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Sound like you want a "Flowerpedia Mexico" and a "Flowerpedia USA" (with different content on each) website that you want to offer in both languages (MX in Eng/Spa & USA in Eng/Spa).
If that's correct, what you have seems fine, as long as you are consistent throughout. Just be sure to set the language + country in your hreflang markup for each.
My guess it's a http(s) and www/nonwww issue. e.g. you have the www version in GSC which contains a sitemap that has non-www urls and you force remove www on the actual web pages (so the non-www pages are indexed, but the www. version of the site you are looking at in GSC isn't)
Make sure all of these are consistent.
Ah, I see now.
Check out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByTS_rzWsn22NXVkMmRwcTBSakk/view?usp=drivesdk
This looks like a prev/next orientation + it contains the actual text "ARTIKEL 9 VON 14".
My best guess would be that google is picking up on that (either naturally or through their data highlighter tool).
Not much unfortunately. Just make sure the website is as secure as possible as hacked pages usually do more damage than bad links.
If you continue to build quality content and links, the effects of the spammy backlinks will continue to diminish (until as some point, you will be considered an authority and negative SEO won't really work any longer). But until then, staying up to date on incoming backlinks and updating the disavow file is your best bet.
General consensus is that it is still usually indexed/ranked but the value is diminished (and they may be going in the direction of completely ignoring it). See this post: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hidden-tab-content-seo-19489.html
Artikel = items
This is a results of there being multiple schema offers (see the example with Dell UltraSharp 30" LCD Monitor) on the page that are marked up. Google reads this and displays the # of offers and their min-max price range (if set) in the serps.
You can post to reddit without using imgur. Instead, post it on your website along with supplementary content, make sure the page loads fast and isn't spammy, and post that to reddit instead.
Imgur is it's own separate entity that people browse through. The main advantage imgur has is that images are "more compatible" with reddit (in terms of plugins that make loading an image easier, people are more likely to click/view because they know its a good experience).
Go to http://analytics.moz.com/pro > the rightmost column = "Insights", click on the one that corresponds > here you get a list of all of Moz's insights.. look for a section called "Keyword opportunities"
I've used http://cuterank.net/ (desktop application) before with success. It uses your own IP so if you need to check lots of keywords/locations, you may need proxies.
Hmm, not that I'm aware of. If anything, Google used to scrape Yelp reviews. Where are you seeing that this is the case?
Google's official recommendation is just to unblock js/css and let it figure it out since it's smart enough now. I personally like to give as many suggestions/clues to follow as possible so that it doesn't get confused.
IMO, the onclick/href hybrid is probably the best for user experience. With proper canonicals set up (so that Google only indexes 1 version and avoids any duplicates), it's also my suggested method for SEO.
My guess is the apostrophe (') in the meta description that is causing the issue. Check out your other pages that don't have the meta description indexed.
What does your robots.txt file contain? (or share the link)
Try removing it, clearing server cache and fetching as google again.
check out https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/learn-more#current-practice
Essentially, you should have the AJAX load "onclick" but have the "href" link to the hardlink for people who don't have JS enabled (and crawlers).
To add some info... if you want infinite scrolling + paginated pages, check out Google's demo.
Are there any good reasons to close a discussion to new comments?
comments going off topic, a topic that can be split into several threads instead of one, low quality comments, hard to find information (poor ux). But overall, I think it would be great to just keep updating a strong thread. Keep building the authority + hit more long tail kws + QDF bump.
what do you think is the optimum qty of unique text before paginating?
I think this would be more of a UX issue as "paginated" pages are treated as part of a series.
Depends on if they have lots of high quality, unique, keyword optimized images that can drive traffic through image search.
Sample image sitemap: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/sitemap_images.xml
There are lots of image sitemap generators available as well (free for smaller sites, not sure about larger sites). I like to use ScreamingFrog (paid) for large websites.
Your website has a spam score of 5 therefor any links coming from your website will have a spam score of 5. There are several links above that red box that also come from your website and have a spam score of 5.
In order to reduce your spam score, you will have to remove backlinks from the sites that Moz says are spammy and/or build more links from high authority websites.
Yes, use 301 instead of 302. 301 would pass any authority (i.e. any backlinks) that the vanity URL gains to the actual page whereas a 302 doesn't.
Add a canonical URL to www.clientdomain.com/xyzpage so that search engines only index 1 version of the page
That should do it!
I've removed many manual penalties by submitting only a disavow file. Google can't really track which links were removed by you or naturally so they can't consider that when deciding on your reconsideration request.
use #2 if search engines can see the content that would be on the other pages. if they can't see it, then use rel=next/prev
If the paginated pages still exist (and can be indexed) but you want to load more products dynamically, without changing the URL, using rel=next/prev would work fine.
"Spanish Language but Google crawls it on English"
I think this is a problem. Google should have both Spanish and English versions crawled and indexed, and then you redirect to their new respective versions.
I'd say redirect english -> english, spanish -> spanish and work to resolve the larger issue.
If it is a trusted website that is relevant to your industry and would be helpful to your visitors, yes. There is still a benefit to reciprocal linking - as long as you don't go wild with it.
Google will recrawl the page much quicker and is more likely to update it's index based on any changes you made to the page (or index it for the first time).
As Ria said, there is no downside.
it will speed up indexation (usually indexed same day) but won't boost your rankings
ehhh. 1) his is dynamically generated and will change frequently 2)
<nav>is a suggestion.. doesn't mean google will follow it</nav>
I'm a believer in subfolder > subdomain
In theory, no. an ecommence store can have en-us and en-uk as hreflangs, which would have the same content but different currency - totally acceptable.
Sounds like you are in the same scenario.
Create new ones then report the old ones as "moved location/no longer in business" (whichever option is available)
then wait and hope things get slowly updated
you cannot noindex only portions of content on a page.
your best bet is to iframe it and noindex the iframe source
Well, you aren't the only one. Shared this post with our PPC guy...
yup, they've been doing that to our clients for a few months now.. very annoying. they even did it for CLIENT who wasn't spending that much. for another client, they called with same thing. for many others, when I login to their accounts, i've noticed the alert at the top right saying "you have been selected for agency support, please click here to schedule a call". I mentioned it to our rep and they said the google agency support team that might contact clients isn't to replace us blah blah blah. shitty practice from google.
I would say this is black hat (totally illegitimate backlink) and might even confuse Google as to your actual business location.
If you want to rank better in the US, I would create a en-us hreflang version of the page & get backlinks from US based websites
When did you set up the /folder/ property? I've used this to get more detailed backlink reports (as the "links to site report" is different when you enter a subfolder). What data are you looking to get?
Could go both ways. If the questions are relevant and well written, it should improve your SEO (and more importantly, conversions). You can search for "ugc seo" to see many analysis and perspectives on the topic.
Is it worth the price? Depends on how much you are paying and the ROI you get from it. I could see this paying off on an ecommerce site.
This seems to be what you are looking for: http://blog.indeed.com/2015/03/05/responding-to-company-reviews-2-examples-from-real-employers/
Excerpt: To begin responding to your company reviews, you’ll first need to claim your Indeed Company Page. Search for your company and select “Business Owner?” on the Company Page. Once you’ve been verified, navigate to the Reviews tab. There, you’ll be able to leave your responses to the reviews people have written.
Sorry, "it won't be considered duplicate" is what i meant to write. You are in the clear!
This is the right answer.
Great way to check is to see if you have multiple versions of that URL indexed, which you don't: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/platform-trolleys-trucks
Hotly debated. Same with image.. does having images on a website improve its rankings?
The answer is yes and no. I wouldn't say there is a DIRECT correlation (i.e. simply having a or <video> object on your page won't increase rankings). However, if you have properly optimized the image/video, then there is addition relevance and context that gets added to the page that would help with rankings.</video>
At an indirect level, visitor would be less likely to bounce back to serps, spend more time on site, have a better user experience and be more likely to link to the website.
It won't be considered unique content as long as the rest of your page is unique (the textual content is what is most important).
The number of pages crawled depends on which plan you have - https://moz.com/products/pricing
You can install something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
There are settings to auto-block people after a certain amount of incorrect logins (or blacklist).
I also recommend changing some Wordpress defaults (like the login/register page) which will help prevent lots of bots.
Haven't heard anything like that before. There are plenty of sites who change more than 20% of a page's content often (news sites, forums, search pages) and aren't penalized.
The only thing you should worry about is if you change more than 20% of the content, Google would recrawl and analyze the text and adjust it's relevance for keyword searches accordingly. So maybe you are getting a lot of traffic from a certain paragraph that you remove when you update the page, your rankings will drop from losing that keyword on the page.
right on. Also be sure to submit the "Change of Address" request in GSC
Hmm, how about you remove the 301s from long domain and set canonicals from shortdomain to longdomain. Eventually, shortdomain will be deindexed (or at least mostly deindexed) and then you can 301 to longdomain.
Other search engines use structured data too and wouldn't know if you use the highlighter tool.
I prefer/recommend using structured data in the HTML code. There are lots of generators that will help you create the code you need.
False... unless the article is close to 200 characters.
It will however help you avoid the supplemental index... so the page may appear in serps, it just won't rank too well.
I have a client that has the same text for products on his site and on amazon. When he changes the title/heading slightly (e.g. adding a 1 word adjective) on Amazon, both pages appear in serps. However if the title/heading is identical, only the website ranks. - just note that Amazon is a powerhouse of SEO so it may be unreasonable to expect the same results but does give some insight into Google's algorithm.
No way - you don't mess around when you are already ranking #1.
Only do that if your rankings tank.
There is no such thing as an SEO SSL certificate. You just need one that is 2048 bit encryption ideally
Having an entire site as https is not a bad thing... in fact it's recommended by Google.
Its up to you to implement it sitewide or only on pages with secure information being exchanged (checkout, login)
There is a small boost to SEO from https urls but there also might be a small dip in rankings from switching over (and using 301 redirects). In addition, if you mess up the URL transfer, you could hurt yourself so be sure to do a proper site move.