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We have a campaign set up that is tracking keywords with varying monthly volumes and the website is ranking for them.

I have gone into the new Keyword Explorer Feature (looks great!) and I have tested it by putting in the root domain address mentioned above.

My problem is that none of the keywords that I am tracking and ranking for are appearing in the "ranking keywords" report in Keyword Explorer.

Does anybody know why this might be happening?

A client which is part of a group of businesses all within one industry but have different purposes has come to us aith a "brilliant idea" that they all have a blog on their website that links to every business within their group.  We are pretty sure that this will be seen as "black hat" by Google, but just wanted to see what you all thought?  Thanks!

As a web agency we have some of our client sites linking back to us from their footer to show who built the site as is common practice in our industry. This seems to work fine for us generating both referral traffic and we think some help with rankings.

Google recently said that reciprocal links do cancel each other out of any benefit which gives us a dilemma for when we want to link to a website as a case study on our own website. Normally we use nofollow on the link but is that enough? I'd rather have the inbound link benefit than provide a link to the website!

Thanks for that James, I've checked WMT and we have no manual penalty notices.

I'll definitely carry out an link audit, thanks for those resources.

Hi

I'm in need of some advice, one of our clients has had a very sudden and dramatic decline in rankings. On the week commencing 20th Jan, 23 of our keywords declined from pages 1, 2 and 3 of Google out of the top 50. We haven't been carrying out any bad practice SEO, just some on page optimisation so that we achieve A grades with the Moz tool. We have also built 4-5 links in the past 3 months with quality and relevant sites such as biz crowd and industry relevant blogs so I don't see why this would be a problem.

I noticed on the Moz Cast that there was some increased algorithm activity on 23rd and 26th Jan which would correlate with this decline in rankings, but our other SEO clients seem to be unaffected - I'd be interested to see if anyone else has been affected by this?

I welcome any advice or further insight on this.

Thanks in advance.

Hi

At the moment I am doing this manually through Moz by going to the keyword and seeing what urls are ranking for it.

I was just wondering whether I am missing a trick on moz or any other programs that would send me an alert every time a page that is ranking suddenly drops out?

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone confirm if this will have an impact on the traffic data showing in Moz? I'm assuming that the data is coming from the Google Analytics data and will therefore be affected in the same way?

Seems they are now back! I hope they are to stay....

Since the change to Moz we have noticed that the weekly summary emails do not show the 'most changed keyword rankings' table.

We found these extremely helpful and would be disappointed to see these go.

Are these going to make a come back?

We are currently trying to find the best way of making the images on one of our sites more SEO friendly, the easiest way for us would be to redirect the image URL to a more SEO friendly image URL.

For example:

http://www.website.com/default/cache/file/F8325DA-0A9A-437F-B5D0A4255A066261_medium.jpg

redirects to

http://www.website.com/default/cache/file/spiral-staircase.jpg

Would Google frown upon this as it's saying the image is one thing and then points the user somewhere else?