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HI

I'm just setting up a new project/client and see Moz has auto-populated the keyword field in the new project setup form.

Where does it get these from?

Since I'm looking at the client's site through the Moz browser and cant see any of these KW in the usual/ obvious places? Whats the data source for this auto-population?

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Dan

Good news, it has returned without any further actions on my behalf. But I have started to receive some sales via branded search results, so I think we can all safely conclude that this is triggered by brand search CTR.

Thanks for your input folks

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Dan

Yeah but i think your right and talking to a colleague also agrees with you  its a CTR issue, and requires  more brand searches and/or general activity

whilst the domain is ancient i had neglected it for a few years so lost the brands value over this time so now need to build it back up

have a great weekend !

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dan

HI Don

Thanks that certainly makese some sense, although my SHOP21 was the first in existence (websites been live since 2002) and it has DA of 18

Thanks

Dan

its shop21.uk.com

i have been averaging no 1-3 for branded search since going live

the rank seems to have dropped slightly at the same time as the Google Business profile disapearing

Hi Miriam

Yes its SHOP21

Has been showing the results fine since going live end of April, then suddenly disapeared over the last 48 hours

This is the link to the results showing correctly when i  click on 'View in Search' from my GMB dashboard, but can no longer replicate that for a direct branded search for 'shop21'

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&_ga=2.12081972.1837970735.1559125830-980297739.1559125830&q=SHOP21&ludocid=1029865427336891279&lsig=AB86z5WuLWll0fZnP4SOIPNSQbBb

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi Darin,

Thanks! Schema all supposed to be correct, which one do you mean specifically - organisation schema?

The weird thing is that it does all display correctly when I click 'View In Search' in my GMB a/c, only not when I check directly on search (weird because 'View In Search' within GMB looks like it links through directly to the same results just with the GMB pack).

Yes other things checked and not incognito & yes competitors all resolving ok

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Dan

Hi

Just redeveloped my site and went live end of April

Since then whenever i do a branded search  the GMB 'pack' has always shown on the right hand side whenever i do a branded search but it has disapeared as of the last couple of days.

Any ideas why this can happen ? and is it anything to worry about or just a google 'glitch' that should right itself soon?

If not any ideas how to fix ? (accounts and website all properly linked) etc

When i go to GMB dashboard and click 'View on Search' it does show up as it should, but not when i go to do a google search for the brand name !?

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Dan

Thanks for your advice Alex, yes i agree, will ask Shopify if this was them (re default settings) or if my migrators have been over enthusiastic but contrary to best practices.

Have a great BH weekend !

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Dan

Hi

I've just had best practice site migration completed for my old e-commerce store into a Shopify environment and I see in GSC that it's reporting my standard pages as blocked by robots.txt, such as these below examples. Surely I don't want these blocked ? is that likely due to my migrators or s defaults setting with Shopify does anyone know? :

t&c's

shipping policy

pricing policy

privacy policy

etc

So in summary:

1. Shall I unblock these?

2. What caused it Shopify default settings or more likely my migration team?

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Dan

Hi

I'm in a similarish situation with a clients site.

Their situation is that the dev site is on a subdomain i.e. staging.domain.com and they want to keep the staging area active for demonstrating future development work, so situation may be slightly different from yours.

They have now blocked via robot.txt but that's like shutting the stable door after the horse has already bolted.

I asked Moz Q&A a few months ago and got the below answer from a few very helpful and wize Mozzers

1. Setup a completely different Webmaster Tools account unrelated to the main site, so that there
   is a new W.T account specific to the staging area sub-domain

2. Add a robots.txt on the staging area sub domain site that disallows all pages and all crawlers
   OR use the no-index meta tag on all pages but Google much prefers Robots.txt usage for this

Note: Its very important when you update the main site it does not include or push out these files and
instructions too (since that would result in main site being de-indexed)

3. Request removal of all pages in GWT. Leave the form field for the page to be removed blank,
   since will remove all subdomain pages

4. After about 1 month OR you see that the pages are all out of the Search Engine listings (SERPS),
   and Google has spidered and seen the robots.txt, then put up a password on the entire staging
   site.

Hope that helps

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Dan

Hi

How long aproximately does G take to pass authority via a 301 from an old page to its new replacement page ?

Does Moz Page Authority reflect this in its score once G has passed it ?

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Dan

Hi Caxton

I had this a few times and asked MOz help and they said:

"that type of message is typically crops up when there is an issue with the level of permissions associated with the GA login info that was used to connect it. So, I would recommend making sure that it is being re-authorized with the most authoritative set of admin credentials for that GA account; ideally, the original creator of the Google Analytics account."

They also said to watch the number of GA accounts/profiles since has a token limit and once exceeded can cause connection issues. So say your accessing a a clients design agencies GA account to import your clients data into Moz, if the agency has lots of clients all with their own GA profiles in their accounts then that can cause you to exceed token limit and break the connections.

However i can always reconnect/reauthorise the connection (although very annoying that i have to every time i view a campaign), wheras sounds like you cant reconnect so prob best to email help@moz if i were you.

Hope this helps a bit !

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Dan

Thanks Robert and for the extra comments too !

I cant remember which Mozzer helped me with the above in the first place who should be credited but ill track down the original thread and add it to this post since also contains further info and discussion

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Dan

i would guess that yes it is because of the Latvian characters, if you send Moz a support request they will be able to confirm this for you

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Dan

Hi Ash

Personally i would wait and see since G has been known to drop rankings for recently 'improved' pages just to stop people being able to correlate changes with ranking improvements.

I would give it a couple of weeks and see where you are then, if no improvement then change one thing at a time to undo possible over-optimisation.

Also keep an eye on a couple of competitors (who have similar domain authority to you) rankings too since if they are volatile over same time period then could just be general volatility

Having said that I have noted some of my clients/projects pages achieving an A grade with previous good rankings have recently dropped quite significantly and hence im testing reducing the numbers of keywords on page and using synonyms and plurals/singulars as well as the broadest of broad match combinations.

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Dan

i agree with Billy

the 2 topic/genres are so closely related i think you will do best by developing out the current site rather than start a new site

Hey Jake

That is correct as i understand it

That broad match in title is: keywords in any word order

and exact match is: keywords in the exact order of the target keyword

Hope that helps ?

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Dan

I think when first launched some were getting away with it and possibly still now, although i wouldn't reccommend trying since is definately misleading and not what authorships about. It doesnt make sense for an author to have a logo since an author is a person and the image should therefore be the persons picture and nothing else

Hi Donna

I had a similar issue couple of months back re a client that had migrated/changed urls and put pretty much the same question out on Moz Q&A

Samuel Scott very kindly offered me some great guidance, heres a link to the Q&A thread:

http://moz.com/community/q/comparing-user-behaviour-in-ga

Hope this helps ! sorry if not same scenario but sounds similarish so should help

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Dan