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Hi guys,

We have the following situation: After an error message in new google search console for a large amount of pages with noindex, nofollow tag, a validation is requested before the problem is fixed. (it's incredibly stupid decision taken before asking the SEO team for advice)

Google starts the validation, crawls 9 URLs and changes the status to "Failed". All other URLs are still in "pending" status. The problem has been fixed for more than 10 days, but apparently Google doesn't crawl the pages and none of the URLs is back in the index. We tried pinging several pages and html sitemaps, but there is no result.

Do you think we should request for re-validation or wait more time? It there something more we could do to speed up the process?

Hi guys, I'm having a weird problem:

A new multilingual site was launched about 2 months ago. It has correct hreflang tags and Geo targetting in GSC for every language version.

We redirected some relevant pages (with good PA) from another website of our client's. It turned out that the pages were not ranking in the correct country markets (for example, the en-gb page ranking in the USA). The pages from our site seem to have the same problem.

Do you think they inherited it due to the redirects? Is it possible that Google will sort things out over some time, given the fact that the new pages have correct hreflangs?

Is there stuff we could do to help ranking in the correct country markets?

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your reply.

I cannot check historical data for the DA for my competitors and since I am not keeping track of them, I cannot tell if they've dropped or not.

I was wondering if someone from the SEOmoz core team can enlighten us about an algorithm change..

Hi SEOmoz gurus,

The last 2 months I am seeing a drop in the Domain authority for some of my clients.

• Some of them are old sites.
• Some are new (less than 6 months old)

For the old sites I thought the reason for the drop might be caused by discounting the value of low quality backlinks.

But this cannot be the case for the new sites - they have high quality backlinks from newspapers and I can't make any sense of the drop.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

Might this be caused by a change in SEOmoz algorithm?

Thanks!

Thanks Davinia and Peter,

That's what I intend to do.

I was considering adding rel=canonical, but then, as I wrote the question here, it occurred to me there's a better solution. Thanks for making the choice easier.

Hi SEO pros,

I am working on a website competing on the keyword "USA maps" and would appreciate your advice and comments on the issue below.

The site has one major page for USA maps and like 5-6 smaller pages under different categories, e.g. US travel maps (under Travel Maps category), US travel guides (under Travel Guides), US atlases (under Atlases), etc.

The smaller pages do not rank in search results and are not optimized well for any keyword.

Here are my questions:

#1. Do you think that if I add rel=canonical to the main USA maps page from all small pages that will help get higher ranking of the main page?

#2 Or should I better try to optimize these small pages for the keywords they target (e.g. "US travel maps") and try to send link juice to the main page from text link within the content?

Thank you,