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Oh dear..

Disavowing links does not guarantee bump in rankings whatsoever. What you need to be looking into is proper SEO and branding. There are lots of resources about it on this forum, here are couple:

https://moz.com/learn/seo

Just dug a little more.

Yes, my #3 thought seems to be correct. Basically, there is ajax or js which intercepts request and does its work.

However, I think that for rankings you actually would want ?page=x to rank, because if js is disabled in browser, then post request url might not work, you won't be able to bookmark and, if you change backend filtering, it won't exist.

According to Google, they don't use any Google Analytics related data for rankings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU

Is it a type of commercial warfare by competitors?

No, it's spam, which is targeted towards your curiosity - "oh, I got this visit from this website. Let me check it out".

The only negative effect is polluting your GA reports and data. Fortunately, there is a way to setup filters and block all ghost and referral spam. Here is an article - https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter

About experience with it - yes, I have been fighting it for quite long time by now and what I see is that the amount of referral and ghost spam to our website grows like crazy, however rankings are not  affected at all. At least, they are growing, accordingly to our SEO work.

Howdy.

The only reason I would suggest disavowing is when the links are coming from spammy domains. So, if those dead domains were spammy - then sure. Otherwise it'll drop off on it's own without any harm.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Schema is pain in terms of showing up. You can have it all right and wait for a year and still not seeing rich snippets.

There was quite similar discussion here: https://moz.com/community/q/reviews-not-appearing-in-serps-even-with-schema-markup

Hope this helps

Hi there.

Sounds like redirect loop. Check your htaccess.

Hi there.

Well, to answer your question in title of this question - no. Forwarding by itself doesn't effect rank or authority. However, in your situation, it might be the case due to bouncing or so called pogo-sticking. It's well known that pogo sticking is really bad and nobody wants it. Here is a WBF about it: https://moz.com/blog/solving-the-pogo-stick-problem-whiteboard-friday

Also, since you use flash - and that can be bad by itself due to incompatibility, long loading times and so on - I assume your website is not mobile either. Another bad sign for Google.

Now, my questions to you are:

0. How are your rankings for new domain? are they dropping? Is old domain rising?
1. If you use old domain that much, can you redesign it + move content from new one and eliminate that redirect?
2. can you replicate flash app with non-flash app (js, mysql or whatever)?
3. can you redo flash app with new one, which will be integrated with new website?

I understand all my suggestions would require financial investment, but I say it will be worth it.

Hi there.

Google reserves the right to use whatever they think is best description the page/company in a title. Yes, they most often use title tag, but not always. If, for whatever reason, they think that title tag is not matching enough what the page is about, they can show something different.

Also, as you said, since you removed "Limited", it might take some time for Google to "realize" that.

Hi there.

I think you might find this q/a helpful https://moz.com/community/q/how-does-indeed-com-make-it-to-the-top-of-every-single-search-despite-of-having-aggregated-content-or-duplicate-content

I see. Well, I haven't seen any websites, done in photoshelter rank high, plus just glancing at code of the template from photoshelter gives me shivers. However, if you compare main SEO elements, they are there.

I guess, the thing is that most people use wordpress, which has far more plugins to help you with your SEO, rather than photoshelter, shopify or something else. So, I, personally, would go with wordpress if I had to choose out of CMSs.

Well, what you're saying is not true.

Example: if I search for "tree" the first result is not tree.com, because tree is a very generic phrase and tree.com doesn't have huge brand. However, if I look for "apple" apple.com comes up number 1,  due to brand associativity.

So, taobao is pretty generic word and, apparently, your brand is not big enough to overtake it. This is proved by category pages ranking high. Therefore invest in brand awareness and exposure.

As for Google "punishing" - i don't think so, because if you had some kinda penalty, it would be for domain, not for certain query. Basically, you wouldn't be rankings anywhere for anything.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, you should. Especially if summary contains parts of full article content or is very close in its content. Basically, if there is any chance that summary can rank for keyphrases, same as full article - do canonicalizing.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, here is a thing. If you look at what google considers when deciding whether or not page should be ranking, in a nutshell, it would be backlink profile, content and user data (read user experience).

So, when considering redesign and structure change for a website, those are the things you should be looking at. Therefore, estimate how much each of those parts of the website would change. Typically, redesign with UX in mind will help you dramatically, however, changing the content (if you're actually talking about changing it, not editing) can lead to really bad results. So, make sure that content is somewhat the same or at least is targeting the same keyphrases.

The same thing about moving from subdomain. Even though it's on the same domain name, typically, subdomains are treated like separate domains in terms of backlinks. So, even if you do 301-redirect, there WILL BE at least temporary consequences. Because one - whenever you use 301 redirect, not all of link equity is being passed and two - it takes some time for google to "realize" those 301 redirects and "rethink" the indexing.

Hope this helps.

Uhm.. If you got hit by penalty, just re-indexing the website without any content/backlink profile changes will not do anything. To recover from penalty, you would need to find out what penalty it was, then change a lot of stuff on your website.

If you decide to dump old website whatsoever and build new one, don't redirect the old one to new, since, if there was a penalty, associating with old website is not a good idea.

There are several articles on MOZ about recovering, read them all

https://moz.com/ugc/from-disaster-to-triumph-how-to-recover-from-an-algorithmic-penalty

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=moz%20recovering%20from%20penalty

Hello, my friend.

Well, I have done both ways on different websites and I've seen both ways work fine. However, just to cut time on adding schema and potential problems (who knows how google gonna treat duplicate schema tomorrow), I tend to add local business markup to header OR footer and use contact page for contactPoint markup. This has been working swell for me.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Did you outsource the project or you have in-house team? Also, how do you get this information - Google Analytics or actual loading times in "Web Inspector" or something?

The reason it can be increasing is if while rebuilding the website developers used a lot of none-deferred JS and extra CSS, which is not optimized. So, if you have in-house team, tell them to optimize it. If you outsourced it - oh well. What you can use as a reference as well - Google PageSpeed Insights. They even provide "optimized" files (don't blindly trust those).

P.S. And, of course, if you need tech help - you can PM me or email me at dmitrii@regexseo.com

Hi there.

It's recommended that you have only one H1 and H2 per page. It won't "break" your website or SEO, but it won't help it either if you have multiple same level h-tags. So, here you go - don't use h-tags in nav. It's weird anyway

Hi there.

The question would if it's important to you. If it doesn't matter to you whatsoever, then let Google choose, however, make sure that when you build backlinks or leave link to your domain anywhere, use the one which google chose, just for consistency.

Well, using GA for this is quite useless. It's very inaccurate. Use right click->inspect element->network tab for those times. Or webpagetest.org.

Hi there.

It looks like some problems with htaccess rewrite rule or redirects. Most likely rewrite rule, since you say that it takes you to html page, not image.

Check that out.

Uhmm.. Are you suggesting that SEO comes down to "just a matter of mentioning it in a blog post"? Man, we are all in the wrong business

Of course not! To rank for another country, you need to do every single step of SEO process with a focus on that country. If you are talking about making the same domain rank for several countries, then you gotta do all SEO steps + a ton of technical work to make sure that all your content is not duplicate and targeted.

Please, read this:

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

https://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo

Howdy.

Well, since all you are doing is updates css and adding pictures, but keeping url, text etc., you won't have any effect (positive or negative) on SEO whatsoever. SInce it's gonna look a bit better, maybe engagement metrics will go up, and it'll improve SEO, but that's a tall story to hope for

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, don't put duplicates on every product page, that's for sure. The #1 option you have is very good idea. You say that you are afraid of users leaving product page and not coming back. Here is my idea:

Do option #1, but also dynamically "transfer" the product to that page. So, for instance you are on a product page domain.com/product1.php, when you click on a link about information (which is lets say domain.com/information.php), add a parameter to that link based on product page url you were coming from like so - domain.com/information.php?product1.

And then add extra section on information page with product details, possibility to add to cart etc, based on parameter. This way you can exclude urls with parameters from indexing (read here) or canonicalize all parameter pages to info page. This way you won't have any duplicate issues.

Cheers

Hi. Well, they do not consolidate, that's for sure. However, I have a question then: so, if, let's say i have a to site.com/ and site.com/es/ for Spain and then somebody links to site.com/es/, wouldn't this increase DA of the whole domain, which is site.com?

Howdy!

Well, as we all know, Google is all about user experience now, and, with menu not working, something tells me UX will suck. So, yeah, I'd say menus shall be working either JS is on or off.

P.S. I think the problem originates from a lot of developers using bootstrap and such for sake of ease of development, which uses JS for menus.

Hope this helps

Or should I fix the issue first via htaccess rule before attempting the migration

I quite honestly think that the problem is WITH htaccess, not that you have to fix something else with htaccess.

And as an answer to your question - you always can migrate with issues and hope that nothing breaks during the process, or try to patch it up so it seems to be working fine and, again, hope that it doesn't break on you, OR you can get it fixed at the root of the problem and don't worry about it in the future.

Hi there.

No, none of SEO related benefits would ever come from what email you use to login or URL in your profile. The way to use YouTube for SEO is actually to use it (surprise here:) for it's intended purposes - create awesome video content, put compelling descriptions, titles and thumbnails for your videos, grow the audience and, eventually, people will remember your brand, and start coming to your website from youtube, which will indirectly influence SEO.

Cheers.

P.S. Here are some links you might find useful:

https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/youtube-video-optimization-best-practices/

https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/page/lesson/discovery?hl=en

https://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2262954/optimizing-videos-for-youtube-search

https://moz.com/blog/youtube-ranking-factors-whiteboard-friday

https://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/

Hello, everybody.

Today I noticed that finally the latest release of mozscape update has been posted.

Now, I noticed that NONE of 25 campaigns websites NOR any of their competitors DA has changed. I do understand that DA can stay the same, but 25+25*3=100 websites domain authorities hasn't changed at all since August 4th (the date of previous mozscape release)?

Or is this happening only to me?

Please advise.

Hi there.

We had the same problem and got it solved recently. First of all, make sure that all schema is correct. Also make sure you have verified g+ account for that business (apparently it's important). Also see if knowledge graph comes up if you search for "brandname reviews". And call Google. In our case, they found some technical issues on their side, and while they were fixing it, they gave us some ideas to apply on our side to improve local listings presence.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

As far as I know, internal nofollow links do not make any sense, unless you are trying to "direct" search bots to specific pages, but not others. In your case, as you say, there are many other links to the same page, so internal architecture here doesn't take place.

So, I say remove nofollows on internal links, try maybe reduce amount of links in general though. The problems you might encounter are related to so called crawl budget by search bots. They have limited amount of time and resources to be on your website, and, if you have many-many links to the same pages, bots might be running in circles, wasting their resources.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I played with keyphrases, positions etc and what's happening is that your index page is optimized better for those keyphrases than the page itself. Also I have noticed that the product page looks keyword stuffed like Thanksgiving turkey. Maybe that's the issue?

Also all pages have canonical links to itself. You have http://chemometec.com/product/nucleocounter-nc-200/ and http://chemometec.com/cell-counters/cell-counter-nc-200-nucleocounter/ but both have canonicals to itself. Competing with each other maybe?

Also I noticed that i get absolutely different SERs for "NucleoCounter NC-200" and "NucleoCounter NC200". In first case you don't rank, or at least not the product pages.

Make sure that you have internal linking with proper keywords, all your canonicals are in order and there is no overstuffing. At the same time use some phrases without trademark or rights marks. All this might be issues.

As for your phrase - your index page is coming up on second page, which means, again, it's more optimized (or may be not overoptimized in comparison with a product page.

Anyway, I'd look into canonicals first, then into page optimizations.

Hi there.

No, there is no other way than backlinks. Basically, the way Search Engines work is that they know what your website (domain) is about and than try to find the best page to match the query. One of the strongest signals engines look at is backlinks. So, if your home page has good backlink profile, secondary page doesn't have any, and Google understands that your website is about, let's say, apples, your index page will be ranking no matter how much you optimize content on secondary page.

You can try doing solid internal linking with exact matching anchor text, but I doubt it will help much. Just try to get couple good backlinks to secondary page and you'll be fine.

Hello, my friend.

"Password"? I assume you mean keyphrase/keyword. Well, first of all, the keywords you're talking about are not difficult And yes, if you use "in" it won't matter. In fact, go for natural word flow, since it's better for UX, and that's what google likes. Additionally, you don't have to use the whole keyphrase in H-tags. If possible - sure, if not - just do it in content naturally. Google has very-very sophisticated AI, so no worries, they will understand what page is about.

Just don't go overboard with keyword stuffing.

Oooooh man, oh man. Hi there

The same question I ask myself everyday - Should I join the guild of spammers?

Well, during such moments, my brain, thankfully, still works in a "reasonable", not "do-whatever-you-want" mode

To your question - don't do it. I know it's tempting, but it's not a long term solution, it might be the short-term, but what's the point if you aren't planning to stay in business for a while? Just keep doing good quality white hat, maybe invest more into offsite SEO and branding and results will come. As an example - it took us year of constant work to rank in top 5 for "seo houston" and "web design houston" from nothing. But we are on first page now, who knows where we'd be if we were doing black hat - there were so many major hits by Google in 2015.

So, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, my friend.

Hi there.

As always, it depends. Are these websites related, all good quality, without spammy backlink profile or any manual actions? - If so, then yes, it would be better to consolidate. However, if each of those websites is separate entity which is known, well received and kinda lives on it's own, then it might be better to leave them separate. (Another option would be to put them under the same domain, but on different subdomains to make management easier)

Cheers

Ok, now I get it

Here: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview

Basically, it requires some schema mark up and a little extra work. However, don't expect it to work immediately. It will take time - up to couple months.

Hi there.

Well, you can't really report them. I mean you can, but it won't help. Basically, you are trying to report a normal website with nofollow (read no spam) links, with some information (as long as it's not autogenerated, read not spammy content). So, what I'm trying to say is as long as that website doesn't perform any spammy actions like generated content, bunch of follow links and such, it wouldn't matter what the "real" purpose of the website is.

A non-spammy website, which functions, looks, being updated from time to time will not be considered spammy, just because it helps your competitors.

I hope this makes sense

Hi there.

Yes, it will. However, if you just rely on having "wedding" in your name to rank, it's not gonna make that much difference. Also it will limit you in terms of brand associativity, so, if you also do portrait photography, you surely can target it, but if i see your name, which says "wedding photography", i most likely gonna think that this is what you specialize in, therefore you are not good in portrait photography (even though it's pretty much the same, it's just psychologically different).

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

So, you have all your links absolute? not relative? Gotta be painful to manage..

Well, anyway, to answer your question - the only bad part about not changing links to https would be that extra redirect. If your servers are good, fast and very reliable, nobody would probably even notice it. I would check loading speeds though, especially for mobiles.

Personally, I would change all links to relative and never worry about stuff like this. If you want to keep them absolute, then yes, I recommend changing them all. Just for clean conscious sake

About find-replace. That would depend on how your website is built. I assume you're talking about wordpress? Then yes, you should be able to. As long as you know where to search.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Well, I don't speak dutch, so I have no idea if it read well, however, if I search on page for main word - oh my! It surely looks very much stuffed.

Also if you try density tool, waterpijp+waterpijpen density is more than 7%. I know density number doesn't mean much today, but over 7%... Usually it's considered stuffed when over 2-3%. And "shisha" is another 2.18%. So, just from probability point of view, your every 10th word is your keyword, which might seem ok until you realize that it's keyword density over ALL words on page including navigation, sidebars etc. So in reality it's more like every 5th word.

Is it just me or it's stuffy in here?

Verdict: I would rewrite the text if it was for me

Hope this helps.

Hi guys.

For past 2.5-3 weeks We've been experiencing lots of changes in our rankings, unfortunately, mostly going down. Our website is regexseo.com. I Know there was a January 12 "core update" in Google Algorithms, but there is no any specific information I can find.

Now, here is what doesn't make sense to me and it's the same reason I'm worried if we are doing something wrong (or not doing something right? - we've been rankings for "web design houston" in positions 2-4 for years, and recently after months of work we finally got to positions 4-6 on "seo houston". But during last two weeks we got down to beginning of the second page

Our backlink profile is growing, traffic to website is growing over all and stable to main landing pages (+/- 5%), new content is being released/updated every week, nothing stupid or drastic is being done. All the metric tools are saying we are "supposed" to do really good.

Now, while we are going down, our competitors have some fluctuation (+/-2 positions, but not anything close to what we are experiencing).

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions?

Hi there.

Uhmm.. Why would you want to do it? If all links are relevant, "need" to be where they are and make sense to user - there is no reason to delete those. If you have some "internal link fishy scheme" going on or something, then yeah, you might want to. Simply delete links or restructure your website(I'd go with restructuring).

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, there is no way to make Google display exactly what you want, but, what you might need to look into is the schema markup for your knowledge graph - https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/overview

Also, make sure you have image optimization on the website (alt tags, titles etc), as well as images on G+ account - it seems that that's where knowledge graph images are being pulled from.

Also you need to make sure that everything on your google my business account is properly setup.

And, finally, you can call google and ask them to look if there is anything wrong going on. Other than that - it's the matter of time.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

There shouldn't be any difference, only extra bytes to load.  The first rule will be what will tell bots what to do. It's simply redundant rules.

Hope this helps.

Here is an awesome guide to backlink building: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

And here is a post on how to do Technical SEO: https://moz.com/blog/technical-site-audit-for-2015

I assume you are new to SEO, and I would recommend for you to either hire a professional or take SEO classes. It's gonna be good investment for sure.

Cheers:)

Hi there.

I don't think there is an actual tool which will tell you that, but you can see it yourself while scrolling on a page - you'll see images loading as you scroll. Also you can use browser's developer console, specifically network tab. You should see images not being loaded until you scroll to them.

Hope this makes sense

Hi there.

Here is a code solution - it adds " - Page: X" where X is a number of page. Add it to functions.php file of wordpress:

<code>php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-/**
 * Plugin Name: T5 Add page number to title
 * Description: Adds ` | Page $number` to the page title.
 * License:     MIT
 * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */if(! function_exists('t5_add_page_number')){function t5_add_page_number( $s ){global $page; $paged = get_query_var('paged')? get_query_var('paged'):1;! empty ( $page )&&1< $page && $paged = $page; $paged >1&& $s .=' | '. sprintf( __('Page: %s'), $paged );return $s;} add_filter('wp_title','t5_add_page_number',100,1); add_filter('wpseo_metadesc','t5_add_page_number',100,1);}</code>

Hi there.

To answer your question - no. Relative/absolute paths are not related anyhow to https security of your website. Yes, it's easier to scrape your website if URLs are relative, but that's about it.

P.S. If your "https lock" is broken, you should be able to click on it and get information on what exactly wrong with it. 100% it wouldn't say anything about images

Hi there.

It's quite confusing the way you asking this question - they want two websites, but you gonna make one website? I understand you can use subfolders or subdomains, but if they are exactly the same restaurant, will they have different content? Do they want different designs? If so, what is going to be on main domain?

My suggestion would be to do one website with two location pages. This way, since content is the same they won't have duplicate content issues and it won't be confusing to users in case of different websites with different designs for the same restaurants.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

You sure can add whatever you want. The question is about if it's going to help your SEO. If you going to have "buy online in australia" in title, meta, content, alt-tags then it is going to be overstuffing.

What you should be doing is "theme-ing" pages. Each page should target 1-2 related keywords with supportive content for those keywords (lets say pictures with related names, titles, alt-tags etc).

ALWAYS think of user experience. As I mentioned before - alt-tags are for when img does load or for visually impaired. So, if i get "best wedding dress store" instead of image of a dress - that's not cool. However, it would be ok to have something like "designer wedding dress - online store in sydney". Basically, you can incorporate descriptive, promotional and seo words together.

Hope this helps.