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We've migrated my site from HTTP to HTTPS protocols in Sep 2017 but I noticed after migration soft 404 granularly increasing.

Example of soft 404 page: https://bit.ly/2xBjy4J

But these soft 404 error pages are real pages but Google still detects them as soft 404. When I checked the Google cache it shows me the cache but with HTTP page.

We've tried all possible solutions but unable to figure out why Google is still indexing to HTTP pages and detecting HTTPS pages as soft 404 error.

Can someone please suggest a solution or possible cause for this issue or anyone same issue like this in past.

Hi There,

My Moz bar is simply dead in my chrome. It didn't show anything. Just a black data field even if I am logged-in, in my Moz pro account. Need help please. Thanks.

We accidentally uploaded a robots.txt disallow root for all agents last Tuesday and did not catch the error until yesterday.. so 6 days total of exposure. Organic traffic is down 20%. Google has since indexed the correct version of the robots.txt file. However, we're still seeing awful titles/descriptions in the SERPs and traffic is not coming back. GWT shows that not many pages were actually removed from the index but we're still seeing drastic rankings decreases.

Anyone been through this? Any sort of timeline for a recovery?

Much appreciated!

For the sake of simplicity, let's say Page X has 100 links on it, and it has 100 points of link juice.

Each page being linked to would essentially get 1 point of link juice. Right?

Now let's say Page X links to Page Y 3 times and Page Z 5 times, and every other link only once.

Does this mean that Page Y would get 3 "link juice points" and Page Z would get 5?

Note: I know that the situation is much more complex than this, such as the devaluation of footer links, etc, etc, etc. However, I am interested to hear peoples take on the above scenario, assuming all else is equal.

I am curently managing a .com that targets Canada and we will soon be launching a .com/us/ that will target the US. Once we launch the /us/ folder, we want to display the /us/ content to any US IP. My concern is that Google will then only index the /us/ content, as their IP is in the US.

So, if I set up .com and .com/us/ as two different sites in GWT, and geotarget each to the Country it is targeting, will this take care of the problem and ensure that Google indexes the .com for Canada, and the /us/ for the US?

Is there any alternative method (that does not include using the .ca domain)? I am concerned that Google would not be able to see the .com content if we are redirecting all US traffic to .com/us/.

Any examples of this online anywhere?