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Organic visits to landing page would probably be the most useful

Google's official stance: they are equivalent.

I prefer using the subfolder structure. If the content on your subdomains is significantly different from your root domain content, Google may treat them separately.

Check out: https://moz.com/community/q/the-great-subdomain-vs-subfolder-debate-what-is-the-best-answer

As long as each page has useful, unique content, shouldn't be an issue.

e.g. I create a page for each town that a restaurant delivers to. I include some random facts about the town (large companies, population, etc - stuff you can grab from city-data.com), directions from that town to the restaurant, some popular dishes and a paragraph of unique text tailored for visitors from that town.

Google has an issue with you scraping a database of every city in USA, templating out some content and tweaking your same keyword across all of those pages.

Google's official stance is that it's no big deal. They'll simply won't rank those URLs (so if you are getting 403s for pages you want to rank, that's an issue).

However, if those 403's have external backlinks, I'd redirect them to a similar live page on your site to not lose those links. I also prefer to not waste crawler time visiting non-existent pages so if its easy to do, I'd minimize the number of 403 response codes on the site.

You sample 403 looks like an offsite CDN which shouldn't hurt, but it is taking up unnecessary resources. No reason not to remove.

Here is the official suggested markup: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6340290?hl=en

• On any non-AMP page, reference the AMP version of the page to let Google and other platforms know about it:

• On the AMP page, add the following text to reference its non-AMP canonical version:

No.

Only thing I can think of is if the site you are iframing is slow, it would affect your page speed. But it wouldn't cause any issues with crawling.

agreed. force https (via 301 redirects) and make sure all elements on your site are secured.

See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#review-snippets

You can supply ratings for the following content types:

• Local businesses
• Movies
• Books
• Music
• Products

You can treat each employee as a "Product" and have people review them. Probably your only solution.

Don't think there is anything special for web apps. Use regular title and meta description best practices.

Looks like you were hacked.

Clean up your website, make sure all bad urls 404 (or 410 if you can), clear out GSC crawl errors (may need to repeat a few times). If you received a manual action, resubmit your website.

Whichever country gets you more sales. In terms of SEO, I don't think it will make much of a difference.

huh? hreflang shouldn't be part of the equation here.

If you can't setup redirects, see if you can put canonicals on old pages to the new site. That way you'll transfer ranking benefits to the new site.

If you want your category pages to rank, then that is a fine strategy. I recommend adding some unique content to the actual category pages so that they rank better.

Set up the redirects to site 1. It won't cause any flags - this only happens when the content is completely unrelated to the sites.

Make sure you redirect each page to its equivalent on site 1 (don't just redirect all to the homepage).

I don't think it would be triggered but only testing would give you a definitive answer.

Does it load on page load? If not, doesn't count. Otherwise, it could trigger the penalty.

30% vs 50% does make a difference. Smaller is better.

I recommend you read Google's official guide to the subject: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html

You can template out "generated" text based on the ad details (e.g. category, location, poster bio). e.g. for all ads in "furniture" category, you have a paragraph of text that explains what the category is about. Depending on the location of the ad, you can publish a paragraph about the city/state. You can have the poster have the ability to submit a bio along with the ad. etc. The key is to add more topic relevant text to the page that would compliment the duplicate ad text.

You should target 1 keyword per page. You should keep the repeating "keyword" in the title if it is part of the keyphrase that you want all of your pages to rank for. It really depends on the keywords and content of the page(s).

DA/PA = Moz. This has no effect on rankings.

I am surprised that moz isn't picking up on the redirect (usually says "this domain redirects to ______") but I wouldn't worry about it.

You don't need to ask old backlinks to update links... unless the site is the same, there is a chance they will simply remove the backlinks since they aren't as relevant. Best you can do is ping google to recrawl the backlinks of itsgr82bme.com

In theory... 302 = temporary redirect so Google will continue to revisit the original URL. The pages may lose their rankings (they would likely be replaced by the URLs you will be redirecting to) while the redirect is up. Once you revert the redirect, so should the rankings after the changes are picked up by crawlers.

In practice, your new urls may not show up in serps and your old redirects may not return to their original rankings.

nope, totally okay. its like having brand.com vs brand.co.uk vs brand.es etc

2-3 weeks sounds right.. depends on how many pages you have. the old site is probably still ranking in serps and then redirecting (referral traffic) to the new domain.

once new domain replaces old in serps, the organic should go up and referral go down.

Per Google's guidelines, the links to your site from that page should be nofollowed since you paid for those links (not earned them). However, I would be surprised if their algorithm somehow picked up on that and penalized you for it.

How long have you lost those rankings for? Have you done any other promotion? If its been a while, you can try to ask the website to add rel="nofollow" to all links pointing to your website from that article and see if that helps you bounce back in serps.

If you do that, please please let us know if adding the nofollow tag helped you bounce back.

edit the HTML in the child theme files. Likely the header and footer files specifically.

If toptwincitiesrealtors.com has a good authority/backlink profile, it will help mnpropertygroup.com rank.

If toptwincitiesrealtors.com is penalized, it may pass along that penalty.

Looks like you are redirecting toptwincitiesrealtors.com to your main site. This would pass along all backlinks to the main site. (Either that, or majestic is counting each redirected page on the old toptwincitiesrealtors.com site as a backlink).

In either case, where does toptwincitiesrealtors.com get its backlinks from? If its from other quality, niche relevant sites, having it redirect is fine.

That robots.txt should be fine.. its not blocking anything.

The reason the crawl is stopping on the homepage is this code:

<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">nofollow</a>">

Which tells bots to not follow any links on the page. Remove that and you should be good.

Can't go wrong with building links to the page.. try and find a way to get some exact anchor links back to that page (either externally or internally). That should help bump your rankings.

I'd recommend doing some backlink analysis on your site as well as your competitors and try to find some marketing opportunities.

we'd need some specific examples.

in general, any new page will have a lower PA than an established page.

So....

1. If the dev site has not been indexed yet, you can block crawlers via robots.txt
2. If the dev site is already indexed and you want it removed, add meta NOINDEX tag to all pages allow the site to be crawled via robots.txt (reason: you want google to crawl and noticed the noindex tag on the pages so that they remove it from search results. if the site is indexed and you block crawler via robots.txt, google will keep the pages indexed but won't crawl them again). Once deindexed, you can block via robots.txt again

As long as its blocked (and you build that into your process), having the dev site on the same domain shouldn't be an issue. We have our own dev domain + server that autoblocks all pages from being indexed.

I highly doubt you can remove them - best case disavow them.

At this point, if you are willing to roll the dice, see what kind of effect the links will have on your rankings. Understand that those links are textbook spammy and should be treated negatively (they are irrelevant to your website, have lots of spammy outgoing links) but Google makes mistakes.

It is probably a matter of time before those links will be considered negative/poor and likely to hurt you down the line. However, it could be months/years before that happens.

If you are already ranking well some some terms and are scared of losing rankings, i'd disavow them now.

Screenshot? Link to page you are testing?

I see a good amount of pages indexed: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.northshoreymca.org%2F

Make sure the profile you are using in GSC (formerly GWT) is the https://www. version of the website (any other profile will show fewer/no indexed pages).

If you got canonicals set up properly, not much else you can do. Google should recognize what you are trying to do but it will still crawl the filters.

If you don't want the subcategories indexed and crawls minimized:

1. nofollow filter links
2. block them via robots using wildcards
3. set to noindex for all filtered urls.

From my experience*, using a subfolder structure will yield the best results.

I think the more important factor is how these pages are linked to from within other pages on your website. You need to build links from high authority internal pages to your degree pages using keyword rich anchor text. If you do this from both websites, I don't think it will make much of a difference which domain the pages are hosted on. i.e. if you link to the degree pages sitewide from both domains, you will see similar results hosting them on either domain.

So if you are going to move the degrees to the other domain, you might as well switch to a subfolder structure. If not, focus on building a stronger internal link profile.

*As you said, this topic is highly debated. Google's official stance is that there is no difference for ranking between subfolder/subdirectory. They also say that if the content on the subdomain is highly relevant to the content on the root domain, they will be treated as the same domain (authority overflows).

noindex means that crawlers can still visit the page (using crawl budget). You would need to link to those pages using a nofollow tag + block via robots.txt to prevent crawlers from accessing them.

Overall, if those pages aren't being crawled currently, then they aren't affecting your crawl budget since they aren't being visited. However, if you build more authority to your website, your crawl budget will grow so crawlers might start visiting those pages again.

#1) use the hreflang tag. This tells Google that the two sites are actually the same site, but meant for different markets (1 = Australia, 2 = default)

#2) There is no reason for these to be separate pages..

• Linux VPS
• Budget Linux VPS
• Standard Linux VPS
• Extreme Linux VPS

Your keyword = "Linux VPS".. nobody searches for your modifiers so there is no point to having multiple urls. I recommend merging them into one page. If not possible, set canonicals from all of them to only 1 version of the URL.

No. Nobody is going to click on that title, your CTR score will be low and you wont rank well even if the content is good.

Instead do something like... Common Acer E55 LCD Problems & Solutions (w/ Diagrams)

Then structure your actual content to have your other keywords as subheadings or used throughout the content.

"My Domain Authority has not moved from 17 in a long time." = there haven't been new links to the site in a long time.

If you want to rank, you need backlinks. Get your content shared and you'll see your rankings climb.

Yandex is pretty much only used in Russia, Kazakhstan and some Eastern European countries. If you don't have customers in those areas, I wouldn't worry about Yandex.

If its possible to avoid a redirect, do.

www.corporatesite.com/product/ -> www.consumersite.com/product/ is better than adding a redirect into the chain.

Did you get an influx of new backlinks? Did you create more pages (are there more indexed pages in GSC)? Did you make any on page optimizations?

There appears to be an update rolling out which usually means increased crawler activity.

Great question, don't have definitive answer.

My guess is that Google would use the final page source (post javascript) since this is what is does when a website adds content via javascript post load. So if you remove the links, they shouldn't be counted.

I'd test this by fetching as google and seeing what it sees as the source.

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Overall, I don't think having double links to the same URLs will hurt your SEO much. Overall consensus is that only the first link will be counted anyways.

I would redirect any pages that have external authority (links from an external site) and leave the rest as 404.

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prams.net%2Fbrevi-ovo-twin

Fix your "lowPrice" and "highPrice" markup (remove € and add priceCurrency)

to be honest, I think it was automatically flagged (same ratings/reviews on multiple urls) and if you can request reconsideration, they'd approve.

I can see the links working in reverse (page=200 links to page=199 via rel="prev" code) but what is the largest number and where did that link come from?

Good news is that Google isn't picking up on those urls so you should be find rankings wise (its a Moz crawler issue) - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.interstellarstore.com/star-trek-memorabilia%3Fpage%3D&start=0

I've always treated it as such and their case study seems to confirm it. You can't sculpt link authority with it, but you can control the crawl budget better.

Agreed with above. You are probably still flagged by Penguin and it will be very hard to get your backlink profile back in order.

You can also try a double 301 redirect (301 redirect to a intermediary domain, then 301 redirect again to the new domain) in order to avoid passing the penalty while keeping your old domain.

I recommend you keep the title long as is and let google cut it based on the keywords searched. Editing those titles to a certain length and keep them making sense isn't scalable.

• long title tag = text gets cut off in serps, not worse for SEO but worse for CTR
• page heading and page title not matching won't hurt your SEO.