@gooday2day I think it's live in all accounts now - contact CS if you're not able to see it.
Posts made by Tom.Capper
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
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RE: ga4 workaround?
@MattsonMacleod Yes, it's already live for some accounts.
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RE: ga4 workaround?
@peterkay Moz GA4 support is very close to launch.
In the meantime, Moz still works fine without analytics integration, it just can't include your traffic in dashboards etc. - you'd have to combine that externally.
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RE: Making the change to GA4?
@Tom-Capper (My mistake, I got too excited - latest I've seen is 2 weeks out.)
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
You can skip that step, as many do - if that's not working for you, I recommend contacting CS
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RE: **When will MOZ support GA4?**
I'm expecting something to roll out this week or next.
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
Just to reiterate what's written elsewhere - the vast majority of our tool does not leverage GA data, and many of our customers choose not to integrate it (or use another analytics platform).
That said, I'm expecting something to roll out this week or next.
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
You don't even need to have GA at all for us to track a site - many sites use other platforms after all.
If you had issues skipping that step in setup, contact our help team and they should be able to sort it for you.
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
Latest I've heard is that our integration will be updated to support GA4 some time next month.
I should emphasise though, depending what you are evaluating Moz against - most of our peers don't support analytics integration at all. It's not a core functionality, more something that can be used to augment certain reports.
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
We're aiming to launch before the changeover, I can't say much more than that right now.
In the meantime, can you tell me how you're using GA data in reports/audits, and maybe I can help? GA data is used very little in Moz, so it may be that there are alternative ways for you to get the same information.
Of course if you're just using Moz to report GA data, then we can't replicate that until the integration is complete - although, if I'm honest, it's probably better to present that data directly or in a free but purpose-built tool like Looker Studio than via an SEO tool.
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RE: these sites where you have to pay to generate backlinks?
I think you are saying that you posted on this forum, with a post containing a backlink, and were banned.
External links from Moz forum posts are tagged as <nofollow ugc>, and in any case the purpose of this forum is not to advertise your services - it is to discuss SEO problems, news, and tactics.
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RE: Is it a good idea to publish a list of players in my industry, including competitors?
@Mike_Sobol said in Is it a good idea to publish a list of players in my industry, including competitors?:
If the "Big Industry List" I want to build is a useful website section that gets found, even if the traffic is unlikely to be my buyers in that moment, can that improve my SEO?
Yes, potentially. If it does well and users are seeking it out, that sends certain signals to Google. As would brand recognition and external links from said users. But, the page does have to do very well to achieve those things.
@Mike_Sobol said in Is it a good idea to publish a list of players in my industry, including competitors?:
Or do those content pages need external inbound links in order to be valuable for SEO because it would raise our DA?
Not necessarily, although popular resources tend to generate external links organically.
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RE: these sites where you have to pay to generate backlinks?
"After opening a site here" - can you elaborate a bit about what you mean by this?
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RE: Best practices for retiring 100s of blog posts?
Redirecting them in bulk might cause some loss of equity yes - are any of them particularly noteworthy or well linked to? Perhaps just those ones could be left up.
That said, if you have the option to leave these posts live on an archived subdirectory, why is it that you want to take them down at all? Usually the answer would be because they are duplicate or thin content, but clearly that is not the case.
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RE: Is it a good idea to publish a list of players in my industry, including competitors?
It sounds like a very unique case so it's hard to give concrete advice.
Perhaps you could use nofollow links if you're worried about SEO benefit, but I'd have thought the greater risk is that many customers might prefer to attempt to buy direct, or through a cheaper distributor. As you say, perhaps few customers will find this page - but if so, is it really adding much value?
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RE: Will Moz support GA4?
Sorry for the slow reply - yes, Moz is planning to support GA4.
That said, we're always interested to hear more about how you use the integration, as we're hoping to build on and expand on the current UA integration as well as just transferring over current functionality.
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RE: **When will MOZ support GA4?**
Hi Nwx
We're aware of the deadline of course, and aiming our efforts accordingly.
It's always a balance in terms of getting something out early vs adding new functionality at the same time.
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RE: Is domain forwarding the same as a 301 redirect?
This will ultimately depend on your provider, and they should have supporting documentation.
I think in most cases the redirect will be a 301, but it may not retain the path - in other words, all pages on the old site could redirect to the one new URL that you enter.
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RE: How good is my page?
Hi Stephedwa
It looks like you're doing fine with the basics, so it'd take a lot more familiarity with your site to make decent suggestions.
As with the other example in this thread, I can only suggest the first few things I notice when glancing at the page.
And similarly, this page seems to go after what I guess are a few different intents:
- Jet Ski Hire prices - a price list / FAQ style intent
- Jet Ski Hire - an intent to hire a jet ski
- Jet Ski Experience - an intent to have more of a guided / supported experience, perhaps for someone who has never driven a jet ski before
Even the title mixes and matches on these, it's likely that dedicated content for each intent would do better and feel less keyword stuffed.
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RE: Redirecting Homepage to Subdomain Bad or Good Idea??
Domain migratioins can potentially keep most of the traffic, but with something like an old forum this seems unlikely - there's going to be a lot of pages, they're very old so won't be crawled often, and as it's probably not the main focus of your business, I suspect the migration won't receive the full attention of an SEO team.
As such, I'd say this question comes down to which you value most, out of organic traffic to the forum as it stands, and completing this software migration.
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RE: Backlinking Strategy
Sorry for the slow reply.
You can definitely obtain relevant traffic from sites like these, but links are likely to be nofollow.
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RE: Will properly encoded & signs hurt or help me?
Changing URLs in any way will hurt your rankings - the process of redirecting the old URL to the new one causes a loss of equity which then has to gradually be rebuilt.
That said, for new URLs, I would say the only relevant consideration is how the URL will appear in search results and browsers as readable, or not, to human users.
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RE: Why is my website Backlinks Lower on Moz than on SEMRush?
Like our competitors and like Google themselves, we crawl all pages in an ongoing process, with some being re-crawled more often than others, depending on their seeming importance etc.
The larger number of backlinks in SEMRush vs Moz in this case could simply be a fluke of which pages were higher up the queue in which tool. Or, it could be that they're counting slightly different things - dead links, links on duplicate (canonicalised) pages, etc.
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RE: How good is my page?
That's a nice site, and those are beautiful cars!
Two main ideas come to mind for me looking at this page - and they're both ideas, not recommendations. You should test, cautiously.
The first is that your sitewide navigation is fairly light. You say this is one of your most popular pages, but there is no sitewide link. Perhaps a small drop-down top-nav would help?
The second is that this page seems to muddle intents - it's a commercial page, sellng E-type tyres. But it also contains a wealth of information, written in verbose prose. Above the fold on my laptop, I can't even see that it's possible to browse tyres on this page. Whilst I understand the need to have some copy and information on commercial pages so they don't end up too thin, perhaps you could consider splitting it out - on the commercial page, feature the most specific and pertinent information to a buyer, in easily digested form. On a separate "E-type tyre buying guide" page, feature the more elaborate information. As I say - just an idea.
I also notice what I think is an attempt to occasionally use American spellings (tire) - I think Google sees through this kind of thing these days, and your buyers will expect to see a consistent spelling.
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RE: Missing Canonical Tag for a PDF document
There's two answers to this.
One is that whilst it's best practice for all URLs to have a canonical (even if it's self-referencing), if this resource has no duplicates, it's not mandatory.
The other is that yes, you can add a canonical tag to a web page. You'd have to do it at the HTTP header level.
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RE: Backlinking Strategy
In some ways, aiming for a specific DA is probably not the right approach. DA is a useful metrc for predicting how well a site might rank against another, all things being equal, but there's a lot of nuance to what might help you succeed for a given query.
That said, for newer sites, some links are certainly helpful. There's no one way to go about it.
I'd suggest for a new blog, start by producing some resources you feel others might find useful, entertaining, or otherwise remarkable. Then, find ways to get these in front of people who might consider linking to you from their own sites - perhaps share the resources with your social media followers, email journalists from relevant publications, or engage with platforms like Reddit or forums.
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RE: Three version of english pages: EN-US, EN-GB und EN as x-default
Assuming your Hreflang is consistent, which it appears to be, and all variants are crawled and indexed, this usually occurs when the differences between the pages are too minor.
You might be able to see in GSC if Google is considering the /en/ version to be the canonical of the /en-gb/ version, for example, contrary to your tagging.
If that is indeed the case, your options are to either to make the variants more different, or reduce the number of variants until they are all significantly different.
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RE: Duplicate content homepage - Google canonical 'N/A'?
The contradictory GSC report is curious. My guess without more info is that either Google has not found the redirect, or cannot see the redirect.
When I checked some pages myself e.g. https://sa-state.cataloxy.net/firms/adelaide-airport.htm, they are not redirected. Is this intentional?
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RE: Can Moz integrate GA4 data?
@bizmarquee Thanks! This is really useful.
Can you elaborate a bit on what you're getting out of the Moz GA integration that you're not getting out of GA itself - is it keyword-centric views?
Similarly, what metrics are you comparing between Moz and Search Console?
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RE: **When will MOZ support GA4?**
Hi Mike
If you use Moz to report on your GA data, then currently that is indeed relying on UA.
Our goal is to have a futureproof solution in place before UA data becomes unavailable.
- Tom
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RE: Can Moz integrate GA4 data?
Sorry for the slow reply, but apologies - nothing we can share publicly right now.
Still interested in any background you can provide your intended use of the integration, and what matters most to you, that we can keep in mind for our testing, of course.
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RE: Static content pages ranking dropping all the time
Although some of the changes you mention (especially the domain shift) can commonly result in ranking changes, it's important to remember that changes in your ranking are not necessarily the result of things that happened on your own site.
Changes to Google's algorithm, or to competitor sites, are at least as likely to be responsible.
What are the sites that have overtaken you in the last few months? Are they a similar intent (i.e. individual hotels vs. comparison sites vs. information sites)? Are they better known? Similar page content? Higher Page Authority? etc. etc.
The explanations often lie in the answers to questions like these.
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RE: How effective are 301 redirects in passing page rank?
Hi Augistine
No, there's no fixed number. And sometimes redirects are the right answer to a problem - such as old or unused URLs.
As a general rule, avoid having links on your site that point to a redirecting URL. Instead, point them to the destination of that redirect. This is what tools (like Moz) are trying to help you with when they point out the number of redirects - it's just a list so you can identify links to those URLs, and update the links.
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RE: Can Moz integrate GA4 data?
Yes, we're anticipating Universal Analytics will be deprecated. And of course we'll make sure we're ready for that - we'll likely replace with GA4, Google Search Console, or both, but we're trying to understand how users are using these integrations, and what they value from them.
Hence, any comment or colour you can provide is much appreciated, and can be added to our existing research! Is it custom dashboards for organic traffic, for example? Or do you like that you can see other channels on the campaign home screen? Would you prefer if conversions were there too? That sort of thing.
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RE: Can Moz integrate GA4 data?
Hi!
This is something we're actively considering - we may make some other improvements or changes to our data integrations at the same time.
Speaking of which - I'd love to know how you make use of the GA integration. Any feedback might help to set our course
Tom
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RE: Reciprocal Backlinks
Hi Diana
This is common practice, but technically, can get you penalised - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-policy-link-exchange/413049/
In reality I think you'll get away with it as long as the links in both directions are genuinely useful and likely to be something the user is looking for. Of course, no guarantees, and that's a very subjective line.
Tom
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RE: 301 Redirect chain
Depending on what your sire provider allows, this may be tricky.
Ideally you'd update the server level rule to point directly to the end URL form (https://www.).
Tom
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RE: How effective are 301 redirects in passing page rank?
Maintaining the original URL is definitely the low risk approach. On the other hand, if you're ever going to do this, it's better to do it sooner - that way you're only risking/diluting the links you've acquired so far, not any future equity.
301 redirects do pass the majority of PageRank onwards, but if the new URL is very dissimilar or has existing issues, or if the redirection doesn't go smoothly / isn't detected by Google, you can have problems.
Tom
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RE: Replicate rogerbot error for server/hosting provider
There are a bunch of third party tools that would allow you to validate robots.txt against a given user agent.
For example:
- https://technicalseo.com/tools/robots-txt/ (includes Moz user agents in dropdown)
- https://www.realrobotstxt.com/ (allows you to copy/paste a test robots file)
Without the hosting provider having a Moz account & campaign of their own, this is probably the easiest way to get them to replicate the error.
Tom
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RE: Low Metrics - High Rank
There's a lot more to SEO than just one metric. (Although here at Moz, we obviously prefer DA to DR...)
In either case, these metrics measure domain-level linking strength. Depending on the keywords you compete for, a relatively low DA, combined with reasonable technical competence, may be enough for your content to carry you the rest of the way - particularly if nobody else is doing a good job of it.
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RE: Hamburger Menu on Desktop Version - Affect SEO?
Given that most desktop navigations are already based on hover states or otherwise hidden, I don't see this being any different in terms of direct ranking impact. I suppose the top level menu of a usual desktop navigation is visible, and some tests still show a preference from Google towards visible content.
That said, the indirect impact of users finding the site less usable or intuitive on desktop is probably more significant, both for SEO and other considerations. Google will notice, one way or another, if users don't like using your website, so you should make sure this is tested to your satisfaction.
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RE: Next JS and Missing content
Hi
Moz Pro is not a JavaScript capable crawler. So it will be seeing a raw HTML version of these pages.
That said, search engines also have varying and often limited JavaScript capability, and most SEOs would advise you to have decent fallback functionality - perhaps through pre rendering, for example.
You can tell through Google's cache, Search Console, and how you're appearing in SERPs, roughly how Google sees your pages. But keep in mind that Google's handling without any non-JS fallback may be buggy, and other search engines and crawlers (including social networks, for example) will only do worse.
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RE: Can't get Google to index our site although all seems very good
The site appears to be indexed, but maybe not all pages.
Is your concern that the other pages are not being indexed, or that the pages that are already indexed are not ranking for any keywords?
I suspect in either case it doesn't help that this site has almost no external links (DA 1) - with this level of obscurity, Google will not prioritise crawling resources.
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RE: Will skipping <H> tags affect your SEO?
From an SEO perspective, I doubt you'd see any material impact.
Even skipping the <H1> isn't awful as long as the document's overall structure and hierarchy remains clear. See this experiment we ran a while back - https://moz.com/blog/h1-seo-experiment
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RE: Planning to transition to a new website domain - should I press pause on SEO initiatives?
Sorry for the slow reply!
There are a number of good posts on Moz about migraitons in general - e.g. https://moz.com/blog/website-migration-guide
However, redirect mapping is the crucial step to get right from an SEO perspective.
Your question about content and links is an astute one - you might well dilute some of the strength you build in the process of a migration. But, this strength takes a very long time to build, so my advice would be to start early. Yes, it will be diluted, but this way you'll be waiting 6 months less to see results.
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RE: Google News and Discover down by a lot
Hi, sorry for super slow reply.
These are, unfortunately, highly volatile channels. There was a core update in November, and this can have an even larger update on Discover than organic.
All you can really do is check how you perform vs competitors on the issues that Google claims to be valuing - brand trust, site speed, content quality/depth, and so on. Google Discover is particularly sensitive to speed.
Of course, you should also check for any technical hitch with your own site that might be causing issues.
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RE: Moving site from www to non www and also hosting to vps what will be the effect?
@seoblogs61 Hey, sorry for the super slow reply.
Hosting shouldn't matter unless it changes the URLs (any further than you're deliberately changing them).
Moving from www to non www means you need to make sure there is a 1:1 mapping of old to new URLs as 301 redirects. This may be possible using a server config rule.
Be aware that any URL migration comes with SEO risks. The 301 redirects in theory will carry across most of the value of your backlinks, but there may be delays in Google understanding the new relationship, or a slight dilution, or some technical hitch which causes some URLs to not be caught by your rule.
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RE: Getting keywords to rank on new landing pages
Just to confirm I understand correctly, you've built new landing pages for some of your target keywords, but Google is still ranking the old pages?
This could be for one of a few reasons:
- Google has not yet discovered the new pages (check in Google Search Console)
- Your old pages are relevant to the same terms, but more authoritative, due to the links they have from your other pages, or external pages
- There is some other issue with your new pages (noindex tag or similar)
It sounds like the 2nd issue is most likely - so you'd need to make sure that your older pages are targeting distinct, unique terms, to avoid overlap. That said, as your older pages are likely more authoritative, it could make more sense to redirect them, or just re-use the old URL.
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RE: Linking Domain vs Domain authority : Do they related!!!? (Case study)
Hi
The two are related, but it may be that the new links you are building are from less authoritative pages, so aren't making any meaningful impact to your DA. Meanwhile some of your older links may be lost over time, causing your overall DA to reduce.