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  • Lauragabriel


    Hi, Everyone.
    I hope you are well So my question about Moz DA. I would like to ask that I have increased the content on my website which is related to Best Machete. I've done all the things that Google asks us to do for ranking and I'm avoiding wrongdoing. So what else do I need to do to increase Moz DA of my website?
    So Please, If any one know also guide me, I would be grateful to him/her.

    Technical SEO | | Lauragabriel
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  • MoxxiMarketing


    Hi, and THANK YOU! in advance for any input you give, its much appreciated. We've been doing research on this and also wanted to see if the community could provide any more input. We work with a plastic surgery clinic. The namesake of the surgery clinic is that of the first doctor: Practice Name: Gardner Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgeon 1: Dr. Gardner (we've worked with him since at least 2015) Plastic Surgeon 2: Dr. Baccaro (joined practice June 2018) Plastic Surgeon 3: Dr. Crespo (joining their practice starting Sept. 1 2020!) To summarize our issues to date: As we brought on our new surgeon Dr. Baccaro in 2018 we decided to ultimately claim his practitioner GMB listing, and to claim Dr. Gardner's (which had been unclaimed and we had to eliminate duplicates.) Before deciding to utilize the supplementary practitioner listings, we were managing/optimizing their main practice listing: Gardner Plastic Surgery. We continued to primarily/heavily optimize “Gardner Plastic Surgery” and mimicked the details for “Dr. Gardner” and “Dr. Baccaro” From Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2020 we would from time to time notice that "Dr. Paul Gardner's" individual listing was showing up in Local Pack instead of "Gardner Plastic Surgery" but it was not really a big issue, happened very occasionally. Around Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2020 we experienced some Google errors when trying to create Google Posts with videos--it resulted in a few very random and unexpected suspensions. We were posting appropriate content, it seemed that Google was struggling to process our video files from API and it would get stuck in a loop etc. All in all the suspensions happened, and we worked with Google many times to try to understand and stop that from happening. Fortunately that hasn't happened since (and we now don't post videos to Google posts because that was a bit too stressful. We still upload to main photo/video area) Since February 2020 to present we have consistently noticed "Dr. Paul Gardner" appearing in place of the well-optimized full of photos/videos/posts "Gardner Plastic Surgery." We thought algorithm updates etc./COVID were all factors as to why doctors may be more prescient than a clinic. There were times where we thought it was fixed for sure, only for it to continue to crop up. Specifically we were trying to rank for the search term "naples plastic surgeon" What We've Done So Far: I've done a LOT of research and understand a number of errors we were overlooking from Q&As like this (duplicate categories/phone numbers): https://moz.com/community/q/gmb-page-for-law-not-ranking-but-individual-attorneys-names-are And: https://moz.com/community/q/partner-outranking-main-site-in-local So I understand we have some decisions to make on the best path forward. We’re guilty of just about all of the issues Miriam elaborates on. ** As we move forward there are a few elements at play:** They are adding a new surgeon to the practice in September, we’re excited! Making a clear decision before he arrives is important With the addition of the 3<sup>rd</sup> surgeon “Gardner Plastic Surgery” is actually changing the name of its business to “Naples Plastic Surgery” as its much more suiting to the growing scope of practice. ** To end:** Wow. I wrote a lot and really appreciate it if you stuck with me! Some thoughts I had that I wonder if anyone has insight on: Is the fact that “Gardner Plastic Surgery” is “Dr. Gardner’s” namesake a huge factor into why the individual doctor is popping up more often? He’s well known and his name and his business name have been around the internet for years longer than Dr. Baccaro etc. Do you think changing the name to “Naples Plastic Surgery” along with other needed updates could help address the issue? Could our string of unfortunate, though ultimately well-intentioned suspensions be part of what’s enabled “Dr. Paul Gardner” to prop up as well? Should we choose to heavily optimize all listings and see how diversifying categories etc. helps? Should we try to de-optimize and focus on practice profile for now as that’s our main listing? If you have any other recommendations, I’d love to hear them. I think working on optimizing and diversifying our listings would be useful. Thank you again.

    Local Listings | | MoxxiMarketing
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  • RoyDigitalWorld


    I am new here and my question is how rank a website with moz because my website was not ranking in any keywords  so plz guide me

    Getting Started | | RoyDigitalWorld
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  • toti588


    Does using the same CMS fabric/theme with substantially different content for each website but the same business address (on google places and the websites) cause SEO issues?  For example: 2 colleagues with somewhat similar services located at the same business addresses desire to use the same CMS fabric /theme  but will have different content on the sites.  Will this hurt their SEO / should they use a different website skin/theme?

    Web Design | | toti588
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  • malik1237867


    i just check my Apk Finds on moz site explorer and check its ranking keywords but it does not show it please help me my site age is 3 months

    Link Explorer | | malik1237867
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  • Groupespr


    My backlinks are not crawling by Moz yet after creating them four months ago. I have just added them in the links tracking lists now. May these links tracking lists help to crawl these backlinks by Moz?  I have created same backlinks for my another site. But it has crawled by Moz within 10 days. This site is EditorialGE.  But the same backlinks of my another sites are not crawled my Moz yet. Even my guest posts' links are not crawled by Moz yet which are created about two months ago. So, I have submitted them to links tracking list. Can links tracking lists help to crawl those high authority relevant backlinks ba Moz? Please let me know.

    API | | Groupespr
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  • GetYoWhatsApp


    Hi, I have started my website 6 months ago and many of my site's keywords are ranking but when I explore my site Get YoWhatsApp in Moz site explorer, it doesn't show ranking keywords there, I'm a little bit confused about this, when my site's keywords will be shown there? Atqd4Bf

    Link Explorer | | GetYoWhatsApp
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  • Nobody1599597270247


    Hello community! My site cryochambers.com is ranked #0 and #1 for the most important keyword in the cryotherapy industry:
    "cryo chamber":  page A
    "cryo chamber cost":  page A
    "cryotherapy chamber":  page B A couple new keyword are also trending now:
    "cryogenic" replaces "cryotherapy"
    "machine" replaces "chamber" I would be most grateful if you can suggest an approach to also rank #1 and #0 with the variants? FYI:
    Page A: https://www.cryochambers.com/
    Page B: https://www.cryochambers.com/cryo-chamber-sauna-cost/

    Keyword Research | | Nobody1599597270247
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  • shokoufezand


    i use json-ld in our site. structure data in test without any error but in test markup moz in our site schema is not found! Is it time for Google to identify the code to verify the schema?

    Moz Bar | | shokoufezand
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  • Ben-R


    Hello, We’re building out a site for our business that has close to 100 office locations in different cities. Many of these are ‘partner brands’ that we have acquired under our brand. Similar to a franchise model. We want to be able to help users find offices near their location. Each office will have it’s own landing page with a physical address and contact information. We know we’ll have to build out unique copy and markup customized to the office/location. We’ve already read through https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages as well. We’re also considering ‘silos’ to build out pages for each location. To preserve authority and avoid cannibalization; our thought was having each location as sub-folders off of our domain (i.e. domain.com/locations/Partner#1/). The other option would be using a sub-domain (i.e. Partner.Domain.com/) which we noticed competitors doing and treating each sub-domain as their own independent site. Is all of the above the correct strategy? Any further suggestions? Should we fill out a separate GMB for each office and should they all use the same brand name? (in other words “BrandA” vs. “BrandA” - Brooklyn Office). In addition to GMB; would each location need local listings created (also all under the same name)? Any help or insight would be very much appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from all of you! Thank you in advance. Best,

    Local Listings | | Ben-R
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  • valrucar


    Hi everyone and thank you in advance!I am a new startup carpet cleaning business and looking to adopt the franchise SAB model since we are 5 cleaners, first being the owner (myself) located at the first SAB location. The aim is to have the other 4 cleaners create their own SAB listings managed by themselves, each pointing to its own dedicated landing page under the same domain for brand consistency. We collectively aim to cover Hertfordshire county in he UK and rank high in a few hot spots.A few questions:1. Setup - is this the right model for multiple SABs?2. SAB proximity - two of the addresses are 10 miles away from each which I get, not a lot of distance, but I understand even if this close, one SAB can only hope to rank high in a different town 10 miles away despite mentioning the town in its service area. I've been told being so close not only it looks silly on the map but we risk massively reduced visibility in GMB. Is this the case?3. If Question 2 is a no go - is it worth considering a different setup such as perhaps each GMB with its own dedicated web domain and therefore each listing becomes a different entity to avoid clashing?4. NAP consistency - being SABs and therefore not displaying the address in GMB, should we display NAP on the landing page for optimum SEO?Many thanks

    Local Listings | | valrucar
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  • PabloCulebras


    I am building a multisite network based in subdirectories (of the mainsite.com/site1 kind)  where the main site is like a company site, and subsites are focused on brands or projects of that company. There will be links back and forth from the main site and the subsites, as if subsites were just categories or pages within the main site (they are hosted in subfolders of the main domain, after all). Now, Google's John Mueller has said: <<as far="" as="" their="" url="" structure="" is concerned,="" subdirectories="" are="" no="" different="" from="" pages="" and="" subpages="" on="" your="" main="" site.="" google="" will="" do="" its="" best="" to="" identify="" where="" sites="" separate="" using="" but="" the="" is="" same="" for="" a="" single="" site,="" you="" should="" assume="" that="" seo="" purposes,="" network="" be="" treated="" one="">></as> This sounds fine to me, except for the part "Google will do its best to identify where sites are separate", because then, if Google establishes that my multisite structure is actually a collection of different sites, links between subsites and mainsite would be considered backlinks between my own sites, which could be therefore considered a link wheel, that is, a kind of linking structure Google doesn't like. How can I make sure that Google understand my multisite as a unique site? P.S. - The reason I chose this multisite structure, instead of hosting brands in categories of the main site, is that if I use the subdirectories based multisite feature I will be able to map a TLD domain to any of my brands (subsites) whenever I'd choose to give that brand a more distinct profile, as if it really was a different website.

    Web Design | | PabloCulebras
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  • RWesley


    google tag manager

    I'm using an Element Visibility trigger to track a value that appears on a page. However, I want to track this value even when the user doesn't scroll to the area of the page where the element is (i.e. when the page is loaded, and the value is displayed below the fold, but the user doesn't scroll down there). Is there a way of doing this

    Reporting & Analytics | | RWesley
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  • SIMON-CULL


    hi, i am rewriting content since it had 300 words , lower than top 10s i did some keywords research, on ahrefs, moz, keywordtool . io, semrush. and there are lot of variations like, main keyword is (ios 12) has variations like (ios 12 download), (ios 12 install), (ios 12 not supported) and so on, people have been searching all these terms with ios 12, it feels like if my page talks about all these variations. i have more chances to rank. does it make any sense?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SIMON-CULL
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  • clayjones


    In using the MozBar Chrome extension, I have noticed that the data about a page that MozBar displays is sometimes inconsistent with the "head" tag in the HTML of the page. Am I misunderstanding where MozBar is getting the data it is displaying? Other SEO extensions like "META SEO inspector"do not display these inconsistencies. EupH5sG

    Moz Bar | | clayjones
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  • Envoke-Marketing


    I noticed that in the redirect issues I have, most of the issues are coming from our Intercom support links. I want to ask, does intercom support pages and redirect issue can affect the SEO performance of our website?

    Reporting & Analytics | | Envoke-Marketing
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  • Caffeine_Marketing


    structured data

    We have 10:branches for our agency where we are looking to attract local businesses to use our marketing services, should each landing page have structured data for ‘local business’?  Any advice would be helpful

    Local SEO | | Caffeine_Marketing
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  • BitsyJones


    I used to be able to create a list of links via Link Tracking Lists and within 8 days Moz bot would visit and index the links in the Moz database.  However, this no longer works.  Is it broken? I have used this previously without issues, and tried several times over 20 days, but nothing.  Anyone else having issues? Moz support - is this feature broken?  If so, when do you envisage having it fixed? Thanks

    Link Explorer | | BitsyJones
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  • albertoalchieriefficio


    I am losing 1 point of DA at month? What could it be? I have noticed I have lost 50K (out of 300K) of internal links after a website update, could it be related to that?

    Technical SEO | | albertoalchieriefficio
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  • SIMON-CULL


    hi lets suppose we have backlinks from these sites page a has 10 ext links. and all external links are industry/niche relevant, one of them points to my site page b has 1 ext link , which points to my site. which one is giving more seo boost.?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SIMON-CULL
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  • jafarfahi


    Hi. Recently I got a project (removing zombie pages here: https://www.alamto.com/ ) As you can see this site has about 20k indexed page on google and it seems I should remove about 6000 useless indexed page. does removing (Noindex) these pages affect on the site metrics? Which metrics would affected? and how? Thanks.

    On-Page Optimization | | jafarfahi
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  • nazfazy


    Hi, Can anyone tell me - whether using  2 cache plugin helps or it cause any issue? Besides, when i used w3 cache plugin in WordPress its found like inline CSS issue to get cleared. So, i tried auto optimized but my website Soc prollect gone crashed in between while using the some.  Is there any solution and can anyone tell me which plugin advantages to speed the site by removing java script and inline css at a time.

    Technical SEO | | nazfazy
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  • SofyaFr


    We have a subdomain blog.companyname.com. I am working on its  English version blog.companyname.com/en but for some reason Google shows meta description from  blog.companyname.com in search results which is not in Englsih language. How do I force google to show  blog.companyname.com/en 's  own meta?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SofyaFr
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  • arabtechnologieseo

    This question is deleted!

    Link Building | | arabtechnologieseo
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  • nazfazy


    Hey, when i have tested my website https://www.socprollect-mea.com/ on GT metrix. When i test morning, it shown page speed of 3.8 seconds and in noon it shown 2 seconds and later i check, it is defeclecting. speed on the Google page speed test as well. What kind of error is this and does anyone have the solution for this issue?

    On-Page Optimization | | nazfazy
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  • WebMarkets


    It shows Bing is synced, but it does not display the correct data. Any suggestions?

    Moz Local | | WebMarkets
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  • scottgray0620


    Hello, I'm trying optimize my google search for local business in Fort Myers, FL area. I've created specific keywords that people are searching and have made my page title and on-page experience reflect this relevency.  However, the page isn't appearing anywhere on google search even though search console has stated that the page has been indexed.  My question is, how do I trouble shoot this so that I can appear in local search for these search terms?

    On-Page Optimization | | scottgray0620
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  • Keshavblogger

    This question is deleted!

    Moz Pro | | Keshavblogger
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  • seochris17


    hello guys, is there any way to use Moz free or any well-known company who would like to give me Moz login at a very cheap price. if anyone knows then please guide me shortly. Thanks With Regards, Abert sin.

    Getting Started | | seochris17
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  • Intergaz


    Hi everyone, I really don't understand why our competitor with lower DR and PA outranks us in Google.lv (Google Latvia). Below is a screenshot showing that our company takes #2 for the following keyword "gāzes baloni" in Google. Our DR is 24 and our PA is: 26, whereas our competitors DR is 23 and their PA is 19. The content on our page is much better too - we have clear Title, description, Q&A section etc, whereas our competitor has very limited content, just photos of the product and titles. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. PYNPLNw i1lp4QI NriO6O4

    Technical SEO | | Intergaz
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  • arabtechnologieseo


    Can I change an article after I post it but to add some keywords or change the title of the article on my site https://arabtechnologie.com/ my site

    Getting Started | | arabtechnologieseo
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  • Moleculera


    long-tail keyword - "seizures in adults with no history" Should you include "in and with" in the url?

    On-Page Optimization | | Moleculera
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  • House-Doctors


    Looking at my campaign on Moz Pro and I was wondering where the keywords are generated from as I did not put these in. Can someone please explain?

    Moz Bar | | House-Doctors
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  • SIMON-CULL


    HI, suppose my homepage has good content but no external links to  other sites for more info. and no helpful internal links in the footer to  learn more. and my competition has 9 internal links in the footer  which links  to other pages on the site who has more SEO boost? I know the answer , does it really makes a difference or its minute?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SIMON-CULL
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  • ryan.mamma


    why does a business rank differ on google search and google maps (for example, a hair salon we do seo for ranks 5th for "hair salon in Dublin" on Google Maps and ranks 10th on Google search)

    On-Page Optimization | | ryan.mamma
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  • rosie16


    Hi everyone, I created a product review based blog about finding the best outdoor basketball but it's MOZ keyword difficulty is increasing drastically. I'm finding it difficult to rank. Is it a good practice to target low competition related keywords to rank the main keyword?
    Please advise, Thank you!

    Algorithm Updates | | rosie16
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  • YYSeanBrady


    So, I've been working on a site for a while, and they recently had one of their blog posts marked as "duplicate content" on Moz Pro: https://ashlandbreastpumps.com/blog/breast-milk-storage-guidelines/ Reviewing this post, there's nothing here to suggest that it should be considered duplicate. Link is marked canonical, there are no weird domain shenanigans to cause confusion, the content is distinct, and there's a lot of content there that prevents it from being overcome by coding white noise (So "more content" wouldn't be a solution here). So I'm trying to figure out why this particular post was flagged. Did Moz Pro make a mistake?

    Product Support | | YYSeanBrady
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  • Sam09schulz


    i recently Learned that if someone clicks on your site and goes back within a few seconds or maybe a minute and then goes to the next search result that tells Google that previous website was not so good In order to prevent that is it OK to block non-targeted countries from looking at my site that could stop user engagement a little bit I mean is it worth it what do you think?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Sam09schulz
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  • HansiAliya


    Hello, I hope you all guys are doing great. Recently, I published my over my website and within almost 10 mins, it was indexed completely and I also personally checked it in google search console. The URL was indexed but the problem is, it does not appear in Google Search. Sometimes in search result I notice Google shows a result who is published 10-30 mins ago but this is not the case with my website. All articles just show in Google SERP after 1-2 days. What can be the reason behind this, although DA, PA is good (28-31).

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | HansiAliya
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