Hi Julie,
This post might help. It includes some solid advice and techniques to clean up your GA data: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter.
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Hi Julie,
This post might help. It includes some solid advice and techniques to clean up your GA data: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter.
Hi Stephen,
Webmeup is a crawler unrelated to Moz. Feel free to block them if you'd like, though they don't seem to be nefarious in intent. They've listed info about their crawler and how best to block them here: http://webmeup-crawler.com/.
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the question. There are a lot of changes and improvements that were already rolled out with Moz Analytics. Some of the more prominent ones include:
All that said, this is a platform that we are very actively working on. A few things that are up and coming in Moz Analytics:
We are also focused on making improvements to some of our most popular tools, like Open Site Explorer and Fresh Web Explorer.
We went through a period in which our tools were a bit stagnant while we worked to ship the Moz Analytics platform. Not that it's out, we will be shipping new capabilities and features very frequently.
If you have specific features you are looking for, I encourage you to add them to our feature request forum. We try to make sure we respond to each request so you have an idea of where it lies in our current priorities.
I hope that helps. Let me know if I can supply any more details.
Best,
Adam
Sorry for the very slow response. Your data is still there (nothing lost), and is displayed historically in the graphs, but the detailed data is only shown for the latest week or day. We have 2 projects on our roadmap that will make this better in the platform. The first is monthly timeframes, so you can see changes in larger chunks over months instead of weeks. The other, is the ability to look at the detail data for past weeks (and months when that is in place). I don't have a timeframe on historical yet, but we should have more clarity around our plans for that feature in January.
This is a great question and a topic we are really interested in hearing more about at Moz. We understand that changing workflows can be painful and challenging, and are dedicated to making Moz Analytics a worthy successor to Pro.
If you have any specific items that you find frustrating, missing, or hard to find, we'd love it of you respond in the thread, or even email me directly (adam -at- moz.com). Also let us know if there are things we could do to help, whether it be resources, education, or product changes.
Thanks!
Thanks for reporting this! We just got the fix in so all of your campaigns links should work now.
Hi all. Here's a quick update. The good news is that we tracked down the core issues and have made progress toward fixing them. Keyword difficulty is up and running again, although we are still testing and tracking down a few imperfect results. Campaign rankings are in good shape. If you had any missing rankings, they should be retrieved by late tonight, though there a very small set of locales for which rankings are not yet available. And we are still on target to have rank tracker working tomorrow.
I also wanted to note that the engineering team has been investing in building up redundancy to ensure greater resiliency in the future. Unfortunately these systems were not yet complete when the latest problems arose. Fortunately, a lot of the work that the team has put in over the last week has helped us better test and prepare those systems.
Thanks to everyone for your patience during this outage. We don't take these issues lightly and have put every available resource toward solving them. We’re truly sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.
Hi Remco,
I think your instinct is correct here. You could set up a campaign for each language subfolder, which would allow you to choose keywords, track rankings, and optimize content for each language individually. This would also create targeted crawls for each language directory.
Hi Steven,
You are correct in noting that SEOmoz does not have this functionality at this time. We are working actively on expanding the size and quality of our main index, which is published monthly, but I totally agree that it can be frustrating to wait to see new links when you are working on a new site.
As Doug mentioned in his response, we are working toward a separate fresher index which works quite differently, but this is still a little ways out. We will be sure to share more about it as progress continues.
Thanks for the question, and good luck with the new site!
Adam
Sorry for the very late response, but wanted to let you know that I took a look into this and it appears that there is a bug in the ranking overview which makes it so we only shows the visit data for the first of two duplicates (differing only by capitalization) that is added. The first will show the number of visits and the second will display a value of "pending".
As for the data itself, if you go to the ranking history for the 2 keywords, it should show the same historical visit data (and has in our tests), so this is consistent with how we should be displaying this.
There is certainly no need to be tracking different capitalizations separately, as our GA data collection is not case sensitive.
If you are still seeing something odd aside from the pending on the overview, please let me know.
Thanks for catching this and bringing it to our attention!
Adam
Thanks for reporting this! We just got the fix in so all of your campaigns links should work now.
Hi all. Here's a quick update. The good news is that we tracked down the core issues and have made progress toward fixing them. Keyword difficulty is up and running again, although we are still testing and tracking down a few imperfect results. Campaign rankings are in good shape. If you had any missing rankings, they should be retrieved by late tonight, though there a very small set of locales for which rankings are not yet available. And we are still on target to have rank tracker working tomorrow.
I also wanted to note that the engineering team has been investing in building up redundancy to ensure greater resiliency in the future. Unfortunately these systems were not yet complete when the latest problems arose. Fortunately, a lot of the work that the team has put in over the last week has helped us better test and prepare those systems.
Thanks to everyone for your patience during this outage. We don't take these issues lightly and have put every available resource toward solving them. We’re truly sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.
Ah, good question.
At the moment this project is still in planning, so I don't have a firm ETA yet. There's a good chance we will release the task list functionality in phases and I'm hoping to have a first phase out before the end of the year. I'll be sure to share some more information when the plan is better defined.
Hi Steven,
You are correct in noting that SEOmoz does not have this functionality at this time. We are working actively on expanding the size and quality of our main index, which is published monthly, but I totally agree that it can be frustrating to wait to see new links when you are working on a new site.
As Doug mentioned in his response, we are working toward a separate fresher index which works quite differently, but this is still a little ways out. We will be sure to share more about it as progress continues.
Thanks for the question, and good luck with the new site!
Adam
Very good question. I dug in a little bit and found out that both the Great Britain and United Kingdom option are exactly the same behind the scenes. Both return rankings for google.co.uk. I'm not sure how the GB option got in there, but we'll take it out soon and just leave the UK option.
For any people that chose GB in the past, their campaigns will continue to work and pull UK results.
Sorry for the confusion!
Adam
Hi Stephen,
Webmeup is a crawler unrelated to Moz. Feel free to block them if you'd like, though they don't seem to be nefarious in intent. They've listed info about their crawler and how best to block them here: http://webmeup-crawler.com/.
Thanks for the question!
I did a little digging, and you are correct in that a duplicate title should not be shown here. There are some cases where a URL is canonicalized to another, but our crawler still report it as a duplicate title.
The good news is that we have an update in the works that will exclude canonicalized duplicates correctly. We are testing it now and hope to have it in place by late January.
This update will also fix a lot of other small bugs and be more robust overall. I hope this helps for now. We'll be sure to announce when the update goes out.
Hi Julie,
This post might help. It includes some solid advice and techniques to clean up your GA data: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter.
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the question. There are a lot of changes and improvements that were already rolled out with Moz Analytics. Some of the more prominent ones include:
All that said, this is a platform that we are very actively working on. A few things that are up and coming in Moz Analytics:
We are also focused on making improvements to some of our most popular tools, like Open Site Explorer and Fresh Web Explorer.
We went through a period in which our tools were a bit stagnant while we worked to ship the Moz Analytics platform. Not that it's out, we will be shipping new capabilities and features very frequently.
If you have specific features you are looking for, I encourage you to add them to our feature request forum. We try to make sure we respond to each request so you have an idea of where it lies in our current priorities.
I hope that helps. Let me know if I can supply any more details.
Best,
Adam
Hi Dru,
Looking at your page, it appears that you are using the wrong format for your rel=canonical tags. The tag I saw in your code was formatted as:
where it should have the format:
I think this should clear things up, but let me know if I am missed something.
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