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Hi Kerry!

Have you had the chance to check the linking pages for any signs of those URLs? And have you run your site through another crawler, like Screaming Frog?

To be honest, I tend to agree with Logan when it comes to changing URLs. That said, if you're fairly sure that simplifying your URLs would help, I'd go with the second option.

If you're sure you want to use a new URL, I'd go with the second one (LakeNameBoating.com/boat-rentals). The name of the lake being in the domain would make using it again feel redundant.

That's pretty much just personal preference, though.

I love Tim's answer, and I want to add that the amount of time needed to become competitive can vary a lot—in fact, there are industries in which a site with those stats would already be competitive.

Along with everything Tim suggests, I also recommend benchmarking all of those stats against other sites with which you expect to compete. That'll give you a much better sense of how much will need to be done.

Hi Tormar!

Just to be sure I'm understanding, are you saying that your iPhone 5 page lost rankings when you added a link from it to your iPhone 6 page, and that your Photography Kit page lost rankings when you added a link from it to your iPhone 6 page? Or are you saying the former happened, so you're concerned the latter will, too? Or are both of these situations hypothetical, and you're just nervous about adding either of these links?

Hi Emily!

I hope you don't mind, but I glanced over the crawl report in your Moz Pro campaign to get a better sense of this (we admins get to cheat). I'm seeing the duplicate title warning, but I think you may be mistaken as to which groups of URLs are being flagged.

Are you comfortable if I share the URLs here, or would you like me to PM you?

Yep! Sounds like that'd be the right thing to do. : Given the situation you'd probably be fine just resubmitting your XML sitemap—your main domain isn't changing; it's just getting a new subfolder—but I can't imagine it'd hurt.

Hi there,

Thank you for posting in Q&A! I'm afraid we really don't allow these sorts of job postings here, though, as Q&A is meant to be an educational resource and a place to get marketing questions answered. I recommend checking out the Inbound.org job board.

I'm going to lock this thread to further responses. See you around Q&A!

Hi Endre! Would you be able to share the URL for your site and/or a screenshot of what you're seeing? That'd make it easier for folks to see what might be going on.

Hi there! I believe that Google is simply recommending that you make sure to have the new URL map, the old URL map, and a list of all your inbound links. Looks like how they're meant to be used comes up in the next steps. For example, the next page includes these steps (which I have completely removed from their contexts, so make sure to do things in the order Google outlines):

• On the destination site, submit the two sitemaps you prepared previously containing the old and new URLs. This helps our crawlers discover the redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs, and facilitates the site move.

and

• External links: Try to contact the sites in the saved list of sites linking to your current content, asking them to update their links to your new site.

The old and new sitemaps will be used by Google when first indexing your old site, and the list of external links is there to help you maintain your link profile.

Does that make sense?

Personally, if the list of companies os going to stay the same, I'd keep it all to one page. Google is smart enough to see the topical similarity, and the risk of appearing spammy doesn't seem worth it.

It's generally accepted that most authority survives a 301 redirect, but it's certainly not all. How worth it it is is up to you, but you would see some boost in authority if those sites were to update their links to point directly at the newer domain. Hard to say whether that'd be enough to give you a genuine boost, though.

Hi there!

Thanks for posting in Q&A. I'm afraid that there's no way to add another 30 days to your trial. We certainly give extra MozPoints for completing your community profile, but we don't offer an extended trial for it.

That said, we do offer a free month of Pro if you receive 200 MozPoints in one 30-day period. Could that be what you saw?

I'd recommend opening in a new tab. Part of that is personal preference, but I can't see any case in which it's a good idea to move someone off your site in that situation.

This. Unless there's unique information on /oak-beams/ about oak beams overall that isn't also on /reclaimed-oak-beams/ and/or /air-dried-oak-beams/, you're going to have a difficult time ranking the brand new page.

Good advice, Eric! I'll be locking this thread to further responses, though, as this forum is meant to have marketing questions answered, and as an educational resource. It's really not the place to find coupon codes.

Have a great day!

I agree with Eric. No one source is going to give you a full picture of your link profile. Generally, OSE is best for measuring the overall strength of a full link profile, as many low-authority sites aren't indexed.

Also, keep in mind that there are a _lot _ of reasons that DA can go down, many of which have nothing at all to do with your specific link profile. That's why we recommend using it to benchmark against competitors rather than as an absolute score. Rand goes into more detail about that here:

DA/PA Fluctuations: How to Interpret, Apply, & Understand These ML-Based Scores

Agreed on DA, though I disagree that it's _ever _a good idea to purchase links.

In addition to building some high-quality links, you may also want to run a Full SERP Report in the Keyord Difficulty tool. It can be helpful when deciding where to focus next. There's a video on using it here: https://moz.com/academy/competition-keyword-analysis

Hi Dani! Did Matt or John answer your question? If so, please mark one or more responses as a "Good Answer." It'll give them some bonus MozPoints, and it helps us keep track of things.

Hi Thomas! Did David's advice help?