Hi GoMentor,

Rand did a whiteboard friday on this topic: https://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranks-for-keywords-whiteboard-friday

Hope it helps,

Tom

They used to be used quite heavily. Nowadays majority of the major search engines don't use them at all. The only one I believe still does is Yandex, of which it's a minor signal then.

Are you able to copy out your whole htaccess?

I've got to admit, i'm not the best with it but I'll try and help you figure this out

I've had the same as Gaston, no problem at all ranking websites from the same server.

Content below the fold is still read, however less value is placed on it. So it is still worth having content that is produced for below the fold as it will still help that page rank.

Show the user what they want to see when they land on the page, majority of the time in doing this you will actually show Google what they need to rank you.

Yes that looks correct, I would add an x-default for the rest of the world. this is a good article: https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/

http://www.myseosolution.de/downloads/mobile-hreflang-canonical-fixed.png Is a great image to explain things.

I honestly think it's not required anymore. There may be a benefit to a small site but I think it would be negligble.

https://moz.com/community/q/redirecting-index-html-to-the-root

StreamlineMetrics:

If you want to redirect all index.html(s) to their roots, then try this code -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

And yes, Google will treat them as 301 redirects so your juice will be transferred and consolidated.

Obviously, change index.html to index.htm

If they do really want to know, they could just copy the text into a standard content box. It'll tell you for that content if it's good/bad etc.

Hi Ikkie,

The original post says that Markele is already logged in:

"it takes me to the Moz home page which I'm already logged in to "

I just posted this for a user on a forum I am a moderator on so unfortunately I can't answer that question.

This was his reply to your post:

"Hi, Thomas I think the lady who replied last to your thread in Moz had hit the spot. backlink from Washington post must have bump up the DA ( Even though the change is too high ). I wonder why this link didn't show up in web master tools. Google mustn't have indexed this link thus far. and Moz not showing the link is also a question. "

Just to add to this, I have downloaded the plugin to see if I could replicate/help on this. It logged me in straight away. However I logged out through the toolbar and it kept me logged in. So I seem to have the complete opposite of your issue.