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Hello friends,

I have this doubt for a long and i want to share it with you.

In our agency many clients have a PHP template for the home page of their sites, and also have a blog with wordpress as CMS.

When i am optimizing sitemaps, I have two separate files, an index of Sitemaps created with Wordpress SEO by Yoast (which inside has separate Sitemaps tags, categories, posts, pages, authors, etc.) and on the other hand the home page sitemap with the subsections.

As you know the sitemap generated by "Wordpress SEO by Yoast" is dynamic as it creates the sitemap according to current site content, and is updated every time a new entry is raised or modify any URL. This makes it very practical.

I can not have a unique index sitemap sitemaps nesting inside another, as it is not allowed by Google or Sitemap protocol. I read in the Google Support you can upload multiple sitemaps to Search Console but does not say anywhere on upload multiple sitemaps index, or a combination thereof.

In my case, I would have to upload two separately files, the dynamically generated with wordpress and the manual created for the PHP template.

In my opinion there is no problem and Google will index everything properly performing it this way, but I wanted to share it with you to see how you solve this problem and what experiences had.

Thanks and best regards.

Hi Gastón,

It has not happened to me that Google rewrites the meta tag descriptions but sometimes it happened to me with the title tag. I understand that while it is always best to specify each page these tags, Google could rewrite and use one better if found a more relevant text.

As each query is a different search, the same page could be affected or not by rewriting descriptions (or titles) for different keywords.

In this link:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

MOZ explains that meta tag descriptions is not a direct Google Ranking factor that but it does help a lot in the CTR to increase the number of users who click on the SERPs.

I think that having the correct descriptions tags on each page (avoiding duplicate) is still a step in the on page optimization to consider and i always check and optimized it on my clients.

As far as I know, there is no way to prevent that rewriting titles or descriptions happen, although I suspect that if Google chooses a new, should be the best one that produces more CTR.

I hope my answer helped you,

Regards

Juan Ignacio

Hi MOZ friends.

Last week, when i was following up the backlinks linking to my domain, i detect that a new website from an unknown administrator copies the content of an entire section of my website.

The administrator of that webpage did not remove the internal links on the post, so i could find.
My website has a better domain and page authority and we focus every day on create new content, but when we found people that only copy content from another, i feel disappointed.

But then I got to thinking that could be good that people copy our content, although they did not quote us. If they do not remove the links either by mistake or on purpose, we receive new backlinks.

¿What do you think about this? ¿Is really good that a website copy our content?

If they remove all backlinks, Is risky that Google detects that the content owner is another?

¿What do you do in this cases?

Thank you for your answer!

This article in point 4 aleyda solis says we should not redirect traffic as do most do, but suggest to visitors that there is a version of another country / language.
What do you think about this ?

http://www.aleydasolis.com/seo/posicionamiento-buscadores-internacional/

I understand your answer. I will monitor the coming months as all advances.
Rand thank you very much!

Thank you for your answer Rand.
The DA is now rising again recovering the previous value.
Another thing that surprised me when analyzing changes DA was the large variation in total recorded by MOZ links, which is why I suspected a problem with the algorithm MOZ. I uploaded a picture to show what I mean.
In October the number of links to all the sites I'm comparing dropped a lot, and now in December rose at an even greater value than they had in July.

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Hi Jaume,

unfortunately we dont use Wordpress, we use a php template developed by ourselves..

Hello MOZ friends.
I work in an digital marketing agency in Argentina and since we have a lot of traffic from other Spanish-speaking countries like Mexico and Spain, we want to rank specific keywords for these countries.
We were thinking of putting new versions of the homepage in subfolders, for example /es/ for Spain, /mx/ to Mexico, etc. In these new subfolders we would place a very similar version of the homepage with a few minor modifications to work specific keywords in each country. For example, in Spain it is more searched "marketing online", and "marketing digital" is more used in Mexico and Argentina.
I have understood that to implement this we would be to place a label hrflang on the homepage directing visitors and crawlers to the correct version of each country. Is it ok?
Another concern is, whether they are very similar pages, Google does not take it as duplicate content ..
I read this:
https://moz.com/blog/the-international-seo-checklist
And i am not completely sure about using subfolders for each country, but i dont know how to position diferents keywords for diferent countries.
Regards,
Juan Ignacio Retta

Hi, i have a website that have, as many others, a mobile version.

I want to know if there exist a way to track the mobile user experience, for example, how many times scroll down the page, where touch the screen, and actions that only have sense with mobile visitors.

what do you think?

Thanks,

Juan Ignacio

Hi.This may be a google technical question, but I've searched a lot and I couldn't find any certain information about that.The problem appears when you look at two stats in Search Console ( WebMasters Tools, some months ago), particulary in the Search Analysis.1- Total clicks2- Sum of clicks at every search query.I attached an image to make me clear.8IZsxs6.png

ok, i understand. When you say "your competitor" DA went down you want to say the specific competence for each market niche or to all the urls on the internet. I.e., MOZ compare the DA with all the internet urls or his algoritm detect some kind of topic to determine the domain autorithy?

Hi, thank you for answer. I read that article but i dont understand yet why all the domains that i show on the picture went down their DA. I think that is not due to highest DA domains gaining lots more links, it could be for one, not for all..

Hi MOZ users, i have this problem. We have a website in Spanish Language but Google crawls it on English (it is not important the reasons). We re made the entire website and now we are planning the move.

The new website will have different language versions, english, spanish and portuguese. Somebody tells me that we have to redirect the old urls (crawled on english) to the new english versions, not to the spanish (the real language of the firsts).

Example: URL1 Language: Spanish - Crawled on English --> redirect to Language English version.

the other option will be redirect to the spanish new version, which the visitor is waiting to find.

URL1 Language: Spanish - Crawled on English --> redirect to Language Spanish version.

What do you think? Which is the better option?

Keywordshitter.com will give you the long tails that Google suggest for an specific Keyword.

In a few steps, i use this to get the best keywords:

1. The bigest Brainstorming.

2. Competence Spy (search which keys are using)

3. Bind all and Make a Keyword list and filter the duplicates with textmechanic.com

4. Use de Google Adwords Keyword Planner with "Show only ideas directly related to your search terms" to get traffic and even more related keywords

5. Checking the SERPs competence, choose only 5 keywords or less.

Hi, i think that you have to make a 301 redirection to the specific category and not to the homepage, because the traffic that arrives to the first site is waiting particular content and it would increase the user experience. I would make a section-to-section redirect when it is possible, and all the others redirect to the homepage. In this case prioritize the traffic will make you better on SEO.
2. Is OK to use multiple sub domains if it is really needed, the question is why you need it ? It isn't good have different categories on different subdomains..

Hi, thank you for your answer. Here is my report:

http://i.imgur.com/D7QBwZT.png

I dont understand, why we don't have to you use hreflang and IP redirection ?

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I've noticed that several websites have lost DA since middle of october. I attached a picture. Could be this a MOZ internal issue like happened a time ago? Not only the DA get down, I have lost C-blocks links, too
I check in http://health.moz.com/ and found this Crawl Services Outage: http://health.moz.com/incidents/fbn00m7xxzx2
But not appear to have direct relation with my question.
Or may be a google algoritm update?

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Hi, i made a question before but the answer not clarified me yet:

https://moz.com/community/q/which-is-the-best-xx-or-com-xx-in-general-and-for-seo

I mark as answered inadvertently.

I want to know what you think about choosing ".es" or ".com.es" for create a section for Spain and redirect them from the homepage. Same for Mexico.
I think that is not so important for SEO, but i am not completely sure about other factors.
Big marks like Toshiba use:
http://www.toshiba**.es**
http://www.toshiba**.com.mx**

and Cocacola:
http://www.cocacola**.es**
http://www.coca-cola**.com.mx**

".es" for spain and ."com.mx" for mexico?

Hi Josh, I do not agree with you. The on page SEO factors are important but also the links, and create private networks of blogs well made, as natural as possible, can be a good option. I think to use a different A-Class IP hosting for the expired domains with real new and fresh content..

Thank you very much for your reply, I really clarified

Hello users MOZ:
I have a question about page and domain authority. It is OK that sometimes PA is greater than the DA? I think that's not right, but it happens in some domains, for example in the attached image.

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Hi users MOZ:
I bought a couple of expired domains to create a private blog network but I can't create the sites yet. While i prepare the sites, it is good idea to do a 301 redirect with them?

Hi, I'm working for a digital marketing agency and have traffic from different countries. We are planning to make different websites for each country. What is the best SEO practice to choose the domain between ".xx" or ".com.xx" from Spain, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru?
I think that the ccTLD is better always, for example ".es" better than ".com.es"