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Your question is about 'in content' and the answer from Nathan is (I think) about the meta-title....

Can you give an example of a page you used this on?

Hi G,

Yes. domain.com/page1 and domain.com/page1**/ **are two different pages in the eyes of Google. But the canonical should fix this issue.... i don't know why SEMrush is flagging them. Maybe you can contact them and just ask?

For as far as I know, the best solution is to use just one version, and redirect the other one. So all the URL's without a slash, would be redirecting to the url with the slash. In this case, you don't have to change the canonical.

But be aware: this is what works with my sites. I don´t know all the details about your site.

So contact SEMrush first and/ore let somebody take a look at your code.

Hi Alan,

It can take up to several months before your DA or rankings are improving when gaining new links.

Also, there are a lot of links Moz is not showing. Even if the links are our there for 6 months. I think Ahrefs is doing a better job at backlinks. I wonder if you see backlinks with Ahrefs that Moz is not showing...

Hi,

A couple of things you could check to identify the problem.

Did you look at the Page Authority of the pages not showing up in Google? Maybe they are less powerfull than the pages like Las Vegas.

Is your homepage receiving external/internal links with [location] anchortext links?

Maybe your homepage is "too" optimized for a couple of cities?

Hi Andy,

Unfortunately, this is very common. It's also the case with plural and singular keywords. If you search (in Holland, in Dutch) for second hand car, you get a different SERP than when you search for second hand car_s_.

The site that ranks position #1 for the singular search, ranks on position #6 for the plural version. All the sites in the top 5 are sites with second hand cars, so there is no different intent in the search.

I'm afraid that there is not much you can do about it....  Maybe somebody else has a different experience?

Kind regards,

Robert

Hi Meier,

Maybe you use a plugin for schema markup? I see the following Author schema on your blogpost:

on row 492.

I would start by removing this line of code and check the page again with the structured data testing tool: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=en#

I'm pretty shure that this is the reason for the 'penalty'. Had a similar experience ;).

Let me know the outcome!

Kind regards,

Robert

Thank you for your answer Cesare,

I don't want Google to see and rate it as an independent website.... It's just to make a clear seperation between the two services.

The services have differens pricings, different How it works-pages etc. So when you are in the import-zone, and you click on Pricing, you will see a page with the pricingof our import-service....

I'm sorry... struggling a bit to explain it in English.

Looking forward to hear from more people!

Hi everybody,

I have the following question. At the company I work, we deliver several services. We help people buy the right second hand car (technical inspections). But we also have an import-service.

Because those services are so different, I want to split them on our website. So our main website is all about the technical inspections. Then, when you click on import, you go to www.example.com/import. A subpage with it's own homepage en navigation, all about the import service.

It's like you have an extra website on the same domain. Does anyone has experience with this in terms of SEO?

Thank you for your time!

Kind regards,

Robert

With OpenSiteExplorer, you can check all the internal links to a specific URL. Just put in the URL and under Link Source choose the option "Only internal".

Good luck!

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Hi Rob and Sarah,

My first guess is that the websites is answering that specific question/query better than yours. Are those well performing pages significantly different than the pages that don't come up so high?

Ps: keep in mind that Domain Authority is an interpretation of Moz, and not from Google. Also keep in mind that Moz is nog aware of all the backlinks. Even if the links are out there for a year. Moz tries to "only show the most important links to the domain".

Google sees a lot more links to a domain than Moz does.

Hi Meier,

Maybe you use a plugin for schema markup? I see the following Author schema on your blogpost:

on row 492.

I would start by removing this line of code and check the page again with the structured data testing tool: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=en#

I'm pretty shure that this is the reason for the 'penalty'. Had a similar experience ;).

Let me know the outcome!

Kind regards,

Robert

Hi Rob and Sarah,

My first guess is that the websites is answering that specific question/query better than yours. Are those well performing pages significantly different than the pages that don't come up so high?

Ps: keep in mind that Domain Authority is an interpretation of Moz, and not from Google. Also keep in mind that Moz is nog aware of all the backlinks. Even if the links are out there for a year. Moz tries to "only show the most important links to the domain".

Google sees a lot more links to a domain than Moz does.

Hi Andy,

Unfortunately, this is very common. It's also the case with plural and singular keywords. If you search (in Holland, in Dutch) for second hand car, you get a different SERP than when you search for second hand car_s_.

The site that ranks position #1 for the singular search, ranks on position #6 for the plural version. All the sites in the top 5 are sites with second hand cars, so there is no different intent in the search.

I'm afraid that there is not much you can do about it....  Maybe somebody else has a different experience?

Kind regards,

Robert

Hi G,

Yes. domain.com/page1 and domain.com/page1**/ **are two different pages in the eyes of Google. But the canonical should fix this issue.... i don't know why SEMrush is flagging them. Maybe you can contact them and just ask?

For as far as I know, the best solution is to use just one version, and redirect the other one. So all the URL's without a slash, would be redirecting to the url with the slash. In this case, you don't have to change the canonical.

But be aware: this is what works with my sites. I don´t know all the details about your site.

So contact SEMrush first and/ore let somebody take a look at your code.