If the domain is decades old it can have high DA. I guess there are many links to those old domains as well. So, I do recommend keeping them unless you did a study and found that they don't attract any traffic. However, that's very unlikely.
Posts made by victor.celer
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RE: Is it worth keeping a decades-old domain that's merely 301 redirecting to the main domain?
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RE: Is it okay to update Page Titles and Meta descriptions over a period of time?
Too long titles are not recommended. The optimal length is around 50-60 characters: https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag
It's OK to update the title and metas over time. That's one of the common steps to improve SEO.
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RE: Does same description in the directories of all affect SEO or not? - But unique on the website
I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you saying that your have around 50 pages with the same contents? Duplicate contents are not good for SEO: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
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RE: Do many nofollow links from one website will hurt my website SEO?
This blog article can clarify your doubts: https://moz.com/blog/nofollow-sponsored-ugc
For example, if Google suspects that those 20K links are sponsored but they are tagged as UGC, then there can be a penalty. If those links are legitimate and the website DA is high, then those links can actually improve your reputation regardless of the nofollow attribute.
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RE: Trying to cancel, getting an error message.
Hello,
Same problem here. I've emailed help@moz.com requesting assistance.
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RE: Do I need Yoast SEO video for YouTube videos?
SEO for videos is a little bit more complex than SEO for web pages because it's necessary to generate the thumbnail for Google, add some code for compatibility with Facebook and other social networks, make it responsive and so on. You can do it yourself or use a plugin to automate all the necessary tasks. I haven't used Yoast Video SEO though. So, I can't tell you how good it is.
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RE: Content hubs vs blog
Both options have pros and cons. By embedding the articles into the relevant commercial sections you can burst the visibility of those sections (SEO). However, at the same time it will be harder to get backlinks from independent sources like blogs and news because they don't typically link to commercial contents.
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RE: ECommerce Category Page H2
So, currently you are using div to wrap the links to the product pages and you want to replace div with h2, right?
Google does like H tags. It will pay more attention to an h2 than a simple div. That's good for SEO.
The problem is that in your case the product entries are almost empty. There is not much content under each product name. It's almost like using h2 instead of LI (list item). Google will not like that.
So, unless you are planning to write some descriptions under each product name I don't recommend using h2 in this case.
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RE: My website spam score just increased all of a sudden from 1% to 67%
Disavowing the spammy domains is not supposed to reduce the spam score because Moz has no visibility of the GSC disavow list. If you disavow a spammy domain you can reduce its negative impact from the Google perspective, but your own spam score will remain unchanged.
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RE: My website spam score just increased all of a sudden from 1% to 67%
First of all, Google doesn't use Moz spam score: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/2440327?hl=en
So, if your Moz spam score is high because of "spammy" backlinks it doesn't mean that Google considers your site as spammy. You can check the spam score for every linking domain in the Link Explorer. If there are too "spammy" domains take the necessary actions (disavow them in GSC as the last resort).
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RE: Hreflang implementation via sitemap - don’t need canonical tags?
A search engine can discover the pages not only through the sitemap. External links can have different formats and the webmaster doesn't control them. That's why the canonicals are always recommended.
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RE: Hreflang implementation via sitemap - don’t need canonical tags?
No, you shouldn't remove the canonicals. They are useful to avoid impacting the SEO due to duplicate contents (multiple URLs resolving to the same content).
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RE: How to Recover my Website from Sudden Increase in Spam Score and Major Ranking Drop Due to December Broad Core Update?
There are some very spammy linking domains redirecting to your site, for example: www.jyztpk.cn (spam socre 98%, DA 1)
I wonder if this is because you acquired a new domain and not because of the core update... You might have inherited all those bad links when you claimed the new domain.
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RE: Setting up international site subdirectories in GSC as separate properties for better geotargeting?
Apparently Google doesn't care: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/21223241?hl=en
From the webmaster point of view it seems like more work to configure each individual property and review every report separately.
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RE: .com vs .co.uk
There are high DA domains like google.com. So, there is nothing wrong with having backlinks from .com domains. It's always recommended to check the authority and spam score for every linking domain regardless of the domain extension. The point is that ".com" is not necessarily lower quality than ".co.uk".
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RE: Has anyone used Lead Forensics? Are there any SEO considerations that need to be addressed?
I don't think this kind of services are really useful today because most people work in home office or coworking spaces, which are anonymous.
Anyway, as a customer I'd be very disappointed if I find out that I'm being tracked. That's why I'd never use this kind of services in my websites.
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RE: Website DA Decreased
This is a common question in this forum.
Maybe you got some new backlinks with low DA or maybe you've lost some high DA backlinks. You can start looking into your linking profile in the Moz Pro report. More info in this old thread: https://moz.com/community/q/why-my-domain-authority-da-is-decreased-from-21-to-19
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RE: Website DA Decreased
There can be many reasons. Maybe you got some new backlinks with low DA or maybe you've lost some high DA backlinks. You can start looking into your linking profile in the Moz Pro report. More info in this old thread: https://moz.com/community/q/why-my-domain-authority-da-is-decreased-from-21-to-19
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RE: General question
If you are new to SEO there is a beginner's guide here: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
If you have specific questions, please ask.
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RE: Too Many links in a Ecommerce website
150 links is the recommended maximum. If you have more links the search engine crawler will probably ignore them. The detailed answer is here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link