Hi Paul

Google knows not to crawl tel: links and this is not a problem. It's more an issue with the tool than SEO and will do you no harm.

If you really want to remove the warning you could use a bit of Java

Or nofollow them in Robots.txt

I have a site which is crawled by MOZ weekly with tel: links and they don't report them as problematic and the site ranks really well!

More here: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/91883/how-can-i-stop-search-engines-from-crawling-tel-links

Regards Nigel

Hi Zack

With Yoast and Woo the shortcodes are difficult to find as they are specific to Woo. The product description one I used for my client was:

Shop %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% part of the %%currentyear%% %%ct_product_cat%% collection, with free delivery on all items at Sitename!

This would give for example:

Shop 'Yello Widget', part of the '2018' 'widget category' collection with free delivery on all items at 'sitename'

Then title:

%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%ct_product_cat%% Sitename

For the non Ecomm pages I would actually write them myself as there would only be a few but if I was pushed:

%%page%% %%sep%% Sitename

The problem here is that it might be too short.

I hope that helps

Regards Nigel

Hi Zack

If you add default variables for post Meta title and description this will effectively add Meta for all those posts and pages where you didn't. If you added any custom Meta then that will stay the same.

I had a client who had 467 products in his Woo store without Meta descriptions - a little magic and boom! they all had one. Those that were custom written stayed the same.

Simple process with a simple yes/no answer!

I hope that helps!

Regards Nigel.

Hi Nidhi

You need to obtain an email address from the client from their server. Then when you contact them you do it as if you are the client. All references are made in the name of the company as is the bio link - it needs to pass link juice back to the company, not you. That is the whole idea, to promote your client's interests, not yours, or your agency's.

If you simply can't, then register a generic Gmail address which mentions your client's name but still have all links passing back to the company.

Regards Nigel

Hi James

The reality is that it doesn't matter whether there is a trailing slash or not at the end of your URLs. What is important is that only one version is used and preferably there is no 301 from one to the other if it can be avoided. Especially if there are live links going to one or the other on the front end of your website.

So in your case you have navigation links with no trailing slash and a forced 301 adding them on.

I would remove the htaccess code which is forcing everything to a trailing slash and then add a piece of code removing it from any inbound requests.

Clearly, all backlinks will include the slash including Google - adding the code will resolve these pretty quickly and your existing search results will flick over when they are next crawled. This will depend on the size of your website and the crawl rate. You can check this in webmasters.

Remember that if you do this the backlinks from other websites will have a trailing slash and when the hits come in the new 301 will take them to a non-trailing slash. There may be a small drop in link juice from these backlinks. (I say 'maybe' as Rand Fishkin still believes so - others swear blind there isn't) so be prepared.

You have to balance this small backlink problem with actively pointing to URLs that 301s that redirect. Any SEO will tell you that this is not good! Presumably, the sitemaps don't have trailing slashes? So your site says one thing and your sitemaps another - a nightmare.

This is a version of the code to be placed at the top:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteRule^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R]# <- for test, for prod use [L,R=301]

I hope that helps

Regards

Nigel

Hi William

It looks like they have done this to deliberately target you. It doesn't make any sense as it wouldn't be great for them either. The fact is that you are the copyright owner and whatever people may say about copied content not affecting you, duplicate content does and you now both have a virtually identical page.

This is bound to affect you - duplicate content is a no no and whilst Google may elevate you above the other page- which sits in a directory it will still have an effect.

I would open a copyright dispute with Google - pretty simple to do: Here:

https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

Hit 'web search' and I have a legal dispute that is not mentioned above.

Get it removed.

Regards

Nigel

I think if you are going to ask a question like this them be specific what the problems are. We all spend a lot of time trying to help people and are then made to feel bad because we haven't understood the question.

Also, it's in a language I can't speak.

So post up a few keywords and the pages you expect to rank for and maybe we can see what the problem is.

Cheers

Nigel

Hi Laurie

That's kind of old school cloaking and when you add the 301 you have told Google that the content has moved to the new URL. I can't think why you would want to do this?

For me it's a big SEO no no - even if you have teh same content on two URLs you'd still suffer a drop in rankings due to duplication issues. So you would need to canonicalise, thus losing one of teh URLs.

Regards Nigel

Hi Conversal

There are search results - they are just not showing in SEMrush and Google takes a while to report them

Regards

Nigel

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Hi Conversal

You have the root URL https://www.conversal.be/ set as your canonical so just ignore these spurious errors. Google knows that this is your page, it just pops up the odd anomaly now and again. It is not affecting your site's indexation or ranking.

There is a little more help here: https://www.terminusapp.com/blog/7-faqs-about-utm-parameters/

Just don't use them yourself anywhere!

I hope that helps

Regards Nigel

Hi Helen

I have always looked on the backlinks in webmaster tools as just a guide.It only shows a sample of backlinks to your site and that sample can vary:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/T9kQMWej158

Regards

Nigel

Hi Helen

I have checked your backlinks and they are growing over time, not falling - see the attachment from SEMrush.

Have you recently changed from http to https? if so make sure that both domains are in search console as you may be tracking an old one.

Whatever SEM is much more reliable.

Take a look at the screenshot - it shows 1700+ backlinks from 25 referring domains!

I hope that helps

Regards Nigel

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Hi DGAU

There is no doubt that cross-domain 301s do pass link juice and depending on who you listen to you may experience a 15% drop in the juice passed.

The problem is that if it is completely different and irrelevant content then you may do more damage than good.

Your second option, linking to a directory with relevant content is a much better idea and may help you get the link back if you can show them that the destination URL has more relevant content. It also means that you may keep it for longer. I should imagine that no Government department would want to link out to an irrelevant URL!

First, though I would enhance the page to make it as relevant as possible - then request the link back. You'll give yourself a much better chance of getting it!

I hope that helps, Regards Nigel