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Hi there, my impatient friend

You started created those backlinks on Aug 10. I assume that's when website went live. https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/subdomains/fresh?target=http%3A%2F%2Fdramasapps.com%2F as you can see your backlink are being crawled.

Mozscape updates are monthly thing, but last month there was a problem, so it's going to be updated on october 8th. the last one was on august 3. https://moz.com/products/api/updates so you couldn't have been in index yet.

Patience, my friend, patience.

Hi.

My point of view is that if you don't update G+ page, it's still worth having it simply for google maps and straight brand SERPs, because if link it all properly, you gonna get easy way of updating/creating your address/name etc.

Cheers

Hi. If I search for "zotye", I get message "did you mean zotey", not the message you're talking about.

Anyway, to "fix" the issue you're talking about is to "make" more people searching for "zotey". Which means increasing brand awareness, business exposure etc etc. Also backlink building with that keyword as anchor text will help for sure. Just don't go overboard with it

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, rankings drop (at least for some time) is pretty much unavoidable when changing domain name.

Now, you are saying that there are lots of high authority backlinks to that domain - i check and ahrefs tells me there are only 12(!) backlinks alltogether and MOZ OSE says there are none at all. Well, here is your problem!

I checked backlink profile for old domain and yes, there is a decent backlink proile, so that's why there is a drop. Just give it some time and build some fresh backlinks.

Hi there.

It's called Google knowledge graph. It's being created automatically, but you can "help" Google to understand what you want to display.

Refer to this google page for more detailed explanations and how-tos: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/overview

Hi there.

As far as I know (99% sure), GSC won't let you do the address change for the same domain name. Also, they recommend having all versions - http and https.

So, I'd say just add another version

Hi there.

First, your question is very confusing, so, I'm reading my crystal ball here. Correct me, if it tells me wrong things.

So, you have a load of exact-matching follow backlinks and it's hurting you (you're afraid that you can get penalized in future). So, you wanna spam a load of blogs, which use user name as anchor text and these backlinks are no-follow, and you're hoping that Google says "Oh, since this guy has bunch of dofollow exact match anchors, but a the same time he spammed whole bunch of blogs with nofollow links, I gonna let it be"?!?!

Come on! Take a better look at what's happening and how Google "decides" who to ban. Quite frankly, Google doesn't care about any links which are nofollow, you can have exact match or not. What they do pay attention is the links which are do-follow to determine the "spamminess" of your website.

So, if you have used some spammy/shady techniques (and it sounds like that) to get exact matching do-follow backlinks, get ready to be hit by Google, no matter how many (and what type) of no-follow links you got additionally.

Cheers.

Hi there.

If they are actually buying links or using any shady techniques - they will get what they deserve, don't worry. And I don't think you can report this type of activity without hard proof.

I'd recommend rather focusing on your work - seo, natural backlinks, content and all of that. The reason your competitor is ranking #1 is not necessarily due to buying backlinks, since there are so many other factors.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Upon request to sitemap.xml run a let's say sitemap.php or .js or whatever, which would read the directory for new files, then update sitemap.xml. If you're using CMS - then it should have automatically generated sitemap by default. If not - the same idea, just instead of reading directory for rhysical files, read database.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, it happens sometimes. Please read this post by Dr.Pete - you'll find answers https://moz.com/blog/i-cant-drive-155-meta-descriptions-in-2015

Hi there.

Here is a video from Matt Cutts. I know it's old, but I think it does summarize what you should do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_NmnXn5A4

Basically, as always, it's all about user experience. I think that your idea about reviews on page is quite good. Also consider creating (besides good descriptions) supportive materials like posts about those products, reviews, video reviews, other related articles etc. and then link to those articles from descriptions or specific parts of product pages.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

Well, it's quite usual for this to happen. It happens to every website, no matter what you do. Now, there is no really way to fix besides disavowing. And yes, it takes time and effort. However, here is a thing. Unless those spammy websites' backlinks are significant part of your backlink profile (i'd say more than 3-5%), it wouldn't affect your website "health". You can look at MOZ's spam score. If it's less than 3 - you're good.

So, to sum up - no, there is no way to fix it, but disavow. And the way to "fix" it without fixing it is to have large backlink profile with lots of quality backlinks to ensure that even if you have those spammy links, their share would be so small, it wouldn't matter to search engines.

Hope this makes sense.

Hello, my friend.

You should realize how exactly htaccess' 301 redirects work. They are server side commands/operations. So, when bots request a page, they wait until server response. In case of 301s - they get response "Don't go here, go there". Now, they also may get response from robots.txt saying "you're not allowed to look at the contents of this file/directory", however this will not prevent the server response. That's why sometimes you can see indexed pages, which are saying "blocked by robots". They are indexed though.

Now, in case of canonical links you are correct, since canonical is IN the content of the page, then robots won't be able to read it, therefore won't be able to be told that there is a canonical page.

There is a recent WBF on this subject - https://moz.com/blog/controlling-search-engine-crawlers-for-better-indexation-and-rankings-whiteboard-friday

Hope this clarifies some things.

Hi there.

Well, I think you actually have two questions:

1. How to make sure that Google understands that you're original author of job post;
2. How to outrank large websites.

Well, as for q1 - the only way in your situation is to do "fetch as google" in GWT of your website's page when you just posted new job. Usually it takes just couple of minutes for Google to index it and include in SERPs. So, first make sure your website is indexed, only then start posting the same job on other job search websites.

As for q2 - that's completely different story. Even if Google understands that your website was original author, it doesn't mean whatsoever that your website is going to outrank large job websites. To make that happen, you have to try to get as many backlinks as possible to those job postings (maybe from other websites with "click for full job description"), and more backlinks to your domain in general.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Yes, it will. It works pretty much the same way as old PageRank system. Website's authority is divided equally by number of outgoing dofollow links. So, yes, you will get juice, just less than from more authoritive website.

Check images from this old post: https://moz.com/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting

Hi there.

I usually include suite number, since it's a part of address. Basically, I'm matching the address line on Google My Business and website. Meaning if you have address in one line on GMB, include it in schema and if you have it in one line, don't include it in schema.

My personal opinion is that if you are located in office building with bunch of suites, Google can't understand that you're in suite #such-and-such, unless you specify. Also from user perspective, you always tell your clients "my address is house number H, street A, suite B", not "house number H, street A and one of the suites in that building. You'll find it, don't worry"

Hi there.

If understand correctly - sure you can. The question is how much resources you got to spend on this task. For example, you can use product name, and based on it spit out proper url. It would require either creating some type of specific structure for product name or creating some type of specific database with all that information.

Instead of product name you can use whatever unique piece of data on those pages.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

You should see link in Open Site Explorer after next recrawl, which is scheduled on Feb 28 - https://moz.com/products/api/updates

If your blog posts were created very recently or on small DA websites, then it might take till next recrawl.

As for Google Search Console - it's usually detected pretty quick. Maybe couple weeks. But, sometimes for unknown reasons it can take way longer than that - up to several months, but it's unlikely.

Hope this helps.

Hello, my friend.

The thing with schema is that it takes long time (mostly) to be displayed in SERPs and snippets. You can find lots of threads on this forum about schema taking forever to affect snippets. It usually works in terms that if it's implemented correctly, it won't return any unexpected errors.

As for breadcrumbs - yes, they do work. I have implemented them somewhat recently to our website and it's showing in SERPs. Google "hyperlinks media case study" first three results. I actually was surprised that it took only a month or so to be displayed.

Hope this helps.

Howdy.

Shopify does canonicals automatically. Basically all the collections products urls will have canonical to product url. Like this: https://www.domain.com/collections/all/products/product-slim-regular-bikini will have canonical to
https://www.domain.com/products/product-slim-regular-bikini

If it doesn't happen for you automatically, simply insert this:

In the main theme.liquid file in the head section.

Howdy,

Well, to my understanding is that link wheel is a link wheel. No matter if you own the domains/hosting or not. If you do something spammy or potentially "illegal" in the eyes of Google, they won't care who owns the domain

Hi there.

Since you guys have only 80+ products, I'd go with custom solution. Just make sure that you get company, who knows what they are doing and do some type of contract for updates.

Second choice of mine probably would be Shopify. You haven't mentioned it.  They keep stuff up-to-date, but, as with all CMS systems, there are limitations, especially to technical SEO. I'd never go with Joomla, Wordpress+WooCommerce might be an option, but, additionally to cons you mentioned, it's, again, CMS, which means restrictions.

Hope this helps.

Howdy.

My answer would be "User Intent", and "User Experience". Basically, Would user expect such short, simple page? Or after landing there they'd have more questions than answers, which would make them go all over the website to find what they want to know? That's how I would determine what should or shouldn't go on pages. If your product is a pen, I really doubt that people would be interested in how the molecular structure of it looks. Yet, if it's a lego set, then they'd wanna see the images and videos of how it's gonna look when it's done, dimensions, number of pieces etc.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

1. True about redirect and risk for rankings.

2. You would have to do it no matter which way you choose to go due to high competition.

Now, the question - are you actually moving or expanding? I got the impression that you are expanding. If so - first idea is really bad. You will lose rankings in canada and it will take time to start ranking because you'd be new and because of the domain move.

My recommendation would be  to get new domain, either create new brand for us market or simply have unique content and use crossdomain hreflang to let search engines know that you are the same company. And you will have to do advertising, marketing, link building for US website no matter how you decide to "move". So, get crrranking

Hope this helps

Hi there.

We have https website as well and I have been facing similar problems. Well, there can be several reasons:

1. MOZ crawling has a limit in resources - they don't crawl every possible website and link on the internet. As it says here: basically only top websites and top pages on those websites are being crawled. That's one of the reasons you rarely see listings like yahoo in your url profile in moz ose. So, this might be the same scenario in your case.
2. MOZ crawling has a schedule - it happens about every month. So, if your backlinks are indexed after last crawl date - there is no way it will appear in ose.
3. The backlink is to http version of your website. It can result in moz not registering the backlink to https, but rather to http version of your site. Try running OSE for http version, see if there is any difference.
4. Backlinks simply hasn't been indexed yet. If a backlink coming from the page, buried deep on deep-buried website, it will take a while for indexing.

I would recommend using other tools for backlink profiling, at least to check if backlinks you are looking for have been crawled and indexed. Even though MOZ has ose, backlink profiling is not their main field.

Hope this helps.

Hello, my friend.

I say go with with first solution - target both keywords, because they are very much related and you can very much naturally bond them. It's not the best practice if you're trying to target two non-related keywords on the same page, when they shouldn't even be on the same page. In your case it's not an issue whatsoever.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, I would consider 3:2 spammy. The reason is: let's say your website is so awesome that everybody, who you reach out to, links to you, making sure (which is very unlikely) that those links are follow. This would make your website very popular, meaning that more and more people would be linking to you without you asking for a link. By default links are usually nofollow (unless websites' owners/webmasters don't care about who they link to, what makes them kinda spammers already).That would lead to appearance of nofollow links. Since most of not spammy websites would care about follow/nofollow, by default you gonna have many more nofollow links per each of follow. And, considering that we live in imperfect world, many-many people would not be making sure that they are linking to you with a follow link. Therefore, 3:2 ratio means that you are purposely getting only follow links, rejecting nofollow links, and that, my friend, is cheating.

About domains/subdomains - that's pretty much the same. The reason they are split, is that you can have domains, which are mainly nofollow, but those domains can have 1 subdomain, which is purely follow, which means that it's most likely spammy.

Hope all this makes sense.

Hi there.

I would recommend doing this: are keywords A and B related? do they support each other (eg.: seo + internet marketing).

so, since you have "page at the moment has allot of content for keyword A and a little bit for keyword B", leave it as it is and create second page which has a lot of content for keyword B and a little bit for keyword A.

If keywords A and B are not related, then just split it up into pages straight forward.

Hope this helps.

Howdy.

It happened to me once. It's a bug within the system. What you need to do is to send an email to help@moz.com with link profile and description of a problem. They'll fix it or at least will give you explanation

Hello, my friend.

It means bolded text. Or any elements which are inside or tags.

Hi there.

Well, first, even though backlinks are awesome, not always it's a requirement to be ranking and become popular. As you mentioned, social media is your huge friend, especially in realty industry.

At the same time, even though "usual" people don't have website, there are other websites like ask.com, quora.com etc which everybody can use and give you backlink. Also there are other forums, which accommodate any user etc.

Hello, my friend.

To be fair, I've assumed for the past year or so that link building is dead, unless you can get natural, really good links

One doesn't exclude another It's actually the same thing. Basically, you create awesome content, then you promote it, share it, spread it out to people who (if they really like it) link naturally to it. The thing is that potential "linkers" won't find this super-awesome content, unless you "make"/help them find that content. Also you can use in-industry forums, q/a etc where you would link to related content you've written.

Here are some good articles/videos about link building:

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday

P.S. In fact you can consider these links above as a part of MOZ's link building strategy. Awesome content and I just linked to it. (in this case it's from the same domain,but idea stays the same)

Hello, my friend.

Do we redirect old URL's to the new product page URL's?

If you keep the product and just changing URL - yes.

Do we redirect old mobile URL's to new mobile URL's or to the desktop equivalent?

So, the whole mobile URL is different? you actually have domain.com/mobile-version-url and domain.com/desktop-version-url, not m.domain.com/all-version-url and domain.com/all-version-url? if first option, then yes, mobile to mobile, desktop to desktop, if second option - then redirect everything to desktop version. However, it does depend on how exactly you're handling mobile version requests. Basically, if it's completely two different static, physically existing pages for mobile and desktop versions, then they need separate redirects.

Do we redirect all old product page URL's containing navigation elements to the new product page URL?

I'm not understanding the question completely. Are you saying if you have a link on page to old url, then should you redirect to new url? If so, then yes, you should change the link.

If we have a category page being added to two different sections how do we determine the right canonical URL? (the URL will be different because the customer paths will be different)

Again, not understanding the question. The same category page will be in two different places? Anyway, canonicalize it to the page, which you prefer to rank.

Do we need to make sure and redirect all old URL's to a new URL? If so, what is the best way to find all of the URL's?

Yes, you do. Otherwise it's not gonna be working (or you gonna have 404s). To determine which pages are not being redirected - use 404 checker - there are whole bunch free ones on the mighty internet.

P.S. I'm a little confused about the way you're doing redirects etc. At least from what I understand from your questions. It seems that in some questions you're actually talking about changing links from pages, not doing redirects. If so, please, clarify. If not, then I need more details (or clearer questions).

Hope this make sense and helps.

Hi there.

You need to be owner of account. If you are - click on your profile picture at the top right corner, click on Billing and Subscription, click on Manage Seats at the top nav. Then you can remove seats.

Cheers!

Hi. This is the way to find it: http://bfy.tw/1iK5

Hi there. We are using Hootsuite and it's working very well for us. Why do you not like it?

Hi there.

I wish anybody can give you an answer to your question about when linkfarmers are going to harvest their fruits. But nobody knows. Not even Google. They've been talking about it for years and there are still "succesfull" link farms and such. I believe that since lots of google's algorithms use a lot of self-learning, nowadays even google themselves don't really know what exactly is happening

As for different types of links, here:

• Equity-Passing (formerly follow) - Typically links which pass value from one page to another, including followed, 301, and meta refresh links
• Non-Equity Passing (formerly nofollow) - Typically links that are nofollowed or don't send value (rel=nofollow , meta nofollow, off screen, 302, RSS feed)
• Only rel=nofollow  - Links that have the rel=nofollow attribute
• Only Follow - Links that don't have the rel=nofollow attribute, but still may not pass equity (i.e. 302 links and meta nofollows would be returned)
• Only 301 - Links that are only specifically 301 links

Cheers.

Hi there.

Due to exchange rate issues, we are unable to combine the 2 domains into 1 store and optimize.

I think that this is not good enough reason. There are somewhat easy ways to adjust price depending on where the product is being shipped to. So, I'd recommend to look into combining those two domains into one a little bit more.

Now, as for your situation. Since the websites are in the same language, and you pretty much is saying that you have to have exact content, then no, there is no any other way of handling this situation, rather than using canonical links.

So, to sum up:

• Combine those domains OR;
• Have completely different content OR;
• Use canonical links.

P.S. You might look into hreflang, but I don't think it'd help, since it's all in one language.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, of course! When you go to pricing page - https://moz.com/products/pro/pricing make sure that you are on "Monthly" tab, not yearly. See screenshot attached.

Hope this helps

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Hi there.

It's more of a technical problem, so rather than looking for an answer on a forum, please email to help@moz.com with explanation of your issue and account credentials - they'll look into it for you.

Howdy.

It seems that the answer lays in Page Authority. Basically, it shows me that you don't have any links to those specific pages. You do have nice domain authority and a lot of links to domain, but links to actual page, especially with proper anchor texts will do miracles

Hope this helps

Hi there.

I would recommend looking at backlink profile in OSE and ahrefs to see the spam score and difference between number in total links (in ahrefs) and number in links-which-matter (in OSE). This will get you an idea of how spammy/bad your backlink profile is. Also do competitor comparison. This will tell you how far behind you are.

As for DA drop - DA is relative number, if it went down, it doesn't mean anything until you compare with competitor DA changes. If theirs went down the same or more - good for you. Read this on this matter - https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores

And also do audit and competitor analysis on content. You might think that your content is super awesome, but still, look at what your ranking competitors have, what keywords they are using, how often they are using them and so on.

Hope this helps.

Hello, my friend.

My understanding is that it depends on brand/product importance/recognition. Is your brand big and known enough to make a purchase decision difference? Is your product big and known enough to make your brand grow?

Example:

"Nike Shoes" vs "Shoes by Nike" - first seems to make more sense, because as soon as you see first word "Nike" you dont have to finish the sentence - you know that it's shoes and they are good quality.
Now, compare that to this "Nike Shoes" vs "Self-tying shoes by Nike" - here second sentence makes more sense, because the main word is "Self-tying shoes" is the subject of "importance" and the word "Nike" adds extra super-coolness to it.

So, going back to standard situation of infamous products and brands - I think it would depend on what exactly you want to push. Usually companies choose to put product name first (gotta be good quality product), and then hope that the quality of product and word-of-mouth would grow the brand.

Hope this make sense and helps.

Cheers

Hi there.

I assume you're tagging for local image search results? If so, just make sure that Google understands those geotags (i guess by googling your tagged images and seeing if they come up). If Google does read those geotags, then it wouldn't matter what program you use.

Cheers

If you have ahrefs paid subscription, you can download all links, group them by domain. Then you can check those domains in moz's OSE for spam scores. Usually you'd know good domains, cause they are well known (or at least known in your industry). And the amount of the rest should be that large.

But this is what makes the difference:

Realistically I know I need more content on the site

If you think so yourself - that's what's "wrong"

Hello, my friend.

It seems that you're forgetting that SEO is much much much bigger than number of keyword repetitions, connections and relations between two of those pages.

Do you have good UX and UI? How about good backlink profile? What about unique and awesome content on category/subcategory/product pages? Are you overstuffing/understuffing pages? What about brand awareness? If you're talking about shoes, are you targeting local market? if not, can you compete brand-wise with large corporations like Nike etc?

You're saying that you get 60% of all traffic to the article page, but traffic is mostly irrelevant. So, I don't see how it would help sales if you merge that article with shoe page - if you gonna get traffic to it, it's still gonna be sales irrelevant.

All online store websites, especially built on CMS are always about great content! Add an awesome sauce of backlinks and you get your exposure, rankings and so on.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I think people are forgetting that GMB and G+ is pretty much the same. As far as I understand, Google is actually moving from personal G+ to Business G+ and changing the name of the network. So, assuming that my thought is correct, I look at this: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1057172?hl=en

And it says:

Tip: We recommend that you choose a photo that's 1080 x 608 pixels. The smallest photo you can choose is 480 x 270 pixels, and the largest photo you can choose is 2120 x 1192 pixels.

Hope this works.

Hi there.

1. It might, if you got hundreds of them at the same time or a lot of those guest posts are duplicate content.

2. Most likely locality. Also the language of backlinking websites. Anchor texts also could be the reason.

3. I doubt there is something you can do in ten minutes and get your rankings back.

Now, here is a thing. While backlinks are a strong signal, it's far not the only signal. Have you done any other changes to your page recently? Have your competitor done any changes recently? How is your SEO? Technical SEO?

If you were ranking on third page, it means that fluctuations of +/- 2-3 pages are normal, since there were no "good reason" to rank your page anyway.

Hello,

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604777?hl=en That would be your main guidelines. Now, here are my questions/suggestions. How did you translate that website? Is it automatically generated through google translate? Have you done any other spammy stuff? Is your backlink profile clean?

According to Matt explainations in video above, it would have to be very good reason to mark your website as pure spam. So, if you just translated (properly) english website, then it shouldn't be the reason for taking manual action on your website. So, check everything else.

Now, as to your questions.

1. I think that would depend on is your "healthy" website really healthy. Because if it's actually as spammy (at least in the eyes of google), then you'll basically tell google "Hey, look at my another spammy website". But, I believe, if english website is all good and has no spam attached to it, then it shouldn't be a problem.
2. According to Matt, it will be pretty difficult to unmark your website and you'll have to spend a lot of time and effort on proving it. So, roll up your sleeves and get ready to work.
3. If you're translating it, you're pretty much rewriting it. I used to work as a translator and there is no way to translate word to word, the proper way of translation is when you translate the idea/thought/intent, not words itself.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Go to Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console and request manual recrawl of that page.