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Hello,

Why using small, that smaller text inside tags ? You can replace this with a div or span with class "small "for example, and create the same effect with :

.small {font-size: smaller; }

Hello,

It depends on several factors, including :

• age of your domains
• number of links to your site
• number of domains to your site
• anchor of links

I used to have many links from one domain (several thousand URLs) to my homepage, with exact anchor keyword. That was a bad idea, and shortly my website have been penalized for that keyword. At least you should verify if the links have exact anchor text or branding anchor text.

You may add some questions or suggestions before the textarea in order to help users to post longer reviews :
what you love? on the contrary, what has displeased you? Would you recommend the site / product to a friend? Have you been satisfied with the packaging, delivery ...

Hello,

Think about domains like wordpress.com, blogspot.com, ... Can Google let these domains be penalized because one or few subdomains have been penalized ? It can't.

Hello,

You may respond to ALL negative reviews and encourage your customers to post reviews on this site. And try to get a lot of reviews from trusted sources like Yelp, Google Local, ... You can also use service like GetFiveStars to improve your rankings and get rich snippet for your home page or product page.

Hello

I don't see problem if you redirect users after they choose their market. But you may add an option to change another market in case of mistake.

Hello,

Have you send a new sitemap to help Google knows new URLs ?

Hello,

No problem with these URLs, Drupal returns a 403 correctly because crawlers try to get draft content. Google and other search engines will not penalized you because of that : you can think of cart URLs or account URLs for ecommerce websites that may returns 403 the same way.

Months ago it was still possible to create entries in Freebase ( https://developers.google.com/freebase/ ) that could be reuse in Google Knowledge Graph. Now it's completely closed and you have to create webpages, perhaps with schema in order to be added to Knowledge Graph.

Hello,

If you want to speed up the process of deindexing, after setup all noindex tags you could upload a sitemap in GSC with all URLs you want to be crawled again.

Hello,

There was a Google Algorithm Update in June, more info here : http://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/june-2016-google-algorithm-update/

Hello,

There was a Google Update Quality in June, so this update may have been impacted your rankings.

More info here : http://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/june-2016-google-algorithm-update/

Hello,

In my opinion you should put rel=nofollow on all external/affiliate links (and prey not be penalized by Google Animals)

Hello,

I think I should choose the second one. But be careful with that solution, and put IDs in URL with automatic redirect.
For example www.website.com/product-category/product-page => www.website.com/phone/iphone-1234.html

If you change product-category name (phone => smartphone or apple phone) or product-page name (iphone => iphone 5), old URLs can be automatically redirected with simple conditionnal code at the beginning of your server code (load name with ID and the compare with URL)

Hello,

If your friends don't have money to generate 404, what he expects from his website in the end? A single webpage? CV ? 
Without money you can still have a Facebook page, Google local, Wordpress blog... All are already optimized.

(for a web developer redirect to 404 will take few minutes)

I think you're talking about Domain Authority, Page Authority and Spam Score ?

Spam Score will help you detect bad links so you should remove or disallow them.

Domain and Page Authority will help you find your best links, and find opportunities by analyzing the profile links of your competitors.

Hello,

I think the most important is to find an easy to remember domain name, whether in .com, .net or with new extension. SEO will be the same !

When you submit a sitemap, there is NO guarantee about 1) indexation delay 2) indexation at all. You've just send a set of URLs to be examined by Google. If you have a recent domain, poor quality content or duplicate Google may index only relevant webpages.

There is no guarantee that Google will use Title html tag in search results. In many cases Google rewrite titles to better reflect keywords searched.

Ok thanks Christie for your answer. It's curious no one even ask this question before.

Hello Christie,

Ok for the layout, but why do you keep the first link nofollowed ?

Studies reveal that only first link attribute and anchor text are taken into account... So it could be fair that the first link be followed also (or remove it and correct CSS layout... with CSS rules!)

Yes here : http://blog.axe-net.fr/ancre-de-lien-nofollow-dofollow-test-seo/ (in french)

if there are two links to the same URL on a give webpage, only the first link is taken into account, so in the moz profile webpage, the first link is nofollowed. And it's really strange to have two links, one nofollow and one follow?

Hello, I think you should focus on authority links form your competitors, top links, opportunities or great source of links from other websites you analyzed link profiles. Drop the odd links, and focus on top ones !

In addition, if links are temporary and on parked domains (so low quality links), they can hurt competitor rankings after next penguin update.

Hello,

I try to help Moz community and hope to get 200 mozpoints a day

When I analyze a profile from a member with more than 200 mozpoints, I see two links to custom URL link : one is added nofollow on a blank image, and one follow with anchor text.

But it appears that the tests show that in this case the second link is not taken into account... Why not remove the first link so ?

Here is the code:

xxx:

http://www.example.com/

Hello,

There is no problem to rewrite URLs, but you may have good reason and make sure 301 are ok.

For example on my website about comparative garages, if a garage sells its company to another one, and the name change, we keep the same ID in database but we change the name : from garage-name1-1234.html to garage-name2-1234.html, to keep the history from google because it's the same location, but we change the name to alert Google that there was a big change.

Hello, I think it's the same issue as this one :

https://moz.com/community/q/mozbar-login-change-update-firefox-temporarily-disabled

And Rand answers :

Should be all fixed now. Sorry about that - we're launching a new index, and there seems to be some hardware issues. We're trying to reverse engineer the source of the problem. On the plus side, a new index should be out soon.

The new index has been released few days ago so ...

Quora don't seem to have a XML sitemap but a HTML one :

[https://www.quora.com/robots.txt](https://www.quora.com/robots.txt) refers to [https://www.quora.com/sitemap](https://www.quora.com/sitemap)

I think you can do better things before, like try to find opportunities on existing local directories, town halls, local events...

If your shop was in a small city it could be a good idea, but in big one ...

Also some websites may have blocked Moz crawler, with the meta

So all their links won't show in OpenSiteExplorer

Exactly. Some websites add forwarding numbers for advanced call reporting in javascript. It's the best way to avoid problems with NAP inconsistency.

Is there a technical problem with OpenSiteExplorer ? (https://moz.com/researchtools/ose)

Since this morning I'v got many errors like this "There was an error getting your data". Try to refresh but doesn't look to work like before...

Hello,

I think you can do it (get overall and last review) with Yelp API:

https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/business

And it's ok for SEO

There are many different definitions for the bounce rate:

• Google Analytics Bounce Rate
  It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave. Be careful that if you use tracked events, the bounce rate will be modified. For example IF you track PDF download or javascript click, user will not be counted as bounced. Here are some instructions to set up tracked events : https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events
  The problem is : you can't know if a user enter your website and read your article 10 seconds or 10 minutes.
• Adjusted Bounce Rate :
  In this case we modify Google Analytics Bounce Rate to reflect reality : It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and leave before a certain amount of time. It's far more useful because in many situation, and for Google also, if a user enter your landing page and find the answer to its query, it's perfect. But if a user enter your site, then leave it instantly, you may have Panda issues. A high adjusted bounce rate is obviously a problem, because the page does not appear to meet user needs. For further info and how to setup, see https://moz.com/blog/adjusted-bounce-rate or http://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/adjusted-bounce-rate-in-google-analytics/ and search for poggo sticking or dwell time.

Hello,

Perhaps you could set up 404 for these pages, and then submit all these URLS via a sitemap in Google Search Console ?

I do not agree. All media websites list their sites in their footer and these may be the only authority links they receive.

Hello,

If it's an important information for yours visitors, then there's no problem. You've purchased stores, so you want to show that they be part of a group.

Think about big companies with footer that list all their websites. They want to show that they own many websites and can reach a large audience. It can be useful to their users so no problem.

I think there's no problem if UX is your main goal. It's the same thing if you hide some blocks on mobile vs desktop.

Don't worry and think about user !

Hello,

According to Wayback machine, you've migrated your website after April,13.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160413071802/http://www.kanataskinclinic.ca/

We can see clearly that you have changed everything ! Design, photos... So you've changed the UX ! Text is important but Google takes user engagement into account, and if users are not reassured by your new design, you will never get back your positions ! In old design buttons are clearly identifiable, it's more simple to navigate, some menus are youseful like "Why choose us ?"... I think you'd better improve old design and navigation and forget the new one !

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You must carefully prepare the migration :

• 301 all old urls to new ones, for example with htacess. To be sure, you can crawl your website for example with Xenu, and then test if all urls have been correctly redirected
• redirect email boxes
• list your top links with opensiteplorer and ask webmasters to change the links url

I think Bing is more sensitive to links, and use fewer algorithms to penalize (like Penguin or Panda). So with few good links and exact anchor you can rank easily.

I think it's better to redirect to the main category page on the new platform. Perhaps they've got some external links that point to these pages. And this will tell to bot that now there's only one strong page instead of several.

Take the first tool available http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=www.AJIO.com and it seems your domain have errors.

OK Thanks.

Perhaps it's the length of your article ? too short ? It's difficult to know why your are not included in Google News, but in fact you have done all the things to be there.

Without URL it will be hard to help you
You should create e special sitemap for Google News , as explain here :

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en

No problem !

We can imagine several companies in the same building for example, so there is no problem.

NB : Perhaps you could add a legal (and/or conditions of use) page on both website.

I think the best for you is to test with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool:
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?url

If the tool can see all the structured data, it's ok!

In order to help you, can you give us some details :

• which plugin do you use ?
• Do you minify code at deployment, before caching ?

Minifying can be an issue if the result is not cached, so each time the page is loading, the server must minify the code... And perhaps if your server is on a shared hosting, it can be time consuming !