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You're not going to get a massive benefit from a dedicated server on a low amount of visitors. You'll get a bigger benefit for speed by making sure you've got caching/images optimised and lazy loaded + using a CDN for assets. Have a look at Cloudflare and their free plan.
Hi Mike,
Afraid I don't have any experience with it, had to help someone install it before though so I was just aware of it existing. However if it's anything like "normal" Google Analytics it'll be very easy to use and you can get quite a bit of data out of it.
Tom
Honestly, to get a proper answer people would need to know the site in question to do an audit themselves.
Have a look into this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/
Basically GA for apps.
Would you be able to send me a dm with a copy of that email? I'm interested in larger sized automatic sites and trying to figure out where the limit is (and how yours isn't allowed when others are)
Ok, this one may be interesting, if it's none of these options below I'd love to take a deeper look, send me a dm on twitter: https://twitter.com/thomasharvey_me
So, I see that you're on Cloudflare, are you still being crawled by Google?
Have you looked in the old search console? Have you or anyone you work with done anything in the "remove urls" section?
Have you seen any change in crawl stats recently?
Any recent changes to the site that may have caused this?
In my opinion, it would be a business decision that's then implemented by the SEO. So ask your bosses these questions and what experience they want for their customers.
can anyone think of any other reasons why the images wouldn't get indexed.
Only thing I can think of is perhaps if your subdomain is serving wrong status codes for your images, unlikely but possible.
My guess, is that Google is picking up this line in your code: class='testimonial-date'>Written on May 19, 2018
Which looks to be when people are leaving reviews for you?
1. You can use any version you want as the x-default, it is merely the version that will be shown if none of the other languages are relevant.
2. Yes
3. I'm guessing you forgot to change the url, so here's the correct structure:
Hope this helps you!
When you say country targeting, do you mean ip redirects?
I'm even more awake than the last time I checked too!
Looking at the source of say: https://au.pacapod.com/collections/classic-plain-changing-bags
You have the following code:
Whereas on https://www.pacapod.com/collections/classic-plain-changing-bags you have:
and https://us.pacapod.com/collections/classic-plain-changing-bags being:
In short, looks like your AU site is setup incorrectly to just reference the homepage.
Hi Eddie,
Sorry, hadn't woken up when I looked this morning!
If possible, try moving your hreflang toward the top of the head. You've also got two canonicals in the head too.
Having a look at the hreflang code though, I don't see any mistakes in it, so perhaps it's just placement.
Tom
Hi Eddie,
I've had a check of your sitemaps, I can't see any hreflang? https://www.pacapod.com/sitemap.xml
Tom
Personally, I am redirecting and forcing all users to use https. Https isn't going anywhere and http has no benefits over https, so trying to support both and not doing redirects is just not worth the effort. Keep it simple and just force all users to use https.
I've been using them for the past few months and their offering is from what I can see is very good value. I've had a few issues with setting up and learning their platform (as well as actual bugs) however chatting to them on their live chat the issues have been resolved and also they've given credits to make up for their mistakes. So I'm a pretty happy customer of theirs.
When you put the redirect in place for migrating to the new site, why not just do a redirect http/https (old site) -> https (new site) and this sorts the redirect chain issue.
Try using this extension, it's quite handy for highlighting issues.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-redirect-trace/nnpljppamoaalgkieeciijbcccohlpoh
Also, are you getting any issues highlighted in Search Console?
If I'm correct, you're no longer using the old domain and just redirecting to the new site?
If that's correct, why keep it with Shopify at all, you could instead point it to a different server (or to Cloudflare which'll be able to handle to redirects through page rules without you having to do any code).
The best course of action is to 301 redirect the site to the new site, then on the new site (after checking for issues) submit sitemaps/fetch as google. To speed up this process slightly you can also submit a sitemap for the old site, Google will see the redirect when they try to crawl any page.
Have a look at your site through http://web.archive.org/. You'll be able to see what the directories were used for.
However, if there's no use for them on the current site then what's the purpose of keeping these disallows in the robots.txt?
Personally, I believe that making a site https is something that majority of the sites in the world should do. Google gives a slight ranking boost and slowly customers are trusting https sites more, with Google transitioning to "not secure" then it makes it even more of a reason to do so.
In majority of cases, https is quite a simple process if you're using a common cms. Just check that all of the scripts are functional and redirects are in place, once you've done that submit the sitemap and wait for Google to recrawl your site.
The answer to this is actually quite simple, Moz and Google have data that's not as up to date as Screaming Frog, so Moz and Google can be reporting historical issues that you've resolved allowing them to have larger numbers reported. The other issue is sample size, so Moz for example may not have your complete site in their index, yet Google does.
"Also, is there a way to efficiently track the source of the 404s besides clicking on "Linked From" within Search Console 250 times? I was looking for something like this is Moz or SF but no luck."
As for that question, easiest way is through Screaming Frog as you're able to get "live" checks on your site (every time you crawl your site again). If you look at the attached image you'll see that I'm on the 404 response code, I've clicked on the URL I want to know where it's being linked from (Inlinks) and I've got a list of pages and then other information such as anchor/alt text.
Hopefully this helps you out.
Tom
Hi Tawny,
I just went to the feed.ly domain, apparently it's for sale? http://feed.ly/
Am I right in guessing it's actually: https://feedly.com
I know you can get 10,000 through here: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/pages
However, if not you can try a third party tool. Use something like screaming frog to get all the pages, then use the below tool to connect to the Moz api.
This is my go to resource. Really helps plot it all out visually.
https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/
As for sitemaps, refer to this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en
If after those articles you aren't 100% sure, i'll try and answer any specific questions point by point.
Aleyda Solis has a pretty solid http to https checklist: http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/search-engine-optimization/http-https-migration-checklist-google-docs/
It's one that's being seen a lot more recently: https://moz.com/community/q/image-in-quick-answer-from-different-website
I also leave the old profiles. My guess is that if Google does try and crawl the old sitemaps, they'll hit the redirects and will index the new urls quicker.
It also helps if you have any urls that have somehow avoided the move.
You can also submit to Google without using Search Console. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=submit+url+to+google&oq=submit+url+to+google&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2372j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (Search "Submit URL To Google") and then just paste your url in. You can do this to any url.
Doing it in bulk, I would use: http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=FileOptimizer
Unless you're on wordpress, where I would use something like https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/ or https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
On most of these, you can select "Lossless" or "Lossy". One doesn't lose any quality of the image and lossy loses slight image quality.
Seems you're using squarespace. Have a look through this:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.balihaiphoto.com/vlrcrCO4
You can perhaps use: https://answers.squarespace.com/questions/21445/how-can-i-lazy-load-images-on-scroll-developer.html
If you can, use SSL. It looks like squarespace supports http/2 which would help with the load time of your site too: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815898-Squarespace-and-SSL
By page optimisation score, do you mean the webpage speed test? If so then it's not how well a page will rank, but instead a rating on your websites speed.
If for your blog you are using something like wordpress, you can have multiple sitemaps. One for your blog and one for your static site. The blog would auto update whereas you can just manually update your static site.
Funnily, I saw this topic pop up yesterday on twitter. The advice is to still disavow:
http://searchengineland.com/google-responds-mass-negative-seo-extortion-emails-200689
If they're from relevant pages (topics) from within your clients niche to your client, regardless of where in the world you shouldn't have a problem. The idea that where in the world two different sites are based has an impact on link value to me does not make sense. A post that's on a specific topic would have global value, an example would be architecture, they could be a UK based company who have done some great work, a newspaper in the US covers the opening of the building and links to the architect. The fact that they are in different companies is almost irrelevant. I have seen no case studies to show that anything else would be the case.
What a copywriter does best though is writing copy. Any time spent doing something like coding a blog post would not be an effective use of their time. It would probably be more cost effective to get the copywriter to do the writing and then get a web designer to design the blog post itself. Otherwise you're paying a higher hourly rate (if hourly, obviously) to a copywriter to do something they aren't efficient at.
Hi Jordan,
Good to know I haven't posted something that's been seen time and time again!
Thanks for the context.
Bit of an odd one here, anyone seen this before: https://i.gyazo.com/aa083d07c58623e101fc84b8b569a0cc.png
Funnily, Dr. Pete did a whiteboard friday on this today: https://moz.com/blog/arent-301s-302s-canonicals-all-basically-the-same-whiteboard-friday
I've honestly seen it done both ways, I don't believe there is actually any guidance out there for what the best practice is. For example the Guardian does not link to other /amp/ pages. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/06/uk-tourists-face-mobile-phone-roaming-charges-post-brexit-paper-says
Guess you forgot to add Google Analytics too 
It sounds like you're getting referral spam in Google analytics.
They aren't actually linking to you, so the good news is that it won't impact you within Google search, the worst thing they can do is skew your data. Their aim is to try and get you to their sites.
This is a guide that's great for blocking all referral spam: http://help.analyticsedge.com/spam-filter/definitive-guide-to-removing-google-analytics-spam/
Stop trying to sculpt your site to get a better DA, ultimately Moz's DA and PA are metrics, you shouldn't be changing your site around these purely. Instead what you need to be doing it trying to tweak your site to what's best for the user. Do these pages add value to the site and if not what can you do to improve them, if they can't be improved then remove them.
The key metric you should be looking at is the number of visitors that you are getting.
I haven't had time to look into your site, however I would look into:
"or majestic is counting each redirected page on the old toptwincitiesrealtors.com site as a backlink"
That is what I would guess is happening, I believe the same happens in Google Search Console when you do the same thing.
Hi all,
I know historically tabbed content has been devalued, what's the situation currently? I've heard a lot about mobile first changing this.
This is a design that has been produced by our designers:
https://i.gyazo.com/35f655c7ba2bc89a87b9476e4a14534d.png
Each tab contains approx 1000 words and previously has been a unique article.
Would love to know your thoughts on this design and the benefits/losses of doing it like this.
Thanks,
Tom
