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  • ChrisAllbones


    If you have a site that had an old analytics account and then implemented a new one is it possible to run tracking code that records to both accounts without causing your site or data issues? We are doing this so we don't loose data at any point - ideally it wouldn't have been split between the two but making one redundant isn't an option. Ideally we would have merged the data from both accounts and had one - however the research we have done points to this not being a possibility - unless one of you guys knows different? It would be great if anyone has experience on any this.. Thanks

    Reporting & Analytics | | ChrisAllbones
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  • EcommerceSite


    Screaming Frog is showing a 503 code for images. If I go and use a header checker like SEOBook it shows 200. Why would that be? Here is an example link- http://germanhausbarn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/36-UPC-5145536-John-Deere-Stoneware-Logo-Mug-pair-25.00-Heavy-4-mugs-470x483.jpg

    Technical SEO | | EcommerceSite
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  • EcommerceSite


    I have a site with woocommerce. Do I need to block the cart page?

    Technical SEO | | EcommerceSite
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  • EcommerceSite


    When I do a site: search the homepage comes up second. Does this matter?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EcommerceSite
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  • kitoks


    For about 5-10 years ago many SEOers said that it is in particular important to be in Dmoz. What about nowadays?
    Moreover is it still working and accepting new projects. I suggested several of my projects but no news from them

    Link Building | | kitoks
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  • DonaldS


    I just built this site for a client http://primedraftarchitecture.com.  It went live 3 weeks ago and the pages are getting indexed as per Webmaster Tools.  But I'm not seeing it rank for anything. We're adding blog articles regularly and used Moz Local for local links and have been building links in other local directories (probably about 15 so far). Usually I get some rankings, although very low, after just a week or two for new sites. Does anyone see anything glaring that may be causing a problem?

    On-Page Optimization | | DonaldS
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  • kanteenboy


    I want to know how which pages on my competitors websites are the most popular based on the traffic volume. I do not care how many links or directed to that page or any other metric. Only thing I am looking for is the traffic volume. It would also be nice to know the length of time spent on that page.

    Competitive Research | | kanteenboy
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  • VanguardCommunications


    We are launching a video dense website.   Is there any evidence that having a .tv tld can help with video optimization?  We are trying to find proof that Google looks at a .tv tld favorably for video SEO as opposed to a .tv website.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | VanguardCommunications
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  • dogtopiamichigan


    Hello, I have a strange issue that I have not come across before:My subdomain is: michigan.dogdaycare.com. Some of the Keyword searches show our subdomain being nested under the main domain for Google searches instead of being indexed individually. Example search term: Dogtopia Bloomfield https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=dogtopia+bloomfield -This will show two subdomain links nested under the main domain Example search term: Dogtopia Birmingham https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=dogtopia+birmingham -This shows the subdomain showing correctly in searches and not nested. Any idea as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

    Local Website Optimization | | dogtopiamichigan
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  • vivekrathore


    Hi Guys, Could you kindly help us in choosing best approach out of mentioned below 2 cases. Case. 1 -We are using: We interlink our static pages(www.abc.com/jobs-in-chennai) through footer, navigation & by showing related searches. Self referential Canonical tags have been implemented. Case. 2 -We plan to use: We interlink our Dynamic pages(www.abc.com/jobs-in-chennai?source=footer) through footer, navigation & by showing related searches. Canonical tags have been implemented on dynamic urls pointing to corresponding static urls Query 1. Which one is better & expected to improve rankings. Query 2. Will shifting to Case 2 negatively affect our existing rankings or traffic. Regards

    Web Design | | vivekrathore
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  • One2OneDigital


    I have built a new website and have redirected all my old URL's to their new ones but for some reason Google is still indexing the old URL's. Also, the page authority for all of my pages has dropped to 1 (apart from the homepage) but before they were between 12 to 15. Can anyone help me with this?

    Technical SEO | | One2OneDigital
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  • devdan


    Hi Guys, I am moving from old version of tag manager to new version of tag manager. But when i do so at that time in my google analytic 1) my adwords transaction, revenue and ecommerce conversion rate stop showing. 2) In ecommerce -overview also transaction, revenenue and ecommermce conversion rate stop showing. Can any one tell me what is the issue? I am sharing with you the details configuration of my old tag manager and new version of tag manager - I am using google analytic having id - UA-12345678-9 I am using old version of google tag manager in that i have configure 5 tags - a) google adwords conversion tracking
    b) GA pageview tracking
    c) google remarketing
    d) GA conversion tracking
    e) twitter conversion tracking I did following configuration for all - Tag Name - google adwords conversion tracking
    tag type - Adwords conversion tracking
    conversion id - 123123123 ( from adwords)
    conversion lable - sdfsnfs-sfsf ( from adowrds) Firing rule -{{url}} contains ordersuccessful.aspx
    {{event}} equals gtm.dom save Google Analytic PageView Tracking
    Tag Type - classic Google Analytic
    web properid id - UA-12345678-9
    track type - page view Firing rule - all pages save GA conversion Tracking
    tag type - classic google analytics
    web property id - UA-12345678-9
    track type - transaction Firing rule -{{url}} contains ordersuccessful.aspx
    {{event}} equals gtm.dom By above configuration everything work fine with google analytic. In New versoin of tag mananger following configuration i did - Adwords conversion tracking
    Choose Product - Google Adwords
    choose tag type - adwords conversion tracking
    configure tag - conversion id - taken from adwords
    conversion label - taken from adwords
    conversion value - {{google_conversion_value}}
    Fire on - Name - order successful page
    type - custom event
    Filter- Page url contains ordersuccessful.aspx
    event equals gtm.dom save Choose Product - Google Analytic,
    choose tag type - universal analytic
    configure tag - tracking id - UA-12345678-9, track type - page view Fire on - All pages save GA conversion tracking Choose Product - Google Analytic,
    choose tag type - universal analytic
    configure tag - tracking id - UA-12345678-9, track type - transaction Fire on - Name - order successful page
    type - custom event
    Filter- Page url contains ordersuccessful.aspx
    event equals gtm.dom save By above configuration my analytic stop reflecting transaction, revenue, ecommerce conversion rate for adwords and ecommerce overview. Thanks!

    Paid Search Marketing | | devdan
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  • marcandre


    Hi Moz fellows, I'm new to Woocommerce and couldn't find help on Google about certain SEO-related things. All my past projects were simple 5 pages websites + a blog, so I would just no-index categories, tags and archives to eliminate duplicate content errors. But with Woocommerce Product categories and tags, I've noticed that many e-Commerce websites with a high domain authority actually rank for certain keywords just by having their category/tags indexed. For example keyword 'hippie clothes' = etsy.com/category/hippie-clothes (fictional example) The problem is that if I have 100 products and 10 categories & tags on my site it creates THOUSANDS of duplicate content errors, but If I 'non index' categories and tags they will never rank well once my domain authority rises... Anyone has experience/comments about this? I use SEO by Yoast plugin. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance. -Marc

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | marcandre
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  • StoryScout


    Hi guys, I have a client who wants to use a hyphen to separate two words in the URL to make each work stand out. Is is good or bad practice to use a hyphen in a URL and will it affect rankings? Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | StoryScout
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  • CRMI


    Anyone familiar with Weebly that can offer some suggestions? I ran a crawl diagnostics on my site and have some high priority issues that appear to stem from Weebly Blog posts.  There are several of them and it appears that the post is being counted as "page content" on the main blog feed and then again when it is tagged to a category.  I hope this makes sense, I am new to SEO and this is really confusing. Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | CRMI
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  • RainmanCreative


    Hey Mozzers! Got a question for you. I’ve been assigned my first ecommerce client. He doesn’t want to list his physical business location, as he fears that including his address will hurt him on a national level (he ships all over the world). He’s not particularly interested in ranking locally, although he wouldn’t mind it. He only wants to show a PO box address. Will this help or hurt him? I believe it’s the latter. Also, he has 16 shipping points across the U.S. Is it helpful to add these cities and states to the site? Thanks in advance! -Kanya

    Local Listings | | RainmanCreative
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  • KarlBantleman


    Hi, I currently have a Moz Pro account, if I was to downgrade to a free account am I still able to ask and answer questions on the Q&A area? Also, would I lose my points accrued?

    Product Support | | KarlBantleman
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  • isntworkdull


    Hi all, I just noticed something quite odd - if i do a search for my domain name (see: http://goo.gl/LBc1lz) google shows my domain as first result, but it also asks "did i mean" and names another website with very similar name. the other site has far lower PA/DA according to Moz, any ideas why google is doing this? and more inportantly how i could stop it? please advise James

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | isntworkdull
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  • Verve-Innovation


    HI All,  My site was ranking very well and was in 1st page of google for most of my keywords. Last week we did some update to the site and moved it to new hosting and from then onwards I dont see my site home page in Google ranking . My Website Name is : royalevents.com.au. We used to be in 1st of Google for keywords like wedding Mandaps, Indian Wedding Mandaps etc, Would be great if some one helps us to figure out whats gone wrong .. I also did Webmaster Fetch as Google but nothing happened. Thanks

    Web Design | | Verve-Innovation
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  • estebanseo


    My website in "On Page Grade" received an A.Anyway, I only have 1 thing to optimize:_"Use Keywords in your URL__Using your targeted keywords in the URL string adds relevancy to your page for search engine rankings, assists potential visitors identify the topic of your page from the URL, and provides SEO value when used as the anchor text of referring links."_My website is ranking in top10 for a super high competitive keyword and all my others competitors have the keyword on their domain, but not for my URL.Since I can't change my domain for fixing this suggestion, I would like to know what do you think about doing a 301 redirect from / to mydomainname.com/keyword/So the index of my website would be the /keyword.I don't know if this can make a damage to my SERP for the big change ir it would be a great choice.

    On-Page Optimization | | estebanseo
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  • Michael_Rock


    I know it is a good idea for duplicate pages, blog tags, etc. but I remember somewhere that you can help the overall link juice of a website by adding no index no follow or no index follow low quality content pages of your website. Is it still a good idea to do this or was it never a good idea to begin with? Michael

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Michael_Rock
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  • McTaggart


    I just ran a website (Drupal) through screaming frog and the only 404s I found related to web pages which were the same as URLs already used on the website plus the company phone number so... www.company.com/[their phone number] - www.company.com/services[their phone number] - any ideas what might be causing this problem?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | McTaggart
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  • bearpaw


    I've been pushing hard to get our Americas site (DA 34) integrated with our higher domain authority (DA 51) international website. Currently our international website is setup in the following format... website.com/us-en/ website.com/fr-fr/ etc... The problem that I am facing is that I need my development framework installed in it's own directory. It cannot be at the root of the website (website.com) since that is where the other websites (us-en, fr-fr, etc.) are being generated from. Though we will have control of /us-en/ after the integration I cannot use that as the website main directory since the americas website is going to be designed for scalability (eventually adopting all regions and languages) so it cannot be region specific. What we're looking at is website.com/[base]/us-en. I'm afraid that if base has any length to it in terms of characters it is going to dilute the SEO value of whatever comes after it in the URL (website.com/[base]/us-en/store/product-name.html). Any recommendations?

    Technical SEO | | bearpaw
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  • RevanaDigitalSEO


    Hello, We have a site that is built using an AJAX application. We include the meta fragment tag  in order to get a rendered page from PhantomJS. The URL that is rendered to google from PhantomJS then is www.oursite.com/?escaped_fragment= In the SERP google of course doesnt include the hashtag in the URL. So my question, with this setup, do i still need a canonical tag and if i do, would the canonical tag be the escaped fragment URL or the regular URL? Much Appreciated!

    Technical SEO | | RevanaDigitalSEO
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