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Hello Holger, I ran into a similar issue when I wanted to only track www.mysite.com and not mysite.com

Here is what I remember the Moz Help folks telling me is the way to do it, converted to your examples....

Set up three separate campaigns. One each for mysite.com.br , en.mysite.com.br , es.mysite.com.br  AND when doing so select the button to "Only track this subdomain" (or some phrase like that) for each campaign.

You will not be able to change the old campaigns (the ones with the options greyed out) to the new settings. So you will need to either archive or delete them.

Hi Fedrico. I agree with you when the need is for ongoing SEO work. But the original poster said:

_..._hire an SEO specialist technician to take a look at a few things under the hood that I can't seem to figure out...

Which I understand to mean he has a couple of puzzling technical issues he needs help with. Those can sometimes be straightened out quickly.

From the research I did, the "recommended companies" on the Moz list are all fantastic, but are all geared towards working with large business on long monthly contracts.

If you just need some quick help I suggest doing this:

1. do a few searches here for terms related to your issue

2. check the profiles of those responded with intelligent answers - some of them will be with small SEO agencies

3. contact them, explain your problem, and ask for a quote to resolve it

Good luck!

Thanks Rick. Unfortunately these are articles and blogs. None of them are actually FORUMS.

I'm really looking for other SEO related forums where the members ask and answer questions for eachother, like here at the Moz Q&A Forum....

Any other suggestions?

I learn so much from reading the Moz forum everyday. I would like to expand my learning and start following some other SEO forums as well.

What are your recommendations for additional SEO forums?

I once read a small study about trust badges that said they were definitely important, but that people didn't really notice any difference between big-name (expensive) badges and obscure (cheap) badges. If I can find a link to the article I will post it.

If you don't have any badges at all, you should see if adding any badges increases your conversions. Your SSL Encryption badge is a good start. And see if your shopping cart provider has a badge available.

In the US having the Better Business Bureau (BBB) badge would also be a good way to start, and I think you still get a backlink when you sign up.

Trying to set up the styling on a new Shopping Cart, and having trouble with Internet Explorer (IE)

When I view it in IE, I click on F12 to identify the code viewer (like FireBug) and it lets me choose to view it using the browser IE9 or earlier. So far, so good...

But right next to the browser selector is the "Document Mode" selector and sometimes it says "Quirks Mode" and sometimes it says "IE9 Standards" (when using  IE9 browser) - and parts of the page styling goes crazy when I switch back and forth from Quirks to Standards.

Help!  Which does IE9 and IE8 actually use?  Does it have to work for both?  Is there a way to force it to one or the other?

Any guidance or tips is appreciated. Thanks,

Greg

As far as I know, you can not change the domain a Campaign is tracking. You have to create a new campaign.

This is true even if you want to make a small change like switching from tracking mysite.com to www.mysite.com

To find all the pages on my site that are indexed by Google I can search using site:mydomain.com and it gives pages of results.

But what does the order of results relate to? Is it page rank or strength?

My list of pages doesn't appear to be in order of strength. And it's definitely not by age or alphabetical...

Logging out, clearing my cache, and logging back in seems to have fixed it.

It keeps loggng me out, not showing my campaigns, and generally being weird.

Is anybody else experienceing this?

A Thursday morning brainstorm that hopefully an important Google manager will see...

Google could quickly end all the problems of link buying, spammy links, and negative SEO with one easy step: Only count the 100 best follow links to any domain.

Ignore all the nofollows and everything beyond the 100 best. They can choose what "best" means.

Suddenly links would be all about quality. Quantity would not matter. Fiverr links, comment links, and all the other mass-produced spam links would literally be ignored. Unless that's all a domain had, and then they would surely be stomped by any domain with 100 decent natural links.

Would it be an improvement over today's situation?

When you are on a member's Profile Page and click the "Private Message this User" button it does not auto-fill their username into the Recipient blank. "username" is what the form says to enter, but that is not a word used on someone's profile info.

This is a problem because a member's screen name rarely match their "username", and the Profile lists a "Display Name" but how are people to know that is the same as "username"?

I think the best fix would be to have the Recipient blank auto-filled when clicking the "Private Message this User" button AND change the word "username" to "Display Name".

I have some old images that are no longer used, but they have a few decent external links pointing to them.

Can I 301 them to the page they used to be on? And if yes, will their link juice flow to the page?

I don't have documentation, but the new page it redirects to has this tag:

So I would guess I did the 301 redirect the to this new page at the same time I launched the new page (there was no major design changes - just shortening the URL and getting rid of the capitals and underscores)

Thanks David. That does explain the issue better.

However, the occasional really long lag time for OSE to re-crawled pages that have been 301 redirected is still a problem for those of use who subscribe to Moz and are trying to use it to monitor and improve our SEO. But I think there is an easy solution...

Give Moz subscribers a new tool like GWT's "Fetch as Google" - but call it "Fetch as Moz" and have it trigger BOTH the Moz spider and the OSE spider to go re-crawl that page. This would let us quickly and positively know that our data for 301'd pages has been transferred to the new page.

Can this be done?

Hi J,

My screen does not show what you describe. See the attached image...

I'm starting to wonder if Moz works and appears differently on different systems. Maybe things are different using Firefox, or IE, or Chrome?

I'm using Firefox. What are you using?

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It's not that Moz Analytics is hard to understand once you have it set up. It's mostly that getting it set up is so difficult.

Moz Pro will let you set up your campaign for www.mysite.com, but Moz Analytics will not - it keeps switching it back to just mysite.com (stripping off the www part). Ask David Lee there at Moz, we've been working for weeks to get this fixed.

Also when you put in Competition URL's it does the same thing, but it should not. The stats for a www.competitor.com are often different than the stats for competitor.com - and we need to compare to the version that they show up in Google as.

The campaign set up screens really need a bunch of pop up tips on what sort of input is expected in the blanks. For example, we had a bunch of problems entering our G+ business account because we were cut-n-pasting in the URL that appears while we are logged into our G+ account - but the Campaign set up form wants the URL for those who are NOT signed in (which doesn't have /b/ in the middle). Nothing on the page tells you this.

I would start with doing a usability study on the Campaign Set Up screens before worrying about usability of the reporting screens. Use people who do not live and breathe the latest and greatest online interaction. If we get terribly frustrated just trying to set up a Campaign, then we will already be primed to look unfavorably on any little problem with the reporting interface.

Maybe I like Moz Pro better because the Campaign set-up steps are a little more old-school, a little easier to understand, and it's less likely to change what I enter...

Hi David,

Sorry to be blunt here, but no it doesn't make sense - and I also think it is incorrect...

Websites do internal 301 redirects all the time (redirecting from old page to new page within the same site) BUT your explanation above appears to say that OSE does not follow those redirects and move the data from old to new url ?  That would make for a pretty useless SEO program...

Your message also appears to say that if we have to go contact everybody that links to www.mysite.com/old-page.html and have them change their link to www.mysite.com/new-page.html  ? That's just silly...

I think your explanation is incorrect because SOME of the 301 re-directs I have done on my site have passed the data perfectly in OSE and Moz. Run OSE on these two URLs and you will see:  Old URL = www.bestdryingrack.com/clothes_drying_rack.html    New URL it was 301'ed to = www.bestdryingrack.com/clothes-drying-rack-main.html

So it appears that inconsistency is the a big problem here. That should be some firm rule like: "Moz will transfer all data across 301 redirects on the same domain within 1 month"  This would let us analyze or sites without trying to keep track of silly situations of which new pages have the proper data and which ones we still need to fudge between old and new page data.

I hope this all makes sense...

I do not know of a handy button back to Moz Pro. Instead I just keep this link bookmarked: http://pro.moz.com/campaigns

You wrote: "Feeling increasingly frustrated and starting to avoid using Moz."  Yep, me too. There seems to be too many bugs and too much inaccurate data. Sometimes I think I stay subscribed just access to this Forum...