I have been worked on multilingual website Spanish/English for a long time ago. So I will strongly to create the sitemaps for each language and location, upload them to GSC and Bing, remember to check the canonical tags (if you can add schemas even better) also, is very important to keep in mind optimize titles and meta-tags (in some cases can create some issues) to make it easier for the USERS to recognize each version Title Main Keyword - US
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RE: International targeting, translation, URL indexing confusion
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RE: Ogranization Schema/Microformat for a content/brand website | Travel
Implement schemas certainly can help you to gain some visibility but there are many factors to keep in mind if you go to the site https://schema.org/ you will notice that there tons of options. So not all the schemas available are supported by Google. In Fact, in your case, you should focus on schemas supported by Google, Facebook, Pinterest etc.
Here you can find more information about the schemas supported by Google and Facebook
- https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-content
- https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1175004275966513
So if you are working on a travel agency these are some schemas available for your content
- Local Business
- Articles
- Reviews
Also, there are schemas for the business info such as
- logo
- contact info
- location
- social profiles
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RE: International targeting, translation, URL indexing confusion
As I see you are using the Google Translate API, so in that case, keep in mind the on-page for every single language
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RE: Kind of duplicate categories and custom taxonomy. Necessary, but bad for SEO?
To help you understand taxonomy systems, first let me explain the
difference between categories, subcategories, and tags. Categories are
used to create large groups within your site. They bundle content that
has a similar high-level topic. Products or blog posts on your site
should fall into a category (a shop category or a blog category).
Because categories are hierarchical they can have subcategories.
Sub-categories fall into at least one category. They bundle a smaller
group of products into a category. Subcategories can have
subcategories too, which bundle an even smaller group, and so on.
By creating categories and subcategories you’ll create a treelike
structure.Tags on the other hand just group content on certain topics together.
Tags are not hierarchical. You can see them as an index of your site.
They’ll not necessarily fall into a category. They can apply to
products, but to other site content as well.You can have both a hierarchical and a non-hierarchical taxonomy
system for your website. Ideally, these taxonomy systems are much
alike. For example, you could have a blog on an eCommerce site. In
this case, you’d probably write a lot on topics related to your products.
Maybe about events where you use them, or what to use them for,
how to use them best, comparisons between different products etc.
Therefore, it makes sense that your tags will partly overlap with the
product categories and subcategories of your shop. This is ok. Because
in the end, you’d like to rank with those posts to draw people to the
products you sell. And, if you group products, whether that’s in
categories or tags, it’s easier to make them rank.Category archives are landing pages
Your category archives are more important than individual pages and
posts. Those archives should be the first result in the search engines.
That means those archives are your most important landing pages.
Thus, they should also provide the best user experience. The more
likely your individual pages are to expire, the more this is true. In a
shop, your products might change, making your categories more
important to optimize. Otherwise, you’d be optimizing pages that
are going to be gone a few weeks/months later.Categories prevent individual pages from competing
If you sell boxers and you optimize every product page, all those
pages will compete for the term ‘boxers’. You should optimize them
for their specific brand and model, and link them all to the ‘boxers’
category page. That way the category page can rank for ‘boxer’, while
the product page can rank for more specific terms. This way, the
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RE: Subdomain 403 error
Which tool are you using is this a custom tool or commercial tool such as Screamingfrog?
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RE: Kind of duplicate categories and custom taxonomy. Necessary, but bad for SEO?
In your case, if you have taxonomies and categories competing for the same keyword is pretty easy, select one them and optimize them.
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RE: Kind of duplicate categories and custom taxonomy. Necessary, but bad for SEO?
Please read this articles
- https://zyppy.com/site-architecture-seo/
- https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2008/10/importance-of-link-architecture.html
- https://yoast.com/site-structure-the-ultimate-guide/
- https://doyouevenblog.com/seo-category-pages/
Let use a simple search operator --> sacwellness.com "ADHD counseling"
Let's take your own keywords as examples
ADHD counseling, Anxiety therapy, and Career counselingLet use a simple search operator
sacwellness.com "ADHD counseling"And these are the results according to Google ( Please check how bad are these pages 7 of 10 have errors on the title ) So I'm not talking about complex error related to taxonomies or indexability
- https://sacwellness.com/category/adhd-counseling/
- https://sacwellness.com/adhd-counseling/top-ten-fidget-toys/
- https://sacwellness.com/tag/adhd/
- https://sacwellness.com/listing-category/child-counseling/
- https://sacwellness.com/category/suicide/
**Let's take one of the results, check this page, the meta tags have no relation to the content inside the page. The title, description, and content inside. This is how Google actually see your site **
_PTSD and Trauma page%% - SacWellness.com ---> Title _
https://sacwellness.com/category/ptsd-and-trauma/ ----> URL
Aug 2, 2018 - write a guest blog for our site! We will feature it on our front page for a week or two and include it in our social media advertising. footer.Let's use another simple search operator
site://sacwellness.comAnd according to google your most relevant pages are home, blog, and contact. I mean we are talking about a directory. Even worst just take some of your keywords "ADHD counseling" and look for the same category on any other directory
How do you expect rank a page for this keyword **"ADHD counseling" **if even the most basic aspects such as titles and description are wrong? How do you expect that Google recognizes them?
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RE: Iframe
Frames can, still in 2018, also cause search engines major problems.
For instance, a search engine may only deliver the content frame when accessed through deep links in the SERPs (search engine results pages) – thus rendering your well-thought-out navigation to other pages redundant. I have seen many sites appear in Google complete with a missing navigation system on the page.
If you are serious about organic search engine optimization, forget about using, or optimizing frames. Google is not really designed to prioritize such URLs that embed content in an iframe from another page. Google prefers (in general) to present the source URL if it can.
If you control both pages, then you may be able to use a Link Rel Canonical on the source page that is pulled into the Iframe to point to the page that contains the Iframe. Canonical link elements are only a hint to Google, though, and if users prefer the original, in my experience Google can, in time, opt to present the original source page in SERPS, despite what Google is directed to do in any canonical link element.
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RE: Migration to a new domain
Let's understand your case
- It seems the current domain has some google penalty - Are you sure about it? Are you sure that is not a case of a backlink devaluation or site devaluation? or even an algorithm update? this point is very important because the steps to follow are completely different. So the first thing that you need to do is make an in deep research of your backlink profile and I'm not talking about a simple audit quick and bullshit audit. I'm talking to research your backlinks and the backlinks pointing to your backlinks ( Using every tool that you have available in my case I use Moz, Aherfs Majestic and Search Console)
- The client wants to rebrand and already has a domain with a new brand name. You need to make it clear to the client all the risks involved, the first one and most important is time involved to recover the traffic. You will see a lot of articles out there about it of how to do it in the right way. But most of them are complete bulls...t. At the end of the day is just a simple database (a huge database of course). So you need to keep in mind when you migrate a website from the Google perspective is a new thread on its database so at the beginning you will notice a low level of indexations (that is a completely normal process no matter what you saw or read on any post or article) and of course a low-level traffic
The best way to deal with the new domain is this one at least base on my experience,
- Make it gradually that means to divide the content into small pieces and start to move it.
- Build some new backlinks (even before the migration) to this new domain and also backlinks to your backlinks
- Also, add new content or update the old one
- Invest I on social signal to the new domain / new content
Hope these comments help you with your project
Regards
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RE: Seo for my medium.com site
So you have a website www.guideyourhealth.org and also you have a blog on medium Medium. So the first question that comes to my mind is
- Why do you want backlinks to your medium blog? I mean is this blog part of your funnel? or part of your content promotion strategy?