It depends what currently is in your robots.txt. Usually it would be useful to have another one for your subdomain.
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Posts made by Martijn_Scheijbeler
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RE: Do I need a separate robots.txt file for my shop subdomain?
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RE: Any white label link building providers like Audience Bloom?
The service itself and the page seem a bit spammy but if I would read their process for how they would pick it up I would say it is quite OK. They're just following a bit more normal the linkbuilding process then just requesting links. If they would really provide great content for publishers of course you can score links through it!
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RE: "index.htm" for all url's in google analytics
Hi
Have you checked your filters in Google Analytics? Otherwise are you able to share the site so I can take a look by debugging your trackers?
M.
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RE: Tasks for Google Analytics training
Hey!
Have them come up with better ways on how to analyse the content and it's context around it. Looking at how good a post performs is nice, but knowing what the context is around the post: data, time, author, topic is way more interesting if you do this at scale. That's why it could be good to not only have them think about doing the analysis, but also have them think about what kind of other context related areas they can track.
Second thing I would say is learning them more about the power of User ID tracking and event tracking as they can provide a better insight into what the specific customer journey looks like.
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RE: Why did my website DA fell down?
5 to 1. Yeah then you probably were in the previous batch of data and are not included this time I guess. But do you also see a decrease in organic search traffic as for now you've only based it on this metric for now.
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RE: Do You Like Live Chat Pop-Ups... Please comment!
- Love Live Chat Pop Ups
Like it as a consumer with the right timing.
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RE: Why did my website DA fell down?
Hi,
The Domain Authority metric is only updated every couple of months. So that's why it could be that overtime it can drop a bit more then usual. What are you seeing of a kind of drop?
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RE: Has the keyword planner search volume metric gone crazy?
I think the biggest difference is in the match type of the keywords. In the end they're used broad in this case which would make sense that the singular and plural could be the same. Usually when you would have an exact match you're going to see a difference in volume.
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RE: Google News Sitemap in Different Languages
My guess would be that you can combine them in 1 sitemap and by using the news:languagetag that you'll define the language. Google is checking the page content anyway first before using it in their index. So making sure that the content language tags are also on your page itself (the source code) will make sure the content is seen in the right way.</news:language>
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RE: How long for google to de-index old pages on my site?
This can take a very long time sometimes, for bigger sites I could see this take months with smaller sites it depends on the frequency and the crawl rate that Google visits your site. If Google is not very active on your site because the content doesn't really relate to something that is updated often then Google might decide not to come back too often to save their own servers and find other content elsewhere on the web.
In your case I would focus on making sure that the new site and structure are working flawless and less about de-indexing the old pages. I can't imagine that they still receive a ton of traffic. Without any doubt is 4 days still very early for Google to pick up the changes.
Hope this helps!?
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RE: My news site not showing in "In the news" list on Google Web Search
Well I'm pretty sure that the difference ain't in Schema.org as the differences there have nothing to do with the crawlability and the newsworthiness of the content. The first things I would focus on are making sure that Google can find new content as fast as possible and that your crawl-rate goes up. That's really important, and if you're convinced that is fixed then focus more attention on the authority part.
Both ain't easy to fix, but someday you'll get there!
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RE: My news site not showing in "In the news" list on Google Web Search
So the "In the news" block in the Google Search results are still powered by the normal Google Search data and not necessarily by the Google News data sets. That means you sometimes can let go of all the requirements like the news-sitemaps that are required for this. Usually authority seems to be the biggest issue to get into the block. What do you consider a strong backlink profile at the moment and could you shed some light on the industry that you're in?
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RE: Adding Reviews to JSON Product Schema Markup
Hi Jeff,
What you need to do is relate the product/offer to the Review Schema that you can find here: http://schema.org/Review, if you embed it this way it will make sure it's connected with the right relation.
Martijn