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Hi Donna, you are correct: It takes 24-48 hours to push the data to campaigns in Moz Pro after the new index goes live. In the meantime, you can see updated metrics by going directly to OSE. I hope that helps!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Did any of these responses help you resolve your issue? We would love an update.

Christy

Great discussion, Miriam! I am curious, why would Yelp likely filter out first-time reviews? Do they currently do this? I would imagine that would be very discouraging to someone who took the time to leave a review, but maybe I'm missing something...

Hi there, thanks for your question! You've received some good initial responses. Did any help resolve your issue, or are you still trying to sort this out? Please let us know, thanks!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Were you able to sort this issue out? We'd love an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi Joel,

We don't get a lot of questions in this forum about Baidu. That said, I'm a little surprised we haven't had a response to your question yet, as our community of marketing experts is quite diverse in terms of areas of expertise (including international SEO), and includes folks from around the world. I'm reaching out to our team of Associates to see if someone may be able to help you sort this out.

Thanks so much for your patience!

Christy

Hi there, and thanks for your question! Did you see Sergey's detailed response to it? If it answers your question, please mark it as a "Good Answer." If it does not, please give us the information we need to point you in the right direction, thanks!

Christy

Hi Candice,

Would you mind asking this question in a new thread? Thanks so much!

Christy

Hi Hamed,

Welcome to the Moz forum! Say, would you mind opening asking this question in a brand new thread? As this one is quite old, that will be the best way to get your question answered.

Thanks!

Christy

Hi there! I meant this followup question: "I seem to have a high bounce rate but am an online store. Any thoughts on how to reduce it?"

Hi there, and welcome to the Moz Forum!

This is a great question, and deserves its own thread, actually. Would you mind starting a new thread with this question? (Asking one question per thread makes it easier for folks with questions similar to yours to find it when searching the forum. It also keeps the forum nice and tidy, and gives your question the best chance of being thoroughly answered.)

Thanks so much for your cooperation.

Christy

Okay, thanks for that.

Hi Greg, where do you think you read about the course?

We are glad to see you active in Q&A, Kristen!

Hi there! I have removed the link in your original post, and left it published here in the forum as a discussion question. For details, please refer to the email I just sent you.

Christy

In the online marketing community, there is a widespread belief that long-form content ranks better.

In today's YouMoz post, Ryan Purthill shares how his research indicated 1,125 to be a magic number of sorts: The closer a post got to this word count, the better it ranked. Diminishing returns, however, were seen once a post exceeded 1,125 words.

• Does this jibe with your own data and experiences?
• Do you think increasing word count helps content rank better in general?
• What about for specific industries and types of content?

Let's discuss!

Great! And you are quite welcome, EGOL.

Okay, to view questions answered by a person, you'll need to grab their user ID from the URL for their community profile. (For example, your user ID is 446.) Next, swap it out for the user ID in this URL: https://moz.com/community/q/users/446/answers.

To view questions posted by a person, do the same thing with this URL: https://moz.com/community/q/users/446/questions.

Voia! Does that make sense, EGOL? It's not the most elegant solution, but it's what we have (for now).

Christy

Yes, and I think the way that Web 2.0 sites (as defined by the way you are using the term, Jubaer), including those hosted on Wordpress.com and Tumblr, is a great example of why search engines treat subdomains as distinct domains.

Practically anyone can set up a site on Wordpress.com like abc.wordpress.com with minimal effort. That is, after all, the primary service Wordpress.com offers, after all. The sites that exist as subdomains of Wordpress.com have very little in common with each other, other than being hosted on Wordpress.com.

Wordpress.com has a DA of 96. There are some truly fantastic sites hosted as subdomains of Wordpress.com, and there are also a lot of really crappy ones, too. If search engines treated the value of a link from crappysite.wordpress.com as authoritatively as the value of a link from fantasticsite.wordpress.com simply because both are hosted on wordpress.com (which does, as you say, have a DA of 96), would that be best for users? Nope, it would not. Someone could have made crappysite.wordpress.com for the sole purpose of "earning" a link to their own (self-hosted) site, or created it with good intentions, but never put in the work needed to become a valuable site for its intended audience like fantasticsite.wordpress.com did.

And, let's not forget about the importance of relevance. The topics of sites on Wordpress.com  are all over the place. Therefore, it makes sense to treat each one separately, right?

Hi EGOL,

Specifically, would you like to be able to easily view all questions posted by a specific person in the forum, or questions they have answered (or at least responded to)?

Don and Peter, I love this so much! Great job, ya'll!

Hi, are you still having this issue? And did you see my questions above? We'd love to help you out.

Hi there, sorry for the long-delayed reply! Did you see the questions Dmitri asked? In order to help answer your question, we need this information provided as well.

Thanks!

Hi Edward,

In order to help you sort this out, we are going to need more information about your website. Are you able to share the domain? What about a timelines of changes made to the site and screencaps of helpful info from your Google Search Console and/or Analytics accounts? Also, do you have any hunches as to what caused this issue, and how has it impacted your site's performance overall?

Thanks!
Christy

Hi Herbet, in addition to the great resource Moosa Linked to above, you may also want to check out our Beginners Guide to SEO. Actually, I'd make sure you understand and get some experience implementing all the concepts introduced in the Beginners Guide before tackling a few small to medium eCommerce sites, and then moving onto a large one once you've gained some valuable experience and built up your confidence in optimizing sites . Optimizing a large e-commerce site e-commerce site is quite involved, and is a huge investment of time and money.

To answer your first question, though, if you only have the resources focus on adding custom titles and page descriptions for your site OR schema tags at first, I'd definitely start with the titles and page descriptions. If you don't write your own and properly mark them up, then the search engines will have a much harder time figuring out what your pages are about, and will populate the page titles and descriptions for them in search results with whatever they can find on your pages.

Hi EGOL, I am very sorry about this. This is aggravating for sure -- especially as detailed and thoughtfully crafted as your responses are!! We have not received any other reports of this happening with more frequency than usual this week (we being the community team) and I can't seem to reproduce the issue. I do hope other community members will comment on this thread if they are also experiencing this problem. Thanks so much for letting us know about this!

In the meantime, I'll see if the help team has received similar reports, ask the community team to stay on top of this, and of course request that this bug be zapped asap if the issue is able to be reproduced or otherwise verified as a bug. As a stopgap measure, have you tried selecting all and copying your responses before hitting "post response"? That way, if you get a blank screen, you can just paste your carefully written response into a new field (or even into a notetaking app for safe keeping.

Again, I am so sorry for the inconvenience and aggravation this issue is causing you, and thank you for letting us know about it.

Thanks so much for your patience, EGOL!

Christy

This week on The Moz Blog, Eric Enge wrote about Why You Must Become a 10x Brand. In the post, he said:

"You need to be in-demand. If some channel does not make it easy to find you, you need people to miss you. That's why you must behave like an authentic, engaged member of the overall community. Having a great product or service will be a requirement, but that's just table stakes—you need to be a 10x brand."

I'd love to know what you think about this statement. In particular, I would love to hear your answers to the following questions:

• What does becoming a 10x brand mean for you, your business, or your clients?
• What does this look like in small business, medium business, large/huge businesses?
• Is it an easier process for any one of these categories, and how would you go about it?

I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this topic, folks. Don't be shy, let's discuss.

Hi there, have you been able to figure out this riddle yet -- or are you still working on it? We'd love an update!

Christy

I just have to say I love this particular metaphor. I will be using it frequently from now on when explaining how DA and PA work. Thanks so much, Rand!

Well said, Russ, especially for a "mathy" answer. I am curious, though, would this "ideal document" you describe have a specific word count?

Thanks for your understanding!

Hi there, Josh is correct in that we have a strict no solicitation policy for this forum and do not allow job postings (to prevent the forum from becoming, well, more like a job board and less like a discussion forum). Typically, we close questions seeking recommendations for SEO service providers, including agencies and independent consults, and suggest you check out our list of Moz Recommended Companies or post on Inbound.org's job board. But since you are getting some solid advice on what to look for in an SEO audit (and related tools), I am going to leave this thread open for a while. Thanks so much for your understanding.

Christy

Hi David,

Actually, this forum was built from scratch, in-house.

We are really glad you enjoy using it! I'd love to know what you features you must appreciate, which ones you could do without, and what you'd like to see added to make using the forum a much better experience for everyone.

Also, I am curious what forum platform solutions you've already looked into for your own forum, and how they compare. Would you mind sharing? (No pressure, of course.)

Great question, thanks!

Christy

Today's YouMoz post, Accidental SEO Tests: When On-Page Optimization Ceases to Matter, explores the theory that there is an on-page optimization saturation point, "beyond which further on-page optimization no longer improves your ability to rank" for the keywords/keyword topics you are targeting. In other words, you can optimize your page for search to the point that it is 100% topically relevant to query and intent.

Do you believe there exists such a thing as a page that is 100% topically relevant? What are your thoughts regarding there being an on-page optimization saturation point, beyond which further on-page optimization no longer improves your ability to rank? Let's discuss!

Hi Sean! I hope you are having a great weekend. Getting down to business, this is a friendly reminder that we don't allow job posting in this forum. Accordingly, I have edited your question and am locking this thread to comments. In your search for a contractor, you may want to check out our list of Recommended Companies, and/or consider posting on Inbound.org's job board.

Thanks for your understanding, and best of luck in your search!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question. In addition to the excellent questions Dmitrii has raised, I would like to know if you are producing a brand new website, with original content, with the exception of a hotel directory. (Or will the content on your site consist primarily of duplicate content from an existing site?)

Hi Oliver, you've received some great responses to your question. Did any of them help answer your question? Let us know, thanks!

Christy

Hi Moosa, do you have an update on this issue?

Hi BeyondIndigo,

I just did a nonpersonalized search in Google-US for Volunteer Veterinary Hospital in Knoxville, and you client came up as the first organic result in the SERPs. My hunch is that you are not ranking for the search terms you are tracking in the tools you mentioned, and you are not tracking the search terms that are actually driving organic search traffic to your client's site.

In order to tell for sure, though, please provide us with more information about the tools you are using, and what, exactly, they are showing you that has led you to believe that your client's site has no presence in Google's search results.

Finally, if your client's site has been verified in Google Search Console, (formerly known as Googlewebmaster Tools), you can see how often the site is showing up in the SERPs, and for what search queries, in the Search Analytics Report.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Christy

Hi J.P.,

Page depth refers to the number of clicks it takes a user (or search engine) to get to a page from the home page. And yes, this can negatively impact SEO, as well as usability, if it takes too many clicks for users and search engines to get to a page. (Search engines may use up their crawl budget, while users may simply leave your site and go to one that is easier to find what the are looking for.)

However, the number of clicks it takes to navigate to a page doesn't necessarily mirror the URL structure. So, in the example you give, the existing URL makes sense - http://www.domain.com/procedures/breasts/augmentation. It is readable, includes keywords, does not use special characters, avoid stop words, and isn't too long.

If you were going to change the URL structure, I would go with http://www.domain.com/procedures/breastaugmentation over http://www.domain.com/breastaugmentation, unless the only procedure your client does is breast augmentation. But, seeing as there is not a compelling reason to change the URL structure, I would leave it as-is. Even if you perfectly plan and execute all 301-redirects and update every link, you are creating a lot of work for yourself (as well as anyone who links to you, as best practice would be to ask them to update the new link). Furthermore, 301-redirects are known to pass slightly less value over time. Of immediate concern, you should expect fluctuations in the site's performance in the SERPs when making any sitewide change such as this.

For more information on best practices for URL structure, I recommend checking out this post by Rand Fishkin: <a>https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls</a>.

I hope that helps!

Christy

Hi J.P., you've received some solid advice from Bob. Like he said, though, it is difficult from the example given to tell if your suggested approach is solid. However, detailed answers to these 2 questions should help us get a clearer picture of the situation:

1. Why do you think the existing URL structure is a poor one?

2. Why do you  think the proposed one would be more effective for this particular site in terms of SEO performance?

And, of course, if you are able to provide examples of URLs that provide a bit more detail (and show any differences between the existing and proposed URL structure beyond the addition of a subfolder), that would be great, too!

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Christy

Hi Laura,

Has your question been answered? We'd love an update, thanks!

Christy

Welcome to the Moz community, Charles! Posting the question about Hummingbird and cannibalization in a new thread is a smart move, as it will likely get more attention that way. Assuming your new question is answered, it will also help people who have a similar question be able to find an answer that helps them (when they search this forum). So thanks for doing that.

Christy

Hi J,

Did you see Miriam's response to both of your questions? Just checking...

Christy

Hi Karl, did you see Kristina's question? We'd love an update on your situation, thanks!

Christy

Excellent advice. Thanks for jumping in here!

Hi Kashif,

There a few different ways you can tackle this problem, but each approach has the end goal of making sure all of your clients' indexed product pages contain at least 80% unique content. Are you able to share the domain with us? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Christy

Hi there!  Thanks for providing example links and answering my questions. Those were very helpful!

I had a peek at your site, and noticed that it has several issues hindering its performance in the search results, including two major ones: 1) widespread duplicate content issues; and 2) very few inbound links. Before you do anything, though, I recommend thoroughly studying Moz's guide to SEO for beginners at https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo.

Next, tackle your duplicate content issues. While you could try to sort this issue out using canonical tags (and those are almost always a good idea to use anyways - see https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization for details of implementation), I would focus the bulk of your resources on planning and creating unique, highly valuable content for each page of your website. It looks like a lot of the content for each region and specialist is identical, with some of it near-identical (with the latter having simply the specialist and/or regional names updated from one page to the other only to distinguish it).  This strategy is commonly used to create content on large websites that target many different regions, as it makes it easier to scale content creation, and it used to work to a certain extent to help geotargeted landing pages rank in the SERPs... many years ago. To get some ideas for creating a strategy that will work for your particular website and its audience (and please the search engines), I recommend you check out this Whiteboard Friday on scaling content for geo-targeted landing pages - https://moz.com/blog/scaling-geo-targeted-local-landing-pages-that-really-rank-and-convert-whiteboard-friday.

Now, what about those links? How do you acquire those? Once you have created the content that the audience you are targeting craves, linkbuilding will be much, much easier, as people are more apt to link to it -- without being asked. The key to making this work is to get said content in front of the right people. That is, you need to figure out how to best share and promote your content to the people you want to link to it. For more on this, I recommend studying Paddy Moogan's excellent guide to linkbuilding, which you can find at https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building.

I hope that helps! Please let me know if you need additional clarification.

Christy