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No, There is no purpose of doing that. Just update the URLs in the property and view settings and also in your filters and goals.

Let me know if you have more questions.

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Hi Tim,

Yes I checked in my GA account and there is no data in it.

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If you have 22,000 products then you should ask web developer to place alt tag value dynamically like product name. It will take 10-20 minutes to implement this and your all products image have alt tags immediately.

Hope this helps you.

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Hi,

For products image alt tag is necessary because It provides Google with useful information about the subject matter of the image. Google use this information to help determine the best image to return for a user's query. So it is really important and every product image must have alt tag

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Hi,

Yes it happens. Please check last reply in below link.

https://moz.com/community/q/google-sets-brand-domain-name-at-the-end-of-serp-titles

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

In your case I would suggest you to contact Google my business support on twitter @GoogleMyBiz and their support team will jump on your request and help you out.

ask your question here also @ https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-My-Business/ct-p/GMB#

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Hi,

There are many reasons that can cause Google to remove a page/site from its search index. First you need to review your page’s content yourself. If a site has content that is illegal and harmful, then Google will not include it in the search results.

Check the page with Google Search Console

Google allows webmaster to see how Google sees their websites with Search Console (formerly webmaster tools).

After logging into your Google search console account, there are two main sections where Google will directly inform you what’s wrong with your page.

1. Crawl errors:
2. Security:
3. also check for malicious code

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Check this old thread on same topic @ https://moz.com/community/q/we-have-two-different-websites-with-the-same-products-and-information-will-that-hurt-our-rankings

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Lots of tracking doesn't affect bounce rate except events.Events affect the bounce rate but you have control over whether those events affect bounce rate.

See the code in this article @ http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2014/05/06/noninteraction-events-google-analytics/

Hope this helps.

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Yes I would go for exact match. In my own campaign I'm using exact match keywords for most of he Ad groups and if you are not getting click volume that you are aiming for I would suggest you to use Broad Match Modifier but keep checking search terms regularly and block irrelevant search terms.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I assume without clicking on button there is no other way to thank you page and if that is the case create destination goal for thank you page.

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Hi Jacob,

First I would suggest you to check in other tools e.g screaming frog. There is similar question asked earlier please see all the replies here @ https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-issue-in-moz-crawl-despite-canonical

Hope this helps.

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Hi Ashcastle,

Best option is not creating different page for each variant you can show it on one page only. I'm also using the same on my own website.

Hope this helps.

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Hi ,

IMO you should use different keyword variation for each otherwise you will compete with yourself if you target same keywords for each website. I also suggest you to wait for reply from other community members to get more opinion.

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Hi,

Please check this video @ Understanding and Applying Moz's Spam Score Metric - Whiteboard Friday

I'm also sharing old thread on similar issue @ https://moz.com/community/q/spam-score

Hope this helps you.

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Completely agreed with Taylor.

Hi Charles,

You can use either of them. Google doesn't make any difference between single and double quotes.

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Hi Shaun,

All cases mentioned in below article

http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-seo-advice-unavailable-e-commerce-products-186882

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

What do you mean by saying nofollow for robots.txt?

What is your purpose?? you don't want to index your page?? If yes I would suggest you to use

**Internal links shouldn't use rel="nofollow". I'm sharing an old article but I think it is still relevant.

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2298312/matt-cutts-you-dont-have-to-nofollow-internal-links

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

No you shouldn't use competitors brand name on your website because competitors will ask you to remove or will take some legal action against you & strictly no in Adwords ad copy. I know many advertisers who use competitors brand name as keyword including me but we don't use their brand name on any web page.

QS mainly affected by CTR so don't bother about using their brand name on the website just try to get maximum CTR.

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Hi,

Yes that will treated as duplicate content because duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place (URL).

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Yes option 'b' would be the best choice in my opinion. I also suggest you to read below article.

https://moz.com/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content

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Hi RobinEx,

I don't understand which quality score are you talking about. are you running campaign on google Adwords/Bing because these two advertising platform using quality score for each keyword??

If you want to target competitors brand name to get more visitors/leads that then you are on right path and many Advertisers on various advertising platform using this idea.

For Google Adwords & Bing you can target competitors brand name as keyword but you can't use competitors brand name in your ad copy*

I'm sharing an article in which you will find pros and cons on above technique.

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/06/12/bidding-on-competitor-brands

Hope this helps you.

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Hi Ahmet,

If you have very large site then you can place HTML sitemap link on homepage that help user to find any particular seaction of your website. For xml sitemap If you're verified in webmaster tools and submitted a sitemap, then there is no need of that.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Yes it does matter and every site should have sitemaps.

Sitemaps help search engines find and classify content on your site that they may not have found on their own. A sitemap is just there to help Google (and other search engines) crawl and hopefully index all your content.

If you are not using sitemaps for your site I would suggest you to submit sitemaps.

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Hi Ahmet,

1>SEMrush 2>SECockpit

3>Moz Keyword Explorer

I would also suggest you to read below article on keyword research.

http://backlinko.com/keyword-research

Hope this helps.

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Hi Sean,

I'm sharing a step by step article on switching to https

http://searchengineland.com/http-https-seos-guide-securing-website-246940

hope this helps you.

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Hi ,

Your question is very broad. Any site can be promoted in several ways e.g

1>Organic listing (SEO)

2>Paid listing (Adwords and other networks like Bing)

3>Social media marketing (using fb, twitter etc).

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Hi Gill,

The server's location plays a  very small role.You  definitely don't need to host your website in any specific  geographic  location.

I'm sharing a similar old thread @ https://moz.com/community/q/does-the-location-of-my-server-effect-my-seo

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

No, not at all. sub-domain doesn't act as private blog network. For more clarification I'm sharing PBN defination and hope that helps you.

A private blog network (PBN ) is a set of domains that you or another individual owns. It is possible to have a PBN consisting of free blogs, like wordpress.com, tumbr.com, or livejournal.com. Typically, the free blog domains do not have as much power as self hosted blogs.

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Hi,

Yes you can block in robots.txt. You can also use rel="nofollow" if you don't want to pass link juice.

[No Link Juice](https://www.example.com)

Hope this helps.
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Check this latest thread on same topic @ https://moz.com/community/q/drop-in-domain-authority

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Hi,

I'm sharing a thread from wpml forum. Please check all the 6 points and you can also communicate with them directly in wpml forum.

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translation-page-not-found-404/

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Hi Becky,

Please check these two old threads on the same topic.

1>https://moz.com/community/q/why-my-domain-authority-da-is-decreased-from-21-to-19

2>https://moz.com/community/q/domain-authority-and-links-drastically-decreased-in-less-than-a-month

Hope this helps.

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Hi Stacey,

Just deactivated and reactivated the following plugin:

• WPML Multilingual CMS
• WPML Translation ManagementVersion

If it doesn't resolve your issue please let us know.

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Hi Ruud,

There is a unconfirmed Google update around 1st Feb 2017. to know more please check below link.

http://searchengineland.com/unconfirmed-google-algorithm-update-may-better-discounting-links-spam-268637

Have you checked in Google search console?

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Hi,

There is no such ratio exist.Nofollowed links don't contribute to your domain power, but they make your backlink profile look natural.The main thing is earning natural links to your site.

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Hi,

If you are getting 403 forbidden access response for important page/pages e.g home page/important categories pages  then that may be a problem.

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Hi,

Please check this old thread on similar topic @ https://moz.com/community/q/will-removing-the-trailing-slash-impact-my-seo

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Hi Riyaz,

If you're targeting people in more than one country, you should not set a geographic target. BTW what is the current setting??

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Hi,

You are on right track. If  same keywords are used in different match types then they are not considered as duplicate keywords. Just remember the keyword with the highest AdRank enters the general auction for placement.

Generally the advertisers tend to follow different strategies and stick with the one, which gives them higher Conversions, high Return on Investment (ROI) etc...

1. Launch different match type keywords within a single ad group and go with the ones, which gives you better results.

2. Launch different match type keywords in different ad groups OR different campaigns and then add embedded negative match type keywords to streamline the traffic. Now, once you accrue data, you can pause the match types which are not proving worth for you and optimize the rest of the keywords.

Bid higher on_ exact_, lower on phrase and the lowest on broad.

Using this strategy, when all match types could be matched to a query,  the most restrictive  type wins, your   ad-rank will be higher, and as a result, your  chances to win a higher position  (in the  auction) are higher.

Hope this helps

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Hi Becky,

Impression drop is really huge in your case. If you have access of paid campaign dashboard you can check keywords list whose impression goes down.

There could be few reasons

• Advertisers were using broad match types initially and now they have either removed those keywords or targeting more restrictive match types e.g exact match or phrase match.
• Second reason could be huge drop in Ads position due to reducing the bid or competitors starts bidding very high on your brand terms,

You can check live results by searching brand terms in Ad preview tool. you will find whether your Ads is displaying or not or if displaying at what position.*

If you have any other query please let us know

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Yes you can block such pages in robots.txt. I would also like to let you know that If you don't want to index some pages you can use .

I would go for in your case.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

Main Differences:

Title Tags appear in search engines and the Web browser’s title bar
          H1 Headers appear within the body text of the webpage
          Search engines give more weight to Title Tags than H1 Headers

Please check this old thread on similar query @ https://moz.com/community/q/can-h1-and-meta-title-be-exactly-the-same-why-not

Hope this helps.

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Agreed with Sean. I would also not suggest to get paid directory link.

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Hi,

There is only way to reduce spam score by removing shady/spam links and get quality backlinks for your website.

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Hi,

First of all I assume auto tagging is enabled and your Adwords & analytics accounts linked. Now click on Colums>>Modify Columns>>Google Analytics>>Avg.session duration

Hope this helps.

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Hi Nancy,

Yes Google said it very clearly but big caveat here and I would suggest you to go through this detailed post of Cyrus.

https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo

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Hi Navneet,

Google changes meta tags because Google tries to show the result that is most specifically relevant to your search but  your case is different Google showing open directory projects title and description.
In order to showing correct title use "

Hope this helps.

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