I would imagine it is due to the results being driven from two seperate indexes. Moz will be returning error results from its set and Google from theirs. There will also be differences due to the regularity of being recrawled and indexed.
Posts made by TimHolmes
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RE: Hi Moz community! Why are the number of high priority issues (404s) significantly different between MoZ and Google search console?
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RE: Grid view vs. List view
Ah, so you already have something in place, from the initial question it sounded like you had list but not grid view. In that case I would definately run a bit of a split test that defaults 50% to list and 50% to grid, you can then measure a series of selected metrics to see which variant is the most likely to return further engagement etc.
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RE: Grid view vs. List view
I did a few things like this from my time at VOW, Caboodle and the Post Office Shop. It is really more of a user preference thing than either selecting one over another.
What works best for your content - is it text or image intensive when it comes to your product listings, I often found if there was more image than text - a grid worked better, and vice versa if there was more text.
Also consider mobile - a list solution may be the best option on a smart phone and grid on a tablet.
The optimum solution in my opinion would be to allow the consumer/user to select their preferred layout. You could implement this as a checkbox/button that simply switches the css to display in either grid or list format.
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RE: Is there value in optimizing stock images on site?
Maybe also serve them from a CDN (Content delivery network) for added speed and performance gains to go with your Alt tag edits.
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RE: Is there value in optimizing stock images on site?
As a side note, I would also look to make sure all images have been compressed via something like lossless compression to reduce their file size and hence speed up your site for another boost.
A cool online free tool I use is compressor.io. In general the quality remains, but you can often reduce filesize by anything up to 50%.
Again this might be lengthy but should help users when visiting your site etc.
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RE: Removing CSS & JS Files from Index
I would seriously think again when it comes to blocking/no-indexing your CSS and JS files - Google has in the past stated that if they cannot fully render your site properly then this could lead to poorer rankings.
You will also likely get notifications in your Search Console as errors for this too.
Check out this great article from July this year which goes into more details.
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RE: Some changes to how we measure Tweet Verticals on SERPs
Cheers for the heads up. To be fair it does make sense to have it as a seperate element, much like the knowledge graph panel which despite being in prime location is not really part of the serps. Cheers for this and will look forward to the new tweet serp feature coming soon.
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RE: Moz Forum Responses Crashing Outlook 365
Do you often get this - see image for loading popup in outlook.
As you have posted in product support someone at Moz will no doubt look into it - it has been like this for a few months for me, i originally thought it was just a firewall issue. but now looks a little more wider spread.
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RE: Moz Forum Responses Crashing Outlook 365
This also applies for me everytime I click on a response from a moz post it locks up my outlook for a period of time before opening the preview etc.
I think it is due to an image issue on the responses - the user thumbnails being delivered from CloudFront are not showing and is trying to connect but fails taking some time. - it opens in browser fine.
Hope this helps - is it the same issue for everyone else?
Could it be due to the email trying to pull an image from a HTTPS source location?
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RE: Customers can review business on New Google Plus
I read up on this today, like Peter and Dmitri suggest you may want to point your customers to a new location when requesting reviews, but despite not showing on the G+ local page the reviews should still be available elsewhere on the maps and search results. There was an article on it from SEORoundTable yesterday too.
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RE: Google update this wknd or page title issue?
Apparently there has been quite a bit of activity, but according to a post from Barry Schwartz there has been no update from Google. - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-update-no-21225.html
However the Moz metrics and others all pointed to something happening. I would suggest monitoring all yours sites closely for the time being.
Knowing Google they probably did do something!
Alternatively, I suppose the changes could also be tied to the timeframe in which yours sites have been crawled by Google, as such some of your changes could also have had an impact.
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RE: Does adding a noindex tag reduce duplicate content?
Although adding a no-index will no doubt remove the page from the index, my suggestion would be to implement a canonical tag which you can use to point to the original/best source page. This way any links from the page will still be used for internal site crawling etc.
This way you are actually telling google that you have similar pages but one is the best that you want for indexation purposes.
rel="canonical" href="/original-or-page-you-want-to-rank-and-be-the-source.html" />
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RE: Has anyone seen a recent drop in Page Authority?
Have you read the following post from Rand/Moz about the recent index changes. This is likely the main reason behind the change in your PA and any fluctuations you have seen.
I would suggest looking at your competitors who have similar content and pages to see if they too have also seen this same drop as in many cases the change is relative to others in your niche/area etc.
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RE: Hi Moz, Asking on how to put the canonical header manually onto old blog posts?
You need to place the canonical tag into your area.
The canonical tag looks like so and should include the name of the page you are wishing to canonicalise as the original source file.
rel="canonical" href="/nameofpage.html" /> That should do the trick.
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RE: Fixing broken links from old domain
Absolutely as seoman10 stated, you may get a few links back, however if there are a few dodgy links now would be a good time to look into having them either redirected or elect for them to considered a 404 and request that the urls be removed from the index.
If some of the 404s have a relevant page on the new site, consider redirect the old link via 301 to a similar new page.
redirect 301 /oldpagelink /newpagelink
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RE: Is this going to be seen by google as duplicate content
I would not disavow the link at all. If you want the /some_product page to be seen as one stand alone product simply implement a canonical meta tag to the page which in effect tells google what page is the original source file.
rel="canonical" href="/some_product" />
Hope that helps.
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RE: Rel=dofollow and rel=nofollow
Haha, I've already had three

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RE: Does sharing same Business Name affect Google ranking?
After you have checked out any possible WP issues suggested by Tymen, also look into Moz Local and check to see how many of the local ranking strong signal sites you have connected to your client. This will hopefully give your clients site an added boost by having additional confirmed NAP data to organically connect with their site.
Is the site appearing from branded keywords?
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RE: Rel=dofollow and rel=nofollow
The code is definately a bit of a mess.
Due to the second rel being rel='nofollow' this link will likely be a no follow.
Secondly in order for it to be accurately used as a follow it should be rel="follow" not rel="dofollow" as this does not exist. For a link to be a naturally followed link you do not even need to use the rel="" tag.
anchor text - FOLLOW
anchor text - NO FOLLOWHere is a bit more on use of nofollow
Hope this helps.
Tim
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RE: Pricing model
Absolutely, in that case
How many people have access to the moz account?