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Damn. I have been proven wrong. Apologies!

In Analytics (Audience/Mobile/Overview) it shows 3 Device Categories: Desktops, Mobile (phones) and Tablets. This is true but when you look at Audience/Mobile/Devices, the column Mobile Device Info shows all tablets and mobile phones grouped together (!)

Also in Adwords - when you write an ad copy for mobile (devices) it will be shown on both mobile phones and tablets, ad copy for desktops will be shown on desktops and laptops.

WMT doesn't distinguish between tablets and mobile phones at all, they are all mobile devices.

This is what I meant by grouping them together, not that you can turn on reporting for each device category separately. You could turn on reporting for pretty much anything you want in Analytics so this is really not an argument.

I'm pretty certain (99.9%) this is the case Andy and you should make sure both mobile phone and tablet versions of your site are prepared before 21st April.

Monica tablets ARE mobile devices! Tablets and mobile phones use the same mobile operating systems and mobile versions of browsers. Also all their tools including Adwords, Analytics and WMT put tablets and mobile phones in the same group - mobile devices so I can't see any reason why they would treat them differently (and have different sets of search results for each?? perhaps I'm wrong but it makes no sense to me!).

I admit I also believe this update will affect desktop search results to some degree but Google certainly claims otherwise. We will just have to wait and see.

Tablets and mobile phones are both mobile devices and this update will affect them both. What Rand and Barry are discussing on Twitter is whether it will also affect desktop results, so nothing to do with tablets.

It's because both your homepage and that particular category page are targetting the same keywords and are competing with each other in search results. It's rather rare that category outranks the homepage but it's not impossible. This category page has a lot more text content but also images to sub categories etc Google obviously sees it as more relevant to the search queery/keyword.

I would suggest looking at the homepage if it could be reoptimised for other maybe broader keywords to gain some extra benefits.

Well something is running search queries from your machine or network. Moz does not operate from your computer/network but from their own servers in the US and it will never affect your machine, its physically impossible. You need to find the issue on your machine, and I would start with investigating the browser environment first - plugins, addons, running fresh instances of the browser as Ryan explained above and if it doesn't help moving on to other software you have installed on this machine. You will find it eventually... Good luck

If I was a betting man I would bet £10 you haven't set the campaign correctly. Anyway rather than asking questions here, you should contact the support directly starting here: https://moz.com/help/contact

Max I think you are confusing a lot of things, let me clarify...

1. Moz is a tool that scans internet to give you weekly rankings for the keywords you are interested in. It also gives you valuable tips on how to better optimise your pages according to guidelines. Nothing more!
How these pages will rank is down to a large number of factors and quality of your competition.

2. You have to come up with plans and ideas on how to make the most out of the information provided by Moz to your benefit, or hire an SEO specialist to do it for you, because it is nearly always unique to company/niche/industry.

Now to answer some of your questions:

Does is matter how many keywords I am doing research for? No

Does is matter how many keywords I try to optimise for each webpage? Yes. 1 subject per page (but that can and should mean a variation of keywords related to that subject)

Are the amount of branded keywords I am researching skewing my results? As they are all ranked #1, but nearly all of the non branded keywords are much further down the list... Your researching has nothing to do with their rankings.

Once I have decided what keywords are worth trying to ranking for for each page, are the techniques to actually rank more highly for them - Title, H1 Tag, Description, Meta Data, Fresh Content and using the keywords on the page? Or are there more techniques I haven't heard of? There is on page optimisation and there are other seo techniques like link building, you need to read about it.

Under Keyword Rankings - I noticded that some of my keywords are directing to specific pages, like "Cavity Waxes" is directing to the URL ending in .com/cavity-waxes - How do you assign the keywords im researching to specific URLs? - Or does Moz do it automatically? As most of my keywords seem to be unassigned to any URL, is that because they are not ranking highly enough? Moz only shows you what pages are ranking in the first 5 pages of results in Google for each of your keywords

Yes you do. If there are spammy links built to your site, you are likely to get a Penguin penalty at some point and that is a pain to recover from, so you want to be pro-active and minimise the risk of it happening by disavowing these links and also by removing them altogether if possible.

This is a video where Matt Cutts answers your question - http://youtu.be/eFJZXpnsRsc

using doorway pages to spam the search results and gain higher rankings is certainly against the rules and google shouldn't have any problems finding it and punishing them.

if you want to take matters in your own hands however, you can report them here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en

Add this line to your robots.txt to prevent google from indexing these pages:

Disallow: /*login?

Well something is running search queries from your machine or network. Moz does not operate from your computer/network but from their own servers in the US and it will never affect your machine, its physically impossible. You need to find the issue on your machine, and I would start with investigating the browser environment first - plugins, addons, running fresh instances of the browser as Ryan explained above and if it doesn't help moving on to other software you have installed on this machine. You will find it eventually... Good luck

Collapsible divs use jquery which is a javascript. I don't think the rankings drop has got anything to do with it, unless there is an error which prevents cralwrs to access the text content. Fetch and render the page in WMT to see if there are problems.

Always disavow to show you are being proactive and have good intentions. If you don't you might get a manual penalty that will wipe your site off the index completely.

The problem here is not really what to do with the links but how to stop them appearing as I would imagine every month there will be more of them appearing on similar sites. You have to find hosting companies of these sites and take it with them, reporting violation, asking to take these sites down, tracing the person/company who built them, threatening to sue...

Good luck

Max I think you are confusing a lot of things, let me clarify...

1. Moz is a tool that scans internet to give you weekly rankings for the keywords you are interested in. It also gives you valuable tips on how to better optimise your pages according to guidelines. Nothing more!
How these pages will rank is down to a large number of factors and quality of your competition.

2. You have to come up with plans and ideas on how to make the most out of the information provided by Moz to your benefit, or hire an SEO specialist to do it for you, because it is nearly always unique to company/niche/industry.

Now to answer some of your questions:

Does is matter how many keywords I am doing research for? No

Does is matter how many keywords I try to optimise for each webpage? Yes. 1 subject per page (but that can and should mean a variation of keywords related to that subject)

Are the amount of branded keywords I am researching skewing my results? As they are all ranked #1, but nearly all of the non branded keywords are much further down the list... Your researching has nothing to do with their rankings.

Once I have decided what keywords are worth trying to ranking for for each page, are the techniques to actually rank more highly for them - Title, H1 Tag, Description, Meta Data, Fresh Content and using the keywords on the page? Or are there more techniques I haven't heard of? There is on page optimisation and there are other seo techniques like link building, you need to read about it.

Under Keyword Rankings - I noticded that some of my keywords are directing to specific pages, like "Cavity Waxes" is directing to the URL ending in .com/cavity-waxes - How do you assign the keywords im researching to specific URLs? - Or does Moz do it automatically? As most of my keywords seem to be unassigned to any URL, is that because they are not ranking highly enough? Moz only shows you what pages are ranking in the first 5 pages of results in Google for each of your keywords

Hi Dan,

I have just clicked on the link you provided

Since the new Penguin is still rolling out and most ranking changes are at the moment down to this algo refresh I would suggest looking at your link profile for a start and if there is nothing wrong there, simply wait a couple of weeks until the refresh has officially finished and take it from there...

You need to mark them up as different languages en-gb, en-us, en-au, and use rel=alternate tag. Everything is explained here:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6059209?hl=en&ref_topic=6059248

There is nothing you can do now. You have made a mistake and fixed it. Since then you have submitted a sitemap, "fetched" the site and redirected non-www traffic to www in your htaccess... There are no other ways to speed the process up. Just sit and wait for Google crawler to fully re-crawl the site and the number of indexed pages will come back to what it was.

You said all rankings disappeared in Moz Tracker, but what about the actual rankings in Google search results? Have you checked that? What are WMT and GA saying about your rankings/traffic?

My gut feeling tells me your pages are still ranking as they were, but since your WMT was still set to show data for www domain you weren't seeing any... am I correct?

click on it and look at the list of issues - are there any javascripts blocked, unreachable etc.? is the preview complete or elements are missing? is render of this particular page (that lost rankings) different to other pages on your website? talk to your web developers about this and get them to fix any issues there. If there are no issues then the reason for your loss of rankings is somewhere else

the cache version might still be of the page before they did changes to it Mick