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Big fan of Ubersuggest as well for related keywords. Basically Google's related searches at the bottom of the page on steroids.

If you're looking for high volume, Grepwords is another good one, but paid like SEMrush.

If you want to make sure Google is crawling your webpages as quickly as possibly after making changes, make sure to use Google Webmaster Tools. Either use the Fetch as Google tool and submit individual updated pages, or if there are many page updates, submit a new sitemap file.

Are you still seeing the drop in rankings?

No problem I looked at Google's documentation for benchmark reporting and they didn't go in to how their benchmarking system works unfortunately.

Your stats are on the left. 178 vs 227 (your total sessions are 178). So the total does add up for your data.

As for the sample data, there's 2 possibilities I think:

1. It's all samples and averages. It's grabbing sample data based on your industry category, region and traffic volume. It's not necessary using the exact same data set for Total, Social, Direct, Organic, Referral, etc. Which is why they don't add up. Google collects a lot more data on overall traffic numbers than they do on say, email referrals (different sample sizes, different averages).

2. It's not an average at all. The report is to measure your channel volume against a benchmark. Google never said it was a benchmark average. The could be determining the benchmark based on some other equation.

There's definitely some other tools that could give you some benchmark reports. Like SimilarWeb, Alexa, I'm sure there are others some Mozzers can list.

Canonical tags would be the most important thing to look at for your dynamic URLs. As long as each of your dynamic pages has a canonical tag to the static version of the page (i.e. package-search/holidays/hotelFilters/) then you won't have to worry about duplicate content.

There are other tools out there that will give you some insights into competitor traffic as well.

SimilarWeb (www.similarweb.com) is a great one that will break down an estimate of traffic sources for a domain. They have quite a good supply of data, and I have found their estimates to be pretty accurate.

Agreed. URL A is now a higher authority page because of the proper canonical, which in turn means a link from URL A could have more value. But the equity from that link to URL B is not directly passed to your site.

It would be nice if there was a setting to turn off the Mozbar for search results. I love using it for diagnosing web pages, but when it tries to load and analyze 100 results on a SERP, it can be rather slow/annoying.

Definitely not the Moz Toolbar

It is possible you could have a Chrome extension that is interfering with the Wistia player.

Pageviews specifically...no. Popularity...yes. User experience is far more important though and Google's approach is based on sites giving users great experience and relevant content.

Hi Dan,

In many Google+ cases, your custom URL will need additional characters added to the end of the pre-selected URL. So they have chosen to add a keyword to the end; but it could have been a city, number or anything.

There is no benefit to doing this, there is no 'SEO' value to your linked website or your Google+ Page. Other factors like categorizing, reviews, location and your linked website's value will help Google+ Local pack listings.

Once you have chosen your custom URL, you cannot edit it. You can also not choose whatever URL you want for your page. We are simply given whatever Google thinks appropriate.

Hope this helps!

Your campaigns will only track historical data for 3 competitors you add (and social and keyword data). However you can use Open Site Explorer to compare any site's link metrics (and you can compare up to 5 at a time).

What Ray said is good for the content-side of optimization (which is important), but links are important too. If you want to start ranking higher you are going to need to start building links to your pages to increase your rankings.

Moz has a ton of great resources in their Learn section or in the Blog to help.

Start here: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

**The fire away: **http://moz.com/pages/search_results?q=link building

There are other tools out there that will give you some insights into competitor traffic as well.

SimilarWeb (www.similarweb.com) is a great one that will break down an estimate of traffic sources for a domain. They have quite a good supply of data, and I have found their estimates to be pretty accurate.

I'll see what I can help with:

For the market sectors, if you don't have unique content for each of the child pages, why have them duplicated under each parent category (are there plans to add unique content)? You could change the structure of that menu box to just include links to certifications, equipment and case studies and then put them under their own pages instead of duplicated under each market sector.

The products page section needs the pagination tags not canonical tags. Rel="next" and rel="prev" tags for your series. The canonical tag should go on the view all page if there is one.

The blogs doesn't sound like a pagination problem at all, but a title problem. If there is some setting in your CMS you should be able to customize how your title structure works for both article pages, category pages, archive pages, etc. Change the structure to set-up unique names. Or if they are not important pages (ex. author archives) throw a "noindex, follow" tag on them. Again follow the same pagination structure: page 1 should have rel="next", page 2 should have rel="prev" and rel="next"...etc.

Tag pages are not important from an SEO standpoint, only really for the user if they are interested in seeing similar content based on your tags. If you are getting duplicate content on your different tag pages because of low volume then just noindex your tag pages or remove them completely.

Hope these make sense follow up with me if you have questions!

Google looks at h1 tags as clues to what the page's content is about. If you have multiple h1 tags with different keywords then it is difficult for Google to contextualize the page.

Best practice: one h1 tag with the keyword or theme you are trying to optimize for.

I agree with Monica, Google uses a different crawler for mobile (Googlebot-Mobile), so it likely just hasn't indexed the newer pages yet.

As long as it is in the section of your page. Crawlers look for tagging information in this section first so it may be missed if it is anywhere else.

If you are concerned about the amount of code in the top head section, you could move all that javascript into a external js file and reference it.

If you feel the link is negatively affecting your site then you can disavow links from that domain using the Disavow Link tool in Webmaster Tools: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

But your best is always to try get the link down manually. If it is not affecting you (one bad link in a herd of many links) then I wouldn't worry about it.