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very interesting, I cannot replicate it unfortunally:
As I cannot see this, I cannot help you further.
@Colin12 just a H1 will not make your page rank without additional content.
I love doing everything as it should. so: just add a correct H1 to the page.
Yes that COULD be legit.
Some Shopify Themes are very very bad. A clean theme that only provides the functions that are necessary for this webshop can help. One could also use various techniques with the javascript, the tag manager, and lazy loading to achieve this.
It is also possible to use techniques to fool Google Pagespeed tester. So test the site with different tools and or ask a specialist if you do not trust the results. You can also check in Analytics what the average speed of clients is at the moment compared to previous.
you could always search in Google and compare the ranking of the page. If the same url's get there in the same order = no difference. If there is a difference you could consider using some variation on your site.
Most easy: use what you consider to be right en build great content. Google will find this very small difference out.
@Colin12 Do not know where you get errors? Search console?
A H1 is a nice best practice, but it will not save you on pages with limited content.
Consider to take away all headings in the boiler plate content (After "Stay In Touch")
@JCN-SBWD cool! (from a SEO perspective) I would speculate that Google considers this related keywords to the keywords optimized for, and thus ranks for it.
Other option would be that you have incoming links with that keyword. I looked and did not see much of that kind.
You could take the "copyright" keyword off the page for a while and see if it changes. But that would take some time as Google will consider your page relevant to it for at least a while 
(Sorry)
The latest insights are that Google will discard most sidewide links. The time of Google delivering penalties for this kind of behavior is behind us.
So unless you have terrible rankings and or warnings in Search console let it be.
Best practice for the future is to limit the amount of sidewide links to the necessary ones. Also it looks a bit spammy for the clients. "design by Company" is enough, if at all.
I would only buy it in order to actually rank with that specific content on Wikipedia or the others. So: Just as you could rank with an article on linkedin that is pickedup by Google.
This would only be helpful and sustain longer period of time if it actually is great content, and they do have a solid reason to link to you. And the visitors have a solid reason to want to know more. The link to your website will NOT have link value to your website as far as google is concerned. They are nofollow links.
A company could also decide to get a wikipedia page in order to educate. To give an in dept article about something relevant that you have a benefit from it's adoption. Like bluetooth, wifi 6, gluten free beer.
You would only do it in order to get the few clicks on that link that is on that page or follow up searches..
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company is a great page that could result in actual traffic.
It could also be just a link that should be relative, but is not.
you can use screaming frog SEO spider to find the page that is linked from.
In the end google will look at your website from the outside. So it is very cool that Yoast is helping you out writing SEO killer content, eventually you will have to asses the whole page.
Widgets may not be recognized by Yoast because it audit's the body text of the page.
Find a tool (like moz) to asses the whole page.
Well, testing is the best way.
But if you want your video to show up in the serps (which almost never happens anymore) you can limit yourself to 55 characters. (the lenght of the title tag). If you focus on Bing go for 45.
But any other motivation based on your own platform is OK as wel.
If you consider the amount of characters that is read on twitter (the first 45) you could try to limit it to that (be concrete for your customers)
Consider connecting analytics to google spreadsheets. This way you can create your own dashboards and still pull in the annotations you want for your websites.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/google-analytics-spreadsheet-add-on
@Dirk,
If you build or had anything to do with the website you should know that it is OK. Making those links nofollow is not in the best interest of the customer. If you are not ready to share some linklove with your customers, you are not doing it right.
What you are doing should be fine i think.
Work around:
Did you set a proper title tag and metadescription? Using a metadescription with the requested keyword in it prevents google from using the content (most of the times)
Have some international links can always help you out for your authority. Creating some englisch content/resources might be a good idea in order to attrackt links.
Creating your own profile page in englisch is a great place to start. This way your international buddy's can figure out what you are about, and you can link to it with a good reason.
Googlebot does not like to be redirected.
Please check your language settings:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
https://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo
https://moz.com/community/q/can-multiple-hreflang-tags-point-to-one-url-international-seo-question
you could introduce breadcrumbs. It will make the URL nicer in the search results of google without changing the URL!
Using Noindex is a solution to prevent any problems,
but what about linking to your original (law) source? The page could be indexed and as long as you have enough good quality content on your website you should not have any trouble i think.
CleverPHD makes a good point about writing some text of your own!
Are you sure that you have the right property selected in Google Search Console?
there is a difference between www and non www. and http and https?
TEST! this, and share your results!
maby you can try to use the function in webmastertools for the migration of domains. It seems the have updated it to fix this kind of issue https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en
As you are in the HTACCES file. you can 301 redirect the supicious page to your home..
I have done a test of my own.
I used a very important page on my website.
The page has not been changed for more than 2 months.
The page has a link from the main menu with the money keyword "zoekmachine marketing"
I used the blogpart of my website to add 5 extra links like this: https://www.stramark.nl/zoekmachine-marketing/#4-p-zoekmachine-marketing
I ran the keyword ranking on the specific anchor text on the 9th of july, and today again.
The result is significantly positive. I will monitor for a few extra days
Ryan is right from a technical view.
But, i would be very hesitant to change the page based on the onpagegrader. My assumption is that google looks at a website and takes the content a customer can see. The fact that the keyword appears in the links seems somewhat high, but you are a into physical therapy! ( the alt text seem varied already)
So unles you have a problem with google i would not focus on that.
Focus on the fact that you should have just 1 H1 Tag ( prefereably not a picture) and the way to long title tag. Fix the / non dash duplicate content problems etc etc..
Back in 2008 there was "proof" that the anchor text of a second link on a page would not be counted for the anchor text.
In the MOZ starter guide it is still advocated: https://moz.com/learn/seo/anchor-text
BUT in 2014 it was reported on searchengine land:
http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718
That the second link might be counted. Direct link to the matt cuts video from 28 may 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsLWIuNNMU
(Even in 2010 there where already some different opinions and work arounds.
https://moz.com/blog/the-first-link-counts-rule-and-the-hash-sign
https://moz.com/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule (2011)
Question: did anyone recently test this recently?
The deeper questions are:
1:is the LINK value counted if you have more that one link on a page to another page?
2: is the Anchor text counted if you have more than one anchortext to another page?
The most interresting i have is that i have a menu from which i link to my important pages. Does it help to put extra links in the content to specific pages?
take the new 4 letter domainname you can market and brand. Redirect the old domain as best and logical you can to the specific pages on the 4 letter domainname.
4 letters are much easy-er to market. usernames in twitter, facebook etc, and you can make xyxy seatle, xyxy newyork as branding or social handlers for local markets and stuf..
#marketing #branding #worlddomination
DO NOT use nofollow within a website. You will bleed PageRank.
If you have 5 links dividing 100% pagerank. each will have 20%. if you nofollow one the resulting pagerank from your 5 links is only 80%. This means that you bleed 20% from that page alone.
If you use noindex, please do use dofollow. This way the link value will be reused (in menu and footer pages)
For my accounts there is some 30%+ difference between google search console and the data in analytics.
The only thing i can think of: Did you connect exactly the right profile? https or http? www. to non www?
Google will not treat it as one unique domain.
Best thing you can hope for is that google treats each country domain as the local domain. If all of those are in the same language you cannot trust google to understand.
So please reconsider using the TLD structure like this. Consider a mainwebsite.com/eu mainwebsite.com/au mainwebsite.com/uk structure. This makes life much more easy and predictable. and duplicate content is less of an issue.
In all cases please emphasize to google that you have the englisch language dedicated to a geographic area.
Do not try to slow down the crawl rate, that would be bad for your site and not a good strategy.
Investigate what pages are not jumping around. pages i have experienced to jump around are algoritmic penalty kind of jumping. (over optimized or duplicated content or low authority)
i checked only tradeindia.com. and it looks very bad. even the most basic stuf was not organized.
check:
http://www.seoptimer.com/report/products.tradeindia.com/558d55a88bd83#
Google has an extremely long memory for old URL's being live and linking. It is anoying realy.
Links from websites to your old domain are still there, you want to hold on to that value. Thus you will keep the old domain redirected. You do not need a server for that, just the domain pointing to the server and redirecting it on your server. Your web hosting support can help you with that (if not, switch to wp engine)
most of your incomming links are from palminvest.nl That business went out of business. Out of business i a very public and bad way.
I would start with preventing that and getting you some good links.
https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taobao.nl
(leuk idee wel verder 
even after correctly redirecting it could take a few days to a few weeks to have your stable position back. So if your business would hurt extra in summer, do not move until after the season. (appart from the risk you are taking if you or your webbuilder does not have the experience to do this correctly)
Consider moving over to a CDN. For instance wp engine helps you move over and is way faster..
please do create a HTML sitemap in order to facilitate google crawling all of your pages and helping your visitors finding specific pages.
If you want to rank with unique pages for each zipcode you will have to do what hectormainar said.
you could make the choice of using a canonical to refer to a page of a larger/more general postal code so you do not create as much duplicate content.
Having content is always nice. Creating great conten takes time and efford. Asking people to make content goes better if you already have some content. So please choose some "valuable" or "evergreen" conten of the old blog and post it on your new one.
Creating 301 redirects from the old domain is a good way to rescue some of the old link value. Even if you do not see it in moz and majestic, it still could be there. It is not to much efford if you know what you are doing. So go for it.
If redirecting each post is to much work redirect all posts to your /blog/ directory. LInk value and visitors will get what they want!
go for it!
for the subdomain to domain issue:
From a SEO perspective a subdomain is less favorable.
From a user perpective: Please explain to my father the domain zoekmachinemarketing.stramark.nl how are you going to explain that there should not be a www. in front of it? how are you going to explain the fact that it is not only stramark he has to go to, but actualy the subdomain because it has a different offer?
I think young people can adapt somewhat better, but they are very used that they do not have to think. They just search from the adres bar and need the top result.
make sure you have a 301 strategy in place!
You could also use a canonical tag in order to solve the duplicate content.
using only one website is always better in the long run!
Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world if you measure the amount of searches. the other platforms also have some kind of traffic. If you are not there, others might be and take that traffic. If you make a good video with links to you buying page this is the way to go.
Hosting only on your own domain is good if you expect people to link to it. This rarely happens, only if it is part of a linkbuilding strategy. This is long term always.
The keyword someone is converting on is the big question in any business. And it is also dependend on the vendor. If you are trying to sell high end stuff. Advertizing with "cheap" may be the converting keyword for your competitor, but not for you.
What you can do is extensive keyword research. Try to find a great number of keywords based on your knowledge from you business. use ubersuggest and keyword planner ( do not kick keywords out, you want many!)
Then run all these keywords against google organic and paid. Check for what keywords your competitors are paying. (us a tool like Advanced Webranking)
Always keep thinking for yourself! Some competitors might not have their campaign in order so they spend money on everything.
You could also put the keywords in the keyword planner and see how much is being paid suggested by the keyword planner.
But all this is still guestimation. The keyword planner is not that good and reliable. you will have to test for yourself using adwords. if your adwords budget is limited, limit it to a specific area and extrapolate the results to the rest of your countries.
As long as you do not overdo the content spinning (that is the word you are looking for) Say 10 or more copies of the same content and it is on purpose you will not be in trouble.
The worst thing that can happen in this case is that the vendor of the content gets the credit for the content. This can happen but often google cannot or does not know what was first. Even with the link to the original content you might come up in google very high (and higher than the vendor) on specifick keywords.
And, you did everything you could to credit the original website. Make sure you have a good maintained website with it's own design and that not all content is from this vendor (add your own articles and content)
If you want to prevent your website for getting any value from it you could add a canonical tag. (but i would not do that)
.htacces is supposed to be in the root. It is a server file not a CMS file.
as your website has more pages, manual taggin becomes more difficult and problematic. Especialy if you have multiple people doing it.
And on most websites the queries visitors enter are not very similar. (google has new queries constantly)
Thus find a search provider (Google can do that for you) to help site search!
You did not realy ask a question... so no resonses.
But we are 6 months ahead. so you must have tested it!? What did you find? Did it work?
Google does not like what you are doing!
Google wants to have the same content on a page (that rules out option a)
Option B sounds better. but make sure the copy is still on the page. Just vary the content you are presenting based on the user. (this is called the liquid internet)
