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Hey Moz Fam!

I have a question regarding adding excerpts from guest posts/expert columns to your website. The reason this came up to begin with is we want to find a way to track ALL our social media posts engagement. When we share guest posts links, we obviously cannot track when someone clicks it since its not going to our own website. The idea was if we create an individual page with an excerpt from the guest post, then add a "read full post" button that links back to it, we could then instead share that excerpt post from our website to social media so we can track it. Then the user could go to view the full post on the actual guest article from there if they wish. We wanted to create a page titled "Media" and have all those posts categorized to fall on that page. Then canonicalize all of the individual posts to the top level media page.

My question is... we've spent a lot of time and money on creating pages with unique quality content and updating any thin content to make it not thin. These new excerpt pages will be thin content, is that going to negatively impact our SEO? We're not trying to rank these excerpt pages or anything. I just want to make sure that adding these excerpt posts with only 100-200 words each is not going to hurt our overall SEO strategy.

I've added our phone number and email address in the header settings in Divi. For whatever reason, when I'm editing the header elements I can see it, but when I view the website it's not showing... I cannot figure out what the issue is. I've never run into it before. Also, the menu looks different, it does not match what it shows in the header elements edit area vs live site.

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Thank you very much! I'll apply the canonical tag to the PPC pages and leave them to stay indexed. They do rank organically for a few keywords and gets leads, so I don't want to lose that. Is the Canonical URL just the "SEO" state page URL that I'm optimizing and want it to point too?

Okay, will the noindex impact our PPC ads? I'm guessing not...

What if I only applied the rel=canonical tags to the SEO state pages and left the PPC pages alone? I saw that you can apply a rel=canonical tag in SEO Yoast, but I don't know how to structure it.

Hi Moz Fam!

Question... we have two pages for each state. Both pages are used in our PPC campaigns. One of the two state pages is fully optimized for organic search. The page that's optimized for organic has 1,500-2,000 words, the other one has thin content. All the content is unique, nothing duplicate. We call one set of state pages that I optimized my SEO state pages, then the other ones are our PPC state pages.

Should I be setting a canonical tag to one of these pages to let Google know which one is the "master" page? (My SEO state page is the master) I've never used them, so I'm not sure what the right answer is for this.

Thanks!

Hi Kevin! What a great tool, thank you! I've bookmarked the transparency report website and will read the guide on the disavow tool. I appreciate it!

We keep getting links from the domain lyricswithoutmelody.org. Currently we have the most referring backlinks of all from them. I'm not sure what to do with it... is it hurting us? I know I can disavow them, but I'm afraid it will hurt since we have 472 total backlinks from the domain. Their trust flow is 9 and citation flow is 11.

Another option I was thinking is to block the domains IP from seeing our website, would that work? Just trying to figure out the best coarse of action... or if no action at all is best.

I've attached a screenshot of my top referring domains. The ones outlined in red I don't know who they are and if it's helping or hurting.

Moz Fam HELP!

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I can completely see where your coming from and agree! Thank you!

We have updated and added completely new content to our state pages. Our old state content is sitting in a our Google drive. Can I make these public to get them indexed and provide a link back to our state pages? In theory it sounds like a great link building strategy...

TIA!

I would be looking at more then just the spam score to determine if the directory link is worth it or not.

• Domain Authority
• Page Authority
• Spam Score
• Trust Flow
• Citation Flow
• Do/No Follow
• How may outbound links
• How relevant is the directory to your niche
• What are the directories back links?
• etc

Many more specs to consider than just the spam score. You may notice a slight decline in ranks after the jump, but that does not necessarily mean anything is wrong. Google is just settling your ranks after new backlinks. I would wait a few more weeks or so before adding any more to see what links stick and look further into their metrics to make sure there quality backlinks.

Hello Moz Friends!

I was wondering what the correct "SEO friendly" strategy is with badges and awards. We recently got BBB accredited and added their badge to the footer of the website. We also added a review badge from shopper approved to the footer. As I'm joining other communities, I see there's badges given to us. For example, Alignable. Great place for networking. They offer a badge that says "locals recommend us" or something.

Should I embed these badges onto our website someplace? Should I create a page for just badges or place them in the footer or sidebar widgets? What the best SEO practice for this?

Thank you!!

I agree with everyone above. A great tool for this may be SEO Yoast Premium. When you create categories that changes your permalink structure it automatically creates a 301 redirect for each page.

I'm currently setting up projects in Buzz Stream so that I can send out news tips and press releases to local news stations. Has anyone been able to do this successfully without signing up for an expensive press release distribution company like Newswire? If so... I would appreciate it if you could share an email template you use to send out your news tips and press releases to the local news stations.

Thank you!!!

Not a good idea, I know it's hard to explain these types of things from an SEO point of view that the customer understands. You're going to lose all your good reviews that the business has gained. I'm also not sure if you're able to just create a new GMB once you mark the current one permanently closed without changing the NAP. I agree with SEOman10, work on getting some new positive reviews going.

Also, if the review was not left by a real customer can't you report it to Google or no?

I agree with Cesare, if your blog has been a big part of your website I wouldn't move it to a subdomain. You'll lose any authority you've built to your website with your blog content.

Hey Moz Family!

I'm looking for a screen share platform, like gotomeeting, for our agents. However, we need one that does not require the other party to download anything. I know I came across it once... they sent me a link that prompted for a code and that was it. We work with seniors, half our problem is getting them to the right place on there computer. Having them download something to see their screen will be to hard.

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Well the general answer is... yes, that can hurt you for sure if you're trying to rank. There's MANY ways duplicate content can hurt you. We had a competitor duplicate our content recently... we sent a well written letter informing them they had 48 hours to take the website down or we would take legal action. They took that website down in about two hours and apologized, stating it was a developer they hired that used our website as a template.

If multiple partners are using the same content and your not currently ranking... your best option is to write fresh unique optimized content. If you're ranking with your current content... then going after every partner duplicating your content might be the better option.

I would be looking at more then just the spam score to determine if the directory link is worth it or not.

• Domain Authority
• Page Authority
• Spam Score
• Trust Flow
• Citation Flow
• Do/No Follow
• How may outbound links
• How relevant is the directory to your niche
• What are the directories back links?
• etc

Many more specs to consider than just the spam score. You may notice a slight decline in ranks after the jump, but that does not necessarily mean anything is wrong. Google is just settling your ranks after new backlinks. I would wait a few more weeks or so before adding any more to see what links stick and look further into their metrics to make sure there quality backlinks.

I had the same issue in Screaming Frog and posted to Moz Q&A a few weeks ago about it that was resolved.

https://moz.com/community/q/uppercase-lowercase-reading-as-duplicate-permalinks

We have a few authority blogs that I manage to help increase our brand awareness and build power to our website. We have Blogspot, Wordpress, Tumblr & Typepad. Our content get's a summary syndicated to our authority blogs with an attribution link back to the original post. I also manually check them one a month to make sure it looks good and the content syndicated correctly. I even add unique content to these blogs once in awhile. I recently realized that the majority of the pages are not indexing. I added the blogs to our GSC & Bing webmasters and submitted the sitemaps. This was done on December 11th, as of now some pages indexed in Google and Bing says the sitemaps are still pending...

• Blogspot - 32/100 pages indexed
• Wordpress - 34/81 pages indexed
• Tumblr - 4/223 pages indexed
• Typepad - 3/63 pages indexed

Can anyone help me figure out why I can't get Google to index more pages or Bing to process the sitemaps timely?