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Yes I'm trying to even the anchor text. Too many links with the word Viajes a Grecia, but the thing is that you never know what percentage is correct... it's up to assumptions I guess.

Hey Thank you Vijay for taking the time to answer. Speed? Well if you actually surf the website, I think it's one of the fastest I've ever seen, it loads in less than a second, although Page Speed Insights says it has 74/100 mobile speed and 83/100 PC speed.

I really don't think it's a speed issue. I didn't want to say it but maybe it is an Anchor Text Over optimization. Have you ever seen a single url go down for that? I mean, the other urls are well ranked, the domain has more than 30 keywords in 1st position, but on the main one, Viajes a Grecia, we've never recovered so I thought that maybe I've created too many (35 aprox) links with that phrase (viajes a Grecia) as the anchor text.

So now Im trying to even the anchor text distribution as explained here: https://moz.com/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization

Thank you anyway and feel free to send me your thoughts !

Dear Sirs, a client of mine for more than 7 years used to have his home page (www.egrecia.es) between 1st and 2nd page in the Google Serps and suddenly went down to 8 page. The keyword in question is "Viajes a Grecia".

It has a good link profile as we have built links in good newspapers from Spain, and according to Moz it has a 99% on-page optimization for that keyword, why why why ???

What could I do to solve this?

PD: It has more than 20 other keywords in 1st position, so why this one went so far down? Thank you in advance !

Hi all again ! Thanks in advance ! My client's site is having problems to index all its pages. I even bought the full extension of XML Sitemaps and the number of urls increased, but we still have problems to index all of them.

What are the reasons? The robots.txt is open for all robots, we only prohibit users and spiders to enter our Intranet. I've read that duplicate content and 404's can be the reason. Anything else?

Thank you all ! Some of the urls didn't have a correspondent new one, so I 301 it to the home page, is that bad?

Hi, We currently made a re-design of a website and we changed all our urls to make them shorter. I made more than 300 permanent redirections but plenty more are needed since WMT is showing some more 404s from old urls that I hadn't seen because they were dynamic.

The question is, please, is there a limit? I think we have more than 600 already. We don't want to create a php commando to redirect all the old ones to our home, we are redirecting them to their correspondent url.

By the way, Im doing them with the 301 method in .htaccess.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, if you really want Google to notice the change making a 301 redirect isn't enough. You should tell Google that all sites are yours through Webmaster Tools, all versions with www. and without w's. Then in each one of them you have to tell google via WMT (Change adress tool) that you are going to change url to a new one. All this must be done after making 301's.

You can have more info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

I hope you solve the issue, at least this is how I've done it before but I don't consider myself an expert. Ciao.

I do appreciate this kind of honesty. For me, honesty is the only thing that has made me have clients for more than 3 years.

Hello ! You must first choose which version of your website you prefer: www.domain.com or domain.com

Once that is done, go to Google Webmaster Tools and create an account for each version, one for the www and one for the domain.com

Once created, tell GWT which is your favourite !

Then, you need to make a permanent rediretion 301 through your .htacess as follows to take out the www.:

RewriteEngine On 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.midominio.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://midominio.com/$1 [L,R=301]

**Or Viceversa:**

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^midominio.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.midominio.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If you don't do this and both www and non www versions appear, then you have Duplicate Content !

Hi all. I've heard that it's good to put the link rel canonical in your header even when there is no other important or prefered version of that url.

If you take a look at moz.com and see the code, you'll see that they put the <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://moz.com" /> ... pointing at the same url !

But if you go to http://moz.com/products/pricing for example, they have no canonical there !

WHY ?

Thanks in advance !

Hello ! You must first choose which version of your website you prefer: www.domain.com or domain.com

Once that is done, go to Google Webmaster Tools and create an account for each version, one for the www and one for the domain.com

Once created, tell GWT which is your favourite !

Then, you need to make a permanent rediretion 301 through your .htacess as follows to take out the www.:

RewriteEngine On 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.midominio.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://midominio.com/$1 [L,R=301]

**Or Viceversa:**

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^midominio.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.midominio.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If you don't do this and both www and non www versions appear, then you have Duplicate Content !

I've heard from some SEO's that H1 and Meta Title shouldn't be exactly the same, why ?

Both of them describe what is ON the page right ? Why is it Spammy? Is it ?

Dear Sirs and Contributors, I know this question is going to cause revolution, but I am paying for a subscription to moz every single month and I see that Open Site Explorer doesn't find baacklinks for some of my new clients when aHrefs can find more than 16 !! Why is this ?

How can a free tool like ahrefs give me more information than OSE for which I pay for ? ;-(

Greg Sterling said: "Governments across Europe are justifiably alarmed by the declining fortunes of their respective newspaper industries. However punitive or parasitic taxation measures targeting Google, masquerading as copyright protections, are not the answer."

Do you agree?

I do appreciate this kind of honesty. For me, honesty is the only thing that has made me have clients for more than 3 years.

Thanks Chris !