I would seriously think again when it comes to blocking/no-indexing your CSS and JS files - Google has in the past stated that if they cannot fully render your site properly then this could lead to poorer rankings.

You will also likely get notifications in your Search Console as errors for this too.

Check out this great article from July this year which goes into more details. 

This will likely be due to the new index that was released, your domain authority is relative to the index and sites contained in the index. The new index was smaller, but is now fixed and will likely give you more accurate figures.

https://moz.com/community/q/new-mozscape-index-released-learn-just-what-s-been-going-on

https://moz.com/blog/mozscape-index-2015

After you have checked out any possible WP issues suggested by Tymen, also look into Moz Local and check to see how many of the local ranking strong signal sites you have connected to your client. This will hopefully give your clients site an added boost by having additional confirmed NAP data to organically connect with their site.

Is the site appearing from branded keywords?

I too also agree with the above.

To me the best solution is serving images of different sizes and resolutions based on device and connection speed, this way the customers should get a balance between speed and quality.

E.g. serve a x2 res image on retina or retina equivalent if the speed dictates that this is an option. alternatively, if it is a slow device connection, say via limited broadband speed, serve a lower resolution/file size to ensure at least something is delivered in an optimised speed.

I would suggest playing and finding the right balance for your site and market.

Finally, I find that using SVG images is the best for gaining a speed advantage.

Cheers

Tim

Hello Rosemary,

I would suggest checking out the following post which links to schema markup for embedded youtube content, but there is also a great response from Tammy Wood on applying this via an iframe.

https://moz.com/community/q/schema-org-and-youtube-videos

Hope it helps

Tim

I was reading an article earlier from SEO RoundTable, where it details that Duplicate content is a side issue and not necessarily related to the Panda Update - read more here - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-duplicate-content-panda-issues-different-21039.html

John Mueller stated that sites with low quality content are hit by Panda and that duplicate content is a separate side issue.

Hmmmm, not sure they will be ranked better, especially if they already have canonical permanent pages.

Why not use the permanent URLs in the emails also. They will look neater too for the end user and SERPS as the

www.yourdomain.com/storage-boxes/niceday-economy-archive-boxes

Looks better than

www.yourdomain.com/storage-boxes/46546545021.php etc You could always try a 301 redirect for the SKU pages so they point to the nice URL pages.

These are really the only two I am aware of for actual page content over meta etc. Other Mozzers may have some additional tools they could share... Good luck

In that case, if you can I would definitely try and create some unique content for these category pages, I understand it can be difficult when talking about boxes when they all kind of do the same thing. Storage boxes, moving boxes, cardboard boxes, plastic boxes, containers.... what do they all do? they store and hold things right!.

I used to work for a large national office supplies company so know your pain, but a little extra content may help make a difference if you really need a particular category page to rank better against your competitors in what is already a very difficult and competitive area.

By canonicalising the SKU page to your intended landing/product page I think you are doing the best option for your situation, that is providing the URL features the product name etc. You seem to be very clued up and by the sounds of it doing everything right, I would not think that people in general would search for a SKU so having the other page as the dominant authority page is probably best.

However, as an option rather than having two pages surely you could have just one and have the search facility on your site pull back the landing page based in the SKU as a filterable/searchable element.

That way you would not need to have multiple pages and have to create double the unique content as you would only have once page to look after.

As for the similar pages, I agree adding some unique content to help differentiate them would help.

Hope that helps

Just pipped me to it

Hi Xpers.

I was reading a very timely, if not the same issue article today from Barry Schwartz over at SEO Round Table. He has been following a conversation from Gary Illyes at Google, whom apparently does not recommend removing content from a site to help you recover from a Panda issue, but rather recommends increasing the number of higher quality pages etc.

If you are continuing to get more traffic by adding your new larger higher quality articles, I would simply continue in the same vein. There is no reason why you cannot still continue to share your content on social platforms too.

In the past I may have suggested removing some thin/outsdated content and repointing to a newer more relevant piece, but in light of this article I now may start to think a tad differently. Hopefully some of the other Mozzers might have more thoughts on Barry's post too.

Here is the article fresh off the press today - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-fix-content-21006.html