I have seen zero movement in my Google keyword rankings.
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I have seen zero movement in my Google keyword rankings, but I have seen movement on the other search engines. I must be doing something wrong. Any tips?
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Well I've been using MOZ for three months. I have seen upward and downward ticks on Bing but absolutely no upward or downward movement on Google. I would think that there would be some fluctuation over a three month period. I've have fixed the issues shown on each page. I don't know what to do.
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What have you been doing? How long have you been doing it for?
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