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Hi there, is there any way to generate a report of keyword rankings for SERP features?

Hi there, this feature isn't available in Moz,  semrush has this functionality though.

Hi there,

Any advice on how best to build a backlink profile for a new website - I'm very keen to avoid penalisations or throttling from Google.

Any advice on DA ratios to procure & frequency of procurement would be welcome.

Please & thanks

Nothing in the form of an API?

Hello Sam,

Is there any way to automate this process?

Hello,

Is there any way that I can generate & export a CSV report  - 7/ & or days activity for tracked keywords compared to competitors?

I can't do this through the Custom Reports dashboard, is there an alternative?  API Maybe?

Hello Eli,

I've just sent an email

Hi there,

This is specifically for the Moz support team, on one of my SEO campaigns the Ranking dashboard shows that there 19 keywords moved up - but - the PDF shos that 32 keywords have moved up.

Why the discrepancy, please?

Hello Martijn,

Yes, I did put the pages through the Structured Data Testing Tool & no issues were highlighted.

So I dug around & all the articles pointed to WordPress plugins. Since then the pages are no longer flagged as having the same issues vis GSC, so I'll leave things alone for another month or see, I could be an error with Google new report, not the website.

Hi there,

Google is up to mass spamming, the latest one refers o an Enhancements > Breadcrukbs report, the message is:

"...Google systems show that your site is affected by 24 instances of Breadcrumbs markup issues. This means that your Breadcrumbs pages might not appear as rich results in Google Search. Search Console has created a new report just for this rich result type..."

I've used their Structured Data Testing Tool, no errors were highlighted.

Can anyone fathom out what they're referring to, please?

I have a website which contains a lot of content behind a show hide, does Google crawl the "hidden" copy?

Hello,

Disavow is no longer necessary - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-disavow-tool/289871/

Personally, I wouldn't have bothered with purchasing the misspelled version of your domain. WRT the backlinks, list which specific pages in the site they point to, then point those pages to relevant pages on your existing site using 301 redirects.

I'd 301 redirects from the discontinued lines to the main  section pages, so

https://www.domain.com/product-type/a-red-sweater

would redirect to

https://www.domain.com/product-type/

Hello,

Read https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo & apply findings

Well, the advantage of having sub-domain is that you can target a specific audience with that specific sub-domains since Google'll treat it as it's won unique site.

The biggest disadvantage is that if you don’t do it right, you will not get the expected results you could even draw traffic from your main domain.

First I've come across this claim, all pages should contain the site name/ organisation name as well as the page name - example "How to blog | Site name"

Chris,

As Jose stated there us a risk attached to creating a new page, however, if that's the only option then ensure that you have 301(s) in place.

When will Moz crawl a campaign to determine a sites DA?

I'm can't fully understand why you would use 302 redirections, these are meant to be for tempory redirects only.

https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

Hi there

Canonical tags prevent problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content across multiple URLs.  So in this instance implement the disallow rule on al of the  URLs containing /search/

Hello Kirk,

As long as you point the root domain, all should be well. I went through the process a few months ago with a clients websites; no problems were encountered.

I've collated the articles I found useful prior to the process I went through.

• https://www.foregroundweb.com/site-url-change/
• https://www.foregroundweb.com/google-search-console-redesign/
• https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

I personally favour

a) Nerdybet.com/gambling-sites-directory/stateX

I find it more descriptive & I can add keywords to the URLsy

Nerdybet.com/gambling-sites-directory/stateX/CityName

Hi,

After you've read the article Nozzle recommended, use the https://technicalseo.com/tools/robots-txt/ tool to test whatever you put together.

In addition to  effectdigitals comments, it partially depends on the CMS. For example a Standatrd WordPress robots.txt is formatted:

**User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php**

I prefer to add a link to the sitemap.xml:

**User-agent: ***
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.website.com/sitemap.xml

To allow all web crawlers access to all content, just use:

**User-agent: ***
Disallow:

Refer to https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt for further advise.

Hi there,

It can take takes as little as 48 hours for google to take of a disavow file. after which it can still take weeks even months until google re-crawls the disavowed links and takes the disavow them into account.

Hi there, I recommend that you  use the business schema on the homepage.

PPC traffic doesn't add anything to a pages PA or a sites DA.

Basically, buy more high DA links from even more domains, I'd recommend in investing DA 60+ links. Moxz has produce some great Blogs recently on this matter:

• https://moz.com/blog/boost-content-linkability
• https://moz.com/blog/effective-link-building-campaign 
• https://moz.com/blog/20-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links

In addition to Jose response, good old Blogger outreach. Come up with a gameplan focused on what subject matter, keywords & DAs you're after, them either you approach the bloggers yourself, or you pay a 3rd party to procure the links for you. The later is the most common approach as link building can be very timeconsuming. As with most thing SEO, Moz has an article on this matter https://moz.com/blog/blogger-outreach-for-your-clients.

Also, if you have a Moz Pro account & campaigns set up & running then there is the Opportunities feature accessible via the campi=aign dashboard.

None that I can fathom, as long as you remember to remove them after a short period of time.

You have 2 meta descriptions, remove the one on line 7

/>

**Keep the one on line 13

As it appears to me to be more relevant to that specific page.**

Hi there,

Is any of the page copy being displayed instead of the meta description that you wrote? Let me know when you  post an image of the SERPs page

Hi, why not have 2 GMB profiles as they appear to have 2 distinct offerings.

If you must use one GMB profile then I don't see any issues applying 2 different categories, as long as they accurately reflect the company.

Hi there,

Re-submitting a new sitemap.xml wouldn't go amiss. I believe that AMP pages are best for news & high volume websites.

Hi there, personally I only ever worry about SPAM scores over 80%, I don't consider SSL as an issue; especially for older links.

The change happened several months ago & the site has been crawled frequently

I've added a new favicon to a website, which is displayed on browser tabs, on both mobile & desktop devices.

But, in SERPs on mobile devices, the old favicon is still showing - How do I flush this our so that the new one is displayed?

I agree with Andreas explanation of Google rules on using nofollow /

The only bad SEO Practice regarding JS that I've of is trying to hide the JS files from Search Engines, apparently, Google needs to render a whole page as it indexing it; so blocking any JS (& CSS for that matter) isn't a good thing.

Hi there,

I'm looking for a tool/ service whereby I can track backlinks & be alerted when:
a) They've moved
b) They've been removed & 404 is generated

Is anyone aware of any such service?

To be honest, if it's on Moz don't sweat about the error message about duplicate content, especially since can see it. However if it on GSC, take action.

Hello,

My method is basically

• Select keywords around a group or theme, I like to rank for these rather than focusing on a single keyword at the beginning of a campaign
• Use a mixture of broad, intent & geolocated keywords
• Search volume(s) for each keyword
• Competition for keywords is a factor, some may have seasonal variation(s), I shortlist a combination on high, mid & low competitiveness

What is the URL to the article?

Hi,

The following should suffice as it will black any URL with a "?" in it

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?

Using next-gen formats will help, as will resizing them to their maximum size; before you upload them. Though I am surprised that you getting these issue with Squarespace as the use CDN for media storage.

IMHO use meta descriptions to sell what's on the webpage, learn from the good Google Ads copy, including CTA's isn't necessary I personally focus on keyword insertion instead.

What about creating a load of 301 redirects, from the none existent URLs to the still active ones , &/ or, updating your 404 pages to better inform users what happened to the "missing" pages. regardless Google will just stop indexing them after a short while.

Just wondering what the consensus WRT  "external noopener" passing on link equity?