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Hi there,

Yes, all data is available in Google Search Console. From Search Console Dashboard go to > Google Index > Index Status > Advanced.

Hope that helps!

Dmytro,

I'm seeing a slight rise in results for some of my clients and no change for others.

Hi there,

I think you might be referring to "noindex" as opposed to "nofollow"? "Nofollow" is used to tell search engines not to follow the links on that page.If you don't see any use of these pages in search results and have duplicate content, consider adding "noindex" tags to these pages.

Hi there,

It's a delusion that 30x redirects can lead to PageRank loss. This has now been confirmed multiple times by Gary Illyes and John Mueller. As long as you properly implement a 301 redirect, there shouldn't be any issues.

Hi Radi,

It's hard to say, but with the new penguin update, there is a chance that certain parts or pages of your site might have been affected by the new penguin as a result of spam signals, but there is still a lot of uncertainty.

Here is what Google said: "Penguin now devalues spam by adjusting ranking based on spam signals, rather than affecting ranking of the whole site."

They said "adjusting ranking" as opposed to penalisation, which looks like your situation.

More about it here: https://moz.com/blog/penguin-4-was-it-worth-the-wait

I hope this helps!

Thanks,

That's an interesting question. To get it out of the way, there is no duplicate content penalty. But, there is a chance that partner website will rank better for a specific piece of content than your own site, but there is no duplicate content penalty.

I would agree with Chris. If you can get your partner website to put a rel=canonical, that would be the best option.

I agree with Mike. You shouldn't really allow bots to try and access wp-admin / captcha pages.

I would suggest adding the following line in your Robots.txt file: Disallow: /wp-admin/

You can also do the same to the captcha page or noindex the page.

Hi,

I don't necessarily agree that too many outbound links can harm your own SEO. In fact, Matt Cutts has tons of outbound links on his blog, so as long as links are relevant from a user perspective there shouldn't be any issues.

Back to the follow/nofollow, if you are linking out to trusted and relevant sources, I don't see any reason to nofollow the links. On the other hand, if you have user generated content, I would nofollow external links, because you won't always know where are they linking out.

Hope this helps!

Dmytro

Hi,

Instead of using "site:domain.com" search to check indexation, I would use Search Console for more accurate information.

Did you verify your new site and submitted the change of address in Search Console?

Thanks,

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Hi,

I don't necessarily agree that too many outbound links can harm your own SEO. In fact, Matt Cutts has tons of outbound links on his blog, so as long as links are relevant from a user perspective there shouldn't be any issues.

Back to the follow/nofollow, if you are linking out to trusted and relevant sources, I don't see any reason to nofollow the links. On the other hand, if you have user generated content, I would nofollow external links, because you won't always know where are they linking out.

Hope this helps!

Dmytro

Hi Edgar,

Open Site Explorer is not always 100% accurate, as well as other platforms (e.g. SEM Rush, Majestic, SimilarWeb and so forth). Furthermore, it does take time for links to appear on Open Site Explorer. I personally see Open Site Explorer as a great comparison/link opportunity tool, which allows you to see rough figures.

You can always use Google Search Console to see links that point to your site.

Thanks,

Hi,

I think keyword density is quite outdated. I've seen many people asking on Quora about optimal keyword density. I think this no longer applies. In fact, Matt Cutts has targeted this question like 5-6 years ago (here is a video), but, I still see a lot of folks trying to stuff their keywords everywhere. Hence, I think this point was missing on the latest WB Friday. However, I totally agree with other points mentioned.

Hi,

Canonical tags are used when there is the same content in different locations of your website. For example, If you have a blog post that is also available in a printable version, you would want to put rel=canonical tag that points to the original piece of content (to tell search engines that you want them to show that original piece and forget about the printable version).

Please read this guide from Moz. It will explain everything you need to about canonicalization.

I hope this helps!

I'm seeing a slight rise in results for some of my clients and no change for others.

Hi,

I think what might be causing the traffic drop is the fact that you have moved your library to a submain as oppose to keeping it under the root domain.

Have a look at this whiteboard Friday. https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

This should give you some heads up.

I wouldn't say that Wix is that bad when it comes to SEO. Yes, there are limitations like no access to source code, robots.txt, little control over sitemap, canonical tags, funny "#!" characters in URLs (due to Ajax technology) etc. The blog part is pretty limited, you can't change meta titles, urls, descriptions, can't put rel=canonicals.

That said, I think Wix got a lot better in the last year or so, in terms of SEO. You can optimise every page of your site, they got better with the website load time, they use schema markup for product pages, etc.

Furthermore, I had few clients with Wix websites, and can say that we've achieved some good SEO results. Of course, if you have a large website that requires some advanced technical operations, I wouldn't recommend Wix. But, for small websites, I think Wix does a decent job.

Hi Shauni,

Have you analysed where those links are coming from? Do they look spammy and unrelated? If so, don't worry, they will be penalised soon. Google may take some time to discover the nature of "link building" methods of your competitors.

Many Thanks,

I can't see content creation on the list (that is what you really want to target) and marketing that content. Obviously, there many many many more aspects to implement on-site and off-site when doing SEO.

With those you have listed I would be careful and wouldn't overuse them.