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We are experiencing the same thing. We have two Moz Pro accounts and none of our monthly reports were delivered and they don't appear in download past reports.

Ah, you are correct! Sorry I thought you were already on WordPress and just looking to change your theme.

Sounds like you got it, except I would recommend copying over your current site as a starting point vs. installing a fresh copy of WordPress. That way you are starting with the same content and settings and less likely to cause problems with URLs changing. It's also a lot less work if you have a larger site. Just copy of all the files and create a new database,  import the data from your current site and make the couple edits mentioned above and you'll be all set. Good Luck!

I'm sure they'll eventually catch that one too. They are very low quality sites, the very type of sites Google does not want in their index. Sorry, but there's not much of a future for sites like these in Google.

Hi Mark,

I recommend creating a subdomain like dev.yourdomain.com or staging.yourdomain.com. Password protect the directory so no one ends up on the wrong site and there's no chance search engines will crawl it.

Copy all your files to the subdomains folder, most hosting control panels just create a folder in your main website for subdomains so you can do this in the file manager. Otherwise, download a copy and upload it to the subdomain's folder.

Export your database using PHPmyAdmin, create a new database and import the data into the new database. After you import the data find the wp_options table and edit homeurl and siteurl to be dev.yourdomain.com.

Edit wp-config.php on the dev site to use the new database, user and password.

You should be all set with your dev site at this point and you'll keep your current settings and content so you don't end up with a bunch URL changes.

When you're ready to move the changes to your live site back everything up and do the opposite of the steps above.

I also use the Search and Replace plugin to search the database for http://dev.yoursite.com and replace with http://www.yoursite.com after moving everything over so you don't have any links pointing back to the dev site.

This site is clearly spam. It has two pages about diet pills, there's keyword stuffing and a spam comment at the bottom for fake Oakley's. Your best bet is to start over with a quality site or throw in the towel now.

I just realized checking from here probably won't work unless you're targeting the U.S.

If you haven't upgraded I don't think it would make a difference.  If you want to PM me the search query I can check from here and see if I get the same thing. I'm not sure what else to tell you though. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

The only major change going on right now that I'm aware of is the move to enhanced campaigns. Did you upgrade your campaigns from legacy to enhanced by any chance? Are you still in position 1 and just appearing at the bottom? Another thing to consider is that it may not be appearing at the bottom for everyone.

Hi Davinia,

Maybe check the Quality Scores for your keywords and see if you can improve them. I think the quality score column is hidden by default so you might have to go to the keywords tab click on Columns->Customize Columns and it's under Attributes. That's quite a jump so I'm not sure this is the issue but quality scores do affect ad position and how much you pay per click. Better performing ads are more likely to appear at the top but there's no real way to absolutely control whether the ad appears at the top/side/bottom but generally better performing ads get better positioning.

Hope this helps!

Zach

This site is clearly spam. It has two pages about diet pills, there's keyword stuffing and a spam comment at the bottom for fake Oakley's. Your best bet is to start over with a quality site or throw in the towel now.

I'm sure they'll eventually catch that one too. They are very low quality sites, the very type of sites Google does not want in their index. Sorry, but there's not much of a future for sites like these in Google.

Hi Mango Man,

If your hosting provider is in the same country there shouldn't be any negative affects as long as you do the technical part right.

I've moved sites more times than I can remember and never seen any negative affects.

I've attached a video from Matt Cutts explaining this.

Hope this helps!

watch?v=w41dsE87CfY

We are experiencing the same thing. We have two Moz Pro accounts and none of our monthly reports were delivered and they don't appear in download past reports.

Hi Sangeeta,

It looks like you are using the Wordpress All-in-One SEO Pack which should take care of most duplicate pages in Category and Archives using canonicalization.

Both of these pages:

http://www.calmu.edu/blog/calmu-business-spotlight-veev/
http://www.calmu.edu/blog/category/business-buzz/

have this line added by the SEO Plugin which tells the bots that the page in the blog directory is the real page and to consider the category and archive versions of the page the same page.

rel="canonical" href="http://www.calmu.edu/blog/calmu-business-spotlight-veev/" />

The home page on a blog is always going to have some duplication for the recent posts. The only thing I know of that you could do for that would be to have Wordpress display blurbs for the post with a read more link instead of the whole post on the home page.

Hi Davinia,

Maybe check the Quality Scores for your keywords and see if you can improve them. I think the quality score column is hidden by default so you might have to go to the keywords tab click on Columns->Customize Columns and it's under Attributes. That's quite a jump so I'm not sure this is the issue but quality scores do affect ad position and how much you pay per click. Better performing ads are more likely to appear at the top but there's no real way to absolutely control whether the ad appears at the top/side/bottom but generally better performing ads get better positioning.

Hope this helps!

Zach

It could be a sign of too many links on your index page/bad internal link structure but it could also have to do with external factors as well. Might be a good idea to take a look at external links pointing at your index page vs. the level 2 pages before making and changes to your site.

Hi David! Welcome to Moz!

I usually start with fixing duplicate content issues. Once these are fixed it gives you a better perspective of where you actually stand because duplicate content issues can inflate the number of errors/warnings you see.

Best way to fix duplicate content issues is to make sure you have one URL for each piece of content and use rel=canonical tags if needed. It looks like you have WordPress with the Yoast plugin installed so that makes things a lot easier.

Hope this helps!

Zach