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  • Catherine_Selectaglaze


    I've got a list of FAQ's that my manager would like to see in GMB. Is is ok to simply ask the question and answer them? I thought I'd be able to add them, rather like a photo, but realised, being Google, it's not that straight forward.

    Local Listings | | Catherine_Selectaglaze
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  • Ibis15


    Hi guys, So I have a review site and I'm affiliated with several partnership programs whose products I advertise on my site. I don't want these affiliate programs to see the source of my traffic (my site), so I'm looking for a safe solution to hide the referrer URL. I have recently added a rel="noreferrer" tag to all my affiliate links, but this method isn't perfect as not all browsers respect that rule. After doing some research and checking my competitors I noticed that some of them use meta-refresh, which seems more reliable in this regard. So, how safe is it to use meta-refresh as means of hiding referrer URL? I'm worrying that implementing a meta-refresh redirect might negatively affect my SEO. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to hide the referrer URL without damaging SEO? Thank you.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Ibis15
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  • FitzSWC


    I know I can filter sessions from outside the US, but is there a way to modify the GA script so that it doesn't cookie visitors to a site if they are from outside the US? Note, this is separate from having a cookie consent opt-in. Thanks in advance, 
    Fitz

    Reporting & Analytics | | FitzSWC
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  • Frankie-BTDublin


    Hi all Just a general discussion question about Internal Search pages and using them for SEO. I've been looking to "noindexing / follow" them, but a lot of the Search pages are actually driving significant traffic & revenue. I've over 9,000 search pages indexed that I was going to remove, but after reading this article (https://www.oncrawl.com/technical-seo/seo-internal-search-results/) I was wondering if any of you guys have had success using these pages for SEO, like with using auto-generated content. Or any success stories about using the "noindexing / follow"" too. Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | Frankie-BTDublin
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  • jasmine.silver


    I have a private/login site where all pages are noindex, nofollow. Can I still monitor external site links with Google Analytics?

    Technical SEO | | jasmine.silver
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  • Kaylie


    I'm trying to resolve the site crawl issues that we have on our website. One of the links that has different issue types together is our login page. Currently we have two login pages that have the same content but different sub domains. **However I'm wondering if optimizing SEO on our login pages affects our website SEO ranking and if it's something better to do or not. ** To point out the details of the issues, the issue types that the logins pages have are "duplicate title", "duplicate content", "missing H1", "missing description", "thin content", "missing canonical tag" I'd appreciate your help, thank you!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kaylie
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  • Yeshourun


    Hi, I really need to know what happens when a company or domain (a) acquires another company with domain (b) with its links pointing to yet another location (c). Does company a then have redirects to c?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Yeshourun
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  • Ademirates


    Hello, I have seen on many places people are selling 301 Redirect Links Via Top Authority websites Like Forbes,CNN etc . How do they do it? and is it safe to have such links? I have researched a lot but not found any useful information to implement it. Any Idea how to do it? Thanks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Ademirates
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  • StevePoul


    I'm assuming that moz assign a unique internal id to each page, subdomain and root_domain. When making v2/links requests, are these moz-specific ids available? Currently, when gathering backlinks for a client we're generating our own ids. Maintaining uniqueness is costly time-wise. "results": [{
                "source": {
                    "page": "news.energysage.com/pros-cons-electric-water-heaters/",
                    "subdomain": "news.energysage.com",
                    "root_domain": "energysage.com", ... "target": {
                    "page": "mainlineplumbing.net.au/",
                    "subdomain": "mainlineplumbing.net.au",
                    "root_domain": "mainlineplumbing.net.au",

    API | | StevePoul
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  • tdseward


    Especially since it is our landing page for our blog with multiple excerpt text i.e. growpath.com/resources/

    Product Support | | tdseward
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  • ggarciabisco


    We are migrating to the VTEX E Commerce platform and it is built on javascript, so there are no <a>tags to link product pages together when there is a long list of products.  According to the Google Search Console Help document, "Google can follow links only if they are an</a> <a>tag with an href attribute." - Google Search Console Help document </a>http://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9112205. So, if there a 1000 products, javascript just executes to deliver more content in order to  browse through the entire product list.  The problem is there is no actual link for crawlers to follow.  Has anyone implemented a solution to this or a similar problem?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ggarciabisco
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  • TimHolmes


    Hey Mozzers, Recently we have had a series of agencies in to pitch for work, one group mentioned that due to our association with a possibly penalised product review website, any links and activity associated with the brand would hinder our SEO. We currently have a  good rating, but we are now no longer pushing our customers to the site as we move to a new platform. The current link back from this website is also no-followed. Any thoughts on how this could impact us? And how the agencies determined the site was penalised and causing us problems. Cheers Tim

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TimHolmes
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  • DocHorse


    Since November we migrated our shop from Magento 1 to 2 and our organic traffic has dropped by 50%. We still haven't figured out the cause (or a solution). Are there more Magento users who have the same issue? Charlotte (www.dochorse.nl)

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DocHorse
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  • AnahitG


    Hi! Does anyone know if the canonical tag of the old redirected page should be changed, and include the URL of the new destination? Thanks in advance.

    Technical SEO | | AnahitG
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  • RyanMeighan


    All of my image links are hosted on secureservercdn.net. for example, if i go to a webpage, mydomain.com/blog/blog-post and right click any image with a "copy image address" the images are all linking to secureservercdn.net/blablabla rather than mydomain.com/wp-uploads/blalblabla. this cannot be good for SEO. Any ideas why this would be? My site is hosted through GoDaddy, is it on their end? Thanks, Ryan

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RyanMeighan
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  • inventateq


    I keep on hear that Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing is the future in coming years but i would like to know what does it mean exactly , if i want to become expert in Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing then what should i learn or practice? can some send me some reference guides.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | inventateq
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  • JessicaThompson


    I am trying to check DA and PA for page but not able to do this. Tried it before two days and it was working fine, problem occurring today. I want help regarding this issue, is anyone other facing this problem. Kindly help me out (provide some other way to check DA/PA).

    Link Explorer | | JessicaThompson
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  • avheng


    Hi 
    Good time
    I need this tool urgently
    Thank you for telling
    When will the repairs end?

    Link Explorer | | avheng
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  • Scottlinklater


    Hi there, This is something i have been unsure of for years. It's a little different to most ecom website  situations. What would you do with product pages when every product is a "one off" unique product and once sold will never be for sale again? Should i redirect to a category page? 404? Leave it as is marked as sold or say it is sold and show links to similar items? At the moment we have 700 products for sale but over 5000 sold products that have their own product page and my concern is as this grows it could become a lot for a WordPress woocommerce site to handle? I don't want to do anything to slow my site down or unnecessarily bloat it but i want to do the right thing by the visitor and also not do anything to hurt my rankings. These pages often rank in google and may have been there for years before the item actually sells. To throw another curve ball, there may be multiple other products (for sale or already sold) with the exact same name but are unique and different from each other. These products pages will often be 98% the same content as each other too. To explain how this could be the case, we sell artworks from many different artists, Every artwork is an original and is unique. But many artists paint the same subject matter multiple times, albeit in a slightly different way from previous times. So you end up with a unique product that has everything the same as another (same artist, same name of artwork, same size, same description, different image, different sku)  but is actually different and unique. This has left me somewhat uncertain of what is best to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Scottlinklater
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  • industriestaedt


    Hello friends
    This is my site
    https://www.alihosseini.org/ In the search console I have a soft 404 error
    How can I fix this error?
    I use WordPress

    Technical SEO | | industriestaedt
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  • ahislop574


    Moz bar not working on our website about gym equipment names https://www.fitness-china.com/gym-equipment-names-pictures-prices How long fix it?

    On-Page Optimization | | ahislop574
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  • gunawanjord


    Why is my backlink not detected here, but it appears on google search console? I have added the moz robots

    Link Explorer | | gunawanjord
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  • fffffw552335


    NO metrics is displayed for any websites I type in.

    Link Explorer | | fffffw552335
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  • dandoadvisors


    I run a website with affiliate links (reviews) and successful YouTube channel. Most of the time we lost the YouTube video review and text review at the same time. I’ve created a couple posts that rank high without a video. But now they are proving to be successful, I’m wondering if it makes sense to now produce a video. If so, do I use the exact keyword? Or a variation? Only about 10% of our YouTube views come from Google Search. Most of our blog traffic is organic.

    Image & Video Optimization | | dandoadvisors
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  • jamalinani


    Hi I'm the manager of a training site
    My question is why buying backlinks is still effective
    Except Google has stated that it will penalize sites that buy backlinks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | jamalinani
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  • hjemmeba


    Hi
    In the moz bar while logging in but no bar is displayed https://imgur.com/buNC1tt buNC1tt

    Moz Bar | | hjemmeba
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  • ayybeedee


    i was just trying to check a keyword difficulty but when i put my kw the difficulty and priority is showing like this (  -  ). can any one help? thanks

    Product Support | | ayybeedee
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  • Arenapile


    Hello Dear i am facing a problem that my link research tool is not working is there any body else who has the same problem like me need help

    Link Explorer | | Arenapile
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  • gb.select4you


    Whenever I am searching in link explore, it is only showing the blanks with default zero value.  It was showing data for my website 1 hour ago but now not showing.   SYphSNw

    Link Explorer | | gb.select4you
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  • Kingalan1


    I have written MOZ several times requesting account cancellation procedures but they don't seem interested in responding. I pre-paid my account in October 2019, paying for one year until October 2020. I would like to cancel my account and get a refund of the pro-rated unused amount. After not getting a response, I searched for a corporate phone number for MOZ. No phone number can be found. I am somewhat concerned as legitimate companies have phone numbers. Can someone advise me as to how to get my refund? Also, I subscribe to MOZ local. I need to know of canceling MOZ pro will inadvertently cancel MOZ local. Thanks, 
    Alan

    Product Support | | Kingalan1
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  • RWesley


    My site links in Bing search results are pulling through the footer text instead of the meta description (see image). Is there any way of controlling this? 2L2VusT

    Technical SEO | | RWesley
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  • ahislop574


    We have a blog post about the fitness equipment names https://www.fitness-china.com/gym-equipment-names-pictures-prices The content of our article is very helpful and comprehensive. However, the current search for fitness equipment names only appears in the first place on the second page of GOOGLE Natural Search Results. One page. How can we improve our ranking? What we hope is SEO white hat practice

    Link Building | | ahislop574
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  • ahislop574


    In our blog, about Leg Press Feet Placement [https://www.fitness-china.com/leg-press-feet-placement](https://www.fitness-china.com/leg-press-feet-placement) we have added a lot of youtube videos to enrich the content of the article but we found that youtube videos affect the speed of the website, how to solve it

    On-Page Optimization | | ahislop574
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  • ahislop574


    We use Disqus on our blog https://www.fitness-china.com/diy-dip-station Is it helpful for SEO? I found a few comments. Is our blog content not good enough, or use this? Few plugins

    On-Page Optimization | | ahislop574
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  • ahislop574


    After I switched to 301, will the backlinks obtained by the previous domain name be transferred to the new URL? our  Weight Machine new URL https://www.fitness-china.com/weight-machine

    Link Building | | ahislop574
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  • SoleGraphics


    I must be overcomplicating this. I have a website with a blog structure that includes year subfolders, so:  website.com/2019/blog-title, website.com/2018/blog-title, website.com/2017/blog-title, etc. I want to create a segment that I can apply in Site Content > All Pages to get quick stats for all blogs, regardless of year. (Pageviews, time on site, etc.) Unfortunately, Content Drilldown doesn't work well here as it is grouping by each year. I have tried setting up a segment using regex, but am getting a mixture of all pages, not just blog pages.  I have set up the segment the following way: Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2019/(.*?)/ Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2018/(.*?)/ Advanced > Conditions > Page, Matches Regex, /2017/(.*?)/ Am I going about this all wrong? Is my regex wrong? Any advice is appreciated! Side note: glaringly obvious that now is the time to clean up my URLs. But I'd still love to see the data in its current URL state. Thank you!

    Reporting & Analytics | | SoleGraphics
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  • ruislip18


    Hi All Thanks in advance for any support. I've setup two "local" pages to target the next door town for one of my clients. One page targets "t shirt printing" and one page targets "embroidered workwear" However when I search for "embroidered workwear town in question" google connects the search to my t-shirt printing page and not the embroidered workwear page. Would it be possible to advise on what I need to do for the correct page to be linked to the search term? Here is  a link to the search term in question **https://tinyurl.com/vvgr5r5 ** and the page that we would like to appear in the results, not our tshirt printing page https://tinyurl.com/s77md9o Thanks in advance for any help

    Local Listings | | ruislip18
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  • SEOTOOLS02


    I have 4 years of experience in feedback and survey of different companies for the people who want to learn some from online education about how to do something? and people want to get ease in daily life skills Kroger feedback provides them with a platform to learn everything about surveys and how to drive some to its highest peaks. It all works for People out there through Education SO I have now my own website ready to go but there is a problem in its on-page ranking factors I shall be thankful to you if some from you answer my question What things I should do to add more attractiveness to my site? take a look at my recent view of my site take a look at this Kroger feedback  if somebody from you can answer my request??

    Web Design | | SEOTOOLS02
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  • TinoSharp


    I have a little different situation compared to most other questions which asks for hreflang and canonical tags for country specific version of websites. This is an SEO related question and I was hoping to get some insight on your recommendations. We have an existing Australian website - say - ausnight.com.au now we want to launch a UK version of this website - the domain is - uknight.co.uk please note, we are not only changing from .com.au to .co.uk.... but the base domain name as well changed - from ausnight to uknight as you can understand, the audience for both websites is different. Both websites has most pages same with same contents.... the questions I have is - Should we put canonical tag on the new website pages? If we don't put canon tag on new website pages, what is the impact on the SEO ranking of current website? I believe we need to put hreflang tag on both websites to tell google that we have another language version (en-au vs en-gb) of the same page. Is this correct?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TinoSharp
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  • upgrowsf


    Hi community, I'm a long-time MOZer and SEO director for a San Francisco-based digital marketing company providing complete end-to-end online growth solutions...and I'M HIRING! If you've got at least 3 years SEO experience and know MOZ inside and out, please reach out to me.

    Moz Pro | | upgrowsf
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  • elisa17591


    I'm kind of a newbie to everything marketing. I run the marketing for a small law firm. When I google certain keywords, the law firm's GMB page doesn't show up in the local pack or rankings. What shows up instead are the individual GMB pages under the lawyers' names even though we don't do anything to maintain those pages. Their individual pages don't have content or nearly as many reviews. I maintain the firm's GMB page by posting content and that's also where the bulk of our reviews go. Why would pages that aren't maintained show up in the local pack while the page that I keep a close eye on doesn't show up?

    Local Listings | | elisa17591
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  • stephaniemeyers10


    Our healthcare directory which directs visitors to clinics lost it's review stars in SERPs. Looking for any guidance on how to get this back. https://www.healthyhearing.com/hearing-aids/31312-hearing-improvement-center-llc

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | stephaniemeyers10
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  • igaoevale


    Hi, My Tech related site zophra is not rank in google properly and traffic is not increasing. I think my website on-page is not suitable according to google algorithm. Kindly help me if anyone knows about on-page.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | igaoevale
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  • DamianTysdal


    I was making updates to the content on the following page, and a few days later dropped from #2 SERP ranking to 50+. Things I checked: Yes, 301 redirect was implemented right away. After publishing, I manually requested indexing in search console. Right after publishing I re-submitted the  sitemap manually and Google said they had not crawled it in 9 days. My question: should I change the URL back to the old one, or give it a little more time (especially since I re-submitted sitemap) Original URL: https://www.travelinsurancereview.net/plans/travel-medical/ New URL: https://www.travelinsurancereview.net/plans/travel-medical-insurance/

    On-Page Optimization | | DamianTysdal
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  • CGroup123


    I'm looking for the fundamental things to concentrate on when trying to improve my Domain Authority as it is's poor for my area and I want our business to compete with other businesses in our county. We're an automotive company www.chorleygroup.co.uk - we need to compete with other automotive companies in our areas.

    On-Page Optimization | | CGroup123
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  • Dunjoko


    Looking for the best way to do the following. Business has changed its name, and has also become a corporate store. The old domain name is now no longer needed as a website page has been created inside the main corporate site. Obviously i dont want to loose all the traffic that we had and want to redirect them but there is a problem, that im unable to redirect the old domain to the new one due to office 365 installed on the hosting platform, and the old emails will need to run for another 6 months. I can remove the old site and put a landing page up, but i still need to redirect all the pages to the new site, and there is approx 50+ of them. My main question is i currently have atleast 50+ redirects already in there due to seo changes over the years, some would go back atleast 5 years, whats a safe amount of time that i can remove the older redirects And am i going about this the right way so i dont loose all the hard work on rankings etc

    Technical SEO | | Dunjoko
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  • DmitriiK


    Howdy, fellow mozzers, Does anyone know what affects a given company photos show up in the "Search by Photos" section? I can't find any decent info.. Here is the link to SEL, describing the feature (not even google themselves seem to have an announcement about it). https://searchengineland.com/google-showing-mobile-search-by-photos-option-in-selected-local-verticals-323237 Thanks in advance!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DmitriiK
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  • WAUBIKE


    Hello, Our team have been doing link building for a month, however non of the links are coming up in MOZ Link Explorer. We used link tracker to check, and it is not linking back. when checking on the other blog's site, they are linking back but we are unable to see it in moz. For example:
    Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wau-the-best-feature-packed-smart-ebike#/
    NewAtlas: https://newatlas.com/wau-ebike-affordable/56791/ These both links are linking back to us at www.waubike.com, and we can see it on google web masters, but we cannot see it on Moz? We have checked our server and they confirmed they are not blocking Moz's crawlers. Anyone else have this issue ?

    Link Explorer | | WAUBIKE
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