Hi! You can crawl up to 3,000 URLs at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test, and download your errors in CSV form. It won't show up in your campaign, but it will let you get started a bit faster than waiting a full week.
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RE: How do you get your web site recrawled with Moz without waiting for a week?
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RE: Domain authority dropped 4 points in a week!
The index updated this week, for the first time in about six weeks. This can cause DA to change, especially since the index is a little smaller this month. Before worrying too much, check out your competitors and see how they compare to you, and if they've also decreased.
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RE: Competitor Keyword Rankings
Keep in mind a site can rank for a ton of keywords that no one ever searches for. Our business ranks first in Google (above Wikipedia!) for the string [Fast Gun, Treaty, and Big Gun styles of RC model warship combat] but I can tell you nobody has ever come into my site with that exact query.
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RE: Google disavow tool ( how long does it take ? )
Disavowing links to Google isn't going to affect your OSE report. Moz doesn't have a way of seeing what you've told Google, so we have no way to know which links you've disavowed.
I believe it's internally Google will treat those links as nofollow, but they cannot physically modify the code on the linking site, so those links won't be marked nofollow for OSE and other crawlers.
I hope this helps some?
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RE: Low KDS but high DA for all page 1 sites
I've walked in to Sears and asked where the maternity section was. Even mimed a huge belly. Clerk didn't understand what I was talking about. Thankfully, most employees are a bit better than this, and I do like EGOL's approach.
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RE: Large-Scale Penguin Cleanup - How to prioritize?
Have you read the post at http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal? Matt Cutts even called it out on Twitter as a good post. That's where I'd first look for ideas.
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RE: Relevancy vs Quality of the website in blog commenting
Would you want to comment there if the link was not included, or if it had a nofollow attribute? Did you find the post because it was a relevant post, or was it found with a search query that was looking specifically for posts to comment on?
Those are a couple of questions to ask yourself as to whether you'd want to leave a link. If there are a bunch of spammy links, I'd probably avoid it myself, but that's my personal opinion.
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RE: Articles and what to do with them
You can talk with your customers, and talk with the person/people who talk with your customers. What questions do they get all the time? Write content about that! You'll have content for the web that meets the needs of your users, and you'll free up time of the staff that deals with the customers. Some of the posts on the Moz blog have come about because an author has answered the same question so many times in Q&A that they wanted to write a blog post on it, then be able to just give people a link to that post as the answer.
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RE: How to get links for boring niches/industries?
For accounting, I think there are some big firms in the last ten years that would disagree that nothing interesting happens.
In all cases, I'd start with the person who answers the phone and answers the email inquiries. What questions do they get all the time? What information do they send out by email? How much of that can you put on the web, to both draw traffic and to ease some of the phone calls and emails you get with basic questions?
Someone can order concrete, but how much hand-holding do they need to choose which type of concrete to order? How do they know how to judge how much to order? If it's for a pathway to my front door where two people live, do I need a different mix than if it was a sidewalk at an elementary school that has 800 kids? What about permeable concrete that lets rain go through?
What size forklift do I need? What considerations do I need to take into account when ordering one? Are there some that are too high for common garages? Do I need any training to use one? What if I need one for just an hour to unload a unit of plywood, can I get the delivery person to wait while I unload so they can take the forklift back? What happens if the plywood delivery is late and you end up serving lunch to the forklift delivery person? (this paragraph is all based on personal experience!)
Those are more for content than link building, I realize. For links, perhaps a local real estate agent has a column about DIY concrete driveways and could recommend your client as a reputable company? Could they sponsor a little league team and be sure that the team has a link back? If they're a member of the BBB or trade organizations, be sure to get links.
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RE: 90% Traffic Drop...
Was there any work done to the site on that date? Could GA code have not been put on some of the pages? Could there have been duplicate codes that had been inflating the numbers that were removed? Do you have access to awstats or some other form of server log files to check for a corresponding drop there? Have your leads and sales changed?
Just want to narrow down that we are looking at a traffic drop and not a reporting issue.
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RE: How To Get Rid Of Duplicate Title Tages
I'd 301 the removed page to the current page.
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RE: How to get links for boring niches/industries?
Could you interview them instead, and then pay someone to transcribe it? Talk with them, get the information in person, record it (perhaps even on a smartphone), then pay a transcription service or under-utilized staff person to transcribe and then a content person to polish it up
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RE: When I type link:mydomainname.com in Google I don't see any result, why?
The link: command has been unreliable and has underreported links for years. Google's own help says it's a sampling of links to the site (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en). To see more links (though they still admit it's a sample), verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and they will show you some more links.
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RE: "Search Box Optimization"
It's generally a technique that is prohibited by companies that people hired to do this type of thing. For example, people would put up gigs on Amazon Mechanical Turk, asking people to search for a particular phrase, to help them get into autosuggest.
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RE: Blocking non-U.S. traffic to fight referral spam?
I block based on hostname, and that's worked for me. There's a good post at http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/ with several options.
Edited to add: always keep a profile that has NO filters or anything else, just in case you accidentally end up blocking valid data.
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RE: My website is not indexing
No notices from Google in Google Webmaster Tools? Do check there to see if there is any information.
As a consumer, this site raises several red flags for me. The site is just over a month old, there is no indication to the user of a way to contact the site by phone or mail (though privacy policy indicates this can be done), the WHOIS shows a registration based in China, and the images are stock images (despite text saying that it is actual inventory). These same factors may also raise concern with anyone doing a manual review of your site. The links to this site are also few and suspicious.
It could be that this is a very spammy space and Google has cracked down on sites that have little original content and have signals that they may not be totally legitimate.
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RE: I'm looking for a good SEO
If you don't want a repeat of what happened before, you'd do well to do some searching on your own. One good thing to do is look at the answers others have given in this forum to similar questions. If you find someone whose answers you like and trust, and they seem to be trusted by others, approach them and see if they're hiring. Right now, what you're doing is similar to going in the middle of a parking lot and shouting "is anyone here a good mechanic?".
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RE: Meta Abstract & Revisit
Revisit-after, based on searches I've done in the past, was used by one regional search engine in Canada many, many years ago and not by any other engine. You can safely not worry about needing to use it.
For Abstract, it doesn't look like it's used that much either. http://www.metatags.org/meta_name_abstract
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RE: Questions about canonicals
Honestly, as a user, I want to find all the information about your services on a page. If I'm looking for a diaper service, what matters to me is having all of the information in one place, not having thin content for "diaper service fremont" "diaper service hayward" "diaper service newark" "diaper service northeastern corner of San Lorenzo by the high school". Give me all the info about how wonderful your service is, how cloth diapers save the world, and give me a page where I can see if I'm in your service area. I don't know if that is something that could work in your situation, but it's a thought.
Ryan did have a good suggestion about testimonials including the city name of the user.
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RE: Should I include www in url, or doesn't it matter?
However, you DO want to be consistent and have either all www or no www, and have one redirect to the other, so you don't have both versions (www and non-www) indexed.
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RE: Is it true that google moved to ssl encrypted protocol and doesn't release keyword data anymore?
The vast majority of keyword data from Google is now "not provided". There is still some that gets through, though less with every month. Data you're seeing is from the keywords that still get through, plus the keywords from other search engines.
We are working on monthly reporting (and you can get some monthly reporting via custom reports), but it's not available in general just yet. It's a high-priority project, as we realize it is an important feature.
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RE: New to Affiliates Programs - Any advice?
I'd go to Rae Hoffman's website at http://sugarrae.com/ and read all of her posts about affiliate marketing. She's one of the top in the business, and gives out good information.
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RE: VIDEO SUBMISSION
In Rand's "The Story of SEOmoz post", the marketing section bullet point six references Wistia. "We recently switched our hosting provider to a company called Wistia, if you are doing online video, I think they are phenomenal. They do all the good SEO, the XML video sitemaps stuff for you, it is really good."
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-story-of-seomoz
It's also in point number 6 on the following post, and includes a link to a sample report. "Wistia is video hosting on steroids. Not only does this video hosting platform support HTML5, which makes your videos viewable on a slew of non-Flash enabled devices, but the platform is inherently designed for SEO."
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RE: Finding a copywriter
Two SEOmoz articles talk about hiring copywriters in general, setting expectations, how to help the relationship go well, etc. The second blog post has over sixty comments, and the discussion is worth reading as well.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-talk-to-your-copywriter
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-outsourcing-content-creation
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RE: Issue with Joomla Site not showing in SERP's
The site looks visually nice, except for the list of keywords at the bottom that Adam mentioned. I agree that some good backlinks are needed.
For user experience (and a bit for ranking, but primarily user experience at this point) I suggest looking at the file size of the images on your page. My first impression was that the site was slow to load, and I noticed you have several large image files that could be reduced either by saving a png as a jpg, or compressing the jpg (investiate smush.it from Yahoo).
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RE: Quicksimpleinsurance.com is not getting any visibility in Bing/Yahoo! Any idea why? It's doing alright on Google.
Cocarcea Ion, the original poster is indexed in Bing and Yahoo!. He states he is getting indexed, just hasn't had much traffic for related phrases. I've looked and do see his site being indexed in Bing and Yahoo.
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RE: Widgets like Facebook Like and AddThis - Any Negative SEO?
I agree with the page speed comment, they have been known to slow down sites.
As a user, I get annoyed with an addthis-type widget that pops up with 50 social networks that I can like or submit to. If you are going to use one of those, take a few extra moments to look and include just the ones your users are likely to use
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RE: Infographics
Here are some blog posts from Moz about infographics and where to place them that might be helpful.
http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-push-an-infographic
http://moz.com/blog/how-to-build-links-with-infographics
http://moz.com/blog/10-tools-for-creating-infographics-visualizations
http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-create-an-infographic-for-less-than-500
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RE: Where in my wordpress admin panel do I add the .
As an Associate, I marked this question as answered. Catherine, glad you were able to get your question answered so quickly! When you next visit this thread, it'd be great if you could mark the Helpful Answers, which will give some extra MozPoints to these gentlemen.
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RE: A sitemap... What's the purpose?
If you have a static site with twenty pages that doesn't get new pages added very often then yes, a site map probably isn't of a whole lot of use if your website has good architecture.
However, if your site is 30,000 pages and gets new content added regularly, then an xml sitemap is useful to make sure that the engines know about all of your pages.
Using multiple sitemaps can be useful to help you diagnose what type of content Google is crawling best. A hypothetical example is that you have a large site where you a) sell baking supplies b) have recipes and c) have user profiles that you want indexed. You could submit a site map for each area (then a master sitemap that lists each of the sub sitemaps).
In Google Webmaster Tools, you get a report that says how many pages you submitted for each site map, and how many of those pages are indexed. using the above setup, you might find something like:
baking supplies has 50 URLs indexed out of 2000 submitted
recipes has 10,000 URLs indexed out of 11,000 submitted
users has 500 URLs indexed out of 1000 submittedAt a glance, you can tell that something is up with the products you're trying to sell and that Google isn't indexing that section very well, and you know to focus on that section, and maybe there's a bug in the code that put a noindex on most of the pages on accident.
Does that help?
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RE: Why do people rarely give each other Thumbs Up?
As someone who has just spent three hours today going through the public Q&A entries (I'm an SEOmoz associate), I have seen responses with multiple thumbs. I think the most I've seen (or noticed) is 3-4 thumbs, but I do see two thumbs quite often. The Public Q&A is fairly new, and the most recent two weeks are restricted to pro members (I don't know if free members can add thumbs after two weeks, or just view the answers), so it may be just a lack of people so far. I do thank you for your thumb usage and participation!
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RE: Facebook question
Here's a good in-depth post about this from a day or two ago.
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/01/10/people-talking-about-this-defined/
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RE: Can anyone recommend an SEO agency that has provided outstanding results?
You might want to give a little more information about your site, budget, and scope. Do you have a ten-page site that you want to rank in a rural area of Colorado, or do you have 20,000 ecommerce items that you ship worldwide? Are you selling escort services that will help you in your poker game and weight loss endeavors, or are you selling landscape mulch? Are you looking to redesign your website, or only want SEO services? Do you need content too? Do you want someone local to you, or are you fine with working remotely?
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RE: Word Press site traffic plumit
It also wouldn't hurt to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see if there are any messages to the webmaster from Google in there about any problems.
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RE: URL Structure with deep Categories
An overlooked use for directory structure is for your analytics. Lunametrics has a great post that will get you thinking about this over at http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/.
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RE: URL rewriting with "-" or with a space ?
If you try to share "http://www.test.com/how are you.html" in an email or online, it's not going to automatically hyperlink the entire URL, it'll likely break off at the /how part.
I second using hyphens as separators. They present a clean look, and don't break or get translated with weird characters by various systems.
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RE: Automating the brainless tasks of Social Media Management
CoTweet allows you to assign tweets to other people as well, and archive tweets for which you don't need to respond.
To be honest, the use of the word brainless in the post a couple of times might have been what kept people from answering, as those who use FB and Twitter for business might argue a bit about it being brainless.
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RE: Down for me? Or everyone? 504 errors on campaigns and research tools.
We're back up and working now, and thank you for your patience.
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RE: ¿When Moz Local to all the World?
We would like to expand Moz Local, but don't have any dates yet. We will be sure to let everyone know when it comes time to add more countries!
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RE: Resources for creating infographics
Blueglass has had a lot of posts about building infographics. You might start with http://www.blueglass.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-infographic/ then do a search on their site for infographics to find their other posts.
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RE: SERP Meta Dependant Upon Search Query (strange Google bug?)
The short answer is that yeah, it's a Google thing. Google has been changing titles a lot more lately, and has often tweaked the meta description. Barry has a post on it over at Search Engine Roundtable. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-tag-13704.html.
You don't have anything set up wrong in your CMS, it's Google. It's late, so I don't have a longer answer for you, but hopefully this will help keep you from pulling out any more hair while we wait for some more people to chime in.
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RE: Scrolling Text Old School SEO and hidden index page
This is more commentary for your next step, after you have this question answered.
The links at the bottom right of the page seem more for search engines than users. As a user, I expected to be taken to a page about that particular topic, not have a paragraph or two display. My gut is telling me that some of the work that was done (in not the best way) for SEO was at the expense of usability. You might look at installing Crazyegg or a similar tracking software that looks where users click on the page, even if they're not clicking on a link. In addition to making the SEO right on the site, you'll want to look at the user experience and conversions.
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RE: Hootsuite Alternatives?
Hi! Thanks for your contribution to this older thread. We ask that when you have not written the answer yourself, but have used another source, that you please give attribution to that source. It appears this list was last updated about a year ago and is from http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/19/list-of-social-media-management-systems-smms/, correct?
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RE: MOZ Removes WWW
Did you set up your campaign as www.domain.com or domain.com? Your campaign metrics will reflect what you've set up for your campaign.
External links are not the same as seeing how many pages you have indexed. You can have 1000 pages, but only have 10 links to your domain.
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RE: Video Hosting Service or YouTube?
Phil from Distilled weighed in on this question today in a different thread at www.seomoz.org/q/best-way-to-host-video; his answer might help you as well.
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RE: How Does Link Juice Pass?
There's no redirect needed at that point, since mysite.com is where you do want people to end up. If you type in the correct version, you don't need a redirect (adding the http:// in the browser isn't a redirect).
Sounds to me like everything is set up correctly for you now.
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RE: How to ask for a backlink?
Hi Ryhs,
Here are a couple of other Q&A threads and posts that may provide some ideas. I don't do a lot of link outreach myself, but I do get a fair amount of spam link requests that are obviously taken from a boilerplate and not customized. Those never get a response from me, unless I'm in a bad mood, and then it's not a positive response.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/when-going-about-asking-a-site-for-a-link-on-their-page-how-do-you-ask
http://www.seobook.com/art-pitching-email
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dont-ask-sites-for-links-find-people-and-connect -
RE: What is regular link building plan ?
Here's a good starting place for learning about Linkbuilding: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
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RE: Questions From a Beginner
There's a limit of 5 campaigns for the Pro version. If you need more campaigns (usually one campaign per website), you can upgrade to a larger plan.
You usually only enter a campaign once. You set it up with your website, then let it collect the data.
You'll start getting data for your campaign within 24 hours.
We just updated the dashboard, and looks like we need to update that video too. I've sent off a note to our video team on that. Thanks for letting us know!