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@peteboyd you can refer to this tutorial: https://www.growwithom.com/2020/06/16/track-dynamic-traffic-google-tag-manager/

Should meet your requirements perfectly - using GTM to replace a static value with the url in your UTM Source.

@Anna33212 could I ask if the internal link structure leading to your "97% pages" is the same as your old website? Assuming that the 1:1 redirection for these 97% pages has no issues, then I wonder if the updated internal link structure is not as good as previously?

Hi @Ravi_Rana , this gets a little tricky as your content will likely not be localised. Off the top of my head, 3 things you can do are:

1. Have a section dedicated to your product/service for each country on all pages.
2. Get backlinks from local websites in each country, anchor text should include the country name. Also list yourself on local directories.
3. Use local biz schema to list your office/store in each country.

^as with SEO in general, this ideas are subjective. If you are not in a competitive niche and have gathered sufficient authority, then you may not need all to take all these extra steps.

@nicolasvhe recommend having headers with each of your keywords and also having sections of content that are dedicated to each keyword where possible. In essence, you should strategically signal to Google the relevance of a section for the query.

@HimalayanInstitute Since its the same domain, there is no pressing need to submit as an additional property in GSC. You can filter down to the blog file path from there.

There is no harm though in having an additional property in order to handle data for your blog more efficiently. Although, I do not believe that there is any additional benefit like increased crawling should you create this additional property.

Definitely recommend resubmitting your sitemap to signal to Google that a large change in URLs has just occurred.

@RVForce (1) Your main URL variant should have a self referencing canonical. (2) Your index.html page variant should have a canonical tag pointing at the main URL variant.

On both pages, use:
e.g. <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/" />

@bakergraphix_yahoo-com unless the same GA tracking code/tag is on the duplicate website or it has links to your domain, then might not be the case. A couple of things to check before confirming though. Do see if the traffic is from direct or organic. Also do see if GSC provides any insights into how popular your website is in the particular city in Virginia.

@viveklazy to check for indexing of your link, 1 way is to use the site: operator on google search. Input in the page url and the anchor text in quotation marks. If the text has been indexed, then likely the link has as well.

@CitimarineMoz self-referencing canonicals as you described are an additional signal to Google to state that the page is the main variant and thus should be used on the SERP. Where no canonical tag is stated, there is a possibility where if content is similar, Google might select another page as the "canonical". As such, your page would not be shown on the SERP.

In your case, would say that implementing self referencing canonicals is a form of insurance/good to have at this time.

@Safxmed you can use a canonical tag to point the filter page variant to the static category variant. This way, there is a clear signal to Google as to which is the preferred page for showing on SERP. This is the method used by ecommerce giants like Shopee. If a user searched on Google and clicked into their category page, the url would be the static variant. However, if they were to travel from the home page via the filter system to the same category, they are actually given the filtered page variant.

If you do follow this, i still recommend having the static category urls in links from home, menu, and footer where possible. This is for internal linking purposes.