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Thanks for your response Linda.

I've refreshed many times on this and other pages of this stile but it still doesn't appear.

It's a bit worrying if the Moz bar can't see our Domain juice on these sorts of pages...

Any ideas as to what it could be?

Hello all,

I've been talking with an SEO expert who convinced me to add more keywords to my titles of a section of our site which is updated with products daily. I can see the logic and I do prefer having these additional keywords.

The problem now is in Moz it says we have over 2,000 pages with title elements that are too long, which is true they are all over the 70 character limit.

Is this a problem SEO wise? Speaking to our SEO expert they said it's not ideal from a user point of view as you can't see the full title, but are we going to be upsetting Google by having 150+ character titles?

Thanks!

Hello all,

This could be something to do with our site or the Moz bar on Chrome, I just need to know which it is so if it is our website we can look into it further.

On certain sections of our website the Moz bar doesn't display any Domain Authority, not even zero, the bar just isn't present. These types of pages are php which pull in data through a feed daily.

Speaking to an SEO expert they said it could be where the page is being updated so frequently, or it could be something more sinister and technically not quite right.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is the Moz bar just not working for these types os pages or is it more likely something to do with my site? Ironically it's these pages which I'm having trouble with that are not showing in SERPs!

Thanks!

3Foorka

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for responding.

We found it was from Miami after some digging around in Analytics and sorting by location.

No drop in traffic organically, just our usual organic combined with direct gives us a huge spike, but direct from Miami isn't much use for us!

Ok, so I've been doing some digging and I've found the cause, just not the answer.

The additional traffic came in at 9am from Miami... Our website has nothing to do with Miami and 9am would be 3am local time.

It still doesn't look like anything spammy but still, where can I go from here to find the cause of Miami traffic coming to our site?

Thanks!

Thank you for your reply.

Apologies, here's some more info:

Our increase in traffic overall was much higher than normal, but in Analytics when we view just direct, this seems to be the cause of the additional traffic. Organic did not spike.

It is a website for a car dealership containing many brands. The website is fairly large, around 1,000 pages with another 1,000 used cars which are fed in every morning with updates (cars sold, new cars added etc).

Mondays are normally busy days as customers like to book test drives/services etc ready for the following weekend.

Thank you.

Thanks for your reply Jimmy.

We didn't send any emails out on our second spike, which is why we're confused.

The landing pages don't look any different from what we'd expect day-to-day - Nothing that really stands out.

Thanks

We've been doing some SEO work over the last few weeks and earlier this week we saw a large spike in traffic. Yay we all thought, but then yesterday the traffic levels returned to pre-celebratory levels.

I've been doing some digging to try and find out what was different Monday and Tuesday this week. Mondays are usually big traffic days for us anyway, but this week was by far the biggest, and Tuesday was even higher still, our best day ever.

After some poking, I found that the direct traffic followed the same pattern as our overall traffic levels (image attached). The first spike coincides with an email we sent out that day, but the later spike we just don't know where it came from?

I understand loosely that direct isn't easily traceable, but can anyone help us understand more about this second spike?

Thanks!

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Hi Calin,

Thank you very much for your response. Just to confirm I am understanding you correctly, you are suggesting
the following approach:

1. Do a 301 Redirect on both old and currently indexed URLs

• www.example.com/tennis-shoes [currently canonicalised to www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2]
• www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2

To

www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2 [The URL we want google to index]

2. www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes [canonicalise to www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2]

The second step will prevent any duplicate content issues given the content will still be accessible
from this URL as well [www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes]

Finally it shouldn't be a problem to have a canonical tag on the www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2
to itself as we might need just in case the URL is accessed say using a query string (www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2?type=sports)?

Once again, thank you for taking your time to reply.

Hello all! A nice interesting one for you on this fine Friday...

I have some pages which are accessible by 2 different urls - This is for user experience allowing the user to get to these pages in two different ways. To keep Google happy we have a rel canonical so that Google only sees one of these urls to avoid duplicates.

After some SEO work I need to change both of these urls (on around 1,000 pages). Is the best way to do this...

To 301 every old url to every new url

Or... To not worry as I will just point the indexed pages to the new rel canonical?

Any ideas or suggestions would be brilliant.

Thanks!

Hello all,

This could be something to do with our site or the Moz bar on Chrome, I just need to know which it is so if it is our website we can look into it further.

On certain sections of our website the Moz bar doesn't display any Domain Authority, not even zero, the bar just isn't present. These types of pages are php which pull in data through a feed daily.

Speaking to an SEO expert they said it could be where the page is being updated so frequently, or it could be something more sinister and technically not quite right.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is the Moz bar just not working for these types os pages or is it more likely something to do with my site? Ironically it's these pages which I'm having trouble with that are not showing in SERPs!

Thanks!

3Foorka

Hi Dirk,

Thank you for your reply.

Our problem is that all our our second levels used to be individual websites with DA and PA of around 25-30. Now however after the migration, what used to be the home pages of individual sites are now 1 level down from the domain and have lost a huge amount of authority.

Is there something we've done wrong or is this simply what happens when merging lots of sites into one? What was the home page with high DA and PA is now much lower due to being a subfolder.

Thanks!

Hello all,

I've been talking with an SEO expert who convinced me to add more keywords to my titles of a section of our site which is updated with products daily. I can see the logic and I do prefer having these additional keywords.

The problem now is in Moz it says we have over 2,000 pages with title elements that are too long, which is true they are all over the 70 character limit.

Is this a problem SEO wise? Speaking to our SEO expert they said it's not ideal from a user point of view as you can't see the full title, but are we going to be upsetting Google by having 150+ character titles?

Thanks!

Hi Calin,

Thank you very much for your response. Just to confirm I am understanding you correctly, you are suggesting
the following approach:

1. Do a 301 Redirect on both old and currently indexed URLs

• www.example.com/tennis-shoes [currently canonicalised to www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2]
• www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2

To

www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2 [The URL we want google to index]

2. www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes [canonicalise to www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2]

The second step will prevent any duplicate content issues given the content will still be accessible
from this URL as well [www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes]

Finally it shouldn't be a problem to have a canonical tag on the www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2
to itself as we might need just in case the URL is accessed say using a query string (www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2?type=sports)?

Once again, thank you for taking your time to reply.