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  • RyanUK


    This may be a basic question for some. I would like to get opinion of SEO experts on EMD and .co domains. I understand from what I have read that exact match domains have less value nowadays but they still have some value, that's what I seem to be sensing from experts. So I wanted to know how .co domains are viewed in term of SEO. And can an exact match .co domain have a better opportunity against another domain which is not an EMD if all other things are equal?

    Algorithm Updates | | RyanUK
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  • NaomiAdivare


    Hi! I noticed the Moz DA en the Ahrefs DA are very different. Where https://www.123opzeggen.nl/ has a DA of 10 at MOZ, the DA at Ahrefs is 26. Where does this big difference come from? Do you measure in different ways? I hope you can answer this question for me. Thank you in advance!

    Moz Pro | | NaomiAdivare
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  • NikCall


    I am trying to determine if my website was impacted by the March 2019 Core Update.  Based on the various articles I have been reading, I do not believe my niche (software) was impacted.  I see a very small tick up on search console and google analytics, but it is well within the normal range. Where else should I be looking to see if we were impacted? Thank you!

    Algorithm Updates | | NikCall
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  • vtmoz


    Hi, We are going to install a translation plugin on our wordpress hosted website. It's going to generate sub directories like website.com/it/ or website.com/fr/. The plugin will create hreflang tags automatically in the pages and canonicals will be pointing to same pages. Is there anything to check before deploying this plugin? We are going to generate more than 30+ languages pages which will increase our website pages to 30 times in Google index. Will this dilute the page ranking or have any duplicate content issues? Thanks

    Algorithm Updates | | vtmoz
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  • jsteimle


    I have a website which serves two languages - English and Chinese. My English homepage can be indexed by Google. But when I search the brand term in English, Google returns my Chinese homepage. I already added the hreflang attributes. And I'm working on building the XML sitemap for three languages. What other things I can work on to fix the issue? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | jsteimle
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  • TapanSant


    I am unable to find an option in Moz Pro where I can find Moz rank for my website. Please help me to find that.

    Getting Started | | TapanSant
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  • Wavelength_International


    Hi There, I am working on the following website: https://wave.com.au/ I have become aware that there are different pages that are competing for the same keywords. For example, I just started to update a core, category page - Anaesthetics (https://wave.com.au/job-specialties/anaesthetics/) to focus mainly around the keywords ‘Anaesthetist Jobs’. But I have recognized that there are ongoing landing pages that contain pretty similar content: https://wave.com.au/anaesthetists/ https://wave.com.au/asa/ We want to direct organic traffic to our core pages e.g. (https://wave.com.au/job-specialties/anaesthetics/). This then leads me to have to deal with the duplicate pages with either a canonical link (content manageable) or maybe alternatively adding a no-follow tag or updating the robots.txt. Our resident developer also suggested that it might be good to use Google Index in the sitemap to tell Google that these are of less value? What is the best approach? Should I add a canonical link to the landing pages pointing it to the category page? Or alternatively, should I use the Google Index? Or even another approach? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Wavelength_International
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  • Marce521


    I have a chiropractor client with three locations. Because the Chiropractor category is very competitive, whomever originally set-up their GMB pages elected to use the category "Pain Control Clinic" for two locations, and "Medical Center" for the third location. They rank badly for these categories. Their website does not contain many signals for pain control or medical center; it is very much chiropractor focused. Is this something Google takes into consideration when deciding how to rank GMB pages?

    Local Listings | | Marce521
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  • mad1693


    We are an e-commerce site selling outdoor clothing/equipment and I am managing the SEO with only a years worth of experience under my belt! We are looking at changing the navigation as we are selling a bigger range of products and we would like to make it more user friendly. When looking at both crawlability and customer friendly navigation too, is it best to list product collections under whatever menu it applies to, or just the one that it best falls under. For example, 'climbing shoes', should that go under 'outdoor footwear' and 'climbing equipment' or just 'outdoor footwear'? Does it even matter from an seo perspective?! I know that being user-friendly is more important but just wondering if its less or more important for page rankings if its linked to from less or more pages internally. Thanks!

    Link Building | | mad1693
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  • VelocityWebsites


    how do I write a 301 redirect in the htaccess file so that http:// goes straight to https://www. Moz replyEli profileHey there!Thanks for reaching out to us!

    Technical SEO | | VelocityWebsites
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  • Davit1985


    Hey Mozzers, I would like some input from you guys please. For keywords "car service dc" "dc car service" "car service washington dc" my site ranks in positions 7, 8 . My home page www.dcacar.com and also a landing page for washington dc: https://www.dcacar.com/washington-dc-car-service.html Is there something I can do to rank higher? Should I 301 redirect the landing page to the home page? If you have any suggestions and have experience in such cases your input will be greatly appreciated. Our home page also ranks for almost 20 other very important keywords that drive a lot of business to us. So I am a bit scared to touch the title tag on the home page. 2nd question. It's been almost 2 weeks that the local pack is showing 2 results for the same keywords. We are #3 lost our space from the result. Are you noticing any changes to your local packs? Why are there 2 results and not 3? When I search for similar keywords but in other cities I usually get 3packs even now. Any suggestions on making into the top two? We have 3 times more reviews than the other 2 companies the only thing I see that makes them rank above us is their company names are almost exact match with the keyword. Thanks in advance for your time and help.

    Competitive Research | | Davit1985
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  • NikCall


    I am working through thousands of organic keywords and would like to create a list of core keywords.  I want the list to be small enough that we can really go after these keywords and track progress.  I work for a B2B software company.  I am thinking between 20-30 but I would love to hear any tips, opinions and recommendations! Thank you!

    Keyword Research | | NikCall
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  • yousafsaeed1990sf


    I want to know why my site's DA got changed suddenly? Whereas the DA of other sites of my competitors remained the same. It happened just a few days ago and i noticed it today!

    Link Explorer | | yousafsaeed1990sf
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  • Lilycharlie


    My Web site: https://www.basictrailers.com.au/ I have been using Moz for almost 3 months, from the start to now, the internal links are always 0. However, if I check the links on my Google Search Console, it is over 1500. So what is the problem? If Moz is trying to make its algorithm similar to Google, why that they even cannot find my internal links. That is ridiculous. 0fhTnQG

    Moz Pro | | Lilycharlie
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  • fareli


    international seo serp features

    How can I be included in http://www.google.com/flights section in Serp for other languages like Persian e.g the keyword: بلیط هواپیما

    International SEO | | fareli
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  • bcaples


    I'm working on redesigning our website. One of the content types has a main archive page (/success-stories) containing all of the success stories (written by graduates of our program). Because we plan to have success stories for other people (non-graduates), I'm using category hierarchies (/success-stories/graduates and success-stories/nonprofits, for example). It will go one level deeper to organize graduates by graduation year (/success-stories/graduates/%year%). I think this will work out well. However, we won't have non-graduate success stories for a little while, probably at least a few weeks, which means that /success-stories and /.../graduates indices will contain the same content for a while. So my question is this: Will it hurt to use a canonical tag that points to /success-stories/graduates as the authority until the main archive page contains more than just graduates? Or would it be better to use a 302 redirect from /success-stories to /.../graduates until more diverse content is added?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | bcaples
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  • mirabile


    Hello! We are doing an image optimization audit, and are therefore trying to find a way to get a list of all images on a site.  Screaming Frog seems like a great place to start (as per this helpful article:  https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-perform-an-image-optimization-audit), but unfortunately, it doesn't include images in CSS.  😞 Does the community have any ideas for how we try to otherwise get list of images? Thanks in advance for any tips/advice.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mirabile
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  • donsilvernail


    Good Morning everyone, I am trying to decide how I am going to handle an issue on two WordPress websites. I recently acquired 2 new clients that used to do business with the same SEO company. Neither of the clients know of the other but both had the same story about said SEO company. The usual complaints, I wont get into details. My issue is the old SEO company basically was spamming keywords and utilized tags to do this. For each of these clients they had very thin spammy blog posts written and then had a multitude of spammy tags used as keywords here is an example https://captainjacksboatingschool.com/middlesex-county-boating-safety-class/ Each one of these tags is creating duplicate content. How do i properly handle these tags? Do i delete? Do i need to redirect into one main page after deletion. I much rather use plain English and authoritative based Categories. In fact I never use tags, only categories. They do not seem to have much seo value. Both clients who were with this company have the same Tag setup... Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to loose the customers current rank because i want to do things my way Thanks, Don Silvernail

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | donsilvernail
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  • Kati_nav


    Hi there! In SERP analysis for my chosen keywords, DA level for a facebook page is 97, and the RDs linking to root domain is 42,117,874. So does this site have 42 million domains leading back to this page, making it impossible to beat with SEO? Any help is appreciated as I'm struggling to understand what this means! Thanks 🙂

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kati_nav
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  • iQi


    Hi there, You might have experienced this before but for me this is the first. A client of mine moved from domain A (www.domainA.com) to domain B (www.domainB.com). 301 redirects are all in place for over a year. But the old domain is still showing in Google when you search for "site:domainA.com" The HTTP Header check shows this result for the URL https://www.domainA.com/company/cookie-policy.aspx HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently => 
    Cache-Control => private
    Content-Length => 174
    Content-Type => text/html; charset=utf-8
    Location => https://www.domain_B_.com/legal/cookie-policy
    Server => Microsoft-IIS/10.0
    X-AspNetMvc-Version => 5.2
    X-AspNet-Version => 4.0.30319
    X-Powered-By => ASP.NET
    Date => Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:01:33 GMT
    Connection => close Does the redirect look wrong? The change of address request was made on Google Console when the website was moved over a year ago. Edit: Checked the domainA.com on bing and it seems that its not indexed, and replaced with domainB.com, which is the right. Just Google is indexing the old domain! Please let me know your thoughts on why this is happening. Best,

    Technical SEO | | iQi
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  • Addict


    I have a few questions. My website allows people to create custom 'puzzle' and education (i.e. "math") worksheets -  enter your 'school spelling list' - I can make a crossword or many other puzzles (PDF form) from it. I recently realized that I was being penalized for the backlink I placed in each one. I placed in each PDF ("Created with mydomain.com Crossword maker") - I was linking the "crossword maker" back to my site. BAD!  I am now aware of this.  I have recently disavowed several hundred backlinks where people have posted those PDF's online - and have started to see a big recovery in ranking and traffic. My questions about my citation: "Created with mydomain.com Crossword maker":
    1. Moving forward, can I leave the same citation on each PDF - but just link 'mydomain.com' back to my domain (not the keywords, just the domain)
    2. If not, can I just leave the unlinked text on the PDF: i.e. "Created with mydomain.com Crossword maker" -no embeded links at all.
    3. Is it OK to assert that they must leave the "citation" (linked/unlinked?) to post them on their website as a part of my terms of use? If not, is there an acceptable way to get credit for giving away free custom content - other than asking for an 'optional' link back? I have thousands more of these that I would need to end up disavowing so knowing exactly what is permissible is extremely important to me moving forward. I have watched this whiteboard Friday: https://moz.com/blog/backlinks-maximize-benefits-avoid-problems-whiteboard-friday (I am looking for clarification on what I can put in the original content I essentially syndicate - the content is different on each and every PDF, except for the citation). Thank you so much for your time and help!

    Branding | | Addict
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  • artsp


    Using my two most pertinent keywords in Chome my site shows up page two. Using the same keywords on my iPhone does not show my site at all (I clicked on to page 15). I have a mobile ranking of 84 on Google PageSpeed Insights. Could be a bit higher but not enough to totally ignore my site. What am I missing?

    On-Page Optimization | | artsp
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  • NueveSolution


    I fixed all the crawl issues but still my website is in second page.

    On-Page Optimization | | NueveSolution
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  • Hazel_Key


    I have one client with two domains, identical products to appear on both domains. How should I handle this?

    Technical SEO | | Hazel_Key
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  • frankandmaven


    Hey All! I'm wondering if there is any benefit (or if benefit could possibly outweigh the cost) to changing a domain from .com to a new .edu domain. The current .com domain has decent credibility already, and the .edu will have never been used before.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | frankandmaven
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  • pinder325


    Hello, We are working on a new site. The idea of the site is to have an ecommerce shop, but the homepage will be a content page, basically a blog page.
    My developer wants to have the blog (home) page on a subdomain, so blog.example.com, because it will be easier to make a nice content page this way, and the the rest of the site will just be on the root domain (example.com). I'm just worried that this will be bad for our SEO efforts. I've always thought it was better to use a sub folder rather than a subdomain. If we get links to the content on the subdomain, will the link juice flow to the shop, on the root domain? What are your thoughts?

    Technical SEO | | pinder325
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  • SimpleSearch


    Hello! A client's IT security team has firewalls on the site with GEO blocking enabled. This is to prevent foreign connections to applications as part of a contractual agreements with their own clients. Does anyone have any experience with workarounds for this? Thank you!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SimpleSearch
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  • marshdigitalmarketing


    For the longest time, our company policy has always been to put PDFs in a secure folder (hence they are not indexed and do not appear in search results). After evaluating this strategy, there has been clamor in recent months to allow Google to index our whitepapers. My question: Once PDFs start appearing in search results, what is the best way to start tracking clicks due to these "downloads"?

    Reporting & Analytics | | marshdigitalmarketing
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  • EdKim


    I am trying to figure out the site structure of a website and the urls of all the pages. Normally this would be easy but a couple of months ago the website went down and I don't think it will ever come back. Any help would be appreciated.

    Competitive Research | | EdKim
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  • HSDOnline


    I'm removing a bunch of old & rubbish pages and was going to serve 410 to tell google they're gone (my understanding is it'll get them out of the index a bit quicker than a 404). I should still serve an error page though, right? Similar to a 404. That doesn't muddy the "gone" message that I'm giving Google? There's no need to 410 and die?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | HSDOnline
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  • Matt16


    hi guys, I hope I can make some sense to you guys with what is occuring with my website. I am an absolute novice here. I used a drag and drop website 3 or 4 years ago, not sure exactly at the moment when i purchased the domain. however I did pretty well using paid search on both google and bing for quite some time and fairly descent in my area long beach, ca for organic for some of my keywords ( tv install, tv wall mount installation , and tv mounting service). At some point I noticed a drop last year and so this year I decided to try and do a better job on my website by making it mobile friendly and the whole https thing. I basically had to redo it and then after I was finished, the company I use for my website then transferred my website over to original domain.     www.coastlinetvinstalls.com Now, If i do a search for some of the keywords im trying to rank for on google , I show up on the first page in my area on some days, and on the google maps for my local business in my area. On bing, however, Im nowhere to be found for any keywords I used to rank for. It use to be the opposite before I did this whole website fix up or whatever you want to call it. I would be on the first page for anything related to my keywords. Wat happened with bing ? any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,

    Local Website Optimization | | Matt16
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  • JacobMojiwat


    Hi, When using the Link Explorer to query URLs, when a long URL is entered, the field obscures the full URL eventough the field width should be able to comfortably fit the whole URL. This started to happen a few weeks ago. Hope this can be fixed soon. Thanks!
    Jake

    Moz Bar | | JacobMojiwat
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  • DonnaDuncan


    Where can one submit a feature request for Moz, see all the other ones that have been submitted, and make our preferences known? For those of you reading this question, I suspect there is no inventory of feature requests accessible to non-Mozzers because I have occasionally asked to have something added and been told my request would be passed along versus "go here and log it". I'm asking the question in case one does exist and I'm just not aware of it. That said, if you think this would be valuable, please comment and let Moz know.

    Feature Requests | | DonnaDuncan
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  • Kingalan1


    Greetings: We are considering hiring a firm specializes in developing .EDU links. Is the ROI on EDU links better than non EDU backlinks from reputable domains? Will obtaining EDU links results in greater domain authority and improved ranking for search engine results? Thanks, Alan

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kingalan1
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  • Staunton_Rook


    hi guys I had this page "https://www.stauntonrook.co.uk/marketing-services/offline/corporate-identity/" indexed in google at position 5 for a search term, after some research in the keyword planner I decided to change my url to https://www.stauntonrook.co.uk/marketing-services/offline/logo-design/ because I wanted the keyword in the url. I added a 301 redirect to the htaccess and removed the old page from google using webmaster tools fully expecting the new url to drop back in anytime hopefully in a better position than 5, now after a good week or so, still nothing 😞 also doesn't seem to be in any of the other search engines either I've updated the xml too any ideas?

    Web Design | | Staunton_Rook
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  • KenLapp


    Everybody says it's important to put as much information as you can into your Google My Business listing.  I'm wondering if it helps to take Google up on it's offer to give you a free website in addition to the website I already have of my own.

    Reviews and Ratings | | KenLapp
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  • Tom3_15


    Hi All, We are experiencing issues with pages that have been 404'd being indexed. Originally, these were /wp-content/ index pages, that were included in Google's index. Once I realized this, I added in a directive into our htaccess to 404 all of these pages - as there were hundreds. I tried to let Google crawl and remove these pages naturally but after a few months I used the URL removal tool to remove them manually. However, Google seems to be continually re/indexing these pages, even after they have been manually requested for removal in search console. Do you have suggestions? They all respond to 404's. Thanks

    Technical SEO | | Tom3_15
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  • newbyguy


    I found the answer on this -- interestingly, I had changed registrars and they didn't pull over the DNS information correctly.  This caused the above issues.  Once I identified this, I updated the DNS correctly -- at registrar and server -- and things worked fine.

    Content Development | | newbyguy
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  • sstewart85


    Hi Everyone, thanks for having me, glad to be here. So... Basically, in trying to validate business ideas by looking at search data... I don't understand how the results could be what they are. Ok to be more specific, I wanted to create a course about hit songwriting and music production... I've seen books on Songwriting with 200 - 500 reviews on Amazon, and I've seen some websites that have digital products even more niched down than this, who seem to be doing VERY well. The search data on the other hand, says that most songwriting / music production related searches are quite low. Like Songwriting might be really high, but then it's a steep drop off after that. Additionally; looking at SimilarWeb at those 'competitors' I was looking at... they're getting lots of organic traffic but they don't rank for any obvious songwriting / production words... Like the search is telling me: Nobody wants to learn songwriting ... nobody wants to learn music production.. the search data implies I'd be wasting my time making anything like that. And yet...how can this be true? There are literally schools where people learn songwriting and music production, and so how is nobody searching out this stuff? What's happening here? Any ideas? Just confused. . interested what you guys think.

    Search Behavior | | sstewart85
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  • jennlynnprin


    Ug! Super upset. I went from a 41 to a 31, and I am not sure why. I did switch hosts 3 months ago, and I also JUST started using no follow links b/c someone told me that would help RAISE my DA. I would love any thoughts or advice. Thanks!

    Link Building | | jennlynnprin
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  • beckygh


    I have identified a large number of very high spam score links to "free wallpaper" coming into my site.
    I am running a wordpress blog and would like some advice on the best course of action. There are thousands of spam domains linking to various images on my site with the anchor text "get free high quality hd wallpaper" The webmasters for these domains are not contactable so I am planning to submit a disavow file to google. I am aware these links have negatively affected my DA so would like to do more to remove them. My questions are: will deleting the images they link to help?
    As this is on a wordpress site deleting the images will result in a soft 404, should I force a hard 404 to properly break the link?
    Will this positively improve my DA?

    Technical SEO | | beckygh
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  • ZozoMe


    Dear Community, I have the following problem and would be super helpful if you guys would be able to help. Cheers Symptoms : On the search console, Google says that some of our old URLs are indexed but not submitted in sitemap However, those URLs are in the sitemap Also the sitemap as been successfully submitted. No error message Potential explanation : We have an automatic cache clearing process within the company once a day. In the sitemap, we use this as last modification date. Let's imagine url www.example.com/hello was modified last time in 2017. But because the cache is cleared daily, in the sitemap we will have last modified : yesterday, even if the content of the page did not changed since 2017. We have a Z after sitemap time, can it be that the bot does not understands the time format ? We have in the sitemap only http URL. And our HTTPS URLs are not in the sitemap What do you think?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ZozoMe
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  • ZozoMe


    Hi Guys, We are operating a Single Page Application at the moment and are having difficulty to make the website rank. We are using Server Side Rendering when the user is landing on one of our SEO relevant landing page. But if the user is clicking on any link, then after clicking, the content that he gets is only client side rendered. Our assumption is that the Google Bot is going to do the following : Land on a page AAA, that will be server side rendered (all good) Navigate through the link existing on the page AAA and be exposed to the content of page BBB Since content of page BBB is client side rendering only, then the Bot will not be able to properly understand what it is. => Hence still able to crawl it but it won't rank it well. Here our questions : Because SEO is critical to us, should we try to force SSR after a click ? How does the robot opens links ? Is it : open new tab behavior ? Because this would trigger SSR on our side. Looking forward for your feedback

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ZozoMe
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  • Gab-SEO


    I just bought a SSL Key, do I need to redirect all my links? Example http://mysite.com redirect 301 to https://mysite.com Otherwise, I will lose all my ranking I guess?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Gab-SEO
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  • avaye


    hi...i have website...and i was in first place in page1  since 4 month ago. but somehow i take 5th place . its weird because whin compare my moz results there really better in number and better da and pa and lower spam score. why they get better result in my main kewords???!!! this is my website saadatrent.com and this is main keyword "اجاره ماشین" + "اجاره خودرو"

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | avaye
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