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New Design on New Ranking Charts
Hello! Thanks for the feedback! The overall goals of the redesign of this page were: support configurable date ranges (you can now see our entire keyword history instead of a fixed 12-week / 12-month chart) make your keyword ranking data clearer with a couple of new charts (the old chart was confusing if you had multiple pages rankings for a KW, and didn't work with configurable date ranges). We have added the Search Visibility to chart to show the overall impact of all of your rankings pages on your keyword performance. We also added the Highest Ranking Position chart as a simplified version of your Keyword Performance. provide some room and scale for some new things we have coming soon (SERP Features, more KW metrics) move to the latest version of KW difficulty move the page onto our new, faster, more reliable KW rankings platform (this is more of an internal Moz goal, but I thought I would include it on this list. Plus you will see the benefits through faster pages and more reliable / timely rankings data) I hear what you are saying - let me address your concerns in turn: extra whitespace on the page - I agree this looks a little strange right now, and sorry it stopped all the data you care about fitting on the screen (though if you use Chrome, the page scales really well with Ctrl +/-, I sometimes use that to fit more in a screenshot). We have left a little extra space for some new things we have coming up, so that is why it feels a little weird now. Sorry about this in the meantime! a writeup on the changes - no there is not, but this is a great idea, and I am going to turn this response into a post and publish it - thank you for prompting that Moz Analytics vs Moz Pro - Moz Pro is the name of the overall subscription product, we heard some customers were confused by the internal tool names so we are trying to simplify things a little by stopping using some names Hope this helps! I am on jon@moz.com if you wanted to chat over email - happy to help in any way I can!
Feature Requests | | jon.white0 -
Keyword Ranking History Chart
There are two or more different URLs on the same website competing against each other for that search query. If you hover over them or scroll down you can see which of the URLs they are. Trouble is, since they are competing against each other, it may be harder to climb the ranks as Google is getting confused and doesn't know which one to rank. Better to have one single URL with content optimised to target the search topic and keywords, as it relieves Google of having to make the choice and ultimately... screwing it up.
Moz Tools | | Ria_0 -
Google Places, Plus, and National Service
Hi Kristi, If you choose to create local listings for each of your installers, then, yes, you would have to use their home address and local area code phone number (I do not recommend putting your 800 number on your listing even as the second phone number). You would then need to choose the hide address feature in creating each of the listings, because employees are going to customers rather than customers coming to the employees' home. Do not overlook this step, or the listings are likely to be yanked. Honestly, if you can avoid the bulk upload feature, I would. I'd do this individually. Google will eventually merge the + and Place pages. Recommend you study this article regarding the category selected when you created the + page to see if you are eligible for a manual merge request or if you need to wait (http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/06/08/google-for-business-places-forums-wrapup/). Also recommend you read: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/08/03/google-business-and-local-merge-process-is-now-live/. Because you are dealing with what is essentially a multi-location business (like a franchise) Google has not yet announced a solution/intentions regarding how it will handle this type of business. Where does your Place Page say you serve all 50 states? The description? Can you please provide a little more detail. Don't feel badly about being stumped. The changes have made everybody's head spin! Mine, too! Miriam
Technical SEO Issues | | MiriamEllis0 -
Looking for Reviews on Ad Matching Company "Vertical Search Works"
Have you had any luck with other companies that are selling the same kind of service? It seems to me that reaching out to the companies that they put your ads on and just bypassing VSW would be a better option. I don't know if the pricing would be the same as what VSW offers but at least you would reduce the possibility of being scammed.
Paid Search Marketing | | ToyotaPart0