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  • echo1


    Hi guys! There has been an unusual amount of traffic to one particular page on our blog. Now that the business is slow, I had the time to look into it. Half of that traffic is coming from India and we are a Chicago based limo service. We 'll skip why that happens part for now.
    I let Hotjar record 100 session and upon reviewing them I have noticed a lot of sessions with no interaction, no mouse movement, no clicks;  just scroll and exit. My question is related to implementing a type of verification (captcha) for that blog page to see if the bots / behavior changes.
    Are there any downside in terms of in page SEO for this type of implementation? 
    What is good practice for something like this?

    Reporting & Analytics | | echo1
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  • seochris17


    I used to work daily on my office website https://quintdaily.com/ and  follow link building strategy. however, since more than 40-50 days, there is no movement in my DA, as the PA has just lifted up. However, there is no changes in Domain Authority so far. Besides, other than this website, im working on location wise SEO projects, but, i can find those websites Domain Authority changed in less 20 days. Is there is time period in changing the Domain Authority once it touched DA 30+?

    Moz Pro | | seochris17
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  • mozerSL


    How to index  backlink fast on MOZ

    Reporting & Analytics | | mozerSL
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  • Ski-Solutions


    Hi, Our Moz report does not seem to have updated this week? Thanks,
    Sacha

    Product Support | | Ski-Solutions
    1
  • nomokoss


    I created a blog on keyword "Best Digital Piano" 2 months back. It's KD was 18 at that time but now it increased to 28. I'm worried about it. What is the issue? Is there any bug in MOZ?
    Please help me. Thanks!

    Link Explorer | | nomokoss
    0
  • saficottage


    Hi everyone,  Moz Community, I asking a question here so kind of excited to be part of the community. I hired an SEO firm about three months ago.  They have arranged high ranking DA guest posts for my website Bagcottage as well as many other small low DA links.  None of these links have any kind of a spam score. However, for the past two months, they have been helping, our website's DA has actually dropped by one point each month. Is this cause for concern?  Any thoughts on how I can trace the drop? On a side-note, out of the 700+ keywords that didn't were ranking in the top 50, about 200 of them now are gone compared to last month.  I don't know if this is related or not, but something looks awry. By Fazle Wadood Safi fazlewadood1987@gmail.com https://bagcottage.com

    Moz Pro | | saficottage
    0
  • scottgray0620


    Hello, I purchased Moz Local for our fitness and performance company, BIM Fitness & Performance, about 6 weeks ago. Compared to the other people in our area, we have the highest DA. We show up 2nd in search but are not showing up on the "map pack" for local. That said, can someone please help me pinpoint why this may be? We've selected several categories that are relevant to search and we can't seem to understand why.

    Reviews and Ratings | | scottgray0620
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  • Caffeine_Marketing


    Hi, we are in the process of building a new website and we have 12 different locations and for theses 12 locations we have landing pages with unique copy on the following: 1. Marketing...2 SEO....3. PPC....4. Web Design Therefor there are 48 landing pages.  The marketing pages are the most important ones to us in terms of traffic and priority.  My question is: 1. Should we put a dropdown of the are pages in the main header under locations that link to the area marketing pages? 2. What is the best way to link all the sub pages such as London Web Design?  Should these links just be coming off the London marketing page? or should we have a sitemap in the footer that lists every page? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Caffeine_Marketing
    0
  • shags313


    I recently acquired a business that had a website with great rankings and traffic but also had a few physical locations listed in Google. The physical locations closed and are marked as "Permanently Closed" in Google. The website also expired for several months before I picked it up. The site had amazing rankings and traffic previously but is really struggling to regain rankings now. I'm concerned that the site is not performing well due to the business marked as "permanently closed" in GMB. I'm unable to do anything about that because the website doesn't have any physical locations. Any tips on what to do here?

    Technical SEO | | shags313
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  • Antdxb


    Hi, we have some links that have definitely been removed from a website but are still showing in our moz reports, and are not showing a date lost... They were removed months ago Why would be still be showing in Moz reports?

    Link Building | | Antdxb
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  • PhillySEO


    Greetings fellow Moz Community, first time asking a question here so kind of excited to be part of the community. I hired an SEO firm about three months ago.  They have arranged high ranking DA guest posts for us as well as many other small low DA links.  None of these links have any kind of a spam score. However for the past two months they have been helping, our website's DA has actually dropped by one point each month. Is this cause for concern?  Any thoughts on how I can trace the drop? On a side-note, out of the 700+ keywords that didn't were ranking in the top 50, about 200 of them now are gone compared to last month.  I don't know if this is related or not, but something looks awry.

    Technical SEO | | PhillySEO
    0
  • Sam09schulz


    hi, i have some editorial links from some sites, they are appearing in google search results even when i select verbatim, long story short-when will they show up in search console. are they indexed by google? if they are showing in search results , does that mean they will also show up in search console? i am confused.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Sam09schulz
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  • Sam09schulz


    lately i have been thinking , when a  crawler visits an already visited site  or indexed site, whats the duration of its scanning?

    Algorithm Updates | | Sam09schulz
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  • GetYoWhatsApp


    Hi, I'm new in SEO field and I started my new project, my website is a fresh domain just 4 months old, I have a different post on my website, my site's DA is just 1 and PA is 8 and all pages have different PA, I'm confused in DA and DA metrics, kindly guide. Thanks

    Link Building | | GetYoWhatsApp
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  • Hshshwiw

    This question is deleted!

    Link Building | | Hshshwiw
    0
  • NickHatster


    Hi all, So, if you google "london life coach" my site appears #2 (www.nickhatter.com) But if you google "life coach London" my SERP seems to fluctuate between #3 up to #6. If you google "life coach in London" my SERP is a solid #2/3. I don't get it all. Would someone care to explain? Also, if you have any tips on how I might improve the EAT of my website please do feel free to weigh in! Many thanks,
    Nick

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | NickHatster
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  • PabloCulebras


    Hi, I have the following problem and would like which would be the best solution for it: I have a site codex21.gal that is actually part of a subdirectories based multisite (galike.net). It has a domain mapping setup, but it is hosted on a folder of galike.net multisite (galike.net/codex21). My main site (galike.net) works as a frame-brand for a series of projects aimed to promote the cultural & natural heritage of a region in NW Spain through creative projects focused on the entertainment, tourism and educational areas. The projects themselves will be a concretion (put into practice) of the general views of the brand, that acts more like a company brand. CodeX21 is one of those projects, it has its own logo, etc, and is actually like a child brand, yet more focused on a particular theme. I don't want to hide that it makes part of the GALIKE brand (in fact, I am planning to add the Galike logo to it, and a link to the main site on the menu). I will be making other projects, each of them with their own brand, hosted in subsites (subfolders) of galike.net multisites. Not all of them might have their own TLD mapped, some could simply be www.galike.net/projectname. The project codex21.gal subsite might become galike.net/codex21 if it would be better for SEO. Now, the problem is that my subsite codex21.gal re-states some principles, concepts and goals that have been defined (in other words) in the main site. Thus, there are some ideas (such as my particular vision on the possibilities of sustainable exploitation of that heritage, concepts I have developed myself as "narrative tourism" "geographical map as a non lineal story" and so on) that need to be present here and there on the subsite, since it is also philosophy of the project. BUT it seems that Google can penalise overlapping content in subdirectories based multisites, since they can seem a collection of doorways to access the same product (*) I have considered the possibility to substitute those overlapping ideas with links to the main page of the site, thought it seems unnatural from the user point of view to be brought off the page to read a piece of info that actually makes part of the project description (every other child project of Galike might have the same problem). I have considered also taking the subsite codex21 out of the network and host it as a single site in other server, but the problem of duplicated content might persist, and anyway, I should link it to my brand Galike somewhere, because that's kind of the "production house" of it. So which would be the best (white hat) strategy, from a SEO point of view, to arrange this brand-project philosophy overlapping? (*) “All the same IP address — that’s really not a problem for us. It’s really common for sites to be on the same IP address. That’s kind of the way the internet works. A lot of CDNs (content delivery networks) use the same IP address as well for different sites, and that’s also perfectly fine. I think the bigger issue that he might be running into is that all these sites are very similar. So, from our point of view, our algorithms might look at that and say “this is kind of a collection of doorway sites” — in that essentially they’re being funnelled toward the same product. The content on the sites is probably very similar. Then, from our point of view, what might happen is we will say we’ll pick one of these pages and index that and show that in the search results. That might be one variation that we could look at. In practice that wouldn’t be so problematic because one of these sites would be showing up in the search results. On the other hand, our algorithm might also be looking at this and saying this is clearly someone trying to overdo things with a collection of doorway sites and we’ll demote all of them. So what I recommend doing here is really trying to take a step back and focus on fewer sites and making those really strong, and really good and unique. So that they have unique content, unique products that they’re selling. So then you don’t have this collection of a lot of different sites that are essentially doing the same thing.” (John Mueller, Senior Webmaster Trend Analyst at Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kQIyk-2-wRg&feature=emb_logo)

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | PabloCulebras
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  • Sam09schulz


    is it gonna affect rankings if so what should be done thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Sam09schulz
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  • joinpakarmy234


    When I check my this website https://joinpakarmy.com.pk/  on Moz it gives me DA 3
    But when I check it out on Ahrefs, it tells me there is no authority for this site.
    So who is more accurate in the result?
    thanks

    Moz Bar | | joinpakarmy234
    0
  • GregLB


    Do things like using labels on an element that is not a form input affect how google sees us? It's an accessibility error that our devs have made - using a label element because it looks good, not because it's an actual label on a form field. Just wondering how that affects accessibility in Google's eyes.

    Web Design | | GregLB
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  • Konvertica


    i see where I can check the DA for a site, but how can I check the PA of a page?

    Getting Started | | Konvertica
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  • LianaLewis


    Regarding backlinks, I'm wondering which is more advantageous for domain authority and Google reputation: Option 1: More backlinks including a lot of spammy links Option 2: Fewer backlinks but only reliable, non-spam links I've researched this topic around the web a bit and understand that the answer is somewhere in the middle, but given my site's specific backlink volume, the answer might lean one way or the other. For context, my site has a spam score of 2%, and when I did a quick backlink audit, roughly 20% are ones I want to disavow. However, I don't want to eliminate so many backlinks that my DA goes down. As always, we are working to build quality backlinks, but I'm interested in whether eliminating 20% of backlinks will hurt my DA. Thank you!

    Technical SEO | | LianaLewis
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  • jfdagborrbg


    Dear Experts,
    This is Julia and I am SEO Executive at J com. I would like to ask that If we are building 150+ quality backlinks per month for any website and 30 backlinks are deleting each month from 150 backlinks so It would be OK (natural) OR it would affect website ranking. I am looking forward to your response

    Technical SEO | | jfdagborrbg
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  • EdShull


    I'm working on a multi-state attorney website and I'm going back and forth on URL's. I thought I'd see what the community thinks. lawsite.com/los-angeles/car-accident-lawyer vs. lawsite.com/los-angeles-car-accident-lawyer I should note this site will have over a dozen city locations, with different practices.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EdShull
    0
  • EdShull


    I have 2 websites that I've built up for a few years decent DA. I'm thinking of making one new website and directing the two websites to it. Is Google going to find that suspicious, or will the new site benefit from the DA from both?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EdShull
    0
  • mike.brodeur


    When utilizing certain password manages, the tab order on the login page is set in such a way that the username fills in and then where the password should go is the Create an Account link.  Thus, the password is not filled in and the user is brought to the Create an Account page.

    Feature Requests | | mike.brodeur
    0
  • HansiAliya


    Hello, I hope you guys are doing well. I published an article about 2 months ago and I tried to write a rich article in regards to SEO. Also, did a keywords research and found my competitors. I created a lengthy but meaningful article from all the competitors. Here is the link to my Article and my targeted keyword is "CSC Scholarship 2020". You can check my domain DA & PA also. It is higher than the websites' DA, PA who are ranked on the top of the page. My content is also Lengthy and Meaningful and to-the-point but still, my Article is not generating any result for me. I want that, please investigate the main issue that is causing this problem.

    Technical SEO | | HansiAliya
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  • Nileshaggarwal


    what aspect should be checking while submitting disavow link ?

    Link Building | | Nileshaggarwal
    0
  • Vanderlindemedia


    Hi, I'm creating a page of 300+ in the near future, on which the content basicly will be unique as it can be. However, upon every refresh, also coming from a search engine refferer, i want the actual content such as listing 12 business to be displayed random upon every hit. So basicly we got 300+ nearby pages with unique content, and the overview of those "listings" as i might say, are being displayed randomly. Ive build an extensive script and i disabled any caching for PHP files in specific these pages, it works. But what about google? The content of the pages will still be as it is, it is more of the listings that are shuffled randomly to give every business listing a fair shot at a click and so on. Anyone experience with this? Ive tried a few things in the past, like a "Last update PHP Month" in the title which sometimes is'nt picked up very well.

    Technical SEO | | Vanderlindemedia
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  • Ihateme1000x


    hello dear hope you all are fine i want some help from you that when ever i try to use moz bar it shows that all the pages or posts of my website has different number of pa like 10, 11,06 etc but DA is same so i want some help that why my da is same.

    Feature Requests | | Ihateme1000x
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  • shannonelder6


    Hi Folks, I was doing reverse reengineering one website today. I put that website in Site Overview and for a specific KW "lesco bill estimator", KW difficulty appeared as 21 in the columns grid but when I clicked on this KW to check other stats like CTR and priority, etc it showed me a different difficulty which was 18. It is quite confusing for me, why there is a difference and which one is correct?  For reference, website is "https://lescobillonline.net/" and I've mentioned that Keyword above. If someone answers this questions it could be helpful for others to understand the algo behind this situation or scenario. Thanks, MOZ Community ! Cheers. Shannon!

    Link Explorer | | shannonelder6
    0
  • Reprise


    Hi guys! I have a metadata problem with my home page. If I look for the brand's keyword, the SERPs don´t show the metadata I configured, instead it shows the URL with sitelinks. If I use the "site:" command, it doesn't appear at all. This happens only on the home page, not the rest, which are roughly 700 pages. Those appear fine. I already have a meta title and meta description configured, which include the mentioned KW. It used to appear correctly before. GSC shows it indexed. Most audit tools (configured to crawl JS) detect the metadata. Moz's On Page tool doesn't. Could it be because of the JS configuration? Or am I missing something else? Here´s the meta description code:What do you think? I'd appreciate your input. Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | Reprise
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  • jessicarechkemmer


    Hello, Starting a new website and the company name has three words. We've made the decision for the brand guide that we will not have spaces when the name is included in copy.  Are we going to have difficulties ranking for both instances? Thanks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | jessicarechkemmer
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  • Remke


    Our site uses Canonicals to address duplicate content issues with product/facet filtering. example: www.mysite.com/product?color=blue Relcanon= www.mysite.com/product However, our site is also using no follow for all of the "filters" on a page (so all ?color=, etc. links are no follow). What is the benefit of utilizing the no follow on the filters if we have the rel canon in place? Is this an effort to save crawl budget? Are we giving up possible SEO juice by having the no follow and not having the crawler get to the canonical tag and subsequently reference the main page? Is this just something we just forget about? I hope we're not giving up SEO juice by

    Technical SEO | | Remke
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  • pnoddy


    Over 40+ pages have been removed from the indexed and this page has been selected as the google preferred canonical. https://studyplaces.com/about-us/ The pages affected by this include: https://studyplaces.com/50-best-college-party-songs-of-all-time-and-why-we-love-them/ https://studyplaces.com/15-best-minors-for-business-majors/ As you can see the content on these pages is totally unrelated to the content on the about-us page.   Any ideas why this is happening and how to resolve.

    Technical SEO | | pnoddy
    0
  • p4pakao


    Hi,
     I would like to discuss my issue as my site's some backlinks are generated but DA is still there. Can anyone make me understand the reason?

    Link Building | | p4pakao
    0
  • iescobill


    Hello, I have a local website (https://iescobill.pk) where I am getting good organic traffic, and also social traffic, and so far my page authority (PA) has reached #13, but DA still 1? Is it normal?

    Link Explorer | | iescobill
    0
  • marktravis


    I have submitted bad links that I want to disavow on google with the Moz Pro hight spam score.  Its almost 4 months completed yet I have a bad link that exists with high spam score any solution? https://fortniteskinsgenerator.net/

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | marktravis
    0
  • RyanTheMoz


    I have up to 20 million unique pages, and so far I've only submitted about 30k of them on my sitemap. We had a few load related errors during googles initial visits, and it thought some were duplicates, but we fixed all that.  We haven't gotten a crawl related error for 2 weeks now. Google appears to be indexing fewer and fewer urls every time it visits.  Any ideas why?  I am not sure how to get all our pages indexed if its going to operate like this... love some help thanks! HnJaXSM.png

    Technical SEO | | RyanTheMoz
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  • WayneM.


    I have implemented a star rating from jetpack on my website. But google stubbornly refuses to display stars in the snippet. 2 months have already passed. Maybe I did something wrong? I must say that I did not cheat artificially. https://exoticfonts.com/discord-fonts-generator/

    On-Page Optimization | | WayneM.
    0
  • EdKim


    I've used the Moz bar for many years to quickly figure out if a link is followed or no-followed. I recently used a Wordpress plugin to build lists of subjects and excerpts of pages with appropriate links. An example is at https://www.chicagotraveler.com/chicago-parks/ This is the main Parks section page. Below the map is a set of links and descriptions of each park in this section of the site. The problem is that when I use the Moz bar to look at this page, the links are not highlighted no matter which settings I click on. Followed, No-followed, External or Internal. I've looked at the code and while there is a bit of css nearby the links, they look fairly normal. Does this mean that moz thinks there is something wrong. Do you think google will also ignore these links? Should I scrap the plugin and build and maintain these lists manually?

    Moz Bar | | EdKim
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  • Melissacarter


    I have seen redirect links from google but not sure how to create one. Please guide if anyone knows the answer. Example: https://images.google.cv/url?q=https://moz.com

    Link Building | | Melissacarter
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  • FamiliesLoveTravel


    Hello - We have a site with over 1,000 tags. We added too many and would like a fresh start as they are creating a lot of duplicate pages on the site. What is the best way to go about deleting all of these tags without being penalized by Google? Is there a way to tell Google direclty to stop crawling them? We would prefer to not have that many pages just sit as 404 errors on the site. Thank you.

    Technical SEO | | FamiliesLoveTravel
    0
  • calvinkj


    a:my competitors has indexed 10 pages (checked it with site:abcd.com and found 10 results) b:what if i index 20 pages of my site and create a lot of content which is also better than my competitors who will have the edge?

    Reporting & Analytics | | calvinkj
    0
  • 100offdeal


    When I crawl my site through moz, it shows lots of  Pages with Duplicate Content. The thing is all that pages are pagination pages. How should I solve this issue?

    Technical SEO | | 100offdeal
    0
  • calvinkj


    I have heard that it’s linking domains or refereeing domains declined and the graph looks like its declining, i will look shady in engines eyes kindly elaborate thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | calvinkj
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  • calvinkj


    what would be those reasons ? factors that   im not ranking? what bad seo practices to steer clear? need an anwer in depth i would really appreciate the answers Thanks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | calvinkj
    0
  • AndyKubrin


    Hi all, SEO noob here. I'm doing an audit for a firm that makes specialized accounting software. It's a relatively new firm, with a barebones website. My client has identified three direct business competitors. In addition, I see indirect competitors (such as product reviews) on the SERP for a relevant keyword phrase. I want to provide actionable advice for my client. What information should I present? I'd like to help my client understand: Why my client's competitors are outperforming them on the SERPs What my client needs to do to overtake their competitors What information should I present to my client? Thanks, all.

    Competitive Research | | AndyKubrin
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