For future reference.

My page was back indexed in Google 3 days after it was taken out and that I sent the re-index request.

This was a lot less bad than I thought it would be!

One of our top organic landing page was set as "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" by "mistake". I took me about a week to realize this after I saw a drop of traffic on that page. I looked on Google to see if it was indexed and my fear were confirmed!

After finding our that it was switched to "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" I switched it back to "INDEX,FOLLOW" and did an index request in our Google Search Console.

Anyone else has run into a similar issue? Did you ever got the page inxed again?

Hi Rhys,

If you got all the keyword optimization done I would put my focus on optimizing the load speed of your page. It has a big effect on conversions and also on your search results ranking.

You can use https://tools.pingdom.com/ to help you find loading issues on your page.

Hope this helps!

Glad it works!

Yeah, that would be a lot of lines to add manuall., I would try the htaccess Rewrite function.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com//$1 [L,R=301]

I'm not an htaccess expert, so I'm not 100% sure that it will work, if not you can check out this stack overflow thread for an explanation of the code used above.

Since you only have a dozen of URLs you could just do a simple 301 redirect in your .htaccess file or you can get a little more technical and do a RewriteRule that would 301 "urban-living" to "urban'

.htaccess 301 Redirect

Redirect 301/urban-living /urban 
Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe /urban/tempe
Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe/the-vale /urban/tempe/the-vale

Hope this helps, if not, let me know if you have any questions!

Hi Rob,

I would recommend using htaccess 301 redirects. If you're not currently using htaccess you just need to create a file in your website's root folder and name it .htaccess and jsut add a 301 redirect line for each redirect that you want to do. See below for example.

Redirect 301 /bootcampuk.php /bootcamps.jsp

So it's Redirect 301 Old-Url New-Url

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hi Ricky,

If you look at Restaurant item on Schema.org you'll see that they have a property for menu.

Restaurant Property Info --> https://schema.org/Restaurant

They suggest either wrapping the entire menu with the itemprop="menu" tag or linking to it. Below is an example of a linked menu.

Fondue for Fun and Fantasy

Fantastic and fun for all your cheesy occasions.

Open: Daily from 11:30am till 11pm

Phone: 555-0100-3333

View our menu.

Hey Brandon,

I would just do en-US and not bother about having just en. See below for example.

For English

For Portuguese

Hi,

If you use the hreflang tag correctly to tell search engines that your "/es" sub directory is another language, your domain shouldn't loose any authority.

Resources:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Yeah, that would be a lot of lines to add manuall., I would try the htaccess Rewrite function.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com//$1 [L,R=301]

I'm not an htaccess expert, so I'm not 100% sure that it will work, if not you can check out this stack overflow thread for an explanation of the code used above.

Hi Ricky,

If you look at Restaurant item on Schema.org you'll see that they have a property for menu.

Restaurant Property Info --> https://schema.org/Restaurant

They suggest either wrapping the entire menu with the itemprop="menu" tag or linking to it. Below is an example of a linked menu.

Fondue for Fun and Fantasy

Fantastic and fun for all your cheesy occasions.

Open: Daily from 11:30am till 11pm

Phone: 555-0100-3333

View our menu.

I only see 2 reasons for your rank to drop like this after switching servers. Your site is slower after the move and your servers location(not sure about this one, maybe someone else can confirm).

#1 - Site speed is a key factor  for ranking so if you had excellent speed and you switched to average speed, this could be one of the cause.

Did you notice if your site is slower after the move? And how long after the move did your rank start dropping?

#2 - If your server was in New Zealand and now it's, lets say in the US, there is an added respond time for people looking for you website in New Zealand.

Do you know in which country is the new server located in? A good CDN might help if that's the issue.

I hope this points you in the right direction to get your issue resolved!

Hi,

I've actually had to deal with the same issue this year. From the research I did a while ago there's one solution that stood out for me.

I went with the sub-folder. example.com/en & example.com/es and made sure that all my pages add the hreflang attribute that points the page with its language info.

The main benefits of using a subfolder is that you don't have to share your domain authority between the different language sites.

Here's some resource to get you started

• Google Official Explanation of the hreflanf tag
• Mozs' hreflang page

One of our top organic landing page was set as "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" by "mistake". I took me about a week to realize this after I saw a drop of traffic on that page. I looked on Google to see if it was indexed and my fear were confirmed!

After finding our that it was switched to "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" I switched it back to "INDEX,FOLLOW" and did an index request in our Google Search Console.

Anyone else has run into a similar issue? Did you ever got the page inxed again?

Hi,

If you use the hreflang tag correctly to tell search engines that your "/es" sub directory is another language, your domain shouldn't loose any authority.

Resources:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Yup, I think as long as you specify the hreflang for all languages including the principale one you'll be fine.

The main reason is that Amazon take a huge chunk out of our margins.

But like you and @EGOL mentioned, it would be pretty hard to outrank something like Amazon.

Thanks for the feedback!

Glad it works!

Hi Rhys,

If you got all the keyword optimization done I would put my focus on optimizing the load speed of your page. It has a big effect on conversions and also on your search results ranking.

You can use https://tools.pingdom.com/ to help you find loading issues on your page.

Hope this helps!