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Hi There,

JS rendered UI isn't negative, it is however not a good practice also.

You can find complete information to the concept of JS rendered pages and UI on this link, https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/javascript-bad-for-seo.htm .

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

The information above looks insufficient to draw conclusions, however, I understand your main concern is about a drop in organic traffic from a specific geographic region and conversion drop as well.

Here are some further questions:

1. -Is your industry seeing a downtrend in general in Europe or elsewhere?
2. How are you managing the international SEO of your website? What is the main target market for your website? How is it international targeting setup in google search console (old version)?
3. Is your business cyclical in nature?
4. Have you analyzed whether the earlier traffic was spam(bot ) traffic, how much is the drop from such traffic?

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Gary,

I reviewed your complete website and I really appreciate the kind of SEO efforts ( including Blog) that you have put in. As for the H1 issue for the category page, you can fix it from the changes suggested on the link you have posted on your reply. I would like to add some suggestions, that might help you in the long run.  As don suggested to fix URL structure, you can start by taking reference from here https://moz.com/learn/seo/url .

• The blog title can be optimized from Blog - Nector Bridge to something relevant like Blog - Business Consulting (local area name) .
• Your website looks good, but it can be improved by adding/changing some aesthetic elements on the pages (like pacing between elements etc.), which will help it look better and also help on the UI front.
• The H1 and H2 tags are going to be your best friends, optimize all pages effectively for the tags and writing effective titles under these tags.
• Your google pagespeed is coming at 34/100 for Mobile, kindly get it fixed.
• I see that your website is mainly optimized for the keyword 'Business Consulting', it would be a good idea to add local area name along with the keyword for local SEO, this helps in more ways than just local listing benefits. Give it a try.

Keep up with the good work on the SEO and Blog. Let me know if you need any kind of help.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Moz is pretty fair in terms of such cases of cancellation wherein the customer has been billed at the end of the free cycle or billed by mistake.

I am sure the above message from staff would help you resolve the issue.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I am sorry to hear about your situation, I have experienced this often as developers used to forget to add Robots.txt or they would use the wrong setting for no-follow no-index meta. We experienced that Google was able to detect the live version was current and updated one; as we would be working on it more often once the website was launched. We tried both methods but beta version 301 created more complications than providing solutions as we had to keep it updated along the lines of live website. After we realized that live version was being valued and given authority by Google, we never tried to pass authority from beta websites as that would complicate the things further.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Ideally, it would be good to let Google know that something doesn't exist, Google would eventually remove them after it realizes about 404 errors and watches it for some time to improve.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

It is a tricky situation, in this case using 301 would not directly transfer the domain authority but since the traffic might get transferred and eventually the site would trust and get some increase in domain authority. Given the above situation, it would be advisable to keep the higher authority domain and work on it, let the lower authority domain be 301ed to higher DA.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

VIjay

Hi Ruben,

This google review has become a more complex to handle, Google detects fake reviews based on their own system and deletes them. If you wish to recover reviews or get them deleted you can write to google support but I don't think there is much that can be done here. We have had a situation where competitors are trying to hurt our or our client's business but Google didn't pay any heed to our fake reviews complaints.

I would recommend getting the users to write the reviews again, it would be less time consuming then following up with Google.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

VJ

Hi There,

I used both your codes in my test to see how Google sees it, there is absolutely no difference as per browseseo.net. Instead, you should focus on getting an ALT tag and right Caption to get SEO value for the image.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

VJ

Hi There,

If you are trying to get direct SEO value from Youtube video by virtue of embedding it on the website then Phil's moz post already explains why it will get value on youtube listing itself and not on your website.

However, the purpose of the video to be available on the website is more important. Whether the video compliments and supplements the website content, that would determine whether you are able to derive the real SEO value from the embedded link. To put it simply, if people would be interested to watch the video on your website that would increase the time spent on the page and benefit your website's purpose and also its SEO.

I hope that helps.

Thanks,

VJ

Hi There,

I hope your problem was solved, I have seen many such instances where Moz support has acted diligently and helped get the refund. If you have got the refund, you should mark this as solved to help others.

Best Regards,

VJ

Hi There,

I understand your concern and know how it feels when it looks like one has to start from scratch for establishing Domain authority. Whenever a domain is transferred (hoping it was done with utmost care to transfer authority), it takes search engines and other Bots take a couple of weeks or even months to understand that they have to point to the new website for the searched phrases. The reason is that links are re-crawled, and that takes its own sweet time. In the meantime, if you can start working on directly establishing authority for the new domain, it would be a bonus for DA when eventually bots have re-established and re-configured their serps.

I hope it helps. Let me know if you have further questions, I will be happy to answer them.

Regards,

Vj

www.hacekerearth.com/sprint is unreachable, not even showing 404, while it should have been 301 redirected to the new address. This is a classic case of wrong migration steps, and you can't blame WordPress for the same.

WordPress is a good platform for website SEO, please take a good look on this article and it should be sufficient to get your ranks back pretty soon. https://moz.com/blog/website-migration-guide

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I can completely relate to your situation, it is a tough task to balance design, content, and SEO. I took a look at the search results and you are still ranking fourth in the suggested businesses for search phrases, however, it seems your ranking seems to have dropped to the second page. My perspective on this issue is a little different from technical jargons of keyword density etc, I would say you need to focus on the providing useful information on your homepage in an interesting and presentable way. It needs to be such beautifully placed that user is attracted to read it and also it is 'easy' for the user to find the information he/she is looking for.

This would take care of many factors related to SEO if done in a planned way with placing the important phrases at the right places and given due importance on the page content( in an SEO friendly manner).

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

In Addition to what Joseph has already explained, the link for search visibility calculation metrics is :

https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/rankings/search-visibility

Hi There,

I believe you are trying to find a simpler solution as in a tool which could suggest you exact topics or prominent keywords' in your content. As explained by Samantha, Moz tool is doing its bit by giving you guided pointer backed by data, that you can use to develop the content further. Otherwise, you can take relevant keywords to focus on the page from these pointers and update your keyword strategy.

I think that should be enough to develop your content strategy.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I believe you are talking about ALT text or the naming convention of the Logo of any website. It is important to give Logo and its alt text due importance, as you rightly pointed out they are amongst the first things bots see on the website. The right optimization of the Logo would be related to branding keywords of the website and not use it to spam the search for keywords.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Yes, Google should read it fine as long as it's readable for bots. The value of your HTML overlay would be treated as a text which would be determined by the keyword optimization of that text on the page and the website altogether. That means, where have you positioned that text, what relevance that text has for the website and the content of the page; similar SEO factors would be applicable here.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

As mentioned by Nigel there are various tools available like Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, SEMRush, Moz tool etc. Most of the tools are available for free like Google search console, Small SEO Tool, SEO Review Tool .. However, most of the free tools won't show the value of the link for your website in terms of building website authority and also you need to track traffic it might be bringing to your website actively. You need to buy a professional service like Moz Link explorer to get all detailed analysis of your website link profile, historical inputs and help to build a good link profile.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Where are you tracking your keyword visibility?

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I believe you are trying to differentiate between SEO value of text within image and text as HTML overlay over an image. The image value is decided by the alt text and media post parameters you add to an image, Google and other bots are not really reading text on the image when its inside image. On the other hand, HTML overlay has a direct SEO value and you can maximize its value by using it within the right tag (let's say Header tags).

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

The duplicity of keywords can be due to meta tags and their usage. Please share the code of the website if possible.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi Roger,

As explained by Eli, the Moz Pro is a different product from MOZ api and these two are not to be confused with each other.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

This is a common practice and a very common redirect example. and I have seen them contributing to the homepage/main website authority. You can use it and analyze the impact before making any further changes. I had a client who has a very valuable page with content with a certain keyword, they later on 301 redirected the page to the homepage along with the content, this had a very positive impact for their main page DA for that specific keyword. But, I would recommend testing and analyzing everything before reaching a conclusion.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

There should be no problem in receiving the notifications if you have A.)Turned ON notifications, B.) Removed the admins properly and taken access. Both processes are listed below.

Turn alerts on and off

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an administrator account

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to Reports.

   To see Reports, you might have to click More controls at the bottom.

3. In the left pane, click Manage Alerts.
   If you have custom alerts, they'll appear at the bottom of the list.

4. In the Status column on the right, turn the switch on to receive an alert, or turn off to stop receiving the alert.

5. (Optional) Click the Email recipients column to edit alert recipients by email address. You can also check or uncheck Super Administrator(s) to start or stop alerts for users who are super administrators

We lost our site owner!

If the verified owner of your site leaves, or you're not sure who the verified owner is, simply verify another owner for your site. The new owner will be able to see the list of all owners and users verified to that site, as well as the method used to verify each owner. You can then optionally unverify previous owners by removing their verification token (for example, removing the HTML tag from the site, for HTML-tag-verified owners). See Add or remove owners for more information.

Hi There,

The cached version is how your website looked when Google cached it. It is possible that your site's scripts might not have loaded during that time and made it partially available to Google. I would recommend to run tests and try to resolve before next caching happens. The two possible reasons for the site partial load can be 1.due to caching issue on your website 2. script load time is too much.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Steve,

The problem with case sensitive URLs is that while most of ASP.net servers (based on MS technology) treat them as one URL referring to the same page; on the other hand Google for Indexing purpose treats case-sensitive URLs as different ones. I would recommend implementing a solution to convert all URLs to lower case, something like mentioned here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/878578/how-can-i-have-lowercase-routes-in-asp-net-mvc

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

In addition to Lisa's response, you can have detailed information about keyword metrics on this link

https://moz.com/help/guides/keyword-explorer/keyword-metrics#difficulty

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Can you post an example of the error you are getting

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

In addition to Eli's reply, I have copied the relevant content from the post and pasting it here for your reference:

Which DA is the real DA?

The new DA is based on a much larger index that has many improvements, several of which are designed to make the index more like Google’s than ever before. You should consider moving towards the new DA (and the old DA won’t be updated after April 26th 2018, so the sooner the better). While there will be fluctuations as we improve the model and add features to the index, we expect it to remain largely stable and to be a far more accurate picture of a site’s authority according to how it’s seen by Google.

Why is Link Explorer’s DA/PA considered better than OSE’s, and which should I trust?

The larger link index with improved crawl selection allows us to produce a stronger model that includes a much larger proportion of the web. That being said, DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement.

Is Domain Authority/Page Authority an absolute score or a relative one?

Both DA and PA are relative to the Internet as a whole. If Facebook acquired a billion new links, everyone’s PA and DA would drop relative to Facebook. Because of this, it’s always best to look at PA and DA in comparison to your competitors.

What does a drop/raise in DA mean in Link Explorer vs OSE? How can I explain this to my clients when I’m reporting it?

DA and PA should always be considered in the context of your competitors. A drop or raise in PA or DA relative to the old OSE is of little concern if your competitors saw similar movement. Reporting that your site has moved from a DA of 45 to a DA of 42 doesn’t tell the whole story, but reporting that your site has a DA of 42 while your main competitor moved from a 43 to a 37 shows that, relative to the sites you’re competing against in the SERPs, your site has significantly more authority and ranking power.

Hi Valeria,

In addition to the explanation given by Eli, I would like to add that if you are charged at the end of the month by mistake, Moz has been fair enough to refund the full amount when you report it immediately.

Regards,

Vijay

Check if this helps

https://edbinx.com/wordpress/solve-jetpack-site-inaccessible-403-error-xmlrpc-php-wordpress-13210.html

Did the error come up again on console? I would recommend resubmitting the site after fixing the errors and wait for some time.

Hi There,

Your own plan of removing the site from indexes and reindexing the content from other domain can work. Although you have mentioned that you don't want to do it using a redirect, yet I recommend mapping 301 redirects and transferring the content to mapped pages. This would transfer the authority without much delay and also tell Google about the authenticity of the new website with the existing content.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

The problem with the errors that appeared in the Google Console might be due to wordpress. But the errors would have made the content and structure of the website look very different or even not available for the bots.  You should focus on fixing the following error and re-submit the site.

xmlrpc.php showing as response code 405

A possible solution might be available here https://mobilunity.com/q-n-a/how-to-fix-error-405-in-xmlrpc-php/

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

As per Yoast articles, the noindex is default setting for Image posts and it doesn't prevent them from indexing individually as Images.

https://kb.yoast.com/kb/images-in-the-xml-sitemap

https://yoast.com/ask-yoast-media-noindex-yoast-seo/

However, I would recommend testing it yourself for a couple of galleries by removing noindex from them and then derive a conclusion.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Your website is accurately redirected to the https://www version, I won't worry about the error as non-www version is not relevant in your case. You may also read the following articles why this problem might have come:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/do-i-need-to-buy-separate-ssl-certs-for-www-and-non-www

https://www.clickssl.net/blog/do-i-need-different-ssl-certificates-for-www-non-www-domain

https://www.quora.com/How-can-an-HTTPS-certificate-work-for-both-the-www-and-non-www-domains

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi Miles,

In addition to what Nigel has already explained, I checked your website redirects for your website www.gofortmyersbeach.com using the tool at http://www.redirect-checker.org . The homepage seems to be properly redirected to the new website and I hope you have redirected each URL to the mapping page on the new website.

You have to keep your old Domain properly redirected till google understands that the existing authority needs to be passed to the new domain. I hope this answers your question, please feel free to ask further queries.

Best Regards,

Vijay

It can be due to a lot of SEO/technical issues, Here are a couple of observations/suggestions:

• Your site works with https:// and with http:// both and also with www. and without www. , this might be an issue for duplicate content. Please make sure that you have only one version with or without www. or https://
• Check your website for malware and viruses just as a precaution.

Hi There,

Google is generating the website Title and description dynamically in SERPs based on your meta and content. The search you performed is the reason that you are getting the Title and description ( it is available inside your Meta )

The second reason might be that your website is using RSS feed and that helps in the generation of dynamic title and description.

We have faced similar issue in the past and controlling these two factors might just help you have better control over the Title and description of the SERPs.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Vijay

I checked using another tool and as I suspected it's an issue how your website is handling the redirects. Two major issues with your website SEO

• • Your URL performed 1 redirects! While redirects are typically not advisable (as they can affect search engine indexing issues and adversely affect site loading time), one redirect may be acceptable, particularly if the URL is redirecting from a non-www version to its www version, or vice-versa.
• https://www.keyhub.com/en and https://keyhub.com/en should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Can you try looking at the source code of the website page and see whether it has more than one google analytics code.

Hi There,

You can edit SEO information for your Sitecore based website using this guide https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_accelerator/working_with_content/search/improve_page_seo .

If you have rightly optimized content structure on the pages, it will be best to leave it as it is. The Google search engine will dynamically generate Title and description in SERPs based on the content of your page, in my experience that will be more useful for users and generate more clicks.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Priyam,

Your site is built with Wordpress, and when I checked the other languages it is giving 500 error. It seems it is a problem how the site multi-lingual setup has been done. Please check with your developer to fix it.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Jack,

In addition to what Sean is suggesting, you can have a look at this Q&A discussion

https://moz.com/community/q/bounce-rate-suddenly-drops-on-google-anal

Regards,

Vijay

It totally depends on the technology being used for your website. If you are using WordPress then Yoast plugin is good enough to get you the Meta tags optimized for all pages. If you are using any other technology, then there will be different steps altogether.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

In that case, You might have to look at the pointers given by the Moz team. The links pointing to your page might need to be evaluated and checked. Check if there is any change on the anchor text, linking images etc. Use the link explorer to check the historical changes.

Hi Ken,

Chris has pointed you in the right direction if I were in your place I won't take a chance with spammy links and disavow them.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Both Options can be useful, you have to make a choice based on following factors:

• It is good to include keywords in the URL, till the time the URL is not getting longer than 50-70 characters. If it's getting longer around 100, then get back to smaller structure.
• http://leye.local/restaurant/bub-city/location/ have a page? It's better to have it as part of the structure, if not then it makes just characters in URL and not an important part of a structure of the website. Fewer the folder the better, unless they have some importance in the structure of the website for a navigational purpose.
• Too much content in the URL is going to make it look spammy, but it needs to relevant and important to the structure of the website.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your response, please do update about the final solution for the benefit of all.

Let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay