventually will be discovered.

Hope it helps. Best luck.
Gaston

Hello there!

Yes you should, better you must do a sitemap, but do not include the hreflang attribute.
Here: Google Search Console help you can see how a sitemap INCLUDING the hreflang looks like. Remove the portion:

<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="de"
href="http://www.example.com/deutsch/"
/></xhtml:link>

Hope it helps.
Good Luck!
GR.

Hello Bill369,

I do not know about link juice, whether is passed or not. For that you should use a 301 redirection.
As for ranking, it DOES pass PR (Page Rank, something used internally in google search engine algorithms).

Remember always to point canonicals to pages that have the same user intent, not just canonicalize some pages in order to gain that page "link strength".
Here some other Q&A:

Does Canonical Tag passes link juice to the original URL? - Moz Q&A
Does rel= canonical combine link juice for 2 pages? - Moz Q&A
Does "Canonical" tag pass link juice? Which URL should we prefer for link building? - Google Webmaster forum

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.