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For a link to be indexed, it needs to be found first. Moz and Google are not the same. And they dont really share their data, as google is sometimes less consistent in the found links compared to Moz or a hrefs. New websites take some time, perhaps up to 4 weeks before you anything at all. Have patience.
If the removal of the low quality links does'nt work from your side, you could also use disavow ( https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main ) > you have to be logged in into google for this feature.
Apparently your page or site is missing a <title>Some title</title> per page. You have to check and correct that. Title should be something what your page is about.
If the URl's stays the same, yes. If you change the URL it's advised to put a 301 redirect, i.e
redirect 301 /oldpage.xyz /newpage.xyz
Just make sure, if a page has bin moved, to put a status 301, i.e "redirect 301 /oldpage /newpage"
Interesting case. I do have a website thats more then 10 years old and which belongs to one of my clients. He got struck by the typical wordpress comment spam, in short there where over 50k of comment links found in barely months, and that counter is still going up since google is'nt so fast in crawling half of the internet (yet).
It is true that google pretty much senses if something evil or phishy is going on. I was suprised that even with 10k of follow links with the worst (same) anchor all over the place left the ranking(s) pretty much in tact. But there's good tools like https://websiteseochecker.com/extract-url-to-domain/#arearesult for example where you could cram in dozen of links and simply get ONE url out of it instead of weaving through a thousands of URL's manually.
This made it pretty easy to finally cram all those links in disavow. Yes some do hurt; usually after a half day when i submitted a disavow list rankings became a bit better. But if your spammed with low quality keywords, pages and all that, and you did'nt had anything with it or it was the 'leftover' from another SEO company, it's good to manually put these in disavow and measure the performance of your website. Sometimes it can take up to 2 weeks even, so have a bit of patient.
Google is testing your pages using Lightspeed / Core Web vitals, or simply said https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
The page speed testing done by MOZ is different then Lighthouse, because google actually relies on a real rendering scene rather then passively load everything together.
So if you want to get better scores to site speed, optimize using insights as the link above posted. Alot of gains can be made and the Time to first byte and actual rendering time could be improved massively.
This is the MOZ public forum. To contact MOZ themself see https://moz.com/help/contact
Dont overblow it really. I'm working on that too right now with positive effects, i.e /subject/another-subject/, it would be good if you link all the independent pages from /subject/ as well including a dropdown menu on /subject/ with all /another-subjects/.
"Due to some spammy links"
If you put up a 301 redirect, then in theory all the 'linkjuice' should follow the new domain. However if you do this now, and like for example give out the domainname in a few weeks, that linkjuice would be no longer passed because the 301 is removed. So in best theory, is to setup a 301 now, and start changing those links that originally point to that domain, and change them to the new domain.
It's intensive, but you should have done a bit more research when launching a new domain.
Keywords are'nt used anymore. Your better off putting a intro like this:
Blablabla interesting story about our service, come get your "Some keyword" today
. The best way really is not to spam it, rather put it elegant and keep within the 5% of optimisation when writing text.
Is'nt it if you dont fill anything in MOZ will decide it for you?
Moz is a tool to get your website 'better', but you need to put some effort in it in order to make it work. A subscription is'nt going to magically improve rankings out of nowhere.
You answerred most of your own questions i think.
1: Yes. If you have genuine unique content google and partners are more then happy to take you aboard.
2: No, not really. DA is measured on behalf of the incoming follow links. If the content would be better so should your general site appearance become in search after the migration.
3: It's half work but it's a start. If you see a positive gain after the change then it's wise to change the other pages as much as possible as well.
The quality of responses on this forum is kind of dissapointing. Anyway: the following 3 things apply here for any new and existing domain:
1: a good structured website
2: quality content
3: quality backlinks
If you manage these in a good way then the rest really will follow. Buying links or links with the intention to pass ranks is forbidden by google, and pretty much punishes your website for doing that.
Ive posted this before, but, the use of H1/H2/H3 compared to only use of H1 or H2 dont matter really that much. We had a very well running website, 1500 clicks a day or so, we had a argument on the use of only H2 and if we switched that to H1/H2/H3 / correct paragraphs if it would change any. So we did, and 6 months later, not really a change.
I kind of have the feeling that description and the way you publish your content in relation of H1/H2/H3 tags are kind of ignored by google these days, as google pretty much decides now on how to display your relevancy in search. So just make sure the content is OK, and your good really. Dont hurt tho to have things put up correctly.
Yes it might be a bit behind in comparison to what is currently available on yours or another website.
Getting quality links towards your domain is one way to increase your popularity, the other one is just having good content overal. Wanting to rank on 1000 keywords is everybody's wish, but it's not so easy.
I dont believe such a thing that when you update a Google Disavow, your DA suddenly increases.
Could you tell us what you are trying to archieve in the first place? Your script proberly wont work, because domain.com is'nt replaced with your own domain, second it's code is only valid for HTTP instead of https, so to work with what we have here, try this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ https://generalapplianceservice.ca/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
it's called a "Sitewide" link. Yes there's risks to that, as i had a client doing the same on 2 different websites, boosting the amount of incoming links to roughly 250k in less then a month. After that he got tapped, lost all positions, traffic went down significantly, we had to adjust links, and it took on average 6 months to 'recover' from that.
Check your incoming links. They are pretty much the cause to building up a spam score or not. Low quality links with no real usage are the ones to look for. Buying you a subscription is'nt going to magically improve your website. It needs work. Moz provides the tools!
Is your page valid with W3C standards? https://validator.w3.org/
I mean if it's a spaghetti of errors then googlebot might encounter issues with that.
You could export the Webmaster analytics, make a summary of which pages tend to run good and which not. Based on that data you remove the "old" pages, and watch the effect. While your at it perhaps throw some new content towards it. Does'nt hurt.
1: If done right and google picks it up as it should you should see some gains for just updating your website.
2: you only have to submit a sitemap if you made physical changes to your website structure and pages, meaning that if you have'nt changed any of that you dont need to. A sitemap is just an index on how your website related to pages looks like.
3: See answer one.
A few errors is always within margin of what google encounters. Ive seen broken pages completely that would not even render properly anymore but yet still rank. I'm not sure i was just guessing; but perhaps you need to give it a bit of time. I dont know what is going on really, new domains kind of are dampened for a while in order for Google to keep the spammy domains out of the place really.
Structure like a theme dont change the content, so yes you can safely change that. The URL's will remain the same as well so that shoud'nt cause an issue at all.
If your page is blog.companyname.com/en/ then your canonical should be blog.companyname.com/en/
It's not so simple really to just go by numbers created by MOZ or A hrefs, as nobody really knows what google maintains as a standard in a situation like this.
The less outgoing links on a page or domain, the more powerfull a link on that same page or domain would be.