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  • Seogamesokay1a


    I Create backlinks for my website to Increase DA But Backlinks are indexed and Ahrefs Show that backlinks but MOZ is showing backlinks. I am confuse Can you explain?

    Link Building | | Seogamesokay1a
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  • calvinkj


    will the linking domain of my website increases when i manually click on the backlinks  of my website using vpn

    International SEO | | calvinkj
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  • Gandoo1


    My question is how to index link in Moz fast?

    API | | Gandoo1
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  • BloggerSEObd


    Hello Moz Community, I'm facing spam score issue on my site General Queen according to MOZ my website spam score is 30% but anybody can explain how can i decrease it? Firstly I disavowed all low-quality and high spam score links (6 months ago) but my spam score was not decreased after that I created some high-quality and 0 spam score backlinks but still, my spam score is same 😞 According to Moz link explorer, my domain backlinks spam score ratio was below; Stats of 14 July 2019 .. Screen shot is attached 1-30% .. 45.3%
    31-60% .. 32.1%
    61-100% .. 22.6% Stats of 13 June 2020 .. Screen shot is attached 1-30% .. 65.1%
    31-60% .. 30.7%
    61-100% .. 4.2% You can see a huge difference in the backlinks spam score in it. But why my spam score is still 30%? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks & Regards, abu1NiB XGLkr5z

    Link Explorer | | BloggerSEObd
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  • vhubert


    Hello, Moz community! I'm planning to change the language of my website title and description from English to rank better for queries on the local language. Do you think this would increase the local language ranking? And in case I need to switch back to English, let's say in 2021, would it be difficult to regain the current rankings? Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this. Thank you!

    International SEO | | vhubert
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  • Seogamesokay1a


    I Create backlinks for my website to Increase DA But Backlinks are indexed and Ahrefs Show that backlinks but MOZ is showing backlinks. I am confuse Can you explain?

    Link Building | | Seogamesokay1a
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  • architecturalcgi


    Hello. I cannot move notifications to the archive, nothing happens after clicking the Archive button. And I can’t go into the archive itself. What could be the problem?

    Link Explorer | | architecturalcgi
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  • jessica45


    I'm using wordpress for my blog and yoast plugin for seo. recently i read a tutorial about "long-tail keyword" usage. but i get confused when i want to use them in my blog posts. take this long-tail keyword: best gaming mouse and keyboard for ps4 Imaging i want to use this as my primary keyword(focus keyword) in my blog post. how should i use it in post title and other parts of my article? -should i use it in the exact same order in my title or post?
    -how to use it in yoast keyphrase input? should i use exact match of the focus keyphrase in the input? as you know Google is capable of recognizing the separate words from longer search terms, even if the words are not in the exact same order as the query. I searched many days but unfortunately i couldn't find anything about how to use keyword or long-tail keyword inside the article step by step.

    Keyword Research | | jessica45
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  • calvinkj


    somebody told me if i get a  click on my backlink , i will get more refering domains

    Link Building | | calvinkj
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  • FSW66


    Hello everyone! I am constantly receiving offers from content writers looking for blogs to post content for their clients and offering to pay me to add 'relevant' articles to my blog. My question is: Is this a good idea? And if so, what should I charge? My main concern is if accepting these posts would damage our reputation in SEO terms. Any help would be much appreciated. Stay safe! Ken - www.naturalfrenchsoap.com

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | FSW66
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  • catcoo


    Hellow, I have a problem with anchor text. I have write a blog post and put anchor texts as well with <a href"="" "="">//</a> but i'm wondering its not appearing on moz. Also when i extract links from page then its showing all the links. As far as i know the links should not be shown when you have anchor text. Please help me. I'm using wordpress latest version.

    Link Explorer | | catcoo
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  • sydneygardeners6


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    Local SEO | | sydneygardeners6
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  • Code2Chil


    I have recently re-done my entire site (only a few days).  I believe Google is still re-crawling and updating (however, the amount of movement on other searches has been significant).  My buyers guide is ranking very high for its intended keywords, as well as high for the keywords of the category page.  Both are at the beginning of the second page and I wonder if its dragging me down. What do you think I should do?  Is it to early to take action as everything has been completed redone.

    Technical SEO | | Code2Chil
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  • Fred.Visnevsky


    Hi all, Trying to figure out what is going on with the keyword explorer. All searches are made in the EN-US region. Example keyword: app localization
    Moz shows me that volume is 0-10, which is Wrong. Actual volumes are in thousands per month. Another keyword - translation service
    Moz shows the volume as 2480 when actual volumes are in tens of thousands. I can give many more examples like this - what is going on? NZGzX2p.png vzIwMoe.png

    Moz Bar | | Fred.Visnevsky
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  • hemeravisuals13


    I have a domain name allready registered www.untamedelopement.co.uk and dot com. Someone despite knowing I had this name has registered untamedelopements.com (with the s) is that going to mess up my seo. I'm UK and will be targeting as my keyword Scottish Wedding Photographer and they are Canada? Thanks in advance

    Moz Pro | | hemeravisuals13
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  • Mission-Quest


    Hello, A while ago I published an article on our blog (HERE) and ensured that it meets all Moz's criteria for a good ranking. Moz scores my article at 96%, which is great. However, Google does not show my link anywhere, even that the target keyword has a difficulty score of 5% only. Any idea why this page is not doing good on Google? The article URL is: https://missionquest.org/how-to-choose-a-missionary-service-agency/ The target keyword is: Missionary Service Agency. Thank you for your help. Mission Quest

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Mission-Quest
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  • twiguins


    I have a website with a number of specific locations listed in a directory. The locations are in categories but i also have several pages with the same titles and descriptions. Will this be a problem when it comes to seo

    On-Page Optimization | | twiguins
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  • EvoqueDCS


    We have been trying for over a year to get Google My Business listing verification on our facilities, which are separate from our company HQ. We have 31 facilities around the world that do not have business signs on them. We have tried sending postcards and are told that no one is receiving them. The folks who receive the mail are guards and it's tricky to ensure they field them. This has been an ongoing challenge as Google says that the alternate method requires a business sign located next to the building number, which we don't have. What do you recommend we do to get listed in GMB?

    Local Listings | | EvoqueDCS
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  • mbmozmb


    Hi, I want to index all my categories and tags. But I fear about duplicating the meta description. for example: I have a tag name "Learn Stock Market", a category name "Learning", and a main article "What is Stock Market". What is your suggestion for meta description of these three pages that looks great for seo google?

    On-Page Optimization | | mbmozmb
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  • killerseo2020


    I searched for keyword rank for shoreloop.com but couldn't find any.  What could be the problem?

    Competitive Research | | killerseo2020
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  • seoasikhan2


    Hi, I have been working on SEO for a long time, recently I started a new site where I was aiming to rank different niches but I am stuck. First I covered some keywords related to sports then I shifted the niche to hunting. My idea was to cover a niche fully then move on to the 2nd so the authority of the site can also help rank the 2nd niche but the problem is I am unable to rank my site. Should I be considering only a very specific niche site or should I continue doing all the stuff on the same site. Please checkout my site ReviewsCase.com and let me know. And if has also done the same please let me know.

    Algorithm Updates | | seoasikhan2
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  • hrparts


    MOZ is only crawling two pages of my site even though there are links on the homepage, and the robot.txt file allows for crawling.  Our site address is www.hrparts.com.

    Product Support | | hrparts
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  • Tindol


    When I click into the moz bar on our website www.essexparts.com it shows that the URL is Canadian and shows a Canada flag.  The website and company are in the US.  Can someone please explain this? Also does the location have any bearing on how it shows up in google? XNQOQoJ

    API | | Tindol
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  • Virginia-Girtz


    Hello there, My client is not appearing in the People Also Ask section on Google for their brand name and I'm not sure why. Can anyone help or explain how you get featured into these snippets? What's weird is when you google their brand name, the People Also Ask section comes up, but they only appear in one question. The other three are from their competitors which is obviously annoying for them. Do you know how to get into the People Also Ask bit? Do I have to markup the page or is it simply based on popular questions and the best answers?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Virginia-Girtz
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  • danawebprollc


    We thought we had until to 8th to cancel and you charged our card On the 8th.  Now we can’t reach anyone.  We cancelled the service.

    Product Support | | danawebprollc
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  • Gael_Regnault


    Hello Moz community, I’m following one of my competitors on Moz, and I noticed a huge bump in his domain authority overnight, going from 8 to 53. I figured there must have been a reason for that, so I checked their links overview, and noticed they got tons of new external followed links, followed linking domains and total linking domains (see screenshot 1). I clicked on the external followed links to see what they are, and I saw tons of redirect notices (see screenshot 2). The links are from google: maps.google.co.fr cse.google.co.fr images.google.co.fr And .fr is just an example, they have tons of other cctlds like .it .ca .es… the list goes on (see screenshot 3) Do you know where these redirect notices are from? It may be worth noting that some of these redirect to the http version of his website, while others redirect to the https version. I’m guessing this must be a bug on Moz’s end or some sort of SEO trick, but did his DA really go up that much, and does it positively affect his website or will Google penalize this? Thank you in advance for your answers! f9pZoJ3.png M0Z0s9x.png BNQryzR.png

    Link Building | | Gael_Regnault
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  • ThreatAnalyzer


    Hello, Our website howtoremove.guide was recently removed from the Bing and Yahoo index. The first thing we did was contact Bing Webmaster support to ask what the issue was since we did not get any notifications or messages in our webmaster dashboard. The email that we got back said “I have escalated the issue to our engineers and will get back to you once I receive an update.” Since then, we haven't received any word back from them, but we did not find any technical problems and we strongly believe we were manually penalized. We've never had issues with a search engine before, so we are at a loss what to do. Could you please give us advice as to what technical issue our website might have or what could incur a deindex penalty in our case? We want to do everything that is possible to get back into Bing and Yahoo search results ASAP. The website has primarily affiliate content, so we are doing anything we can to clean everything up, but any recommendations will be incredibly useful to us. We are also open to contacting an expert on this, but we have no idea where to look.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ThreatAnalyzer
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  • crichardson1992


    Hi. I'm trying to get my website; www.ciphr.com , to rank for keywords relevant to "HR Software" in the UK.  It's a highly competitive industry and we rank ~mid to low on page one for some of our ideal keywords that are highly relevant and high volume. Years ago we took the decision to blog about topics more loosely related to the world of work. One of our blog posts, about plants in the office https://www.ciphr.com/advice/plants-in-the-office/   is popular. It gets decent traffic and consistently builds backlinks to the post without any further effort on our part. The specific page has a PA of 46 and DA of 55 with >500 domains linking to it.  This compares to our home page with a PA of 47 and 700 linking domains. It is typically the home page that ranks for our money keywords "HR Software" "HR Systems" in the UK. Because this blog post is so loosely related to our actual business, the traffic it generates is highly unlikely to  turn into a customer of ours. I am considering redirecting the blog post to the home page to pass link juice to the home page. The concern I have is that, based on the anchor text and contextual signals from linking pages, Google might then infer that our home page is less relevant for our money keywords and more relevant for "plants". Are my concerns unfounded? What are your thoughts? Should I redirect the blog post to the home page? Another internal page?  Keep the blog post live? Thanks

    On-Page Optimization | | crichardson1992
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  • verdet3232


    Getting error in https://lsapi.seomoz.com/v2/url_metrics API I'm using Basic Auth for authentication. {    "name": "Bad Request",    "message": "Error deserializing POST body"} CVW2T4f

    API | | verdet3232
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  • bbop33


    Hi Moz Community, We have a headless ecom (Magento) client that I'm trying to crawl the site.  During the crawl, the tool (Screaming Frog) cannot discover the sub-category URLs in the main navigation when I start crawling via homepage. Similarly, when I start crawling with one of the sub-category page, it doesn't crawl any of the product URLs on the sub-category page itself. When I inspect product and sub-cat URLs through Search Console, they seem as indexed and if I view how Googlebot rendered the sub-category page, I can see the product URLs on the sub-cat page too. If you have any idea what's the issue with Screaming Frog and would like to help me out, I'd be so grateful! Thanks in advance

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | bbop33
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  • Gael_Regnault


    Hello Moz community, We are an agency providing services to various industries, and among them the hair salon industry. On our website, we have our different service pages in the main menu, as usual. These service pages are general information and apply to any industry.We also have a page on the website that is only intended for the hair salon industry. On this page, we would like to link new service pages: they will be the same services as our “general” services, but specialized for hair salons. My questions relate to duplicate content: Do we have to make the new individual service pages for hair salons with completely different text, even though it’s the same service, in order to avoid having duplicate content? Can we just change a few words from the “general service” page to specifically target hair salons, and somehow avoid Google seeing it as duplicate content? Reminder that these pages will be internal links inside of the hair salon industry page. Thank you in advance for your answers, Gaël

    On-Page Optimization | | Gael_Regnault
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  • tiromedia


    Hi all, we want to speed up our website (hosted in Wordpress, traffic around 450,000 page views monthly), we use lots of images. And we're wondering about setting up on Cloudflare, however after searching a bit in Google I have seen some people say the change in IP, or possible sharing of Its with bad neighbourhoods, can really hit search rankings. So, I was wondering what the latest thinking is on this subject, would the increased speed and local server locations be a boost for SEO, moreso than a potential loss of rankings for changing IP? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | tiromedia
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  • urhaiurg


    Hey Experts, I have a website which is providing local business services to US clients. For this purpose, I have created the separate landing pages for each client. Now my question is that I have done citation for that particular landing page not for the root domain. Now the client has decided to stop working with us and I removed the business name and detail from that landing page but the landing page still exist on dummy business name. But citation of that business page still exists. Then how that business citation can affect that linked page? I mean it will affect the page ranking or Google trust or relevancy?

    Local Listings | | urhaiurg
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  • Dotcomcontent


    I dont find a chat option in the MOZ site. Is it available so i could chat with some expertise on MOZ API integration

    API | | Dotcomcontent
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  • ruislip18


    Hi All I've picked up a new website project and wanted to ask about the best way to proceed with the current site during the development process. The current site is incomplete although it has been live for a while and has over 80 pages in the sitemap. Link to site https://tinyurl.com/ychwftup The business owner wants to take down the current site and simply add a landing page stating "new website coming soon". From an SEO perspective, am I better to keep the current site live until the new site is ready? Or would it not make any difference if I setup the landing page and add 301 redirects from each page in the sitemap to the landing page. Many Thanks In Advance For Any Assistance

    Web Design | | ruislip18
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  • Mohamednatheem


    We're in a situation to move the page from "example.com" to "example.com/keyword". And adding new content to the "example.com" page.   Does this change affect our ranking? If so how can we overcome this problem? Can anyone help?

    On-Page Optimization | | Mohamednatheem
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  • seomozplan196


    I have this problem for the site's blog
    There is no problem when I check the yoast plugin setting , but some of my blog content is not on the map site but indexed. Did you have such a problem? What is the cause? my website name is missomister

    Technical SEO | | seomozplan196
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  • acubine


    I'm noticing that on many of my competitor's eCommerce sites, the URL for every subcategory of products is preceded by "website.com/collections/subcategory" rather than "website.com/maincategory/subcategory" Can anyone tell me why this is, and if it is beneficial to SEO to have URL strings designs this way?

    Competitive Research | | acubine
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  • IvanXV


    A few of my articles face same pattern from search engine. Firstly it raises to top and gathers bunch of traffic but then falls back. Obviously there is a problem with behavioral factors, and particularly I guess we do not answer specific intent of the users. But since there is a lot of keyword phrases it is not so obvious how to get article tuned to them. Does someone have an experience of such a tuning? May be some tools or advices? ZrJ7G4qFM77JPm.jpg

    Keyword Research | | IvanXV
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  • amir2422


    سؤال خود را با جزئیات شرح دهید. هرچه اطلاعات بیشتری کسب کنید ، بهتر! این کمک می کند تا زمینه ای برای یک پاسخ عالی ارائه شود.چگونه سایت رو سریع seo  کنیم

    Social Media | | amir2422
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  • MirzaeeMustafa


    Does really a SSL certificate affect on SEO? How? Why? According to my hosting provider (ganje.host), "https" improves SEO! As I know, It decreases speed. So how does it improve SEO when my speed is slower than before?

    On-Page Optimization | | MirzaeeMustafa
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  • LM_Marketing_Solutions_Ltd


    When I have amended the missing description Metadata issue on an individual page do I have to manually mark as 'fixed' or 'Ignore'? I have attended to several pages regards Missing Description Metadata Issues and not manually marked them as fixed. However they still appear in metadata missing description issues after a second on demand crawl? Will they continue to appear until I manually mark them as fixed?

    Getting Started | | LM_Marketing_Solutions_Ltd
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  • RobertPhillips18


    I uploaded a couple of link lists to Moz about a week ago and have been tracking them. Most of the links on the list are from significant 90+ DA domains such as Wikipedia, Medium, etc. So far, Moz only seems to have discovered about 4 the 200 or so links I loaded. Do we know how long it takes for these to be discovered by Moz? Quite new to this, so any help understanding timelines for this would be appreciated.

    Link Explorer | | RobertPhillips18
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  • ctpolarbears


    I have a weebly site and I put the canonical tag in the header code but the moz crawler still says that I'm missing the canonical tag. Any tips?

    Technical SEO | | ctpolarbears
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  • gravymatt-se


    Hi All, Does anyone have a suggested Screaming Frog  (SF) configuration to mirror default Googlebot crawl? I want to test my site and see if it will return 429 "Too Many Requests" to Google. I have set the User Agent as Googlebot (Smartphone). Is the default SF Menu > Configuration > Speed > Max Threads 5 and Max URLs 2.0 comparable to Googlebot? Context:
    I had tried NetPeak SEO Spider which did a nice job and had a cool feature that would pause a crawl if it got to many 429. Long Story short, B2B site  threw 429 Errors when there should have been no load on a holiday weekend at 1:00 AM.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | gravymatt-se
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  • Techno247

    This question is deleted!

    Affiliate Marketing | | Techno247
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  • Dandelion


    I work almost exclusively in wordpress now. And I always hesitate when it comes to naming a site's homepage. I have to give it a name -  right? I usually pick the business name or /home. And then that is identifies as the site's static homepage in the Wordpress settings and it works just fine. But I've started to get warning that it is an issue because it creates redirects.  For example, I just ran the Ryte service analysis on a website and it warned me about "Non-indexable pages with high relevance" and it's basically my homepage that has 29 incoming links that "passes all pagerank to https://ourdomain/home But what am I supposed to call my homepage if not "Home"? It's not like the old days where anyone has to type it in. The root domain loads the homepage just as it should. Can anybody advise me regarding best practices for what to name a Wordpress homepage for good SEO? With thanks in advance for your help.

    Technical SEO | | Dandelion
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