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RE: Two of Four Google Analytics Views Not Showing Data
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RE: Moz Tool Bar Annoyance - How do I make the green keyword difficulty box go away?
Glad the reinstall got it working for you.
There's always the API route too for more custom needs. I'm a long time user as well but can get why they alter tools to display more of their toolset. It's likely a tested value-add for many and newer subscribers. Cheers!
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RE: February Monthly Reports
They're generally updated on Thursday's so you should see it available on the 5th. What you can do in your Analytics though is click on the link "About Your Data" in the top right corner and get the dates and information for your account. Cheers!
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RE: Pages are Indexed but not Cached by Google. Why?
The type of URL you posted will deliver a 404 from Google because they use a session code after the "cache:" parameter. If you go to their site and run a search result then select the down arrow to open up the "Cached" and "Similar" menu you should be able to click through and see their cahced result. After doing so, you'll notice some code like ":l8wcNgU5elwJ:" before your URL. With this it works, delete it and you get a 404.
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RE: Wow, does a website's hosting company have that much affect on SEO?
Even though the hosting was changed, a lot of other factors could be coming into play: age of the site, freshness from republishing, increase in organic search terms, branding lift and others... Those things separately or in aggregate could account for the 26% lift.
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RE: Is googlebot the slowest bot?
Hi Alan,
Are you still pushing Google News tagged XML sitemaps when publishing articles as well? Looking at the ones currently on your site I don't see any new ones referenced since October 2014. And it looks like there's a lot of current mapping that could be updated.In general the site seems a little low in the loop of the major news cycle and would have a lower crawl/index priority on big stories behind the CNNs, Foxs, and Yahoos of the world.
It also doesn't seem to be in the Google News index: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anewsblaze.com#hl=en&tbm=nws&q=wolf+of+wall+street+site:newsblaze.com
Google's Guideline to Google News Publisher inclusion is straightforward, and fairly thorough. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40787?hl=en If you get included via those means, you should see your news articles appearing very quickly.
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RE: Duplicate page found with MOZ crawl test?
Hi Rhonda. Google has a nice article on this very subject here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html The main point is that it's a best practice to choose one or the other format for your locations. From the article:
You can do a quick check on your site to see if the URLs:
http://<your-domain-here>/<some-directory-here>/
(with trailing slash)
http://<your-domain-here>/ <some-directory-here>(no trailing slash)
don’t both return a 200 response code, but that one version redirects to the other.</some-directory-here></your-domain-here></some-directory-here></your-domain-here>If only one version can be returned (i.e., the other redirects to it), that’s great! This behavior is beneficial because it reduces duplicate content. In the particular case of redirects to trailing slash URLs, our search results will likely show the version of the URL with the 200 response code (most often the trailing slash URL) -- regardless of whether the redirect was a 301 or 302.
A 301 redirect is best as it should be the permanent structure of your site moving forward. Cheers!
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RE: I have removed a subdomain from my main domain. We have stopped the subdomain completely. However the crawl still shows the error for that sub-domain. How to remove the same from crawl reports.
Patrick's answer gives you a great check list. I'd only add that you within Moz Analytics you can customize the crawler to only report on a certain portion of the site if problems still arise in displaying your data. Still, by using 301 redirection from the old subdomain to new location, cleaning up any old referencing links, and blocking further indexation you should see the errors disappear. Cheers!
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RE: Pages are Indexed but not Cached by Google. Why?
The "site:" operator isn't as precise as what you'll find in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) and doesn't return each and every page for a site Google has indexed for a few reasons. One reason, Google is preventing people without private access to the site from seeing each and every page it indexes for a site to keep that data from being scraped publicly. In your case, that's good if your competitor is running similar searches like you're doing now in the attempt to copy your site. Instead Google gives you that information privately via GWT.
The same goes for cached pages. The overarching reason is that it's about preventing over exposure publicly both in how Google operates and how a site is constructed. Ultimately you'll have to trust GWT and your own site's server records more than what you can find searching Google as an average user.
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RE: On-page SEO opinion on this Wordpress theme
My hunch is that it wouldn't perform as well against a site with a static menu and more information readily available. Graphically it's nice, but it's being marketed towards that sector: fashion, photography, art. Maybe you could theme his gallery section that way... and stick with an easier to navigate one around it.
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RE: Remove new Knowlage graph overlay
I've seen it disappear when using a Google from a different country, google.com.mx or google.ca for example... Neither of these make the searches more generic however.
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RE: Can I track user journeys from a particular source?
Hi Ralph. You should be able to accomplish this with Event Tracking in GA. See: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html
From that page:
"In Event Tracking, each interaction with a tracked web page object is counted, and each interaction is associated with a given user session. In the reports, Total Events are calculated as the total number of interactions with a tracked web page object. On the other hand, where a single user session (or visit) has one or more events, this is calculated as a single Visit w/Event, or Unique Event in the reports.
For example, if one user clicks the same button on a video 5 times, the total number of events associated with the video is 5, and the number of unique events is 1."
Hope that helps.
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RE: 404 errors galore
It sounds like your best bet is going to be digging up some analytics from your old site, finding common URL patterns, and redirecting them more thoroughly via rewrite rules. A clever use of sorting in a spreadsheet can make this task go by much quicker, and if you have some key pages on the new site where you feel entire clusters of old pages can redirect that will help too as you're not redirecting one to one. It would also help to tag the new site's applicable pages with rel=canonical. Lastly, you can apply a nocache tag to the pages on your old site, althugh they should be flushing out fairly soon. Those are the general recs. There is a certain amount of time involved in the process, and it's not a strict number of days/hours/minutes.
Oh, for your 404 page (http://www.structural.net/;flkajhsdlfg) I'd recommend making it a lot more functional, especially since you're expecting a lot of 404 traffic in this current process. Check out Apple's for an example (http://www.apple.com/lkjsfdawe) and this blog post for more ideas: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/personalizing-your-404-error-pages (an oldie, but goodie.)
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RE: SEO strategy for conversion-optimised home page
I think one of the best takeaways from Rand's work with Conversion Rate Experts is the understanding Rand got from talking about his services in person and how well such conversations "converted" versus how Moz was talking about what it did and offered on the site. For your specific case the solution is probably somewhat similar, how would you first describe and introduce your product (home page, very well crafted) and then how you would address specific examples and use cases (blog post, referencing your core service) or other pages.
Home pages can often rank for a robust set of terms so you might be alright in ranking with the smaller site format, still spend the time going through your Analytics carefully to see what pages you should keep and redesign versus what pages you could most likely redirect to the higher converting new ones. Also, test test test. Make sure you're making improvements with the changes you're making. Optimizely should be able to help you in that regard: https://www.optimizely.com/statistics
If you're very local, spending time seeing how your referrals and leads arrive via sites like Yelp, Google Local and others would be good too. It sounds like you're on the right track though and just need to tie things together with Analytics.
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RE: Site structure and Visual Sitemaps
Power Mapper is another one with several visual options: http://www.powermapper.com/products/mapper/maps/visual-sitemaps.htm
http://slickplan.com also has some visual options.
Another useful visualization is to run some Analytics reports in the same was as you would say the skyscraper format in Power Mapper using pageviews by pages in site content. That way you can visualize which pages are most popular. You can do the same via search visitors as well. Cheers!
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RE: Hi guys, I have a question about linking to a product page for linkbuilding. Does that count adversely vs. linking to a homepage?
For internal linking you should try to be as precise as possible. You can also freely control the anchor text of the links so if you're talking about a specific product, link to that specific product. Google has enough data to know when you link to a page and the content it should be finding is not there (as may be the case with some of your home page links). I would clean up any and all internal links that don't point to the best page, either deleting ones that just don't apply or pointing them to very specific products.
With external links it can vary. A lot of times people link to the home page when mentioning the company, while some sites garner a lot of product specific links (eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, etc.) due to the nature of their content. Wikipedia would be another example. Using OSE you can find some great ideas around how the competition has built links, but also some really spammy examples. Avoid the spam and make it a goal that when you do add a link to a page or work with someone interested in linking to your site, that the link is as user helpful as possible. Think of the link or mention from a conversion perspective more than as a way to help your rankings and you'll be much better off. Cheers!
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RE: How to set an appropriate Adwords max CPC?
Totally. Sorry if I sounded too generic but it's always difficult to figure out the back story on someone's question. It sounds like you're doing all the right things. You're likely doing location specific and day parting as well where applicable.
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RE: What's the oldest "blank" on the Internet?
Here's a back story on the oldest Networked email: http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
According to Wikipedia and itself, http://symbolics.com/ was the first registered .com domain name and is still active.
Someone could argue that the oldest active link is a telegraph line that's still hung and running somewhere, but DNS in general would be a better, and more precise still the invention of HTML during 1990-93 with anchors.
Tim Berners-Lee's HTML editor screen shot: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/tims_editor
And HTML in general: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
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RE: Pages are Indexed but not Cached by Google. Why?
I would caution against creating a tool to do what you're describing as you might end up violating Google's terms of use. Instead, use a dedicated tool for monitoring rankings--like Moz's pro feature set--around a specific set of keywords that have value for you instead of each and every page on your site. Chasing after the immediate effect of ranking and changes is akin to trying to precisely unravel Google's ranking algorithm, something Google very much doesn't want you to do. Instead look at past performance of content (analytics, server logs, etc.) and whether or not it improves after changes. The improvement is also subjective. Maybe you get less users and sessions, but much higher conversions...
Within GWT you're going to want to look at Index Status https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/index-status? and compare it with the number of pages in your sitemap(s). This most likely isn't going to be an exact match as Google at times limits the amount it caches and indexes a site based on its own determination of page worthiness (high percentage of the page is duplicate content for example). So look for a decent percentage of indexation versus exacting numbers. Also, having pages that perform really well for you indexed and ranking well is more important that 100 that don't.
Ultimately the more precisely you try to deconstruct Google the more difficult things will be. Take old Ben's advice, "Let go..."
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RE: Self-Referrals
Hi John. You can also exclude by domain within Analytics. See: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830
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RE: Google's Mobile Update: What We Know So Far (Updated 3/25)
Excellent resource Dr. Pete. Thanks for this. It'll be a likely place to link back to in the weeks to come. Are there any twitter accounts or other reliably updated sources to reference people too as well as the date approaches and passes?
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RE: First click free
This is mostly a Google News implementation as discussed here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543, and could be tricky to make effective within real estate listings. Is your coverage of the market so complete that people have to view your site? Or could they easily find an alternative?
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RE: Going to Mozcon - what to do in Seattle
Hey Andy. Seattle is great. I bet a bunch of mozzers could chime in on this one as they're there every day, but some other things to do: take a "duck" ride, go on a brewery tour, check out Pike Place Market... those are all classic Seattle activities.
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RE: Pagination and View All Pages Question. We currently don't have a canonical tag pointing to View all as I don't believe it's a good user experience so how best we deal with this.
Hi Peter. It looks like the view all option is a parameter just as the page select ones are, i.e.
root: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access
vs: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access/page:2
vs: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access/limit:9999 (view all)In my opinion the page to set as canonical would be the first one: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access if you decide to do anything as Google's first suggestion from their guide is, "Do nothing."
Still, setting the root as canonical could help with links though if you get users linking to pages further down the list, per their guide on that: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
"Consolidating link signals for the duplicate or similar content. It helps search engines to be able to consolidate the information they have for the individual URLs (such as links to them) on a single, preferred URL. This means that links from other sites to
http://example.com/dresses/cocktail?gclid=ABCD
get consolidated with links tohttp://www.example.com/dresses/green/greendress.html
."Cheers!
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RE: 2 businesses same phone number
I agree with Miriam and give a thumbs up to her thorough response. I would only add that not having an additional number for the separate business is pretty inexcusable. With Skype, Anveo, or any other myriad of VOIP and cell options, getting another number is a dirt cheap cost for someone running a legitimate business. Plus the value it adds for the business should more than cover the $50 or so they'd spend yearly. If they still want the number to ring to the same line, the could just set up call forwarding on the new number... Again, all that should cost less than $100 a year and probably be even cheaper than that. Best of luck!
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RE: Google's Mobile Update: What We Know So Far (Updated 3/25)
Excellent. Was thinking of Barry too when I first saw your update. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot chatter and some wild MozCast weather in April...
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RE: Ideas on multi layered conversion opportunities
Hi Christopher. There are quite a few of these depending on what it is you're selling. Things like SaaS providers who are providing a managed service for an entire enterprise typically have a very robust sales process but within analytics they'll do things like associating goal values with watching a video, downloading a PDF, attending a webinar, number of pages on the site visited, and so on. All these actions get tallied into a score that is associated with the lead and best case recorded into the CRM so that sales has an understanding of which leads are closer to purchase than others or how qualified a new lead might be.
Avinash Kaushik also goes into great detail on this in several places on his blog. Here's one such example: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/web-analytics-tips-identify-website-goal-values/ You'll hear these called goal values, micro conversions, lead attribution (in the context of valuing multi-channel work), and so on. Basically it's everything that isn't a sale in the classic sense, but could be associated with a value in terms of "free" marketing, engagement, life-time-value, and so on. Sales are often included in the full model as well, but nearly any business starts out tracking those. Hope this helps your study further. Cheers!
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RE: Duplicate versions of pages on my site are getting indexed by Google...I think...
Just to add, you won't have to worry about translated versions of your pages, as Google considers the same content in different languages unique. For example, you could have an English version and a Spanish version of the same page and both would be unique content. Also something to consider, Google Analytics displays 100% bounce rate for any visit that only views one page and if you'd like to get more insight into if visitors are loading videos, using Java, or downloading files in those views you'll want to incorporate event tracking: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55597
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RE: Pages are Indexed but not Cached by Google. Why?
Yeup! Indexing time varies. You'll be able to tell the time between crawl and indexation by when Google shows your page version B in it's cache after you made changes from A, so if the 'example.html' page is already in Google's index you'll see this:
You make changes on a page, example.html (version A is now version B)Google crawls example.html (version B)
You check Google to see if example.html is version A or B in the cache
no?
no?
no?
no?
yes. That's how long it takes.OR, you make a new page. It gets crawled. Checking if it's indexed... no, no, no, no, yes?! That's how long it takes.
Again, this time period varies and having a site with excellent domain strength and trust usually makes it a shorter time period. It also tends to influence how many pages Google decides to keep in its index or show to users. Pretty much everything gets better for a site the stronger its domain authority and trust are.
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RE: Is eLocal a scam or legitimate directory for local SEO?
They've been discussed in the past here: http://moz.com/community/q/is-it-okay-to-use-elocal-services, and Kristy's thorough answer at the time still rings true, "There is nothing blackhat about using a citation building service like eLocal, Yext, etc. Rather, there are other considerations that need to be taken into account in determining whether this is the right move for you." And I agree with her. It seems like you've got a handle on your site's listings and they wouldn't bring much additional value to the work you're already doing.
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RE: Flux in Bing/Yahoo search rankings?
I haven't seen this Ben. And you're still doing fine in Google? Have you checked Google Trends in relation to your content? Did your robots.txt file change? Is your site in Bing Webmaster Sites? https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ Just a few of the things to check on. Cheers!
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RE: Goal Tracking WIth Optimizely
Looks like you're missing 'http:' before '//my...'" right at the beginning of that.
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RE: SEO Implications For a Technical Functionality Fix
Hi Darren. If you can, you could also consider migrating the entire site to HTTPS and using the 301 redirect. Otherwise a 302 would be more applicable as it's a conditional redirect for the page, based on the affiliate tracking parameter. With the 302 and HTTPS configuration, you'd also want to additionally set canonical to the HTTP version as that's the more publicly available site, and one you'd expect crawlers to go to minus the affiliate link. In this case it also sounds like the page is going to almost an exact duplicate, so noindex would be wise as well since you don't want search traffic landing on HTTPS as they're not an affiliate visit. That covers most of it. It sounds like you've already read what's out there, but here's Google's guide on using HTTPS: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543. Cheers!
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RE: External Redirects & SEO
That's a fairly thorough redirect and has a pretty high likelihood of not delivering as much link juice compared to a standard, dead simple link. Still, it's a nice page and those are well-known brands, so appearing there would have positive branding benefit for human eyeballs.
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RE: Google Local Feeds - Cover & Profile Photos??
You'll likely need a combination of the two. You can bulk upload images in the dimensional range of 1000x1000 to 3000x3000 "We recommend adding photos that are larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels and smaller than 3000 x 3000 pixels." (https://support.google.com/business/answer/6031953) and then select what you want as a cover photo within Google+. See this guideline: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4791112.
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RE: Google SERPs showing blog comments in Answer Box?
In short, due to the schema, I think Google mistook the comments for the author's twelve point outline.
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RE: GA expert for publishers
Quite a few GAs hang out at http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/. Plus there are the recommended companies here: http://moz.com/community/recommended.
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RE: Long tail searches
A big factor that can really help with long tail matches is getting a few quality backlinks to the specific long tail pages, and the best way to do this is by proving that your site will be a reliable resource to the type of people that would link to it. Wikipedia is an excellent example of this model. People linking there always know what they're linking to and that the page won't change or crash. In your instance, how are you going to get people linking to your copy of the case, versus the government hosted one, like so: https://www.ustaxcourt.gov/InOpHistoric/DynamoHoldingsLPDiv.Buch.TC.WPD.pdf
Solving that will go miles in solving your long tail.
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RE: What is Yandex and why do I care?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex The webmaster tools it hosts are free: https://webmaster.yandex.com/ Just another search engine based service to help with crawling, linking and miscellaneous tools. If your site is non-international it's probably not much of a worry as they're mostly a Russia-based search provider.
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RE: Google box
Have you used Google's recommended structured data to identify your company's social profiles: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/social-profiles? You're also going to need to have enough searcher side input to trigger the knowledge graph as well, so that might be a sticking point for a while if the brand isn't well-recognized: http://youtu.be/mmQl6VGvX-c?t=1m18s
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RE: Drastic Drop in Link Juice
Hello. Which services have you been using to keep track of link counts? Have you been keeping archived records to help pinpoint where the links went missing? Are the numbers you're reporting aggregate for both domains? Have you lost certain listings based on regions? (EU, US, South America, etc.)
Getting insight into some of those questions will begin to point you in the right direction. Cheers!
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RE: Changing the sites root folder
There are several ways to do this, but it sounds like you want the files served from /devs/ to appear as root on www.domainname.com.
- Rename current root in FTP to /WHATEVER-old/ and copy the contents of the /devs/ folder into the root.
- Point the domain root to /devs/ instead of it's current root.
- 301 redirect any old page that won't have a matching url on the new site, preferably to the most relevant page content.
- Modify the .htaccess file to point to the /devs/ folder.
Like Ray already said, it is dependent on your hosting setup, CMS or website software, and so on, but setting a root folder is fairly standard. Here's one example from Bluehost.com: http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?9844-Change-Root-Folder. Your own host should have specific technical documentation.
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RE: What is the best use for Moz tools specially keyword difficulty for startup ?
Hi Eslam. You're on track with considering keyword difficulty in the early stages. You might also want to take a look at the Fresh Web Explorer and see how popular your considered blog topics are. That will give you some better ideas on social engagement. What topics are coming up quite a bit or generating a lot of conversation. Follwerwonk can give you similar insights into Twitter.
To get a better idea on the difficulty around the percentages in the keyword tool, put the pages that rank for your given term into Open Site Explorer and see how many links those pages have, what kind of domains they're on, the strength of those domains and so on. You'll be able to begin to get an idea around difficulty in that way.
This post: http://moz.com/blog/the-right-keyword-data-for-the-right-job has nice insights into keyword research as does Cyrus' recent Mozinar: http://moz.com/webinars/seo-basics-the-fundamental-signals-used-to-rank-our-content-higher. Cheers!
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RE: Same location, same industry, same phone number, old name
Per: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177, the name should, "...reflect your business’ real-world name, as used consistently on your storefront, website, stationery, and as known to customers." You'll want to only have one listing using the businesses correct and current name.
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RE: Drastic Drop in Link Juice
You might consider adding to your total link count with some other sources: Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Majestic, Ahrefs, etc. to get a larger look into what's going on around links. Moz's link data has gone through several changes in the past couple of months. See: http://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-story-on-mozscape-updates and: https://moz.com/products/api/updates
The ranking drop is more concerning and, as Tim suggests below, could be due to duplicate content issues if you're still running both domains in a similar fashion. Are there any warnings within your GSC? What has analytics been showing you? Best of luck!
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RE: Map Files for Branches and SEO
Google's Geo Sitemaps were retired in 2012, in XML format, but there's still KML support in Google Maps: https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/mapsSupport
Here's a post discussing that as well: http://www.searchoptions.com.au/how-to-submit-kml-files-in-location-sitemap-for-your-local-business/
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RE: My question is, when you translate your website to another language, does moz crawl both or do i have to add another campaign to moz so that they can crawl it seperately?
If you're in Moz Analytics look at your settings. What you'll want to do is check the 'Website' portion and make sure that you have "tracking all sites at this domain" selected. If the /ep/ portion is a folder on this domain it will be tracked once it's crawled.
If it's a third level domain, i.e. ep.yourdomain.com, you might consider making a new campaign to track it specifically as you're going to be working with a completely different set of words / language. Cheers!
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RE: GWT Keywords not showing my Keywords Focus, What to do?
Ah, the image you linked to showed the dashboard. Try going here instead: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/keywords?siteUrl=http://arowautorental.com
And look for it in the report: Google Index: Content Keywords.
Cheers!
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RE: Rankings on Google local search
Hi Conrad. When it comes to Local Ranking Factors, you should be able to apply several from the exhaustive list here: http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors regardless of location. Work through the list there to see what factors might be missing from your listing and you'll likely increase your visibility. Cheers!