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Hi there @adrianTNT
Sorry for the confusion, we have new shiny methods to call DA being released shortly, until then you can use the current V2 API - https://moz.com/help/links-api/making-calls/url-metrics
We have more info on using the Moz API and limits here https://moz.com/help/links-api
@cupll-rs1
This is a good list, if we can expand beyond 10, I would also add
Dr Pete Meyers - Owner of Mozcast, data marekting scientist and Dr of the SERPs
Britney Muller - AI consultant and course instructor, well known for making incredible AI workflows and courses
Chima Mmeje - Founder of Zenith copy and current Moz marketing manager, incredible social media presence, conference talks on personal branding content marketing
@Tourizee Hi there, it's always tricky to out compete high authority domains like Yelp. But there are some basic rules you can follow to improve your chances, like listing your store locations and making sure your Google business Profile ( GBP) links to your landing page targeting that city.
Amanda Jordan has some great videos on optimizing local landing pages
https://moz.com/blog/create-local-landing-pages-whiteboard-friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibdAegmk57Q
I think the most important thing here is for you to give yourself a crash course in Local SEO. This is a good place to start: https://moz.com/learn/local
I hope this helps!
@monika_rawat
Spam Score is calculated based on 27 flags that we identified that correlate with spamminess, that means that Spam Score is based on your own site and its features, setup, and content. To reduce your Spam Score you need to work on improving your site. Please follow our guide on investigating your own site's Spam Score
Best of luck!
@kassandrasharr
Hi Kassandra!
You can compare our available Moz Pro plans pricing and features here (a Campaign = a site you can track)
If you're unsure what plan you're currently on you can check through your Moz account
If you're hitting any limits you can also purchase subscription addons. We've got a guide to purchasing more allowances for your Moz Pro plan here
If you'd like any further guidance please reach out to our help team https://moz.com/help/contact
Hi there,
While it can be hard to know for sure if this was due to a temporary outage at the time you were generating that list I can offer some support to help you resolve this and additional resources.
Typically if you see the error 'getting keyword list failed' when uploading a list of keywords using the CSV import functionality this is often caused by characters such as á or à, or other accented characters. Please check through your keyword list and remove these characters.
If you're still having trouble please read through our guide here https://moz.com/help/keyword-explorer/keyword-lists/overview
and you can always create a ticket with our help team for additional support, please let them know the process you're following and any screenshots you have that might help them with diagnostics https://moz.com/help/contact
Best of luck!
Jo
Hi there,
Please start by investigating what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your, or your client's site. To start making improvements please review the factors that make up spam score, and then I would recommend that you prioritise what improvements you can make on your own site and its features, setup, and content with minimal disruption.
Best of luck!
Jo
@harshvaghani123
Hi there!
First off, we do not recommend disavowing backlinks unless you have a Google penalty. Disavowing is unlikely to improve your Spam Score and, as you've experienced, can affect your site's authority and have wider implications.
Before disavowing please review Google documentation, if you see adverse affects you may want to consider removing the disavow.
If you're working on improving Spam Score on your client's site then it is worth explaining that Spam Score reflects features on your site that may correlate with spammy sites. So you will need to investigate what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your client's site and figure out whether there is any room for improvement. The end goal isn't to reduce spam score to 0, but to identify areas for improvement It may be worth exploring your client's competitor's Spam Score to set expectations.
I hope this helps give you some ideas on how to progress! Do let me know how you get on 
Hi Erica,
Sorry for the trouble here, and thanks for letting us know! That is odd that you whole team is having trouble, I hope I can help.
First, to answer your questions:
yes, it is required that you're logged into your Moz account to use Mozbar.
and yes, it should be sufficient to allow all cookies from moz.com https://www.screencast.com/t/D9CbAaKP5p
Please also clear your browser's cache and cookies, restart your browser again and then log into moz.com.
If you or your team are still having trouble I have an extended video covering troubleshooting steps here https://moz.com/help/research-tools/mozbar/troubleshooting-mozbar
If all else fails I'd love to see a screenshot of what you're seeing so I can get an idea of where you're getting stuck.
Best of luck!
Jo
Hi there @annegretwidmer
Thanks for asking this!
Changing and redirecting URLs will most likely affect your rankings and traffic. For this reason I wouldn't consider this a small optimization change. If the pages in question are revenue driving it may not be worth the change if it's just to reduce the URL length. I would only consider making changes if you identify major URL structure issues, and even then it could be worth addressing as part of a larger project, depending on the size and purpose of your site. Here are some resources:
https://moz.com/community/q/what-should-be-the-length-of-page-url-from-seo-perspective
https://moz.com/learn/seo/url
https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls
If you're wanting to track the impact of changing and redirection URLs and the impact on your site's rankings you can follow this process in Moz Pro:
In the meantime you can "Ignore" those issue either by page or by Issue Type through the Moz Pro Site Crawl interface so they don't crop up every week. You can read more here on ignoring issues in Moz Pro.
I hope this helps!
Hi there! @alisajoycee
Looking in Link Explorer I can see that your Spam Score is 5%, anything under 30% is considered low, and the end goal isn't to get to 0, but rather to identify areas of your site that can be improved
Please take a look at our guide on investigating spam score.
It’s important to remember that Spam Score is NOT a measurement of the spamminess of links pointing to your site. It is NOT dependent on your backlink profile but instead represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google.
I hope this helps!
@sivakonireddy_y
Hi there!
I appreciate that this can be a challenging conversation to have with your client.
Anything below 30% is considered a low Spam Score. If you're working on improving Spam Score on your client's site then it is worth explaining that Spam Score reflects features on your site that may correlate with spammy sites. So you will need to investigate what is triggering these Spam Score flags on your client's site and figure out whether there is any room for improvement. The end goal isn't to reduce spam score to 0, but to identify areas for improvement It may be worth exploring your client's competitor's Spam Score to set expectations.
I hope this helps give you some ideas on how to progress! Do let me know how you get on
Hi there!
Please note that Spam Score updates quarterly, so any changes you've made to the features on your site that correspond to Spam Score flags won't update immediately.
Please take a look at your guide on how to investigate Spam Score
I hope this helps!
Jo
@ankitakale
Hi there!
It may help to note that anything under 30% is considered a low Spam Score. If you're looking to reduce your own site's spam score then you will need to look at the features on your site that correspond to the relevant Spam Score flag. Please take a look at your guide on how to investigate and reduce Spam Score
I hope this helps!
Hi there AleCam!
There are some good suggestions here on where you can start to explore this, and the insight I have isn't going to be wildly different. Usually it comes down to a difference in timeframe of collections or a difference in how the rankings data is collected. So checking in live SERPs vs a tool can often show different results.
Because rankings can, and do fluctuate, it may be that what we gather one day, changes the next. There are changes going on constantly.
The other difference can come down to how you're checking the rankings. As other folks have mentioned it could be a difference in mobile vs desktop, or local results and personalization. To add to that, many discrepancies in Moz Pro keyword rankings are caused by the way Moz is querying Google and other search engines. Our process completely strips personalization from the query. This means that it's more representative of a national average for all searchers in the country, but it also means that you may not be able to reproduce these exact SERPs within your browser because your location is factored into your search results.
If you're still having trouble and would like someone to look more closely at your account please do reach out to help[at]moz.com to speak to our support team.
best of luck!
@mariyamrocks Hi there! If you're investigating improving your own site's Spam Score then I would recommend taking some time to explore which of the 27 flags you are triggering. We have a great guide on our Help Hub outlining what you can do to reduce your Spam Score.
It’s important to remember that Spam Score is not a measurement of the spamminess of links pointing to your site. It is not dependent on your backlink profile but instead represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google.
The best way to improve your Spam Score is to dive into the 27 flags that make up Spam Score and assess your site to identify where you can make improvements.
Best of luck!
Jo
@dodo123
Hi there!
If you're wanting to change your domain name then you would be exploring a site migration. This can be quite a big job, depending on the type, and size of your site.
For this to be successful you'd be wanting to ensure that crawlers and human visitors can easily and smoothly access the new site, even if they clicking links pointing to your old site. So you'll want to explore correctly implementing a 301 redirect, among other things.
There are lots of articles on this topic on the Moz Blog
https://moz.com/blog/executing-a-domain-migration
https://moz.com/blog/make-or-break-your-site-migration
To answer your question directly, there isn't a way to transfer DA, however if you follow proper domain migration procedures you'll be well placed to serve previous and new visitors with minimal disruption. Then you can work on building up the authority of your new site.
I hope this helps!
Jo
@pollyb Heya Polly!
It's not uncommon to see this sort of thing when looking a backlink data at a granular level. The data isn't updated live as crawling and indexing the web is quite a heavy load on resources to it takes time to gather and "crunch"
The most important thing here is to make sure that you're using the Spam Score tool and data in the most helpful way possible. If you're exploring spammy sites linking to your site, and you're finding that they don't exist then * dusts hands * job done.
Please also note that 'disavowing' links won't impact your own site's spam score as we don't have insight into which links are 'disavowed'.
If you're investigating improving your own site's Spam Score then I would recommend taking some time to explore which of the 27 flags you are triggering. We have a great guide on our Help Hub outlining what you can do to reduce your Spam Score
If you're still stuck please reach out to our help team help [@] Moz.com
Best,
Jo
Hi there @RickMiller_EY!
We get this question a fair bit! If your staging URL is hidden behind a log in or a VPN then we won't be able to crawl it. The Moz Pro Site Crawl tool is designed to imitate a search engine crawler so the pages would need to be accessible to our crawler.
If you're still stuck you can reach out to our help team: help@moz.com
I hope this helps!
Jo
Hi there!
It's hard to speak to what exactly is going here and what the intention is. I've had a look at your backlink profile for the site you have linked here, but I'm not seeing those mentioned sites in the Inbound Links report.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you. If you are still stuck and have details of the site you're searching and a screenshot of what you're seeing please send it over to help [@] moz.com
Cheers
Jo
HI there!
Pages can be flagged as duplicate if there isn't enough unique content on each page to distinguish them from each other.
The Moz tools have a 90% threshold for duplicate content, which means that any pages with code that is at least 90% the same will be flagged as duplicates of one another.
There is a great Whiteboard Friday video which explains duplicate content, in addition to how unique pages can get flagged.
To solve this you may want to add more unique and valuable content to each page.
At time of writing, you won't get a penalty for duplicate content, however anything you can do to help search engines understand what you content is about, and at the same time creating value for your visitors, will support a strong content marketing and SEO strategy.
I hope this helps!
Jo
@designbump Hi there!
A score of 1%-30% is considered a Low Spam Score.
If you look at the 27 factors or signals we use to determine Spam Score (https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score#spam-score-signals)
There are two that may be impacted by the quantity of outbound links:
20. Number of External Outlinks Spam sites are more likely to have abnormally high or low external outlinks.
However these are just two of 27 factors that are considered as part of Spam Score.
Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.
It's best used in the context of reviewing the overall quality of your site so that it best serves your users.
If you do make changes please note that Spam Score is updated quarterly, however we don't currently have an exact date of when the next update is due.
I hope this helps!
Jo
@saeedroshan Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features to the site you’re researching which we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.
A score of 1%-30% is considered a Low Spam Score.
A score of 31%-60% is considered a Medium Spam Score.
A score of 61%-100% is considered a High Spam Score.
A high Spam Score for your site, or a site you're looking at, doesn't mean this site is necessarily spammy, or doesn't have great backlinks. It's a sign that you should do some more investigation into the quality and relevance the features on the site you're investigating.
There is a great video on Spam Score on our Help Hub here https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score
Hi there,
Welcome to Moz!
To find rankings opportunities I would recommend starting witih Keyword Research, we've got a great guide here https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research
Are you're currently taking a free trial I also recommend booking a Walkthrough with our excelletn onboarding team:
There are options for a pre-recorded webinar, as well as to book a 1:1 walkthrough.
In addition to the above, we also have 136 minutes of FREE content on How to use Moz Pro on our Academy https://academy.moz.com. Our Academy also hosts a selection of paid classes including keyword research, on-site optimization, and link building.
Our Help Hub which may be helpful as you work with the tools! https://moz.com/help If there’s anything else you need, just let us know!
Hi all!
The good news is that our link index is back up and running! Thank you all for your patience as our teams worked tirelessly to get things fixed. Please contact help@moz.com if you have any other queries or concerns
Jo
Hi all!
The good news is that our link index is back up and running! Thank you all for your patience as our teams worked tirelessly to get things fixed. Please contact help@moz.com if you have any other queries or concerns
Jo
Hi again!
My apologies, I should have said that you can filter by the features that are present for your keywords, in your case these are Features Snippets and Related Questions.
For your second question it sounds like you're on the right track here. You can certainly use Keywords Explorer to identify potential keywords and then research the image results to see if there is an opportunity here.
Best of luck!
Jo
Hi there,
Thanks for the question, Jo here from the Moz help team, I'll do my best to help.
SERP Ranking Re-freshness ( For how often it would update )
With a Moz Pro Campaign you'll see fresh updates every week. This includes ranking data, page optimization reports, crawl data (with the option to manually recrawl with medium plans or above)
Mobile SERP Ranking ( Whether the tool shows the SERP Rankings on Mobiles )
Yes, you can track mobile rankings in your Moz Pro Campaign https://moz.com/help/moz-pro/rankings/overview
Backlinks ( Does Backlinks Data has the Historical Index )
We'll show you historical metrics over time like DA and Linking root domains, to collect granula link data over time you can export your links to csv https://moz.com/help/moz-pro/links/overview
**Alerts ( The important thing i need was to get instant alerts on Rankings, Backlinks Toxic Score, so how often i would receive those alerts **
You can set up custom reports to send either weekly or monthly to your specifications.
As you're new to the software and levelling up with the tool I highly recommend out training and onboarding resources
I've got a few for you here
https://academy.moz.com/how-to-use-moz
Best of luck!
Cheers!
Jo
Hi there Adrian,
Thanks for the question, Jo here from the Moz help team.
I've counted the characters in your url and I count 86, which would cause this to be flagged in our tool.
However I would point out that URL length and format for SEO is a bit of a balancing act. When considering URLs for SEO you want to make sure that the URL is simple enough to remember and understand for human visitors and that it accurately describes what is on the page.
If your URLs do this job, but are a bit longer than 75 characters, then I wouldn't be too concerned.
You do want to keep your eye out for URLs that are not within this basic structure:
http://www.example.com/category-keyword/subcategory-keyword/primary-keyword.html,
contain long and confusing codes, and are taking a hit in the rankings.
As I'm sure you're already aware, changing URLs is quite painful, as you need to make sure the old URLs are redirected and this adds more moving parts to your site that could cause problems down the line. So, if you're happy with the job your URLs are doing currently, but the tool flags these as too long, I would definitely consider holding off on making changes. It may be that you use this information to make amendments to future URLs, or rethink your site structure as part of a bigger project.
In the meantime you can "Ignore" those issue either by page or by Issue Type through the Moz Pro Site Crawl interface so they don't crop up every week. You can read more about this on our Help Hub.
Here are some resources on URL formatting and how to best structure them for SEO:
https://moz.com/community/q/what-should-be-the-length-of-page-url-from-seo-perspective
https://moz.com/learn/seo/url
https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls
I'm here to help if you have any other queries.
Cheers!
Hi there!
Moz's Spam Score is the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google (it's not based on the Spam Score of the sites linking to you). Our machine learning model identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.
Your Spam Score - This does not mean that your site is definitely spammy. The percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to change these factors on your site, but it may be worthwhile to consider them. It is best to use this percentage figure to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation and, perhaps, even removal.
Another site's Spam Score - Again, this doesn't mean that these sites are spammy. This percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is just based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to disregard sites or disavow links with higher Spam Scores. Instead, we'd recommend using it as a guide for kick starting investigations. Be sure to check out a site's content and its relevance in linking back to you before disregarding or disavowing.
To improve this score I would recommend reading our guide which explains the 27 factors used to make up this score. You can then look at your site and investigate areas you would like to improve on your site:
https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score
Jo
Hi there,
Jo here from the Moz Help Team.
The best way to investigate issues like this, is to start with our troubleshooting guide here https://moz.com/help/moz-pro/site-crawl/crawl-troubleshooting
I have tried this myself and I've gotten to step 3 where I can see that there is an error when I try you site in this third party status checker.
This is an indication that crawlers like ours and this tools are being blocked from accessing your site at a server level.
Please check with your website admin to see if they are not blocking AWS, or rogerbot. Once you've fixed this with your website admin you can trigger a recrawl of your site if you have a Medium subscription or higher https://moz.com/help/moz-pro/site-crawl/overview
If you're still stuck please reach out to help@moz.com.
Best
Jo
Hi there!
For your first query, it sounds like you're looking at Keyword Explorer Ranking Keywords - is that right? If so, I would note that while our database is quite large, it doesn't contain all keywords for all locations. This is why it's common for folks to use a range of tools as each will have a slightly different database with different strengths to do their keyword research.
In regards to your second query, I would echo Alick300's reply, that the thread they shared is a wealth of information.
Basically PA and DA indicate the likelihood that a page or domain will rank. However what page will actually rank for any given search is really up to the search engine algorithm, they consider a while array of factors, to do with on-page and off-page optimization. relevancy and authority.
We've got a very comprehensive guide to DA which I strongly recommend.
I hope this helps to clarify!
Jo
Hi there!
Yes indeed, you can track the SERP features for your target keywords in your Moz Pro Campaign and Keyword Explorer Keyword Lists.
Just head to Moz Pro > Rankings > SERP Features to view SERP features for your tracked keywords.
I've got a guide that might help here
We also surface SERP Features in Keyword Explorer Lists. You can also filter by Featured Snippet and Image Packs. Here is a screenshot of this in a Keyword list.
I've got a guide to Keyword Lists here
I hope this helps, please do let me know if you would like more clarification or have any other queries.
Jo
Hi Amy,
If you set up a Campaign for the url 'website.com' we will automatically track rankings for all the subdomains on your site.
However if you want to separate these out to show results just for a particular subdomain vs another you would need to set up two Campaigns one for www.website.com and blog.website.com
You can read more about Campaign setup here on our Help Hub.
I hope this helps!
Jo
HI there,
Jo here from the Moz Help team. All queries of this nature should be directed to help@moz.com. I can see you've already sent us a request there so I'll reply to you directly.
Cheers!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo from the Moz Help Team here.
Our Search Visibility score represents the overall ranking performance for your tracked keywords. This isn't based on GA data, but rather ranking data we have collected based on the keywords and competitors you added to your Campaign.
Search Visibility is calculated by:
Taking all of your keywords and the associated URL’s position and applying a CTR (click-through rate) for each position.
The CTRs are then summed
This number is then divided by the total number of keywords.
You may be interested to know that we have a lot of great guides and videos on our Help Hub, including this one on Search Visibility.
I hope this helps!
Jo
Hi Sherwood,
We haven't had any recent reports of this behaviour.
Have you tried logging out, then clearing you cache beyond your cookies before logging back in?
Please also check you're not booking Moz cookies. If you're still having trouble please send details of your OS, browser version, and screenshots/screencasts of this behaviour, if you're able to capture it, to help@moz.com
Thanks!
Jo
Hi there,
As you've found out our data for Keyword by site is very US-centric, but we did recently update our corpus to include UK, Canada, and Australian data.
We are working to increase our international volume data in the application, but I'm afraid we don't have an estimate for when volume data will be available for your keyword.
The good news is that your Keyword Difficulty score is unaffected by volume data, as it relies on SERP rankings, so you can definitely still find useful data here.
You can read more about our metrics on our Help Hub.
You can also read more about KWE accuracy here:
http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/keyword-volume-relational-accuracy/
Best of luck with your keyword research!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo from the Help Team here.
Moz's Spam Score is the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. To improve this score I would recommend reading our guide which explains the 27 factors used to make up this score. You can then look at your site and investigate areas you would like to improve on your site:
https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score
Best of luck!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo from the Help Team here.
Moz's Spam Score is the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. To improve this score I would recommend reading our guide which explains the 27 factors used to make up this score. You can then look at your site and investigate areas you would like to improve on your site:
https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score
Best of luck!
Jo
Hello!
Jo here from the Moz support team. Our new index has data for the last 12 months and we continue to gather more data every day. You can read more about the new index here https://moz.com/blog/the-new-link-explorer-is-here
If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know.
Jo
I can see we replied to your email and this is now resolved.
Hello!
Jo here from the Moz help team. While you can't delete the whole question, I would recommend editing the post and removing the mention of your site. You can edit your post on the bottom left here https://www.screencast.com/t/Y92D3XQp
If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know.
Cheers!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo from the Moz help team here.
You're right that Spam Score is based on the 27 factors outlined on our Help Hub.
Spam Score represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Spam Score is based on our machine learning model which identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it.
Which of the 27 features your site triggered isn't currently available. You'll need to look at the 27 features listed in this article and review your own site to see what you could change to improve your site's score.
I hope this helps!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo from the Moz help team here.
First off, it's worth noting that 5% is quite a low score. Secondly, I would clarify that the score isn't a calculation based on the Spam Score of sites linking to your site.
Spam Score is percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. To improve this score I would recommend understanding the 27 factors used to make up this score and working on improving them: https://moz.com/help/link-explorer/link-building/spam-score
I hope this helps - let me know if there's anything else I can assist with!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo here from the Moz help team.
The best way to get this data would be to set up your app to call our API for backlinks, and then cross reference this with the links found the last time your made your call to identify lost and discovered links.
Your programer should be able to let you know more about how to do this.
If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know.
Cheers!
Jo
Hi there,
Jo again from the Moz help team.
I'm afraid we're still getting a 520 error when we try to access your robots.txt.
In oder to investigate this further I wonder if you could please ask your website administrator or host for a copy of your server logs so we can see how your server is responding to rogerbot.
Please send your server logs to help@moz.com.
Cheers!
Jo
Hi there,
Thanks for reaching out!
It looks like we encountered a 520 error when we tried to crawl your site, if you check the Site Crawl tab in your Moz Pro Campaign you'll see that we were not able to access your robots.txt at the time of the crawl.
I'm going to kick off a recrawl at my end to see if this was an intermittent error and we can go from there.
Thanks for bearing with me!
Jo
HI Adam,
Thanks for reaching out.
I'm afraid this isn't currently a feature available with Moz Pro, sorry.
If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know.
Cheers!
Jo