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Hi Zach, The screenshot is here: http://sirocco-web-design.com/metatags-screenshot.png Thanks for replying!

thanks, EGOL.

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While this is a good idea in most respects, I would be wary of using a Top Level Domain if you plan on using the MozBar to track your DA / PA. Unfortunately Moz's bots can't crawl a lot of TLDs, and you would be stuck seeing a DA / PA of 1 forever (or until they add that TLD to their database, but I assume that will be a long, long time).

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Thanks for your help, Carson! I just realized that I put in http://example.com while using Open Site Explorer. When I searched for http://www.example.com, I received the result with PA 29. Once Moz tech support rep told me that in ranking results, only the best optimized page is shown for a particular keyword. I'm doing optimization for an appliance repair company and some time ago we created area pages (burbank-appliance-repair.html, etc.) for area based services (like burbank appliance repair, for example). I decided to promote area based services through our blog and created respective blog posts (post for Burbank Appliance repair, etc) I made sure to delete all previous area pages links but I didn't delete area pages from server. And they are still shown in Moz ranking results as pages for my high ranking keywords. Do you think that those pages are really better optimized and I should go back to them? My blog posts are also shown for some keywords in ranking results, but not for highly ranking area based services keywords...

Hi Kirupa, I'm not sure I understand what you mean regarding 'wrong' information. If it's something you're seeing in your Moz Local dashboard, please definitely contact our Helpsters at help@moz.com.

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Sometimes Building backlinks from websites have high spam score might be the reason.

Hi, I would track both. Post-Hummingbird, Google has gotten much better at understanding synonymity - if you choose to optimize for one consistently, Google is going to understand your pages are still relevant for related queries, even when you may not have specifically optimized for them. This is why a lot of people are noticing that Google is modifying their how their Title Tags display in the SERPs - they're tailoring them to the queries for improved CTR but they can do that only because they know the modifications are still highly relevant to the listed page. Hope this helps. Thanks

Sure, thank you very much!

Just want to echo Patrick's answer. He's pretty much got the right idea. Most rankings not on page #1 will jump all around. I would only be really concerned if it dropped from page #1, down to page 4-5 etc. Also, I would also agree that you don't need to focus too much on rankings week to week - and in addition - I wouldn't focus on rankings for a single keyword too much. To see if you have some sort of site-wide issue, I would check your Impressions in Google Console Search Analytics. See if your Impressions have dropped in the same timeframe. I would also look to queries where you already rank page #1 - and be sure those are optimized for CTR with titles and descriptions, and then see if you can find out if users are happy with those pages - maybe with goal tracking or some sort of measurement to see if they are converting etc. Then - really focus on "local SEO", here's some resources: https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/ http://www.evolvingseo.com/2016/03/29/005-local-seo-phil-rozek/ (disclaimer: that is my Podcast) https://moz.com/blog/category/local-seo http://blumenthals.com/blog/

That didn't even cross my mind. Thanks a lot!

This type of duplicate applies to far more than just the homepage...so by implementing a single redirect rule, you handle this type of duplicate for every single URL on your site, and neither people nor search engines will ever see the undesired version. If you do this via canonical tags, you have to include the canonical tag on every page, which could be very time consuming depending on how large your site is.

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Thanks for sharing your experience! I'll look for the blog post on this topic for sure.