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Because you are in the country you wish to target already you could geo-target the domain to Canada and simply use the language but the using set up below would work. You may also want to read this by KATE MORRIS - http://www.stateofdigital.com/use-hreflang/.
You could check the above using http://www.impersonal.me/ and http://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool.
Hope this Helps,
Tom
Hi Mike,
if the source code still shows no follow & no index then unfortunately Google bot will not change that.
the easiest way to tell is to use the Moz bar if you use Google Chrome or Firefox you can download it for free here
http://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar
whenever you're on the page you think is blocked simply click the tool and it will tell you.
However if you have the no follow and no index removed then you have to wait for Google bot to index your site prior to any changes in Google.
Try running your site through one of the 3 tools here.
The Moz crawl test is pretty awesome it sometimes can take a while for the results come in. If your site is very large I would use it because the other free tools below will not go over a set amount of pages for instance Internet marketing ninjas 1000 pages is the max in the case of screaming frog 500 pages is the max.
https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test
One thing I would do is download this tool it is free to crawl your site up to 500 pages and works on Mac, PC and Linux
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
It will show you very clearly if you have any pages that are no follow , no index
if you run that tool then export all the no follow no index pages or export the crawl report I can use the Pro version and I will change your tags to no longer say no follow no index
I'd also be interested in seeing what your robots.txt file says by putting a URL of mine into this tool below I was able to get this information
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://app.wistia.com/sitemaps/23283.xml
I can now see that as long as anything that says Disallow with the / is going to be blocked
its a very simple way to check for things that could be causing problems that would replicate identical symptoms.
The same company that makes that robots.txt tool makes another tool that could help you quite a bit. Similar to screaming frog however this one will crawl your site up to 1000 pages at no cost.
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/
I know it says site map generator however in addition to doing that it will show you every single blocked page and for what reason it's blocked. In addition you don't have to download software it's right on the web. After which it will e-mail you the results or you can watch them come in.
Here's some more information that might be of help to you
Kristina Kledzik works for distilled however she wrote this great quick audit guide right here.
http://www.zemanta.com/blog/technical-seo-audit-for-publishers/
https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/7-technical-seo-wins-for-web-developers/
If you don't feel comfortable sharing your URL for more than welcome to private message me here.
Sincerely,
Thomas
It would appear that you have more of a problem with your navigation then duplicate content. However that's not to say I would not remove http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/#tabThree
I would simply make sure that the link is rewritten as well as pointing to a true price page instead of what sending people to now.
Is the site still under development?
I would either higher a developer to correct it or go to team treehouse to learn HTML and correct it yourself.
The best of luck to you,
Thomas
Mike
try this as well.
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/linkcount/
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/
read this
http://www.zemanta.com/blog/technical-seo-audit-for-publishers/
All the best,
Thomas
Moz has access to their API as a pro member you have the ability to get acquainted with your information.
Check out scribecontent.com it is a tool made by copy blogger that might do what you're asking.
Let me know if I can be of more help,
Tom
Hey Kate,
I remember this question as well it's a year old now great catch and they answer. Thumbs up.
Imagine if you tried to target all of different French dialects if you tried to target all of that with one url you would not be able to have the subtle differences between French and Canadian French
just like a US English and Canadian English there are minor details that make a huge difference to Google. Also I'm sure this is been sa just like in US English and Canadian English there are minor details that make a huge difference to Google.
Also I'm sure this is been said however I think it is worthwhile to host your website in the country you're targeting. Canada in this case (This not that it is going to hurt you badly) as long as hosting it's very fast were you going to target. if you do not however there is evidence pointing to the IP still making a large difference after Geo targeting. )
See Richard Baxter's article on using a UK IP versus US IP on the exact same hosting company and getting a pretty large difference in results based on the IP address after Geo targeting.
https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/
What's interesting is WPE (the host) was using a proxy so hosting was still out of the UK Data center but was assigned or US IP addres.
I hope that helps and agree 100% with what Kate said. She really knows her stuff.
Tom
I’m happy that you’re keeping up with Google it’s really important that you try & stay close as you can with Googles changs your accuracy that has become an industry standard I applaud “Moz Rank“ staying the industry standard.
Hi Scott,
If you are looking for somebody to confirm what Chris said I agree 100%.
If you are backlink has value keep it in place. As long as possible.
If you have done a redirect on a back link you know has no value meaning no one is going to it directly nor does it have any back links of any value pointing to it. Six months is a very safe cutoff time.
If you are doing a redesign you want to map your redirects
All the best,
Thomas
Hi Scott,
you should only have the canonical tag on the URL that represents the home page.
So if you are home page is www.mysite.com you would only have a canonical tag their
does that make sense?
Essentially you should not use the canonical tag on a page that is not going to be in Google's index
If you are already 301 redirecting your index.HTML using Regex or whatever method it will not need to tag in addition.
More info
http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
http://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
All the best,
Tom
Make sure you make the pages so that there are no follow pages and no index there's no risk of Google penalizing you for duplicate content whatsoever.
Build away. I hope I have helped you
Sincerely,
Thomas
Rewrite the URLs your hosting company for a plug-in like
https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo-premium/
Yoast makes it better be best redirect plug-in for WordPress I know of.
You can use The redirection plug-in
https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
Hosting
http://getflywheel.com/help/do-you-support-htaccess-files/
You will want to clean up what WordPress did not.
Via 301 redirects it is most likely an error in your HTaccess file
Your WordPress install is not up to date as well you may want to ensure that is updated to 4.0.
Have http://getflywheel.com/tour/ do it
This is something I would recommend a company like Getflywheel.com at $15 a month you get manage WordPress your own all SSD VPS and all the issues with WordPress to take care of by them. http://getflywheel.com is a bargain.
Hope that helps,
Thomas
PS try to save your link structure to the way you want it and make sure you click the save button.
if it does not work there a problem that would require access to WordPress to fix
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/39665/custom-htaccess-rewrite-rule-for-page
You can check it with
https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php
https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/
If you’re on Apache and you decide to do the redirect, having been on a/yyyy/mm/dd/%postname%/ structure before, you might benefit from this simple redirect which you could throw into your .htaccess file:
| 1 | RedirectMatch 301 /\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) http://example.com/$1 |
