Hey grocare,

Its a little bit confusing what you are saying because canonicals are used when there is actual duplicate between pages. Internationalization is a specific case where two pages targetting different countries **ARE NOT **duplicate content, even there are really small differences.

I don't see that you are having an issue with canonical setup, as long as you are using them correctly. More info about canonicals:

• What Google says officially: Consolidate URLs with rel=canonical
• A Moz resource: Canonical tags - Best practice Moz

What I did see is that you are using hreflang tags incorrectly: pointing to the home page.
Consider THIS PAGE, for instance, your hreflang tags are:

When it actually should be pointing to the current page:

Its always good to remember that there are some really good resources about internationalization:
Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hello Gavo,

How long has it been since the setting was applied in the yoast plugin? and how long has it been since you started seeing the wrong title in serp?
Would you please tellme in wich search engine (.com, or .co.uk or other) are you seing this issue?

Hi David.

Ahrefs.com offers that service: broken links.

Another way to do that search could be this: Downloading the historic backlinks list and with a mass checker, check where do they point nowdays. I've used GScraper and its option to crawl outbound links.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hey there,

Moz's metrics are updated almost daily. 
If you don't see any change is because there were no changes on the backlinks that point to that page, or no new backlinks. You have to give it time to Moz's bot to crawl the pages where your backlinks are.
Keep in mind that, there is no difference in Google whether Moz has or hasn't seen your links. 
I'd advise against any of the 'tactics' that are out here to make google recognize faster your links.

If you want more information about Page Authority, here the official Moz's resource:
Domain Authority | Moz resource center.

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi there.

Why are you willing to add h2 tags? I its on seo purposes, add them as a REAL HEADING. Not has images.

My way of analyzing these kind of questions is asking how would Google interpret that action. I don't find any logical explanation to put an image in a heading tag.

Personally, I will not do that. But, someone might have it done and can offer a positive effect.

Best luck.

GR.

Hi Andy,

In my experience, it took from a day to roughly 5-6 weeks. All of them just naturally re-indexed, I didn't use any gas indexer nor adding them with the search console add to index tool.

Hope it helps.

GR.

Wikipedia is one of those sites that doesnt have much of SEO optimization.
Another example is the underscore in their URLs..

Hi there,

Yeap, subdomains are different sites to google from the root domain.

What you are willing to do is to non index the root domain.
Of course one way is to make a 301 redirect, if you still want to preserve the root domain visible I'd do these steps:
1. Set canonical tag in the home to the sudomain
2. Set meta robots tag to noindex in the root domain
3. Update the sitemap, leaving only what you want in the root domain. Update in SC.
4. Create a SC profile for the subdomain, create a sitemap and upload it to SC.
5. Wait

Hope I've helped.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi there!

Improving Meta descriptions in order to get higher CTR won't be penalized by Google unless you do something black hat or include some forbidden words.
My experience showed:
1- There is always a set of title+meta description that can optimize CTR for a single page. Remember to focus on the main keyword, as a page can rank for several search terms.
2- Improving CTR doesn't always get better rankings, but hell it brings more traffic! That's what you should be aiming, not only better rankings.

As Nozzle said, experiment carefully and make one change at a time.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi Pervaiz,

I do agree with Peter Nikolov.
For more information, I do strongly suggest you to learn and read a lot about the subjet. Here you have some blog posts and Q&A:

How Google Knows What Sites You Control And Why it Matters - Whiteboard Friday - Blog Moz.com
IPv6, C-Blocks, and How They Affect SEO - Blog Moz.com
the benefits from having a dedicated IP - Moz Q&A
Websites on same c class IP address - Moz Q&A

Hope it helps.
GR