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  • JayNahar


    We are looking for the Technical Support Contact Number or Live Chat option, we are facing a critical issue with Moz matrix and Its formulas We need  solution on priority

    API | | JayNahar
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  • johnwalkersmith


    Lets say you 301 redirect URL A to URL B, and URL A has some backlinks from other sites. Say you left the 301 redirect in place for a year, and Google had already replaced the old URL with the new URL in the SERPs, would the new URL (B) retain some of the link equity from URL A after the 301 redirect was removed, or does the redirect have to remain in place forever?

    Technical SEO | | johnwalkersmith
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  • CaraMc


    Should these pages be redirecting to a login page? Or does there need to be something other than an Access Denied message?  I feel like these are bringing the overall site score down.

    On-Page Optimization | | CaraMc
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  • Jashii8


    Hey there guys, I need help regarding the DA & PA on my site Criccraze From the previous few weeks, the DA PA of my website has gone down. Any fruitful suggestions from anyone, please? I would be heartily thankful.

    Algorithm Updates | | Jashii8
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  • seoman10


    After uploading a Google disavow file how long does it take to be processed? Before any trolls get going, not been doing anything dogy, looks like someone has been trying some negative seo on us.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoman10
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  • VisitDotGuide


    Hi, I'm running a website for tourism & travel called Visit Guide or دليل السفر  and i have many backlinks from many websites ( DoFollow & NoFollow ) They are older than 10 days and Moz has not discovered them yet nor found them? How to push Moz Pro to find my backlinks? or how to SpeedIndex my backlinks in other words?

    Moz Pro | | VisitDotGuide
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  • danieldaher


    I run SEO for a multi-location business. Most of our locations are great and others are still ramping. SEO is a long process but we have higher expectations for these stores. While all the normal stuff get going to boost our rankings, is there anything quick I can just throw some money to get a jump start?

    Local SEO | | danieldaher
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  • Libra_Photographic


    I'm hearing the jungle drums banging away about a broad core update this week. Anyone else heard this? Usually its retrospective and an oh my I've dropped/gained but I don't usually hear about it beforehand. Anyone else heard this?

    Algorithm Updates | | Libra_Photographic
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  • dnlpwrsellr


    I am a real estate agent, marketing properties to Germans moving to / buying an overseas home in my country. I inquired with a few different SEO agencies and I cannot afford their services, $3000+ a month and my market is not huge as you will see in the search data below. So I will have to go ahead and do SEO on my own and will obviously need some help. The space is not competitive which is awesome. That's how the volume and competition look for the most popular (& broadest) search term is "immobilien countryname" (property countryname), according to Ubersuggest - attachment 1 (translation for reference): property countryname 1300 property in countryname 480 buy property countryname 260 property countryname seaview 170 buy property countryname  110 Here is an example of the top 10 searches for houses by volume.  (Attachment 2 is a screenshot of the competition) 1. haus in countryname kaufen 720 $0.14
    (house in countryname buy)
    2. countryname haus kaufen 590 $0.36
    (countryname house buy)
    3. einfamilienhaus countryname haus kaufen 210 $0.45
    (single family countryname house buy)
    4. häuser in countryname kaufen 170 $0.29
    (houses in countryname buy)
    5. haus countryname kaufen 170 $0.46
    (house countryname buy)
    6. günstige häuser in countryname 110 $0.10
    (cheap houses in countryname)
    7. häuser kaufen in countryname location1 110 $0.22
    (houses buy in countryname location1)
    8. haus kaufen countryname meerblick 90 $0.20
    (house buy countryname sea-view)
    9. haus in countryname location2 kaufen 70 $0.03
    (house in countryname location2 buy)
    10. countryname haus am meer kaufen 70 $0.05
    (countryname house near the sea buy) the first 5 results are taken by big portals, just the top one has done any optimization at all as you can see the competition is pretty lame, just some of them are doing any SEO, pretty badly (including spammy links), still rank. The way it seems, there are 4 main categories to optimize for: Properties Houses Apartments 'Move to countryname' information Should I optimize my homepage for a 'property' term, 3 other pages for 'house', 'apartment, and 'info' terms? How do I pick keywords to optimize for, esp. considering that they are basically the same e.g.: house in countryname buy countryname house buy house countryname buy or property countryname countryname property property in countryname ...and should I pick just one? What sort of content could I include in a "buy a house in countryname" type of page and how do I write around such keywords? I am having an issue finding examples to follow as there is no competition to emulate and the other markets/countries are dominated by large portals which also seemingly get ranked based on size / authority. Beyond that there is virtually no interest in the country = no traffic, besides general bs such as the language, the weather and such where there are a bunch of huge websites on the first page - so I am not sure what content could I use to drive traffic. I will come up with something, but there are no obvious ones.. My domain name is 1 year old, I have no links yet. Moz reports Page Authority 5, Domain Authority 2 for my domain. I reckon that's enough for starters... Any input and ideas are more than welcome! Thank you. Qy2gat6.png tG93AJt.png

    Keyword Research | | dnlpwrsellr
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  • CreativeExpress


    Hi All, I'm a freelancer specialising in marketing and advertising for small businesses Creative Express and I was wondering what I should concentrate on first in terms of SEO? I know that targeting the right keywords are important, as are backlinks, but also TOS etc. I haven't built up much of any, but the time has come to put in significant effort in SEO. Is there something that I should be putting the most effort in to? Is there a list somewhere that shows priorities? Thanks in advance, Dan

    Image & Video Optimization | | CreativeExpress
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  • sb1030


    I haven't found a working example of a single product page with one "Offer" in multiple "priceCurrency" and "price" We have product pages with a single product URL which will offer different prices in different currencies based on the user's IP. Some of the language of the page will be translated based on the IP (this will have href lang tag) but the URL will not change. (We're aware TLD is considered best practice, however, this is not an option at this time.) Is the best option to update the markup based on what the corresponding "country"? I'm uncertain how this may be handled by crawlers. Eg, For the product page https://www.example.com/product1 displaying USD "offers": {
    "@type": "Offer",
    "url": "https://www.example.com/product1",
    "itemCondition": "https://schema.org/NewCondition",
    "availability": "InStock",
    "priceCurrency": "USD",
    "price": "7.99"} For the product pagehttps://www.example.com/product1 displaying EUR "offers": {
    "@type": "Offer",
    "url": "https://www.example.com/product1",
    "itemCondition": "https://schema.org/NewCondition",
    "availability": "InStock",
    "priceCurrency": "EUR",
    "price": "7.50"} Thanks for any input.

    Web Design | | sb1030
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  • bajwamohitgroup


    my site name is lyricsfowl  which have some major problem

    Link Building | | bajwamohitgroup
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  • jasongmcmahon


    Hi there, Any advice on how best to build a backlink profile for a new website - I'm very keen to avoid penalisations or throttling from Google. Any advice on DA ratios to procure & frequency of procurement would be welcome. Please & thanks

    Link Building | | jasongmcmahon
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  • bizmarquee


    When I run monthly reports, it looks like keywords are down, when they are actually up compared to the previous month.  Is there a way to get the monthly reports to show how many positions up or down a keyword is compared to the prior run report?

    Feature Requests | | bizmarquee
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  • TungNM193

    This question is deleted!

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | TungNM193
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  • RyanMeighan


    I know EMD's ranking factor have been significantly reduced in the past decade, but do you think it can help at all in 2020? Thanks, Ryan

    Local SEO | | RyanMeighan
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  • Bigbrand


    Hi, I hope you are doing well. I want know how is looking my website? Is that attractive or  boring for visitor. I really need your answer to improve my website. here is my website: https://www.myqurantutor.com/

    SEO Learn Center | | Bigbrand
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  • Bigbrand


    Hi, I hope you are doing well. I want to know what are the best SEO plugins for  wordpress website? https://www.myqurantutor.com/

    Reporting & Analytics | | Bigbrand
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  • Bigbrand


    Hi, I hope you are doing well.  I wanted to ask you how I secure my website whenever I have SLL but how can I make more secure my website? I hope I will like anyone's reply. thanks in advance This is my website: https://www.myqurantutor.com/

    SEO Learn Center | | Bigbrand
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  • mianazeem418


    Hello Guys Please help me, suddenly all of my site's keywords are disappeared from google search result, most of keywords are no.1 on google but today after 6pm i see the traffic decreasing and when i search my keywords there is no any keywords in search result. Only homepage keyword is showing. Please Help what is Happening with me.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mianazeem418
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  • audiosavas


    What measures should I take for a photographer's portfolio website with image-heavy gallery pages withotu content? Galleries are separated to different categories - weddings, fashion, beauty, thus having very similar content. What is better for example this page images https://www.karolinnafoto.lt/beauty/ 1. Use no titles and alts so as not to repeat and not be penalized?
    2. Repeat same titles and alts like "beauty portrait 1" "beauty portrait 2" etc.? Or are there better measures to take to have this website more optimized?

    Keyword Research | | audiosavas
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  • chamberlinksales2


    Good day My company is trying moz for the first, and I am their web developer, I looked through the moz report and found something confusing when checking the issues. For example, I have URL:https://www.cham-training.co.za/free-skills-development-assessment.php and the mentioned URL can have parameters as follows: 1. https://www.cham-training.co.za/free-skills-development-assessment.php?target=Internship 2. https://www.cham-training.co.za/free-skills-development-assessment.php?target=Learnership the target parameter is just used to hold a value regarding the clients actual request, learnership, internship etc.  However moz seem to recognize the same link with different parameters as different links and this makes the issue count to go up.  For me, then this becomes false report. Please take a look at the attached image for reference. I got issues regarding duplicate title, but the truth is there's no duplicate titles its just that moz picks up the page as different because of the url parameters. Can someone please clarify why is that so or if there's any reason moz does that. I hope to hear from you guys soon. Thank you open?id=15uTf6Wn3jQWxELQodLgtlkswZKOtNSol

    Local SEO | | chamberlinksales2
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  • rahat64


    Hi, I have just launched my website 1 month before and I have used all paid images, Uniquely written contents, Everything is genuine for better SEO experience in the future. The actual problem is its showing spam by 79% in MOZ bar, I don't have a single link on my website also my content is unique, Images are unique. Why its showing so much spam on this brand new website? Can you please help me? I am very stressed due to this problem.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | rahat64
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  • gennarojewelers


    Hello everyone! I've been struggling with Bing recently since they are blocking my site from search queries.  If I even search site:policejewelry.com, it just returns "Some results have been removed."  There have been a few issues with them since re-launching my site.  The history of the site is a little murky since it initially was it's own brand, then it was re-directed to our main website for a few years, and finally it was decided to re-launch on its own again last year.  Initially, after the re-launch, Bingbot would crawl the site, but would not index it.  Then after contacting Bing support, they agreed to unblock whatever it was that caused them not to index the site.  After that, I saw a very tiny amount of traffic from Bing, but about a month later, I noticed that I was getting no searches on Bing Webmaster.  I contacted them again and this time found out that I was in violation of their guidelines and that is why I was no longer showing up for my keywords.  They refused to elaborate any further about it, but I have been kinda persistent because I could not find anything that was being done outside of the guidelines that are described in the link they sent me https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a Here is the thing,  my business wants to show up on Bing, but even when we were appearing in search, from as far back as I can see, the traffic was minuscule.  Does anyone feel it's worth the time to fight this battle with them or should I just accept the site's ban and leave it alone now?  Also, is there anything that can be recommended to get unbanned by Bing outside of contacting them regularly like I'm doing now?

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | gennarojewelers
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  • 8860319canadainc


    Hello. I have an eCommerce Flower Shop Website and I have created an Online Free Game so player can create flower arrangement and stuff like that. If I had this game directly on my website and provide Embed Code so other Online Gaming Portals can add the game to their website. Would it be good to create back links for my website and increase my domain authority and SEO of my Flower Shop website? I ask because I am also in the Gaming industry and when I release my games, they can be added to hundreds of other gaming portals. But I am just afraid that since this is not is the same domain activity, this might hurt my SEO for my flower website. What are your thoughts about that?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | 8860319canadainc
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  • EstherBrice


    I'm trying to encourage content editors to only  post content in either English or French. For example we have a French press release but the team are wanting it on our site in French and English.  I thought this would fall under duplicate content rules. Does google penalize you if you post content in French and English on a website?

    Content Development | | EstherBrice
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  • ozzzge


    Hello, We are selling bee products online in Germany. Our star product and the most important keyword is propolis. For this keyword, our landing page has changed several times between 2 product pages and a content page about propolis. For a short time, the landing page was homepage. We also have a Propolis category page which consists of propolis products. For this page, most of the internal and external links have the anchor text propolis. But the category page never ranked for this keyword. Product, category and informational pages all have content over 1500 words. Does anyone have an idea why the landing page change this much? Also, what can we do to stabilize and optimize the landing page? Thanks! qksc61

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ozzzge
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  • RobertMusselman


    I am using different tools to check the bulk da pa of any site. but on every tool, it says incorrect access id or secret key. What is the solution?

    API | | RobertMusselman
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  • jamestown


    Hello We've been around a very long time, and I have a long running pet set of core terms and pages tracked using Moz and other tools.  With no changes to the content or site or htaaccess or robots.txt or sitemap, insignificant backlink changes etc, we saw a ton of important product pages drop out of the index the week ending December 22 2019.  We are still ranking for many of the terms associated, but at far worse positions since the pages G is choosing instead for those terms are not as focused. I need to be clear that this has not happened across the board, but seemingly at random. When I look in G Search Console, the pages are  submitted and indexed (last crawl yesterday), mobile friendly, have breadcrumbs, and the only warning are product level for lack of optional fields under offers (nothing new, not particular to the dropped pages in question here). So, what happened the week ending December 22???? Should I expect the dust to settle and the pages to return? Extremely strange. Thx

    On-Page Optimization | | jamestown
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  • Insightful_Media


    Hi there I am running an ECommerce site that supplies products globally! We have 2 administrative offices - the UK and Ireland. When setting Google my business, do you suggest setting 2 listings - one for the UK and one for Ireland? Both listings will link to the same E-Commerce homepage but with different phone numbers. Please give me advice=)

    Local Listings | | Insightful_Media
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  • Frankie-BTDublin


    Hi I'm working on an E-Commerce site and the internal Search results page is our 3rd most popular landing page. I've also seen Google has often used this page as a "Google-selected canonical" on Search Console on a few pages, and it has thousands of these Search pages indexed. Hoping you can help with the below: To remove these results, is it as simple as adding "noindex/follow" to Search pages? Should I do it incrementally? There are parameters (brand, colour, size, etc.) in the indexed results and maybe I should block each one of them over time. Will there be an initial negative impact on results I should warn others about? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Frankie-BTDublin
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  • seoanalytics


    How many topic should I cover under an H2. Is it ok to cover multiple topics per H2 if I do different paragraphs ? I am in th travel industry and each day I go through different towns that could reprend my topics. Do I have to choose 1 town each day and cover under an H2 or can I cover 2 or 3 towns each day and cover it all under the same H2. Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • UmairGadit


    I am working on a keyword which has 72 difficulty score, I have tried getting quality links with high DA, also there is no any on page issue, landing page is loading very fast and fixed all site loading issues, the keyword is stuck on 3rd page of Google and shuffling between 20 to 30 but not ranking on 1st page, I need expert opinions on it.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | UmairGadit
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  • Bigbrand


    Hi, I hope you are doing good. My website speed is too much slow. Mobile speed is 12 and Desktop speed is 39. Please check my website speed.
    &
    What can I do for my website to increase speed?
    What is best way to increase website speed. Here is my website: https://www.myqurantutor.com/

    Web Design | | Bigbrand
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  • markdoel


    Hi Over several years I used many tags ( more then 1000 ) on my wordpress website 😞 but most of them haven't  any view and haven't any clicks on google search . now I want delete this old - useless - unused tags but I'm worried about seo problem like many 404 pages and problems like this . Does anyone have safe way to delete these wordpress tags? how can i safely remove them?

    Technical SEO | | markdoel
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  • Lazeh


    I'm in Australia targeting Australian traffic. I often see US domains in the Google SERPS and wonder if that indicates an opportunity for local (Australian) domains to rank?

    Local Listings | | Lazeh
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  • RyanMeighan


    i wrote a page - https://domain.com/how-to-do-xyz/ but when doing an inurl search, i see that it is indexed by google as - https://secureservercdn.net/58584.883848.9834983/myftpupload/how-to-do-xyz/ (not actual url) and when i view that page, it is a weirdly formatted version of the page with many design elements missing. this is a wordpress site. Why would this be? thanks, Ryan

    Web Design | | RyanMeighan
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  • mobtakeran23


    Hi: I have activated FAQ schema from (technicalseo.com) for this page of my website “  رزین “  , but now when I search (رزین) in google I cant see it. I don’t know what to do please help me. here id my page address : https://www.mbkchemical.com/resin/ also u can find it by searching "رزین" in google.

    On-Page Optimization | | mobtakeran23
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  • rl_uk


    Hi all, hope somebody can help. I want to crawl my site to export an audit showing: All nofollow links (what links, from which pages) All external links broken down by follow/nofollow. I had thought Moz would do it, but that's not in Crawl info. So I thought Screaming Frog would do it, but unless I'm not looking in the right place, that only seems to provide this information if you manually click down each link and view "Inlinks" details. Surely this must be easy?! Hope someone can nudge me in the right direction... Thanks....

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | rl_uk
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  • PTurbo


    Hello Moz community, I have a website (lets say that I am selling tshirts), and want to create a blog (www.website.com/blog). With that blog, I would like to post about random topics including travel, leisure, events, new products etc. I want to do this for 1. to get affiliate commissions, 2. to increase web traffic, 3. to potentially increase my domain authority. I would like to know if this blog with random posts would negatively affect my website ranking and keyword ranking (for t-shirts), as it is not relevant to the products that I am selling (and the keywords that I am ranking for). As Google currently understands that my website is a webstore selling t-shirts (and I am ranking for the tshirt keywords), but the algorithm get confused if I start posting about travel and random topics? Your help greatly appreciated in the matter.

    SEO Learn Center | | PTurbo
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  • Insightful_Media


    Hi lovely community, I know google made some schema changes in Sept 2019. I got an AggregateRating Error:
    One of offers or review or aggregateRating should be provided. I am using a third-party app 'Shopify Product Review' to implement the rating. What I should do to solve this error. Thanks very much for the help! I found many people have this issue too in the community! Many thanks Pui

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Insightful_Media
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  • HDStrategySEO

    This question is deleted!

    Link Explorer | | HDStrategySEO
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  • ElykInnovation


    Google Search Console shows 4K backlinks from jessetree.net (i do not see this backlink in Moz inbound links though). I have been tracking backlinks from this domain for half a year and it fluctuates between 1K and 6K is the highest I have seen it, not sure what is causing the link count to change. We are using Google's disavow tool against this domain and have been for 5 months. Does anyone have any idea what jesse tree is and any insight into this odd (to me) backlink situation?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ElykInnovation
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  • moon-boots


    I use Magento 2 Multistore and have 2 stores set up with identical products, one for the EU and one for the US. The best practice is to allow Google to crawl both sites, but what about the sitemap? Should I only include one store? The reason I ask is that Google has recently started ignoring canonicalized URLs, so even though the second store is canonicalized, it could affect my rank. My rank did drop with the last update when this was rolled out, I stopped some canonicalized URLs from generating and my rank went back up (albeit not as high as before).

    International SEO | | moon-boots
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  • Asma5


    How to find low competition niches with good search volume?

    Algorithm Updates | | Asma5
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  • seoman10


    Does anyone have experience of 301's in connection with SEO or more specifically passing authority? Recently purchased a small business that had three small websites. My main concern is all three websites do rank for some fairly important key phrases, but there is very little direct overlap. I was hoping by using 301's I would be able to refocus the authority to get the main site ranking.

    Link Building | | seoman10
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  • seoanalytics


    Hello everyone, How can you figure out which topics are the more relevant for a  specific query ? Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • Kingalan1


    Our SEO provider has been creating content (6 blog posts per month as well as building page write ups) and has been promoting that content. Several links per month have been created as a result of this effort. Many of the links have been  from commercial real estate publications. I am concerned that the quality of these links is not high enough to improve our ranking. Most links do not appear on AHREFS, Google Search Console or MOZ.  Is this a red flag that these links are weak? Ranking and traffic on the site have improved considerably since this provider began the project in April of 2019. They have been writing about 30 pages about New York City. commercial buildings each month in addition to 4 short blog posts and 2 extremely well researched and authoritative blog posts. My concern is that the links are not of sufficient quality to result increased ranking. That the improvement in ranking is solely due to the addition of new content rather than the creation of these links. Basically, that I am incurring the cost on an ongoing basis of an link building campaign with little to no benefit. That being the case, I would shift resources to content creation and increase and improve content rather than develop links with little value. A sample of links are below:  Would greatly appreciate some feedback as to whether these are in fact helpful to the domain authority, reputation and ranking of our website. Thanks, 
    Alan https://patch.com/new-york/bayside/bayside-queens-priciest-area-retail-office-space-study https://qns.com/story/2019/12/04/these-commercial-streets-in-queens-were-among-the-most-expensive-in-2019/ https://patch.com/new-york/brooklyn/flatbush-ave-priciest-retail-spot-outside-manhattan-study http://thejewishvoice.com/2019/12/07/nycs-most-expensive-commercial-streets-neighborhoods-in-2019-would-surprise-you/ https://atalyst.com/investment-banking-interview-metro-manhattan/

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kingalan1
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  • RyanMeighan


    I wrote a blog article targeting a long-tail KW - "[primary KW] pricing revealed". the article is performing so well that is actually ranking 2nd nationally for my primary KW. I would rather have my conversion page rank for my primary KW obviously. I'm considering cutting and pasting the content from my blog page onto my conversion page with a 301 redirect from the blog to the conversion page. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks, Ryan

    On-Page Optimization | | RyanMeighan
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