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There are restrictions for certain locations,  based on what I see in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_electronic_cigarettes.  You may need to find the laws in your location and see what's required in your location.

As for a standard text or other popup, if your country doesn't require it, you may not need to have a popup (or you may need to determine the user's location based on their IP address and have it popup for certain users only). For standard text, I would look at some of your competitors to see if what they are doing--and consult your attorney or lawyer to make sure your business is compliant (they may provide you with the text to use).

Shares on certain social networks don't necessarily have an effect from one social network to another. Google Plus doesn't necessarily have more ranking power--it doesn't work that way. What is more important to Google is the actual rate of engagement and who is sharing/interacting with it.

If one post is shared by an influencer and there are a lot of comments, that will have more ranking power than a post that's made and no one shares it. Or lots of non-influencers (spam accounts or fake profiles) share it.

Look for actual engagement and shares by influencers, not whether it's shared on one particular social network.

Even though you update your title tag on your page, Google from time to time changes the title tag in the search results. If they decide that there's a better title tag that gets more clicks, then they're going to change.

Unfortunately there really isn't anything you can do about Google changing your title tag. You can, though, look at the title tag that Google is using and see if you can determine how they are coming up with that particular title tag. For example, if your site is using a breadcrumb trail, there's a good chance that they may pick up on that and change your title tag.

What's also frustrating is that Google will also change your title tag in the search results for certain search queries--I've noticed that they'll change it for one keyword but not another.

It does sound like you have sorted this out, though, I have run into issues where the site's theme conflicts with other SEO settings. Glad you figured it out.

Logan is correct--if you look at the canonical tag in your example in the source code you're not using the full URL, you're only using a snippet (the relative) URL. So, rather than /barn-junior/tilbehor/hansker-votter/junior you need to change it to https://www.gsport.no/barn-junior/tilbehor/hansker-votter/junior.

Yes, that should work just fine. As Logan mentioned, I recommend you test it in the robots.txt testing tool in Google Search Console.

While the UK's laws are different the US FTC laws and guidelines, Google doesn't change their rules or guidelines based on where a website or company is based. So, generally speaking if you are going to provide products or services in exchange for a blogger writing about your product or service they need to disclose their relationship with you.

Blogger outreach isn't dead--many are using it successfully, even with disclosures. What's important is that you not worry about whether or not the links you get are going to help your site's search engine rankings. Get links from bloggers who will send you traffic to your website and help you get more business. Then, when there's more traffic, more mentions of your brand, and more social media engagement with you, the search engine rankings will happen.

When it comes to duplicate content, Google typically compares one web page versus another web page. So, if the site does have a different company name (franchise name) and carries a different set of products or a some similar products, then it sounds as if the pages on the site won't be considered duplicates. They may be similar, but not necessarily duplicates. It would be best to make sure that each site doesn't use the same exact web design template, as well.

You can run the site through Copyscape.com and Siteliner.com to identify duplicate content issues with the sites. Most good writers will be able to write the content in a way that talks about the same products or services but doesn't include the same text as other sites.

Jessica, whenever you think of adding a meta robots noindex, follow tag, I prefer to try to determine if you need the page at all on the website. If you're using a canonical tag, then that's fine--but we prefer to remove pages entirely from the site if you're going to use the noindex, follow tag. A page with that tag on it generally doesn't provide any SEO value to the site, it only allows engines to continue to crawl the site.

even maybe prevent bots from crawling our website properly
When you mention that, the follow tag will actually allow the site to be crawled.

If the page on your site is useful for users, then keep it (and use a canonical tag if necessary to prevent duplicate content issues). Otherwise, consider removing the page if you don't want it indexed.

When you have a page that's still on the site (even though it's removed from navigation), the page is still on the site and indexed--so users will still get to it. It's still probably going to rank for at least something in the search results.

What you need to do is figure out if the page still contains valid content and is useful for visitors. There's obviously a reason that the page was requested to be removed by the content manager, though.

If the page needs to be removed from navigation, and it won't have any internal links, then most likely you probably need to remove the page, as well. What I would do is set up a 301 Permanent Redirect from that URL to another on-topic page on the site. As long as you use a 301 redirect and redirect it to another internal page on the same domain, you won't lose and "SEO value".

Bob, generally speaking it's best to redirect users to the page that's most appropriate. Think of the users and what page they would land on--and be redirected to. If they were looking for an old product page and just redirected to the home page, would that be frustrating for them?

When it comes to an actual search engine ranking lift or boost, you most likely won't see one. You only would just not rank anymore for those products that you used to offer. There still may be a boost if you were to redirect an old product page to another page and there were links pointing to the old product page from external websites. Then, the boost might be passed on to the product page you redirect to.

Angela, we usually recommend looking at each page separately and determining the value of each URL. You may end up with a new site structure, but there may be pages on the site that you need to keep because they shouldn't be redirected to the new page on the new structure.

I prefer not to redirect a URL if it doesn't have to be redirected. You will need to redirect all pages from the old site to the new site, and it makes sense to redirect those to the most appropriate page. But, when it comes to a new site structure, I wouldn't necessarily redirect a page if it doesn't have to be redirected.

The first thing I recommend is to make sure that those are actually 404 errors on your site that the search engines (and regular users) can see. There is a link spam technique out there that is used to hide actual links from the site owners. So, if you are logged into your WordPress site, for example, the links and pages won't appear to be there. But, if you are logged out then the pages will be there, visible to the search engines and the public.

I would look in Google to see if those 404 pages on your site are indexed. Try a site:yourdomain.com search to see if they're indexed. Then, use a crawler to crawl your own website to see if the crawler can find those 404 pages.

Typically, when you see those errors, the site has been hacked and now they've been removed. Or, those pages are on your site but when you go to them they appear to be 404s. I recommend you investigate this further to make sure that the pages or the errors do not exist.

With 10 URLs ( I think you mean 10 different domains?), you should be fine. If those URLs have a lot of links pointing to them, though, there could potentially be an issue. So, if there were 1,000 links to each one, then you'd be redirecting 10,000 links. It really depends on how many links we're ultimately talking about.

I have seen situations where thousands of domains were redirected, and that was a problem--it was also a problem with about 100 domains redirected, as they all had links pointing to them.

What I would do is look at your analytics to see which of them are actually sending traffic to your site, which ones have links pointing to them. Then only redirect the ones that have traffic and links and ones that are on-topic.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but we typically recommend downloading all of the links from OSE, Majestic, ahrefs, and Google Search Console--and then putting them all into your own spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. If you're wanting to look at anchor text data, you can combine that all into one spreadsheet (except for the GSC link data).

You might also try combining all that link data into Link Research Tools' link detox tool to review the links. That way you can include all of the Google Search Console link data.

If the old domain has a penalty, you should be able to get that penalty lifted/removed/revoked. Then, later on you should be able to go ahead and redirect once the penalty is removed.

One of the concerns, though, is that if you redirect ANY page from the old domain to the new domain you may pass on the penalty to the new site. We recommend getting rid of the penalty on the old domain first--and then consider dealing with the issue of redirecting the old to the new domain.

Unfortunately most likely you won't get an official response from Google on this. It may come down to the type of business it is, and maybe even the website that you link to. If you were to have a website and list both locations (or both areas that you serve), such as domain.accountant/city1 and domain.accountant/city2 and each local listing links to the appropriate page, you may have a better chance of getting your business listed.

Also, rather than focus specifically on Google, you may want to focus on getting more local citations and listings for both locations. That may help you in the future, you may want to hold off on the Google listing until you have more links and listings elsewhere.

The page is indexed in Google just fine, if you use a site:https://www.globecar.com/en/montreal-truck-rentals query it is there. Most likely, though, there is an issue with duplicate content. The is not a lot of text on that page, and that may be very close to other pages on the site. I would check siteliner.com to see if the page has duplicate content similar to other pages on the site.

I agree with Robert, if you're going to be selling products on your site then you should look at Shopify. Depending on what your budget is, though, you may want to go with a custom website design and use something like Magento.

Whenever you change to a new subdomain, or you change domains, you'll need to tell Google that you're doing it. Here's what we recommend:

1. Set up 301 Permanent Redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs. This will forward/redirect users to the new location, including the search engine crawlers.

2. Verify the new location (the new subdomain) in Google Search Console and use the Change of Address Tool to tell Google that you've moved.

3. Update Google Analytics so that it reflects the new URL.

By verifying the site you'll see the traffic in the Google Search Console and Google will recognize that change faster if you use the Change of Address tool.

i would definitely not change the URLs. Once a page is crawled and indexed, you should leave it there--and update that page as necessary. Other sites may link to it (and you may then lose the links or they'll to 404 errors) if you change the URL. You may also have social media links out there to the article that are shared. If someone clicks on it from social media, then it would then go to an old story if you change the URL.

Generally it's better to NOT change the URL of the page unless it's a new story, requiring a new article. If it's the same story, then you should just update the current URL.

There are plenty of very large sites doing this--it's natural for them to link to the sites that they own. It all really comes down to the sites' link profiles, and if their link profile is diversified enough. If those links are the only links (or a large portion of) the links that they have, there might be an issue. But if the parent site is trusted enough, has a high enough Domain Authority, then most likely the site won't be penalized for the parent site linking to them.

We generally don't recommend copying/pasting reviews (or other content) from other sites and then putting those on your own site. Google sees that as duplicate content. Furthermore, Google doesn't like those reviews to be on more than one site at a time.

If you do have reviews on your site, make sure that they're unique to your site and don't appear on other sites. In that case you can, in fact, mark them up with Schema. But that doesn't guarantee Google will show that markup in the search results.

For a true 404 error page, Google wouldn't tell you about those errors. You may have a custom 404 error page set up with the tracking code on it and visitors are going to those 404 error page(s). But, since it's JavaScript that must load, then you won't see 404 errors in Google Analytics.

Keep in mind that a Google URL shortener is a 301 redirect to the URL. It would actually be better to use the full URL if possible, as it won't result in a 301 redirect. You typically lose some "link juice" when passed through a 301 redirect.

If you can't use the full URL, and you want to use the shortener, consider using one that will give you statistics (such as bit.ly). This way you can actually tell which video is sending traffic to your site and getting clicks. In that case, I would go with a unique shortener for each one.

The biggest decision here is whether or not you want to continue to maintain two separate websites--or if it's better to spend your time building one brand and concentrating on one website.

When it comes to links, Domain Authority, and Page Authority, you can easily 301 redirect the old site to the new one--so that really shouldn't be a concern. It's the overall decision of maintaining and building two sites and two brands--rather than one.

Sites that allow both category and tags pages to get indexed will definitely run into duplicate content issues. We recommend choosing one--either tags or categories. We prefer to use a select number of categories, and make sure that each category has at least two or most posts associated with each category.

Rather than use the canonical tag, it's much more effective if you just remove all of the tags on the site (if you're only using categories). That will completely remove all the duplicate content on the site.

It can work, but I would concentrate on getting links that actually get people to check out the app--and download it. Those links are going to be more valuable because they're real sites with real traffic.

There are several out there, including Authority Labs, SEMrush.com, serps.com,and this one:

<cite class="_Rm">https://moz.com/tools/rank-tracker</cite>

Each individual website (and some subdomains if you add them) needs a unique robots.txt file. You can copy the same file and use it again and again on each site, but each one needs a robots.txt file.

It really depends on the website. If the website is something that you think the site owner can edit, like they're listing certain websites in a list, then you can contact them and ask them to include your website. If it's an article or news article, then you'd generally contact the person who wrote the article to see if they'd be interested in writing about your website. If it's an industry website listing companies like a directory, then they might ask you to fill out a form or advertise.

Each link and each particular situation is different, so you have to be innovative in how you get the links.

If you have a local brick and mortar location, then you'll want to work on getting local citations for your business.

You're right, link building is important and it's still an important part of Googles' search engine algorithm. What I would do first is go to Moz's Chapter 7: What is Link Building? to make sure you're familiar with the overall strategies and see some examples.

What we generally recommend is starting with looking at your particular niche and the keywords you'd like to rank for. Make a list of your top competitors and start looking at what links they have (you can use Open Site Explorer to find your competitor's links). See what types of links they have and see if you can get similar links (or get linked on the same sites). Focus on getting quality links to your site, not just "easy links".

Artisancrafted, as long as you are using the canonical tag properly on the sites, it shouldn't be hurting your site's SEO at all. However, if you are able to move towards having unique product descriptions on each site then that will benefit your SEO in the long run.

Akira, there really is no direct connection between AdWords and organic rankings. However, there have been studies that show that if you show up in AdWords and in organic search for a search query it will benefit your organic--the visitors will tend to click on your organic listings and on the PPC ads.

Organic is not affected by PPC.

You may be able to pause the low-converting ads while still keeping the higher-converting ones. Furthermore, there may be other keywords that you can bid on that you aren't showing up for. I would look at Google Search Console's Search Analytics report and look at the impressions for organic and see which keywords are getting impressions but not clicks. That may reveal some keywords that you may want to bid on.

All in all, though, if you want to totally pause your AdWords ads it won't affect your rankings.

Jarred,

Whenever you move to a new domain name Google will keep the old domain name indexed for up to a year (or longer!). It's just the way that Google does it, I suspect that it's because you may change your mind and go back to the old domain.

Having the old domain indexed in Google isn't a problem, as users should be redirected to the content on the new domain.

It will take up to a year for Google to stop indexing the old domain.

By the way, make sure you use the Google Change of Address Tool in Google Search Console, it will really help.

Regarding the GCLIDs, you'll want to update  your Google AdWords campaigns and anywhere else you can updated the URLs to the new HTTPs version of your site.

Whenever you use a 301 Permanent Redirect  you typically lose the referrer data, so that's why you're going to see issues with the referrers.

I would definitely use the 301 permanent redirects and NOT use the canonical tag for this. Also, don't forget to verify the HTTPs version of your site in Google Search Console, as well. We recommend getting a few new links to the HTTPs version of the site, as that will help with indexing and crawling.

When you moved your site to HTTPs, there are a few things that you need to do:

-- make sure you fix all the internal links on your site so that they point to the HTTPs version and not the HTTP version.

-- make sure you set up 301 Permanent Redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs.

-- verify the new HTTPs version of your site in Google Search Console. You should be seeing less pages indexed in the HTTP version and more pages in the HTTPs version of your site.

As long as you set up the proper redirects, you should not generally see any problems or changes in rankings. It will take some time for those new HTTPs URLs to get indexed, but the 301 redirects should take care of that.

Nahid, before you use the robots.txt file's disallow for those URLs, you may want to reconsider. You may want to use the canonical tag instead. In the case where you have different sizes, colors, etc. we typically recommend using the Canonical Tag and not the disallow in robots.txt.

Anyhow, if you'd like to use the disallow you can use one of these:

Disallow: /?

or

Disallow: /?cat=

Giovatto is right, the only way it would have any effect on Google Analytics is if you're tracking those page titles. I usually recommend tracking the URL, and not the title tag in Google Analytics. If the pages are dynamic and the title tags change all the time depending on the user, that would be one way to track the title--but you should be doing it by the URL in most cases.

It really shouldn't be an issue, as most sites will use a 301 to redirect pages without a / to a URL with a slash and vice versa. It depends on your particular CMS, though, on how it deals with it. I know that on certain sites that I am familiar with do redirect the pages without a / to pages with a slash, so linking internally to a page without a slash does a 301 redirect to a URL with the slash.

When it comes to Google, however, I believe Google treats both at the same, so http://www.domain.com is the same as http://www.domain.com/

The only concern I would have is whether or not the URL without the slash redirects properly to the URL with the slash.

If these were previously closed locations or removed in Google My Business then most likely Google picked them up from the aggregators. It sounds as if that's the case, as those locations were probably listed on other websites, the local search data providers.

Moz has more information about these here: https://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-providers

What you'll need to do is figure out where your other listings are--and get those removed, as well. Otherwise, even if you get them removed from Google again they will show up again once Google pulls the data from the data providers again.

One way to deal with this is to have the main site not mention any particular locations. Then, in one section of the website you could create a directory or listings of dealers who offer your products. Each dealer who sells your products could get their own page, and be listed in the category or city page as well.

Generally speaking, what you're describing is the fact that the sites just don't have enough Domain Authority and links in order to rank well for the keywords you're targeting. If the sites are new, it might take some more time, as they may be "sandboxed". They need to become trusted more.

There are a few options. I do recommend "picking one" domain and 301 redirecting that one to the preferred domain. Then make sure you use the Google Change of Address tool to tell Google that you've moved.

Another option is to keep both sites live and then use the Canonical Tag to tell Google which domain is the preferred one. You'll have to do that at the page level, on each individual page.

I prefer, though, to use the 301 redirect option and the Change of Address tool.

Christa, if you're not able (or don't to) use a canonical tag, then you're left to do a few things:

• optimize the site so that there are more internal links to the preferred page
• keep that page "fresh" by updating it's content on a regular basis
• get more links to that page from other sites
• get social media mentions and work on 'engagement' on social media that mentions the preferred page.

Don't think of it as 'demoting' one particular page, I would work heavily on promoting the preferred page so that it's stronger overall via social media and links.

If you are going to literally shut down your m. subdomain, then the best way to do it is to use 301 Permanent Redirects to redirect the traffic to the appropriate page on the main domain. I would NOT use canonical tags in this case.

Your best bet is to make sure you comply with Google's guidelines, the Bing guidelines are typically similar.

It also depends on how the business relationship is set up. If they're independent contractors of the company then it would be different than if they were employees of the company.

Generally speaking, we typically recommend setting up "suite numbers" for the business location, and those need to be clearly marked at the location. I have heard of cases where Google has looked to make sure that this is the case.

Those keywords are extremely competitive. What we generally recommend is that you go after geo-based keywords such as "city name + mobile development".

The other issue I'm seeing is that there are some low quality backlinks pointing to the site. You'll need to work on the link profile and get the overall Domain Authority and overall trust much higher than it is currently.