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My site has been at the same 69 DA for over 8 months now. My competitors have not changed either. And our link building has definitely improved. It's varied and relevant. Great news pick up (national and local) edu, a few govs and general blogs. It's varied with no bad tactics. It seems like Moz has just either A. Dropped the ball or B. Has been hindered by covid and if it is B then say that (if they haven't already as I can't find anything)

Thanks for your thoughts. That's my position on it at the moment, so I'll continue to wait

J

Hey guys,

I'm curious on your thoughts around this scenario...

Website A:

• 35,000 monthly pageviews

• 1,000 pages

• 375 root linking domains

• currently HTTPS

• focused on one topic

• weak rankings for competitive keywords

Website B:

• 3M monthly pageviews

• 32,500 pages

• 3,500 root linking domains

• started HTTP to HTTPS migration 1 week ago. 1/3 of pages indexed as HTTPS.

• focused on many topics

• strong rankings for competitive keywords

Requirement: I want to have a reliable read on how Website A's keyword rankings change after redirecting it's pages to Website A. This post-migration analysis will be used as a basis to assess the risk of redirecting another website we own that is similar to Website A into Website B.

My question:

Would you wait until most of the pages on Website B are indexed as HTTPS before doing a 301 of Website A to Website B? Please back up your answer with reasons why or why not

Hey guys

Would you use the 'change of address' tool (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en) for a site that was previously penalised, pointing it to the new URL?

Cheers

Jeremy

Thank you for all of your responses - they have given me a lot of very specific help and a clear direction to move forward!

Hi John

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm actually talking about having the same domain name for both situations, just not sure if I should have brand.com with the domain root targeted to US traffic or brand.com/us/ with US targeted to US traffic

cheers,
Jeremy

Hi Mozzers,

I am expanding a website internationally. I own the .com for the domain. I need to accommodate multiple countries and I'm not sure if I should build a folder for /us/ for United States or just have the root domain .com

OPTION 1:
domain.com/page-url -- United States
domain.com/de/page-url -- Denmark
domain.com/jp/page-url -- Japan

OPTION 2:
domain.com/us/page-url -- United States
domain.com/de/page-url -- Denmark
domain.com/jp/page-url -- Japan

My concern with option 2 is there will be some dilution and we wouldn't get the full benefit of inbound links compared to Option 1 as we would have geo ip redirection in place to redirect users etc. to the relative sub-folder.

Which option is better from an SEO perspective?

Cheers,

Jeremy

Thanks for the response Ray-pp! Would you say the same if the page had over 1,000 comments? The average is around ~200-300 comments per page

Hi Mozzers

What is your view on the following. Should you

1. Paginate comments to increase page speed? If yes, at what # of comments would you begin pagination? (with the objective being decreasing page load times)
2. Apply rel="canonical" back to the main article URL? eg: url/comment-page-1 => url
3. noindex the comment pages?
4. create a "View all" comments page?

Thanks in advance for your help!
J