Hi,

No, your website will work just fine without a robots.txt file.

Without a robots.txt file search engines will have a free run to crawl and index anything they find on the website.  This is fine for most websites but it’s really good practice to at least point out where your XML sitemap is so search engines can find new content without having to slowly crawl through all the pages on your website and bumping into them days later.

It shouldn't go to homepage if mywebsite.com/robot.txt doesn't exist shoud go to custom 404 error page.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I have never tested the method that I'm sharing here. Please check once it might be helpful in your case.

https://www.searchcommander.com/how-to-bulk-remove-urls-google/

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Hi,

Here is your answer @ https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-i-deindex-url-parameters

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Hi,

There is no such tool exist which can give you exact actual cpc of any keyword because there are multiple factors that decides actual cpc mainly QS and keyword bids.

You can get rough estimate in Google keyword planner tool.

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Hi,

The site: operator only gives a select number of pages. Sometimes it shows all of them but that rare with large sites.

The total index count in search console is the correct stat.Hope this helps.Thanks

Hi Thomas,

Set up filter as mentioned in this article @ https://briefmetrics.com/articles/remove-localhost-from-referrers

**In Select expression select 'that contain' instead of 'that are equal to'. ******

Hope this helps.

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are you ranking well for all or most of the keywords? if yes then I wouldn't suggest you to do that because even if you use 301 redirect you will loose some link juice. If that is not the case you can go ahead.

My suggestion was purely based on what Google's recommendation and in terms of readability.

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Hi,

IMO Your assumption" is correct. Existing url structure need to change with hyphen.

According to Google "The URL http://www.example.com/green-dress.html is much more useful to us than http://www.example.com/greendress.html."

Full article is here @ https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

It depends from where visitors are coming.

"If a page is ranking in position 3, but gets a higher than expected CTR, Google may decide to rank that page higher because tons of people are obviously interested in that result."

Read full post here @ https://moz.com/blog/does-organic-ctr-impact-seo-rankings-new-data

If you are getting loads of visit that means you are ranking well that is why you are getting loads of visits. If you buy traffic like from Fiverr.com or manipulate number of visits in any way then ranking will certainly not improve.

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Hi,

I'm sharing an old thread on the same issue @ https://moz.com/community/q/moz-not-detecting-links

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Hi,

According to Google there Isn't an SEO advantage to linking externally.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-external-links-20951.html

I would also suggest you to read this old thread @ https://moz.com/community/q/outbound-links-to-authority-sites (see first reply).

Hope this helps.

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If you search brand name in Google /Bing you will always come on top except where there are too many similar brands so IMO using option 1 wouldn't be a good idea.