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Hi Brianna,
Looking through the documentation for the Google My Business API (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/) it doesn't seem possible as there is no endpoint that is supporting anything related to posts. There might be a different way non API, but I'm not aware of it.
Martijn.
Just ignore it, duplicate content is not a real issue. Definitely not in this case. What Moz is looking at is the overlap in code, if the code is for xx% the same they'll mark it as duplicate. That's why it isn't super intelligent, also don't worry about duplicate content and Google itself. Only if you really mess it up, you'll get yourself in trouble.
Good luck! You're SEO strategy is in that case 2-5 years behind if you're doing it just for links. The rest of us have moved on to strategies that do bring company value!
Hey!
So what's your incentive for sending them one? If they're not going to update it, Google will also have noticed that they haven't published anything noteworthy in the last year. Also if you're only doing link building for the links and not for awareness + visits. My guess would be that it's then not worth it with a site that has not been updated.
Martijn.
Hi Mark,
Have you figured out if the URLs that are 404'ing are still mentioned somewhere. Either in the canonical tags or somewhere else or that something is wrong with the redirects?
Martijn.
Don't forget about other crawlers that might have already crawled the links. You could for example check if Majestic or Ahrefs have already picked up on the link. Usually looking at a metric of Domain Authority to hope for an effect in your visits is not the best way to go about your SEO.
Just two examples that are top of mind currently:
It's for sure not an issue on the Google side. Usually things are changing on your side that will influence this. It can be the most minimal change that might have an impact on this. Usually I wouldn't worry about it too much and use your sitemaps to verify what % of your pages is submitted versus indexed.
Quote: "The latest Mozscape index is now available. The next release is planned for August 23rd." - https://moz.com/products/api/updates
Well, what's the problem for it being indexed? Are the links in your .gz sitemap being submitted and indexed?
If you can do it: Yes! If it's easy: Quite easy if you know basic JavaScript. If it's a good option: Maybe, but probably not. You can use GTM to quickly make some changes but if you want to make more structural changes you definitely don't want to use GTM as a way to hack your site around.
Hi,
Have you tested with the different markups for the Review? It seems in this case they're using the type: votes instead of the regular reviews. That's a substantial difference and as far as I remember is influencing how your reviews are being shown in the search results.
Martijn.
Hi!
Potentially you can, but it probably would be better to implement it in your current sitemap structure. As it will give you a better flow of working with this.
Martijn.
You probably want the new date to show up. Make sure you're using a WordPress plugin to handle all the SEO aspects of this, Yoast will probably save you most of the time.
At least a very detailed technical audit of where you site is causing issues and what you can improve. Also a very decent keyword research to figure out what you're already ranking on and could easily improve. Then a plan + execution on how the agency is going to drive certain groups of keywords/intents to the top of the rankings with creating great content and how they're aiming to do research around what makes sense.
Hi Luke,
It's a long time, unfortunately. Most of the 404 errors that I usually see in our Google Search Console properties are the ones that have been in there for ages. As you're dealing with bigger sites (+ 1 million pages) usually this is something you can't easily get rid of. For now I mostly tend to ignore them and try to focus on the crawl errors that come up during crawls via ScreamingFrog or Deepcrawl.
Martijn.
Also start thinking about how you can leverage either new or existing content that get more coverage for your company or blog. By doing this you hopefully will acquire more links that will drive external authority to your site. Over time this should be the driver of your SEO strategy as external authority is still one of the biggest ranking factors for search engines to determine the quality + relevance.
But before you do this, make sure you have great content and all your technical issues (that you can learn about on Moz and other blogs) have been resolved.
I'm not a 100% sure about it, but probably in specific cases you want to have your own statements for Rogerbot.
Hi James.
Do you also have rules for the crawler of Moz in there? You can learn more about Roger here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/what-is-rogerbot
Martijn.