No, we don't offer any article writing software. We do have a lot of resources regarding creating content, including our blog section on content at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/1 and in our beginner's guide at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/how-usability-experience-and-content-affect-search-engine-rankings.
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RE: Does SEOMOZ have article writing software?
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RE: Page Title Not Displayed in SERPS
Hi Michael,
It is not uncommon for Google to chose a page title to display and ignore your meta title. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has written about this a couple of times, with examples, on the following posts.
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RE: If your analytics show you something like this, what is your next strategy?
The downside to a high search percentage is that if the algo changes and the change isn't in your favor, you don't have anything to fall back on. The traffic sources for my model warship combat site are similar to yours Yumi -- about an equal mix of direct, referral, and search engines. It's a comfort to know that if something drastic changed with the search engines, I still have my referral and direct traffic.
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RE: Quick Start SEO Tasks for Brand New Multi Regional Website
The Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo is a good place to get an overview of SEO and increasing your links.
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RE: Questions From a Beginner
You should be able to enter more keywords at this point. For what you may have missed, the best bet is to go through our Help Hub at http://moz.com/help and look at the information there.
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RE: Sell your writing or make your blog to publish it ?
I have a slightly different suggestion, and it's about what not to do. I have emailed you privately, but have not heard back, so I apologize but I need to put this in the public forum. Please do not include a link to your site in every single question, response, and comment you make. It makes people think that the only reason you are writing is to get a link, and will result in thumbs down on your answers, and eventual banning from the system if it continues. You are welcome to include the URL of your site when it is relevant to the question, but only when it is directly relevant.
Regarding your question, will you be writing in English, or writing in your native language? Do you have expertise in the area for which you are writing? The quality of the writing itself and of the content will help determine the type of price you can get for selling your writing, or how often people will come to your site to see your content.
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RE: How to remove a sub domain from Google Index!
If the site were still up, you could verify it in Google Webmaster Tools, put up a robots.txt for that subdomain that excludes crawlers from crawling anything, then go into GWT and request the entire subdomain be removed.
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RE: Duplicate page content
The best solution is to do a 301 redirect to your preferred URL (likely the one without the index.html). That way people never see the index.html URL, never link to it, and all the juice goes to the other URL.
To be able to give you instructions for this, it's best if you can tell us what type of server you are on (such as IIS or Apache), or if you can give us the URL we can figure it out from that.
If you're not able to do a redirect, the canonical tag is the second best choice. Users will remain on the /index.html page, but at least Google then knows that it's the same page as /,
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RE: Social Media Exhange.. In wich SEO side?
In my honest opinion, I'd classify it as not something I'd spend my time or money on. That's not going to be my target market, they're not going to be accounts that are interested in what I have to say, and it's not going to do me any good when it comes to making money or getting my message out to the right people.
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RE: Pro just NOTworking, won't add campaigns...help!
Hi Jean,
I saw your help desk ticket in from Friday regarding billing, and added a note for our team to look at this question and address it when they look more into your billing question. Sorry for the troubles, and you should be hearing back from us today.
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RE: How many words per page?
Thanks! I also agree with what Neil Patel said in that post that sometimes, long copy can interfere with conversions. It's a big "it depends". Sometimes all you need is a brief answer to an FAQ that will take you 100 words, and other times you need 2000 words to properly cover a subject.
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RE: Development site accidentally got indexed and now appears in SERPs. How to fix?
For the future, I'd suggest using something like Code Monitor (https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php) to monitor for any changes to your live or staging robots.txt. I've been in situations where too many people had access to the site that didn't know what they were doing, and getting an alert within 24 hours that someone changed something in robots.txt really saved us.
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RE: Penalties for site going down often?
Does the server return a 503 not available when it goes down at least? Or is it somehow set to show a 404? You want to make sure it's showing a 503 to the bots so they know the server is down and not that the pages have been removed.
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RE: How can you tell if a competitors' FB post was boosted?
Unless it happened to show up in your feed (in which case you can see a note that it was sponsored), to my knowledge, there's no way of knowing it was paid. I asked Marty from Aim Clear and a couple of other people about this last spring, and they weren't aware of a way either. If one post has 3000 FB likes, and all the other posts by the page have about 10 likes, you can guess that they did something, however.
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RE: Not able to access Moz pro page and my campaigns
Everything should be working now. If you're still having any problems, please contact [email protected]. Thanks!
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RE: What's the difference between assets and infographics?
Also check out Rand's Whiteboard Friday (with transcript, to help with translation) at http://moz.com/blog/why-visual-assets-are-better-than-infographics-whiteboard-friday
He discusses why visual assets are better than infographics.
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RE: Can anyone recommend a good UK service provider for Dedicated Servers?
What country is the target for this website? Your profile looks like you're from the UK. If you're targeting people in the UK, you might want to specify that, so we can help give you recommendations that better suit your area. If possible, you generally want hosting in the country you're targeting.
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RE: Quickseoresults.com - Anyone used them?
I'm looking at their Our Method page at http://www.quickseoresults.com/our-method.php. It looks like their method focuses exclusively on link building. They brag about how many PR6-9 sites they get your links on, but this is an interesting paragraph they add:
If you are familiar with even basic SEO, you would know that it is useless to get links from a page with hundreds of outbound links but it’s not useless to get low value or no-follow links because they help construct an organic looking link profile. In the eyes of Google - less manufactured + less commercial = better rankings.
Their services include: wordpress blog posts, social profiles, forum links, web 2.0 blog posts (and this differs from wordpress blog posts how??), blog comments, bookmarking, monthly reporting, and SEO tips for your site.
Their facebook page has over 31,000 likes. The administrator of the facebook page asked for people to respond to a question recently, and in the comments said "So there are still real humans here :D" which doesn't lend confidence to me that all of those likes are very natural.
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RE: Where's Rogerbot?
He's hiding over at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test for the moment. We'll be working on making him a little easier to find again.
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RE: What is a really great bounce rate for a product or service site? What does Good look like?
If you suddenly got a really good bounce rate of 1% or 2%, I'd take a look at your code and make sure that there's not two analytics instances there that are both firing, or some other code that's firing twice. The doubling in pages a visit would make me want to look there. I had the same issue on my site -- had a WP site and put in a custom analytics script in the footer, but still had the regular analytics in there via a WP plugin.
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RE: Ranking Tracker-"Sorry But This Page Inaccessible". ERROR
We have been having some issues this weekend that have resulted in some outages; a couple of things went wrong at the same time. We'll have updates and more information tomorrow when everyone is back in the office. So sorry about this!
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RE: What's the difference between assets and infographics?
Thank you for my morning grin!
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RE: Is There A Way To Automatically Ping Your New Content
Hi Diane,
Have you tried any of these? Joomla has an extension directory that lists several pinging extensions. Also, a Bing search on [joomla ping] turned up several useful results with detailed explanations.
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RE: Is my "term & conditions"-"privacy policy" and "About Us" pages stealing link juice?
There's a good discussion about this in a very similar post from a few hours ago at http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-make-all-my-non-money-pages-no-follow. The short answer is that a couple years back it may have helped, but not anymore.
You do want to index them, as you want the search engines to see that you have a privacy policy, and both the privacy policy and about us help the engines trust your site just a tad more.
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RE: Why still the moz index showing "Next Update on August 26, 2013"?
It looks like we will be releasing the index this afternoon. We'll keep you posted!
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RE: Free websites that are good with SEO?
I think the OP was asking more for sites that also had free hosting.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
I will! Had a few other things come up, but I do plan on responding, should be later today.
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RE: About Bot's IP
The best thing to do now is contact [email protected] and let them know your account username and the campaign that is having problems, and they can look into it for you.
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RE: Blog links - follow or nofollow?
I'd put the links out there straight. I don't see anything for you to worry about at all. You're curating the links, you feel they are valuable, let Google know they are valuable and trusted links.
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RE: Where to find one off crawl report
It is hiding! It's over at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test.
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RE: What do you think about Alexa SEO audit?
How large of a site do you want to audit? What type of information do you want to get out of it?
These two SEOMoz posts are a starting point if you want to perform a quick audit yourself, for free.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-checklist-in-a-hurry-audit-list
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-a-sample-from-seo-secrets
Last Year, SEO Book wrote a detailed post showing what the Alexa SEO audit for their site looked like, and discussed if it was worth the money. You can view that post to see what the audit will give you and help determine if it will meet your needs.
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RE: Mechanical Turk
Reading the list of things that violate Mechanical Turk policies is probably a good idea. You can check out a lot of information at https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies. Some specific information includes that these types of things are not allowed:
<a name="#violation_examples">What are some specific examples of HITs that violate Amazon Mechanical Turk policies?</a>
- HITs requiring disclosure of the Worker's identity or e-mail address, either directly or indirectly
- HITs requiring registration at another website or group
- HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion
- HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something)
- HITs that have explicit or offensive content, for instance, nudity, but do not have the Adult Content Qualification
- HITs asking Workers to solicit third parties
- HITs that generate "referred" site visits or click-through traffic
- HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results
- HITs that violate intellectual property rights of any party
- HITs that require Workers to download software
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
As I mentioned in my Inside YouMoz post, there are even some posts that I would have turned down if they didn't have links. I try to treat links as scholarly citations rather than votes. There's a post right now in the queue that I need to respond to and tell the author that they need to back up some of their statements with links to the source of what they are claiming.
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RE: How to create GA Profile for SEOMoz
There is a bug that's being worked on right now, and I think a fix will be out within the next day.
Often I'll find Q&A questions indexed in less than an hour. Google tends to be pretty speedy with their indexing of this section.
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RE: Link Building Tactics for 2012?
Today's YouMoz looks at ten examples of good linkbait pieces and dissects why they were successful. It might help you get a couple of ideas for your pieces too.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/10-extraordinary-examples-of-effective-link-bait
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RE: Why'd Moz stop showing the list of users?
I think that's a bug and not a feature. I'll send a note about that to the dev team. Thanks for pointing it out!
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RE: Google Penalty?
Verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools, and see if there is a notice from Google there. They will sometimes notify you if you have a penalty. If you are completely out of the index, you can file a reinclusion request in GWT as well.
If you want to put your URL here, the community can take a look and see what they can find that may help answer your question, if it is not purely a hypothetical question.
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RE: Sky Lancers: What is the deal?
It looks like it's related to a toolbar where people are paid to click on ads. Skylancers.net and skylancers.com appear to be connected, based on the whois info, and on this FB post http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skylancers/200579273364198. Check out the dot com site for some more info.
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RE: What's brewing on YouMoz? (And how you can Help)
Hi Dirk,
I'm not with Moz anymore, so I can't speak to how things are at this very moment, but there was a good conversation in the comments of the following post earlier this year that talked about some of the tensions in the review process and factors that affected the timeline. https://mza.seotoolninja.com/blog/moz-community-managers#comment-318875. I imagine many of them still hold true.
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RE: Why do I get duplicate pages, website referencing the capital version of the url vs the lowercase www.agi-automation.com/Pneumatic-grippers.htm
I'd vote for doing the rewrite to the lowercase version. This gives you a couple of added benefits:
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If people copy and paste the URL from their browser then link to it, you're getting all the links going to the same place.
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Your analytics based on your URLs will be more accurate. Instead of seeing:
urla.htm 70 visits
urlb.htm 60 visits
urlB.htm 30 visitsYou'll see
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RE: Looking for a SEO client activity timeline or flow chart
This post from a year ago might be of interest to you. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928
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RE: Anyone else seeing completely wrong metrics for rank tracker?
We do have a known issue (http://health.moz.com/) that rankings are missing for some accounts. We are pushing out a fix for this. I'm not sure of the timeframe for the fix, but do know that it's not you, we're the ones who have messed up and it'll be fixed soon.
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RE: How do you block development servers with robots.txt?
On the root of the development subdomain, use the following robots.txt content to block all robots.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /Next, verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools as its own site, and request that that site be removed from the index.
For added protection:
- Make the robots.txt on the live site read only, so when you copy the dev site over you don't accidentally copy over the robots.txt saying to exclude everything
- Set up a code monitor on the robots.txt for both the dev site and the live site that checks the content of those files and alerts you if there are changes. I use https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php.
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RE: Link idea? good or bad?
Is there more value in spending 3-6 months in doing the coding plus content for several sites, or would there be more value in spending that effort in developing content for your main site? Which is more defensible when the search engines update algorithms? I'd vote for spending the effort on my main site rather than other sites.
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RE: Find blog post idea
What questions do people have when they contact you? That's a content idea. What questions do people ask on Quora? Trip Advisor? bicycling forums? What FAQs do your competitors have? Take that FAQ content as an idea, then write a whole blog post (if there's enough content) and start to outrank them.
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RE: Looking to hire someone to help on my website. On page issues with subpages outranking homepage
Nux,
Do feel free to ask a question in private Q&A. It's private, so it is not indexed, and not visible to anyone but SEOmoz staff and associates (who are all under NDAs) and yourself. You can name the sites in question, and get a bit more of a personalized response and some direction there in addition to what you're getting here in public.
You get one private question a month as a pro member, and this sounds like it could be a good reason to use that private question credit.
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RE: I want your opinions on the lack of increase in Pintrest's PR
Keep in mind you're only seeing the Toolbar Page Rank, which updates only a few times a year, and isn't an exact reflection of the constantly-updated real PR that's internally calculated by Google.
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RE: How old is this Moz quiz?
It is less than two months old, and we have a blog post about it at http://moz.com/blog/new-seo-expert-quiz with more information.
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RE: Title not showing in Serps
Google puts in its own titles at times, and has been doing so for some time. This post at Search Engine Roundtable will help explain things a little, and show you that you're not alone.
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html
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RE: Seo back linking proposal review
I would also suggest reading the Beginner's Guide to SEO, especially the link building section at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.
Personally, I would rather do nothing at all than do a package like the one above. The one above just means that at some point, I'm going to need to spend a lot of time to clean up those junk links. I view this as similar to spending a couple of hundred dollars a month to provide someone with spray paint to put your URL on the side of a building. It's about the same quality. Again, this is my personal opinion, and not the official voice of SEOmoz, but we take a fairly similar if more muted stance on these type of packages.
Spun articles are junk. My favorite is an example of a post on alcoholism -- instead of "think before you drink" it read "think before you beverage".
Here's an example of an .edu link. http://courses.csusm.edu/ricastudy/module01/discussion01/_disc1/00008603.htm They're not all quality.
Ok, stepping down off the soapbox. You have a number of trusted community members here that are also giving you great advice. Those with Authority, Guru, and Oracle underneath their names have been around for a while and have lots of participation and are generally good people to listen to.