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  • cctlds international seo hreflang 301 redirects change of address tool

    Hi, I have a website targeting 3 markets (and therefor 3 languages). I was currently using a single domain with each market being targeted in the following format: www.website.com/pl
    www.website.com/de
    www.website.com/hu It's clear to me by looking at organic results, that in my industry (Real Estate) Google is putting a large emphasis on local businesses and local domains. Top 10 organic results for all my keywords in all markets have country specific CCTLDs. I decided to migrate from a single domain strategy to a multi domain strategy. I own the domains. The new structure is www.website.com/pl -> www.website.pl
    www.website.com/de -> www.website.de
    www.website.com/hu -> www.website.hu All the website have been added to google search console and 301 redirects are in place and working correctly. The pages are all interlinked and have rel=alternate to each other. The sitemaps are all done correctly. My question is how do I tell Google about this. The change of address feature only works for changing one domain to one other domain. It's been a week and the old www.website.com domain is still showing up (even considering 301 redirects). Or do I just need to be patient and wait it out? Any tips?

    International SEO | | cellydy
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  • seo tactics question redirects

    Hi, I run a tree surgery business - woodfeldertreecare.co.uk We're based in Manchester, UK. A few days ago I was called by Premium Domain Names who convinced me that buying treesurgeonsmanchester.com and treesurgerymanchester.com and redirecting them to our main site would be amazing for organic traffic. My designer and an SEO friend both reckon this was a waste of money and reckon I've been scammed. Any thoughts? Please help.

    SEO Tactics | | LeoTrees
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  • Unsolved

    keyword rankings keyword density keyword explorer

    I did keyword research on Keyword explorer, its KD was very low but search volume was very high still my impression and clicks not getting.. what's the issue?

    Keyword Explorer | | muqadaserozgaar
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  • Unsolved

    matomo

    As GA4 is not easily usable for all clients in the EU, it would be great if you could offer a Matomo integration. Matomo has recently been more and more popular and is used by a lot of companies, that are required to adhere to EU standards in data privacy.

    Feature Requests | | datenwerk
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  • foursquare bing

    Hi, does Moz Local sync with Foursquare and Bing for UK listings? I'm having difficulty updating my business address on these platforms. Thank you.

    Local Listings | | brightonrocks1
    0

  • telemedicine

    I want to know what is telemedicine urinary tract infection and can it give me accurate treatment?

    Social Media | | lowzy
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  • home remedies for kennel cough

    I searched a lot for finding home remedies for kennel cough to treat my dog who suffers from this cough

    Social Media | | lowzy
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  • google analytics direct traffic

    Our direct traffic dropped 50% in October. Is anyone else seeing a drop in direct traffic in October in G4? It hasn't shifted to another source or unassigned it's just gone. Has anyone else experienced this and what might be the reasons?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | inhouseninja
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  • Unsolved

    live chat support

    If no one is ever on there? Not one time when i have needed help has there ever been anyone online. I was impressed when i saw the announcement about live chat but you actually have to have people to answer the enquiries.

    Support | | Scottlinklater
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  • anchor tags ecommerce product listing page

    Hi Say I am on a Product Listing page on ecommerce website and I have product tiles which contain images and name/price underneath them. Is it better to wrap the whole product tile (image and name/price) in an anchor tag (linking to their product page) or to wrap the image and the name/price underneath in anchor tags separately (linking to the product page) ? thanks

    On-Page Optimization | | jtiernanibm
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  • url with .html

    Hello,
    I have an online shop for printer consumables
    Categories url's are like that https://www.sertit.ro/consumabile-imprimante.html
    And products https://www.sertit.ro/cartuse-toner/xerox/cartus-toner-xerox-phaser-3020-workcentre-3025-1500-pagini.html
    Is better to have .html or not?

    SEO Tactics | | Sert_Sibiu
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  • serp title tags

    When doing a google search for "Wedding Invitations Toronto", you will find my site www.stephita.com shows up in top 5 results. I'm trying the figure out why the TITLE of the page no longer shows up in the SERP. Only the domain shows up above the link to the page. So you basically see www.stephita.com twice, when the first instance should be the "title" drawing from the HTML code. I did implement the JSON code to provide proper site data structure as well. Could someone check my source, and tell me if I'm missing something, or if I put TOO MUCH stuff there? Thank You!!!!

    Local SEO | | TysonWong
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  • local seo on-page seo city name

    I am working for a waterproofing company out of long beach that wants to rank for other neighborhoods around the area. But I just noticed that their URLs are targeting two locations. They have the cities built on the URLs after the long beach part. Will that affect rankings? Not be as potent as a truly SEO friendly url like example.com/services/mold-remediation/mold-remediation-brooklyn-ny? Here is an example: https://zavzaseal.com/mold-remediation-service-provider-long-island-ny/mold-removal-pro-in-copiague-ny-11726/ Another thing is the URLs say "mold removal pro" if I am targeting "mold removal copiague, NY" will that matter to rankings that the URL has pro in it?

    Local SEO | | ThisTimeWereOn
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  • magento keyword density ecommerce

    We are working on a clients Magento site and we've added new copy which has a decent keyword density which is in line with best practice. When we run it through Moz we are getting a Key Word Stuffing alert saying the page has 27 keywords, where we can only see about 11. This is the page https://www.greatbeanbags.com/bean-bag-cushions The client is pushing back saying the page must have already been optimised before as our new copy has triggered the stuffing alert. But my guess is the page was already stuffed but buy some Magento code we can't see. Any ideas? #magento #Keyworddensity

    Content Development | | Marketing_Optimist
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  • tonsil grading scale

    I search for how we can use tonsil grading scale for determining tonsil size and choose the proper treatment

    Social Media | | lowzy
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  • Unsolved

    brand authority domain

    If your brand name (e.g., "Example Brand Name") is different from your brand's domain (e.g. "www.ebn.com"), does the Brand Authority tool measure authority for "Example Brand Name" or "EBN"? Thanks!

    Product Support | | PRAComms
    1

  • local ranking factors local seo multi-location city name service pages

    I have a question. I just got a full-time job at Zavza Seal, an upstanding insulation contractor targeting neighborhoods of Suffolk and Nassau counties in New York. I was hired as an SEO content specialist. (Thanks Rand! You're one of my mentors~!) So, they handed me a spreadsheet of pages for city-specific terms, and they had a system in place for local rankings. But I was taught to do service-specific city pages a certain way. If the search term is for people looking for a service in that town, that's what you give them. However, I was told to proofread them, and as an SEO specialist, I couldn't keep my hands off of them. The pages were skimpy. (Example: h2, paragraph, bullets, short paragraph summary, short paragraph about the city.) What threw me off is that the content, while it was service specific, it was blog topics localized. Those are great (when long enough and optimized to compete in SERPs) but I've never seen them done on service pages. (Example: Why is Mold Remediation Necessary in Baldwin?. Now, this went in two directions in my mind. (and I wanted to do the best for the company, because I'm a wicked brat for teams, AND I get commissions on leads, so that was motivation, too.) 🐷 Anyway, 1. This could be a new approach and worthy of an SEO study on my startup site, where I take on part time clients after work, because I've never seen it done before and it could, if optimized for the target service and city rank high in SERPs AND build thought leadership and authority as a local expert. (Whereas city service pages in standard format would just promote your service. ..) What do you guys think? I just put the topic up for discussion for my team, asked them about it in detail and asked if they wanted to A'/B test a few to see what get's better traction organically. Mr. Fishkin was one of my mentors. I really wish I just had his number for this one LOL.

    Local SEO | | ThisTimeWereOn
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  • Solved

    moz local

    I have several locations on MOZ Local. I haven't had any trouble before, but now when I try to update anything (on any location) I get this error "Your location could not be saved" and if I attempt to navigate off the page it reminds me that my changes won't be saved. ???? I don't see anything wrong with any entries.

    Moz Local | | c3ajeff
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  • seo consulting google

    This is my personal website. I wonder, will the articles written about artificial intelligence rank on Google, or will the site not rank? https://withpositivity.com/

    Community | | lowzy
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  • internationalseo

    I hope someone very familiar with Moz and with experience in International SEO could tell me how reliable is Moz with keywords Ranking check. I am working on the SEO of a page that should rank in Switzerland, Germany and Austria for the same keyword in German. Moz is giving the SEO of this url: https://abfallhai.com/de/produkte-services/entsorgungssysteme/abfallhai-abfalleimer/ a score of 97/100 and I just started the backlinks campaign for it as you may have noticed. What would be your best approach when using Moz to check the ranking in the 3 countries cited above? Thank you very much.

    International SEO | | Imedia79
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  • reviews seo comparison marketing advice

    Hello Moz community. I’m looking for feedback on how
    to improve this national company review/comparison website. We bring in experts in the industries we are writing reviews on. Well then conduct extensive keyword research and provide an SEO optimized recommendation content briefing to the writer. The writer creates the content including the high search volume and most relevant keyword phrases that people are searching for. We also make sure to match the intent of the keywords to Commercial intent for the content to ensure it matches our audience. For example, we brought in a leading audiologist and created the top Hearing aids for tinnitus.. How can we improve the process and site, any recommendations?

    Content Development | | Paul-Paquin-Golden-Financial
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  • aitoolsonlinefree aitoolstonlinefree ai tools online free age calculator fancy text generator

    Go to Google and search "aitoolstonlinefree. com" Enter a lot of free AI tools as per your need. And a lot of tools are coming soon...
    ss 1 homepage.PNG

    Moz News | | somialvi
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  • redirect chain 301 redirect

    Most products on our site have redirects to them from years of switching platform and merely trying to get a great and optimised URL for SEO purposes. My question is this: If a product URL has alot of redirects (301's), would it be more beneficial to me to create a duplicated version of the product and start fresh with a new URL? I am not on here trying to gain backlinks but my site is tn nursery dot net (proof:)
    I need some quality help figuring out what to do.
    Tammy

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | tammysons
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  • keyword namingstandard

    I have a client whose business name can be abbreviated. In the previous version of the website they referenced all 3 naming standards. We are in the process of setting up a new website and my question is - do we use one name throughout the website or incorporate the other abbreviations to catch all options?

    Keyword Research | | LisaBabblebird
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  • Unsolved

    crawl error crawling crawl

    Hello,
    I don't understand why MOZ crawl only the homepage of our webiste https://www.modelos-de-curriculum.com We add the website correctly, and we asked for crawling all the pages. But the tool find only the homepage. Why? We are testing the tool before to suscribe. But we need to be sure that the tool is working for our website. If you can please help us.

    Product Support | | Azurius
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  • local seo landing pages localseo

    I'm trying to understand how to optimize landing pages to appear in local search. For example, if someone in Chicago searches for "plumber", Yelp has a page "Top 10 Plumbers in Chicago." They are generating these pages for numerous business types and cities. I can't see anything on the page or metadata that indicates a geographic location or business type. What optimizations are they doing to get Google to know that it's a page for a specific city and type of business?

    Local SEO | | Tourizee
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  • citations city name

    Hey everyone, I have a question about what city to use for citations in this case. My client is a service-area business in the Seattle area. The business is home-based, in Everett, WA, which if you’re not familiar is in the northern part of the Seattle metro area. They only serve clients outside the home. For their GBP that’s no problem, as of course their address isn’t shown. For all the citations we’ll be building though, I’m not entirely sure what we should do. The client does not want their street address anywhere online. So, since their city won't be listed on their GBP, should we still use Everett as the city for all the citations, or should we use Seattle? I'm unsure here because with some citations you have to list a full address, and then you're able to hide the street address later. And since they don't technically have a Seattle address, I'm not if that would be the way to go. But I’m wondering because no one will be searching for “[service] in Everett”, they would search for “[service] in Seattle”. What do you think?

    Local Listings | | SamB47
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  • Unsolved

    domain authority

    when i am searching my domain http://mqiexplore.com/ its showing no data found. fix it

    Moz Tools | | qasimiqbal22
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  • dashboards client access new features

    Re: Client Dashboard Options Wanted to bump this. Adding a feature where you can share a link to clients to be able to view their dashboard at any time would be a great value add for our SEO clients!

    Reporting & Analytics | | EWeaver
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  • keywords blog post e-commerce

    I'm trying to improve the SEO for an e-commerce store that I'm working for that sells custom car air fresheners where you select the shape of the item and then upload the photo. The site has been around for almost 10 years so has authority in the field and ranks number one for custom car air fresheners and other related high-traffic keywords. However, there is no blog, no social media and has 8 total pages: landing page, FAQ, contact, guidelines, shape/product (page that starts the ordering process with little text), scents, terms, and samples.
    I'm struggling with how we rank higher for specific keywords that we are not number 1 with ok traffic (such as dog air freshener, custom air freshener for car with picture, custom photo car air freshener) and not affect the current keywords that we are ranking number one for. In addition, how do we rank higher for other keywords, if we don't have that many pages like a blog to create content? I was thinking of creating a blog to target more keywords, but I don't think there is enough relevant content to make. And I feel Google would find a blog about "top gifts for dad" or "top gifts for the holidays" not relevant. I was also thinking of adding more text to the shapes/product page which could be tailored towards a keyword. Maybe I could create another product page that goes into more detail about the air freshener with images, descriptions, and other use cases. On MOZ, the Domain Authority is 18 (really low), so I am thinking about working on getting backlinks from relevant sources with authority to improve our SEO. Or do we not mess with the text on the website since it works and not worry about the other keywords and focus on technical SEO items and backlinks to help with SEO? TLDR: How do you improve SEO for new keywords for an e-commerce business that doesn't have a lot of pages for content without affecting its number 1 ranking on other keywords?

    Keyword Research | | campionn
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  • Unsolved

    reviews moz local

    My google reviews are not transferring over to the directory sites how do we fix this? im looking at the chamber of commerce and it says 0 reviews

    Moz Local | | Roberthodges
    0

  • zero ranking keywords pescoonlinebill.com

    My website, pescoonlinebill.com, shows many queries in console but there are zero ranking keywords in MOZ dashboard.

    Link Building | | realdy
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  • reduce the spam score

    My website is https://usapickleballrules.org it is a informational website and Moz shows a spam score of 8,may i know why my site spam score is high and how can i reduce it,after all it is a dubai store portal.

    Community | | rameezmirza
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  • Unsolved

    reduce the spam score

    My website is https://usapickleballrules.org it is a informational website and Moz shows a spam score of 8,may i know why my site spam score is high and how can i reduce it,after all it is a dubai store portal.

    Moz Pro | | rameezmirza
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  • displaying domain authority

    I wanted to bring a pressing matter to your attention regarding our website, https://usapickleballrules. We've noticed a significant problem with the way our Domain Authority (DA) is being displayed, or rather, not being displayed.

    Community | | rameezmirza
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  • seo consulting seo expert seo page treatment

    Hi, My website has a few SaaS products, to make my website simple i want to move my website some pages to its specific folder structure , so eg website.com/product1/features
    website.com/product1/pricing
    website.com/product1/information and same for product2 and so on, the website.com/product1/.. menu will only show the links of product1 and only one link to homepage (possibly in footer). Please share your opinion will it be a good idea, from UI perspective it will be simple , but i am not sure about SEO perspective, please help thanks

    Technical SEO | | webbeemoz
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  • canonical ranking issue subdomain indexation

    Our company recently rebranded and launched a new website. The website was developed by an overseas team and they created the test site on their subdomain. The only problem is that Google crawled and indexed their site and ours. I noticed Google indexed their sub domain ahead of our domain and based on Search Console it has deemed our content as the duplicate of theirs and the Google selected theirs as the canonical.
    The website in question is https://www.spaziointerni.us
    What would be the best course of action to get our content ranked and selected instead of being marked as the duplicate?
    Not sure if I have to modify the content to make it more unique or have them submit a removal in their search console.
    Our indexed pages continue to go down due to this issue.
    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Community | | Spaziohouston
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  • international seo

    We've just recently launched our website in Canada and our web crawler is showing some pages with "&Country=CA", even if the current page already includes Country=CA. Why is this and how would we go about resolving?

    International SEO | | nicole.nelson03
    0

  • indexing request rejected webmaster indexing

    when i try to index my posts in google webmaster tools i see this eror : Indexing request rejected
    During live testing, indexing issues were detected with the URL
    Crawl
    Time
    Sep 23, 2023, 11:05:05 PM
    Crawled as
    Google Inspection Tool desktop
    Crawl allowed?
    Yes
    Page fetch
    error
    Failed: Hostload exceeded
    Indexing allowed?
    N/A
    Indexing
    User-declared canonical
    N/A
    Google-selected canonical

    Only determined after indexing my website : http://123select.ir/

    SEO Tactics | | sasansasyino
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  • azeem safi azeemsafi who is azeem safi tech

    I am Working on Tech Niche Website My Website Title is Azeem Safi: Technology News, Gadgets, Howto, Reviews & More and I want to Rank on Google and Drive more traffic on Google. Please Guide me

    Link Building | | ciwili3115
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  • seo spam score

    Hello There,
    Few days back, Spam Score of two of my sites drastically increased from 1% to 31% for one site and from 1% to 36% for another site overnight. Here are the two websites https://simpalm.com/ ducknowl.com Site background for 2-3 months ABC link exchange campaign was started for both the sites. Links where built on high quality sites with DA40 above and most of them are Saas sites No reciprocal link exchange was done Same new pages are created on the site for on page SEO Both the sites are hosted on GoDaddy Can someone please tell me what is the reason of this Sudden increase in spam score of both the sites and at same time?

    Technical SEO | | rohit.c
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  • snippet

    Hi I write a json+ld script for star snippet in my website but not work in my first page. you can see it in this URL https://www.tehran-borj.ir
    when I googled my keyword my competitor show with star snippet in SERP but my site doesn't show.

    On-Page Optimization | | pifpaffarm
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  • indexing crawling noindex

    Our staging website got indexed by google and now MOZ is showing all inbound links from staging site, how should i remove those links and make it no index. Note- we already added Meta NOINDEX in head tag

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Asmi-Ta
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