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It depends on how the first link is treated; links from profiles are often set as 'nofollow' and so pass no value to the target page.

Quickly checking on Quora, for example, they use a 'nofollow' tag on their links from answer contributor names.

Disavow is a powerful tool and using it is something you should be certain of, but it sounds like it would be the right choice in your case.

The disavow file is something you should always keep on top of; it's better to add 2 or 3 domains so that you can attribute results to changes made than adding 700 domains at once as it may be more difficult to pin point exactly which domains affected you negatively.

I'd suggest doing the work yourself with the assistance of programs such as BuzzSumo.

Doing the work yourself will help keep you in touch with how your brand/business is being talked about in both social platforms and blogs, as well as everything in between.

There are a number of tools out there and OSE is just one of them. Using GSC's "Links to Your Site" can provide good insights on both who links the most and your most recently attained links.

ahrefs shows additional data and, in my opinion, the more data you can gather the better informed you will be. What I'm saying is, don't rely too much on the accuracy of one individual tool, when there are plenty more out there which may have a more focused approach on a certain aspect of SEO than other, more general tools.

It's caused by having embedded YouTube videos. These YT ad scripts being blocked will also lead to a partial fetch.

So, they're copying your content but providing a link back to your website? Sounds like it could be recognised as providing credit for the content.

It shouldn't take "6 months" to recover from bad links as backlink analysis is now part of Google's "live" algorithm, any changes should see results within a few days/weeks at most.

Use the "latest links" and "most links" tools in GSC to download a .csv file and analyse the amount of links you are getting from "spammy" domains, disavow those and benchmark so that you can check results.

Yoast will be able to handle it, though you might need to upgrade to premium for the plugin.

There are many other capable redirect plugins for WP which should do the trick too.

Hi Luca,

Content for e-commerce sites should be focused on conversion; if it is strictly an e-commerce site (no blog etc) then ensure your content helps people get the product they need, rather than providing a guide on a subject - you don't need to inform people how to use a knife, rather why they need a knife and how it can improve how they perform a certain activity.

I've experimented with a number of different content combinations in e-commerce and the two that have performed the most positively are 1) dedicated landing pages (400 - 600 words) with 3 or 6 items included below the text, and 2) item listing pages with 12 items visible but less written content than in example 1.

It can depend on what your niche is; there can be much more content written about certain items than others, but targeting your audience is a must.

I'd question that timing. I recently uploaded a disavow file containing a few hundred domains and saw an uplift within a week.

You should be able to change this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngineOn

RewriteCond%{SERVER_PORT}80

RewriteRule^(.*)$https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Definitely go for Option 1: redirecting to the relevant pages on the singular domain.

I would also recommend using subfolders to contain content on individual locations, something similar to rapturecamps.com/bali for Bali information. This would allow you to gain authority for that specific niche and add articles to that niche, rather than having them all under one central holder (the root domain).

If you change your domain then expect your rankings and traffic to drop significantly for at least a short period of time (a few months is likely). You'll need to set up 301 redirects from the old domain to the new, pointing to relevant replacement URLs on the new domain; .us/how-to-redirect => .com/how-to-redirect

The .us domain will help focus on a US market, though a .com will also do the same. The differences is a .com is also international, so users from the UK, France, etc may still feel comfortable dealing with a .com domain, but may not with a .us one.

The most important thing in terms of SEO is the users' experience in finding the answer to their query; too many people focus on using '-' in their URL in order to get the perfect, keyword rich domain, but Google actually looks for the speed and efficiency in which you can answer a query for "easier routes from IL to KY".

.com, .net, .org. They're all pretty much the same in terms of value; they're all TLDs. The key difference in them is how your users react to them; a charity/public service website may see better results by using a .org for example, but a multinational corporation would likely only settle for .com or .net.

A lot of the time it's all about what you can do for them too; writing an article for a website on a subject and linking back to your own site as a form of payment (though you may actually ask for $$ too), especially early on in your 'outreach' campaign. Building a reputation is important.

Over time you may be asked for articles etc, or be able to show off your work in order to gain more exposure.

Google is more interesting in the information you present users with and whether or not you can answer their query. Highlighting keywords may, to those not in the know, show that a website is more likely to answer a query, but in reality it may not be the case.

It's falls under the same method of Google attributing actual meaning, for example "wood floor" could be perceived as "wooden floor" or "wood flooring" and so on, where those websites might help the user more so than the one which contains the exact keyword in the URL.

Rena,

As mentioned above, this is due to the only difference in pages being the HTML for the feature image. A way of fixing this (and potentially improving conversion/enquiries too) would be to detail the item; what kind of paper stock does it come on, what colours can be provided, are there set types of font, and so on?

Do you have clients who are willing to provide a few words on their opinion of the item which could be used as unique content on an invite's page?

Another vote for redirecting it to a relevant page on a new website.