You know, what—I looked into this a bit more, and you actually might be right about what caused this. Let me get you some more help.
Posts made by MattRoney
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RE: Auto - update of h1 to h2
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RE: Why doesn't the Wikipedia homepage have meta tags?
I sincerely doubt it's a strategic choice not to have one, though.
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RE: Why doesn't the Wikipedia homepage have meta tags?
Well, less a reason than an explanation. To be honest, I have no idea why they didn't use meta description when first establishing the site. It stands to reason, though, that by this point they don't have much incentive to add it.
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RE: What the best way is to find keywords for my local website
Personally, I'd suggest giving Moz's own Keyword Explorer a try.
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RE: Why doesn't the Wikipedia homepage have meta tags?
I'm actually seeing some in their source, notably meta charset and <title>. You're right that there's no meta description, for example, which is interesting, but they don't exactly need it. ;)</p></title>
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RE: Listings site -is freshness important on results or articles?
Hi nick-name123! If Tymen has answered your question, mind marking his response as a "Good Answer" (in the lower right corner of the response)? It helps us keep track of things, and it'll give him a few bonus MozPoints.
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RE: Five best practice for SEO
In addition to the Beginner's Guide to SEO, I'd also suggest reading through the Beginner's Guide to Link Building. Especially if you're looking for information on off-site.
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RE: Exact keyword in domain - does it work
Hi Leszek!
To answer your question directly—no, having the exact match keyword in the domain name will not, on its own, result in a first-page ranking. It certainly doesn't hurt (unless it's part of a pattern of spammy keyword stuffing), but the impact it will have is vanishingly small.
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RE: Auto - update of h1 to h2
That strikes me as a pretty massive change in rankings for a simple on-page change. Even a site-wide one, like that. Have you run any analysis on your competitors to see if anything they did might be to blame?
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RE: Cache missing on SERP
Hi Joycee_psp! Any chance you can provide a bit more information on just what you're seeing?
Thanks!
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RE: Placement of key words in URL
URL best practices aside, know that the On-Page Grader only recognizes a tracked keyword when it appears exactly as it was entered into your Moz campaign. It's not actually any sort of commentary on what Google considers more effective from a URL structure standpoint.
Personally, I would also choose variant 2.
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RE: Backlinks to pdf files
Hi tybi-seochat!
I'm afraid there's no native way in Open Site Explorer to pull all of your links to PDFs. One option, though, would be to download the CSV with all of your links, and then filter out the ones whose targets don't end in .pdf.
Keep in mind, though, that even that likely won't be every link. The Mozscape index is designed to give you a great sense of your overall link profile, but it isn't exhaustive.
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RE: Will hreflang eliminate duplicate content issues for a corporate marketing site on 2 different domains?
Hi Jeffrey,
Did Logan and/or Nikhilesh answer your question? If so, mind marking one or both responses as a "Good Answer?"
Otherwise, where are you still getting stuck?
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RE: On Site Question: Duplicate H2...
I have to say, GTAMP, I agree with all the above advice. As Jared notes, this isn't something that's going to wreck your traffic on its own. However, David is spot-on that it's certainly worth fixing if the cost isn't too high.
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RE: Group Yext accounts or Cheaper alternatives
Personally, I'd recommend Moz Local.
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RE: Schema Markup Ratings Not Showing Up in SERPs
It can, yes. Also, Google's having acknowledged the schema doesn't necessarily mean that it will show the rich snippet on the SERPs. It's still good to have it, though, and you very well may start seeing it appear.
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RE: Embedding videos for SEO
Text-wise, I'd say go with a full transcription if you can. Search engines can't index video content (it's not text), so including a transcription allows you to get the benefits of that content.
Good examples of video + transcription are our Whiteboard Fridays.
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RE: Payment gateway referrals disappeared
Hi Alick!
I think we may need a bit more information to get you a good answer. When you say referrals, do you mean in Google Analytics? What payment system are you using? What solution are you referring to?
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RE: Infinite Scroll and URL Changing
Hey Matt! Did Oleg answer your question? Or could you use more help?
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RE: Inbound link with low DA
I have to agree, MissThumann, that 52 is not a very low DA. Have you checked the Spam Score for that link?
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RE: Godaddy and Soft 404's
Hi again, Al123al! Are you able to provide any info about your CMS? Or did the Redirection plugin recommendation take care of it? If so, please mark Dan's response as a Good Answer.
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RE: Targeted keywords for landing pages but keyword has a lot of synonyms, how is the best way to approach this?
Personally, I'd say your best bet is to build relevant, high-quality links to that page. That'll be a stronger signal than simply focusing on on-page keyword usage, anyway.
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RE: Repairing SEO issues on Different Platforms
Hi BBsmyth! Are you able to provide any examples for Kate?
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RE: Why the sudden increase in soft 404s?
Hi EcommerceSite!
It really sounds like folks will need to check out your site, or at least have a lot more information, in order to give much more advice. Is that something you can share?
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RE: My "tag" pages are showing up as duplicate content. Is this harmful?
Seconding adding noindex to tag pages. Unless you want those to rank—and I'm not sure why you would—that's a great way to avoid any issues.
I'm fairly certain it's not the worst duplicate issue to have, though.
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RE: Meta tags in Single Page Apps
Hi TrueluxGroup! Did Oleg answer your question, and if so, would you mind marking his response as a Good Answer?
If not, what can we still help you with?
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RE: Travel site schema problems
Hi msphoto!
Did Craig's response help? We'd love an update.
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RE: Godaddy and Soft 404's
Hi AL123al! Did Dan's response help? We'd love an update.
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RE: Infinite 302 redirects on a site using Angular JS
Thank you so much for following up, Katherine! We really appreciate it.
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RE: Infinite 302 redirects on a site using Angular JS
Sounds like Deepcrawl, Screaming Frog, and Google Fetch & Render.
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RE: Website Redesign and Migration to Squarespace killed my Ranking
Not using 301s could be a big part of the problem. Do your old backlinks all point to existing pages on the new domain?
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RE: How can I fix New 4XX Issue on Site Crawl?
Hi Stacey! How is this going? We'd love an update.
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RE: Subdomain competition
Hi Enjin! If Martijn's response answered your question, mind marking it a "Good Answer?" Otherwise, how can we help more?
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RE: Google News Sitemap in Different Languages
Hi Matt! Did Martijn's response help? We'd love an update.
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RE: Wordpress SEO for ecommerce store
Hi Allie! Did you work this out? We'd love an update.
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RE: Abnormally high internal link reported in Google Search Console not matching Moz reports
Hi Jeffrey! Did zeus1956's response help? We'd love an update.
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RE: Link title tags on devices - product category page
Hi Tormar! To my knowledge, having a title element within a link tag adds no SEO value. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Alt tags in images, though, are rather important, both for user experience and for SEO. Among other things, they're covered here.
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RE: Effect of Publishing Blog Posts Resembling Classified Advertisements
I'm not personally aware of anything that would make it inherently bad, but I do think you should take some time to consider why people visit your blog, and who you'd like the audience for your blog to be. If your blog is mainly for content that's reasonably "evergreen" and that will draw repeat visitors, then using it for this sort of promotional material might not be the best idea. If you're just looking to draw one-off visitors or fill your funnel, it might be fine.
For example, take the Moz blog—the vast majority of our posts aren't about Moz products at all, and when we do post about our own products and events, the posts are in addition to our regularly-scheduled, educational posts. Our blog has a large readership who are generally looking for information they can apply to their own marketing. If they saw posts that serve as little more than advertisements for our products, they'd have no reason to come back. Running the sort of content we run helps us keep our position as an industry thought leader, and keeps us front-of-mind when members of our community are in the market for tools like ours.
You note that property listings tend to draw a lot of clicks, but those clicks are coming from folks who are actively looking for property listings. Those types of visitors strike me as pretty likely to see the listing on your blog, consider whether they're interested, and then bounce along to the next search result. I don't see them sticking around to read and engage with your blog. If you're fine with that, go ahead. If you'd like your blog to be a knowledge source for your visitors, though, maybe leave the listings to the listings.
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RE: SEO Automatic Reports for Ourselves and Clients
Hi Henry! I'm going to give a member of our Help Team the chance to respond as well, but you can get started learning about some of the reports we have available here.
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RE: Need references to a company that can transition our 1000 page website from Http to Https without breaking our SEO backlinks and site structure
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for posting in Q&A! Just a heads-up, though—we actually don't allow job postings in this forum, as it's intended to be an educational resource. No worries, though.
I'm going to lock this thread to further responses. We have a list of companies we recommend, and I also suggest giving the job board at Inbound.org a try.
Thanks for understanding!
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RE: Instructables site - follow and nofollow
Hi Alex!
Honestly, this sounds like something you'd need to contact Instructables about. Unless someone here has pretty deep knowledge of their services, they're probably the only ones who'd know for sure.
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RE: Is it safe to add a Backlink on all pages on another website?
It depends. If you're adding a link to all pages, I'd imagine they all won't be especially relevant. Plus, you get severely diminishing returns for each additional backlink from one domain to another.
What are your goals for doing this?
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RE: Google search returns blog homepage, but not article
Hi STP_SEO! Any chance you can share the URL?
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RE: How do you optimize for online catalog PDFs in regards to Page load time?
Hi there, Full Media! Any way you can provide the info Everett is looking for?
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RE: Setting A Custom User Agent in Screaming Frog
Hi Malika! How'd it go? Did everything work out?
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RE: Create Page Titles from H1 using Yoast?
Hi Marketing_Today! Ever work this out?
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RE: Keyword rank and redirecting
Hi lkomontt76! Any update on this? Are you able to provide any examples so Kristina can look into it?
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RE: Hammered by Spam links
Hi Matt! Any update on this? Are you able to provide the information Ruth has asked for?
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RE: New Website & DA Score
Hi Kevin! I just want to confirm that DA is a link metric—it's almost entirely based on your backlink profile. The best way to bring it up is to build high-quality links.