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No. Social media links are not considered inbound links in Moz (or other link tools for that matter).

As long as all of the URLs stay the same and you aren't building a blog network (a bunch of sites that interlink), I don't think you'd see much of an SEO difference.

I haven't seen anyone complain about that particular issue which is a good sign. If/when you follow through, please comment back and let everyone know your experience!

I would dig into the analytics some more and look for patterns... did you lose traffic to product pages or category pages or homepage? traffic from image search or web search? are there a lot more indexed urls? did robots.txt change to allow more pages to be crawled? did filter config change? canonicals?

I'd recommend putting all of the urls to deindex into a sitemap, set LASTMOD date to something recent and submit for google to recrawl.

If possible, set the status codes on those pages to 410 as well.

I think this is more important for hosts and people with multiple websites (for interlinking)... Tom talks about c-blocks in ipv4 addresses which deals with seo hosting and how that changes in ipv6 (gets more vague). As usual, don't be hosted on the same server as a bunch of spam sites.

If you have just the one site, there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

It will not be considered duplicate content. However, you should use hreflang markup so that google knows that 2 versions of a page are actually the same (just translated) and show the correct language to searchers.

ehh. unless reposting to the other website naturally creates more backlinks (e.g. each site has its own separate audience that would increase the total number of backlinks) keeping the articles on separate sites and interlinking with keyword anchor text is probably the better strategy.

content syndication works best when republishing to a new audience, on domains you don't already own.

Maybe check your apache httpd.conf file?

Not seeing anything there.

Have you checked your WP site URL settings? https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

I'd also try to remove all rules except default wordpress (from # BEGIN Wordpress to # END Wordpress) to test.

logo should be within "publisher", not "article".

Overall, I'd recommend using a schema generator tool to assist like: http://tools.seochat.com/tools/schema-article-generator/#sthash.iWTjQpvO.dpbs

So bigger site reposts smaller site's blog post with canonical to the original post? should be fine. try to make sure the title/heading is identical as i've seen more powerful sites outrank original sources even with a canonical url.

For most of the site content, you can improve the small site's rankings by linking to it from relevant pages on the larger website.

yea, wouldn't spend too much time recoding that then. i would still block the print pages via robots.txt so that they aren't crawled at all.

I recommend you keep the site as is and just create a shop in a /shop/ subfolder on the main domain.

authority comes from external backlinks, if you move the main site to a subdomain (without redirects), traffic will drop and you'll have a ton of links to 404 pages, creating a giant mess.

if you do redirect to subdomain, then all of the authority will follow with it (except for links to the main root domain). you'll also need to be careful to not have any urls that overlap with old urls that you are now redirecting (again, high chance of mistakes).

your html code is a mess. i would take some course to understand how to properly install analytics and use it (there is a decent learning curve). check out free courses like https://www.udemy.com/getting-started-with-google-analytics/

does the website rank well for the terms its targeting? if so, don't think google is confused.

<1% is not keyword stuffing and unlikely to trigger any flags.

best not to generate a new url to follow. ideally, css / js would replace the url change functionality.

if you must generate the print page with a ?print variable, block it via robots.txt (Disallow: /?print= ) so that those pages aren't even crawled (having a noindex tag allows them to be crawled, just not indexed in search results)

you need to be more specific as to where this image is showing up in serps (google shopping, featured snippet, mobile results, knowledge graph, shopping/news/amp results, image results in serp, schema cards such as recipes).

its best to update the links to the new domain if possible (although official google stance is 301 redirect lose 0 link value).

if you can't update the backlink, just make sure the old url to new url redirect is only one 301 redirect (no chain redirects, no temporary redirects)

definitely make sure all of your internal backlinks point directly to the new urls.

unless you are really going ham on creating anchor text internal backlinks, I would focus on user experience first and foremost.

If using the brand name in the link would make it easier for your visitors to navigate the website (and ultimately convert), do that. If links in paragraph form is more convenient than links in list form, do that.

Without knowing your website, its hard to make a call but above is applicable to most scenarios.

if the domain expired, then there wouldn't be a backlink to your website (Moz's index might just be out of date for that backlink). if thats the case, no need to worry about it.

especially since the pages aren't currently ranking, I would go with your strategy of merging them into 1 longer page & redirecting from previous pages to new location.

Be sure to properly format the page with H1 / H2 tags so that crawlers can understand the different sections of the page easier.

You will want to set up multilingual hreflang tags across all pages.

This will essentially tell crawlers "each of these URLs are actually the same 'page'. You should show the correct version based on the location of the visitor" which prevents them from treating it as duplicate content.

I found https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf helpful.

Essentially, unless you have a specific reason/need to store this personal information (aggregate data isn't affected), you need to minimize your personal data retention period.

Wherever you can edit the thank you message, trigger an event - https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events

From what I understand, permanent links > temporary links.

How it treats a link thats lost/found on the exact same page is a mystery to all. You should also take into consideration the time between a link lost/gained (e.g. if google didn't recrawl the page, it wouldn't have even noticed the link disappearing)

Sure, but it doesn't mean everyone will see it.

Best course of action is to add "Special Hours" in Google My Business to declare when your business is closed.

Its all about firing the event code at the right time and that depends on how your form works.

What happens after a successful form submission? Many times, you want to display a message along the lines of "Your Submission was Received", and that is when you want to fire off the GA code.

1. Make sure the redirects from http --> https are 301 redirects
2. Make sure the canonical URLs have been updated to https
3. Make sure your sitemap URLs have been updated to https

That's pretty odd. Only thing I can think of is Google received more signals to rank the .nl site (maybe some new backlinks were found/created?) Overall, sounds like a bug that should be reversed.. how long have the ranking reverted for?

Note, that you can still rank for some Dutch keywords if you received backlinks with dutch anchor text.

• Crawl the entire site and make sure no noindex tags remain
• Keep resubmitting the sitemap(s)
• If you have an HTML sitemap, you can do "Fetch as Google" then "Index this page and internal links" which will help recrawl the pages

Don't think there is much else you can do but send Google signals to recrawl the site and see that the noindex tag was removed.

I do believe the URLs are indexed (based on his url) and I know that you can use non-english characters in URLs.

Do you get the 500 error when you fetch as google for a url?

Add the site to Google Search Console and do "Fetch as Google" to see how they would index your pages.

You pretty much nailed it. If the only reason is cosmetic (which I doubt has any influence on anything), there is absolutely no reason to risk losing top 5 rankings. Good luck!

Side note.. Google's official stance is that 301s pass 100% authority but not worth testing. You are guaranteed to see a dip in rankings/organic traffic after you set up the 301s.

I would contact Manta and ask them to clarify whats going on/what you want done.

If the website is still indexed in google (search site:domain.com to see how many pages are indexed), then you might have a canonical URL/sitemap mismatch. e.g. your sitemap has urls site.com/Page-A/ but the canonical url is site.com/page-a/.. Google would still index your site but the # of urls indexed from the sitemap would drop. Another example is your sitemap urls are http but the website is actually https.

Thats the only thing that I can think of (aside from GSC bug) that would cause a drop.

If you are adding the embed code to a page that already has a good amount of unique content, it shouldn't have any major effect on SEO.

Pros: more relevant content, updated frequently, great for UX/CRO

Cons: decreases page speed, non-unique content (if its a small part of the total content, shouldn't be an issue)

Agreed, the redirects/canonicals should be permanent (well, for as long as you want the authority to pass along).

You would see changes in serps within 2 weeks usually.

If you haven't touched the site, then its likely either 1) an algorithm update with Google or 2) competitor rankings increase that caused your ranking dip.

Also check your latest backlinks in GSC to make sure there is no negative SEO going on.

I would guess similar to 301 redirects... about 2 weeks.

The faster you can get Google to recrawl the pages and index the new canonical URLs, the quicker the authority will transfer over.

The 301 redirect is www --> non-www

You page is indexed in google. See https://www.google.com/search?q=info%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwaikoloavacationrentals.com%2Fmauna-lani-terrace

Make sure they are linked up with hreflang tags which would help search engines determine which pages are their language equivalents.

If you do a lot more promotion of the Dutch content, it will rank better than French pages (assuming equal competition). However, because there is a "these pages are the same but in 2 different languages" hreflang markup on the site, it should help you rank for the French pages as well.

If it is a local service, yes, adding location modifier keywords can help you rank for more local terms.

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<a>If you nofollow your links from the widget, you won't be penalized and it still helps with brand exposure. You can ask those people who add your badge to their site to link back to you separately and in a more natural way.</a>

You should remove it if possible. No reason to link to a dead link (poor ux, waste crawler time) or call a non-existent resource (slow site down).

However, I don't think it will make any noticeable effect on your rankings.

you can ping google to recrawl those pages and see the new status codes. Aside from that, you just need to wait.

If your products are ranking well for their target keywords, I would try and avoid changing their URLs (especially to a different domain). Keeping on your own domain also helps improve your product rankings when you grow your main website.

Not sure how the masking will be set up, but in some cases there is no "internal links" since they are all masked by the root masking domain. This would definitely prevent you from building more links (and further improving your rankings).

You'll probably experience a dip from not publishing new content but I don't believe there will be any other issues.

Updating old content (drip fed or in bulk) won't trigger any spam/manipulation flags.

Its recommended to noindex tags and category pages unless you add unique content to them (otherwise you are cannibalizing the individual post rankings). This is especially true if you only have 1 post in the tag/category and if you display the full text in the tag/category pages.

If you want to index and rank the tag/category pages:

1. Add unique text to the category/tag page that describes the types of posts that are listed there + include target keywords
2. Make sure it has a unique title and meta description
3. Don't show the entire posts within the category/tag pages.. instead show excerpts and link to read more.

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