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Hi guys,

I have a client who wants to use a hyphen to separate two words in the URL to make each work stand out.

Is is good or bad practice to use a hyphen in a URL and will it affect rankings?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I am helping a client link their website to Ebay and I am wondering if there is anything specific I should be doing in terms for search engine optimisation.

Any advice would be really helpful.

Thanks!

Thanks Christy.

Could you provide me with a link to Hutch42's advice as you mentioned? I Googled it but I got mixed results.

Meaghan

So if I were to reword the sentences in my own words, would that still be ethical?

First of all, I did not once say I would not credit it as being written by Moz. In fact, I every time I mention Moz (and how awesome it is) I provide a link to the Moz website.

The reason I don't want to rewrite it is because I don't want to lose the accuracy in the descriptions.

Secondly, if I was intending on 'stealing' anything, why would I bother asking the Moz community about the ethics of using content written by Moz? I am obviously aware that copying and pasting is not ethic in nature but given that this is a glossary and Moz are the experts on technical terms, I thought there might be a way of working around this so that I can use the proper definitions without my visitors having to navigate away from my website.

So thanks for your friendly response.

Hi,

I run a small business writing optimised content for small businesses in Melbourne.

I want to add a Glossary page to my website that lists all of the different words associated with website marketing and SEO.

I found the Moz glossary and I am wondering if it would be a bad idea to copy and paste the list straight into a page on my site. I'd prefer to not have to reword all of the descriptions as it will take me ages and I don't want to compromise the information in the descriptions.

Here is a link to the Glossary: http://moz.com/blog/smwc-and-other-essential-seo-jargon

Obviously I don't want to do the wrong thing ethically or from Google's perspective.

Any advice would be great.

Thank you Tim,

Your response certainly makes much sense and I have noted it in my strategy for this clients.

Much appreciated!

Meaghan

Hi Mozers,

My client is just about to launch a print magazine for her watch business.

There is so much valuable content in the magazine and we want to feature it on the website both for SEO purposes and also for those who prefer to read articles online instead of reading a physical magazine.

My question is: what is the best method of displaying the magazine to get the most from search rankings and also to capitalise on the beautiful imagery from the magazine.

The best option that I can think of is to upload the magazine as a flipbook and create a separate page on the website to display each article so that search engine crawlers can index the content.

I do understand that this could be problematic if users are only spending time reading the flipbook and not so much time on the article pages.

Do you guys have any suggestions about how to get the most out of this opportunity for my client?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

Meaghan

Hi,

I am wondering if there is any special way to seek out long tail search queries?

For example, when I search in Adwords or Ubersuggest for a particular group of keywords, I only ever seem to get 1 to 3 keywords.

I am looking for the longer search terms like actual questions i.e. "Where is the best yoga studio in Doncaster?"

Currently I rely on not hitting in Google in enter but I figure that there must be a better way?

Thanks guys!

Hi Guys!

I have approx. 50 keywords that I'm tracking for a website that has about 80 pages.

I am wondering is there any way that I can find out which page on the site is currently ranking best for each of the keywords on my list?

Ideally I would like to export the entire list with the keyword in the first column and the page that ranks best on the website for each given keyword, in the second column.

Apologies if the wording of this post is confusing - I am not quite sure how to make it clearer.

The aim of my task is to determine which keywords should be allocated to each page on the site so I need to work out which keywords are working already for certain pages so that I don't take those efforts away from the well-optimised pages.

Many thanks!

Meaghan

Thanks team!

Hi Guys,

I am trying to figure out why my page titles and meta d tags are getting cut off in Goofle SERPS.

My page titles are 70 characters or under (including spaces) and my meta Dd's are 155 characters or under (including spaces) so I cannot work out why They are getting cut off.

Is there something I have missed?!

Thanks,

Meaghan

Hi Phillip,

Sorry - I meant to write: Would all of the blogs need to be removed from the website on which they are appearing?

So is the best course of action to have the articles taken off the platforms on which they appear before going ahead and putting them up on the new site?

Also could you explain how the new site might get hit by panda i.e. would google pick up on the fact that these blogs are already appearing elsewhere on the web and thereby penalise the new site for posting material that is already indexed by Google?

Thanks a million Phillip.

I have a client who has requested a rewrite of 250 blog articles for his IT company. The blogs are dispersed on a variety of platforms: his own website's blog, a business innovation website, and an IT website.

He wants to have each article optimised with keyword phrases and then posted onto his new website thrice weekly. All of this is in an effort to attract some potential customers to his new site and also to establish his company as a leader in its field.

To what extent would I need to rewrite each article so as to avoid duplicating the content?

Would there even be an issue if I did not rewrite the articles and merely optimised them with keywords?

Would the articles need to be completely taken by all current publishers?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Guys!

What is an 'email outreach program' and where can i go to find steps to create one myself?

Thanks

I will try and find out all of this information... Just give me a bit of time to figure it out. Thanks for being helpful.. I'm loving moz to death! It's a great community

Thanks very much Paul.. Very helpful!

Thank you very much Mike. I'll look into SEMrush. So many helpful tools out there!

Fantastic. Thanks Peter

Thanks for that David, it def helped. Awesome!

Hey Guys,I'm a bit stuck. My on-page grade indicated the following two issues and I need to find how how to fix both issues.If you have a solution, could you please let me know how to address these issues? It's all a bit intimidating at the moment!!Thank you so much..****************************************************************************************************************************************Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.

Recommendation: We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.

No More Than One Canonical URL Tag

The canonical URL tag is meant to be employed only a single time on an individual URL (much like the title element or meta description). To ensure the search engines properly parse the canonical source, employ only a single version of this tag.

Recommendation: Remove all but a single canonical URL tag

Hey team!

I fell like this could sound very silly but...

How can I find out which would be the best new keywords to focus my SEO effots on? How do I know which keywords I should be trying to rank for?

Thank you!

Hi Guys!

Is there an easy way of finding out which key words my site is currently ranking for? And how wwell these keywords are doing in the search engines?

Thank you for the help

Hey Moz community!

What are some tools to use to find out who my competitors are and which keywords they are ranking for?

Next, once I have found out this information, is it best that I try to outrank my competitors for thee same keywords? Or should I be going for key words that are more specific? What strategy should I use when selecting my key words...?

Any help or advice is MUCH appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

Thank you Joel!

Hi Guys,

I am trying to work out how to add my logo to a custom report?

Can someone explain the process to me?

Thanks!