Hi there

If you are trying to rank a certain location or country, you can look into hreflang attributes and language tags for your site.

You can also geo-target specific URL variations in Google Search Console. You can read more about International SEO here, as well as an International SEO Checklist.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I like to include brand or site names from a branding perspective, it just looks more authoritative to me and it helps the user remember who they are reading. It also helps from a branded search perspective.

Let me know if this helps or if you have questions beyond. Good luck!
Patrick

Hi there

It's crawling for me. Here are a list of reasons why ScreamingFrog won't crawl your site:

• The site is blocked by robots.txt. A count of pages blocked by robots.txt is shown in the crawl overview pane on top right hand site of the user interface. You can configure the SEO Spider to ignore robots.txt by going to the “Basic” tab under Configuration->Spider.
• The site behaves differently depending on User Agent. Try changing the User Agent under Configuration->User Agent.
• The site requires JavaScript. Try looking at the site in your browser with JavaScript disabled.
• The site requires Cookies. Can you view the site with cookies disabled in your browser? Licenced users can enable cookies by going to Configuration->Spider and ticking “Allow Cookies” in the “Advanced” tab.
• The ‘nofollow’ attribute is present on links not being crawled. There is an option in Configuration->Spider under the “Basic” tab to follow ‘nofollow’ links.
• The page has a page level ‘nofollow’ attribute. The could be set by either a meta robots tag or an X-Robots-Tag in the HTTP header. These can be seen in the “Directives” tab in the “Nofollow” filter.
• The website is using framesets. The SEO Spider does not crawl the frame src attribute.
• The Content-Type header did not indicate the page is html. This is shown in the Content column and should be either text/html or application/xhtml+xml.

Run through your settings and check and see if you may have turned something on inadvertently that you didn't mean to. One thing you can try, is goto Configuration > Spider and then goto the last option Ignore robots.txt. Click the checkbox and try running it again.

It could just be a slow connection on your end. Give it a few minutes and see if any of the above suggestions work.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

If you configured this properly, I wouldn't worry about this at all.

Check your internal links and sitemap to make sure that your URLs listed as a reflection of this www. version.

Beyond that, you're all good, no need to block non www.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

Rand actually just gave some insight to this in another Q+A thread; I recommend reading it!

Hope this helps - good luck!

Hi there

I recently answered a question in a similar question in the Q+A that references resources that can help you help Google understand these parameters and categorize them. You can read that here.

That being said, blocking these parameters in your robots.txt will not affect your rankings, especially if those parameter or query strings are properly canonicalized to the proper product page.

That being said, I would make sure you understand the resources above and the options, as you understand your users and website better than anyone - test on a few pages to see what happens and go from there.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there

I guess my main question is why two sites if you're trying to rank for the same set of keywords? Has he thought about combining? Moz has a great post on the potential benefit of combining two websites, but that's something you'll need to heavily research and chat with your client about. Here's that post.

If nothing else, more real estate sounds good to me so I would do option 1. Don't forget there are awesome Schema opportunities such as sameAs that can help you tie your properties together and help search engines understand your web presence. I would also make sure that you look into cross domain tracking so your client has a better understanding of his performance and eCommerce.

Hope this helps - good luck!

Hi there

If there is more than 1 redirect, I would look into cutting that down as much as possible to 1. Google and other search engines will only follow redirects to a certain point, and if it follows more than 2 or 3, you could be in trouble. So make sure redirects are 1 to 1.

Beyond that, I focus on the following:

• Review Google's resource on properly moving a site
• Update your internal links to reflect new URL structure
• Update your sitemap and submit to Google / Bing

Let me know if this helps answer your question or if you've completed this already! Good luck!
Patrick