Category: SERP Trends

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  Getting indexed in Google Scholar
  

  seo googlescholar

  Hi all! We have a client who publishes scholarly research as a highly regarded non-profit. Their Publications aren't being indexed in Google Scholar 50% of the time and when they are, Google is pulling random stuff from a PDF vs. from the html page. Any advice on best practices is enormously appreciated

  | SimpleSearch

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  Getting indexed by Google scholar
  

  Often my Google Scholar alerts result in exactly what I think they will: scholarly articles published in academic journals. However, today I got this completely non-scholarly article https://www.t-nation.com/training/the-exact-reps-that-make-you-grow and I have no idea why Google Scholar is indexing this site. I've read up on how to get indexed by Google Scholar, and this website doesn't seem to have the necessary requirements. I'm curious for anyone whose clients or industry need to get indexed by Google Scholar, what has worked for you?

  | newwhy

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  What do we know about the "Shops" SERP Feature?
  

  serp features

  I came across this SERP Feature in a search today on a mobile device. It does not show for the same search query on desktop. What do we know about this "Shops" SERP feature? shops-blur.jpg

  | seoelevated

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  | Rocketinghgsdfgs

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  Best proxy service to browse the Google from different countries to check the ranking
  

  Hi Moz community, We need to check our website/pages rankings for random keywords at random timings in different countries. Beside checking in search console, we would like to check in browser. But Google now is not allowing us to browse the results of other country. I would like to use best proxy service to browse Google from different location to check how our pages are ranking & fluctuating. Please suggest on this. Thanks

  | vtmoz

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  Search results vary in chrome vs other browsers even in Incognito mode: Google's stand?
  

  Hi all, We use incognito mode or private browsing to check the Actual results which are not impacted by previous history, location (sometimes), etc. Even we browse this way, we can see the different search results. Why would this happen? What's Google's stand on this? What is the actual way to browse to get the unbiased results for certain search queries? I have experienced that Chrome will rank our own websites bit higher compared to the other browsers even in incognito mode. Thanks

  | vtmoz

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  URL Parameter for Limiting Results
  

  We have a category page that lists products. We have parameters and the default value is to limit the page to display 9 products. If the user wishes, they can view 15 products or 30 products on the same page. The parameter is ?limit=9 or ?limit=15 and so on. Google is recognizing this as duplicate meta tags and meta descriptions via HTML Suggestions. I have a couple questions. 1. What should be my goal? Is my goal to have Google crawl the page with 9 items or crawl the page with all items in the category? In Search Console, the first part of setting up a URL parameter says "Does this parameter change page content seen by the user?". In my opinion, I think the answer is Yes. Then, when I select how the parameter affects page content, I assume I'd choose Narrows because it's either narrowing or expanding the number of items displayed on the page. 2. When setting up my URL Parameters in Search Console, do I want to select Every URL or just let Googlebot decide? I'm torn because when I read about Every URL, it says this setting could result in Googlebot unnecessarily crawling duplicate content on your site (it's already doing that). When reading further, I begin to second guess the Narrowing option. Now I'm at a loss on what to do. Any advice or suggestions will be helpful! Thanks.

  | dkeipper

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  Ways to fetch search analytics - historical search query data from Google Search Console
  

  Is there any way to fetch all historical search query data from Google Search Console ? Google allows us to view only 90 days report at the maximum. Does integrating google search console with google analytics tool solve this problem ?

  | NortonSupportSEO

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  How create product category in Google Analytics?
  

  Hi, I have a lot of product in my GA ecommerce. Does anyone how I can split my product by product categories in Analytics? E.g. Category: Blue cars, category: Yellow cars ...

  | Tormar

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  Create original content or Copy from several sources?
  

  I own a site that that has about 15,000 pages that need some description content.  I plan to hire someone to retrieve or create content for each of these pages on my site. each page needs about 500 words. I was thinking that there is probably three ways i can go about this. If I hire someone cheap I can probably have them copy data from about 20 different sites. using about 5 sources for each page description. I can hire someone that has some experience writing english content, and have them go to a few sites and then in their own words summarize the description on my site. I can hire a great content writer, have them do research on each page, and create completely unique content. I probably will do some combination of these 3 things. (great content writer on a few pages, since thats all i can afford to do) and the rest do the cheaper route. Is copying sentences from multiple sources a good idea? or does the content really need to be original?

  | moneymm22

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  What options are there for local SEO when no physical location exists?
  

  I work for a automobile transportation company that provides services in several different cities throughout the US. Our headquarters (and physical location) is in San Diego, California, however we have drivers stationed in several different cities throughout the nation. The problem is, we don't have physical locations in those other cities - our drivers essentially work from home. What local SEO options are available to us, if any, for those cities where we don't have an actual brick and mortar address? Listing the home address of our drivers is, for obvious reasons, not ideal. Thanks for your help!

  | SEOAspirant

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  Search Volume Data for iTunes App Store?
  

  Ok, so maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, But where can I get good search volume data for searches done in iTunes app store? Or is this something that Apple just doesn't share?

  | TheSEOWiz

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  How do you check what links there are to a specific page on a site?
  

  Hi Mozzers, I'm doing a bit of research and need your help! I'm trying to find out what specific sites link to a particular page on a website. What's the best tool to use as I checked it with Moz and it only brought back 5 links? Then I tried an free online tool and it said there were 35 links. I'm a bit confused now. What tool/s do you use to check links to a specific page?

  | Leo_Woodhead

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  302 redirect on http but not on https
  

  Hi I have noticed using screaming frog that 302 redirect is in place but when checking the HTTACESS there no such thing in place. If I run a scan with: http://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php doing a test with: https://www. everything seems ok but then when I do: http://www. There is a 302 in place and seem to understand why. I have analysed the Httacess file and cant seem to locate anything that refers to the 302 any advise or previous experience would be great. Thanks
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  | Direct_Ram

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  H1 tag with display:none;
  

  Hi guys, Is this technique considered as Black hat SEO and will you get penalized by google for hiding elements from the user? Thanks, Dan

  | Sparkstone

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  Does my website need a search bar?
  

  We're redesigning our agency website and during development we noticed our current design doesn't feature a mock up for a search bar. It was a simple oversight, but it got me thinking how valuable it really is. I noticed the Moz blog doesn't have a search bar (unless I'm blind) and was wondering who else has made the decision to get rid of it. We have a blog of almost 400 posts over the course of three years, unsure if that sways the decision in either direction. Is it better to just focus on good SEO instead of relying on a search bar nowadays? Opinions appreciated!

  | BopDesign

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  Local SEO citations: Do business description text variations matter? If yes how important is it to vary them?
  

  I would like to see what is the consensus here about this stuff as virtually any automated service, be it yext or yahoo, will use one description text and use it for every available listing in their ecosystem. In general what is your take on varying this business description text? of course, I would personally put a safer bet on avoiding any duplicate text between listings and the domain of the business in any case. but my questions is more between listing vs listing. THIS IS BAD - WHY? THIS HAS NO IMPORTANCE WHATSOEVER - WHY NOT? and in conclusion and hindsight, would one need to watch out for duplicate content across non-domain assets used by the business so long as none of the content is duplicated from the business domain? I tried my best googling this, but did not find a straight answer anywhere. I would really appreciate some experienced and insightful comments on this one 🙂

  | Raydon

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  How often do you submit to local search/citation sites?
  

  I recently received a Network Solutions spam/offer email regarding their internet marketing packages.  One of the "benefits" they cited was that they submit your information to local search/citation sites once a month, to keep it up-to-date. I don't know about you guys, but my clients' information isn't changing on a frequent basis.  I remember when it used to be a tactic to submit regularly to the same citation sites, but that seems like overkill now.  Does anyone still do this, or is NS just trying to make their product sound good?  Do we need to update citation sites frequently, or is it enough to update when there are actual changes to make?

  | ScottImageWorks

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  Google Keyword Tool is Being Sunsetted
  

  I was reading this article http://adwords.blogspot.de/2013/05/introducing-keyword-planner-combining.html that says that Google is going to be sunsetting it's popular keyword tool.  As an SEO specialist, I use this tool daily, so I'm concerned about it's impact on my keyword research efforts. I reviewed the keyword planner (albeit quite quickly) and it doesn't seem to work as efficiently for SEO keyword research.  I'm curious to get others thoughts on the following: The new keyword planner tool Will the new keyword planner tool be effective for SEO keyword research Are there other tools that you've used that have provided good keyword research data (and are they free or paid)

  | TopFloor

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  Best keyword research tool for Google image search?
  

  What is the best research tool for finding search data specifically for Google Image search?

  | nicole.healthline

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  How to get Google Results for Did You Mean | Showing results for
  

  If someone misspells our company name in Google, how do I get google to display **Did You Mean:  **xyz. Our company name is difficult to spell and could be spelled multiple ways. What is the trick to this?

  | hfranz

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  Searching google without bias
  

  i read a tip once and can't find the reference to that tip. It had to do with searching google without including the history of your searches to bias the result. The user was suppose to put a code at the end of the URL, like &pw or something like that. Anyone hear of this?

  | StreetwiseReports

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  Dynamic pages for locations, but SEOmoz counts them as multiple content. Are there any good work-arounds?
  

  We have a client that has a list of locations. Instead of having multiple pages (65) for each, the pages content is dynamic, hence, the multiple content for each location. Just the 'city" variable changes on the page. Is there a graceful way to fix this problem so I don't get bookoos of errors in the crawl or if I am approaching this wrong? Thanks in advance! Abe S.

  | rsasanchez

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  YouTube Optimisation
  

  Hey guys, what are in your opinion top ranking factors for YouTube optimisation?

  | Dan-Petrovic

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  Can I submit multiple data feed to Google Merchant Center?
  

  I have submitted my product feed to Google Merchant Center. There are 7K+ products in one product feed. (data_feed.txt) I am not satisfy with my products' performance on Google shopping. Because, I am not able to maintain data quality for all products as well as not able to focus on high selling categories. Can I submit multiple product feed with separation of categories as follow. category001_data_feed.txt (With 200 High selling products) category002_data_feed.txt (With 100 offers products)

  | CommercePundit

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  Are Word .doc or .txt files indexed into Search Engines?
  

  I have a new client that is using Word files on their site, downloadable press releases. They feel that reporters prefer downloading press releases as Word .doc's instead of .pdf's since they can open and edit the content. Do these files offer any SEO?

  | ringstonmedia

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