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Thomas,
Do you have some resources that can give details about knowing for a fact it will hurt your rank?
Thank you for pointing out Dr. Pete's post at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many regarding how many links is too many, as that is a good discussion about this report.
Stephanie Chang wrote about this topic on the Moz blog at http://moz.com/blog/how-should-you-handle-expired-content as well, and that could give you some ideas too.
Hi Santaur,
Did our responses answer your question, or would you like some more input?
Duplicate question, so closing this thread. Please respond at http://moz.com/community/q/would-adding-a-news-page-hurt-my-site-ranking-2
Here are some blog posts from Moz about infographics and where to place them that might be helpful.
http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-push-an-infographic
http://moz.com/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics
http://moz.com/blog/10-tools-for-creating-infographics-visualizations
http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-create-an-infographic-for-less-than-500
We're deploying a fix for this today. Thanks for your patience everyone!
Hi! I'm noticing that the details for this offer it says that it's available only for new clients of SEOmoz, so it's not something that will work with your existing account.
Hi Ash, and welcome to Moz! I've flagged this question for the help team to come in and answer, and you should be hearing from them soon about OSE.
Here's an introduction to get you started: http://moz.com/help/pro/introduction.
A campaign is generally the website you're working on, and the app is Moz. This just means to put in the website you're working on and we'll start letting you know about any problems we find.
This isn't the fast way, but it's the way to make it last -- make your page and service better than your competitors. Before you start trying to drive people to your site, make sure that your site is perfect. Have three people look over the text on your site for any typos or spelling mistakes or grammar errors. Make sure the page looks good in all of the major browsers. Make sure that your site clearly states why it is better than the competitors, and why people should use your service when there are other competitors available.
You usually get just one chance to make a first impression, and you want to make sure that you make a good impression when you're going out to send people to your site.
Be aware that for Google Analytics, part of the terms and conditions are that you do not track individual names and information back to a specific user, so be sure to examine the terms and conditions of your analytics software too.
We published a YouMoz a while back from someone who did this for pool cues. In his own words, he writes "Before you grumble 'yeah, but I sell the most boring stuff on the planet' consider this - we write hundreds upon hundreds of unique descriptions about 58" long pieces of wood and each of those pieces of wood does the exact same thing." http://moz.com/ugc/ecommerce-content-doesnt-have-to-suck
He doesn't share link metrics in the post, though you could run an OSE report on the infographic that he cited.
As the head editor for YouMoz, I try to keep an eye out for things like this that people do, especially if it's a non-SEO industry. I'll come back to this question if I think of any other posts that have good examples.
When I've tweeted with Duane Forrester in the past about communicating with Bing, he's said to use this URL https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingwebmaster&ct=eformts&scrx=1. I'm guessing you used that, but putting it out there just in case you had tried a different method.
Also, hello to the (almost) Central Coast! I grew up in Santa Maria, and have fond memories of the Mid-State Fair. Headed back that way next month for my high school reunion and to fill up on strawberries and tri-tip.
Moz is no longer maintaining the directory project, but it will be relaunched by a third party in the near future. We'll update that post when it's relaunched.
There's a difference between tracking everything your website is ranking for, and tracking what your website is ranking for and people are actually searching for. My husband's site ranks in first place for the phrase query "We also run the R/C Naval Combat forum" but no one is actually searching that and it has no impact on our business. There are literally an infinite number of things your site could be ranking for.
I don't have a solution for you, but did want to bring up the difficulty in providing "everything".
Am I understanding you correctly in that 90% of your content is automatically generated? Is there any value in the content for the users, or is this strictly for the search engines?
Moz has recently had a little bit of experience with a rebrand, changing domains, changing URLs, implementing redirects, and a variety of other fun things to keep us busy. Ruth Burr, our in-house SEO, is giving a Mozinar that talks in-depth about this migration on Thursday, with a chance for you to ask questions at the end. If you're not able to attend the webinar, we'll have it online for download within two days.
You can reserve your spot at http://moz.com/webinars, as well as see all the past webinars we've done, and what else is scheduled in the future.
However, DO NOT mention Yelp. Yelp does not allow you to in any way encourage customers to leave reviews, even without a contest. Be sure to read and understand the guidelines of review sites before trying to encourage people to leave reviews.
I would suggest the wikipedia entry be edited to reflect that I'm much more focused on Cupcakes than Gummy Bears.
The Moz tools can't read and understand your content. You could put in random words copied from a dummy text generator, or have a toddler type on the keyboard, and we wouldn't necessarily flag it, as long as those random words weren't the same as random words on another page.
If you could share your URL and the exact message from Google, that would be really helpful.
Hi Scott,
You'll be wanting to look into using Negative Keywords in your PPC campaign. If there are a handful of names that come up, you can exclude those names. You could perhaps get a list of common first names and exclude those.
You may want to adjust match types in your campaign so you're not paying for broad match and getting off-base inquiries.
Adjusting the ad title to make it clear that you do house painting (if that's what you do) and not portrait painting may reduce clicks for people looking for the wrong type of painting.
You can consider adding all kinds of portrait and mural painting terms as negative keywords to help make your ad show to just the right types of people searching for painting. It may also give you some ideas, and a some lists of keywords that may help you.
You may also want to read the Beginner's Guide to SEO, especially the section on building links at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.
And many have community managers that will ban people for comments with links if that appears to be the main reason for commenting on a post. I ban several each day here at Moz.
I just have to hope EGOL never gets interested in selling model warships, otherwise I'm going to have to really up my game on my website!
It depends on the site and the topic. At YouMoz, we've seen posts from under 500 words to over 10,000 words, though usually not much shorter than 1000 words -- usually in the 1000 to 3000 word range.
There is more to quality than quantity. Think less of how many words, and think instead of how much meaning and information are you conveying with those words. I can blab on for 2000 and not say much, or I can have a powerful post in 500 words.
Here's a post I recently wrote about what makes a good YouMoz post. This is not what every site is looking for in a post, but it can give you a lot of ideas (with actual examples) of what one readership has found to be good quality.
Hi! https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages- lists the common reasons why your page may not be crawled. If that doesn't solve your question, please contact help@moz.com. Thanks!
I'm closing this question, as it is substantially similar to the author's other question at http://moz.com/community/q/my-website-is-not-stable.
Howdy,
We don't have that feature right now, but something like that is on our wishlist for the future. Thanks so much for the confirmation that this is something our community wants, and so glad to hear that you find Q&A this useful!
Hi SEO 5 Team,
Just wanted to point out that this post is over two years old, so the question may no longer still be relevant.
And as an aside, the links in Q&A are nofollow, so it's not a place to use to build or diversify your anchor text to your site.
Dr. Pete also wrote about this warning at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many.
Thanks for the detailed feedback everyone! Responsive design is on our list for feature additions in the near future. I'll also make sure that these issues are addressed. Thanks for your patience, and we do appreciate these examples and explanations.
Hi! I'm going to quote from Ruth here in a post she made on Google+ that should explain things.
We've given the "keys" to our directories list/database to +Ian Lurie , who is collaborating with +Mackenzie Fogelson and Distilled to put together a more robust and scalable solution for directories. With everything else we've got going on, we decided that curating the directories list was beyond the time/resources we have to devote to it. I know this gang of trusted providers will do a great job with it! Other than redirecting the page and handing over the existing list, +Moz won't be actively involved with the project.
It's happening to staff too, so we're all well aware of the problem. I'll contact that team when I'm in the office today (on the bus at the moment) and see if I can get an update for when this might be fixed.
Can you give some details on the type of email you'll be sending? In many cases, automated tools don't provide you with appropriate context. Daily, I receive offers for providing SEO services for my site that offers RC battleships that shoot and sink each other. The only place my email appears on that site is on the About Us page, where I state that I am the webmaster, my day job is at Moz, and to please stop emailing me offers for SEO. It makes for a really bad first impression of a company, and it's what can happen if you only search for contact information without context.
I might use caution with that list. According to their disclaimers, people do pay to be a part of that list. http://www.topseos.cn/disclosure. So just something to be aware of.
Obviously Moz is in a different industry than cottage rentals, but one of the biggest things we heard about our redesign was that it was not responsive and did not render well on mobile devices. At least for our audience, they've come to expect that the site will be usable on something besides just their primary computer.
From the perspective of a small business owner though, I get you. I wouldn't imagine too many people are interested in ordering a USS Iowa hull from their phones, but I could be wrong. In your case, I would think it would depend on how far in advance people book your cottages. If there are some available with only a few days of notice, I would think having a site that works well for mobile would help when people are on a holiday and looking for their next place to stay.
Quick correction: EGOL's title is Content Director, but he does not work for Moz as either staff or associate (though we're thankful he dedicates so much of his own time to Q&A).
Thumbs up if you agree this would make a great YouMoz post. We'd love to see you other there too, if you're ever inclined.
You can also run the crawl test on demand at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test for up to 3000 pages on a domain.
Google would frown on that, according to their content guidelines at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356.
The following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results:
Hi! We don't offer phone support (you can see our post at http://moz.com/help/pro/phone-support) but you can chat with us via the billing page if you need help with your account. Thanks for your understanding!
Here's a quick note about the stars. Right now, they're just a direct replacement of the labels that we displayed for each level.
They had been:
Aspirant
Contributor
Journeyman
Authority
Guru
Oracle
We updated the Journeyman and Guru names, and displayed stars instead of labels for each level. It took me months of working here to remember which label stood for which level, and I saw many times people thinking someone's name was Journeyman or thinking they were an author because they had a Contributor status.
Tweaking the stars for the levels is something we can certainly look at in the longer term. For right now, we think it's an easier way to display the participation level of users without relying on terms that may not be familiar to all of our users, especially the international users.
For the top users, we added the condition that they have at least 25 mozpoints. Previously, if someone had one mozpoint and logged in within the last 60 days, they were listed in the top users. Now they need to have at least 25 mozpoints to show up on the list. There are only 20 points possible for filling out your complete profile, so now the people on that list have actually made some type of contribution (usually a comment or Q&A question) to the Moz community.
I hope this helps explain the stars and points a bit more for everyone!
Hi Thomas,
If you could send a screenshot over to our help team, that'd be great. Thanks!
Keri
Hi! There are several reasons why only one page may get crawled. The most common reasons are at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages-. If that doesn't solve your problem, please contact the help desk at http://moz.com/help. Thanks, and so sorry for the troubles!
Hi! This is a known problem that we're working on. The help desk will answer here when they've got an update. Thanks for your patience!
Hi! We know this is an issue right now and are working on it. The help desk will chime in when we've got an update. Thanks!
Roger had some tired fingers last night as he was updating everything. It is for 1:30pm PDT. The website is now updated, too. So sorry for the confusion!
Google has says that they do not use GA for rankings or for search quality. Here's a video from Matt Cutts at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU.