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Hmm, weirdly it doesn't show anything past April 2014 once you add it to feedly. I'll try again.

(I tried again but still doesn't work in Feedly.)

The feed hasn't been updated since 21 April 2014. Maybe someone at Moz could look into that and fix it?

You may want to have a read of this. I wouldn't change the domain name to a .photography TLD - .com is much more recognisable and easier to remember for any potential clients. Just my opinion.

The redirect does help with passing on the link juice. Domain authority is not a Google metric but a Moz metric. Therefore while your DA may have gone down to 1, your hard work isn't lost. All the domain authority does is predict how well your website will rank, it isn't consulted by Google, though.

It doesn't take into consideration any redirects from another domain. But Google does take these types of links into consideration that have been 301 redirected.

Here is an article that may help: https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Where possible I would also suggest contacting websites to update the link, but you may find that your traffic and rankings won't be as affected as you might fear.

Hmm, I look after 7 websites. Haven't done any link building on any of them, but one maintained its DA, one dropped from 10 to 1 and the others all dropped a bit but not as dramatically. Most competitors have also seen some drops.

DA is helpful as a guideline, but I wouldn't use it as a KPI because it is a relative metric.

One of the things you could do is manually check those links that showed up in OSE before and check whether they're still there. Other than that, if you are sure that something is wrong, go through everything you've done in the past couple of months and any changes that have been made to the website to see if any of them caused any issues.

However, I still think that if your rankings haven't gone down and your traffic haven't suffered, I wouldn't assume there is an issue purely because the DA has gone down.

We have seen huge increases in organic traffic and conversions over the past 6 months but our DA has gone down.

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.

Another vote for Screaming Frog. Fantastic SEO tool!

Google Search Console is a free one that lists links to your website. I know a lot of people use Ahrefs or Majestic which aren't free to use. Personally I don't have any experience with them.

We did see a shift in traffic from 31/1 onward but for us it was an increase. I also think there may have been an algorithm update of some sort.

I'm not too sure about our rankings but we have been seeing a considerable increase in traffic from 31/1 onward.

I do think that would be helpful especially given that your colleague Samantha said .cc isn't supported here, however, in the list .cc is listed above the line, right under .ca, so according to what you said it should be supported.

You also suggested the same was true for someone recently asking about a .cc TLD - and someone else recently had the same issue with what I believe was a .kitchen TLD - if it is correct that you support all TLDs listed in that link, then all .cc and .kitchen domains should be supported. In fact that list seems to include all sorts of custom TLDs including .landrover, .lidl, .skype, .tkmaxx etc.

Is it possible that this list you reference is simply not correct?

I would only disavow genuinely spammy links or links from spammy websites. If it's a genuine website and the link was placed natural and it is on topic to my product I would not disavow purely because it is a small website with a low DA.

I saw a response from someone at Moz to someone with this same issue - they had a .cc domain. The response was that Moz currently don't support custom TLDs. Most likely .kitchen is also affected by this. See here for the discussion.

Yeah, I can't see a pattern either. Most domains I track are still http including ours but the https ones I track have seen drops as well (4 out of 5, 1 has stayed the same).

Yep, the biggest drop we have seen is from 10 to 1 on a small website we haven't worked on in months. Mostly smaller drops but bigger than other months. I monitor some competitors as well and out of 24, 2 have stayed the same, 1 has improved, all others have dropped. Our websites have all dropped except for one (which has stayed the same).

Glad to know we're not the only ones!

I would suggest prioritising the products and creating unique descriptions for the most important ones first.

Outsourcing them ... I would not generally say that's a bad idea as long as you ensure the work produced will be of high quality, meaning don't outsource them to India or something but maybe if the budget allows you could find a freelancer to help with the workload.

We have this issue too and some products from a previous mass upload still don't have good descriptions, but when it is a small update, we create them as required.

Is it possible that it is affected by the intrusive interstitials penalty (see here)? I don't see any interstitials on your website but the timing would be about right with the penalty launching on 10 January... although I suppose that wouldn't explain it if your website has dropped in rankings on desktop and mobile.

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 Dmitrii,

Thanks, yeah we have canonicals which are self-referencing for products, so I will need to find out if we are able to manually change it on one URL.

The content on both pages is identical, which isn't great for SEO, I know. We sell a lot of (15k+) products and have one person writing product descriptions so we aren't always able to make sure the content is unique (although we do write our own descriptions, not copying the ones provided by suppliers). For the websites as a whole, the product descriptions on the microsite (where we sell about 30 products) are probably all either identical or extremely similar to the main website, but all other content is unique and of course the main website has lots more content that is unique to it, so there is just a small overlap, but for the page in question, it is probably 99% duplicate.

Personally, I'd be happy if just the microsite ranked for the keyword, but will need to discuss internally whether we want to put in the extra effort of making all product descriptions unique on the microsite.

As for relevant links, I think the microsite should have more, as it generally performs much better for keywords related specifically to its niche (which is why I don't like that it's not ranking at all for this keyword just now).

Thanks again.