If the background of the site is white and you made the H1 White you are doing something black hat rather your intentions are good or not in the eyes of Google.

I'm not saying you're trying to do something wrong if the client does not want to use the H1 tag what are they using for a title? You can still combine the two if you must is much better than making it essentially clear text which is what Google will think the white text is if the background is white.

you have to tell your client the H1 tag is extremely important and they need to introduce the page with the H1 tag displayed to the end-user.

Respectfully,

Thomas

Smart move. Let me know if I can be of any more help then does this answer your question?

You have an RSS feed that is adding a canonical to your own site?

RSS normally can add canonical's to third-party sites I don't think that the issue is Yoast I believe it is with the RSS post importer.

this is the second best SEO plugin you can use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

every decent word press seo  plugin will add canonical's you can choose to turn off canonical's on Yoast however I would do this using the RSS post importer

http://www.shoutpedia.com/how-to-remove-canonical-tagging-system-applied-by-yoasts-wordpress-seo-plugin/

In case your are using WordPress SEO plugin, you’ll have to add a filter in the functions.php file just before the closing of PHP as shown in the screenshot below.

See

http://i.imgur.com/cr7IU4W.jpg

Here is the exact code:
add_filter( 'wpseo_canonical', '__return_false' );
It will disable canonical tags across the site and no page, no post and no archive will show this tag. But if you want to disable tagging function on certain posts, pages or category archives, you’ll have to use this code instead of the code mentioned above.
function wpseo_canonical_exclude( $canonical ) {global $post;if (is_single( '348' )) {$canonical = false;}return $canonical;}
As you know every post, page, category or any another archive has its own unique ID in the wordpress. So in the above example we used 348 which is the post ID for a specific post where the canonical tag will not show. If you don’t know how to find the ID, here is a good article for you. To hide this tag from multiple posts, use this code.
function wpseo_canonical_exclude( $canonical ) {global $post;is_single( array( 17, 19, 1, 11 ) ) {$canonical = false;}return $canonical;}

https://youtu.be/xG_XN4IFteE

I still strongly recommend that you keep the canonical on via plug-in and not via RSS there are too many things that it could miss and cause problems for you.

I hope this helps,

Tom

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here is a CSV file showing the pages with more than one canonical you must make it so there's only one canonical per a page

here is the CSV

https://cl.ly/413X0m06282Q

Bigger photo http://i.imgur.com/cqcTN0h.png

<colgroup><col width="420"> <col width="184"> <col span="3" width="87"> <col width="199"> <col width="304"> <col span="3" width="87"></colgroup>
| Directives - Canonical |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| Address | Occurrences | Meta Robots 1 | X-Robots-Tag 1 | Meta Refresh 1 | Canonical Link Element 1 | Canonical Link Element 2 | HTTP Canonical | rel=“next” | rel=“prev” |
| http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/ | 3 | noodp |   |   | http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/ | http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/ |   |   |   |
| http://www.completetenders.com/ | 2 | noodp |   |   | http://www.completetenders.com/ |   |   |   |   |
| http://www.completetenders.com/services/tendering-process/ | 3 | noodp |   |   | http://www.completetenders.com/services/tendering-process/ | http://www.completetenders.com/services/tendering-process/ |   |   |   |
| http://www.completetenders.com/services/tender-writing/ | 3 | noodp |   |   | http://www.completetenders.com/services/tender-writing/ | http://www.completetenders.com/services/tender-writing/ |   |   |   |
| http://www.completetenders.com/open-tenders/ | 2 | noodp |   |   | http://www.completetenders.com/open-tenders/ |   |   |   |   |

all the best,

Tom

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I just checked the URL you referenced you have duplicate  canonical tags I checked it using  screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

please look at the data below.

You need to remove one of them you should only have one.

so instead of this

1. Canonical Link Element 1 http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/
2. Canonical Link Element 2 http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/

you get

1. Canonical Link Element 1 http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/

See

URL Encoded Address http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/
Content text/html; charset=UTF-8
Status Code 200
Status OK
Size 150645
Title 1 Bid Management / End-to-end Tendering Support
Meta Description 1 Professional Bid Management Consultants / Bid Solutions to Win Contracts / Everything You Need / Expert Advice on 07429 191305
H1-1 Bid Management
H2-1 Bid Management
H2-2 View More
Meta Robots 1 noodp
Canonical Link Element 1 http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/
Canonical Link Element 2 http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/
Word Count 723
Level 0
Inlinks 14
Outlinks 23

Look at your source code on these pages use command-F (on Mac) or control F (on PC) to search for the term "canonical" if you do not see it more than once on the page it should be no issue.

"the only difference I can see is the first one uses '...'  and the second one uses "..."

The canonical link? If there are two canonical bags on the same page make sure to remove the one that is not pointing to your preferred page or make sure the canonical is self-referencing. But make certain there are no more than one canonical tag like this below

Look for

Also, I would use

• https://www.deepcrawl.com/  allowing free site crawls right now
• and/or
• https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/  free up to 500 pages.

Just to confirm you do not have duplicate canonical's both tools will let you know for sure is will checking the source code of the page that is flagged.  if it does not have duplicates I would report it to The Moz they are awesome at getting back to you and answering these types of issues if there is in fact only one canonical per a page.

I hope that helps,

Tom

What Miriam_ Is saying is 100% correct. Thank you for updating me, Miriam!_

I would recommend utilizing a system of getting your own testimonials/reviews reputation stacker is a great one so is white spark I have provided some URLs below you are paid services that allow you to cultivate your own unique testimonials which you can then use schema on however like it is stated below and Marion said you cannot use schema on reviews that are from websites other and yours. Meaning they had to show up there first.

• https://reputationstacker.com/ (great tool)
• https://whitespark.ca/reputation-builder/
• https://whitespark.ca/review-handout-generator/
• https://whitespark.ca/google-review-link-generator/

"The big change here is that when you include third-party syndicated reviews that are not “directly produced by your site,” you should not mark up those reviews with schema. Only “directly produced by your site, not reviews from third-party sites or syndicated reviews” should be marked up, according to these guidelines".

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#local-business-reviews

All the best,

Tom

you are correct you should only have one canonical tag on a page Max

Because you're using WordPress Yoast SEO plug-in I can tell you that it automatically adds canonical URL for you when you are modifying thing that should be pointing somewhere else you have to go into the advanced area in the photo below.

So all of these URLs would show the same content:

• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/  you would want to point them all to the first URL  via canonical
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?isnt=it-awesome
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?cmpgn=twitter
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?cmpgn=facebook

for more information on how to use that plug-in and remember only one per page and if the page is duplicate content pointed to the page that you want Google to assume is the owner of that content.

If you get stuck ask me or reference this below.

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

All the best,

Tom

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The only reason I can think of why you would not want to is if you're in some sort of industry where it is not relevant but those are hard to think of. As far as putting schema on your reviews I strongly recommend it below are two generators of micro data and one of JSON-LD schema use one you like.

• https://webcode.tools/json-ld-generator/review
• https://webcode.tools/microdata-generator/review
• http://tools.seochat.com/tools/review-schema-generator/
• another generator for basic schema https://hallanalysis.com/json-ld-generator/
• and if you use WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/schema-app-structured-data-for-schemaorg/

** This is a great article on how to get the stars where your or .8 to show up underneath the snippet the Google SERPS**

https://whitespark.ca/blog/how-to-use-aggregate-review-schema-to-get-stars-in-the-serps/

here is an example of code you could use

All the best,

Tom

Hi Ruchy,

That's fantastic deep crawl is a great tool.

I was talking about two different types of cloaking one using an URL with a  C name for hidden cloaking  e.g. https://www.rebrandly.com/

Thank you for the kind words.  Giving good answers and thumbs up or thumbs down definitely does make a difference I have outlined a lot of it below the official MozPoints URLhttp://moz.com/community/mozpoints

Yes marking anything as a giving thumbs-up is telling somebody they have helped you and in the event of thumbs up is their response was valuable and maybe contributed to answering your question.

In the case, of giving good answer person has answered your question giving as well as thumbs-up is the way anything is a way of saying thank you.

Welcome to the most community, and I look forward to seeing you here.

All the best,

Tom

I would put them all on one domain I would not worry about people and your caring about the EU tag on the domain .com's are far more common over there then .eu

I would put it all under one Domain I would not break it up over to Domains using sub folders just target the rest of the world with English but you're basically making that all to your alternate ask for default which is the one  design for if there is no proper language to fit the browser language.

Yes you absolutely can target   The same URL with multiple tags. In your case because you're going to have so many hreflang tags I would recommend implementing them through the site map it tends to be faster although you'll need a tool like DeepCrawl or Screaming Frog Prod or to make sure that they're all right.

http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/

you don't need to add a  sub folder to the alternative xt tag.

Obviously you can use/DE for Germany and then use the German language/DE – DE and so forth until you target each country with the specific language that you want to target them with. It seems like you're not interested in selling outside do yo selling outside the Europe  as each piece of content I'm sure you know this will have to be written by somebody that is native to the country that you are targeting.

I really think it's just as important do you have the correct content is well is the correct tags. But most of the time people do not use the subfolder for their ex you could theoretically do it if you were not going to use English at all

http://www.acronym.com/bebrilliant/seo/hreflang-sitemaps-free-tool/

I would use a single domain or I would use depending on your resources and what you can put into this a separate TLD neither one of those teal these offer any benefit for Ranking  what I'm saying is.edu.com or not as powerful is .CO.UK in the United Kingdom or .de in Germany.

My thoughts would be it would save you a lot of time not to have to use to generic Domains for just the sake of aesthetics. When they have no added trust I honestly feel in Europe people do not think don't you is something more trustworthy than.com though this is only one person's opinion mine.

Make sure that if you're splitting up your domains you do not try to run them as one domain. With the tags as shown.

Hey just wanted to check was any answer helpfull to you?

Is there anything  we might've missed or failed to help you solve the issue?

All the best,

Tom

I think I have a good answer for you give me about four hours.

Full site http://www.ghosturl.com/

or

https://www.rebrandly.com/

https://d3e7f5z1blhqw4.cloudfront.net/static/imgs/animation-homepage.gif

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Hi Ruchy,

Screaming Frog is an excellent tool. Dan is a great guy to update and the on that.

In my opinion, I have been able to find formation using https://www.deepcrawl.com/

The cost is higher deepcrawl is also a hosted platform.

Still, it can do remarkable things that no other tool that I know of can do.

https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/12-seo-issues-and-practices-that-google-will-penalize-you-for/

There are built just for checking cloaking this one is free

http://www.seotools.com/seo-cloaking-checker/

If you have access to the DNS will want to examine this thoroughly.

I have laid out how you would find c name DNS records if you do not have access to the DNS as well.

One other method you might have to use to determine whether or not domain or subdomain has been cloaked as shown here: http://www.ghosturl.com/  if the cloaking happens in a manner described in the URL for this sentence.

So the scenario would be the cloaked URL would be something like

http://www.cloaked.example.com/?=ku2b4B30ijbasT47720sb534Nbq6

( please know I used example.com is the domain because I did not want to pointed that any live site not because of anything to do with cloaking)

Therefore they're using most likely a C name inside the DNS to pointed to  http://www.example.com

You will need to use a tool that would be able to look at the IP or C name being created by the DNS.

The free tool I know if that can look for a C name or A record that should not be there is https://www. cloudflare.com the way you would do this is run the site through the DNS wizard that pulls the current DNS including all the records (it can miss some, but it does an excellent job of catching most of all DNS records. (9 times out of 10 will get all of them)

Because most tools make it impossible to see the C name when looking at DNS, it is important to remember there is a free service that is not designed for this purpose but can be used to discover the rogue cloaked URL.

https://www.cloudflare.com/a/sign-up (the free-tier offers the same ability to get DNS information)

http://i.imgur.com/Wm7W0aM.mp4

https://cl.ly/0A3k3d2j401n/Screen Recording 2017-01-26 at 07.09 AM.mov

http://i.imgur.com/lIN9Gsm.png

Hope This helps,

Tom

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I would use schema on the URL, so Google knows what you want to appear as your logo. However, the description is not as necessary.

script type="application/ld+json">

{"@context": "http://schema.org/",
"@type": "Organization",
"url": "http://www.yourcompany.com/",
"logo": "http://www.yourcompany.com/logo.png"
}

If you use <a class="selected" data-selects="microdata">Microdata</a> schema you will have your description show up on your page you want that?

https://schema.org/logo

ACME Hotel Innsbruck

alt="hotel logo" />

A beautifully located business hotel right in the

heart of the alps. Watch the sun rise over the scenic Inn valley while

enjoying your morning coffee.

alt="Company name"/>

alt="image description" title="image tooltip"/>

Alt text is best when always used but you do not want to make it too long. Three words should suffice at most As far as a description goes under your logo that's a choice you in your designer have to speak about I would think it would look a little odd.

Keep in mind

"Each image should have an alt text. Not just for SEO purposes but also because blind and visually impaired people otherwise won’t know what the image is for. A title attribute is not required. It can be useful but in most cases, leaving it out shouldn’t be much of an issue."

• https://yoast.com/image-seo-alt-tag-and-title-tag-optimization/ (ALT TEXT)
• https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/articles (news)
• https://www.logomaker.com/blog/2014/11/19/use-schema-org-markup-logo-design/
• http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/58059/correct-usage-of-schema-org-for-logo

I hope this helps,

Tom