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Hi @sammecooper, it is definitely a good idea to optimise your page titles to improve SEO. These can have a great impact on SERP ranking as well as CTR.

Firstly as has been mentioned by others here, it is very important to include your target keyword in the title "Training and Engagement" it is also then good to follow up with a more engaging phrase that will encourage people to click on your page. Something like you have already as a combination of both "Training and Engagement: Providing skills to make the change stick" (don't be scared to use longer titles but keep the URL as short as possible (also including the target keywords)).

It may also be useful to have a read of this post about stop words that are ignored by search engines https://www.semrush.com/blog/seo-stop-words/

Other points to test out for increased CTR (which can lead to better ranking in SERP) is to use emotional SEO power words, emoji and even [brackets] in your title. These have been shown to increase CTR in many cases.

Also worth mentioning this recent update by Google where HTML title tags are being replaced by the H1 of the page for SERP listings https://www.seroundtable.com/semrush-data-titles-google-32004.html

Good luck with your optimisation, it is an ongoing process so don't give up if you don't see immediate results!

@imagesalons yes it does seem as though you have some major issues with this site. I have tried running a GT Metrix test and it can't complete, see here https://gtmetrix.com/?job_error=NExjlvoc this suggests that something is very CPU heavy or causing errors.

As you are on WordPress you could try disabling plugins and testing the site until you find one that is causing the issue. Then remove/replace it.

If you have good hosting support you might want to reach out to them for guidance too.

Keep us posted on your progress.

@LASClients you could try adding the below meta in the pages that you want to noindex. Apparently this will only work on the latest release of Magento.

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"/>

Source: https://community.magento.com/t5/Magento-2-x-Programming/Control-Meta-data-individually-for-Pages/m-p/404671/highlight/true#M9726

@frazashfaq11 it also seems that you are suffering from slow server initial response time. I would suggest looking at that as a priority too, this can often counteract any work you are doing to optimise the speed of your site.

What hosting are you on? Is it shared hosting or a VPN?

@jh_offlimits as you can see here and from your own research, it's unlikely that you'll get a clear answer to this question. As with many SEO related questions, the answer usually starts with "Well it depends..."

It mostly depends on what your reasons are for doing it. Take a look at this article for more info about follow vs nofollow.

Another factor that might be worth considering is if the social links are the only external links on a given page or a site. Adding nofollow to them may not be the best idea...

"Nofollowed links are also part of a natural link profile and a site with no nofollowed links looks odd." source = https://www.searchenginejournal.com/when-to-use-nofollow-on-links/

...you could always link out to somewhere else with a "dofollow" to balance things out.

See this old thread for more thoughts about that.

Also think about the anchor text of those links and how/if that may affect things.

@toofast13 I hope you got an answer to this.

If not, some ideas to find all the old URLs would be to look at the Google Search Console instance for your old domain and see all the pages that were indexed by Google in there.

Another option (although possibly less accurate) would be to do a site: search in Google to again see the pages that Google has indexed for your old domain. You can do this by entering site:website.com into Googles search box (replace website.com with your old domain). There is a useful post about this here.

This may not result in all the URLs but it should give you the important ones that Google knows about.

I hope this helps and may even be of use to somebody who is having the same problem in the future.