I'd recommend trying to remove the links manually first by contacting the webmasters.

You should only disavow links if you are sure they are impacting your website, make sure to read Google's guidelines on the subject very carefully first: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

Good luck!

Exactly what Logopedia y Más said!

I've just made some sitewide changes to a client site today (3-4 hours ago) and done a fetch straight after, some are already reflected in the SERPs while some aren't. So it really just depends, however, I find it typically doesn't take too long with the sites I have dealt with

Congrats on the little one Lauren! Time is always a factor!

To be honest with you, I’m regularly updating and tweaking old content to get better results. Whether it’s a simple title tag change or adding more content to the page as I‘ve realised website visitors will benefit from the extra info.

Is your traffic also dropping? If so it might be worth investigating the following:

• New competitors in the SERPs

• Are featured snippets now showing for your key terms? If so you may need to review your structured data (Moz recenrly did a great 3 part Whiteboard Friday series on these)

I‘d also highly recommend watching/reading the below resources:

- https://neilpatel.com/blog/#p-59557

- https://moz.com/blog/seo-rankings-drop-guide

I hope this somewhat helps. Goodluck Lauren

Unless you are targeting outside of the UK, it's not applicable to use the hreflang tag.

If you were also targeting Australia for example or the US alongside the UK, then it would be applicable.

Therefore hreflang is for:

• Websites with the same content in multiple languages
• Websites with content aimed at different regions, but in the same language e.g. AU, UK, US etc

Hope this helps

In my opinion you shouldn‘t ’chase’ a backlink with the only aim to improve your DA. Which after all is an estimation and always needs to be taken into context with other metrics.

You should go after backlinks that are on relevant websites that will also bring your site:

• Potential referral traffic

• Potential brand awareness

I hope that helps!

Agree with thr above. Don’t buy links. Spend those resources on doing your own link acquisition strategies such as creating high quality content onsite and amplifying this to attract natural backlinks. I know it’s not easy, but you’ve got to work hard to reap rewards that will benefit you for the longterm.

Goodluck!

I wouldn't see it as a problem either, however, I'd look into whether moving away from microformats and moving to schema might be better and cleaner for the code.

Google recommends JSON-LD: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data?visit_id=1-636614196659196059-2807489360&hl=en&rd=1

And you can also add it through GTM, which I find really handy

Hey Michael,

If you have no luck getting it manually removed and you think it's harming your website, you may need to consider using Google's disavow tool.

However saying that, Google has said fairly recently that you should really only use the tool if you get a manual action.

Google is pretty good at knowing what are spammy links and it's probably already disregarded them. As for your Moz spam score, I think Meghan has that covered for you

I hope that helps somewhat.

Cheers,
Casey