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  • Happy-SEO


    Hi Guy's, Whats the best way to set internal links on your website: 1. href=: /page/
    2. href=: https://domain.com/page/ Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | Happy-SEO
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  • irapasternack


    I'm working on a listings project for a client that has a well established  business. Overall we are in great shape, but we've hit a snag with the YP (yellowpages.com) listing. We are not able to access or claim the listing to update it. Customer service claims to have no way to allow us access without the original email address that some former employee must have used to set up the listing. They are telling us the only option is to mark the listing as closed, and start fresh. This would lose us some reviews, although those are pretty old and were imported from Citysearch, so it would not be a huge loss. Has anyone else ran into a similar issue with YP when trying to manually manage their listing? Any suggestions to overcome this problem?

    Local Listings | | irapasternack
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  • gorubbishgo


    Hi guys, I own a London based rubbish removal company, but don't have enough jobs. I know for sure that some of my competitors get most of their jobs trough Google searches. I also have a website, but don't receive calls from it at all. Can you please tell me how to rank my website on keywords like: "rubbish removal london", "waste clearance london", "junk collection london" and other similar keywords? I know that for person like me (without much experience in online marketing) will be difficult task to optimize the website, but at least -  I need some advices from where to start. I'm also thinking to hire an SEO but not sure where to find a trusted company. Most importantly I have no idea how much should pay to expect good results? What is too much and what is too low? I will appreciate all advices.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | gorubbishgo
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  • ssltrustpaul


    I am about to help release a product which also gives people a site seal for them to place on their website. Just like the geotrust, comodo, symantec, rapidssl and other web security providers do.
    I have notices all these siteseals by these companies never have nofollow on their seals that link back to their websites. So i am wondering what is the best way to do this. Should i have a nofollow on the site seal that links back to domain or is it safe to not have the nofollow.
    It wont be doing any keyword stuffing or anything, it will probly just have our domain in the link and that is all. The problem is too, we wont have any control of where customers place these site seals. From experience i would say they will mostly likely always be placed in the footer on every page of the clients website. I would like to hear any and all thoughts on this. As i can't get a proper answer anywhere i have asked.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ssltrustpaul
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  • Joe2013


    Hello, My total external links dropped from 900 to zero on a site that I've had running for about 10 years.  What could possibly cause this? Thanks, Joe

    Technical SEO | | Joe2013
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  • kwaken


    Hi, I am trying to generate an API key for the past 24 hours and I keep on getting the same vague explanation (attached below) of the error. Help Hub had no responses regarding the error also. "Oops - Something went wrong while trying to get your API Credentials. Please try again or check out the Help Hub if you are still experiencing issues." Appreciate any assistance on solving this issue. Thanks! Ian

    API | | kwaken
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  • Sneha.chandan


    For one of the links, I was checking the domain authority and spam score for which the domain authority was 65 and spam score was not discovered. In such links how do I assume or what are the chances of risks with these links?

    Link Explorer | | Sneha.chandan
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  • Scott1234


    I have done the whole moz open exploer and I am not understanding why my site wouldn’t have more links registering to my website.. I have lots of sites(directorys and 3rd party) with my website domain in them. The only one that is linking to my site is BBB.com and my advertsing with saint paul press. www.somerersetautodealer.com But if I have links with all kinds of automotive directories why wouldn’t they register? I am sure this a simply answer or that I am not understanding something. Thanks for your help! Scott

    Link Building | | Scott1234
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  • Max_


    Hello Guys, One of my friend's website domain authority is decreasing since they have moved their domain from HTTP to https. 
    There is another problem that his blog is on subfolder with HTTP.
    So, can you guys please tell me how to fix this issue and also it's losing some of the rankings like 2-5 positions down. Here is website URL: myfitfuel.in/
    here is the blog URL: myfitfuel.in/mffblog/

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Max_
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  • VillageGuide


    Hi, I'm just watching the set up video and the screen they use is different to what I can see under moz pro. Can anyone tell me (or send a link) to where I find the brand and mentions section.

    Getting Started | | VillageGuide
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  • Edward_Sturm


    Would a decrease in DA reflect the need to disavow junk links? My branded keywords recently bumped down two spots, whereas the keywords which have been bringing me the most traffic have been unaffected. Site: Edwardsturm.com DA decrease of 8 over past 3 months. Keyword "Edward Sturm" recently moved to second spot.

    Moz Pro | | Edward_Sturm
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  • UnbounceVan


    I’m currently working with my team to sort out the best way to build out the international versions of our website. Any advice on how to move forward is greatly appreciated! Current Setup: Subdirectories to target languages - i.e. domain.com/es/. We chose this because… We are targeting languages not countries Our product offering does not change from country to country Translated site content is almost identical to the english version Current Problem: Our site is built on WordPress and our database can’t handle the build out of 4 more international versions of the site. The database is slowing down and our site speed is being affected for multiple reasons (WordPress multilingual plugin being one of them). **What to do next? **My developers have said that we cannot continue with our current subdirectory structure due to the technical infrastructure issues I’ve mentioned above (as well as others I’m yet to get full details on). Now I’m left with a decision: Change to a subdomain structure Change to a ccTLD structure Is there an option 3? From what I’ve read it does not make sense to build out language targeted sites on a ccTLD structure because that limits the ability for people outside of the targeted country to find the content organically. I.e. a website at www.domain.es is targeted to searchers in Spain so someone in Columbia is less likely to find that content through the engines. Is this correct? If so, how much can it hurt organic discovery? What’s the optimal setup to move forward with in this case? Thanks!

    International SEO | | UnbounceVan
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  • LesleyPaone


    I think we all know that ecommerce sites have a lot of repeating functional texts on them. Is there a benefit from hiding this text from Google's crawler? Take this page for example, http://storage3.static.itmages.com/i/16/0805/h_1470425505_1090542_224cc344d4.png Some of the most dense words on the page are "Add to cart", "Add to Wishlist", "New", and "Sale".  Is there any benefit to hiding those words from Google? The method of hiding I am talking about is not cloaking, but this, https://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/70/gsa_doc_set/admin_crawl/preparing.html#1076243  using the google:off index tag. So the content will be there still, but it will not be indexed.

    On-Page Optimization | | LesleyPaone
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  • corn2015


    Hi,
    Are there any downsides to registering busiensses in directories that have virtual office addresses?

    Local Listings | | corn2015
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  • corn2015


    Hi.
    If you have a youtube channel that has a lot of videos on it and need to move the videos to another channel, is there an easy method to do this without having to download and re-upload them?

    Web Design | | corn2015
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  • corn2015


    Hi,
    I used to utilize the One Load service and noticed that it no longer exists. Can you please make some recommendations on video marketing platforms that are similar?

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | corn2015
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  • corn2015


    Hi.
    What is required or how long doesi t take for local reviews to show up in search results for a local business? One of my clients is starting to get quite a few positive reviews but he wants to know how long before the star rating shows up in the results.ratings s

    Reviews and Ratings | | corn2015
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  • corn2015


    Hi,
    A potential client has three busiensses at the same location. Does google allow for three business listings at the same location?promoting three businessess

    Local Listings | | corn2015
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  • fablau


    Hello here, I am putting down a link building strategy according to the latest "good practices" and Google recommendations, but I find myself often confused. For example, I'd like to implement the technique suggested by Rand on his article below: https://moz.com/blog/headsmacking-tip-1-link-requests-in-order-confirmation-emails But if you look at the comments, a user suggests to "ask for links in exchange of discounts", and everyone there applaud him for the idea (Rand included). But, wait a second... am I the only one realizing that now days Google discourage to ask for links for "money, services, or any other kind of 'offered' benefit"? So.. where to draw the line here? Here are other examples that I am not sure are "safe" in link building: 1. Ask for links in exchange of a free Membership on a site (where usually a Membership is sold for a price) 2. Ask for links in exchange of exposure (isn't this a sort of "link exchange"?) 3. Ask for link in exchange of "anything else you can think of", even if necessarily doesn't involve money (i.e. for a "certified site badge", for a free e-book, or anything else) I'd really like to know your thoughts on this very sensitive issue. Thank you in advance to anyone for helping me to understand.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | fablau
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  • paul_pm


    I started receiving an 803 error last week for two campaigns and our web dev team has not done any updates to trigger this. Any help on getting this fixed would be greatly appreciated! Paul

    Getting Started | | paul_pm
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  • MVIreland


    Hi, If a site is quite new and setup as https from the beginning why would http variations exist? There are 301 redirects in place from the http to the https variation and also canonical tags pointing back to the http variation? This seems contradictory to me. I'm not sure why the http variations exist at all but they have gone to the trouble of redirecting these to the https variation indicating that it is the variation of choice but at the same time using a canonical tag that indicates the http variation is the original/main url? Thanks

    Technical SEO | | MVIreland
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  • dkyle


    Overnight the domain authority dropped from 11 to 1 and the page authority dropped from 21 to 1 with out any changes being made to the website.

    Technical SEO | | dkyle
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  • Jenny1


    Hi - our company just completely redesigned our website and went from a static HTML site to a PHP based site, so every single URL has changed (around 1500 pages). I put the same verification code into the new site and re-verified but now Google is listing tons and tons of 404's. Some of them are really old pages that haven't existing in a long time, it would literally be impossible to create all the redirects for the 404s it's pulling. Question - when completely changing a site like this, should I have created a whole new Search Console? Or did I do the right thing by using the existing one?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Jenny1
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  • MVIreland


    Hi, I'm working on a site that is currently using canonical tags to deal with www and non-www variations. My recommendation is to setup 301 redirects to deal with this issue instead. However, is it ok to leave the existing canonical tags in place alongside the new 301 redirects or should they be removed? My thoughts are that this is not a canonical issue and therefore they should be removed? If 301 redirects are not possible it would be better have them that nothing at all but I don't think we need both, right? Any feedback much appreciated!

    Technical SEO | | MVIreland
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  • rouillerromain


    Hey i found a product to sell with 11 of difficulty, 92 of opportunity , 32 of potentiel, 6600 local search by months according to adword and longtailpro , 130 000  results on google but only 0,20 cent for the advertising,   do you think its a good  niche ? file:///Users/rouillerromain/Desktop/Capture%20d’écran%202016-08-05%20à%2013.28.45.png thanks ! WhZyx

    Keyword Research | | rouillerromain
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  • ASKHANUMANTHAILAND


    Hi Moz Fan, My websites - https://finance.rabbit.co.th/ has run financial service, So our main keywords is about "Insurance" in Thai, But today I have an issues regarding to carnonical tag. We have a link that containing by https://finance.rabbit.co.th/car-insurance?showForm=1&brand_id=9&model_id=18&car_submodel_id=30&ci_source_id=rabbit.co.th&car_year=2014 and setting canonical to this url - https://finance.rabbit.co.th/car-insurance within 5,000 items. But in this case I have an warning by site audit tools as Duplicate Page Title (Canonical), So is that possible to drop our ranking. What should we do, setting No-Index, No-Follow for all URL that begin with ? or keep them like that.

    Technical SEO | | ASKHANUMANTHAILAND
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  • BeckyKey


    Hi I am seeing a large drop in our traffic from Bing - this is usually a good traffic source for us. The drop seems to be at the same time Google had the slow roll out of Panda 4.2 - would this have anything to do with it? Becky

    Algorithm Updates | | BeckyKey
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  • mrodriguez1440


    Hi, Has anyone tried starting a new domain after being hit with a Penguin penalty? I'm considering the approach outlined here: https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2384644/can-you-safely-redirect-users-from-a-penguin-hit-site-to-a-new-domain. In a nutshell, de-index the OLD site completely via Google's Removal Tool, and then relaunch old content under new domain. This seems to have merit, unless Google keeps a hidden cache of content (or uses other sources like Wayback Machine). My concern is doing the above listed approach, but Google still passes the old links to the new domain. We have great content, but too much spam (despite me removing a lot of the links + disavow). Any feedback based on experience would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mrodriguez1440
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  • irapasternack


    They are now promoting themselves as an alternative to Yext. In theory it sounds good, as it includes listings management that publish updates within 72 hours, along with review monitoring and notifications. I'm wondering if they live up to their pitch.

    Reviews and Ratings | | irapasternack
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  • WorkhorseMKT


    Are there any best practices on phone number formatting regarding using periods XXX.XXX.XXXX vs dashes XXX-XXX-XXXX? What about using parentheses on the area code (XXX)XXX-XXX? This is regarding a phone number on a contact apge...

    On-Page Optimization | | WorkhorseMKT
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  • srbello


    Hello, I am working on planning for a redesign of a eCommerce clothing website.  Looking for some inspiration on some good examples of clothing companies using their content well.  The design does not have to be the best, it can be just very well done use of blog type content or video. Thank you in advance for taking time to respond!

    Content Development | | srbello
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  • RosemaryB


    Our team QA specialist recently noticing that the class identifier URLs via productontology are 404ing out saying that the "There is no Wikipedia article for (particular property)". They are even 404ing for productontology URLs that are examples on the productontology.com website! Example: http://www.productontology.org/id/Apple The 404 page says that the wiki entry for "Apple" doesn't exist (lol) Does anybody know what is going on with this website?  This service was extremely helpful for creating additionalType categories for schema categories that don't exist on schema.org.  Are there any alternatives to productontology now that these class identifier URLs are 404ing? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RosemaryB
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  • aj613


    I am trying to rank for a local SEO term on a website for a national company.   Should I write an optimized blog post, or optimized site page?  Does it make a difference? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | aj613
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  • pmull


    I am not sure how to fix some errors that are popping up in Google Search Console. The response codes showing are all: 500 error code I need some advice as to how to fix these. What are my options?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | pmull
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  • pmull


    What can I tell my developer so I pass this test? What will they need to develop A web mockup? Is there an easy code to implement?

    Technical SEO | | pmull
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  • STP_SEO


    Hi All, I came across some pages on our site that have multiple robot tags, but they have the same directives.  Two are identical while one is for Google only. I know there aren't any real benefits from having it set up this way, but are there any detrimental effects such as slowing down the bots crawling these pages? name="googlebot" content="index, follow, noodp"/> Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | STP_SEO
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  • amirbt


    If you filter for devices in the search analytics at search console you get that from July 29th all the data is tagged as desktop and mobile and tablet have no data from that date. I see that for all my websites I have search console for, any input on that?

    Reporting & Analytics | | amirbt
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  • Kingalan1


    Our Facebook business page is: www.facebook.com/MetroManhattanOfficeSpace/. Facebook suggests we change it from: 347 5th Ave, # 1008
    New York, NY 10016 To: 347 5th Ave
    New York, NY 10016 Google Places shows our address as: 347 5th Ave #1008, New York, NY 10016 The Facebook change deletes the Suite number and eliminates the comma after "NY". I am concerned how this will effect address consistency and local ranking. Shouldn't the Facebook address match our Google Places address precisely? Isn't it critical that our address format and info appear exactly the same everywhere? Will complying with the requested Facebook address change have a negative impact on local SEO? Thanks, Alan Rosinsky

    Local Listings | | Kingalan1
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  • abisti2


    Does anyone have any recommendations for Youtube SEO Resources in 2016? I've done a lot of work with Local SEO on video but having to move up a notch to national SEO in a competitive field

    Image & Video Optimization | | abisti2
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  • Shirley.Fenlason


    For example, we have 3 different subsites with the same pages. We will put canonicals so they reference the main pages. Do the meta descriptions have to be different for each of the three pages? How does Google handle meta data when using canonicals?

    Technical SEO | | Shirley.Fenlason
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