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Hi Brent,

I just  took a quick look as a friendly courtesy...

To be honest, the list of backlinks pointing to your domain seem pretty suspect in comparison to website's I've been working with over the years. Google may find this suspect as well, though I am not certain, at least at this second.

As you know, lots of backlinks can mean a high DA, but DA is simply a Moz metric -- not a Google metric  -- and doesn't automatically equate to high ranks in the SERPs.

Beyond this, you may want to make sure that (1) you're set up properly with Google Search Console, (2) you have a sitemap submitted, and (3) you're website is allowing search engines to crawl it.

Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out if you'd like us to take a deeper dive.

Best,
Zack

Hello,

I have never heard of Google penalizing anyone for such a thing, and would proceed with what you're wanting to do there.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Absolutely not. I would proceed with this. Best of luck.

Zack

Hi there,

Have you tried using Moz Bar? Adding this to your browser and enabling it should allow you to see your website's  DA rather quickly.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Hi Brent,

Can you please share more specifics so I can take a look? (Also... Keep in mind that DA is a Moz metric (not a Google metric), so it is taking a "best guess" of course.)

Thanks,
Zack

Hi Dawodus,

Can you get a bit more specific as to what the issue is?

Thanks,
Zack

Just in case it's helpful...

For quite some time I've had issues using Moz Bar (and even the Moz website) using Chrome. As of this year, I use Safari when using Moz's Q&A forum, to be honest.

Best,
Zack

Hello,

To also chime in on this, I strongly recommend being trained by Moz. They do an excellent job, and walk through using the tools, step by step.

Our agency uses Moz for SEO keyword research, as well as SEO site audits. The Moz Bar when linked up with a Moz Pro account is very useful.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Hi Uzair,

As far as I know, the different tools such as Moz actually use different data sets. They aren't looking  at the complete picture, in other words. They do have very large amounts of data, and are very useful if used correctly, but somewhat different from one another, and aren't infallible.

Hope this helps! Zack

Hi Paula!

Are  you saying that your company name is showing twice within the same tag? If so, you may want to reach out to your developer, or Squarespace support.

If you are simply saying that the company name is in both the title and meta tags, as long as it makes sense contextually, that doesn't sound like a bad thing at all.

Best,
Zack

To chime in as well, you will strongly want to take into consideration  what your PA and DA are, in comparison to that of the competition when doing SEO Keyword research. Using the Moz Pro tools is a wonderful place to start (IMHO), but to go one step further, then take the top performers in Moz Pro, and actually look at the SERPs for those in Google to see if your page can outperform the competition.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Hi Tejas,

This falls slightly outside of my area of expertise, but not by too much. Have you dug into Google's recommendations regarding canonicalization? That is where I would start.

Best,
Zack

Hi there,

My advice would  be this. Since you are paying Google to run Google Ads, the good news is that they open up their support to you. I recommend contacting them, and asking them how to resolve this. This would cost you nothing, as opposed to having a developer or agency take a look.

Best of luck.

Zack

Hi there,

In answer, to identify technical SEO issues, we couldn't recommend enough the SEO Site Audit training from Moz. Honestly great stuff, and better than we've seen with competitors. (No, we're not affiliated!)

To troubleshoot technical SEO issues, though, is a different matter. This is when you would need a developer, or agency, most likely, and the involvement would vary of  course.

Best,
Zack

Hi MarkJerry,

In addition to Ibrahim_Khan's response, DA can also decrease when competitors' DA increases. That is also something to take into consideration.

Best of luck.

Zack

Hi Ali

Certainly one strategy would be to use Moz Pro + the Moz bar to see which sites are linking back to a competitor. Our agency has done this, creating large spreadsheets of possible backlink opportunities, then going through them one by one to see which are attainable for you.

While this is not the only backlink strategy out there, it is not a bad place to start in my humble opinion.

Hope this helps,

Zack

Hi snjaoieiw,

To get a detailed answer from Moz staff on what DA is, you might consider searching the Q&A forum.

In short, though, it is a Moz metric (not a Google or Bing metric) that takes into consideration the number (and quality) of backlinks your website has. That said, have you been working on building up high quality backlinks?

-Zack

Hi qwaswd,

This appears to be a similar question to what you have in another thread. Have you tried connecting your website to Google Search Console and submitting an XML sitemap?

Best,
Zack

Hi qwaswd,

Have you  tried creating and submitting an XML sitemap of your blog using Google Search Console?

Best,
Zack

A non-spammy comment:

Thank you for the note. This came up recently in a client meeting, and per one of your blog posts, we suggested the use of BuzzSumo. While that did not bring up as many mentions of the brand as  we thought it would, it did give us four pretty nice potential backlink opportunities from some higher domain authority websites out there.

Best,
Zack

Greg,

Thanks so much for following up. I applaud your effort in this, and am sorry to hear that posting to GMB didn't do the trick.

Silly question, possibly, but just in case  -- have you used Google Search Console to ensure that your page containing backlinks is being indexed?

Best,
Zack

Hi Andy,

We just went through this with a client. Here's a little bit of our experience, just in case this is useful.

• For a client's keyword research, we started by putting together keyword research seed lists based initially by going through their Google Search Console "queries". We gathered together those keywords, for each page, and added geo locations to the keywords, pluralization, and other types of basic variations to get to hundreds (or more) of keywords for each page. BUT yes, like you, most of these keywords in our initial seed lists wound up having "No data" for search volume.

• Fortunately, however, we also then  added in Moz ideas, using Moz Pro Keyword Explorer. This brought many  more suggestions in for each page, and while some were highly irrelevant, it did bring many ideas in that we had not thought of, which helped bolster our lists, and with very high search volume keyword ideas to boot.

Hope this helps!

Zack

Hi Sim,

Moz has written an article that speaks to this in detail. Is this what you are asking?

https://moz.com/learn/seo/anchor-text

Best,
Zack

Hi Greg,

Yes, no problem at all.

From within your Google My Business profile, you can see the "Your latest post" section, and click the "Create post" button. Hope this helps! (Please let me know your findings if you don't mind!)

Much appreciated,
Zack

Hi there,

Thanks so much for the quick response and clarification. This is very helpful, and I am tracking with you (completely) regarding your suggestions to the original poster.

Thanks also for the encouragement. Only twice in my career have I heard someone say anything even remotely negative about my SEO efforts, so paired with your comment and my experience, I'm going to take what this client is saying with a grain of salt.

Greatly appreciated,
Zack

Hi there,

Have you reached out to Moz support with this request?

Best,
Zack

Hi Slim,

Quality, relevant backlinks would be helpful to you here, but there are numerous other ranking factors. Essentially, though, if you are competing for the same exact keyword, yes, you would want to have a higher page rank than that of your competitor, with preferably better quality page.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Hi Hadia,

So sorry -- but would you be able to rephrase your question? It is a little difficult for me to understand. Happy to help though.

Best,
Zack

This is a difficult one to answer, as Google as explicitly stated that if you use 301 redirects to do this, your ranking will not be affected. On the other hand, I have heard 1-2 SEO professionals say that they have found otherwise.

Hope this is helpful!

Zack

Have you been focusing on obtaining high quality, relevant "follow" backlinks?

Thanks,
Zack

Hi there,

Are the websites that are linking back to yours "follow" links, or "nofollow" links? And how long has it been since you obtained these backlinks?

Thanks,
Zack

Hi there,

To chime in, I believe it would be incredibly helpful for you to go through Moz training for keyword research. Have you done so?

Best,
Zack

Hi Mosalah,

I'm having trouble understanding the question. Can you please rephrase? (Are you referring to Schema?)

Best,
Zack

Do you have FTP access and / or Yoast installed (if this is a WordPress website)?

Thanks,
Zack

This may or may not help, but to chime in, I have heard of SEOs posting pages in Google updates and social media posts to help it get picked up faster. If you try this, can you let me know how that goes?

Thanks,
Zack

Hi  there,

Here is a copy paste from a Moz staffer on this. Hope this helps!

Spam Score in Links and Link Explorer represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Our machine learning model identified **27 common features **among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.

You can read more about Spam Score on our Help Hub - including an awesome video that explains how to use the score as well as the factors we use to calculate the score.

Your Spam Score - This does not mean that your site is definitely spammy. The percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to change these factors on your site, but it may be worthwhile to consider them. It is best to use this percentage figure to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation and, perhaps, even removal.

Another site's Spam Score - Again, this doesn't mean that these sites are spammy. This percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is just based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to disregard sites or disavow links with higher Spam Scores. Instead, we'd recommend using it as a guide for kick starting investigations. Be sure to check out a site's content and its relevance in linking back to you before disregarding or disavowing.

You can read more about Link Explorer metrics here https://moz.com/help/link-explorer

Have you tried targeting keywords for those search terms using a something more geo specific? Example: ایزوپروپیل الکل {city name}?

Zack

Hi there,

If that is the case, I would try searching for your website using a site:  search in Google. For example, search Google for "site:https://migweldertech.com/" to check to see what you find. If it is not showing up, it is likely to be an SEO indexing and / or accessibility issue. This can be resolved by following a standard Moz SEO Site Audit process to troubleshoot.

Hope this helps!

Zack

Hi there,

Yes -- in my personal experience, I have seen instances where Ahrefs is picking up on new links within a month or so, yet Moz can take months. Hope this helps.

Zack

Thanks so much for the update on this. So, so glad to hear that this was straightened out. Also good to know that it wasn't a linear / logical route on Google's part, and that it took 4-5 days. (Some people on the forum expect an immediate turnaround on this, I've noticed.)

Have a great day,
Zack

Hi Maxi,

Have you tried heading to Google Search Console > Removals > Clear Cached URL to see if that helps?

Best,
Zack

This comment has stuck out to me for a  while, and I thought I would ask about it if you don't mind.

We recently performed what I would consider extensive keyword research for a medium sized business, and they did not seem impressed with the keyword seed lists we assembled for them. To gather the seed lists for each page, we did two things:

1. Head into their GA and GSC  to see every single keyword people used to get to their website last year, and took each of those, then split them up into ideas for each page. We then did as many variations on them as we could think of by adding their city (San Jose), state, country, pluralization, etc., and wound up with thousands of keywords in their "our ideas" seed list.

2. Second, we used Moz Pro Keyword Explorer for additional ideas, entering in their pages one by one, to see what Moz came up with, then exported those for each page as  additional ideas.

Afterwards, we took  ALL of our ideas and ALL of the Moz ideas, had them split up page by page (of course), and checked for the best combinations of volume, difficulty, ctr, priority, etc..

All that said, I believed this to be a rock solid approach until I saw your comment, which made me wonder. Do you feel this was a solid effort? Have you seen better results from a different approach? (In my mind, this was far better than what I believed what most other agencies would have provided them with, and I am almost wondering if their complaining is an attempt to renegotiate on their invoice -- something their owner is unfortunately keen  on doing.)

Greatly appreciated,
Zack

Hi Verz,

Thanks for the response. Has this improved, now that some time has passed?

Best,
Zack

You bet. Hope that was helpful.

Thanks,
Zack

Hi Sanna,

It sounds like those are technically separate websites, so in my experience, these would each require their own SEO Site Audits.

If conducting a true Moz SEO Site Audit ... The good news is, if they're all for the same client, your Background Info page data will likely be (mostly) the same for each of these sites, and possibly the Goals page data also, and you'll only need to share all of the Site Audits information with one client, which will be a huge time saver as well.

Best,
Zack

Hi there,

To chime in, Moz recommends prioritizing the issues that have been discovered (perhaps, in an SEO Site Audit for example) by determining which have the highest VALUE. In other words,  if your main priority is generating leads, remedying issues that are preventing this may be your best bet, if that makes sense.

Hope this helps.

Zack

Hi there,

While I believe Moz to have the superior Site Audit training methodology, I've also tried Ahrefs, which seems "lighter", but honestly, you may just want to download and run Screaming Frog (no affiliation) on your website, to gather a quick report on missing titles, meta descriptions, h1s, duplicate content, etc..

Hope this helps!

Zack