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Hi Jon,

Another great addition for the MozBar would be hreflang.

• Which hreflangs are present on the page and what is the corresponding language/locale?

Could be under 'general attributes', underneath rel="canonical".

Linda

Hi,

I think the information you are looking for is in this article:

https://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples

I would not recommend a one-page website for SEO, but it depends on what the goal of your site is.

Linda

Hi Riccardo,

Since I do not know which pages exist on your site, I cannot be a 100% sure. You can remove this though from your robots.txt and see what happens (in Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tools).

Allow: /*?p=
Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/
Allow: /catalogsearch/result/

Good luck!

Hi Ricardo,

Your home page is indexed.

It is most likely your problems are because of the robots.txt. -> http://www.farmaermann.it/robots.txt

1. You set a crawl delay of 10 seconds for all bots, which is quite long.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

2. Some of your pages are not allowed to be crawled, like this one in your menu: http://www.farmaermann.it/integratori.html and http://www.farmaermann.it/contraccettivi-e-gravidanza.html
Allow: /*?p=
Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/
Allow: /catalogsearch/result/

My advice is to modify your robots.txt: remove the crawl delay (and check whether your server can handle that) and make sure the pages in your menu can be crawled.

Or, you could surround those snippets with a

<nav>tag (HTML 5), so that Google will understand it's only navigation and not content of the page itself.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_nav.asp

</nav>

We use proranktracker for that. Simple little tool, and pretty cheap.

Hi Stephen,

That's pretty easy to check. Just type this in the browsers address bar:

cache:lymphexpo.com

Then click 'Text version' and you can see exactly how Google sees your site.

Then check if your lightbox content is visible.

Hi Jacob,

Don't use the canonical across both countries. Google will figure out the correct country targeting eventually. If you do this, it will only hurt you.

You won't be penalized for duplicate content, but you can be omitted from search results (per page) if Google has not figured out the country targeting yet. It might think it is the same content, but be patient.

Another thing you can do is enable people to toggle between the .nl and .be site, and accept (for the time being) that you rank with the 'wrong' site.

I'm pretty sure the fix you mentioned below will help you!

• The canonical url doesn't point to the NL or vice versa. It did have another URL as we're getting data from a different system and using wordpress to generate the userfriendly URL. So The canonical still has a different URL. I've made the change to make it exactly the same as the one shown in the URL. I hope it will help in some way.

Hi Antonio,

I actually meant that if you have duplicate content of some kind, your page example.be/xyz may have:

• a canonical to example.be/xyy
• your hreflang might point to example.be/xyz and example.nl/xyz - this should also be example.be/xyy

Did you also check if you used the right format for the hreflang (nl-be)?

And for geotargeting, it is not set by default, so I'd recommend to set it anyway. It can't hurt.

My experience tells me you might need to wait a bit longer.

Other problems you might have:

• Canonicals not pointing to the same URLs as the hreflangs.
• Geotargeting settings in Google Search Console.
• Belgium backlinks (from .be sites) - but this has been mentioned by Antonio.

Hi Stephen,

That's pretty easy to check. Just type this in the browsers address bar:

cache:lymphexpo.com

Then click 'Text version' and you can see exactly how Google sees your site.

Then check if your lightbox content is visible.

Hi,

I think the information you are looking for is in this article:

https://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples

I would not recommend a one-page website for SEO, but it depends on what the goal of your site is.

Linda

We use proranktracker for that. Simple little tool, and pretty cheap.

It depends on how you load the remaining code. Async loading is fine. If you check your site code with cache:www.example.com you can see if Google has seen all links. As long as you don't have bad intentions and don't show other content to Google and visitors, you will be fine.

My experience tells me you might need to wait a bit longer.

Other problems you might have:

• Canonicals not pointing to the same URLs as the hreflangs.
• Geotargeting settings in Google Search Console.
• Belgium backlinks (from .be sites) - but this has been mentioned by Antonio.

Hi Ricardo,

Your home page is indexed.

It is most likely your problems are because of the robots.txt. -> http://www.farmaermann.it/robots.txt

1. You set a crawl delay of 10 seconds for all bots, which is quite long.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

2. Some of your pages are not allowed to be crawled, like this one in your menu: http://www.farmaermann.it/integratori.html and http://www.farmaermann.it/contraccettivi-e-gravidanza.html
Allow: /*?p=
Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/
Allow: /catalogsearch/result/

My advice is to modify your robots.txt: remove the crawl delay (and check whether your server can handle that) and make sure the pages in your menu can be crawled.