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Hi there.

As far as I know - no, Google doesn't separate it. If you go to your google analytics account and got to real-time view, and then go to google and find your company in maps and click on website's url, you will see that in real-time traffic sources in still displays as Google/organic source/medium.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

One different character is enough However, what's the point of having such titles whatsoever? Titles supposed to tell users (in SERPs) what the page is about, and if every result from your domain would say "The same thing +date", how is it useful, and how is gonna benefit your SEO?

I understand that writing unique titles can be time consuming, but isn't any SEO work?

Hi there.

Well, yes, quite honestly, i don't use that metric at all. The way it works is explained here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6155685?hl=en and here is a moz post on the accuracy: https://moz.com/ugc/testing-the-accuracy-of-avg-position-for-search-queries-in-google-webmaster-tools

The problem is that it's literally average. for all phrases it ever ranked for, all locations, devices etc. So, if somebody searched with some weird configuration and the page ranked number one, even if that page ranks #100 for everybody else, the average rank will be #50, see the picture?

hope this helps

Hi there,

The third URL you are referencing, is actually indexed:

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDY4N18xNDgzNjgzMA

As for "crawled, not indexed" - in most cases it happens because of one and only reason - Google is seeing your page as thin content, not worth being indexed. Typically it happens on bigger sites with a lot of similar pages. In your case, you got many courses, with exactly same structure. So, if the content is not completely different, then Google might deem it not worthy.

As for the bug you referenced - did your URLs drop off the index exactly at the time when this issue has been discovered? (aka within the last week?).

Do you have any cannibalization happening?

To me it looks like that's the case. If I do this search: "site:https://www.ihasco.co.uk/ Sexual Harassment Training course"

There are many pages that are indexed and are ranking: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDcwN18xNDgzNjg4Mg

So, basically, you have pages that are more authoritative with similar content. Therefore your courses pages are dropping as thin content.

I would recommend doing some internal linking optimization to tell Google what is actually important. Look in GSC for internal links metrics.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I think that the "problem" lays behind the idea of OSE - not to get all possible backlinks, but important ones. At the same time OSE crawls only down to certain depth, which means that for facebook link to be crawled it's gotta be at the top of the list for backlinks on facebook domain. The page you specified has about 7.5k backlinks, which is not a lot at all, if you compare to other pages on facebook with tens of  thousands of backlinks (https://www.facebook.com/VinDiesel/ - example). So, the chances that MOZ will crawl a page with several thousands backlinks are pretty slim. It's the same reason you rarely see local directories in your website's OSE report.

I hope this helps.

Hi there.

I'm not sure if it works for Google My Business, but try this: http://www.midigitalagency.com/how-to-merge-multiple-google-pages/

Otherwise, the only way is to delete. For that follow the guidelines here: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4669139?hl=en

Hi there.

Well, as for best practices - you got it covered - remove/substitute underscores, remove redundant directories, make urls readable and understandable by users, implement redirects for pages, which are being renamed.

As for removing extensions from files - i'm not sure it has any effect on SEO or user experience at all. But no, you don't have to create new format pages. Basically what mod_rewrite does is when somebody requests a page, server says "I gonna server you this file with this name, because you sent me this specific request". Just be aware that there is no way to access both original url and rewritten url at the same time, since it would create duplicate issues.

As for rankings affect - as long as all redirects are done properly and urls are targeting the keywords on the page - you should be fine.

Martijn is correct. Unless your images are setup to have their own pages, there is no way to track traffic, coming from image search. Unfortunately, traffic source of "images.google" doesn't exist , so that part is of the table as well.

try different tools - semrush or any other. Also simply moz rank tracker.

Hi there.

There is always some drop in rankings when you redirect anything. Usually this drop is temporary and, if these new pages you are talking about really have better quality content, rankings go up. What I'd look at is backlinks. If those subdomains have somewhat valuable backlink profile - here is where you would suffer the most. Even if you use 301 redirect, backlinks are still gonna be pointing to old subdomain, not new page. In perfect world you'd have to reach out to all linking webmasters and get links changed in their original placements.

Yes, I believe so, that's the only rewrite you'd need not to mess up rankings.

I don't know if one of codes is better than another. All I know that my piece of code is working and i haven't used the one you wrote. It seems ok to me, but just test it. If it works, I don't think there is any difference.

Interesting. I wonder under what circumstances it happens. Because i went to google image search, found my images, clicked on them to get to website, in real time analytics it shows as "organic".

Howdy.

Not really. Answer box is different from snippets and knowledge graph (which is what schema is used for). There is an awesome Whiteboard Friday Episode about the answer boxes, check it out:

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-whiteboard-friday

I assume that there are not that many results being returned?

Yeah, that would be the bad part - I believe there is nothing really can be done about that.

Maybe before changing URL, you can do some type of announcement on the page, saying something like "hey guys, we are about to change our FB url, here is what it gonna be". Also do similar email blast.

Hi there

Do you actually have different businesses for those different destinations? Or it's the same company, just different "branches"? I'd say that having the same NAP info for different business (if it is indeed different), can be pretty harmful and, more than anything else, confusing to users/customers. Sharing street address is very typical for office buildings, but the same suite #, phone etc is a bit strange to me. Also, as far as I know, you won't be able to submit business with exactly the same NAP info to most directories/listings. They'll say it already exists.

Hope this makes sense

I'm saying rename files first and do rewrite for removing extensions.

You will have to do rewrite for replacing underscores with hyphens anyway, just for redirect purposes.

So, rename files from underscores to hyphens; do rewrite rule for underscore to hyphens to insure old pages are being redirected; do another rewrite for removing file extensions. In som time (2-3-4 months) when old file names (with underscores) are out of google index, delete first rewrite.

Howdy.

Well, neither sessions nor pageviews are superior metric, if you look at it with no context. Here is an example - home page always would have way more sessions and pageviews than other pages. And, at the same time, a landing page can have 100-200 sessions/pageviews. But, the value of proper landing page is usually way-way-way higher than home page, since that would be your direct conversion traffic.

So, why MOZ uses sessions - because it's one of the common metrics to use, which you can go off of. It's easy to compare in reports etc.

Hope this helps

Hi.

Are you a reseller? If so, then yeah, there is no way. Especially if you get hundreds or more updates on products a month. If those products are all indeed yours, then I assume it's a large company, and then, yes, you probably should have a whole department working on that.

What I typically recommend in such cases is go by need in product rankings boost. Basically, if there is a product, which you know is not ranking good and it has not optimized description - go ahead and fix it. Sometimes it can be a set or even a category of products. And also, just as you said, do couple a day and hope for the best.

Hope it helps

Hi there

Well, here is my thought:

1. Let's say you had a domain old-domain.com with bunch of good backlinks;
2. You got rebranded (or whatever) and got new domain new-domain.com;
3. You did a 301 domain redirect from old domain to new domain (which is a well known good practice and recommended by everyone, since, as we know, 301 pass goodies along);
4. Would it count now that you have a backlink (any benefit) from your old domain?

I don't think so. Otherwise everyone would buy 10000 domains and did 301 redirects from them to their main domain, right? So, to me it seems that shorteners have the same logic.

Hope it makes sense

Howdy.

Knowledge graph is heavily affected by schema. Here is a help guide from Google - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/enhance-site

Also, of course, it's affected by time and popularity of your websites/companies. If lots of people are driven to those pages, google will update it faster.

Hope this helps

Hi there.

I never worked or heard about this company. However, very easy way to check if company is any good with their SEO services is to see how they rank for related keyphrases. So, that's what i did - using MOZ's rank tracker i checked their domain for three seo related keyphrases - seo denver, ppc denver and social media marketing denver - they are not in top 50 for any of these keyphrases. I understand that this industry is competitive, but if they can't make themselves rank on first 5 pages - something is wrong. Therefore I personally wouldn't go with them.

Hope this helps.

Hi, sorry, I must have saw something what didn't exist. So, don't mind what I said about that. However, if I go to http://chemometec.com/product/nucleocounter-nc-200/ it has canonical to http://chemometec.com/cell-counters/cell-counter-nc-200-nucleocounter/ which, in turn, has canonical to http://chemometec.com/journal/nucleocounter-nc-200-the-most-precise-cell-counter/ which does have canonical to itself, meaning that canonical link tag points to http://chemometec.com/journal/nucleocounter-nc-200-the-most-precise-cell-counter/

Why to have this type of chain canonicals and also self-canonicals? I think it'd be better to canonicalize to the "end of chain", and for that "end of chain" don't have a canonical whatsoever.

Howdy.

So, here are my thoughts and findings.

The discrepancy starts in Google Search itself. So it's either algorithmical/calculational bug or there are other metrics used. And i'm inclined to believe the second version.

Here is my idea - they use sessions or clicks as a metric together with avg position. As far as I know they use this system in other metrics as well. So, here is data for our website, which checks out with all the reports:

I got a page https://www.regexseo.com/luxury-websites-houston.php and the avg position reported is 22. If i look at the breakdown, it's got 96% of traffic going to desktop and 22 avg position, 2% to mobile with 15 avg position and 0.05% tablet with 14 avg position.

So, the report checks out, if you think about it like this:
If to 96% of users your page is ranking #22, and to 2% of users it ranks in #15, wouldn't it make sense to say that on average your page is ranked #22.

I guess it's more like a weighed avg position then pure avg position.

Hope it makes sense

Howdy.

Is the website accessible through a browser? All DNS propagated? How about robots.txt blocking? If none of these is the issue, and website has been live for couple days, then there is something wrong somewhere. Email at help@moz.com - they'll help you out

Cheers:)

Hi there.

Super easy solution - put canonical link from "bad" page to "good" one. Do "fetch as google" in GWT. And voila!

Yoast automatically creates canonical links to itself, unless you specify otherwise or "teach" Yoast to behave otherwise.

Howdy.

What is returned if you do fetch as google in Google Search Console?

Yes. Canonical link transfers all the link juice.

Hi there.

NOINDEX !== no crawling.  and surely it doesn't equal NOFOLLOW. what you probably should be looking at is canonical links.

My understanding is (and i can be completely wrong) that when you get hit by Panda for duplicate content and then try to recover, Google checks your website for the same duplicate content - it's still crawlable, all the links are still "followable", it's still scraped content, you aren't telling crawlers that you took it from somewhere else (by canonicalizing), it's just not displayed in SERPs. And yes, 80% of content being noindex probably doesn't help either.

So, I think that what you need to do is either remove that duplicate content whatsoever, or use canonical links to originals or (bad idea, but would work) block all those links in robots.txt (at least this way those pages will become uncrawlable whatsoever). All this still is unreputable techniques though, kinda like polishing the dirt.

Hope this makes sense.

How do you even know it's a hack, and not some wrong config or improper coding? I mean, we are all happy to help you with advice, but services are services

Hi there.

No it's not necessary at all. The reason it's recommended sometimes is that, basically, to eliminate potential extra redirects from http to https. But this would happen only if page you're currently on is not https. So, my thought is that as long as you make sure that there is no way to get to your http website (make sure that it's always redirected to https), you won't have any extra redirects.

From my personal experience: it depends also on hosting servers you use. If they are very slow or you have gigantic htaccess files or something in that spirit, then yes, couple extra redirects to secure version of your website can slowdown page loading on your website. But in modern world it's very rare. So, from dozens of https clients and my own websites I haven't seen any bad-bad experience with relative internal links.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, here is a bummer for you - metrics don't matter. If we were in perfect world, yes, the websites with higher metric scores would be ranking higher, but it's not true at all. There are so many factors Google is including in their algorithms, and nobody knows what those are.

Instead of looking at metrics, look at actual content, on-page optimization. What about technical SEO? Also some of your backlinks have high spam score - that might be hurting.

As for penalilzation - if you were penalized, you for sure wouldn't be #4 - you'd be number #104 if ranked at all. Check your Google Search console for manual actions, if there are none, then you are not penalized, you just need to work harder on your SEO. Which area you ask - nobody really can give you better answer than yourself. You know your website best and you know which areas are the weakest (on subconscious level for sure).

Hope this helps.

Hello, there.

I'll try to explain in short.

MozTrust - is WHO links to you. DA - is how MANY link to you = popularity. TrustFlow of Majestic is very similar to MozTrust, but since it's two different companies and two different algorithms - here you get the difference in result.

Now, why these metrics don't match the SERPS. SERPS depend on many things - far not just DA or Trust. Mainly is on keywords. So, if you have very specific service/product and you are trying to rank for whole bunch of longtail keyphrases, but at the same time dont have any links - you will still rank in top 20 for whatever many phrases.

Example: you can make any website rank for "super awesome blue and red cat sitting on a stainless steel shelf" and so on. So, if you have whole bunch of pages, optimized for such keyphrases - you will be ranking in top 20 for whole bunch of keywords. However, it doesn't mean whatsoever that you are not spammer (therefore Trust metric will be low) and you can have vurtially no links (therefore low DA).

And the reverse way. If you have high DA/Trust, but trying to rank for very competitive phrase - you won't be able to (or at least the  chances are low).

Additionally, high DA doesn't always go with high Trust, it's much better after Penguin update, but still, if Google hasn't caught you as spammer, you'll have high DA, but since the links are coming from low trust websites - your trust metric will be low.

Hope this make sense and helps.

Hi there.

If I understand your situation correctly - now filters for products have actual urls and you want to use filters with ajax on the same url - then yes, just do redirects. However, you can't do redirect to ajax filter, so you'd be redirecting to categories, I guess. 4xx surely is not the way to go, as well as option 1 you suggesting, since it would result in 404s.

Maybe canonical links could help - not sure though. I say go with 301s.

Howdy.

Ok, so,

1. Low moz trust is quite bad, and, of course, it goes back to backlinks - amount and quality
2. 20 posts is not all links you might have, especially if you use wordpress. There are so many pages for all the subcategories, categories, archives, comments etc. You can check it in SEMRush or SEOFrog on how many pages you have.
3. Ratio is based on current data MOZ has. since they don't have any backlinks in their system yet, that affects your spam score, and it would be fine, if you didn't mention that you have been building links for months. MOZ Scape updates every 30 days or so, therefore if you don't have any changes in backlink amounts after two months of building - ouch.
4. As for permalink - make sure you have proper redirects from old ones. (not saying you don't have proper, just make sure)
5. Read #3 - if links are not in MOZ system after a while from building links, there might be some issues somewhere.

Hope this helps

Yes, it does. Why is it bad? I assume that for your own outreach you are "outreaching" about seo stuff.

As for non-seo related companies - I usually use our clients info@ email or marketing@ email.

That way it's not related to me, but the company. If you do want to use your own name, then I don't think there is a way to go around your problem.

As for this: "people directly doubt my sincerity or they want to sell me a paid placement" - it's always going to be present and I don't think there is a way to get rid of it, unless your clients' companies become very authoritative in their fields.

Hi there.

Go to your profile, then Billing and Subscriptions and there you can cancel.

If you're experiencing any troubles - drop a line at help@moz.com

Hi there.

Well, just adding a video on a page will not attract any links. It's the same as building super cool looking office. It will make people feel better when they go in, and they might spend a little more time there, but that's it. Internet Marketing is much more than just adding a video, especially link building. If you have like a channel and you are adding videos all the time and they are awesome, you start building audience, following, brand etc., plus add awesome UX&UI, relevant text and image content, also do other types of internet marketing like social media marketing - maybe only then just putting up a video on a website will attract links (but most of them gonna be from current followers anyway).

Now, I'd like to say that adding a video is not a bad idea at all, just it don't expect any backlinks by just doing so.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I always go with human element. But at the same time you also can use number data as well. So, the way you can approach it is to do research for those keywords nationally - since such keywords are not strictly local (unlike apple store near me), there is gonna be pretty much straight forward correlation between national and local amount of searches.

Meaning that if nationally "baby photographer" gets more searches than "baby photo studio", then the same will be happening locally. So, look at national results to find out the "human element", and then you also can check local numbers to see if you get better ideas.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

Exactly same IP? or same C-Block?

I would recommend having different IPs if possible, also do keep your and client's websites on several different hosting servers so if one of them goes down, all of your websites are dead at the same time - you'll save yourself lots of pain.

As for how valuable those backlinks are - I'd say as long as you're not using spammy techniques (lots of footer links, all of them are follow, to the same page, with the same anchor text etc), you will be fine. Of course, it would be nice to have every single client website with different C-block, but in real world it's close to impossible.

Hope this helps.

Hello, my friend.

To see the list of fresh backlinks - go to Open Site Explorer and go to "just discovered" section. This will return the list of... just discovered backlinks. The only problem - it'll give you data for past 60 days only (as far as I understand). So, if you need past that - use other backlink tools with historical index like Majestic.

Cheers.

Hi there.

you have inline css code, line#173:

#content a:hover, #sidebar a:hover, .social a:hover, .member-bar a:hover, #home-search a:hover,.paging_full_numbers a:hover, .placester_properties a:hover, #content .person-name a, #content .post-title a,#sidebar .widget-title a {

1. font-family: arial !important;
2. color: #fcf9f9 !important;

_}_This is what makes anchors become invisible on hover.Exactly the same reason for your titles not showing up. because titles are links and they are that "white color. The same inline css - line #181.Cheers.P.S. I recommend you hire a front-end developer, who understands this stuff, otherwise you gonna waste countless hours scouting web for answers which don't exist.

Hi there.

Many use SEMRush (I do to). Also There is Moz Content. It's not really a keyword research, but rather topics research, using which you can come up with keywords as well. The same type of tool is BuzzSumo.

Hope this helps.

Hi.

Is it ok? - Sure. Is it helpful - that's the question. From my experience - if it's not newsworthy and people(news portals) won't pick it up on their own - it's quite pointless.

Read these Q&As:

https://moz.com/community/q/using-press-release-for-promotion-prweb

https://moz.com/community/q/pr-web-vs-pr-newswire-which-is-best-for-pr-optimization-distribution

Hi there.

Ok, so, what is supposed to be happening is after you type in your non-www version, it should give you message like this (see attachment):

You entered the URL http://regexseo.com/ which redirects to http://www.regexseo.com/. Because it's likely to have more accurate metrics, we're showing data for the redirected URL instead. Click here to analyze http://regexseo.com/ instead?

If this is not happening, make sure that your non-www version 301 redirects to www. If it does, but you have made this change recently, then you just gotta wait to allow mozbot to crawl this redirect.

As for DA drop, it can be relative. Make sure that whenever you look at DA changes, you look at competition as well. Read this post by Rand: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores

Hope this helps.

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Hi. Bad idea. It won't help with rankings. Only will bring confusion to users and, since it's kinda spammy and manipulative, wrath from engine crawlers.

Why do you want to redirect specifically? Why not just create a page domain.com/keyword, put related content, make it awesome, build backlinks to that page, if possible with exact or partial anchor text?

If you check Search Results, it's far-far-far not always that index page is ranking for every keyword.

Hope this helps.