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Hey Nikki,

If the page is 301 redirected then there is no need for canonical tag. The 301 has more "power" against duplicates because not all browsers follow the canonical tag.

Regarding your page optimization, it's just the beginning. Let's dig into link building and create high quality, topical link portfolio. This should boost your traffic.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hi Nigel,

You're right, I didn't think about the duplicates from UTM previously.

Thanks for the update.

Best, Martin

Hey Alessia,

It's quite challenging to recover after your site was hacked.

In this case, I'd recommend doing all the steps in this article and then request a review by Google itself to look at your site and mark it as healthy again.

Try this first and if you need any further help, feel free to let me know. Cheers, Martin

Hey Judd,

In my opinion, there're too many links pointing to the articles in the feed.

I'd reduce the amount of articles on homepage by half which means to hide the second row for each category. Because now, the feed takes more than a half of the page. Try to add more static optimized text which will be unique.

As long as it's the discussion, I'm really excited about some other's opinions.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Martin,

The best way would be like this:

_UK = www.example.com/gb/ _
_Ireland = www.example.com/ie/ _
France – www.example.com/fr/

If you will create sub domains, Google will see them as different domains. The Domain Authority would be split which could negatively impact your rankings.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey David,

Have you noticed similar fluctuation for your competitors on TOP 3 positions as well?

Google sometimes change the SERP randomly to provide diverse results for the users. But this doesn't look like the case.

Do you have any blog on your website? You have the article for "Nikon CLS" but if you have only one on your site, it might be not enough.

I'd start publishing regularly on your site which should massively help with the rankings.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Saad,

There's no major SEO impact, however, there are some reasons why you want to have the favicon on your site.

In this thread, one of the answers was that "most browsers automatically look for a file called favicon.ico in the root folder of a website - if the file doesn't exist a 404 Not Found error is returned - so it makes sense to have a small or blank file rather than nothing to prevent that extra server hog. (answered by Alex)".

Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

I'm always using the one in Acquisition, since I can easily check and compare the PPC.

But for Search Analytics, I use GA combined with the Google Search Console because you can see a bit more from the Non Provided KWs.

Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

it depends mainly on the company's long-term strategy. If the company is going to have more products in the future (in addition to the mentioned 4), it wouldn't make no sense to make for each product special domain. Therefore, users could be a little bit confused and you would unnecessarily split the domain authority. Better to have everything under one roof.

In my opinion, it also depends a little bit on length of the domain name. If the domain of the new product is easy to remember, short and makes sense, then I wouldn't change it now. You risk the effort of the previous 6 months.

So from the view of long-term strategy, I would change - however, not to subdomain but to subfolder (domain.com/productname). Regarding the effort of the previous 6 months - I would review the amount of back links and how hard would it be to eventually manage them.

That's just my opinion, hope it helps a bit. Martin

Hey there,

In this article is everything you need for 2017.

https://moz.com/blog/seo-and-digital-trends-in-2017

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

1. Create a segment for organic traffic only.
2. Go to Behavior > Site Content > Landing Pages
3. Set the desired time range for 6 months

Hope that's the answer to your question. Anything should be unclear, let me know. Cheers, Martin

Hey Andrew,

It would impact local SEO only if your associations would appear in the form of links (and possibly mentions on social media). If you are receiving links then your rankings in those particular areas might start rising.

Regarding the pages for other regions, it would make sense only if you are able to create unique and quality content. If so, I'm a fan of this solution.

Looking forward to other's opinions.

Cheers, Martin