Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Unfortunately, we currently do not have a batch tool for OSE. We do offer an API for Mozscape data, which you can then important all the data at once into a spreadsheet or another tool you've built.

It will still be seen as the same page.

You're not the only one who's frustrated. Unfortunately, this is what happens when we're using essentially a free service. They can change the game on you at any point as they own it and you don't even have a paid stake in it. This is one reason why at Moz, we heavily invest on our on-site community like this q&a forum, YouMoz (our UGC blog), and the comments on both our main blog and YouMoz.

Unfortunately, we don't have an ETA for recognizing the new TLDs. This is something we're working on. Sorry for the inconvenience.

If your brands are enterprise level, Hootsuite has extremely impressive, but expensive tools.

Rival IQ is the best for keeping up with the competition.

Rowfeeder is slick for pulling in hashtags and the like to comb through.

Meshfire's doing interesting things around finding influencers and creating Twitter lists for you, but depends on size and scope.

Hi Bryan,

So we actually send Help questions directly to our team through Q&A too!

And I did some digging into ours at Moz, and the person that it's set to used to work at Moz. So we should probably fix that.

Yes, you can do all those things. You can select which keywords you want to compare individually. Also, if you have them selected, you can delete them too. I attached a screenshot with one keyword highlighted and the delete button highlighted. Hope this helps!

ubiBurP

Unfortunately, our site was never set up right after our rebrand to moz.com so I can't see the data and it's not something I've used before so I cannot give a recommendation on value of data. Just because we're not using it doesn't mean it wouldn't be or couldn't be of value.

Definitely check out our Ranking Factors survey. 

As far as Accessibility, many good practices such as providing transcripts for videos and alt text for images are just good SEO too.

When I've done SEO 101 talks, I've definitely used the Beginner's Guide as a guide to make sure I covered all the basics.

Hi Ikkie,

As explained previously, MozPoints don't automatically update due to caching. Caching makes those internet pages load way faster. You have caching in your browser and cookie-related caching, which means if you're constantly checking the page, you're going to see the same version. We have site-wide caching at Moz. We get somewhere around 2 million visitors to Moz.com each month, and in order to load our site faster, we don't update everything on it in real time. One of these things is MozPoints, which are database driven and refreshes to that database take time. There's a ton of studies about site speed out there that tell you things like 40% of your visitors will leave your site if the page doesn't load within 3 seconds. It's great that you care so much about earning MozPoints. They are definitely being kept track of just fine, even if your page due to multiple layers of caching doesn't appear so, it just means that those points don't show up right away. And yes, sometimes that's a week.

Thanks,

You'll likely end up confusing Google about which country it should rank the site in, and it could negatively affect your US rankings and still get you no traction in Germany. You really need to build a German site.

Hey Q&A friends,

I know a lot of you have questions about semantic search and Google's Hummingbird, so for this Tuesday's free Mozinar (10/21), we're having the amazing Gianluca Fiorelli on to teach you and answer all your questions.

You can register for free here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/468375870

We do record all these webinars, so if you can't make it, you'll be able to find it in our past webinars within 48 hours post-Mozinar.

See you there!

B0IrjznCMAMEDR7.png

If you can 301 redirect the events page to your recording of the webinar, that would be the ideal situation.

This is definitely not from us. We also obey crawling curtsy, so we wouldn't slam a site all at once. Read more about our crawl bot.

Google often treats each iframe as it's own html page. Though they say that they try to link the iframe back to the page it's being displayed on; from my experience, this does not seem to happen very often. So, yes, it would give linklove from x.com to z.com. Though beware as it's going into gray hat territory.

Hey Andy,

This is a great suggestion! We're deeply aware that our Q&A system has some not so friendly quirks. We're actually currently on the hunt for a new platform solution/backend to host our Q&A forum on, and we'll definitely add this to our list of features that we'd like to have.

Thanks for being an active Q&Aer. And sorry about any troubles and frustration.

Check out this post: Which Type of Link Anchor Text is the Most Effective? [An Experiment]

I do think it's worth exploring other plug-ins and working in the nuts-and-bolts of site speed. Even though WP plug-ins are very helpful, it's always good to know the details of what's happening as much as possible. I'm not exactly sure how W3TC works -- I've never used it or any other site speed plug-ins personally for WP -- but it's possible it can't optimize everything or that it's working the best it or any plug-in can.

Have you looked at Google Insights for Search? It gives you the ability to drill down further into regions, which Miami is definitely one you can use. Doing a combo of Insights and Adwords should give you a good idea about your keywords and the volume. And actually, Insights will only show you terms that give enough traffic to be relevant.

The ones saying it's long are including the site name. So in the WP plug-in, you're only typing in your title -- Best Blog Post Ever -- but how it's displayed is -- Best Blog Post Ever | Example.com -- and that's what the SEOmoz tool is picking up as your entire title tag.

I once worked for what could be described as a "holding company" that's in the Fortune 500. Because everything they owned was so diverse, they either kept separate branches or the companies/brands separate. Especially if the brand was worth money as a name. It's important to do the research on how valuable the brand itself is because even if you decide to have one company to rule them all, you need to figure out how to transition customers.

To answer your questions:

Yes, we are rolling PRO users into the beta slowly. We expect all PROs to have access to Moz Analytics by the second week in September at the latest. You'll be able to toggle between PRO and Moz Analytics as you get used to it. (One feature we haven't finished porting is custom reports, and you'll definitely be able to still access PRO to grab those.) When you have access, you'll get an email inviting you to try it, and when you log-in into our site to use the tools, there will be an in-app message also telling you that you have access. So it will be very apparent if you have access.

Yes, the Search section mostly has features that are the same as the current PRO application. The new features include more traffic data, an entire brand and mentions section (a lot based on Fresh Web Explorer data, but in more regular way), some retuning of the social tools, a much better UX/UI experience, more integration with Help documentation if you get stuck, and a main dashboard that provides a "health" type overview that we hope you can show off to clients/boss/etc who don't say care about granular inbound marketing work.

I'd also check out BuiltVisible's Schema Guide.

It's most likely to hurt you from a perspective of low-quality content, which a lot of retail sites get dinged with. In an ideal world, having size as option to choose and only one product page is best with information about all sizes on that page. However, Matt's canonical suggestion also works as a bandaid.

The page grader will give you a bad grade if you keyword stuff.

Google can, for the most part, tell the difference between product pages, blogs, etc. With answer boxes, they are looking for the best and easiest answer to the query and they don't really care that it's a services page, not a product page. In most cases, a page that doesn't sell anything is going to be better for Google since they are making any money off that sale and the whole idea of the answer box is that you never leave Google because you got your answer.

I also highly recommend our Beginner's Guide to Link Building. Tons of useful and helpful information there!

Yes, you can use Screaming Frog. It always shows you the status code on all the pages, which you can then sort based on it and find anything not labeled as a 301.

I'd use OSE to look at the backlinks of your competitors / other sites in your field that are coming in with strong signals and reach out to those relevant sites to see if you can gain traction with them.

I'd also do some searches to see who out there is talking or asking questions about simliar things. You can identify influencers based on both traditional site strength and social klout.

You can also target home owners looking for this type of information directly. Either take out some keyword based ads. (You might consider Facebook ads for this given some fo the drilldown you can do, depending on your report.) Or you can search say Twitter for people curious about what info your report gives -- but don't know that you have that answer -- and contact them. Though be careful not to be spammy! Likewise, you can search in other forums or question sites for people asking questions that your report answers.

Hope this helps!

Are you talking about your domain? And how hard it would actually be for you to rank? It definitely factors in the DA from the ranking domains.

"Your Keyword Difficulty Score is based on the Domain Authority and Page authority for the top 20 search results that keyword is pulling on Google. These sites are analyzed using our Mozscape index to pull Page Authority and Domain Authority. These two metrics (along with a host of others from the Mozscape index) help create the Keyword Difficulty score." from the FAQ about KWD.

Check out our SEOmoz LinkedIn Group. People add job listings all the time, and I'm pretty good at keeping it updated.

So you can use the MozBar to set up local searches when you're not local.

I'd suggest building out content in subfolders on your site, instead of being microsites to link to your larger domain: www.example.com/asheville

Why would you want to put content on your microsites that people are going to want to link to and then only have one link pointing from them to your main domain? Additionally, Google is smart enough to realize that you own all the domains and you could get penalized. And, as someone who spent years in e-commerce, having more than one domain to maintain (when it sounds like you have one domain you're taking care of) is a pain in the butt.

We do indeed have a Facebook Group for MozCon!

If you're making your image as a true background image, you won't be able to make it clickable. However, if you input the image as a regular image, you can put a link around both the image and the text, and it will all be clickable. You can overlay text on regular images using CSS positioning and z-index.

So there are probably two ways, they can get this information:

1. The legal way: grabbing IPs from log files and then cross-referencing them with geolocation and then providing some contact information for that company. This is hit or miss depending on if they're coming from a business or if the business's IP info actually matches where they are.

2. The illegal way: hacking into someone's browser cookies, who's visiting your site, and figuring out direct information from that.

I found this one. (Haven't used it, bu it looks like what you need!)

Yes, you can a/b test content copy blocks the same as testing which button. However, it will affect your on-page metrics most dramatically, not your rankings. (Which has some ranking signals.)

It sounds to me that your situation is more about convincing your team and higher ups the potential of different marketing methods compared to the current reality of what they're doing.  And to look at some different metrics besides rankings. Check out this blog post from Avinash about the metrics to track instead of rankings for every business size.

A/b testing is definitely a great start to show what could work better. You can always create reports showing potential business that could come in based on those or what you actually wouldn't lose by taking some of those extra pages off your site.

Best of luck!

Check out this post on email deliverability from 37 Signals. They have a list of great tools, including checking if you've been blacklisted.

To answer your questions, no, it will not improve your rankings. No, it's unlikely to harm it either if implemented correctly.

But the better question is why? Why are you linking to pages in three different sections of your site on every page? What is that doing for the people who are using your site? How is that navigation helping them find what they need on your site? Are people clicking on this links? If so, where are they clicking on them from? If they never click on them from a certain part -- navigation, footer, and sidebar -- why are those links still there?

We've been parring down our MozBar features to meet what most people use/want and also to make our tool unique. Since it's an SEO tool, the text to code ratio was removed as it isn't a clear SEO indicator. It doesn't tell you if your content is actually good for your SEO, just that it's there.

Will you be selling those products on your other site? Are you wanting to move the subscribers and account holders from one to the other?

Hi,

No, we do not have a place for you to upload a list of your disavowed links. The main reason is that we actively avoid crawling very spammy sites, where most of the links you're disavowing probably live. We try to identify quality links that you'd want to report on.

We definitely have more reporting and other helpful SEO tools besides just looking at your backlinks. If you haven't, I suggest signing up for our welcome webinar (or watching a past recording) where we walk you through all our tools.

Hi Rich,

Not that I know of. Were you the person who tweeted at us this am about it? I've reached out to Andy. Thanks!

Are you just grabbing Facebook's code? Or are you using a Joomla-specific plug-in?

Unfortunately, we cannot currently track local rankings in India. Right now, we're only covering the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Sorry.

As the others mentioned, we can, however, track general, non-localized rankings for India.