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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,

Please elaborate on your question. What tool are you talking about? Any screenshots?

Hi there,

Google is smart nowadays, and then look into way more than just labels on the element. They sure _might _use the label text, but most of google's understanding comes from actual content on the whole website (context), schema markup and anchor texts and mentions from 3rd party websites.

What I would recommend doing is do an exact search for a weird label of yours, in quotes, and see if your page comes up in Google. If it does, then yes, labels are being used on your website for understanding the topic, if it doesn't, then they are not.

Cheers.

When you use MOZ's Link Explorer, and input URL, not domain, it shows it right away.

Here is the screenshot: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDQ0NTk3MF8xNDA1NjM4OA

And, if you want to see PAs for a given domain, click on the "Top Pages" on the right: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDQ0NTk3M18xNDA1NjM5Mg

Hi there,

Well, It's not about which tool is more accurate.

MOZ and Ahrefs are using completely different ways of calculating DA and DR, therefore, scores will be different.

If you check your URL, you can also see that MOZ reports 19 domains and 53 backlinks, while Ahrefs reports 45 domains and 134 backlinks.

Ahrefs has much bigger index, so, technically, Ahrefs is more "accurate". The way I distinguish Ahrefs vs MOZ's indexes is that MOZ shows "important" backlinks, and Ahrefs shows everything.

Here is a link to MOZ's description of DA: https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Here is Ahrefs' DR: https://ahrefs.com/blog/dr-score/

Hope this helps.

Howdy, fellow mozzers,

Does anyone know what affects a given company photos show up in the "Search by Photos" section?

I can't find any decent info..

Here is the link to SEL, describing the feature (not even google themselves seem to have an announcement about it). https://searchengineland.com/google-showing-mobile-search-by-photos-option-in-selected-local-verticals-323237

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, that makes sense, and that was my recommendation to add noindexing. I'm just curious about how and why Google decided that our canonical is not worth it

Howdy, fellow mozzers,

We have added canonical URL to this page - https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/margot-schurig-8715369/share, pointing to https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/margot-schurig-8715369

When I check in Google search console, there are no issues reported with that page, and Google does say that it was able to properly read the canonical URL.

Yet, it still chooses the page itself as canonical. This doesn't make sense to me. (Here is the link to the screenshot: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/MzU0Mjc0M18xMDY2MTc4Ng)

Has anyone dealt with this type of issue, and were you able to resolve it?

Disavowing has nothing to do with traffic.

Disavowing is all about spam signals from spammy links. That and only that.

You are always welcome.

If you got more questions, you can always hit me up on my Twitter @DigitalSpaceman

Hard to say who and why is putting you on those websites.

The only way to truly get rid of those backlinks is to reach out to those websites' owners. You'd have to obviously find someone who speaks the language.

Now, what you can do though is this:

1. Disavow all those crappy links - that'll get Google to lower the "spam score" of your website;
2. Block all traffic by IPs, geolocation and/or hostnames/referrers (that'll prevent from actual unrelated traffic)

That should clean it up pretty good.
Of course, that requires full control and ownership of that domain and website code. If you can't get that - again, my suggestion is just to part ways.

Yeah, your suggestion makes sense.

Keep the old one while the new one is ranking up.

Now, here is perfect scenario for you - keep working on the new site, and get full ownership of the old one. Then through IP blocks, cloudflare, removing all spammy backlinks etc, get rid of all or most of the spammy traffic and signals. And then redirect.

"... maybe a lot of traffic will convert. "

WILL convert? so it's not converting now? If so, it's kind of optimistic that will change, no?

Since you don't own old domain, you can't really reliably do anything about it anyway.

At this point, I would say not to forward at all, start from scratch.

Couple ways you can go about it.

1. Is any of the traffic going to the old spammy domain any good? Does it convert? If not, then don't worry about redirecting,  there wouldn't be any point, only spam signals

2. If there is some good traffic, then do IP limitations, hostnames limitations etc. That can be done in htaccess or on the server itself. There are other more elaborate ways to filter out spam traffic as well, but that depends on how you or your IT guy is familiar with it. One of the simplest solutions is to route all traffic through CloudFlare, it has quite nice spam filtering, and it's free.

Hope this helps.

Howdy,

I assume that in your case it doesn't happen automatically. In this case you'll need to use an IF statements in the head/header file. Basically, it would be this:

IF current page url = url you want THEN display canonical tag with wanted url

Repeat that for all needed url and you are good.

If there are many of those, CASE might be better.

Hi there,

I know it's been a while, but were you able to figure it out? What happened after you requested a fetch?

I'd love to do some type of case study on this with you if you still didn't recover.

Hi there,

Yes, absolutely get new domain. If you look at DA - it's only 15 (not too bad in some cases). But if you look at backlink profile - you'll see that most of the links are from listing sites - homestead, yellowpages, ezlocal etc. You can replicate that profile after a day of work. And, as you said, spam score will only bring troubles.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Hreflang is only for pages with multiple languages. So, in your case, it would be homepage only. No need to add "fake" hreflangs to other pages.

Either way, switching canonicals from one to another, it will do no good in terms of equity or in terms of spamminess. If you have hreflangs done, then you should be good.

Oh boy..

Couple words come to mind - cloaking, black hat and penalization.

By definition, a canonical link is for telling search engines what page (singular) to rank INSTEAD of a page where a canonical link is specified.

Every time crawler bot goes to your page, it says "aha, i need to rank page A instead of the one I'm on right now". So if you "change your mind" every other time crawler visits your website, search engines will just disregard your canonical tags, thinking they are broken. As for link equity - link is always pointing to 1 page, and then that equity is passed to the page, which is canonically linked. So, if you change your canonical, link equity won't be distributed between new and old canonical pages, there is no such thing as "link equity memory".

What you might wanna look into instead is hreflang links - they are telling search engines that there are different pages, created specifically for different countries/languages/regions. However, in this case, content on these pages should be different/unique, serving specific needs of users in that specific country or region.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Official guide from Google - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

Official response from google on the same page -

Indexed, not submitted in sitemap: The URL was discovered by Google and indexed. We recommend submitting all important URLs using a sitemap.

So, no, it's not necessary, but recommended, otherwise you can't control how often Google recrawls it etc.

Go with local locations. You can append or prepend brand name to the locations names. "Pete's Place - Brand Name". Because folks would want to go to the closest place, not to the central office.

Hi there.

Think of it from the user's perspective. Does your product/service "require" brick and mortar location? Would people be more likely to buy from you if they can visit (or even just see online) local physical location? Or does it all just kinda forwards to central office and those local offices are more for show?

If having local offices are beneficial to users, therefore it will be beneficial to your business, therefore go ahead and have GMB for all of them. If not, then just GMB for central location.

Hi there.

A bit difficult to understand your actual question, but as far as I see it, you are asking if you should remove any unrelated and therefore unapproved images from the backend of the gallery. And if that would have any SEO effect. Am I correct?

If so, then I see couple potential benefits of removing those photos from the backend - first, just for the mental health of administrator - I'd go nuts if I had to scroll through a bunch of old junk every time I have to moderate new photos. Second, depending on how your frontend and backend are connected and process things, it, in fact, might speed up the process of rendering the gallery on the frontend. Faster website = happier users = more conversions.

Cheers.

Thanks for the response.

Conversions and revenue are down, by significant number. I know that the update is supposed to be about relativity of content to users' intent etc, and it's all good if conversions are on the same level. But they are not, that's why I am raising this question here.

_"Due to that, I'm not really seeing the same correlation which you are seeing" - _sorry, the screenshots were not as representative, here are the ones where you can see what i'm talking about clearly (I included higher volume keyphrases only here, and that's the problem we are having):

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/sf/MzAyNjgzN185MDczNDY1

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/sf/MzAyNjg0MV85MDczNDkz

_"Are you sure you're going down - and that others aren't investing more and going up?" - _well, i don't know how much others are investing, but looking at competitive research, I'm not seeing anything extra competition is doing - across all available metrics (content freshness, amount of content, backlinks etc) - we are outperforming.

_"As you said you had done nothing on your site" - _not really, we are always improving, I'm just saying that there weren't any major overhauls or anything drastic.

Howdy, fellow mozzers,

Couple of our clients keep losing rankings, slowly but surely, which seem to correlate to August Google updates. No major changes to the websites have been done - neither code, backlink profile nor content. It seem to affect higher search volume keyphrases, while other longer tail keyphrases are climbing up.

The screenshots of the visibility rankings are attached below.

Any ideas/news/thought about the Google update itself or what might be happening? I know that the Medic update was overall quality, yet it seems to be that these websites in particular are going down after Birthday update, not Medic itself. Google and da mighty Internets being quite.. Help!

Links to screenshots (includes higher volume keyphrases only):

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/sf/MzAyNjg0MV85MDczNDkz

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/sf/MzAyNjgzN185MDczNDY1

Prev/next should be used for telling Search Engines when there are similar looking/content pages. Considering the infinite scroll changes the page itself, prev/next are not necessary at all.

_"How can we implement this?" - _well, that's what your dev team is for, right Is it possible? - everything is possible. Again, the example I sent you was just the first example which came up in google for me, which seemed decent to me. I haven't looked too much into it, i didn't do any digging.

"Google is your friend, my friend"

Hi there.

You are correct, it's not necessary at all to have prev/next for endless scroll. There are plenty of other methods to trigger the load on scroll. simply google "endless scrolling examples" and make your pick. One of them at the top - https://infinite-scroll.com/demo/full-page/ no prev/next at all.

No matter the model, the verdict is the same - gotta be fairly unique content on each of websites.

P.S. Look at any well established franchises - they have 1 website, where the products are shown, and you can choose your closest store/office and go get the product there. Then the locations itself have their own little subpages, which are unique to them - maybe their story, their staff etc.

Well, since the platforms are both woocommerce, you woudln't have to "copy it twice". That would be applicable if you were changing the environments.

Just make sure that you create exact copy of pages - URLs, meta tags, images, alt tags, all text etc etc.

Here we go again. The problems with technicalities...

Ok, here it is - 301 does NOT lose any link equity passed through it. It's known and that's what the linked post and tweets are talking about.

What me and @effectdigital are talking about is "downtime" after 301-redirecting from one domain to another. The value of domain IS affected.

If you would redirect a page from your own domain to another, on your own domain, sure, there wouldn't be any loss in link equity, but there would be loss in page authority for the new page. Think about it like this - google ranks a page, because it "knows and trusts" it. All of the sudden, that page is not there, and just sends google to another page. Google needs time to make sure that it's the same page, about the same stuff, with the same quality. It never takes away the link equity, but the "trust factor" is not there for a bit. When it happens within the same domain, Google understands that it could be simple content move or URL change. When it's cross-domain, the reasons could be much different. From hacking to selling the website etc. So that's why the rankings and usually traffic goes down, but, after Google realizes that it's all the same, and all good, they recover.

Hope this helps, and sorry for the confusion earlier.

Yeah, I get what you are saying. Some folks are ok with leaving a review, even if it could be considered an embarrassing procedure. I was just wondering if there are ways or well-known platforms where anonymous reviews are possible.

Hi there.

Well, the question is why you don't want those paginated pages ranking. I assume that the content on those pages is different from each other and first page, and is still relevant. correct? If so, then by noindexing you might take away from your SEO, rather than add to it. If anything, canonicalize them to the first page (still very debatable if you should).

If you want your first page ranking - just make sure that it's optimized more than paginated pages - more popular products are on the first page, description text is there and is optimized, maybe do some targeted backlink earning to that page.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do what you are asking.. Sorry. You already did what you should have - change all links to website in GMB, social sites etc, copied the content over. Other than that - there is nothing you can do really.

The only thing which could be possibly remotely helpful is GSC address moving tool, of course, you'd still have to have access to old domain GSC - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

First, if you are ranking #1 already, and want to move those pages, you must have great reasons. There is a chance, quite a high one, you won't be ranking #1, or even potentially even on the first page for some time.

Considering that you must move these pages, I'd just create exact copy of those pages, literally. Just copy paste onto the new domain, 301 those links, and let new domain sit for a while with these pages, make sure that they are ranking etc. After that you can move all content - text, images, metas etc into new platform (if let's say you are switching from wordpress to magento or something like that).

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Only one word comes to mind as i read your question - "duplication".

1. No, you shouldn't use same meta descriptions and tags - it's going to bring up duplication issue;
2. Yes, you can use the same keyword research, but you'll need to write unique content for each of websites;
3. Why would you have 15 websites which are basically the same thing? Are they all ranking already for the same product? Do they have great traffic to all of them? If so, why fix something that ain't broken? If not, why spread all of your efforts to 15 different websites, if you can concentrate on 1 and make it the best thing in the world?

Cheers!

Hi there.

First, "...the understanding that there would not be any loss in page rank" - where did you get that info? 0.o It's well-known fact that there always be a downdraft with a period of recovery.

To answer your question - yes, you'll recover (assuming all 301s were done correctly). But it will take time. The problem is that your shop initially had the power and authority of your main domain (when it was brand.com/shop/blabla). Now, it's a brand new domain, with no history. And yes, even though you have redirects, it's still much closer to starting new domain, rather than redirecting domain completely.

Think of it as instead of building second story on top of existing house, you have to build brand new building with foundation and all, using some materials from your existing house. Who suffers? - both. You are taking away from existing place, and it will take longer and more resources to build up new place. Is it beneficial? - Sure, after both buildings are built - you'll have 2 great places to live in.

Hope this makes sense

Howdy, fellow mozzers.

I would like to hear some thoughts on how to go about review generation for industries, where anonymity is preferred - like plastic surgery, DUI/DWI law, even intimate-related stores etc. Far not everyone would want to have their profile attached to a plastic surgery procedure, especially in private areas; or have their face by a review about them getting out of jail for drunk driving etc.

We have clients in those industries and many clients of theirs would love to leave reviews, as long as they don't have to login with Google or other accounts. We sure use those testimonials on the website, but, again, faceless testimonials can look fake.

Any advice?

Man I hate typical Google's response - "yeah, sure, we messed up everyone's past efforts, but we won't tell you what we did exactly"