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Thanks Gagan, this is good for Pro members. I think it would still be nice to be able to offer website feedback from anywhere.

Maybe this is something Moz wants to hear through the social channels provided in the footer?

Two things.

First, I could not find exactly where to report an issue or provide feedback about the website. I don't need to contact about Moz Analytics or any other products. I just want to provide feedback about the Moz Blog. I think it would be nice to be able to report an issue or provide feedback to "Roger" and have that item sent to the appropriate department for review. A lot of websites tend to use "webmaster@example.com" for this, but anything would work. My suggestion is to offer a feedback form on the Contact Moz page.

Second, the issue I wanted to report has to do with blog comments. I left a comment early this morning and, with me being on Central Time and the timestamp for comments using Seattle local time, I was surprised to see that my comment had been posted "2 hours ago" immediately after I clicked "Submit." I presume this text is dynamic and that, in Seattle, you see "seconds ago" or something but, being in Wisconsin, I see "2 hours ago." This is confusing mainly because I have no idea how long ago other comments may have been posted.

P.S. There isn't a question category for the Moz Blogs so I am choosing Moz - Other Research Tools. I view the blogs as a Product Moz provides so maybe adding "Moz - Blogs" to the Moz Product Help list of categories would be appropriate.

I agree with Jackson on this one. If it makes sense and provides value to bold a keyword phrase, I see no reason why you shouldn't do it. I often bold phrases I want to drive home in the reader's mind.

But if it is really just to highlight keywords and for "SEO" then, yeah, it will probably look spammy.

Is this what you are looking for?

http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test

It'll be best for someone from Moz to respond to this question, but my understanding is that there is not yet a way to do this, and Google Analytics is the only currently supported reporting and analytics software.

Hello Theresa,

There could be many reasons Moz is reporting a different ranking than what you see. First, have you already confirmed you are not receiving personalized results when you search for this phrase? Cyrus Shepard provides a method for un-personalizing Google Search in this post.

Also, here's another related question with some tips.

Wow, so many great changes! What does everyone else think?

I'm excited to explore all the new features of the new Moz and its Q&A.

Mat's right. Your content does need to be readable, indexable, and crawlable.

It sounds the resulting content will still be HTML output of some sort; however, you are stating that you won't have access to any actual static HTML files for SEO purposes.

If this is the case, the backend needs to be extensible enough to allow you to still do your job as an SEO. If you can't provide unique Page Titles, descriptions, canonical link elements, etc..., your organic search results will suffer.

Here's another issue: if your pages are built with JavaScript, you need to make sure the output is readable by search engines. I've seen issues with JavaScript-built pages before where search engines are indexing "blank" pages, indexing the wrong pages, or seeing duplicate content where AJAX is used to inject the unique content after the page is ready and has already been crawled.

Indeed! Just as your content should be relevant and valuable (not for keyword density) so should your links be relevant and not just for links. Good point David.

Good question. There has been much discussion on this topic. Here's a post from the blog about how to create crawlable links, but make sure you read all of the comments and that the solution you build indexes all of your content correctly and with the right canonical URLs.

Ah, yes. Since the tag just "represents" the URL that should be used for the content, it doesn't produce an endless loop. Redirects (301 or 302) produce loops from time to time, but that is another issue. Good question to ask and good that you are looking at everything to make sure your site is healthy.

Hi Julie, great question! David and Mark are right, link building can be about real marketing - everything is really.

Here is a resource I've found to be very valuable to get you started with link building. Jon Cooper put tons of time into building this resource; it's easy to ready, easy to follow, and provides many of the best link building strategies out there.

http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!

Hello!

It sounds like there are a few questions here.

First, let me clarify that the 314 Rel Canonical notices are just that - notices. They are there to let you know the canonical link elements are present and also the tag value or where they point to.

Second, in most cases, the tag values match the page URL. Canonical link elements are used to identify the URL search engines should use for the page no matter how the URL looks.

I don't think you have any issues that need to be fixed as long as you've confirmed the canonical link element tag values match the page you are reviewing. You shouldn't see any ranking issues.

Edit: Looks like Jesse chimed in as I was typing up a response. What he has said is correct, you should be fine :).

After you've done the "on-page" optimization, you can build links of course and yes you will probably follow the same methods you use for normal SEO, but I would probably focus on making sure the product (App) itself is great and then work on getting good reviews. Since we're talking about App Store Optimization here and not Search Engine Optimization, you want to work on those things that can help boost your App in the store itself. Lots of good reviews are similar to lots of links in that they are all "votes" for that App in the App Store search results.

If you are talking about the meta robots tag below, Google shouldn't index any pages set to noindex no matter where the link comes from.

I agree with both Alan and Mike, there is no real SEO value you will gain from using tags on your blog. As Mike says, usability is probably the only reason to use tags. If you're using WordPress, Dan Shure posted a pretty good article on setting up WordPress for SEO last May.

John Lynch posted a pretty good article on Search Engine Watch about App Store Optimization. His post is mainly relevant for the Apple iTunes App Store, but much of the information can really be used for any App Store.

Leah Goodman posted an article to Danny Sullivan's Marketing Land that is specifically targeted to the Google Play App Store, however the article is mainly an advertising piece for AppsGeyser.com. I'm really surprised the article was shared by Danny since it's pretty much an advertorial and even recommends buying reviews from Fiverr.

Overall I think the key techniques to use are:

App Name - choose a great app name and don't be afraid to include your keywords in the name (e.g. "The WidgetMaker: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue Widgets!").

App Description - Sell your App in your App Description. This should be your call to action.

Keywords - Apple uses keywords. You only have a limited number of characters; be sure to use them wisely.

App Screenshots - You can use Mockups, and pictures of your App being used by actual customers are great too. Make sure your screenshots are High Quality.

The rest of your effort should be the same as regular SEO. Build links to and share your App on Social Networks. These signals and others are likely a factor and at a minimum provide additional ways for customers to stumble upon your App.

Hope this helps!

The second URL is coming from how some characters are being resolved by the Browser. I'm not sure what you are using in the database for the "Name", but some funky characters are causing your URLs to be interpreted multiple times with different characters.

You can find the characters by using this tool: http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

Compare the characters to what you have in your database and think about whether those characters are necessary (I presume they are not). Strip those extraneous characters out if they are not needed and leave the Name as just "Holster-Atlas---Used-by-British..." instead.

Hope this helps!

If the pages don't really have anything to do with the keywords, I wouldn't. Your about us page might be fine (e.g. "We've been in the alarm and security system business for over 40 years." and so on).

Either way, if this is all your site will consist of, you're missing out on a ton of long-tail keyword phrase opportunities, or is there a blog or some other method for producing content geared to long-tail phrases that will funnel users to your main landing pages?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Source:

http://301redirects.net/redirect-old-domain-to-new-website.php