Google reps have said that the data from GA isn't used for ranking, and have specifically called out bounce rate as a very noisy metric. There are several good references in this Search Engine Roundtable post at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-bounce-rate-attacks-16203.html.
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RE: How does user behaviour signalled at Google affect rankings?
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RE: Better to use specific cities or counties for SEO geographics?
This is unscientific and based on the way I personally search, but I'd ask how people in the area refer to that area for some additional input. Here are some examples of the ways I have searched for locations in areas I've lived in (or had family live in).
In the SF Bay Area, I used to live in Newark. There were about 30,000 people in the city, and it was surrounded by the SF Bay on one side, and Fremont on three other sides. I would verbally tell people in the region that I lived in Fremont, and I'd search for local businesses using Fremont instead of Newark, as otherwise I'd get results for New Jersey.
I have relatives that used to live in Woodstock, VA. Everyone always thinks of Wodstock, NY, and it's hard to find local info, especially when searching from the West Coast. A lot of businesses describe themselves as in the Shenandoah Valley (and it was Shenandoah county), so I'd often search for Shenandoah, or Front Royal, which was the nearest sizable town.
Other relatives live in Battle Creek, Iowa, a town of 800 or so people. Even with adding Iowa, I get way too many results for Battle Creek, Michigan. If I need to search for something (usually on ebay, looking for memorabilia) I will search for Ida Grove or Ida County.
I know this really isn't an answer to your question, but more of some things to think about. Again, I'd ask (if you're not local to the area yourself) how people usually describe where they live, and look at search volume for that. Maybe also run some AdWords targeted to desired zip codes, and then look in the Search Query Reports in AdWords to see what cities people type in to modify their search?
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RE: Why have bots (including googlebot) categorized my website as adult?
Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools for any notices about your site, such as making sure that it isn't hacked with porn terms?
For AdSense, what reason was given? In looking at a couple of your pages, it looks like it's a site that mainly redirects to other sites for people to buy, likely with an affiliate ID or something. What value does your site add to users? In the content guidelines, Google states to create sites with unique and relevant content. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/23921?hl=en
How many people are webmasters for this site? Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? I've seen at least four different Moz accounts ask about this domain in the past year. You want to make sure you're all communicating with each other about the site (and if it's just one person, feel free to reach out to us for any account issues, so we can help you with using just one account and you can have the benefit of your account history over time).
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RE: Questions From a Beginner
You should be able to enter more keywords at this point. For what you may have missed, the best bet is to go through our Help Hub at http://moz.com/help and look at the information there.
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RE: Pending problem with Keyword Difficulty
Hey everyone,
We're having an issue with the Mozscape API right now, which feeds data to the keyword difficulty tool. We'll be keeping Twitter and health.moz.com updated. Thanks for your patience, and sorry about this!
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RE: Questions From a Beginner
There's a limit of 5 campaigns for the Pro version. If you need more campaigns (usually one campaign per website), you can upgrade to a larger plan.
You usually only enter a campaign once. You set it up with your website, then let it collect the data.
You'll start getting data for your campaign within 24 hours.
We just updated the dashboard, and looks like we need to update that video too. I've sent off a note to our video team on that. Thanks for letting us know!
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RE: Having issues generating Pdf reports
Have you sent us a note at help@moz.com so we can look into it? That's the best thing to do at this point if it's still not working for you.
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RE: Why Moz New Users Are Left Alone?
Hi, and welcome to Moz! Here are some of the resources we have that can help, and some answers to your questions.
Our help hub is at http://moz.com/help, and the getting started guide at http://moz.com/help/guides/getting-started is a great place to start.
We offer a series of onboarding emails to help with your site. In the first couple of days after you sign up for Pro, you should receive a message with several tips for improving your site with Moz Analytics.
Here's some background about why we don't have a help desk phone number anymore: http://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/phone-support. As a side note, I've been in the help desk area when we did take phone calls, and there would often be phone calls that would last half an hour while we determined that what the caller was looking for was an SEO services company, and we wouldn't be able to help them, but it took considerable time away from valid help desk tickets.
For billing and account questions, we do have live chat available from that section of your profile.
We do know it's complex, and we're trying to help out new users by adding more getting started information. Thanks so much for your feedback!
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RE: Mozscape index update - July 24.
Hi! We are in the process of updating the index right now, which is why you haven't seen the metrics change yet. We're on the west coast of the US, so it's still fairly early in the morning on this end.
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RE: Page Count in Webmaster Tools Index Status Versus Page Count in Webmaster Tools Sitemap
It's best to just ask the same question once, and clarify if needed in the question itself. This seems real similar to the question you asked at http://moz.com/community/q/difference-in-number-of-urls-in-crawl-sitemaps-index-status-in-webmaster-tools-normal, unless I'm missing something.
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RE: Possible to make domain change?
Unfortunately, you'll need to create a new campaign for the new domain. You can keep the old campaign, or archive the old campaign, and keep the historical data that way. Best of luck on the domain change!
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RE: Can I add more than one user to our MozPro account?
We don't have that feature available right now, but it is something we're working on (no estimate at the moment of release date), and we'll be sure to make a big announcement when it is ready.
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RE: "Oops! This doesn't appear to be a valid URL. Please try again"- Problem while creating campaign
There's information at http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection on how to do this. If you need additional help, the best bet is to create a new question, and include your website name, and if you have full access to the server. Thanks!
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RE: Why moz pro detects inexistent links?
So the link analysis is showing you that there are sites linking to pages that don't exist on your site?
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RE: Unable to view link from Apprentices gov.uk site
Roger (the crawler for Moz) does not fill out forms. I can't see a way to find a listing without doing a search, and OSE would need to be able to browse these listings to be able to see them.
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RE: ¿When Moz Local to all the World?
We would like to expand Moz Local, but don't have any dates yet. We will be sure to let everyone know when it comes time to add more countries!
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RE: "Via this intermediate Link" how do I stop the madness?
Hi! You do need to type in the nickname of the user when you click Private Message this User. I know it's not very intuitive, but you'll want to type in MarieHaynes to send a message to Marie.
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RE: How can I improve my search results for local pages?
Do keep in mind that the post in the link is over two years old, and some of the tools and guidelines have since changed (like the keyword tool and title tag limits)
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RE: How can I improve my search results for local pages?
What you don't want to do is have a bunch of pages that are nearly identical, save for a different city name, and have pages that look like they are keyword stuffed for particular phrases. The map that shows the client's location as in the middle of the lake probably isn't going to help with the trust of potential clients.
What is a good idea is to talk to your client and ask them what are the top questions they get over the phone, and the top questions they get in person. THAT is the content that your potential audience wants to read, and are likely typing into the search engines.
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RE: Having issues generating Pdf reports
This should be fixed now. Please let us know if you're having any problems still. Thank you!