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Have a look at this blog post here: https://moz.com/blog/keyword-explorer-upgrades-new-features-more-lists-and-better-metrics It says KWE has moderate coverage for languages of western countries. So that's probably the issue. Depending on topic, I also get a lot of keywords with "No data" and I'm in the UK where coverage is significant.

Thanks, good point to keep in mind re. brand mentions etc. I will have a little dig around GA and SC to see where exactly our organic traffic for the micro site comes from to see how much we can expect to lose due to navigational domain queries etc.

You can still see it on the link you originally posted - the box with the text about the current index mentions it.

I think the problem is that in theory any page that is indexed will rank for some keyword or other, especially long-tail keywords, so there will be too many possibilities. The only way to link them up for sure (as far as I am aware) is to track the keywords.

But you may be able to make some connections by checking your top organic landing pages and top organic keywords. I.e. if you are getting a lot of visits to your landing page "/thekeyword" and a lot of visits (or impressions) from "keywordz", then it might be worth checking whether it is that page that ranks well for the keyword "keywordz". The avg. position in the Search Console might be helpful as well to give you an idea for how well a page on your website ranks for the keywords you are getting traffic from.

I would suggest using apostrophes where/if grammatically correct. It depends on the individual sentence whether you would use an apostrophe.

Lawyers = plural of lawyer
Lawyer's = singular of lawyer, to show possession
Lawyers' = plural of lawyer, to show possession

It was mentioned yesterday on SE Roundtable, seems that Google are aware of it, see here.

This sounds exactly like the problem many have seen after the recent API update. I would suggest reading this topic: https://moz.com/community/q/is-everybody-seeing-da-pa-drops-after-last-moz-api-update You'll find a few more in the Q&A section but this one has a really helpful reply from Rand Fishkin.

We also saw one domain drop from 10 to 1 and I have seen someone else here mention a drop from 12 to 1. I for one am not going to worry about it for now, fairly certain it will get fixed with the next update which is expected in a little over two weeks.

Your DA only updates when there is a new Mozscape index available. There should have been an update on 28/2 but they have been having issues with deploying this index so the index from 26/1 is still the most current one. I.e. there shouldn't have been a change in your DA since then (unless the new index was briefly available, but I haven't seen any changes in DA on our websites yet).

There was also no change in the Mozscape index on 7/2 so your DA wouldn't have had any changes then. The most recent one would be the 26/1 one.

You can check for updates to the Mozscape index here: https://moz.com/products/api/updates

If you click on the spam score it will tell you which spam flags the domain has. There are quite a few which are unrelated to links.

Xenu's Link Sleuth is free so you may want to check that out (not sure just now whether there are any limits with regard to website size) but I also recommend Screaming Frog - it's money well-spent, such a feature rich tool!

Hi, no don't add the crawler exclusion as this will not prevent Google from indexing them, but it will prevent Google from seeing the no-index and canonicals tags (seeing as it won't crawl the pages anymore).

DA is not related to Google updates as it is a score given by Moz and as I already said, it only updates when a new Mozscape index is available. The drop you noticed in February must have happened with the 26/1 update.

If you did see a change in it today, it was likely because they were trying to roll out the new index (and failed).

Hi. I track 32 websites and many of them saw a drop of 1-2 in DA this month. 7 dropped by 2, 7 dropped by 1, 15 stayed the same, one dropped by 3, one by 7 and one by 8. I didn't have a single one improve.

Yes, they do. If you want to keep 301 redirects in place, you need to stay the owner of the domain and ensure it continues to 301 redirect to your new domain.

We had this issue with products which we sell on two different websites, that Google would rank one or the other, randomly swapping them out for each other in the rankings. We used cross-domain canonicals to solve this and it has fixed the issue for us, i.e. the website we want to rank now ranks for these products, the other one doesn't.

If you use canonicals, it will most likely mean that only the main page will rank (the canonical URL).

I should add that not all of these websites are ours, but many are competitors'.

Hi, thanks for your reply. Both locations are actually owned by the same Google account, however, I am aware there are some issues with duplication due to the use of the same address and phone number. Think I might bring it up again internally whether we should merge the two listings.

While strictly speaking the corporate GMB listing is probably a better fit for the GMB guidelines and we get a lot more views of it, we actually get more clicks through the other one, despite only having half the views, so it'd be a shame to lose that one.

Does anyone have any advice regarding the use of shop codes? I've read the Google documentation on them but am still a bit unclear as to what they are for. My understanding is that they serve to distinguish listings when using bulk uploads but we don't use bulk uploads, so would it still make sense to use them and if so how would you format them?

Thanks!

I recently updated a Wordpress website from noindex to wanting it indexed and I still had a warning in Search Console for a day or two and the homepage was initially indexed with the meta description saying "A description for this website ...", even though the actual Fetch and Render and also Robots.txt test was just fine. If you are absolutely sure there isn't anything wrong, I would maybe give it a couple of days. In our case, I resubmitted the homepage to Google to speed up the process and that fixed it.

I was going to suggest Sprout but if you don't want to use that, maybe have a look at Raven: https://raventools.com/ I've used it previously for reporting although not specifically for social media reporting but they do have the ability to do social media reporting.

Hi Christina. It is generally recommended for all pages to have a canonical. In most cases, these will be self-referential canonicals. I.e. for a product at http://www.website.com/product the canonical should be http://www.website.com/product.

Have a look at this recent article: http://www.thesempost.com/google-recommends-self-referencing-canonicals/