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Hi David,

Welcome to the grey area of SEO, according to the rules of Google you're not allowed to mark up your reviews with the proper schemas when you don't show the complete reviews about your company or service. So as long as you don't show them you can tell Google whatever kind of reviews you have since nobody is going to make sure that's really the case. So indeed Google's just accepting the reviews on faced value. They're automatically approving them since about 1,5 years and if you ask me it didn't increase the quality of the results.

In this case they marked up the text with the rich snippet data for reviews, more info could be found here. There's not much you can do about this, you could try and file a spam request but that's really a long shot.

Hope this helps!

Hi Robin,

No it's probably not an issue for SEO. I'm doing an estimated guess that you're on WordPress as hentry usually provides some of these warnings there. What you should do to fix it is adding a couple of extra classes to the specific elements for these cases.

No unfortunately this data is not available at all via the API.

Hi

It really depends, so far they are really focusing on bringing article and news kind of posts to AMP, and it's the same currently with Facebook Instant Articles. And all the development around both seems to be still focused on this for at least the next 3-6 months I'd say. I'm assuming at some point they'll switch to supporting more though.

Hi Byron,

There are a couple of tools I know off that could help you out.

• Link Detox
• Removeem
• Link Risk

I would say Yes, if you make sure you're redirecting the right pages to the working URLS on the other site you should be fine. Also make sure that sitemaps are updated as Google won't like redirects within a sitemap.

Hi Ignitas,

To get some insights into what urls are linking to a 404 page the best would be to export your Crawl Diagnostics to CSV. These files contain the urls linking to your pages.

Hope this helps a bit! But I would still suggest to the Moz team to include this feature within the PRO tools.

Hi,

The answer is neither are accurate. But the best answer on this one is given by Ryan Kent in a previous thread about this issue. "If you want the most comprehensive link data, it is best to use numerous backlink tools and combine the data." - Ryan.

I would definitely suggest to combine the data itself as both aren't fully accurate.

Hi Alex, although I'm starting to doubt myself I'd say the issue is in the values of the hreflang tags. The values are using the ISO codes and I'm pretty sure they're separated with a dash instead of an underscore.

Hi,

Yes! They're still important, in itself they won't give you any ranking boost as it will only increase the easiness for the search engines to crawl your pages. So they will find all your pages on your site more easily. If you're already using WordPress you can easily set up your plugins to provide you with sitemaps, don't forget to add them in a line to your robots.txt and definitely make sure you submit them in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Martijn.

Yes I would definitely link back the images to the new site so you can make sure that if they have any link juice they still will have when they're redirected.

Yes, some tools like SEMRush or SearchMetrics might be able to provide you with this data if they obviously have the keywords that you are looking for.

Hi,

Always think about: would it be normal if they would link to a page on my site with that kind of anchor link. If the answer would be yes because the link text will be the same as the product name then it's OK. I would always be very cautious with this. This is something we used to call rich anchor text spam if you would take this the wrong way and try to get all your links with the anchor text fully related to your page.

Hope this helps!

Yes, you should be able to just list the different URLs per language. You can read more about that in Googles documentation here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

Hey Taylor,

You can do it from a incognito window, that would probably be slightly better then actually comparing it through a logged in window but probably won't make a big difference. In the end you're then still giving away a ton of signals about your browser and who you are (basically the same between the two). Probably better would be to use a random rank tracker who can do this, in that case you'll have less personalized issues.

I wonder if your metrics really jumped up since a week because you're using Moz, let's still give them some credit but they updated their Moz metrics last week so the work to up your authority was probably already done 1,5 months ago.

Next to that, there is no way unfortunately to tell Moz about the links that you've got but are not in the list at the moment, you have to trust Moz and hope for the best on their next update that these links will be in there index.

Hope this helps!

Hi David,

Indeed like Daniel mentioned it's already enough if the pages redirect to the new version to make sure that the user is redirected to the right URL. If you're very lucky and the structure is the same on both sites then you would be able to take care off this with only 1 redirect.

Martijn.

Hi Clojo,

Just like any other backlink the links from Reference and Ask.com will have value but I doubt for your competitors they will make the actual difference in your rankings versus their rankings. As you've noticed their Domain Authority is very high but in the end they also link to hundreds of thousands of other sites which will eventually also decrease the value of a link from them. What I would be focused on is getting more links from relevant sources and I wouldn't consider these two sites one of them although it would be a nice to have to get them.

Martijn.

If you would have 1 site in Dutch and the other one in English then you shouldn't get in trouble. You're just adding value for your users to have the site translated in their own language. What I would do though is look into the possibility of adding href lang tags to point from 1 site to the other site to tell the search engines that your content is also available in another language.

Yeps, that's exactly what we saw in our graphs too. I found a screenshot of this within one of my old documents which show exactly this. Take a look at this screenshot.