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Thank you Andreas,

But is the redirect HTTP Header reading correct or not?

Also, site:seomoz.com is showing a very small number of pages, while my clients old website is all appearing on Google. Every single page.

Issa

Hi,

I personally think you should only allow Google to index tags if you have a big number of posts that use these tags organically, not for keyword stuffing and spammy activities.

In the case you mentioned, I would disallow Search Engines from indexing tag pages. And if you believe that these tags should not be on that website, then you should delete them. Looking at the example URL you sent, its clearly created in the attempt to trick Google.

I would start first with disallowing search engines from indexing them, then I would go head and slowly remove these tags.

If you have posts that are not 100% relevant to the business and are high quality, consider removing those too. This particular page is not doing well really from linking or authority point of view. See the image I attached

I hope this helps.

S0MucPO

Hi there,

You might have experienced this before but for me this is the first.

A client of mine moved from domain A (www.domainA.com) to domain B (www.domainB.com). 301 redirects are all in place for over a year. But the old domain is still showing in Google when you search for "site:domainA.com"

The HTTP Header check shows this result for the URL https://www.domainA.com/company/cookie-policy.aspx

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently => 
Cache-Control => private
Content-Length => 174
Content-Type => text/html; charset=utf-8
Location => https://www.domain_B_.com/legal/cookie-policy
Server => Microsoft-IIS/10.0
X-AspNetMvc-Version => 5.2
X-AspNet-Version => 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By => ASP.NET
Date => Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:01:33 GMT
Connection => close

Does the redirect look wrong? The change of address request was made on Google Console when the website was moved over a year ago.

Edit: Checked the domainA.com on bing and it seems that its not indexed, and replaced with domainB.com, which is the right. Just Google is indexing the old domain!

Please let me know your thoughts on why this is happening.

Best,

No this is a link not a resource. You dont need to change this.

Yes even if they are external websites they are still not encrypted like your website. I am not talking about links, here, i am talking about resources.

I wouldn't be able to tell you why that tool hasn't worked, I never used it before.

You could PM me your website and i will have a look for you if you prefer.

Issa

Hi Daniel,

I am trying to think with you here, not to give you a solution (sorry for that).

It sounds like your website was hit by Panda, the manual review (or automated) was initiated by creating the new dev site and allowing Google to index it, then deleting the website that Google has preferred to rank higher than your original website. Too many extreme changes that were not planned correctly.

Like with many Panda penalties, Google rarely tells you anything, nor tells you that your website is affected even. I have seen so many companies going down the route of creating a website on a new domain.

However, I'm wondering, if you 301 redirect your old website (which obviously is having big problems ranking-wise) wouldn't you be transferring the reputation alongside the equity? Wouldn't your website have the same bad ranking?

Also, if you are suffering with the current ranking, why would you want to transfer such equity to a freshly created website, with good usability and ticking many more boxes than the previous one on Google search result pages?

If I was you, and creating a website on a new domain, i would simply start from scratch. And make sure that the website is big on usability and unique high quality content. Then I would make sure that there are high quality, high authority websites linking to relevant pages on your new website.

I hope this helps you in anyway.

Best,

Issa

Hi w4rdy,

This error means that you have an "https" page (or pages) that have in the source code elements using non-https URLs. This could be images, css links, or javascripts.

View the source of your page, and look for "http://" then try to change that to use https:// instead.

The reason this is a problem is that your page is promising encrypted secure exchange of data between the server and the users. Having non encrypted elements in your source code invalidates this promise. Even on Chrome there will be a warning users when this happen by changing the colour of the URL protocol.

See attached. I hope this helps

Issa

MpUpq4k

Hi Radi,

I don't see any issues with this as long as every suburb page will have unique and quality content as opposed to duplicate and thin content that is usually caused by creating unnecessary pages just to include additional keywords.

So say you have "Area A" which includes "Suburb A" and "Suburb B".

If Area A has so many listings, on domain.com/area-a/ then you can split that into

Suburb A domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-a
Suburb B domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-b

Listing should be unique and of high quality on each of these pages, none should be repeated.

I hope this helps

Issa

Hi Tavneer,

Good question, unfortunately Google will not tell you all duplicates. You need to use a tool for that.

My recommendations is to use the CopyScape tool, its has free service for samples, but I do recommend you get the premium which is incredibly cheap. Should buy credits and then do the following:

1. Get a list of all your website's URLs (you can use any method you like. i usually search for site:mydomain.com in Google and export them with SEO Quake plugin/extension on Chrome)
2. Go to bulk check on CopyScape
3. Add all your URLs in there
4. Process the bulk search
5. Wait few seconds and you will have a list of all duplicates on external websites, with average percentage.

I hope this helps.

Issa

Thank you Mike,

It helps to have two experts agreeing with me. And you are absolutely right regarding misusing the canonical tags. I will keep an eye on it for sure.

Best,
Issa

Hi there,

Seems to me that you should follow the standard process when you have unnatural links. You should:

1. Compile a list of links and domains.
2. Contact Webmasters of these domains, requesting removal of links (include the pages where these links are added in your email)
3. Save all your sent and received emails to/from Webmasters
4. Ones that don't reply to you, email them one more time a couple of weeks later
5. Create a disavow file for domains that you couldn't get links removed from, state the reason and dates of emails.
6. Submit the disavow file to the disavow tools

I know its not straight froward nor fast, but thats how you maintain the public link profile of any website since the Penguin Updates started.

I hope it helps

Hi Radi,

I don't see any issues with this as long as every suburb page will have unique and quality content as opposed to duplicate and thin content that is usually caused by creating unnecessary pages just to include additional keywords.

So say you have "Area A" which includes "Suburb A" and "Suburb B".

If Area A has so many listings, on domain.com/area-a/ then you can split that into

Suburb A domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-a
Suburb B domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-b

Listing should be unique and of high quality on each of these pages, none should be repeated.

I hope this helps

Issa

Hi,

You should find your answer in this link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/enhanced-ecommerce#overview

But essentially you will have to use something like:

ga('ec:addImpression',{            // Provide product details in an impressionFieldObject.
  'id':'P12345',                   // Product ID (string).
  'name':'Android Warhol T-Shirt',// Product name (string).
**'category':'Apparel/T-Shirts',   // Product category (string).**
  'brand':'Google',                // Product brand (string).
  'variant':'Black',               // Product variant (string).
  'list':'Search Results',         // Product list (string).
  'position':1,                    // Product position (number).
  'dimension1':'Member'            // Custom dimension (string).});

But you need to specify the Field Object in the top line. Read the link I sent you and should be all self explanatory.

I hope this helps

Issa

Hi,

I personally think you should only allow Google to index tags if you have a big number of posts that use these tags organically, not for keyword stuffing and spammy activities.

In the case you mentioned, I would disallow Search Engines from indexing tag pages. And if you believe that these tags should not be on that website, then you should delete them. Looking at the example URL you sent, its clearly created in the attempt to trick Google.

I would start first with disallowing search engines from indexing them, then I would go head and slowly remove these tags.

If you have posts that are not 100% relevant to the business and are high quality, consider removing those too. This particular page is not doing well really from linking or authority point of view. See the image I attached

I hope this helps.

S0MucPO

Hi Tavneer,

Good question, unfortunately Google will not tell you all duplicates. You need to use a tool for that.

My recommendations is to use the CopyScape tool, its has free service for samples, but I do recommend you get the premium which is incredibly cheap. Should buy credits and then do the following:

1. Get a list of all your website's URLs (you can use any method you like. i usually search for site:mydomain.com in Google and export them with SEO Quake plugin/extension on Chrome)
2. Go to bulk check on CopyScape
3. Add all your URLs in there
4. Process the bulk search
5. Wait few seconds and you will have a list of all duplicates on external websites, with average percentage.

I hope this helps.

Issa

Hi Daniel,

I am trying to think with you here, not to give you a solution (sorry for that).

It sounds like your website was hit by Panda, the manual review (or automated) was initiated by creating the new dev site and allowing Google to index it, then deleting the website that Google has preferred to rank higher than your original website. Too many extreme changes that were not planned correctly.

Like with many Panda penalties, Google rarely tells you anything, nor tells you that your website is affected even. I have seen so many companies going down the route of creating a website on a new domain.

However, I'm wondering, if you 301 redirect your old website (which obviously is having big problems ranking-wise) wouldn't you be transferring the reputation alongside the equity? Wouldn't your website have the same bad ranking?

Also, if you are suffering with the current ranking, why would you want to transfer such equity to a freshly created website, with good usability and ticking many more boxes than the previous one on Google search result pages?

If I was you, and creating a website on a new domain, i would simply start from scratch. And make sure that the website is big on usability and unique high quality content. Then I would make sure that there are high quality, high authority websites linking to relevant pages on your new website.

I hope this helps you in anyway.

Best,

Issa