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  • L8ydrgn


    With Google's new stance on hidden text does the CSS Truncate count as hidden? display: block;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;

    Web Design | | L8ydrgn
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  • WalterHalicki


    We want to have more website links to appear in SERP. How to do that?

    On-Page Optimization | | WalterHalicki
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  • seoanalytics


    Hello, Just wondering if a site that is not coded correctly can hurt your seo even though as a human I can totally understand what is going on on the page and the structure of the website. Thanks,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • seoanalytics


    Hi, I know google is moving toward mobile first world but I am wondering if tabs on desktop are still ignored by google those days and what you recommend ? Thank you,

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
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  • JBMediaGroup


    For a client we are discussing international SEO options. I have pushed against CCTLD because they do not have the resources to manage multiple sites. Instead we want to go the subfolder route: .com/uk/  My question is whether we can properly create a subfolder version that only includes a handful of pages rather than the whole site - so 5-10 pages vs 4k. Is that possible? I'd love your thoughts. International SEO is not my strong suit. Also - if the subfolder for .com/uk/ content is almost entirely the same as the us-based .com is that a problem? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JBMediaGroup
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  • BFMichael


    I'm trying to balance local geographic keywords with product keywords.  I appreciate the feedback from the group! Michael

    Local Website Optimization | | BFMichael
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  • baseballbargains


    We have not gotten our updated stats for this week. Is anyone else having this problem? We usually see the updates by 6am on Tuesday mornings.

    Product Support | | baseballbargains
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  • Pintapin


    does paid search get more traffic compare to organic search now? todays we have four ads link in google that cover all screen of mobile. should we invest more on adwords and organic isn't important like before??

    Paid Search Marketing | | Pintapin
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  • amu123


    Hi All, In google analytic In Site Speed -> Page Timings we have two columns a) Page Views & b) Avg Load Time (sec) compared to site average. Now in "b" column I am able to below % one in green and another in brown so what does it mean? Can anyone please explain me? Image attached Thanks! bNbBA

    Reporting & Analytics | | amu123
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  • KMCBRIDE


    Hi moz community We're currently experiencing a lot of our pages ranking for the wrong keyword in the SERPS. Take "womens ski wear" for example, the page rainking via Google links to  https://www.dare2b.com/womens/jackets-coats/ When we have an optimized page here https://www.dare2b.com/womens/shop-by/activity/ski/ that imo is more suitable and has the correct H1, meta tile etc. So I'm at a loss to see why google see the jackets page more relevant? Any help on this much appreciated

    On-Page Optimization | | KMCBRIDE
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  • vtmoz


    Hi all, We have our product guide pages on sub domain which are years old, so have some backlinks and high ranking for the beand related queries. Now we created new guide pages on our main website and we want these new pages to rank top beating the old pages from sub domain. Again we can't deindex or rel canonical to solve the issue as there are some part of users still using the old pages. We are planning to give a link from every old page of sub domain to same new page on main domain. Will this linking increases the authority of new pages technically and helps in ranking better? Like we give a link to "Moz guide 1" page to "Moz guide 2" page to rank latter better. Thanks

    Algorithm Updates | | vtmoz
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  • fogtheagency


    Hi I try to  create sitemap for www.example.com, this website has link  www.blog.example.com. after creating the sitemap using different tool. the sitemap not include www.blog.example.com and its relative files how can i get both  example.com and blog.example.com in one sitemap

    Technical SEO | | fogtheagency
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  • vtmoz


    Hi all, I just wonder if the back links for different sub domains will be counted and considered to rank the main domain better or they are just limit to sub domain pages? There are many websites which has got multiple sub domains which receive backlinks? So the backlinks to main domain and sub domain weigh same at Google? Thanks

    Algorithm Updates | | vtmoz
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  • OscarSE


    I have a client that had a web agency which systematically implemented hidden content. Is there a tool that will compare source content vs what is readable on from the browser? Otherwise, can you recommend articles that focus on doing this? What are the impact on hidden content these days? Another client had hidden content on the first page and when we took over them they were ranking nr 2 with the home page on their brand name (nr 1 with a sub page). We have checked the link profile with Majestic, Ahrefs and Moz and nothing spammy comes up so I doubt it is Penguin related.

    Technical SEO | | OscarSE
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  • yaelslater


    Hi Mozers, We have dynamic listing pages that pull in clinical trial results for specific disease types. Sometimes diseases have clinical trials and sometimes they don't. This means that sometimes the page will have zero results and sometimes it will return results. We have a sizable number of these so that when there are zero results, these pages look like thin content. What is the recommended method of dealing with this? Is there a way of doing a conditional noindex where the page is indexed if results are pulled in and and not indexed when the page returns zero results? If we can do this, should we? Will it confuse Google and send negative signals? Any guidance/thoughts are much appreciated! Yael

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | yaelslater
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  • Jeanne_FBG


    We moved to Adobe BC CMS and added an SSL cert.  The way BC sets their SSLs up, the certificate hostnames don't match the site hostnames as the alternative names are in fact businesscatalyst.com and worldsecuresystems.com. My IT department thinks this will cause SEO issues.  Any one know anything about this?  I would think that the protocol change to https is what they are keying in on even if they don't admit it. IT found this site, SSLlabs.com that states after an SSL server test that the certificate is not trusted due to this configuration. Help!!

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Jeanne_FBG
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  • Cesare.Marchetti


    Hi, I'd like to know your opinion on the following case and gather new ideas on how to optimise our strategy: Starting situation: local store (B2B) in a bigger city in Europe that produces high quality prints mainly for photographers on paper (or other materials like canvas, aluminium, etc. ). They really take care of your images (e.g. Color Management) and produce printouts that look how they really should look like. Target audience: photographers (pros), museum, exhibitions and hotel people that would like to produce high quality prints of their images. Almost never the ambitioned private photographers (until now). **Actual situation: **its really a local business (people around 30 km). competition: big online stores where you can upload your pictures and get your prints sent home (quality: not bad, but not exceptional, no special requests; more for private customers) Already done (with relatively little results): _AdWords: _very "tight" keyword combinations, not broad at all, targeting area around business location. results: small traffic, small costs: not a lot of conversions. _SEO: _for organic search we now achieve very good positions for tight" keyword combinations, not broad ones. results: little traffic: not a lot of conversions LinkedIn-Ads targeting the above target group: results: little traffic: not a lot of conversions Facebook Remarketing (targeting his newsletter mail-list: results: little traffic: not a lot of conversions Optimized the landingpage (in my opinion far more to the point than before) PROBLEM: Basically we now get to the right people but traffic is really (too) small. At least we don't waste money at all but we don't gain a lot either... If we broaden the "keywords" the private customers will come in and waste our advertising money. Do you ever had a similar situation? What did you do? Any suggestions? Other target groups? Alternative channels? Thanks for your input. Cheers, Cesare

    Local SEO | | Cesare.Marchetti
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  • recbrands


    I have tried xml-sitemaps which tends to crash when spidering my site(s) and requires multiple manual resumes which aren't practical for our businesses.  Please let me know if any other server-side generators that could be used on multiple enterprise-sized websites exist that could be a good fit. Image sitemaps would also be helpfu.l +++One with multiple starting URLs would help spidering/indexing the most important sections of our sites. Also, has anyone heard of or used Dyno Mapper?  This also looks like a good solution for us, but was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this product.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | recbrands
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  • Fiyyazp


    Hi, The way Wix is configured you can't see any of the on-page links within the source code. Does anyone know if Google Bots still count the links on this page? Here is the page in question: https://www.ncresourcecenter.org/business-directory If you do think Google counts these links, can you please send me URL fetcher to prove that the links are crawlable? Thank you SO much for your help.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Fiyyazp
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  • Arnikabhupal


    Hi, Our Woo Commerce store has about 30 product tags, of which a separate page is created for each, therefore needing the usual titles and descriptions adding. I want to know if the pages will be penalised if I 90% duplicate the 150 word description for product tags that have areas of overlap. How important is this? Thanks.

    Content Development | | Arnikabhupal
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  • xdunningx


    Hello I am updating an old e-commerce website of mine and many keywords are in bold - shall I remove the bold tag or keep them there? This is for SEO.

    On-Page Optimization | | xdunningx
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  • mihoreis


    a mistake made in software. How can I solve the problem quickly? help me. XTRjH

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mihoreis
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  • mihoreis


    **yazılım sürecinde yapılan bir yanlışlıktı.** Sorunu hızlı bir şekilde nasıl çözebilirim? bana yardım et. ```[XTRjH](https://imgur.com/a/XTRjH)

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mihoreis
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  • aua


    Hi, I am wondering if my website can get a penalty if some password protected pages are showing up when I search on google: site:www.example.com/sub-group/pass-word-protected-page That shows that my password protected page was indexed either before or after adding the password protection. I've seen people suggest no indexing the page. Is that the best method to take care of this? What if we are planning on pushing the page live later on? All of these pages have no title tag, meta description, image alt text, etc. Should I add them for each page? I am wondering what is the best step, especially if we are planning on pushing the page(s) live. Thanks for any help!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | aua
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  • InTouchMK


    We are having a problem trying to get rid of old links that have been removed from a website that no longer exists. See links below-There are several more that we need to deal with. We have tried putting them into Google Search Console, but they keep reappearing with Moz. Since our new website is hosted on Hubspot now and not on WordPress, which these links are referring to, we are trying to determine how to remove them from being indexed since they don't exist anymore? http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mas.png
    19 Redirect to 4xx http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TWITTER-HASHTAG.jpg
    19 Redirect to 4xx http://intouch-marketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tweet-Activity-analytics-for-DCuevasIM-November-January.png
    19 Redirect to 4xx

    Moz Pro | | InTouchMK
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  • yaelslater


    Hi, Google is indexing pages from our backup server. Is this a duplicate content issue? There are essentially two versions of our entire domain indexed by Google. How do people typically handle this? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Yael

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | yaelslater
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  • Prae


    Hi guys! I have a rather strange SEO question. It may not be that strange at all actually. If a site has a subdomain or a shopping cart that is on a subdomain through a third-party shopping cart provider, can the third party shopping cart transfer value to the subdomain causing the subdomain to have greater domain authority than the main site or root domain? Another question, this subdomain, up until yesterday, blocked google from crawling it with robots txt, however it has a much higher domain authority than the root domain. The root domain has a really low domain authority, despite not blocking google from crawling it. How is this possible? I hope these questions make sense. I am a little stumped & trying to figure out why the subdomain is out-performing the main site despite being hidden from search, if that's even the case. Please let me know if I have it all wrong..

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Prae
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  • Swifttechbuy


    I did a back link research on one of our competitors and saw a back link from resellerratings.com listed as back link from a high authority website. My question is do any of these review platforms shopper approved, resellerratings, or trust pilot gurantee a do follow back link if i create an account with them? if so, which one?

    Link Building | | Swifttechbuy
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  • HealthmateForever


    can redirect URL website also shown on the google ranking?  and higher than the original website? For example, I create URL B which redirect to website A, and do good SEO on URL B, can URL B rank higher than my original website A?

    Technical SEO | | HealthmateForever
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  • JoelHer


    My marketing team would like to serve up 3 pages of similar content; www.example.com/one, www.example.com/two and www.example.com/three; however the challenge here is, they'd like to have only one page whith three different titles and images based on the user's entry point (one, two, or three). To avoid duplicated pages, how would suggest this best be handled?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JoelHer
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  • KevnJr


    Am I doing this correctly? We have 3 websites and shoot a lot of instructional videos on how to use our products.  I build a webpage for the video and put it on all three websites, using rel="canonical" on 2 of the videos pages, pointing to the single most important page, is this the right method? TY
    KJr PS: I also do this for press releases.

    On-Page Optimization | | KevnJr
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  • Catherine_Selectaglaze


    I'm getting to grips with the New Keyword Explorer. I've found that one of my top keyword phrases has a 'Featured Snippet' result. However I'm struggling to see it in my own browser. Is there a clean way of viewing SERPs un enhanced by history, location etc? I'd also like to see the other SERPs features - is that possible? I'd like to be able to see the results as Moz clearly can view them! Thank you Mozers C09Fb

    Image & Video Optimization | | Catherine_Selectaglaze
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  • vtmoz


    Hi all, We are making some changes in our website content at some paragraphs and tags with our main keywords. I'm just wondering if this is going to make us de indexed from Google? Because we recently dropped in rankings when we added some new content; so I am worried whether there are any chances it will turn more risky when we try to make anymore changes like changing the content. There are actually many reasons a website gets de indexed from Google but we don't employ any such black hat techniques. Our website got a reputation with thousands of direct traffic and organic search. However I am curious to know what are the chances of getting de indexed as per the new trends at Google? Thanks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | vtmoz
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  • vtmoz


    Hi all, I have noticed one page from our competitors' website which has been hardly linked from one internal page. I just would like to know if the page not linked anywhere get indexed by Google or not? Will it be found by Google? What if a page not linked internally but go some backlinks from other websites? Thanks

    Algorithm Updates | | vtmoz
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  • nhhernandez


    Hi everyone, I tried to create a Google+ account from a client's Google My Business, but found that 'Enable Google+' is no longer available on the sidebar of the GMB dashboard. I used this tutorial to do that before  - http://onlineownership.com/create-google-page-connected-google-business-page/ An update on that article: Update: 31st October 2017
    Google My Business has confirmed that enabling a G+ business page will no longer be available. Users will need to now create a G+ Brand page for their business on G+. My question is: If we create a separate G+ Brand page, are we still able to tie it up with GMB or are they going to be completely different platforms? On the dashboard for our older clients we have a list that goes like: Your Business is Live on Google View on Search View on Maps View on Google+ In light of this new change. Do we still really have to bother creating G+ brand pages? It seems like the newly launched Google Posts is more user-friendly and easier to update. The posts could be created on GMB and it's going to appear on searches within the local knowledge graph. Thoughts?

    Local Listings | | nhhernandez
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  • Timmy3


    The website https://christchurch.crowneplaza.com has been live for a couple of months but is not being found in Google search results - even when searching for it's own brand name 'crowne plaza christchurch.' Google has indexed the site - but we are still not showing - https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fchristchurch.crowneplaza.com&rlz=1C1NHXL_enNZ735NZ735&oq=site%3A&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i58j69i59l2j69i65.896j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Any ideas as to why? I think it may be because their are two versions of the site, http and https, both with their own rel=canonical tags. Could this be the cause? Any help much appreciated.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Timmy3
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  • Daaveey


    Hi Mozzers: I am optimizing a bunch of PDF brochures within a client's website. Besides the typical optimization tactics I'm applying, (like these) I have a question regarding the file/url structure of the PDFs themselves. By default, the client is locating PDFs in an 'uploads' folder of their Wordpress site. So, a typical PDF might have a URL such as: https://www.Xyzinsurance.com/xyz-content/uploads/2015/06/Brochure-XYZ-Connect.pdf My question: is there any advantage in eliminating all these sub-directories and moving the files into a main folder, simply titled '/brochures'  ?? Any insights or conjecture would be welcome!

    Technical SEO | | Daaveey
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  • isaac663


    Hi guys. Just looking for a bit of advice on this one.  I don't have a huge amount of experience in the outreach area so advice from you guys would be appreciated. Question is in the title really... If we see posts go live that are incredibly relevant to our products, should we engage in any outreach to ask to be included? Or is this just bad practice/ anyoning for the journo/ blogger? Isaac.

    Branding | | isaac663
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  • wesleyms


    Hello Guys! My website was at the top of Google search for some years... suddenly I almost can't reach first page! Moz ranks my website better than the competitors... what might be going one? Could anybody help me out? Moz rank us grade A... the competitors B or C .. I think we have better back links than they do... Would you need any kind of data or report to help me here? Thanks!

    Moz Pro | | wesleyms
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  • amu123


    Hi All, I am using google optimize via tag manager. I have successfully implemented it and my experiment appeared in google analytic but google optimize chrome addon always give me add script not installed properly. How to solve solve error? Thanks!

    Reporting & Analytics | | amu123
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  • isaac663


    Hi Guys. I've been building a database of journos who write about our niche recently for some outreach. I discovered that in at least one case (Metro UK), a huge amount of content is simply by bloggers, not 'official' journalists.  (They can be found easily on Twitter but not in databases like muck rack etc) Generally, bloggers represent an easier 'way in'. So I thought id ask... Is this common practice? Has anyone identified other publications using bloggers for content creation? (Bit of context... We're looking at' Best diary/ planner' runs downs, 'best stationery for new year' and similar.  Not strong story-based pitches to journos. (For example: Company blar is revolutionizing market X with Blar.) Simple product runs downs is what we're after for some quick wins on exposure during the holiday period.)

    Branding | | isaac663
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  • amu123


    Hi All, When I search my brand name in google and in google search result my site appears with sitelink and in site link there is option of search when I search any keyword in that search then that search redirect me to 404 page of my site. I found I have implemented wrong schema at category page for search action and then I fixed the bug but 5 days passed away still google showing 404 of my search action. I have not implemented schema for search action at homepage. Now please let me know what is the issue?

    Technical SEO | | amu123
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  • cafegardesh


    Hi Major Landing page removed from Google SERP and replace homepage URL.How do I fix it? In an SPA website (angularJS), Why it happens?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | cafegardesh
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  • Shanaki


    Hello there, Basically, if you put non-natural star ratings on the category page, like in the attached images, you will get manual ban from google right? 
    (i know it for sure, cause I had clients with this situation) The real question is: 
    If I put a form that allows users to write a review about the category products on the category page, for REAL, will google still ban? Any advice? Any example? With respect, 
    Andrei Irh0O kto4o

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Shanaki
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  • seoman10


    I have had a client come and ask me to do some link building, they are wanting to use a strategy of buying expired domains and creating a single page website with some keyword links back to the main website. Seems like an old idea at best, has anyone used it or is it risky

    Link Building | | seoman10
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  • TaylorRHawkins


    Mozzers, what are your thoughts on documenting SEO results from an incognito window? Does anyone have any articles they can recommend that talk about this subject? Is it better to document results from the normal window or from an incognito window?

    Algorithm Updates | | TaylorRHawkins
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  • climber17


    My client had a large spike in their bounce rate at the end of June, 2017.  After spending far too long looking around Google Analytics I discovered that the bounce rate increased 5x when version 59.0.3071.104 of Google Chrome appeared on the scene.  Version 59.0.3071.102 and older had a bounce rate of about 13%.  Version 59.0.3071.104 increased to 65%.  Each subsequent version is about the same.FireFox, Safari and the rest are showing no significant changes.Any idea what is happening here?Many thanks.

    Reporting & Analytics | | climber17
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  • John_Mosier


    I posted this suggestion as a comment to a recent Moz blog post, but I thought I would add it here as well.  I'm  really digging the new Venn diagram view in Keyword Explorer and the ability to easily switch between various combinations of competitors. One feature that would be REALLY helpful (in addition to expanding to other countries) would be the ability to filter the keyword lists by specific strings. An obvious use case for that would be to filter out brand names -- I want to see how the comparisons look with non-branded keywords only. Another use case: Let's say I and my competitors have multiple product categories in common. It would be helpful if I could filter on some of the major head terms representing each of those product categories separately.

    Feature Requests | | John_Mosier
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  • advertisingtech


    Hello, our .com domain got a fred update and to be honest we need to start over. Now my first idea was to 302 the domain as the penalty should not come with this. Other option is just to have a landing page saying, we have a new address its www.example.es . What would be better?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | advertisingtech
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