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IF they are sending considerable traffic that leads to conversions then there is a case for keeping them. I would however, also look into why your other domains are considered Spammy and try to rectify this also, that way you can still benefit from greater volumes of traffic, improve all your sites and hopefully grow stronger all around.
I wouldn't say it was necessarily weird - but I had quite a bit of my concept livery artwork shared by the likes of Lewis Hamilton, N Nico Rosberg, Ken Block, Mclaren and a few others (from my social profiles @timholmesdesign)... Off the back of sharing via social I had quite a few established sites - BBC Top Gear, Motorsport.com and other request to feature my artwork. As a plus I got a series of great links.
It would certainly be possible to market from a sub domain, but it would in my opinion be better if you could still stick to the root domain for added value.
Could you developers not install say a wordpress installation to a single directory on your root domain. e.g. /blog? Or is it already taken?
To all intents and purposes it would appear the Homepage file has been indexed as it can be found via branded search etc. From viewing the sites source you are not blocking anything or have any funny canonical issues. Do you have any errors in your Google Search Console.crawl reports.
Also have you anything in your robots.txt file that could be causing an issue?
Have you considered a guest registration/checkout, whereby the user creates the account by filling out the checkout options and enters required details - e.g. post address for delivery, email for confirmation / username and once check out is complete and the transaction is done you can simply ask for a password to store this registration for later use. By removing the barrier or creating the option of a guest checkout conversion rates may be improved.
for those that want to register first have this as an additional option at checkout.
Do you have multiple similar products that are targeting the same keywords, could the pages be keyword cannibalising each other and the pages keep switching in your rankings. If so you may benefit from canonicalising similar content pages that may not be direct duplicates or trying to further seperate the content.
e.g. Product review 1 ranks P3 then drops whilst another page say Product review 3 takes its place.
Do you track each url placement?
Not sure if this is of help to you, I suppose it depends how many pages you are expecting to be indexed, but according to John Mu at Google - Google does not necessarily index all pages.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-index-all-pages-20780.html
This is because these shortened links are being redirected from an external/3rd party website and are in effect a backlink. They are in most cases a 301 or 302 redirect from an external site to yours.
Hope that helps.
To me that sounds pretty good, providing it is relevant to to the image and provides genuine context it should be fine, I would however, consider - "wedding ceremony at venue" borderline - especially if it is in every image alt on a page. Try change it up a touch - if you cannot tell from the picture that it is at specific venue then maybe not have it in there, say for pictures with a shallow depth of field and the background is not easily identifiable, rings, flowers, tables placings, closeups and a like.
I believe what you are doing for your Alt text is great - make it describe each image individually.
As for title I would use it to further describe each individual image rather than duplicate for all in the blog post imagery. This is mainly used for further improving UX on each image.
Alt text is the most important from an crawling/seo perspective as is often used in collaboration with the surrounding text to determine context. Be wary of keyword stuffing in your alt tags.
Hope that helps.
You could always trial a service like mention.com - It will allow you to track specific content across a variety of locations including FB and Twitter etc. It is a paid solution, but you can get a free trial.
So people share a specific link or bit link - hopefully you can track it.
HI Becky, so our priorities matrix involves both our business needs with our company values. As such we score each Project (not task) out of 5 for the following :-
The total score then dictates the order of priority for our business. We are service lead to our scoring may differ from yours, but hopefully this gives you an idea of what we do. Our projects list is also used at board level to show what we are working.
I know how you feel, in the beginning this was a real problem for me, especially being in the industry we are in, as this makes it so much more difficult. The pace of change is staggering and there is often very little lead time for a huge change that can impact your whole task list.
I find a flexible approach works best for me, I personally, use Asana to order my Task Dashboard into manageable and categorised sections, projects, recurring tasks and where possible tasks that are in progress or have been handed off/waiting on others.
I also have a second projects and priorities matrix which grades my projects (not smaller tasks) based on business needs and the largest potential wins, this helps me to focus my time on what really matters.
Sometimes external influences do cause your projects to creep or slip, just make sure all parties involved are kept up to date to manage delivery expectations. After all Google does like to throw an algorithm spanner in the works every now and then.
It also would not harm doing a course or two in time management. 
Hope that helps a touch. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more.
I am not sure why, but I think Google is seeing your
<nav>structure in an unusual manner, "ABOUT ABOUT about" seem to be associated with a SVG for the menu item. I would suggest investigating and starting from here.</nav>
Hmmm, this is a difficult question to answer as this is determined by bid type, demographic, business sector, bid amount, quality scores, ad copy, your competitors and more etc There are too many variables to give you an exact answer.
I personally find the second much easier to digest and read. As such I would personally adopt that due to being a better experience for the user. However, both should just about cover your needs, as per Kevin I think it depends what you are targeting as a phrase for SEO.
Hmmm, depending on the product and number of reviews I would either have a database holding your reviews so you just add to the DB and it updates your dynamic variables per scheme.
If it is for a brand and the same aggregate review is over the entire site you could maybe have a config file that references a single dynamic field which will update the entire site, this method may not need a DB.
You may have to do some leg work in the first instance to make the figures dynamic. I tend to use PHP and MySQL for this purpose.
Hey XDunningX,
In order to get Gold stars (rich snippet) in your serps you need to apply a specific set of Schema data to the architecture or loaded elements of your site products. This can either be by microdata
itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
Rated 3.5/5
based on 11 customer reviews **Or via JSON
PLEASE SEE FULL EXAMPLES ON SCHEMA.ORG, THESE HAVE BEEN STRIPPED A TOUCH.
Where I woork we have linked up a series of products with the product schema and then associated a series of aggregate reviews (average star rating for lots of reviews) and individual reviews left by our customers that are associated with the product. You can also apply reviews to Brands, Services, Events, Creative work, Offers, Organisations and Places.
The schema website supported by Google and Bing, outlines a series of examples for you to implement.
However, please bear in mind, that even if you have implemented the schema correctly sometimes the search engines will elect not o show it. I feel however it is worth the effort to give you the chance.
Have fun implementing.**
Bang on Nigel! Canonical tags are definitely the way to go on this one!
Personally if you only have a 5 html pages I would simply do 5 redirects....
redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.intercallsystems.com/newpage.html
By the sounds of it and the timing, you may have been hit by "FRED", this was a Google algorithm that was dispatched on March 8th, it was apparently designed to target sites with thin content that are focused on revenue over customer needs.
You can read more about it on a few of these posts - or just search for "Google Fred Update"
https://searchengineland.com/googles-fred-update-hit-low-value-content-sites-aimed-revenue-helping-users-271165http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/08/24/google-fred-update
https://www.bluecorona.com/faq/what-is-google-fred-algorithm-update
https://blog.majestic.com/training/tips-on-how-to-recover-lost-rankings-after-googles-latest-update-better-known-as-fred/
I personally use a number of tools, MOZ bing one, Google Search Console, SemRush, and SeoPowersuite.... as for managing my social my personal favourite is Buffer..... where i manage, FB, Twitter, G+, Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Having now performed the search, I can see this is pretty much what I expected. Although I was surprised at the number of foreign bike tours both in PPC and organically, I was anticipating more for my locality.
Very similar to Ramon, local bike tours, popular bike tours (maybe top 10 lists places for bike tours etc). maybe the odd trip advisor bike tour posting. Mainly holiday related.
Have you signed up to mozscape first of all? You can try it for free. If so, hopefully this might help.
Along side your content for your blog, ensure you try to answer commonly asked questions, this can help to position you in P0 (knowledge area) if answered well.
A great tool to use is answerthepublic.com where you can see what common questions are asked around you main terms. Adding this great unique content either on a blog or selection of FAQs could be beneficial.
Sitemaps are limited to 50MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs from Google perspective.
All formats limit a single sitemap to 50MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs. If you have a larger file or more URLs, you will have to break it into multiple sitemaps. You can optionally create a sitemap index file (a file that points to a list of sitemaps) and submit that single index file to Google. You can submit multiple sitemaps and/or sitemap index files to Google.
Just for everyone's references - here is a great list of 20 limits that you may not know about.
Also try on your mobile and off any local networks etc.
Cheers Tim
Both "amazingbeautyhair" and "amazing beauty hair"
Could it just be your personal Google cache, I am seeing this and all looks well.
I try to use a CDN where possible to allow for faster delivery. one example of a CDN which is great for responsive imagery is Cloudinary, this is due to the dynamic way in which you can serve scaled images.
Lazy load is also a benefit simply due to connection speeds etc and loading behind the scenes.
There could be multiple reasons for a drop if it is only a small few place drop it could be
For a larger drop, it could be a blip... don't make a knee jerk reaction and make lots of changes which could make things worse. Give it a few days to see if you bounce back.
If you find you do not return to your usual ranking placement, then this could be caused by a larger algorithmic change. I would suggest you track how much you change for specific terms and which pages rank.
Also as per Egol has another page replaced your current product - e.g duplicates etc. or has another site caused some sort of content cannibalisation by borrowing your content and replacing you.
I think it depends on what you wish to accommodate on the screen.
We have adopted a more mobile based design from 300 to 767 which makes certain items more prominent or vertically aligned and then from 768 up to 1600+ is our dedicated "all elements" visible desktop version.
That way our desktop style generally works on the majority of tablets and larger screen sizes where more data easily easier to absorb.
Hope that helps.
Your title tag is held within the portion of your websites ... and depending on how you access your code you will find it in probably one of a few locations.
If you edit your code direct using your code editor of choice, you will probably find your tags which contain your <title>'s in a header.inc file, or the specific page html file you want to update. In a CMS however, such as wordpress, it will likely be editable directly by the post or page you are editing when found in your created listings.<br /><br />If you right click and view the source of your page in a browser you will find your <title> tags position.<br /><br /><html><br /><head><br /><!-- IN HERE IS YOUR META --><br /><strong><title>YOUR PAGE TITLE - and following conventions such as brand etc</title>
As per the above, it depends what type of system you run.
It would appear that GSC has pretty much resolved itself. It may have simply been a glitch at the time.
I think the following posts will cover this topic on images for seo and hot linking. I would imagine the problem you face is that it will be eating into your own servers bandwidth by serving these images for someone else.
https://moz.com/community/q/can-hotlinking-images-from-multiple-sites-be-bad-for-seo
https://moz.com/community/q/seo-issues-from-image-hotlinking
https://moz.com/community/q/images-and-seo
Cheers
Tim
Hi there, I think this is a mixed question about meeting the needs of SEO and your customers. You could naturally allow some pages to 404 if you no longer wish to rank for a specific location or as an alternative you could as mentioned above 301 certain pages to a new page of a similar or relevant topic/destination.
Managing a users experience and not having a 404 is probably best, maybe a specialised landing page which keeps the destination is of use... you could use the page to still rank for this destination, but maybe suggest alternatives within the vicinity, this might be useful for hotels on a local level and still lead to conversions. For larger scale alternatives say at a country level this may be more difficult as the user is probably already set to visit a specific destination, as such a 301 to a higher level category maybe more appropriate unless you want to clarify to the user that this location is no longer available.
If you still wish to rank for these old pages/destinations, it is probably best to keep them in place or redirect to a similar page.
Hope that is ok.
According to the following post fro WIX (not date stamped) - click here
"While it is currently not possible to manually add a markup schema to your site's source code, some of the content on Wix sites, such as blog posts and eCommerce, is already marked up in accordance with schema.org. "
From this I can only assume despite some schema being implemented, additional features such as Ratings will not be possible. They do appear to be trying to collect votes for this to be a feature.
This is one of my main issues with WIX, you can create great looking sites and SEO has improved, but for me having a custom build allows you to be much more, proactive, planned and reactive to the challenges that SEO offers up on a daily basis.
Hope that helped.
Further to David and Egols, comments , agreed forcing too much schema and slapping it on everything is probably going to reduce your chances. On the whole the majority of places where my Ratings appear are product related with a genuine identifiable source.
Just check my rankings monitor and have noted that there was a bit on a gain for myself over night, seeing a couple of page one terms jump a place whilst a few of my competitors have dropped. Will keep an eye out and see if just a blip. Google could be testing something.
You can use pretty much most aggregated data for your star ratings. Although I am unsure if they will block some sources, especially if you have stated the source as FB (although looking at your results that is not the case).
Secondly, despite having your schema attached to your site and with no errors, Google does not necessarily have to display it, one day it may appear, the next it may have gone, luck of the draw. If you have only added it recently, give it a bit of time.
You can find more on aggregate rating here. http://schema.org/AggregateRating
Was going to go say check this post out on SeoRoundTable but Alick3000 beat me to it.
Nothing is showing up on Algaroo as the minute, and i've notice the moscast metric has been pretty high for a while now, unsure if it needs recalibrating etc
Hey Johny, your best bet is to take a look at the AMP Project guide. It should take you through it step by step. From markup and validation through to when you publish your posts.
Ok so this allows your website to be saved down to the homescreen as a bookmarked icon. Your phone should select the best resolution for your screen from the above dimensions.
If you are doing the same for an App - sorry should of asked it may be different depending on how your app is compiled.
EDIT : Ignore last bit in first message, looks like I pasted a bit too much
Hey Johny, a quick google search and looking at some of my own code helped with with the below. Hope it is of some use.
Google/Android - click here for official page
Apple iOS - click here for official page Windows - click here for details on StackOverflow
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