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Hello,

My site had a 50% decrease in the last 48 hours (9/26/18) and I looking for ideas/reasons what would cause such a dramatic drop. Year to year organic traffic has been up 40% and September was up 30%. The site has a domain authority of 39 according to Moz and keywords positions have been flat for a few months.

I made a change to the code and robots.txt file on Monday, pre-drop. The category pagination pages had a "NoIndex" with a rel =canonical and I removed the "NoIdnex" per: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-noindex-rel-canonical-confusion-26079.html. I also removed "Disallow" in the robots.txt for stuff like "/?dir" because the pages have the rel =canonical. Could this be the reason for drop??

Other possible reasons:
1. Google Update: I dont think this is it, but ti looks like the last one was August 1st: "Medic" Core Update  —  August 1, 2018
2. Site was hacked
3. All of keyword positions dropped overnight: I dont think this is it because Bing has also dropped at the same percentage.

Any help, thoughts or suggestions would be awesome.

Hello,

In Google Search Console under Crawl > Crawl Errors > Not found I have strange URLs like the following:

https://www.domain.com//UbaOZ/
https://www.domain.com//UPhXZ/
https://www.domain.com//KaUpZ/WYdhZ/SnQZZ/MOcUZ/

There is no info in Linked From tab.

Have you seen this type of error??
Does anyone know whats causing it??
How should it be fixed??

Thanks for reading and the help!

Hello,

I had a question about noindex and Rel=Canonical on category page pagination. On my site, the category page the meta="robots" has "Index,Follow" tags and the rel="canonical" is the main category page, but when a user sorts the page the meta="robots" changes to "NoIndex, Follow."

My question is should the sorted page be name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" /> since the  rel="canonical" is pointing to the main page?? Or does it matter that it is NoIndex??

Any thoughts on this topic would be awesome. Thanks.

Main Category Page
https://www.site.com/category/
name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />
rel="canonical" href="https://www.site.com/category/"/>

Name Sorted Page
https://www.site.com/category/?dir=asc&order=name
name="robots" content="NOINDEX, FOLLOW" />
rel="canonical" href="https://www.site.com/category/">

Hello,

Thanks for reading,
Chuck

Starting last week, our site had a HUGE spike in referral traffic from: search.dnsassist.verizon.net.

We have never had a visit from there until last week, and had 12K visits last week so something is happening. The traffic does look normal though, all visits were in the US from 700 cities and pages/visit, avg visit duration and bounce rate are close to site average.

There is a few other referral sites that showed up last week as well: wind.search-help.net,  uslc.search-help.net, finder.cox.net. All of these sites are low, around 30 to 50 visits a day, but we had not any referrals until last week.

I did notice most of these sites state "Explore with Yahoo Search."

Just wondering if anyone has every seen this before and wondering what is happening. Thanks for reading.

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I noticed that when I search a page; Google is returning my search results without a trailing slashing. I have my site setup to adding a trailing slash and redirect to one if it is not.

So http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/inogen-one-g3 redirects to site:http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/inogen-one-g3/

I just did a search for site:http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/inogen-one-g3/ and the only result is the non-trailing version. See attached.

All internal links and sitemap include a trailing slash.

Should I be concerned about this?? I am concerned that it could be hurting my search results.

Any help or feedback would be awesome.

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Thanks for the help!

I have a question about duplicate content. We have our mission statement on our home page, a few paragraphs.

When I searched Copyscape the only pages that came back were sites like Google Plus, Manta, Linkedin, AngieLists ect. All of them have the same exact copy.

Would this be something that is hurting us for duplicate content??
It is our mission statement so we kind of want to be the same across those sites.

Any input would be great.

Thanks,

Scott

Thanks a bunch!

It was downloaded 11 hours ago. Do I just need to wait until after the site is crawled again?

It was downloaded 11 hours ago. Do I just need to wait until after the site is crawled again?

Thanks a bunch!