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Big fan of Ubersuggest as well for related keywords. Basically Google's related searches at the bottom of the page on steroids.

If you're looking for high volume, Grepwords is another good one, but paid like SEMrush.

If you want to make sure Google is crawling your webpages as quickly as possibly after making changes, make sure to use Google Webmaster Tools. Either use the Fetch as Google tool and submit individual updated pages, or if there are many page updates, submit a new sitemap file.

Are you still seeing the drop in rankings?

Canonical tags would be the most important thing to look at for your dynamic URLs. As long as each of your dynamic pages has a canonical tag to the static version of the page (i.e. package-search/holidays/hotelFilters/) then you won't have to worry about duplicate content.

There are other tools out there that will give you some insights into competitor traffic as well.

SimilarWeb (www.similarweb.com) is a great one that will break down an estimate of traffic sources for a domain. They have quite a good supply of data, and I have found their estimates to be pretty accurate.

Agreed. URL A is now a higher authority page because of the proper canonical, which in turn means a link from URL A could have more value. But the equity from that link to URL B is not directly passed to your site.

It would be nice if there was a setting to turn off the Mozbar for search results. I love using it for diagnosing web pages, but when it tries to load and analyze 100 results on a SERP, it can be rather slow/annoying.

Definitely not the Moz Toolbar

It is possible you could have a Chrome extension that is interfering with the Wistia player.

Pageviews specifically...no. Popularity...yes. User experience is far more important though and Google's approach is based on sites giving users great experience and relevant content.

Hi Dan,

In many Google+ cases, your custom URL will need additional characters added to the end of the pre-selected URL. So they have chosen to add a keyword to the end; but it could have been a city, number or anything.

There is no benefit to doing this, there is no 'SEO' value to your linked website or your Google+ Page. Other factors like categorizing, reviews, location and your linked website's value will help Google+ Local pack listings.

Once you have chosen your custom URL, you cannot edit it. You can also not choose whatever URL you want for your page. We are simply given whatever Google thinks appropriate.

Hope this helps!

I agree with Monica, Google uses a different crawler for mobile (Googlebot-Mobile), so it likely just hasn't indexed the newer pages yet.

This site contains a good resource for local citations for US, UK, Canada & Australia:

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/definitive-local-search-citations/

Hey Moz Community!

Looking for some input on a site migration.

When redirecting some old pages that aren't going to be moved over to the new site, do you prefer to redirect to a homepage (or similar page) or to throw up a 404/410 on the new site?

What have you found works best?

display=none

As a CSS style for your header. Won't be displayed but is still there for the links to be crawled.

Not sure what you mean by "blacklisted" by Google here.

I feel this would detract from Google's entire PageRank algorithm, if they were to base popularity off search query data. Although this would be really hard to test because as the popularity of the brand query grows so will other factors like links and anchor text. It would be really hard to tell what is affecting what.

A related study was done on the impact of brand mentions: http://moz.com/blog/panda-patent-brand-mentions ...But these are not tied to brand query data alone.

Where you might find some interesting insights is how universal search is affected by query popularity. I.e. the influence of news results or in-depth articles as a particular query grows in interest.

Data from OSE is from the Mozscape Index. It was last updated on October 9th, 2014. The next update will be ~ November 5, 2014.

Moz generally updates the index every ~30 days (usually).

Depending on how often (how little) you update the blog it could technically been seen as duplicate content. Pagination (rel=next/prev) doesn't apply to those category pages, but you definitely do want them indexed so don't noindex or rel=canonical them.

Your archive pages are that important, but you don't really need to noindex them also. If you end up finding that the archive pages are duplicating some of your regular blog pages or category pages, then throw a noindex,follow on them.

Hope this helps!

I'll just add that make sure you don't overlook t.co referrals. This is Twitter's link shortener that can appear in your referral reports instead of social traffic.

One thing to note that I forgot to mention is that SquareSpace does use rel=canonical tags on their pages. So while your reporting may be off, link juice will not be split between / and no-/ pages. This also takes care of duplicate content problems, as the tag defines the source content.

This is a problem I have encountered with SquareSpace. SS does not automatically redirect non-trailing slash pages to the trailing slash version. This creates duplicate content issues and reporting issues, as:

www.kidsandart.org/artists

and

www.kidsandart.org/artists/

will be recorded as two separate pageviews on your reporting.

If you want to know more about why it's recorded as two separate pages, read this blog from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Unfortunately this is just a problem with SS and since you can't use htaccess to redirect pages or use the built in Redirect Tool to do this, you are kind of just stuck until SS improves their system.