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ajegunle

Why is my website Backlinks Lower on Moz than on SEMRush?

@ajegunle 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 cas...

Technical SEO

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sonic22

Will properly encoded & signs hurt or help me?

@sonic22 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 t...

Link Building

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CarlitayBeni

Backlinking Strategy

@CarlitayBeni Sorry for the slow reply. You can definitely obtain relevant traffic from sites like these, but links are likely to be nofollow.

SEO Tactics

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BrandonDebison

Is domain forwarding the same as a 301 redirect?

@BrandonDebison 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...

White Hat / Black Hat SEO

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David_Fisher

Best practices for retiring 100s of blog posts?

@David_Fisher 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 su...

Huge Increase In Internal Links + Domain Authority Tanked

@g3mmab Can you clarify where you are seeing "external links" and "total links"? In any case, DA is not affected by internal linking. If your DA goes down by a large amount, that usually means you have lost some notable external links, or triggered some s...

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g3mmab

Huge Increase In Internal Links + Domain Authority Tanked

@g3mmab Thanks for the context. I think the drop in DA and the increase in internal links are both things you should be paying attention to, for different reasons - they're almost certainly unrelated. When you say "the most recent crawl by a Googlebot" - ...

GustavoEGomez