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I would not recommend doing this.

This is a great response. Thanks for this!

Does your website have a canonical tag in place?

I'm only posting a comment so that I can follow this thread. I'm really curious to see what people have to say. Good question!

Thanks for the update!

This is seriously a great list.

And very well-written to boot!

Good afternoon, Moz.

My team and I are a bit stumped. We are getting ready to send out reporting and discovered that we are getting hits on a few very odd landing pages. We build our websites and we never made this URL: https://eaglehearing.com/Home/gclid/ EAIaIQobChMIo_K0t8T_3QIVg81kCh1NQAKIEAEYASAAEgJajfD_BwE

There are around 7-10 variations on these weird URLs pulling up in our reports for two different clients now. Do you think we got hacked?

If you can, please provide any and all talking points that I can use in this argument. It seems that no matter what I show him, including Matt Cutts' video debunking Keyword Density back in 2011, it doesn't seem to stick. He is fully, 100% convinced that keyword density is hugely important and we need to focus our time and energy on it.

Any sources you might have to help me show him that this is a myth would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you.

The client is called Orthopaedic Associates, based out of Boise, Idaho.

You can view their site here: https://orthoa.com/

This is an actual client who almost disappeared from Google.

I don't see how they could have gotten hit with a penalty, to be honest. We have been working with them for a while and haven't done anything different. Maybe a few tweaks to meta descriptions / title tags as we update their site.

This is seriously a great list.

And very well-written to boot!

I believe the best way to accomplish this would be the following:

• Frequently check up on their backlinks. If it's consistently being updated with new resource pages or blog posts linking to their site, that would be a good indicator they at least have a linkbuilding campaign in effect.
• Keep track of their On-Page Optimization. If you've noticed that over a few months they have changed their Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, h1 tags, etc., multiple times then there's a good chance that their SEO is experimenting with using their keywords to greater affect in regards to On-Page and how it's impacting their rankings.
• Be bold and call them and ask what company is doing their SEO. ^_^

Honestly, I think either idea would work. But, personally, I would build off of the already established website.

Reason being this; if you were to make a new site - and it was optimized correctly, had amazing user-friendly content, and was all around a great website - It wouldn't matter what the DA is, it would get ranked. I've seen it happen plenty of times where a new site comes onto the scene and ends up taking over well-established sites in the rankings, and it boils down to having a better, more user-friendly website.

But, like I said earlier, I would attach these new pages to your old domain. If you build these pages to be just as amazing and user-friendly and useful as you would a new website, those pages will still rank. And not only will that help getting ranked for those specific search terms, it will build the credibility of your root domain and could boost your DA.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the update!

Yes, we are having the same issues.

Hey there.

I'm trying to export a .pdf to send to my client. When I click "export pdf", the page sits for a second then goes to a 404 page?

I've never seen this before. Is anyone else getting this problem?

I should also state that this isn't a "500 Total Population" kind of town in the middle of the woods. I mean a rural pacific northwest town with roughly 50,000 - 200,000 in population. Not big enough to have local directories, per se, but certainly enough for their to be a good amount of companies to create healthy competition.

This might seem like a silly question, but It's one that I would like to get some responses from the SEO community.

Do <h>tags need to be staggered according to the numbers?

For example: A few of our clients have their h1 tag listed on a mid-way header that is halfway down their page, and there are both h2's and h3's listed before the h1 in the source code. Does this matter?

Let me know! 
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I'm gonna comment again to "bump" this thread back up. Is anyone else having these issues? Moz's crawler seems to be kinda freakin' out. It'll tell us that we have duplicate content / title tags / meta description when it's simply not true. It will also say it's unable to crawl a site due to something on our end (even though it was crawling just fine the day prior) and then it will fix itself with no work on our part.

This is a great response! Thank you!