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Yeh, the weird thing I am noticing is that the canonical tags are already present on this domain, and it's not picking up ALL of the pages with canonical as duplicates.

I'm not really sure what's going on, but when in doubt, I always Google the following query:

site:domain intext:block of text unique to that page

If there is a duplicate content issue, Google should tell you that by showing more than one result. If it shows only one, then Google is reading your code right.

I know we all love Moz and want them to show we have no errors on our sites, but at the end of the day... don't we really want Google to find no issues with our sites, not Moz?

1. I'm going to say it depends on the scenario. In real estate, or automotives, online auctions, retail, basically any industry that cycles through inventory with no guarantee that listing will return - I say it is good to do bulk redirects. Better to send your users to a page with closely related product offerings than a 404, right? Now, I wouldn't do all of them to the homepage or the highest level child. Instead, do them to the lowest level child folder.

So, for example, if your store no longer carries a certain product, but you do still sell products from the vendor... then redirect a URL like website.com/product-category/product-vendor/product-abc123 to /product-category/product-vendor/.

2. Did you keep any of the content from that old blog? I might suggest redirecting to a landing page with your most popular content related to the old product offering, and then also adding links to the replacement offering and its helpful content.

3. Similar to what I suggested in no. 1, I think I would redirect to the most relevant category page on the new blog. A custom 404 isn't a bad idea, either, but I think it's always best to avoid having any search engine log a 404.

In your report settings, did you include:

• All links
• All pages
• Pages on the root domain
• Show links ungrouped

As far as I know, this is the only way to get a full snapshot of the links indexed by OSE. If you site has multiple subdomains, you could then do a second pull of All links/All pages/Pages on the subdomain/Show links ungrouped to access all of those.

Personally, I would think its probably not worth much to have all pages because that would include internal links, too. But for the largest grab of links, you could include those to analyze your competitors internal link strategy.

Best of luck with this. But as far as I know, the above mentioned settings are the most robust way to view competitor links in OSE or anywhere else in the MOZiverse.

My guess is there are probably other factors causing their ranking over you. Keyword stuffing in divs is so 2001,,,

You can report them as RangeMaketing suggested, sure. I would review other on-page areas to see if there are ways you can improve on the basics. I would also see if there are any links passing link equity that you can acquire that match their profile. If your page is better across the board for SEO than theirs, you have more PA/DA, etc., you may want to consider getting some co-citations to appear as an equal to them PLUS your better on-page metrics.

Hope this helps.

Sounds to me like you only redirected homepage to homepage. Instead, you probably should have programmed the following into htaccess...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Of course, you will want to replace example.com and example.net with your old domain and new domain.

When you write it up in htaccess like I pasted above this way, you are doing an entire domain redirect. Source: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/redirects/setting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess

I have that page bookmarked for when I do SEO work through htaccess - maybe you should do the same :).

Hope this helps. Good luck!

SEMrush is nice - but it stops if a keyword ranks outside the top 20.

The best solution, IMHO, is to use Google Webmaster Tools. The 'search queries' area will have that information for you and show you deep results. Here's a URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

If you're new to it, you may need to wait a week or two for it to gather impression data for you. That, to me, would be the best solution for you.

PS - is this a trolling question?

I say optimize the internal page to an 'A', put a keyword rich text link from the homepage to that internal page in content, and get some co-citations for either your homepage or your internal page to match the link profile of that top ranking page.

And when that's done, add a reciprocal link from that internal page back to the homepage and see if you can get that bumped up in the SERPs, too.

Might work, might not. But it's worth a shot.

I'm noticing a similar issue for an online store I consult for. We added canonical tags to all product pages and category pages, and Moz doesn't appear to be correctly attributing them.

Are you using a Magento store by chance?

Depends on the date you submit and also how quickly you plan on doing the leg work to correct duplicates and other issues you will run into with your existing listings.

In my most recent experience, I think it was like 6 weeks.

If your clients DA is 100, it's probably hosted on a Wordpress subdomain (http://clientblog.wordpress.com/), right?

I would incorporate that blog into their existing site on their domain and work with WP to redirect if at all possible. In terms of theory, this is pretty easy to think about. Simply ask yourself (or your client)...

"If a potential customer is taking the time to read this piece of content you took X minutes/hours/days to write, where would you prefer they read it? On Wordpress.com, where they can easily find content on the same subject from 1000s of other writers? Or on your site, where they can learn more about only YOU and YOUR business?"

If they can't wrap their head around the virtual aspects of Wordpress.com vs. their own domain, give them a real world analogy.

• Compare Wordpress.com to them having a pop-up stand at a tradeshow for anything and everything available for sale in the world, then
• Compare their own domain to their physical brick and mortar store.

Where would they rather the potential customer engage with their brand? I think we can all come to an agreement on what the right choice is for that one.

I'm not saying it's a BAD IDEA to have a blog on Wordpress.com, but the content they write should probably be generalized about their industry and offer links back to their services where applicable. Their company-centric news and top content for generating traffic via SEO/inbound marketing should be hosted on their own domain.

Hope this helps.