Hi there,

First of all, having more indexed pages is not what you should be aiming for. As its know that having more pages indexed can cause cannibalization, duplicate content and thin content problems.

In your case, I'd try to analyze why those pages are being left off by Google. 
-> My guess: poor or thin content, as it is UGC.

Here some other questions that might help you work out the issue:
1- How long and how interesting is the content on those pages?
2- How many links are pointing to them?
3- Are pages with high internal traffic being left out?
4- Were any of them indexed just for a short period of time? On what query? 
5- Are there "better" pages on your website that resolve user questions on Google search, rather than the UGC pages?

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

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

Hi Mike,

As long as you are referring to Wordpress, yes it's safe to remove tags that have no content nor are being used.

Best of luck.
Gaston

Hello,
What do you mean by when I checked this on the browser its OK?

Keep in mind that these two backlink checker tool have their own way of checking and analyzing backlinks. There is a huge possibility that when their robot checked those websites your links weren't there or there were some other parameters, tag or anything that make the tool think these links were removed or shouldn't be counted anymore.

Also, another point to consider is that ahrefs and Moz are private tools that try to imitate how the google algorithm sees backlinks. By no means, you should consider what they show as the last word.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi udaipabla,

You should always point your links to the final version you show users. In this case, you have all 3 redirected to https://www.remotebaba.com, then that should be the URL.

The thinking here is to be coherent on what you tell Users, other webs and Google. Don't waste Google's time making it go through redirections whenever you can avoid it.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

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 there,

Replacing a page without changing its URL is entirely normal. It's just updating its content :).
That said, I wouldn't remove the old page from google before updating it. Just update its content, template or whatever you are going to change, and that's it.

What could change in an SEO perspective? Google will recognize that it's a different page and will re-assess whether it's worth to be ranking on the same place and keywords as before. 
A simple example would be when the updated page doesn't have anymore one of the primary keyword stated in its content, Title, and headings. Google will understand that you don't consider that page to be relevant for that keyword.

Hope it helps.
Best luck,
Gaston

Hi ghgj2222j,

Please, don't only focus on keywords for its search volume... Focus on WHAT USERS ARE SEARCHING. Usually the most searched is also how users are searching for your product/service.

There is no simple answer for your issue. I'd use logic and common sense there, do you know how users search for your service? In Google Search Console, can you relate impressions with that search volume?

On a side note, placing a keyword in the title and meta description won't send your page to the top, its just another signal for users.

I'd strongly recommend you to take a deep read to these resources:
The Beginner's Guide to SEO: Search Engine Optimization - Moz, specifically the forth chapter: On-Page optimization
And Google has their own guide: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide - Google Search Console Help

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi Aslan,

The answer here should be to target the phrase that best matches the user intent. 
If Google considers you as a good answer for "services" will also be a good answer for "service". Probably won't rank on the same position, yet will be on the same page.
As English is not my mother tongue, I'll try to help you with how I'd solve it.

First of all, please don't rely on private metrics and private tools that try to simulate what's seen on google. They do their best but **never will reflect **how Google ranks a page nor how many impressions it might have.

This is the way I'd try to solve this issue:

1. As you already have some research, I'd go with that: "... services", the plural one.
2. After some time, you'll see in GSC on which phrases your page is ranking.
3. There you can check whether the plural or singular version has more search volume
4. Update your content with some extra information and, if needed, change the main phrase. Google will reward you
5. Go back to 2.

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi ramb,

Short answer: No, it won't affect your ability to rank in Google. Unless both sites (non-www and www version) compete for the same search term and one of them isn't blocked in the correspondent robots.txt file.

If you can, make sure to have a redirection rule so as everything in the non-www goes to the www.
It bugs me why aren't you redirecting the complete non-www to the www version.
Two possibilities come to my mind:

1. You can't redirect the whole non-www due to some app or technical need. 
   In this case, both versions, if accessible to Google, will be treated as different sites. Thus, you must be sure that both robots file are correct for the given subdomain.
2. You have a separate website, which contains different content from the www version (this usually happens with subdomains with different page types, such as products.abc.com and categories.abc.com)
   In this case, please be sure that you know what you want to be blocked and have each robots.txt file in their subdomain.

Keep in mind that Robots file only controls where you don't want googlebot to access in the public version of your website. When a certain page or group of pages are blocked in robots.txt, google won't access them anymore thus not knowing if that page has what it needs to rank for any given search term. Google might rank lower and users will see a note in search results, leading to a lower CTR.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
Gaston

Hi ramb,

It's totally fine to have different robots.txt files for different subdomains.
Thus said, http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com are different subdomains. Consider the one with non-www as the full root domain.

In case it is needed, here you have Google's official resource about robots.txt: 
Learn about Robots.txt file - Search Console help

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gast

Hi Jarod,

What you should be asking yourself is whether you need those pages to be indexable and having information available to Google.
If you don't want them to rank well, they probably won't need any meta description. Remember that if a page has no meta description, Google will take some of its content and place it as meta description.

On a side note, Moz reports will show errors and analyze every page that you have enabled to be indexable. 
Also, you can choose to ignore what Moz's report tells you. You might probably know more about your site than Moz.

Best luck.
Hope I helped.
Gaston