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  • Davit1985

    This question is deleted!

    Web Design | | Davit1985
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  • bcaples


    These are testimonials that our staff have collected themselves, so I'm unsure about using a block quote and citing a source, since these testimonials are original content, not references from another website. I just need to place the quote, the author's name, and, in some cases, the author's city. Any recommendations?

    Web Design | | bcaples
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  • arpitibs


    I want to know how long it will take by MOZ to update the PA for certain webpage??

    Link Building | | arpitibs
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  • Saba.Elahi.M.


    Hi all, I am trying out list schema on my site, but in Google's structured data testing tool I'm having an issue with the URL section. Whenever I have the same URL for each position is says that duplicate URLs aren't allowed, then when I have different URLs it says that they all have to be the same URL. Does anyone have any pointers that can help make my list schema error free!? Heres my schema:

    Technical SEO | | Saba.Elahi.M.
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  • moz-maddesigngroup


    We have been struggling to find answers since we launched our European website. We have the following structure: WEBSITE HUB
    https://ecosmartfire.com This works as a hub for our users. We show the url printed in our marketing materials. When someone lands in this URL, we check if we have a local store in the user's location and prompt the user to go to the right destination. The default hreflang is: LOCAL VERSIONS
    https://ecosmartfire.com/us/en/ (United States)
    https://ecosmartfire.com.au (Australia)
    https://ecosmartfire.eu (Europe)
    https://ecosmartfire.fr (France) We have no problems with United States, Australia and France. The hreflang tags look like this: EUROPE
    https://ecosmartfire.eu We have two problems in Europe:
    1. Language: the European store is available just in English
    2. No hreflang: Europe doesn't have a hreflang that covers all the countries so we had to create lots of hrelangs pointing to the same location. The hreflang tags look like this: ... and the list goes on. Do you think this is the right approach? Or should I just remove these European hreflang tags from the website code? Thanks,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | moz-maddesigngroup
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  • Julzseo


    Hey all, In the latest Moz crawl, certain pages on our website have shown as having 302 redirects for the http to https, but not all. There should be a 301 solution, but wanted to see if anyone had any advice or guidance. Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | Julzseo
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  • SolveWebMedia


    We have a client who sells chalet holidays on two different websites. There are 12 Chalets in total dotted around the alps. We want these locations to feature on Google My Business for both websites. However, it seems to only let us choose between having one website or the other. What's the best way to have both featuring all 12 chalets? Currently, we have them all listed individually in a grouped location under one website. Looking forward to hearing all your great geeky suggestions!

    Local Listings | | SolveWebMedia
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  • Masse


    I have a problem with the first page on my website. Im using Wordpress and Yoast SEO plugin. After I have changed and updated some information on the page, I also wanted to change and make a better page title. That I understand is to be changed under pages, by scrolling down to the Yoast setting for the specific page. Is that right? However, I have changed the title over and over again, and asked Google to re-index the page. Everything is fine directly after that. But when I check again after 24-48 hours, the page have automatically changed back to the old title? How is that possible? I´ve tried about 5-10 times, but it does the same thing after 24-48 hours every time. Hope you people with great knowledge can help me out here. 🙂

    Algorithm Updates | | Masse
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  • SpodekandCo


    I am taking over a website that doesn't have any canonical tags and spotty redirects. It looks like they have http://, https://, www and non-www pages indexed but GA is just set up for the http://non-www home page. Should all versions of the site be set up in GA and Search Console? I think so but wanted to confirm. Thanks in advance.

    Technical SEO | | SpodekandCo
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  • yaelslater


    Hi Mozers, There are over 200 pages from our site that have a meta tag "noindex" but are STILL being indexed. What else can I do to remove them from the Index?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | yaelslater
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  • LouCommaTheCreator


    Hi, When I started out I was pretty green to SEO, and didn't consider the usability/SEO impact of URL structure. Flash forward, I'm 5 years deep into using the following: mysite.com/downloads/category/premium-downloads/sub-category/ ("category" is quite literally one rung on the link - thanks, WordPress - however "sub-category" is a placeholder) I run a digital downloads store, and I now have 100s ofinternal links beholden to this hideous category linking structure. Not to mention external links at Google Ads, etc. I would LOVE to change this, but if I were to do so, what should I consider? For instance, is there a checklist for making a change like this? I was thinking of changing it to something like the following: mysite.com/shop/c/premium/sub-category/ And also, how much damage, if any, would this be doing to my SEO? Thanks in advance,
    Lou

    Technical SEO | | LouCommaTheCreator
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  • KellyBrady


    Is there any set benefit in using a URL tracking engine on a domain for passing link juice? I.E. xxxx.com?$id=1111 to then redirect to shareasale? The client has an affiliate program and is thinking of running one in-house as well. Is there a benefit to a “redirect engine” that uses the website root domain?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KellyBrady
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  • monkeylearn


    Hi! We need help reorganizing our campaigns.

    Product Support | | monkeylearn
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  • NavnitBB


    Hi, in the 'rankings' section of one of my campaigns, I want to delete almost 200 keywords. Is there a way to delete keywords in bulk please? The only way I can find is to individually select keywords to delete but this will take too long to do with almost 200 keywords. Thanks

    Moz Bar | | NavnitBB
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  • SpodekandCo


    I am trying to put together a comprehensive list of all pages that are indexed in Google and have differing opinions on how to do this.

    Technical SEO | | SpodekandCo
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  • SamCitron


    Firstly, I understand what this percentage is. It's the ratio of external links that are "follow" -> compared to the links that are "no-follow". Four questions: This is definitely not accurate! I have loads of no-follow links Does anyone have ideas or techniques to add more healthy no-follow links? Am I completely misunderstanding this? Will this high score negatively affect my ranking? I could definitely use some help. Thanks so much in advance. I don't think my website address should help, but if you need it for context, it's estatediamondjewely.com.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SamCitron
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  • Cfarcher


    A few keywords my company would like to go after are: Mobile homes for sale Manufactured homes Mobile Home Dealers. The question is should we create unique content around these keywords then market it heavily in hopes to rank that new individual page / post OR should we just be doing outreach for back links and anchored text to link to our primary domain that is already much stronger with a 38 DA? Thoughts?

    Link Building | | Cfarcher
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  • SEO_Selectaglaze


    Hello Mozers, this is probably (as per) a naive question, but, is the 'Latest from ***.com' element in SERPs an extract of Google News? I've added an example of what appears for 'Moz' in SERPs. MYn7Kh2

    Algorithm Updates | | SEO_Selectaglaze
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  • blueprintatl


    Is this something you could help with? (it either bombs or crawls everything, so I assume I’m missing something in the campaign settings, or it’s just not possible.

    Getting Started | | blueprintatl
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  • AndyRSB


    Hi Everyone, Are there any display networks that are notably less expensive than Google's Display Network? By this, I mean less than $0.01 U.S. CPC's for real people and not bots. On the Google network, I've tried the trick of opening a sister account with a cheaper currency, but in the end, I wasn't able to get much lower than $0.01 U.S. per click after converting back to U.S. dollars. Thanks, Andy

    Affiliate Marketing | | AndyRSB
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  • AndyRSB


    Hi Everyone, I was wondering how Google counts the page depth on paginated pages. DeepCrawl is showing our primary pages as being 6+ levels deep, but without the blog or with an infinite scroll on the /blog/ page, I believe it would be only 2 or 3 levels deep. Using Moz's blog as an example, is https://moz.com/blog?page=2 treated to be on the same level in terms of page depth as https://moz.com/blog? If so is it the https://site.comcom/blog" /> and https://site.com/blog?page=3" /> code that helps Google recognize this? Or does Google treat the page depth the same way that DeepCrawl is showing it with the blog posts on page 2 being +1 in page depth compared to the ones on page 1, for example? Thanks, Andy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AndyRSB
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  • DougRoberts


    A site I'm looking at for a client had 100's of pages flagged as having Mobile Usability errors in Search Console. I found that the theme uses parameters in the URLs of some of theme resources (.js/.css) to identify the version strings. These were then being blocked by a rule in the robots.txt: "Disallow: /*?" I've removed this rule, and now when I inspect URLs and test the live versions of the page they are now being reported as mobile friendly. I then submitted validation requests in Search Console for both of the errors ("Text to small" and "Clickable Elements too close") My problem now, is that the validation has completed and the pages are still being reported as having the errors. I've double checked and they're find if I inspect them individually. Does anyone else have experience clearing these issues in Search Console?  Any ideas what's going on here!

    Technical SEO | | DougRoberts
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  • AndyRSB


    Hi Everyone, I know there are a lot of tools like Siteliner, which can check the uniqueness of body copy, but are there any that can restrict the check to the title tags alone? Alternatively, is there an Excel or Google Sheets function that would allow me to do the same thing? Thanks, Andy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AndyRSB
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  • seoanalytics


    Hello, Let's say I want to rank on "Alsace bike tour" whatever tool I use Moz keyword explorer, google suggest , keyword.io, answer the public ... there are not questions... so... what  do I need to answer ? I imagine that for google there are some questions more relevant than others ? Should I answer do I need to bring my own bike or where will I go... ? and will google give me "points " for answering those questions even though people don't have questions... For the keyword title tag, it is easy, people ask the character limit,  title tag generator and so on but for may keywords like that ones I am targeting people have NO Questions ! Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • skrauss


    We would like to get some insight on what is the best practice of setting up canonical URLs in the below scenario. CMS used: Liferay – we believe they are using java. The URL structure at this stage can not be changed to best practices (/en/ and /ar/). Currently the language redirections works like this: English: https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=en Arabic: https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=ar Depending how you entered the website last time the root URL will show English or Arabic content without the ‘sufix’: https://www.website.com/page1 All 3 different URL’s are being indexed on Google - which is causing duplication and confusion. We have a few ideas: Have 2 main URLS: https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=en and have the canonical set to https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=en https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=ar and have canonical set to https://www.website.com/page1?AF_language=ar However, how would you handle the root page which does not have a specific language attached. If we need to make a choice we would go with Arabic, as mainly Arabic pages are indexed on Google with the root domain. This way we would (hopefully) retain the rankings for this. Question: did anybody had to deal with a similar situation? What would you do in a similar situation and why? Thanks for all your input.

    Local Website Optimization | | skrauss
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  • Caffeine_Marketing


    We had a malware hack and spent 3 days trying to get Bluehost to fix things.  Since they have made changes 2 things are happening: 1. Our .xml sitemap cannot be created  https://www.caffeinemarketing.co.uk/sitmap.xml  we have tried external tools 2.  We had 301 redirects from the http (www and non www versions) nad the https;// (non www version)  throughout the whole website to https://www.caffeinemarketing.co.uk/ and subsequent pages Whilst the redirects seem to be happening, when you go into the tools such as https://httpstatus.io every version of every page is a 200 code only whereas before ther were showing the 301 redirects Have Bluehost messed things up?  Hope you can help thanks

    Technical SEO | | Caffeine_Marketing
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  • RWesley


    Hey Mozzers, I'm seeing more 'New users' than 'Users' in Google Analytics (see screenshot). This is over a 3 year time period. Any idea why new users would be greater than users? Thanks! 6lYmU0j

    Reporting & Analytics | | RWesley
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  • Frankie-BTDublin


    Hi Does the product URL's in Sitemaps affect the sub-categories authority too? For example, if I have a product with 2 URL's and which have a canonical tag: **/brands/michael-kors/bags/**jet-set-double-zip-wallet/ **/women/accessories/wallets/**jet-set-double-zip-wallet/ If I make the main URL "/women/accessories/wallets/jet-set-double-zip-wallet/" and set that as the Canonical URL & list that URL in the XML Sitemap, will it also mean the "/women/accessories/wallets/" category will get more authority and increase it's power to rank? Thanks Frankie

    Technical SEO | | Frankie-BTDublin
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  • JCN-SBWD


    Hi, I have a client that is publishing 7 or 8 news articles and posts each month. I am optimising selected posts and I have found that they have been adding a lot of tags (almost like using hashtags) . There are currently 29 posts but already 55 tags, each of which has its own archive page, and all of which are added to the site map to be indexed (https://sykeshome.europe.sykes.com/sitemap_index.xml). I came across an article (https://crunchify.com/better-dont-use-wordpress-tags/) that suggested that tags add no value to SEO ranking, and as a consequence Wordpress tags should not be indexed or included in the sitemap. I haven't been able to find much more reliable information on this topic, so my question is - should I get rid of the tags from this website and make the focus pages, posts and categories (redirecting existing tag pages back to the site home page)? It is a relatively new websites and I am conscious of the fact that category and tag archive pages already substantially outnumber actual content pages (posts and news) - I guess this isn't optimal. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks wMfojBf

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JCN-SBWD
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  • Lime-Results


    Hi, A website I look after was hacked.  We cleaned it up , removed malicious content and changed passwords.  However the bogus links which were created have kept multiplying.  Search Console is all clear.  But they keep adding to Google, bogus links. My client site is www.mechfieldfm.com.au For example http://mechfieldfm.com.au/JCB-BACKHOE-IGNITION-SWITCH-WITH-2-KEYS-PART-NO-70180184-70145500-372796/ There are thousands of bogus links created.  But I believe they are outside the hosting. Any help would be appreciated.

    Content Development | | Lime-Results
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  • Siphoplait


    For a client we would like to work with a content hub, but their website is build on a custom CMS so we are limited in our options and if we aks their web developers they ask crazy prices to help us.  So now we have the idea to build the content hub with wordpress and implement it next to their current CMS. for example on www.website.com/contenthub/ . As far as i know this is technically possible and there are no negative effects regarding SEO as long as we link the two sitemaps together. Am i right or am i missing something here?

    Technical SEO | | Siphoplait
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  • BottleGreenWebsites


    My client's website has 1000+ pages and a Domain Authority of 23. I have just discovered that the entire site is duplicated on a second domain (main URL = companyname.com - duplicate site URL = company-name.com). The home page of the duplicate domain has a 301 redirect going to the main domain. However, none of the 1000+ other pages have any redirect set up, so Google is indexing the entire duplicate site. I'm assuming this is a bad thing for SEO. Duplicate site has a domain Authority of 4, so I'd like to transfer whatever link juice it has, towards the main site. What's the best thing to do? Ultimately I think it would be best to delete the duplicate site. So would it be a case of adding a redirect to the htaccess file along the lines of: redirect company-name.com/?slug? to https://companyname.com/?slug?    (I realise this isn't the correct syntax - but is the concept correct?) Has anyone ever dealt with this successfully?

    Technical SEO | | BottleGreenWebsites
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  • AmberHanson


    I've got a lot of duplicate pages, especially products, and some are new but most have been like this for a long time; up to several years. Does it makes sense to use a canonical tag pointing to one master page for each product. Each page is slightly different with a different feature and includes maybe a sentence or two that is unique but everything else is the same.

    Technical SEO | | AmberHanson
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  • Xiano


    Is the new Local Market Analytics beta available for the UK? The details seem to indicate it is US only?

    Moz Local | | Xiano
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  • AnilTanwarMI


    Please check given screenshot URL. As per the screenshot we are using highlighted content through out the website in the footer section of our website (https://www.mastersindia.co/) . So, please tell us how Google will treat this content. Will Google count it as duplicate content or not? What is the solution in case if the Google treat it as duplicate content. Screenshot URL: https://prnt.sc/pmvumv

    Technical SEO | | AnilTanwarMI
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  • arango20


    I heard different opinions all over the web, some people said don't do 100% just anchor texts with the keywords you want to rank with, and they suggest 60% brand anchor text and the rest for the keywords i want to rank for. what do you guys suggest?

    Link Building | | arango20
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  • PKI_Niles


    We manage an e-commerce site. On a category page, there are several funnels to specific products. We moved the category overview content below those funnels to make it easier for users to quickly get to products. Seems more user friendly to me, but could that move of the main content to the lower part of the page be a negative ranking factor?

    On-Page Optimization | | PKI_Niles
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  • Andreea-M


    Hi guys,
    I checked the product pages on our website with Google Search Console (URL Inspection), and the majority appear as
    "URL is not on Google"
    Coverage: "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical", and 
    Google-selected canonical: the homepage of the website (for all product pages) Our product pages are not identical to the homepage (content-wise), besides the top menu, header and footer, so how could I use the canonical tag in this case? I wouldn't want that the product pages to be seen as duplicates of the homepage. Thanks!

    Local Website Optimization | | Andreea-M
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  • wricaldes


    Still getting charged or what do I do?

    Moz Pro | | wricaldes
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  • Marketing-SurpriseFactory


    Hi! Are there any recommendation voor Duplicate Content finder tools? Is it offered on MOZ (not the one that belongs to 'seo issues') or a different site?

    Content Development | | Marketing-SurpriseFactory
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  • Caffeine_Marketing


    Does the targeted keyword need to be embedded in a longer phrase for the H1 and H2 or is it better to have the keyword by itself?

    On-Page Optimization | | Caffeine_Marketing
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  • Caffeine_Marketing


    Hi, if I am building links to pages outside of my home page, is that link still a referring domain.  Also, does that link also help the SEO of the keywords targeted on the home page.  Most of our links are home page targeted and we need to start ranking on subpages but need to know if these links only help the page they are aimed at

    Link Building | | Caffeine_Marketing
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  • williamhuynh


    Hi there, /collections/living-room-furniture/black
    /collections/living-room-furniture/fabric Is that ok to make all the above filter/tag pages canonicalised with their main category /collections/living-room-furniture OR I keep them as it is, so /collections/living-room-furniture/black can rank for filter keywords, example: black living room furniture, /collections/living-room-furniture/fabric fabric living room furniture etc. Also, does it needs to be noindex, follow as well? Note - already removed the main category content from filter pages, updated meta tags as well. Please advice, thank you

    Technical SEO | | williamhuynh
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  • Brandonrenfro


    When I use the keyword tool, I'd like to be able to set the suggestions list to only show keywords below a certain a level of difficulty score. I know that I can click on a word to see it's difficulty score but that process is tedious. It doesn't seem like there is a direct way to do this. Has anyone developed an efficient indirect process for this? Has MOZ given any thought to including a filter for Difficulty score similar to the filter available for monthly volume?

    Feature Requests | | Brandonrenfro
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  • alishb1373


    Our site is a multilingual , and its our structure for different lang : for en :domain.com/myPost for Arabic : domain.com/ar/myPost and most of the page and post in main site , have Arabic version also. and we want to generate href lang tag for all pages and posts.(for both language) and its my problem ; if i have a post or page in main site( English ), but the Arabic  version not published yet and the href lang in English site pointed to the arabic url page (the page that doesn't exist yet) {arabic version almost will publish after 4-5 days } is it harmful for our SEO ? that href lang point to the URL that doesnt exist?

    International SEO | | alishb1373
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