There hasn't been any announcement to suggest otherwise... yet. But who knows. If they were to re-schedule it, they may not even announce it until Friday. Or even Saturday.
Posts made by Ria_
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RE: Index Update Release
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RE: How does Google treat special characters in titles?
I usually use commas as option separators, etc. But when pixel width is limited, sometimes the extra 3 or 4 characters comes in handy for things like Blue/Red/Black/White instead of Blue, Red, Black, White.
The specific example I had in mind in the OP (Awesome Product - OptionA/OptionB/OptionC available), I was actually thinking of a category page I'm working on and not a product (I realise now my choice of example title was confusing).
Originally, category structure was this:
Awesome Product
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OptionA
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Lots of products
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OptionB
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Lots of products
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OptionC
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Lots of products
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etc
But subcategories have been noticeably slipping over the past year, and I've attributed this down to the landing pages cannibalising each other. So I'm in the process of flattening the whole category and using filters to separate the different product options, and working on strengthening the main category page to accommodate all user search patterns. While drafting a new title for the category page to incorporate the deleted subcategories, I was just curious how Google treats the forward slashes as I'm usually a comma person too. And whether it makes a difference at all to Google.
**TL;DR: **I'll probably stick with the commas because it does look more readable for users, just wondering how Google reads characters like that and whether it extracts the separate keywords OptionA/OptionB/OptionC.
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How does Google treat special characters in titles?
Seems like a stupid question, but one that I never really gave much thought about before. How exactly does Google treat special characters in titles? Do they all get seen as spaces?
e.g. Does
Awesome Product - OptionA/OptionB/OptionC available
get seen the same way as
**Awesome Product - OptionA, OptionB, **OptionC available
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**Awesome Product - OptionA OptionB **OptionC available
? Or will Google see the first title as **OptionA/OptionB/OptionC **being a whole "keyword" due to there being no space between them? Like I've always just assumed that with apostrophised words will be seen as keyword s. And when using commas, there's always a space after the comma anyway. Are all "special characters" treated the same?
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RE: What affect do reviews have?
I've only had good experiences from this. It's an opportunity for user-generated content that keeps the page "fresh" (with natural usage of the products keywords) for Google. And the reviews themselves provide customers with a trust factor for the product which can encourage more sales on the page.
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RE: How do I track specific referral traffics journey through a website?
Not sure if this is what you're asking for...
But in Google Analytics, if you go to Behaviour Flow under Behaviour in the sidebar, then click the dropdown (by default should say Landing Page) and select Traffic Type, you can view the user journeys / behaviour flows via traffic type. (Or you can swap Traffic Type for Source and view user journey by specific referrals instead of the whole of your referral traffic.)
You can then click on "Referral" in the first column, and click "View only this segment".
This allows you to easily see patterns in how your referral traffic visitors are browsing the website. Which landing page they start on, where they click to next, how many people drop off on particular pages having come from a certain page (great for analysing user intent and whether the next page "fulfils" it or not) etc. You can click and drag horizontally to view all the stages in the behaviour flow, add more steps to see more pages...
Is that what you were after?
EDIT: My bad. Somebody beat me to it. That's what I get for multi-tasking and taking 20 mins to leave a reply -_-
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RE: Pagination & SEO
Usually with paginated pages, you will want to include rel="next/prev" in the link to tell Google that the link is going to the next page or previous page, but the content shown is part of the same group and not "different".
In Webmaster Tools, if you use URL parameters for pagination, you can also tell Google that the URL parameter is used for pagination and tell them what to do with that information. e.g. Let them decide what to do with it or just don't crawl it or whatever.
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RE: What is the best SEO tool for tracking local rankings
I've only ever used Moz Pro to track local rankings against local competitors, etc. I have nothing bad to say about it. I get everything I need. But then again, I've never used anything else.
What do other tools have for local rank tracking that Moz doesn't offer? (Genuine question. I'm curious what I may be missing out on.)
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RE: Webpage has bombed outside of Top 50 for search term in one week. What's the cause?
"two pages that I've managed to get ranking have ranked between 20 and 23 for the specific term. However, today on the email one of the pages for one search term has bombed out of the top 50 while the other page has remained unaffected."
Sometimes, if you have two pages that are ranking for the same search query it's not uncommon for Google to decide that only one of the pages needs to be presented to the user. If both are serving the same user intent then essentially Google may consider it (semantically) duplicate content, despite the fact that both pages may be worded differently, etc.
From my experience of having multiple pages ranking for the same keyword, the pages will keep battling it out in the SERPs bouncing up and down. One week, there'll be a cluster of 3 ranking terribly. The next week one will shoot up, while the other is nowhere to be seen. Personally I've found that Google seems to prefer it if there's only one page ranking for the term (it's an easier decision for Google to make and it won't get so confused which one to rank as more relevant to the query). By merging similar pages, I find that it ends up being stronger in Google as it's not having to compete in the SERPs with similar pages on your website.
I hope that helps at all, even if it's only from anecdotal evidence.
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RE: Is there a quick and easy way to check a website to see which outbound links open in the browser window and not in a new window?
If the <a></a><a>tag includes _target="blank" then the link will open in a new window/tab, if that helps at all.</a>
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RE: Can I redirect a link even if the link is still on the site
Although, depending on Craig's site structure, it could be a simple, one-time set up of the htaccess so all Link 2's 301 to the Link 1's.
For example, if when creating website.com/category1/product1, it also creates a duplicate page on /category2/product1, he could use regex so that all products under /category2/ redirect to the /category1/ product URL.
You're right that it's still not the most elegant of solutions, but it's a simple enough way to make sure users are where you want them to be without requiring any effort every time you create a new page - and it shouldn't upset Googlebot.
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RE: Competitor website
There's no way really to get an accurate insight into the referral traffic that your competitors' get without actually having access to their analytics. But you could probably get a good idea by taking a look at their link profile using Moz's Open Site Explorer and seeing which of the websites have high authority and user engagement, and make educated guesses from there which links get them the best traffic.
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RE: Can I redirect a link even if the link is still on the site
Redirecting the 2nd link would probably be the best option, in my opinion. If the 2nd link has an integral part of the site structure and navigation, but you don't want users (or Google) to access that duplicate page, I don't see how you could do it any other way if your client insists that the 2nd page has to be created.
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RE: Page title in Google search is defferent
This is extremely common. Are your competitors' titles in the search results displayed the same way? e.g. "Website: Page Title". If so, I'd bet that if you checked their source, Google would have changed it for them too. In which case, not sure if there's anything you could do about it. Google just seems to have preference for brand name first when it comes to some search queries where they deem the brand name more important to the user than the page title for that particular query.
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RE: Apparent Bot Queries and Impressions in Webmaster Tools
All well and good for Analytics data, but OP is referring to Webmaster Tools spam.
Any blog posts or solutions on Webmaster Tools / Search Console spam in Search Analytics?
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RE: How is Moz Page Authority Calculated?
Moz's page on what Page Authority is:
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RE: How can I target more similar keywords in the most effective way?
Considering the similarity in search intent, I think it would be a bad idea to produce multiple pages each targeting one of your keywords. I'd try and get them all on that one page, using different variants of the keywords on the single page and structure it into sections with headings that would be helpful for the user. If that one page is already ranking well for all three terms, it can easily just be improved. Rather than creating more pages and have them all competing against each other for the same keywords - and effectively sabotaging themselves.
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RE: Recommendation for keyword relevancy/density tool
How strange. I've never had any issues with it. Used it just now, and was fine :s
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RE: Apparent Bot Queries and Impressions in Webmaster Tools
This is becoming disgustingly common.
The only thing I can suggest though is to Filter Queries Not Containing "privacy: your email address will not be shared" (or whatever) to get all those search queries removed temporarily from your Search Analytics. But it's a nuisance to have to do it every time...
As for preventing it in the first place, I'm not sure what you can do. The spam isn't targeting your website, it's targeting a search query. I don't know what you could do really to prevent being indexed for a particular search query.... What's your average position for these weird queries anyway?
Really interested to see if anyone can provide an actual solution to this.
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RE: How are these links being displayed?
You'd use alt text on an image link, but not text. Alt text is the text that would display instead of the image if the image isn't shown for whatever reason (e.g. for the visually impaired or for those who prefer to browse text-only). Title text is the text that displays when you hover over something. You can use it in addition to the alt text, but it would be the title that displays when you hover over the image.
I'm sure all three (alt, title and anchor text) help Google to learn what a link is all about.
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RE: How are these links being displayed?
I'm sure there are a few little bits and bobs that could help to encourage which pages to show as sitelinks in Google. Do you mean title text instead of alt text (the text that shows when you hover over a link)? Adding that, as well as having your main links in the website's main navigation and these pages being higher in the site structure would probably help. (But, from my experience, lack of title text for the link wouldn't prevent Google from showing the page as a sitelink) But really, with a little bit of time and patience (and everything else), they should start showing naturally regardless.
Good luck!
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RE: How are these links being displayed?
Unfortunately, there is no way to mark up your website to display sitelinks in search results. Google will only display them for reputable websites if they think that these additional links to pages within your website are useful to the user's search query. Can't really do anything else, I'm afraid. Apart from demote pages in Search Console that you don't want to appear as a sitelink. Other than that, sitelinks are a little out of our control....
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RE: Different meta tags appearing in SERP for same landing page
As always, Google thinks it knows best. What's new? lol
Good luck!
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RE: Different meta tags appearing in SERP for same landing page
This is quite common when Google feels that the specified title and meta description isn't as relevant to the search query (or if they feel that your title and meta description is misleading and irrelevant to the page content). So although it might show your title and meta description for the majority of search queries, they might decide that they can do better and provide a more relevant title and meta description based on the user's search query. Unfortunately when it comes to this, you can't win them all. The important thing is to make sure that your title is optimised and relevant to the content that's on the page as much as possible, and that your meta description is both enticing to the user and also relevant to the content of the page. I've found that, although Google no longer use the meta description as a ranking factor, it's still important to get a couple of your page's keywords in there just to prove relevance.
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RE: Fetch as Google
As a frequent user of Fetch as Google, it's handy to get some pages indexed as quickly as possible into Google or to update how Google is seeing a page. I've seen absolutely no negative effects from speeding up the indexation process like this, but there is a monthly limit. (But, unless you're going HAM on it, you'll likely never reach this.)
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RE: Meta Descriptions - Does Cutt's comment still hold true?
I'd rather have as much control as possible over how my result is displayed in the SERPs. I think if you make your meta description relevant enough to your page that Google doesn't consider it not as good as theirs (at least for the more obvious queries. Can't please all those longtails), then you can use the description to really sell the page to the searcher.
I think Matt's saying though that it's better to specify no meta description at all than use duplicate descriptions across multiple pages.
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RE: Blog - subdomain vs. subfolderq
I'd personally recommend subdirectory. Google tends to see subdomains as being separate websites so, as you said, it's harder to build up authority to a subdomain blog.
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RE: Google Analytics SEO Queries Not Showing
Maybe something to do with this:
Google are apparently working to fix the bug in Search Console with Search Analytics data, which would affect Google Analytics.
"An Update on the Search Analytics report in Google Search console
Data have been missing in Search Analytics since November 12th.
The team is aware of it and currently working on a fix.
It should be back to normal by the end of the week."
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RE: Google Analytics SEO Queries Not Showing
If you're seeing (not set), I suspect this might be the explanation:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-analytics-seo-report-not-set-is-not-a-bug-21102.html
"In Search Analytics if you look at the numbers of the queries that you see there, you will sometimes see that we show a top aggregated, maybe a hundred queries, and in a table below if you add the numbers together, you might see 70 queries or something like that.
And the difference there is essentially queries that we filter out, and in Search Console we don’t show them separately and in Google Analytics they chose to call them Not Set.
So that is what you are seeing there, not something completely different, its not showing the difference that you’d have to calculate yourself."
Unless, they've changed things up again.
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RE: Has anyone seen a recent drop in Page Authority?
There have been many people this week reporting huge drops and fluctuations in their websites' DA and PA. This has been put down to the recent updates with Mozscape and how it is calculated. Rand explains it quite well in this post: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores
Any drops in DA and PA don't necessarily mean that your website and/or link profile has decreased in quality. Which is why it's always recommended to compare your DA/PA metrics against your competitors rather than against your own website's historical metrics to get a more accurate view of how DA and PA updates are affecting you.
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RE: How can I run a refresh in open site explorer?
Unfortunately you'll have to wait for the next Mozscape update to see the effects of your changes in Open Site Explorer.
Next update is scheduled for 9th December.
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RE: Domain Authority
Check out Rand's explanation of the huge fluctuations in DA/PA this month (https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores). He explains it rather nicely.
Always best to compare your DA score against your competitors', rather than against your historical scores alone. Causes less panic too! But yeah, it seems many websites are reporting huge drops in DA. Doesn't necessarily mean that your website quality/authority has decreased since last update.
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RE: How unsubscribe to Moz
From the Billing & Subscription page (https://moz.com/subscriptions), on your Subscription Summary, you should see a list of "Subscriptions you manage".
On that page for each subscription, you have the options to "Manage Seats", "View & Change Plan" and "Cancel Subscription".
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RE: How to rank highly without much content?
If trusted websites are linking to that page, the anchor text used to link to that page is a huge signal to Google that that page is relevant to those keywords being used in the anchor text. So Google will start to rank that page higher for those keywords, sometimes despite those keywords not even making a single appearance on the page.
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RE: Multiple keyword optimisation
Just get those keywords you're trying to rank for somewhere naturally on the page - within the text, headings, alt text, etc. So long as doesn't look keyword-stuffed.
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RE: DA/PA Fluctuations: How to Interpret, Apply, & Understand These ML-Based Scores
This answers sooo many of my questions. Thanks, Rand!
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RE: New Mozscape index released! Learn just what's been going on.
Just when you start automatically expecting Mozscape update to be delayed... The new index gets released early! Thanks, guys!
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RE: Categories VS Tag Duplicate Content
I would suggest noindexing these tag pages so that they don't appear in Google and therefore pose no duplicate content issues with Google. Bit of pet peeve of mine to have tag pages being indexed... though they're great for on-site navigation!
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RE: Blog Page Titles - Page 1, Page 2 etc.
But if pages 2/3/etc are displaying duplicate content from your actual blog posts, then why would you want the paginated pages indexed by Google?
Ask yourself: what do I expect people to Google to land on page 2 of my blog, and would I rather they land on a blog post instead? If the pages 2/3/etc provide no value to searchers and only serve as navigation for users, why confuse Google by keeping them indexed?
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RE: Google is simplifying my meta titles. What does it mean?
If your title is relevant to the query searched, then it could be down to a number of reasons e.g. Your title is too long, too spammy, irrelevant to the actual content of the page, etc.
It's difficult to say really without seeing the page and comparing it to Google's preferred title.
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RE: Duplicate content
It's definitely worth asking about that canonical link. If they are nice, they'll add it - and I've personally been lucky with that before. If they were "nice" enough to credit you for the blog post and link to the original source, then they should be fine with adding it.
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RE: Multiseat account access to a single campaign
This is apparently on Moz's "To Do List", due to the high number of requests they've received for this feature. Multiseat is still a super new feature, so I expect (hopefully!) with time more multiseat settings will be made available. But they have stated that multiseat permissions on a campaign-by-campaign basis is something that they are working on.
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RE: Internal Duplicate Content Question...
Check out Siteliner. I've never tried it with a site that big, personally. But it's free, so worth a shot to see what you can get out of it.
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RE: Domain Authority Not Updating?
@Moz has tweeted back on the matter saying "The update is live, but it has not rolled out across all campaigns yet. That process takes hours."
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RE: When is it wrong to use a competitors brand name?
In terms of a Google penalty, you have nothing to worry about.
However if you are providing false information about the competitor or writing negatively about them, I'd be more concerned about their response rather than Google's. If not, no worries!
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RE: Blog Page Titles - Page 1, Page 2 etc.
This shouldn't be too much of an issue at all really.
My recommendation would be to noindex these /page/2 etc pages if you're using Wordpress. Various Wordpress plugins are available that allow you to do this easily. My favourite is Yoast SEO - you can noindex those pages and tag pages too. If you use tags, this would be more of an SEO concern than the paginated pages.
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RE: Domain Authority Not Updating?
According to https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/ it has already been updated on 15th October, with next update due 15th November.
EDIT: Though the OSE homepage and Mozscape Updates log (https://moz.com/products/api/updates) says that it has been updated, I'm finding now too that all my campaigns' DAs are unchanged and still displaying same +/- stats as before. Testing different URLs on OSE too, doesn't seem as if any DA or PA has changed since August update.
Would be great for a Mozzer to let us know what's actually going on here...
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RE: No links from Pinterest, wordpress, yahoo, etc.
Probably worth mentioning too that Mozscape doesn't update that often. So if the links are quite new, you may have to wait until at least the next update to see them in your link analysis. It can be like 2 months in between updates.... Basically if they say next update is mid-September, it'll come mid-October. But yeah, take Moz's link analysis with a pinch of salt and use in combination with other tools. I find ones that Moz picks up that others don't too so.
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RE: What's brewing on YouMoz? (And how you can Help)
In my opinion, a good blog post would cover all four of those formats. Maybe even in that order.
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RE: Substantial position drop? - Urgent
Difficult really unless you already use something to track your keyword positions, such as Moz Pro or SEMrush.