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  • Pan1234


    Hi Mozzers, I am working for an international client, in a highly regulated industry. As such, their international set-up is slightly confusing. They currently operate websites across multiple countries (with ccTLDs), as well as a global .com. E.g: domain.co.uk domain.it domain. es domain.com etc. Additionally, they offer multiple languages across each of these domains, which often cross over. E.g: domain.co.uk/en/, domain.co.uk/fr/, domain.co.uk/de/ domain.es/en/, domain.es/es/ domain.it/en/, domain.it/it/ domain.com/en/, domain.com/es/, domain.com/fr/, domain.com/de/ They are not currently using HREFLANG of any sort. Using EN as an example, this results in 6 URLs showing the same content, albeit for different languages/locations: Main URL domain.co.uk/en/category-A/     hreflang="en-GB" Multi-lingual variants from same domain... domain.co.uk/fr/category-A/     hreflang="fr-GB" domain.co.uk/de/category-A/     hreflang="de-GB" Cross domain variants from other ccTLDs... domain.es/en/category-A/     hreflang="en-ES" domain.it/en/category-A/     hreflang="en-IT" domain.com/en/category-A/     hreflang="en" Can anyone cleverer than myself confirm that the above would be the most effective set-up for this scenario, with each URL referencing each other in this way?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Pan1234
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  • StevenWalley


    Hi everyone, I've just joined the Moz community and after completing our first site crawl I've discovered that we have approximately 200 links with a spam score of over 50%. Should I just disavow all these links or is their a formula to deciding which links to disavow? Thanks in Advance Steve

    Link Building | | StevenWalley
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  • Reema24


    As per Moz, the spam score of my website is 41%. As it was an old domain we bought, we disavowed the two linking domains that we thought might be the reason for the high spam score. But after having done so for more than a month, the spam score of 41% still persists. Can anyone suggest me what can we do to sort this out?

    Moz Pro | | Reema24
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  • jasongmcmahon


    I've added a new favicon to a website, which is displayed on browser tabs, on both mobile & desktop devices. But, in SERPs on mobile devices, the old favicon is still showing - How do I flush this our so that the new one is displayed?

    On-Page Optimization | | jasongmcmahon
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  • DivarOfficial


    Hey, Moz fans. I am wondering why my AMP version shows in SERP some time and disappear again!!! there is no Error in AMP validator. Please help me. Landing: https://www.bimetime.com/blog/pasargad-life-insurance/amp

    Reporting & Analytics | | DivarOfficial
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  • aijaz555


    Hello! today my Card was charged with 179$ for Moz Pro fees which i was not aware of, kindly refund my money and cancel / delete any subscription related to my account. Username : aijaz555 Thanks

    Getting Started | | aijaz555
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  • Vitzz


    I understand that my keyword strategy should include a mix of keywords and their long-winded version of the same. And that I should tell Google which keywords each page should rank for. Now when I'm telling MOZ which keywords to monitor for my site's ranking, should I include both the short AND long-winded versions?
    Thanks!

    SEO Learn Center | | Vitzz
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  • nfrank


    Hi there, A number of our URLs are being de-indexed by Google. When looking into this using Google Search Console the same message is appearing on multiple pages across our sites: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical' 'IndexingIndexing allowed? YesUser-declared canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/ie/products/real-estate-financial-software/Google-selected canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/uk/products/real-estate-financial-software/'Has anyone else experienced this problem?How can I get Google to select the correct, user-declared canoncial? Thanks.

    Technical SEO | | nfrank
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  • Mr.Suren


    Hi, I have a WordPress site (woocommerce integrated). I would like to know should I use a plugin to enable e-commerce tracking in Google Analytics or I should do it manually with GTM. Which is a better way? Will using a plugin to enable e-commerce tracking slow down my site? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

    Reporting & Analytics | | Mr.Suren
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  • planetdocs


    Hello, i created my site some months ago i know nothing about SEO , since then i have domain authority 3 only and have almost no visitors on my website . i don't know how to make it rank please someone could help me? or even recommend a site where i can even monthly pay directly so they do the SEO for me. Please contact me on my site chat i'm always online https://planetdocumentation.com

    Image & Video Optimization | | planetdocs
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  • JH_OffLimits


    I've been asked the question of whether if we should nofollow all of our social links, would this be a wise thing to do? I'm not exactly getting a clear answer from search results and thought you guys would be best to ask 🙂 Thanks in advance.

    Technical SEO | | JH_OffLimits
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  • jazzydan


    Hi Guys, First time question. I'm going to be creating some Adwords search campaigns. When I create these campaigns I will be targeting specific post codes in London. I've checked this and all is fine. However I need to forecast costs for my client before creating the campaigns. Google Keyword Planner only allows me to forecasts volume and CPC costs for London, it doesn't allow me to drill down any further than this. What would be the best way to try and forecast costs for these postcode specific campaigns? Even if its using a third party tool. Or is it just not possible? Thanks Dan

    Local SEO | | jazzydan
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  • Rajesh.Prajapati


    Main website xyz.com have only 10K external links while geo target sites xyz.com/ca (which is for Canada) have 100K external links in Google Search Console. Mostly links which are showing as external links for xyz.com/ca are from xyz.com
    Ex.-
    External links for xyz.com/ca -
    xyz.com/contact-us
    xyz.com/product
    xyz.com/category Is it possible? or missed any technique to implement in geo target sites.

    Technical SEO | | Rajesh.Prajapati
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  • Ty1986


    Hi mozzers, We just redesigned our homepage and discovered that our main nav is using JS and when disabling JS, no main nav links was showing up. Is this still considered bad practice for SEO? https://cl.ly/14ccf2509478 thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Ty1986
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  • j.rahimi1990


    Hi, I am trying to track a page optimization feature for one of my project, https://www.writemyessay247.com  for keyword: write my essay but i keep getting this below error: "Page Optimization Error There was a problem loading this page. Please make sure the page is loading properly and that our user-agent, rogerbot, is not blocked from accessing this page." I checked robots.txt file, it all looks fine. Not sure what is the problem? Is it a problem with Moz or the website?

    Moz Bar | | j.rahimi1990
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  • robandsarahgillespie


    If I were to remove Google Analytics completely, what would happen with my Moz campaign?  What wouldn't I be able to see or use? I ask this on the back of the recent changes to EU 'cookie law'.  It's getting to the point now where GA will no longer be a viable option unless you want to rely on consent from those awful cookie popup notices - the ones everyone hates and just clicks on to see the content.

    Product Support | | robandsarahgillespie
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  • naturalsociety


    I'm wondering if I can use Keyword Explorer (or maybe another tool?) to target keywords for image rankings. I'd like to play around with optimizing images so that they appear in search results and thus provide traffic - but wasn't sure the best way to track that kind of progress. My ultimate goal is to analyze the difficulty of ranking for a certain keyword via Google images. (I do know to optimize alt tag/title tag/place in relevant article etc, but wanted to know if I could research the difficulty). Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

    Moz Bar | | naturalsociety
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  • bickybeanie


    How does Moz identify which keywords are evident on page and how many that can be on that page. Can any of these identified keywords lie on any other pages within site and to what degree-thanks

    Moz Bar | | bickybeanie
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  • jasongmcmahon


    Hi there, I'm looking for a tool/ service whereby I can track backlinks & be alerted when:
    a) They've moved
    b) They've been removed & 404 is generated Is anyone aware of any such service?

    Link Building | | jasongmcmahon
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  • Alexanders


    I'm getting the same structured data error on search console form most of my websites, Invalid value in field "itemtype" I take off all the structured data but still having this problem, according to Search console is a syntax problem but I can't find what is causing this. Any guess, suggestion or solution for this?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Alexanders
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  • waqid


    My domain was indexed with HTTPS://WWW. now that we redirected it the certificate has been removed and if you try to visit the old site with https it throws an obvious error that this sites not secure and the 301 does not happen. My question is will googles bot have this issue. Right now the domain has been in redirection status to the new domain for a couple months and the old site is still indexed, while the new one is not ranking well for half its terms. If that is not causing the problem can anyone tell me why would the 301 take such a long time. Ive double and quadruple checked the 301's and all settings to ensure its being redirected properly. Yet it still hasn't fully redirected. Something is wrong and my clients ready to ditch the old domain we worked on for a good amount of time. backgorund:About 30 days ago we found some redirect loops .. well not loop but it was redirecting from old domain to the new domain several times without error. I removed the plugins causing the multi redirects and now we have just one redirect from any page on the old domain to the new https version. Any suggestions? This is really frustrating me and I just can't figure it out.  My only answer at this point is wait it out because others have had this issue where it takes up to 2 months to redirect the domain. My only issue is that this is the first domain redirect out of many that have ever taken more than a week or three.

    Technical SEO | | waqid
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  • amag


    Hi everyone! Let's use this as an example URL: https://www.example.com/marvel/avengers/hulk/ We have done a 301 redirect for the "Avengers" page to another page on the site. Sibling pages of the "Hulk" page live off "marvel" now (ex: /marvel/thor/ and /marvel/iron-man/). Is there any benefit in doing a 301 for the "Hulk" page to live at /marvel/hulk/ like it's sibling pages? Is there any harm long-term in leaving the "Hulk" page under a permanently redirected page? Thank you! Matt

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | amag
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  • Ty1986


    Hi mozzers, When checking the coverage report on GSC I am seeing over 649,000 valid pages https://cl.ly/ae46ec25f494 but when performing site:domain.com I am only seeing 130,000 pages. Which one is more the source of truth especially I have checked some of these "valid" pages and noticed they're not even indexed?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Ty1986
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  • rashmibhardwaj86


    It's been about 3 months my Website DA and  Ranking are constant. What should i do about it? I am generating good quality links and syndicating Content in different website but no Help.

    Moz Pro | | rashmibhardwaj86
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  • rickmic


    Sometimes the "Pages with Duplicate Content" results under Content Issues show pages that, from what I'm able to see or otherwise test, have no duplicate content, save for the same navigation that exists on all of my pages. For example, a recent issue said that the following pages had duplicate content:
    https://freezerworks.com/index.php/html/slider-overlay
    https://freezerworks.com/index.php/ufaqs/what-do-i-get-with-my-purchase-of-freezerworks
    https://freezerworks.com/index.php/videos/fda-and-freezerworks-2
    https://freezerworks.com/index.php/lims-testing-module Even a side-by-side of the page source in a text comparison tool shows nothing but navigation and scripts used in every page. Am I not seeing something?

    Moz Bar | | rickmic
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  • JakeWarren


    Hi guys! New to Moz Pro. I just recently completed an online course with Moz... I have a client who is writing some new content for their site, and we are approaching it with SEO in mind. I was wondering about using an image with text on it as the article title, instead of an actual "text on the page" title. Wondering if that's going to "cost" us anything, SEO wise. I guess we could use alt-text/title/description fields to make sure the keywords are crawlable for our article title but do they have less "weight" than a standard title? How does that work? Hope my question makes sense. Article header attached mB0PXsA.jpg

    On-Page Optimization | | JakeWarren
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  • DiveshSeo


    Is been a long time since the Domain Authority improved when Moz has last updated in March Month.  After that, there is no DA activity happeing.

    Link Explorer | | DiveshSeo
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  • Stew222


    Hi, I am wondering what the best practice is when a site has an index page and a home page? I have two pages, listed below, and want to know if I should 301 redirect my "index" page to my standard home page.  The home page is where I would like all traffic to fall on for our website.  Additionally, I used the rel=canonical tag years ago on the index page to indicate that the home page is the main content. Home Page - https://www.1099pro.com/ (PA 45) Home Page Canonical:  rel="canonical" href="https://www.1099pro.com/"/> Index Page - https://www.1099pro.com/index.asp (PA - 33) Index Page Canonical:  rel="canonical" href="https://www.1099pro.com/"/> It seems to me that there is some extra juice that could be passed to my home page (which is the page that ranks highly for our major keywords) by 301 redirecting the index page.  Is there any reason why I should not do that? Really appreciate any help - especially with extra explanations - for the simple minded like me ;)! -Michael

    Web Design | | Stew222
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  • igniterman75


    Hi Guys Selecting the right keywords that a website can realistically rank for is a key to gain top rankings relatively quick.  I am just curious to hear how you guys do it  (the methodology) when selecting which keywords to push? I mean you need to check the competition for each keyword as well so how to check this quickly to see what we realistically can rank for? Cheers John

    Competitive Research | | igniterman75
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  • RS-Marketing


    Our team is stumped and we are hoping some of you might have some insight! We are seeing a drop in Europe organic revenue and we can't seem to figure out what the core cause of the problem is. What's interesting, the high intent traffic is increasing across the business, as is organic-attributed revenue.  And in Europe specifically, other channels appear to be doing just fine.  This seems to be a Europe high-intent SEO problem. What we have established: Revenue was at a peak in Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 Revenue dips in mid-late Q2 2018 and again in Q4 2018 where it has stayed low since Organic traffic has gone up, conversion rate has gone down, purchases have gone down Paid search traffic has gone up, conversion rate has gone down slightly, submissions have gone up Currency changes are minimal We cannot find any site load issues    What we know happened during this time frame (January 2018 onward): Updates to the website (homepage layout, some text changes) end of April 2018 GDPR end of May 2018 Google Analytics stops being able to track Firefox Europe is a key market for us and we cant figure out what might be causing this to happen - again, only in Europe - beyond GDPR and the changes we've made on our site is there anything else major that we're missing that could be causing this? Or does anyone have any insights as to where we should look? Thank you in advance!

    Algorithm Updates | | RS-Marketing
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  • Virginia-Girtz


    Hello mozers! I have a question about duplicate content for you... One on my clients pages have been dropping in search volume for a while now, and I've discovered it's because the search term isn't as popular as it used to be. So... we need to create a new landing page using a more popular search term. The page which is losing traffic is based on the search query "Can I put a solid roof on my conservatory" this only gets 0-10 searches per month according to the keyword explorer tool. However, if we changed this to "replacing conservatory roof with solid roof" this gets up to 500 searches per month. Muuuuch better! The issue is, I don't want to close down and re-direct the old page because it's got a featured snippet and sits in position 1. So I'd like to create another page instead... however, as the two are effectively the same content, I would then land myself in a duplicate content issue. If I were to put a rel="canonical" tag in the original "can I put a solid roof...." page but say the master page is now the new one, would that get around the issue?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Virginia-Girtz
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  • Donsimong


    I have an interesting problem with a site which has an x-robot tag blocking the site from being indexed, the site is in Wordpress, there are no issues with the robots.txt or at the page level, I cant find the noindex anywhere. I removed the SEO plug-in which was there and installed Yoast but it made no difference. this is the url: https://www.cotswoldflatroofing.com/ Its coming up with a HTTP error: x-robots tag noindex, nofollow, noarchive

    Technical SEO | | Donsimong
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  • SimpleSearch


    Hello, colleagues! We have a conundrum.  A client website has a good subdirectory strategy for localized/translated content for its various international markets, but nothing currently "lives" at the root.  In my mind, this presents a challenge to search engines (note that we have had some trouble getting proper visibility overall, which is why I'm asking this question). I'm looking for any links or just plain old good advice on why it's important to have a global homepage.  Should that global homepage be in English?  Most enterprise sites I've worked with do have a homepage that's in English, with the ability to select a country from a drop down in a nav across the site. Any advice, best practices, etc. about why a global homepage is important and what language it could/should be in would be really helpful. Hreflang tags would make sense, I guess, but each country has slightly different offerings so I'm not sure that it makes complete sense.  In other words, one country's homepage may have completely different content than another's. Thank you!

    Algorithm Updates | | SimpleSearch
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  • Donsimong


    I have a client (flat roofing) with two registered businesses both of which are based from the same address, upon trying to create a new GMB account for the second business, it was immediately suspended by Google. So somewhat unsurprisingly one address one business, but is there a way around this?

    Local Listings | | Donsimong
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  • seoanalytics


    Could some give me an example on how they do keyword research because I have tried many things and it doesn't work. Here is what I tried : Let's take a keyword  " Alsace bike tours" I go to the keyword tool, lisgraph, ubersuggest, google keyword tool, and type "Alsace bike tours" Thos tools spit me phrases such as : "bike from colmar to riquewihr, "alsace vineyard cycle route", alsace cycle routes. I write my content and integrate those expressions in it. In my content I add words that relate to alsace such as Strasbourg, Colmar, the wine route etc... I wait and weeks later see no change in ranking.. What I am missing ? Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • Mat_C


    Hi, I would like to block all URLs with the parameter '?filter=' from being crawled by including them in the robots.txt. Which directive should I use: User-agent: *
    Disallow: ?filter= or User-agent: *
    Disallow: /?filter= In other words, is the forward slash in the beginning of the disallow directive necessary? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Mat_C
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  • jenniferwilliamss


    I am making quality links on my website robomodo  but still not index by moz and have not impact on da of my website.

    Link Building | | jenniferwilliamss
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  • Bryton


    Well I entered my cc info to try MOZ out. Havent used it so I forgot to cancel my subscription. They have since billed me for a month. I wanted to know if it is possible to get my money back?

    Product Support | | Bryton
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  • dbcooper


    Hello, At some time in the past our WP site had urls like this: www.oursite.com/blog/post-title-pretty-link The site has not used that url structure for quite some time, but Moz crawl is still hitting every post with /blog/prepended and as a result is generating thousands of 404s.  When the /blog/ is removed from the url, then the urls work fine. Where are those old urls being stored and how can we update them? How do we address this issue? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!

    Moz Bar | | dbcooper
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  • gary_nectarbridge


    Hi all Trying to improve SEO for my (mostly) local site, www.nectarbridge.com, and recently got back on Moz Pro account. First crawl of my site by Moz, a manageable number of issues that I've mostly sorted, but the category with the largest number of problems is missing or invalid tags. My content pages and blog posts are not missing the tags. It's category, archives, etc., including multiple pages, ex: https://www.nectarbridge.com/category/blog/page/4/ A smaller number of pages are being flagged by Moz as missing descriptions, and they are also category pages and the like. So the question is - how hard should I pursue fixing these issues? I'm using the divi theme, which apparently doesn't display the category description by default (if it did, that would kill two birds with one stone). There is a fix to add the category description, but before I get into that I'm trying to discern whether this issue really matters greatly to SEO or if I should spend that time just working on more content.

    Moz Pro | | gary_nectarbridge
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  • 7thPowerInc


    When accessing the notification center to fetch reports (https://moz.com/notifications) you get the screen that is missing the file list but your header and footer are present. This is the second time in less than 3 weeks. Thankfully the PDF's can be downloaded the old way and only the csv's are stuck behind this feature.  I am sure there is someone who likes the Notification Center so can we have a setting so the Notification Center can be optional? Thanks, Dave

    Link Explorer | | 7thPowerInc
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  • igniterman75


    Hi Guys Just curious to hear what you guys do to rank blog posts in the top in Google especially onsite, after the RankBrain update? Do you still use SEO tools to optimize this or are the SEO tools outdated for this? If yes which tools do you use to get success with? Cheers John

    Algorithm Updates | | igniterman75
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  • seoanalytics


    I noticed that when I request indexing in the webmaster tool my new content is live within minutes. Does it take longer to update the ranking or is the ranking updated as soon as the new page has been indexed. Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • MaddenMediaSEO


    I would like to retrieve a campaign's Search Visibility score, and preferably historical too, in an automated fashion. However, as far as I know the API has no access to this. Is there something I'm missing? If not, is there a formula I can use to calculate this score?

    Feature Requests | | MaddenMediaSEO
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