Hi there

This is completely dependent on if Google or other search engines have crawled your website and noticed the changes yet. It takes time and it can be a bit of a wait. I would pay attention to Search Console to see if Google noticed the changes in Structured Data Markup. But yeah, it's a waiting game, be patient and keep checking back! You're doing yourself a favor just by having it on the page.

Best of luck!
Patrick

Hi there

According to this resource you can have multiple sitemaps set up for specific folders and it won't confuse the search engines, so long as they are properly linked to from the main sitemap.

If you don't want to include different sitemaps for different subfolders, you don't have to. Just make sure URLs are probably listed in the main XML sitemap and it is properly uploaded to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Hope this helps!

^ VERY nice, Dirk!

Hi LSlversen

I like your thinking here - to me it sounds like what your users are searching and what they are getting aren't meeting expectations. I would look into that and make sure you are on the right path with what kind content / expectations you are setting.

Here's a bit of reference to what LSlversen is chatting about. Check it out. I would take a step back, ask some hard questions, and prioritize on how you want to attack issues. You'll be better off - I highly doubt there are click bots happening.

Hope this helps a bit more!

Hi there

I would keep both if you serve two separate regions - that way you can build content and have sites directed to that target audience.

I would take a look at hreflang tags for Google and language tags for Bing. You are also able to country target for both Google and Bing Webmaster Tools if you have separate profiles set up for your sites (which you should!) You should also look into local citations for these websites - I like Whitespark, and it works for both Australia and New Zealand.

Another couple resources for your to check out:
International SEO (Moz)
The International SEO Checklist (Moz)
5 Dos and Don'ts of International SEO (Moz)

There is a lot of information here but it will definitely help you. If you have two regions that you do business for and have unique value to add to each, then I suggest keeping both variations and making a targeted marketing strategy for both - this will help you rather than redirecting your New Zealand audience to an Australian site where it's targeted to Austrailians.

That's my two cents - I hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I would make sure you take a look through this migration guide from Moz as it has steps to ensure your site is properly migrated.

From there, I would check the following:
Sitemap
Internal Links
Canonical Tags Change of Address Tool (if necessary)

The first three links above could potentially be utilizing old URL structures, so you want to make sure that you change those and they are up to date. The last is for if you changed your domain at all.

Your analytics tag should not be the reason that your new URLs are not appearing in search.

After these steps, I would then go through a backlink audit and make sure that you update any quality backlinks or listings and remove and/or disavow any links that you find to be spammy or irrelevant to your website.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi again

If you want to focus more on the Australian site and the NZ site isn't where you want to place efforts, then you can redirect it - but I would URL map it properly so that pages on the NZ site find their corresponding pages on the AUS site.

But that is ultimately up to you to decide - if the return is not there and you want to focus on one site, then redirect and make sure all pages find their new home. I would also update relevant citations and back links.

I would personally optimize both and put efforts in if you think potential is there - it's just a better user experience - especially for different regions, local search, and audiences.

Hope this helps!

Hi there

Yes, based on the location and their IP, you can redirect users to the proper webpage they are supposed to see.

I will reference a great answer from Dirk about this that you can read here. I learned a lot from this, as my answer in the thread is obviously wrong.

Another source Dirk references is this blog post from Matt Cutts - check it out.

Hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi there

Have you done any link building in the past? Or have you had any SEO companies do work for you?

With the 2 sites that are linking to the other sites, are there footer links or site-wide links of any kind?

I would run through a backlink audit and look into removing any potentially spammy backlinks or disavowing.

If you feel your site has been hacked, you can look into this resource from Google about what you can do to remedy the situation.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

Google has resources on this - check out Tracking Multiple Domains - Web Tracking (ga.js).

Also, Moz has a great resource called How to Quickly (and Correctly) Track Google Analytics Across Multiple Domains.

Hope these help! Good luck!

Hi there

This doesn't appear to be your sitemap. Your sitemap lives at:

https://www.compleetverkleed.nl/sitemap_index.xml

However, this works as well:

https://www.compleetverkleed.nl/sitemap_index.xml/

There should not be a trailing at the end of this URL. This needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

I would also make sure that your non www. sitemap redirects to https://www.compleetverkleed.nl/sitemap_index.xml.

This should clear up your problem. Make sure this URL reflects in your Google and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Let me know if this helps - good luck!

Hi there

What I would do is take advantage of a backlink audit and assess which links are toxic enough for removal or disavow.

I would not redirect spamming backlinks to your homepage - try to remove these and if you hear nothing back, disavow them.

The way I assess spammy links:

• Does this link help my website?

• Is this link relevant to my website?

• Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it?

• Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website?

• If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy?

• Are the links from directory templates? (example)

• Inspect URLs with blatant spam words

• Free

• Porn

• XXX

• Submit

• Directory

• Paid

• Links

• URL

• Sex

• etc.

• Check for multiple domains and URLs on the same IPs

• This can usually show link farms or spam

Pull your backlinks from a few different sources like OSE, Majestic, Ahrefs, and most importantly, Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools), as different tools pull different data.

If you see spammy links, redirecting will potentially hurt your ranking. Be safe and take the proper steps listed above.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi D.R.

To answer question 3, I just realized I sent you Classic GA setup - my apologies. Here is more information on how to set these up:
Cross Domain Tracking - Web Tracking (analytics.js)
Set up cross domain tracking Cross Domain Tracking (Google Tag Manager)

To answer your questions:
1.) Yes, you can do that. Or you can break it down by hostname as well in your GA data if you don't want to create multiple views.

2.) I would keep it under the same property. It makes it easier to consolidate your data and you're not clicking back and forth.

Hope this helps! Good luck!