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I look after an affiliate site that is doing quite well in the search rankings. We've been doing a review of our practices and one thing that has cropped up is our robots.txt.

In it, we disallow Google from crawling external links. This used to be best practice in the affiliate industry a couple of years ago, but I wanted to know if this is still the case, and what the implications are if we were to:

a/ leave it as is?

b/ allow crawling?

Thanks in advance.

We recently switched over a .com site to a new server. The .com site had a .co.uk domain redirecting to it previously, but when the switchover happened, the .co.uk was forgotten about.

We have now realised what has happened, but not before taking a hit with our rankings.

The .co.uk is still indexed in Google and now that we have sorted the redirects they are pointing to the right places.

My question now; is there anything further I need to do?

I know that the .co.uk will soon be removed from the SERPs, but I just want to make sure I haven't forgotten anything.

Thanks Ria. The strange thing is, in my opinion, the search queries it is pulling through the meta data for are probably less relevant than the search queries it isn't pulling it through for. It looks like I will have to spend some time optimising and hoping we can get it showing on Google in the next couple of days.

Hi all, hoping someone can help.

We have a landing page that ranks quite well for a number of keywords that send us a nice amount of organic traffic.

We understand the importance of Meta tags, as Google will be the users first interaction with our site we want to stand out and be noticed and also show we provide information on their search query.

The problem is this, while we have optimised the title and description tags for the landing page, this is only appearing on specific search results. If you were to search a different keyword, you would still get the same landing page, but the title tag and description would not pull through, it decides to pull through the page name and first few lines of text instead.

Is there anything we can do to sort this issue?