Hi Jonathan,

I think there werent any MozCon Local this year. Only the main event: MozCon 2018.
I believe that you have found that, but anyway: The MozCon 2018 Video Bundle

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there!

It is a best practice as long as you have a CMS or any system that allows you to control them. In the case of Wordpress with YOAST it is pretty easy to set up.
Why would you want a canonical on every page? This is useful when you have different campaigns and you use url parameters for tracking (the common _utm from Google analytics), and that is correctly taken care of with wordpress+YOAST.

If you see that you dont need canonicals on any page, then dont use it. Just be sure that when generating parameters o duplicate content, there is a canonical.

Hope i´ve helped.
Best luck.
GR

Hello Sindre,

TL;DR;
I wouldn't worry that much for those links as long as you find them spammy probably google will consider them as spam and don't consider them when ranking your page.
Only if you consider that those links are hurting your rankings use the disavow tool.

Long explanation:
On one hand, Google (though their spokesman) said that the algorithm is pretty good finding and diminishing the strength of spammy links. So, if you talk to someone from Google right now, they might said: leave them, probably the algorithm will consider those as spammy and there will be no harm.

On the other hand, If you are absolutely sure that those links are spammy and malicious... then go ahead and disavow them. Remember that it's possible to disavow an entire domain.
More info here: Disavow backlinks - Search Console Help

Hope it helps.
Best luck
GR

Hi Amanda,

Those lines tell GoogleBot not to crawl urls that have that text fragments.
For example, wont crawl: domain.com/category/product**?mobile=1**

BUT, that doesnt mean that will not crawl every URL with question marks. For that, the line should be like this:
Disallow: /*?

I do highly recommend you to read this guides:
About /robots.txt - Official site - Robotstxt.org
Robots.txt - Moz
Robots.txt: the ultimate guide - YOAST
The Complete Guide to Robots.txt - PORTENT

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Matt,

You're welcome, we are here to help.

Yes! When a migration is done, always redirection 301. Remember to map all the "old" URLs and the "new" URLs must match.
PLEASE! Do not redirect all to one page.

Best luck.
GR

Hi Matt!

From se SEO perspective, you could do either Redirect 301 or a Canonical tag.

On one hand, making a redirection could make User experience worse as you are forcing them to a page that they might no be expecting or looking for.
On the other hand, as this are parameters that you don't want to be in Google nor being SEO friendly, then using a canonical tag is the answer, this way you tell Google that you have a better page for answering that user intent.
Here some resources that might help:
SEO Best Practices for Canonical URLs + the Rel=Canonical Tag - Whiteboard Friday Consolidate duplicate URLs - Google Search Console Help

Hope it helps.
Best luck!
GR

Hi there!

I hear you, had some simililar issues with big sites that i've worked with.

I would go with the "highest page viewed" page to be the canonical, you should select the one that you consider serves users with the best experience or match their search intent. That said, i'll answer your questions:

1. No, there is way to get that many URLs from Search Console. Through API the most I could ever get was arround 200k URLs.
2. It's not that hard as "overriding" the actual canonical page selected by google... You should tell Google wich is your preferred canonical page, then G will decide whether to use it or not.
3. Is always wise to go first with a canonical, so you can analyze how google reacts with that change. Then wait a little time, a few weeks and if everything went as planned set redirections.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi there!

There is no such restriction on the amount of hyphens. Usually there are one or two, used as separators in titles. Never seen them in image titles.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.