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I'm working on a site that was heavily impacted by the September core update.

You can see in the attached image the overall downturn in organic in 2019 with a larger hit in September bringing Google Organic traffic down around 50%.

There are many concerning incoming links from 50-100 obviously spammy porn-related websites to just plain old unnatural links. There was no effort to purchase any links so it's unclear how these are created.

There are also 1,000s of incoming external links (most without no-follow and similar/same anchor text) from yellowpages.com. I'm trying to get this fixed with them and have added it to the disavow in the meantime.

I'm focusing on internal links as well with a more specific question: If I have a sitewide header on a blog located at blog.domain.com that has links to various sections on domain.com without no-follow tags, is this a possible source of the traffic drops and algorithm impact? The header with these links is on every page of the blog on the previously mentioned subdomain.

**More generally, any advice as to how to turn this around? **

The website is in the travel vertical.

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I have a client with a blog setup on their domain (example: blog.clientwebsite.com) and even though it loads at that subdomain it's actually a Wordpress-hosted blog. If I attempt to add a plugin like Yoast SEO, I get the attached error message. Their technical team says this is a brick wall for them and they don't want to change how the blog is hosted.

So my question is... on a subdomain blog like this... if I can't control what is in the sitemap with a plugin and can't manually add a sitemap because the content is being pulled from a Wordpress-hosted install, what can I do to control what is in the index?

I can't add an SEO plugin...

I can't add a custom sitemap...

I can't add a robots.txt file...

The blog is setup with domain mapping so the content isn't actually there. What can I do to avoid tags, categories, author pages, archive pages and other useless content ending up in the search engines?

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I've got a blog I'm working on that isn't self-hosted. I've attached a screenshot of the message I get if I try to install any plugins. I really want to block archive, author, tag, category, etc pages but I can't seem to find a way since there's no server for me to block via robots.txt or .htaccess and I can't actually install these plugins which would give me the ability to do it.

Any suggestions?

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By the way, thanks for the help on this!

You mean Behavior > Site Content > All Pages?

I tried removing the filter (there was one under Admin > Account > All Filters and one under Admin > View > All Filters) they said Add Hostname to Request URI. But the issue is still occurring. I don't see anything that says Full Page URL in the filters sections. All of the other filters are 'exclude' or 'include'. Am I missing something here or is this possibly another setting?

Here is an image with an arrow pointing to what I'm talking about. When you click the button that the arrow is pointing to, the Analytics external link popup opens up and that's where I have a broken link every time.

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On one of my websites, if I visit the Behavior > Site Content section of Anayltics any link I try to open is broken. Google Analytics is appending the domain before every URL causing it to open in a popup but as a broken link.

Example:

Trying to click a link to a page on the website at this URL:

http://www.thisisanexample.com/test.html

But in the Analytics popup browser this is what it tries to load:

www.thisisanexample.comhttp://www.thisisanexample.com/test.html

So I can't preview any of the content within Google Analytics.

I feel like this is a settings issue somewhere...

Any ideas?

Here is the javascript I am using to send users to the mobile version of my website:

This is causing major issues in Bing and Yahoo as the mobile website is the only thing ranking. I'd love any help dissecting this issue. Thanks in advance.

Thank you!

Recently changed URLs on a website to remove dynamic parameters. We 301'd the old dynamic links (canonical version) to the cleaner parameter-free URLs. We then updated the canonical tags to reflect these changes. All pages dropped at least a few ranking positions and now Moz shows both the new page ranking slightly lower in results pages and the old page still in the index. I feel like I'm splitting value between the two page versions until the old one disappears... is there a way to consolidate this quickly?

This is absolutely in line with my experience.