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I'm not aware of any recent updates to Bing's algo (sometimes they are documented on their blog). Since Yahoo is largely powered by Bing, it is reasonable to expect that you would see both drop in performance.

Are there any similar features across all your sites which may have become devalued? Are you using Bing Webmaster Tools (which are great BTW)?

This is a form of carousel that has recently become more popular. If I may be honest, my experience with it so far is that it is plainly horrible. For example, this query for "SEO Software" says "Googlebot" is a type of SEO software.

Distill reported on the expansion of this back in February to "best {keyword}" type queries, and it seems the rollout has been greater than just that set of terms.

I'm honestly not sure how they source the data.

It is highly unlikely that responsiveness would impact your search rankings at such a high percentage. Unfortunately, without knowing much more about your site it would be hard to look into it. Feel free to PM me more info and Id be happy to take a look.

The bug has been fixed but it will take 24 hours for the caches to clear! Thanks again!

That is a weird bug, because our database is showing 18k+ for that term! I will investigate!

Thanks!

You're welcome for our efforts. I am really excited as we roll out this volume fix. I think it is going to offer a real improvement for SEOs everywhere.

It should be fine, but if you want to be certain, check the info:sitea.com query in Google for a random selection of URLs from sitea.com so that you can make sure they are all properly indexed now as Site B.

I'm a little concerned here because taking a look at the search results page for the term Boho pretty easily reveals why it has a modest Keyword Difficulty score.

1. There is no exact match domain.
2. The top ranking pages have only a handful of backlinks.
3. Multiple pages in the top 10 don't even have the keyword in the URL.
4. Barely any of the links pointing to the top pages have exact-match anchor text

I don't mean to say that Boho is an "easy" keyword - I think that will be relative to the industry. But, if I were in the fashion retail space, this seems like a pretty smart keyword to go after.

Hi Sharon,

I can comment on Search Volume. You are right, at present the system only shows US volume data. But, any day now we should be rolling out locale-specific volumes!

I agree here with Andy as well. Make it clear to Google what pages on your site are the most important to the users.

Also, just to make sure, I assume you have all of your site in order regarding a single canonical version of the site (ie: www vs non-www, http vs https, etc.) and that all are appropriately connected in Google Search Console? Just wanted to make sure there was no chance you might be demoting sitelinks for a different variant of your domain!

Google has often taken liberty with the title tags as displayed in the SERPs, drawing from varied sources including content on the page, named entities, DMOZ titles, anchor text of links pointing to the page, etc. The only thing you can do is try and create meaningful, relevant, optimized and sufficiently unique titles that attract users such that Google doesn't try and switch them out.

Good questions...

1. No, it is not good practice to get links from an SEO site or unrelated sites, but that doesn't mean Google will catch it.
2. Sometimes, unrelated links are really good. For example, imagine a customer leaving a review for you on their own blog.
3. There is very little evidence that the relevancy of the linking page actually promotes rankings.

I doubt that it is really harder to win the lottery than to get links, even in NSFW niches. You just have to be creative.

Thanks for the question. It would be hard to know exactly without seeing the example sites, but there are many possible issues at play...

1. Is the competitor site using manipulated anchor text (ie: keywords as anchor text)
2. Do their links tend to point to the homepage while yours are dispersed across your site?
3. Is it possible they have other sources of links which aren't disclosed in 3rd party tools (like a 301 redirected site that blocks links)

There are any number of potential issues here. However, judging from the numbers you describe, there seems be a really simple solution... go get more good links!

Hey, this is Russ here at Moz.

Do the redirects point to the homepage or to the current URL? For example, does the http://myolddomain.com/styless.asp?jordan-12-taxi-kids-cheap-T8927.html redirect to http://newsite.com or http://newsite.com/styless.asp?jordan-12-taxi-kids-cheap-T8927.html

If it does redirect to the same URL on newsite.com, I would try using wildcard robots.txt entries to simply block the offending content altogether. For example, if all the spam is off the styless.asp page, you could simply block styless.asp?* in your robots.txt and prevent Google from ever crawling those spammy links.

However, if you are redirecting everything to the homepage, I think you will need to go back to the old webmaster and figure something out. While Google is great at detecting spam, once you are under a penalty it can be difficult to recover. No one is perfect, including Google, and you don't want to be one of their "mistakes".

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the question! Our keyword volume is all US, so that is the number of times the keyword is searched in the US (which is admittedly much lower than those searching for "laptop kopen" in the US).

We hope to add international support in future iterations!

Here is one I wrote a long time ago on the Moz blog, looking at different relationships between Wikipedia's link profile and other sites.

These are all great questions.

1. You should definitely provide a disclaimer and nofollow if you are providing products for free to the blogger. This is generally a requirement for compliance in the US and with Google's Webmaster Guidelines respectively.

2. The no-follow link isn't going to give you any real SEO value, but it could certainly give you valuable traffic if you are doing blogger outreach to the correct audience. To make blogger outreach valuable, you should be looking at your prospects for more than just a link. A good enough blog post could itself rank for valuable keywords!

Finally, you ask the question "is blogger outreach dead". It certainly is not, but there is more to it that just getting sponsored posts up. You need strong pitches that actually provide value to the audience of the blog you are doing outreach to. That being said, I find blogger outreach to be difficult, time-consuming, and and low ROI. Chances are, there are some more scalable link building opportunities out there.

• You could mine your competitors backlinks - for example, you should have a link on this page too.
  - You could do a piece on fire safety, especially related to wood fireplaces, and resource page link building.
• You could try building an audience by sponsoring lumberjack competitions

There are a tons of opportunities which might be easier pickings, at least at the beginning.

Correct. I just confirmed that it is how Mozscape handles the hreflang tag. We do not yet transpose the actual value of the canonical version onto the hreflang variant. You should, in theory, assume the Page Authority of your homepage is identical with the Page Authority of the de.* variant. At least, that appears to be the way in which hreflang is supposed to be handled.