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Ok worked out a solution for anyone updating to win 10 and having trouble opening csv files.
To change
Change the List Separator from the semi colon to a comma.(,)
Pasting from sheet to excel works, would appear to be a win 10 change in formatting issue.
Thanks any ways.
I agree it opens fine with Google sheets, lets see if anyone else has issues with win 10 and excel..
Have been using office 2016 excel for the past three years or so with no issues. Only recent change is that I have updated to Win 10 from 8.1
Updated to the latest office still no joy.
This is a major issue for me
Had a look/download all the past reports. All data has merged into one column??
All the columns/heading merged into column A.
Anyone else noticed this over the past few days?
Pretty sure I did this within a current campaign that has a custom logo uploaded.
I notice that the moz logo has replaced the "custom" logo in the on page grader?
Can we have the custom logo back please....
I am talking the actual content, not the headings in grey Boxes, they print fine.
Its the content below these "headings" where you have alternate grey rows. (actual results) Its a very thin small "greyish" font.
Even making the font one px larger would help. Yes its a rather expensive Brother inkjet printer.
The KW labels next to each keyword are colour (branded etc) are also very light (barley visible) even though other colours such as the Bar graphs at the top are bright and vibrant!
Just a suggestion regards style over practicality.
Yes I have a excellent printer and done everything to darken the text but could we please look at darkening/bolding the text in the custom Reports when printing.
I try not to print but holding paper of a few of the important pages with a client is certainly a method i employ.
Colours, headings, graphs look great its just the content area especially rankings is very light!
Silly question but are the urls of the product category and the urtl that you set in Open Site Explorer on the same domain?
Just to be clear and sorry to hijack this thread.
With the KW Diff and SERP Analysis page you can only get search volume from Bing?
Irrespective of the SE and selecting New Zealand I get no volume whatsoever?
With Google keyword tool been very unhelpful compared to previous version this has made life a lot harder!
Any suggestions as to best method to obtain country specific search volumes?
Bing Ads Intelligence via excel is about as good as i can find atm!
Cheers, yea certainly unintentional from my client.
I will include a Google docs spread sheet showing the actions taken to remove these links and probably a link to this discussion!
With a rather humble and embarrassed apology!
oh well my first penalty in a 100 sites or so.
Thanks for your help!
have a great day!
Cheers Tim I suspected this was a result of this "Unnatural links to your site" and appreciate the reinforcement.
Ranking improvements were solid before unnatural links were put in place but I agree it is a combination of the two.
This just popped up in "Manual Actions" in Webmaster Tools
Google has detected a pattern of unnatural artificial, deceptive, or manipulative links pointing to pages on this site. Some links may be outside of the webmaster’s control, so for this incident we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on the site’s ranking as a whole.
I will get all the links removed to show best intent then click "Request A Review" hopefully this will speed up the process?
This was out of my control but certainly reinforces my view "Links are earned not bought!"
I have been carrying out On-Page optimisation only for a client www.shade7.co.nz.
After three months or so I have been getting some great results, improving to the top three positions for at least 30 of 45 keywords targeted. Couple of more tweaks and I would be a very happy camper.
Disaster overnight! Rankings CRASH!
Unbeknown to me the client a month or so back decided to link just about every product/link on a micro site he owns (www.shademakers.com/ ) plus one other site he owns. Explorer I think discovered over 350 back-links (follow) from these sites!
As this is a site he owns and it is targeting the same keywords I presume this falls into the EVIL bucket of SEO.
Two part question do you believe I am correct that this is the reason for this rankings crash and what would be the best way to resolve this!
The client or I have not received any bad link Emails from Google.
Every site you monitor should have a keyword distribution sheet in excel.
Each line will have the url, meta description, title tag, and h1 tag showing (LEN) character count for meta details. With a further column showing the keywords targeted for each page.
With this you have a way to monitor each page in a more direct visual way and avoid duplication, especially titles and meta descriptions.
As time is tight I am very selective as to what sites I target in requesting links. I do this by assessing whether I can add value to the targeted site. If so then i have a opening in engaging by Email, twitter or linkedin and striking up a conversation before requesting links.
So imo choose carefully before engaging and spending time.