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  • RE: AI overview visibility

    @GustavoEGomez

    Hi

    Currently AI overviews only appear for users who are logged into Google search.

    Moz, like most SEO tools, parses logged-out SERPs to avoid the effect of personalisation on rankings.

    This is obviously something we're continuously reviewing, but for now the answer is no.

    posted in Moz Tools
  • RE: Huge Increase In Internal Links + Domain Authority Tanked

    @g3mmab

    Thanks for the context.

    I think the drop in DA and the increase in internal links are both things you should be paying attention to, for different reasons - they're almost certainly unrelated.

    When you say "the most recent crawl by a Googlebot" - are you talking about server log data here? Or Moz sitecrawl? I should stress Moz is not Googlebot and could never emulate Googlebot behaviour - we are crawling URLs discovered by linking on your site, so naturally won't uncover a botched migration after the fact.

    As for the incrase in internal links, I notice they're also marked as nofollow in many cases. Have a look at the "all crawled pages" list, and see if you can find anything that looks like a crawl trap. It looks very likely to me that your site is generating a large quantity of garbage URLs - perhaps through pagination, facets, or something like that. Looking in your own source code for "nofollow" might help you to narrow this down, as we can see over 120k of these internal links are nofollow.

    posted in Link Explorer
  • RE: Huge Increase In Internal Links + Domain Authority Tanked

    @g3mmab Can you clarify where you are seeing "external links" and "total links"?

    In any case, DA is not affected by internal linking. If your DA goes down by a large amount, that usually means you have lost some notable external links, or triggered some spam factors.

    As you say, some loss of old URLs on your site may well be the cause of this. The redirect warnings in Moz are designed to alert you but not to be an all-encompassing solution. You need to make sure every URL that historically had external or internal links is still redirecting properly (or better yet returning a 200 response).

    posted in Link Explorer
  • RE: Term Brand Authority Assesses?

    @PRAComms This may vary case by case, depending on the strength of the brand, but the good news is that the Brand Authority model is designed to recognize both.

    We don't try to detect a brand name based on the domain name itself. We look at all of the keywords the domain is ranking for and analyze those rankings/SERPs for signals that tell us that Google thinks those keywords have navigational or brand intent. Ultimately, this can cover variations of the brand name, queries containing a part of the brand name, and even recognizable products and services.

    For example, for TSA.gov, the Brand Authority algorithm recognizes that both "TSA" and "Transportation Security Administration" represent the brand, as well as brand-specific queries like "TSA customer service." Even more interestingly, IMO, is that it can spot the brand relevance of searches like "PreCheck" and "TWIC card."

    So, it's complicated, but in summary: All of the above.

    posted in Product Support
  • RE: Will Moz support GA4?

    @gooday2day I think it's live in all accounts now - contact CS if you're not able to see it.

    posted in Reporting & Analytics
  • RE: ga4 workaround?

    @MattsonMacleod Yes, it's already live for some accounts.

    posted in Reporting & Analytics
  • RE: ga4 workaround?

    @peterkay Moz GA4 support is very close to launch.

    In the meantime, Moz still works fine without analytics integration, it just can't include your traffic in dashboards etc. - you'd have to combine that externally.

    posted in Reporting & Analytics
  • RE: Making the change to GA4?

    @Tom-Capper (My mistake, I got too excited - latest I've seen is 2 weeks out.)

    posted in Reporting & Analytics
  • RE: Making the change to GA4?

    @buckii_modernoffice

    Is this question about Moz Pro?

    If so, look out for an announcement this week.

    posted in Reporting & Analytics
  • RE: Will Moz support GA4?

    @PlanMen_WFM

    You can skip that step, as many do - if that's not working for you, I recommend contacting CS 🙂

    posted in Reporting & Analytics

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