Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hello,

I am planning on doing a blog on travel bike basic.

I noticed that the google keyword tool gives me things like

How to plan a bike route

Can I bike during pregnancy etc...

In order to compete on that keyword do I need to answer those questions or can I answer different ones and still rank such as :

The tool kit that are recommend.

Whether you should take an insurance or not, if so which one.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Hello,

Is the not provided now available in google search console ?

It seems that it is or is it a totally different thing in the search console ?

Thank you,

I agree being excited and interested about what you write is the ingredient to success.

Thank you for your multiple replies.

Thank you for your reply but my question is :

Will those articles you mention that I should write help boost my pillar pages ?

For example how can an article " hydration in hot vs cold weather" boost "Provence bike tour" or "Normandy bike tour" ?

It isn't related to any of those regions ?

Maybe there is something that I didn't get but I though that to boost pillar pages you need to write about something similar like.

Luxury hotels in Provence or Provencal drinks ?

Thank you,

How do I find blog post ideas for my website blog when there are only very few questions people have.

I am a tour operator operator and the the keywords I target are Provence bike tour, Normandy bike tour , Tuscany bike tour and so on.

I am trying to to find blog ideas to create a topic cluster for those pillar pages.

Any advice on how to find blog ideas that could boost my pillar pages.

Thank you,

I see patience is the key here !

Should I use https://support.google.com/domains/answer/4522141?hl=en to do the redirect and maybe speed it up  or is a redirect file my htaccess ok and won't change anything

Is a domain authority of 25 with a page authority of 18 considered strong (meaning a couple of week to get the page ranked) ? Or Should I be looking at 1 month or more like 2 to 3 months or more you think ?

Does the fact that my entire website was updated slow dow the process also ?

Ok but how about if my title is totally different on the tour operator website. Instead of "Tuscany bike tour" I write something like.

"Cycling through olive groves and vineyards in Tuscany"

Does it change something ?

and does the fact that the tour operator would only copy part of my page change something. They wouldn't copy the reviews or the introduction.

Thank you.

But what about if I am the 1 st one to publish the content online. How can they take over even if they are stronger than me.

Has google though about something ?

I am selling my tours on a platform that resells tours. They are taking the content on mywebsite (the description of each of day of my itinerary) to put on their platform.

Can I have duplicate content issues doing that ?

Thank you,

I did a complete redesign and content change for my website.

I have my new webpages indexed but they still haven't replaced the old ones after 1 month. In search results I see both the old ones and the news ones.

How long of a delay should I expect (approximately) for the old pages to be replaced by the new ones knowing the entire website was changed.

Thank you,

Thank you Jeff for your detailed reply. It is good to hear that google can read in between the line.

So if I understand well, I shouldn't worry. The user intent of China bike tour is the same as Explore China on a bike tour (at least to me). Hopefully it is the same to google

Hello,

To rank on China bike tour. Is it ok to write in the title "Explore china on a bike tour - My company name bike tours"

Or do I need to absolutely "China bike tour" in the title tag ?

Thank you,

My bad I explained incorrectly subdomain.

Ok so redirects are good in my situation. I will just need to be patient because it has indexed the new page but still shows the new and old one in the search results. I imagine it can take a few month for the old address to go away. If I remember well google keeps the old one in its index for 90 days ? Hopefully it replaces it with the new one soon...

Do I need to use the tool or should I let google take care of it over time see that I have 301 redirects ?

I looks like the too your mention is to change from www.abc.com to www.aaa.com but not www.abc/old.com to www.abc/new.com.

Thank you,

It is an entire website (subdomain change) so I guess that is normal ... isn't it ?

Hello,

I have done a redirect and still see in google index my old page after 3 weeks.

My new page is there also

Is it normal that the old page isn't dropped for the index yet ?

Thank you,

Thank you for both of your answers. So from my understanding no need to worry if you have a few bad links, google will ignore those and better work on attracting good links than trying to remove those bad links, correct ?

I just read that a new Penguin might be coming up.

My question is :

Can you rank if you have good content but bad links ?

In other words does the content quality take over the link quality or will google penalize you for the quality of your links even though your content is great and deserves to rank ?

Thank you,

I did the redirects, thank you.

Thank you,

Hello,

I am trying to use data highlighter but my webpage are not indexed yet and google says I can't highlight anything.

However when I go on the structured Data Markup helper it let's me markup...

Why is the and which one should I use.

Thank you,

Hello,

I have built a new website and the subpages web address are new. I haven't made a redirect yet but I am about to do it. How do I continue keeping track of my ranking evolution in moz. Do I need to indicate the new web address ? or once the redirect will be done will moz continue the tracking of my keywords showing the old web address but tracking the new address ?

Thank you,

But isn't it better to do redirects ?

Thank you. I will redirect in the case.

How long do i have to redirect. Is it ok to do the redirect 48 hours after the website is online ?

Hi,

I have new web addresses for my subpages. None if them have external links. Should I do redirects to the new pages or just leave the old pages in 404 and let google crawl and rank the new page. I am asking because my current pages don’t have a good ranking and I am thinking starting with a clean url is better.

Thank you,

Hello,

I upload a new website with new web addresses and my current addresses don't work anymore.

I don't want to do redirects. Should I just remove the old address from google index using their tool or let google do it on its own.

Thank you,

Thank you for your detailed reply. So I can compte with my own routes as long as I answer user intent from my understanding.

Hello,

For the keyword Normandy cycling, it seems according to the result that people are looking for the bike routes.

My question : can i rank indicating my favorite bike routes (personal routes) or doIi need to stick to what is already considered as the best biking routes in Normandy, the tour de Manche, the veloscenic, the velo Francette and so forth ?

Thank you,

Hello,

I am building a new website with a new web address for subpages. The domain name stays the same. I am wondering if I should do redirect to the few pages  that have an outside link going to them. I noticed all my subpage that don't have any external link have an authority of 18.

I only have 1 subpage that has 2 external links and 1 of them has a spam score of 32 and then other one of 1.

My website is about a 100 pages. What should I do for my subpages redirect , not redirect, redirect only the ones that have external links ?

Thank you,

Thank you for the links and detailed reply. Looking at this template do you think it can have iframe issues ?

https://goo.gl/7DhYsv

Hello,

Just wondering if frames are read by google bot and if so how is is different than anything else ?

Good or bad for seo ?

Thank you,

Good to hear that as long as there is someone behind the account that is an influencer. It confirms to me  that a company can be an influencer. Good to hear ! Thank you,

Hello,

Can a twitter, facebook, linkedin or instagram business page be considered an influencer

Or

Does an influencer need to absolutely be a person ?

Thank you,

Thank you for your reply it is good to hear. Concerning the links doesn't google now devaluates the bad links instead of penalising you (meaning you don't need to worry about removing those from your profil do you ?

Cheers,

Thank that confirms my thinking. I had seen that with trip advisor and other websites but wanted to make sure that was ok.

Thank you,

Can someone answer ? Thank you,

Hello,

For example let say I do hiking tour in different regions and all my pages are presented the same way with the highlights, hotels, what is included, the price, the level and the dates. I guess that across my pages the meta description is going to be the same, the only thing that is going to change is the destination.

Is it ok to do it this way ?

I know it isn't recommend to do duplicate but in this type of configuration I have no idea on have to do different meta knowing all the pages present the same things.

Thank you,

Hello,

My company is based is Switzerland with a Swiss address and US number but my client are only in the USA.

I only have links from US websites and no Swiss website.

Can I be penalised by google for that ?

Thank you,

Thank you for your answer. I did use yoast seo with a no index to fix the issue and currently deleting everything in the search console.

Hi Meghan,

I have no manual action on my google dashboard does it mean I shouldn't worry ?

Thank you, I will have a look at the link you sent.

Hello,

I use the divi theme and got pages that were automatically generated with images.

Is google going to penalise me because of those and consider it is thin content ?

Should I remove those ?

Thank you,

Could someone help me with that ? Thank you,

Hello,

I checked my website spam score in link explorer and found out it has got 28 %.

What do you recommend I do ? should I ask for all the links to be removed (even though some of them are no followed)

Is it possible that google has penalised me because of that score and de-ranked me ?

Thank you,

I agree with alt tags but believe google combines that with neural nets.

Thank you,

How does google decide which image show up in the image search section ?

Is is based on the alt tag of the image or is google able to detect what is image is about using neural nets ?

If it is using neural nets are the images you put on your website taken into account to rank a page ?

Let's say I do walking tours in Italy and put a picture of the leaning tower of pisa as a top image while I be penalised because even though the picture is in italy, you don't see anyone walking ?

Thank you,

Thank you for your detailed reply.

It is good to hear that using the same word "bike tour" won't hurt but that if I can put a little of variety it is good also. I agree with you about the fact that I have to be careful of the terms I use between motorcycling and conventional cycling. I am going look into it that and thank you for your answer, this is helpful.

Hello,

I have a page with multiple bike tours on tour and under my image as anchor text linking to the different destination I have written the region + bike tour. Is it ok to write bike tour that many times bike tours or would it be better to write variations of it such as "Bordeaux biking, Strasbourg to Colmar by bike for (Alsace bike tour) or doesn't it matter ?

Thank you,

Hello,

On product pages does the content matter or does the presentation and answering the user intent matter more ? I know for informational query content definitely matters but with rank brain, I am thinking that for pages where your present product content doesn't matter as much ? Am I right ?

Thank you,