Hello there,

What do you mean your backlinks are not indexing? If you mean you wanted to see your backlinks I would suggest using Moz link explorer and Ahref site explorer.

If you mean some of your backlinks that isn't being indexed by Google, that's nothing much you can do than wait for it to be indexed. Unless you're able to contact the webmaster which he can request for an index in his search console.

Of course if your backlinks have other backlinks it will increase the chance of being indexed as well, finally, I do not recommend using any link indexing tools because they're simply not useful at all, such as linklicious.

And no your ranking will not drop because of the backlinks not being index, unless you mean you lost the backlinks, or the backlinks being de-index, which they have to be indexed at the first place.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

You can use .htaccess URL rewrite to remove all the .html from your URL, here's the rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Once you added this rules you should also fix all your internal links make sure they link to the URL without .html

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

So Jon have you found the solution to the problem? If yes maybe you can mark this as answered? Thnks

Hello there,

Actually if used correctly, content syndication can be an effective way to help your site ranking, I'm assuming you have a main blog that you want to syndicate the content on it's to other blogs with different groups of visitors, so ultimately they might visit your main blog from that syndicated blog post.

There are some things you can do on syndicated posts such as canonical, noindex, etc. You can read on this 2 post which explains each method in details:

https://searchengineland.com/syndicated-content-189097

https://neilpatel.com/blog/the-step-by-step-guide-to-syndicating-content-without-screwing-up-your-seo/

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Depends on the image, I always have an text and dark layer on my image when I use it as a background, if you use it within post it's really up to you which one to use. But make sure you also have the alt text set for the image. Personally, I would just make sure it is good for the user experience.

Hope this helps.

Hmm that could be, but you should confirm with AIO and WPML support

Hello there,

I am using Yoast and there's the option to have translated version of metas with Yoast, I have never use AIO, but I did find this document from WPML maybe you can check it out and see if it answered your question?

https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Both of this error can be caused by either a corrupted file, which you can download a new one from WordPress and see if this fix the problem.

If not I would suggest you start by turning off all your plugin one by one and see if there's some plugin that caused the conflict.

Hope this helps.

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

If you're talking about the name of image files such as jpg and png where hyphens are used as space (just like you did on page url), there's really no limit given by Google, so my advice would be not to over optimize those image files by stuffing your keywords in it (ie, keyword1-keyword2-keyword3-keyword4.jpg), just make it natural (puppy-food.jpg) instead.

As for Page Titles like Gaston suggested to use it as a separator (personally I prefer | or : ), and again there's no actual limit given by Google, but the key here is to make sure these are optimized for your visitor then only Google. Just make sure they're natural then you should be fine.

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

I would always check with more than my own browser to make sure it wasn’t only happen for myself. You can try to use the curl tools from keycdn, or ultimately you can also check with google itself by using the “fetch with google” tool in your Search Console.

If the problem presist you should check if there is any script on your site could potentially cause the issue.

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Actually if used correctly, content syndication can be an effective way to help your site ranking, I'm assuming you have a main blog that you want to syndicate the content on it's to other blogs with different groups of visitors, so ultimately they might visit your main blog from that syndicated blog post.

There are some things you can do on syndicated posts such as canonical, noindex, etc. You can read on this 2 post which explains each method in details:

https://searchengineland.com/syndicated-content-189097

https://neilpatel.com/blog/the-step-by-step-guide-to-syndicating-content-without-screwing-up-your-seo/

Hope this helps
Joseph Yap

Hello Brad,

I'm assuming the image used to be on the same domain you're now on, and it leads them to your website 404 page, in that case, I would upload another relevant image with the same filename to my site and do a 301 redirect.

If those backlinks point to an image from the other site which is different from your current site, you might want to make sure these backlinks are quality and relevant to your content before making a domain level 301 redirect.

Hope this answered your question.

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello Sharon,

If you just recently change the URL for your whole website, you will experience some up and down in your ranking, but losing 90% from impression sounds like your ranking is dropping significantly from few of your main keywords.

The first thing I would do is to make sure all the 301 redirects are being set up correctly.

You want to make sure http+non-www, http+www, https+www are 301 redirected to https+non-www (your version.)

Also, make sure to set that as your preferred options in Google search console.

I found this answer might help you too: https://moz.com/community/q/checklist-for-moving-a-site-from-non-www-to-www

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hey Dan,

though keyword in URL can be helpful it wasn't that much of a factor in ranking. If your page has relevant content to the keywords Google will be able to tell. Alternatively, since you're using Wordpress, will "tag" be another solution?

Regards,
Joseph Yap

Hello there,

Both of this error can be caused by either a corrupted file, which you can download a new one from WordPress and see if this fix the problem.

If not I would suggest you start by turning off all your plugin one by one and see if there's some plugin that caused the conflict.

Hope this helps.

Joseph Yap

I'm not quite sure if I'm correct since I'm not in the gaming industry, but I don't think there would be many benefits in terms of SEO for having provider name in URL. There are a few reasons that I wouldn't add provider name in URL:

• Your URL will be much longer, Moz suggests to keep it within 75 words, including https://www.
• I'm guessing the more important keyword here is the game name, by having publisher name you're moving your important keyword further from the root domain
• It cost more time and effort to manage and create content for each provider page/content
• Provider name is a branded keyword, and it would be hard for you to outrank them in their brand name
• doesn't give much SEO value

When I search for "Battlefield 1", almost all the top results have "Battlefield 1" close to their root domain.
https://www.windowscentral.com/battlefield-1-2018
https://www.gamespot.com/battlefield-1/
https://www.g2a.com/en/battlefield-1-origin-key-global-i10000016618004
https://www.origin.com/sgp/en-us/store/battlefield/battlefield-1#store-page-section-criticalacclaim

I think at the end it depends on what keyword you're trying to rank for and does having the publisher name helps.

Hello there,

Simply delete the page and redirect to your homepage shouldn't harm your site, but here is what I'll do:

If these pages are having quality backlinks pointing to it, I would recommend rewriting a relevant article in a better quality, especially if these pages are having traffic or ranking for some keyword that is relevant to your website.

Hope this answered your question.

• Joseph Yap

Hello Sandra,

You will want to make sure that Google is indexing your page for all the locations, you can do that by "Fetch as Google" from search console as well as including those dynamically generated pages into your sitemap.xml.

Since your website can have as many pages as it is dynamically generated I would also create a sitemap for users, a great example would be Airbnb sitemap or Booking.com sitemap (These are sitemap for users, but Google crawl them too.)

You can also see their sitemap.xml specify in robots.txt

https://www.booking.com/robots.txt

https://www.airbnb.com/robots.txt

Here's some read that I think should be useful for you:

https://moz.com/blog/3-seo-problems-on-listings-sites

https://thecontentworks.uk/dynamic-pages-seo-friendly/

Hope this helps,

Joseph Yap

Hey there,

I think the best thing you could do now is to have a strategy to ask for a review from your existing clients

and to be honest anonymous review doesn't carry much credibility either.

Hello there,

I am using Yoast and there's the option to have translated version of metas with Yoast, I have never use AIO, but I did find this document from WPML maybe you can check it out and see if it answered your question?

https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/

Regards,
Joseph Yap