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Hi there,

The third URL you are referencing, is actually indexed:

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDY4N18xNDgzNjgzMA

As for "crawled, not indexed" - in most cases it happens because of one and only reason - Google is seeing your page as thin content, not worth being indexed. Typically it happens on bigger sites with a lot of similar pages. In your case, you got many courses, with exactly same structure. So, if the content is not completely different, then Google might deem it not worthy.

As for the bug you referenced - did your URLs drop off the index exactly at the time when this issue has been discovered? (aka within the last week?).

Do you have any cannibalization happening?

To me it looks like that's the case. If I do this search: "site:https://www.ihasco.co.uk/ Sexual Harassment Training course"

There are many pages that are indexed and are ranking: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDcwN18xNDgzNjg4Mg

So, basically, you have pages that are more authoritative with similar content. Therefore your courses pages are dropping as thin content.

I would recommend doing some internal linking optimization to tell Google what is actually important. Look in GSC for internal links metrics.

Hope this helps.

Howdy, fellow mozzers,

I came across this weird suggestion in my Bing account (screenshot link: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY3OTc5NF8xNDgyMzY4OA)

It almost that the dollar sign in the negative keyword is acting like a wildcard character, or being disregarded completely.

I did some tests, it seems that in Google Ads that is not happening.

Does anyone have an idea if this is normal behavior? I have never seen this before.

"Should the area landing pages be child pages and the web design be the parent?"

Child in which sense? In the nav? in the site flow? In both scenarios, it's completely up to you. Depends on what UX do you want users to have.

"less juice" - again, in what sense? backlinks? the structure has nothing to do with it - external or internal links. Traffic? That'll depend on rankings and other marketing promos.

Hi there,

That really depends on user journey, UX and UI you want your visitors to have. Internal link "juice" doesn't really count too much from nav or footer, so, won't help you in terms of authority positioning of these internal pages.

You need to ask yourself what pages you want the user to go through to get to a given landing page. Is there a need for them to go through all the chain of the pages? is content repeated through out? Is it gonna look spammy if you have 10 links one under another in nav saying "London Web Design", "Bristol Web Design" etc etc.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there,

DA is a relative metric, it changes over time. If your competition is doing more/better work than you, then DA would go down.

Here is an excerpt from here (https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Since Authority is based on machine learning calculations, your site's score will often fluctuate as more, less, or different data points are used in the calculation — for instance, if Facebook were to acquire a billion new links, everyone's PA and DA would drop relative to Facebook. For this reason, keep in mind that you should always use Domain Authority as a relative metric to compare against the link profiles of other sites, as opposed to an absolute value scoring the efficacy of your internal SEO efforts.

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

KD is not a static metric. It very much depends on who ranks for that search. So, if a website with high DA and great backlink profile starts ranking for it on the first page, then competition goes up, and, therefore, the KD score goes up.

Or, even if no new players came to the first page, but if already ranking websites improve their backlink profile, then KD would go up as well. Keep in mind that MOZ's link crawls happen about once a month, so the changes in KD could be more drastic due to that.

Makes sense?

Hi there,

DA and MozTrust metrics are correlated, but not affecting each other. Actually, I believe MozTrust is not really being even used anymore. DA kinda took over. Basically, you should care about DA and SpamScore.

Here are a couple links to other answers, explaining what it is, the differences etc:

https://moz.com/community/q/mozrank-and-moztrust

https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-i-increase-my-trust-score

Hope this helps.

Actually, even Google folks don't really know  how exactly the algorithm works, all due to machine learning.

Check this: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-understand-complex-algorithms-23848.html

Hi there, my impatient friend

You started created those backlinks on Aug 10. I assume that's when website went live. https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/subdomains/fresh?target=http%3A%2F%2Fdramasapps.com%2F as you can see your backlink are being crawled.

Mozscape updates are monthly thing, but last month there was a problem, so it's going to be updated on october 8th. the last one was on august 3. https://moz.com/products/api/updates so you couldn't have been in index yet.

Patience, my friend, patience.

Hi.

My point of view is that if you don't update G+ page, it's still worth having it simply for google maps and straight brand SERPs, because if link it all properly, you gonna get easy way of updating/creating your address/name etc.

Cheers

Hi. If I search for "zotye", I get message "did you mean zotey", not the message you're talking about.

Anyway, to "fix" the issue you're talking about is to "make" more people searching for "zotey". Which means increasing brand awareness, business exposure etc etc. Also backlink building with that keyword as anchor text will help for sure. Just don't go overboard with it

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, rankings drop (at least for some time) is pretty much unavoidable when changing domain name.

Now, you are saying that there are lots of high authority backlinks to that domain - i check and ahrefs tells me there are only 12(!) backlinks alltogether and MOZ OSE says there are none at all. Well, here is your problem!

I checked backlink profile for old domain and yes, there is a decent backlink proile, so that's why there is a drop. Just give it some time and build some fresh backlinks.

Hi there.

It's called Google knowledge graph. It's being created automatically, but you can "help" Google to understand what you want to display.

Refer to this google page for more detailed explanations and how-tos: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/overview

Hi there.

As far as I know (99% sure), GSC won't let you do the address change for the same domain name. Also, they recommend having all versions - http and https.

So, I'd say just add another version

Hi there.

First, your question is very confusing, so, I'm reading my crystal ball here. Correct me, if it tells me wrong things.

So, you have a load of exact-matching follow backlinks and it's hurting you (you're afraid that you can get penalized in future). So, you wanna spam a load of blogs, which use user name as anchor text and these backlinks are no-follow, and you're hoping that Google says "Oh, since this guy has bunch of dofollow exact match anchors, but a the same time he spammed whole bunch of blogs with nofollow links, I gonna let it be"?!?!

Come on! Take a better look at what's happening and how Google "decides" who to ban. Quite frankly, Google doesn't care about any links which are nofollow, you can have exact match or not. What they do pay attention is the links which are do-follow to determine the "spamminess" of your website.

So, if you have used some spammy/shady techniques (and it sounds like that) to get exact matching do-follow backlinks, get ready to be hit by Google, no matter how many (and what type) of no-follow links you got additionally.

Cheers.

Hi there.

If they are actually buying links or using any shady techniques - they will get what they deserve, don't worry. And I don't think you can report this type of activity without hard proof.

I'd recommend rather focusing on your work - seo, natural backlinks, content and all of that. The reason your competitor is ranking #1 is not necessarily due to buying backlinks, since there are so many other factors.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Upon request to sitemap.xml run a let's say sitemap.php or .js or whatever, which would read the directory for new files, then update sitemap.xml. If you're using CMS - then it should have automatically generated sitemap by default. If not - the same idea, just instead of reading directory for rhysical files, read database.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, it happens sometimes. Please read this post by Dr.Pete - you'll find answers https://moz.com/blog/i-cant-drive-155-meta-descriptions-in-2015