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I can't see this triggering a penalty. It will not hold the same weight as a link from a site that doesn't have anything directly to do with your company or a link directly in the content showing context
I would suggest sitewide footer links from each site to the other sites. The footer isn't the main draw of the eye but generally includes company info so if a users is looking for more info they will check there.
I personally prefer the language subfolder closer to the domain e.g. www.example.com/en/example-ny.html but really it would all depend on what parts of your site you provide in alternate languages. If you provide only pages past the sub-directory **/example-ny/ **I would place it after this directory. But I highly doubt you only offer alternate languages on only the pages that provide details about the property.
Worth a try, specifically since nothing else seems to be working at this point.
Sorry I couldn't be more help. Please let us know what the solution is when ever you figure it out.
We have been using it in tandem with a rather aggressive local campaign for clients. We have yet to see the results show up in the knowledge graph (links to social) but all of our properties perform very well in local searches. Hard to tell if it's just this part of our campaign that is causing it or the sum of all of the parts.
As for investing extra costs. If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) and doing schema with JSON-LD, it is an investment of 15 minutes. Very little cost for a potentially great pay off. If you aren't using JSON-LD in GTM I would suggest the switch, it saves a huge amount of time.
Do your sitemaps indicate the varying languages. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en
Very odd, when we do a search for "Adorini Firenze - Deluxe" in google UK with a VPN on for the UK it doesn't get any of the price schema markup. Maybe google is having a hard time deciding what to do with the schema so for normal results it doesn't pull any of the schema. What KW are ranking for this page? do you get similar results as us?
odd, looks to pull the cached schema, the issue might correct itself with time.
It's a bit of a long shot, but have you tried the lang/country codes completely in lower case? I doubt that will fix it but the tool in this Moz article I found (https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool) generates them in all lower case.
Also out of curiosity are you doing your test searches through a VPN?
https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool
I agree with Tim, the option selecting would make the most sense, but I can understand how 300 choices would be rather overwhelming in a drop down. Is there a way you can sub-divide the color options down?
I would suggest that either you make the fabric and finishes part of the long description (making each one unique) or approach this as one product (and therefore one page) with different fabric and finish options.
If you do end up going with the similar description, could you make a main page for the product with sub-pages for the various different page for the fabrics and finishes and use the canonical tag to point at the main page.
Well at least we checked off one thing that it is not. 
Can you provide a link to the SERP where you are seeing the issue?
Odd, are you seeing any errors in Google Search Console (use to be Google webmaster tools) under Search Traffic/International Targeting. It will show any hreflang errors, I would start there and fix any errors.
Hi Nick,
There could be many factors affecting this, are you able to provide more details (Key term, what page is ranking, etc) you are having the issue with? With a little more detail some of the intelligent folks here could offer some suggestions/theories.
Hi Lukas,
If it was easy then everyone would do it and it would return little to no value. Are you familiar with search operators? They can help refine your google search, in particular I was thinking you could use inurl: as most blogs exist in the subdirectory /blog/. So if your services were about fishing you could do a search like
inurl:/blog/ fishing
Install and turn on the Moz bar in chrome and you will see the DA score for each site in the results. This should cut down on the dead ends.
Good luck
Hi Lukas,
This is a very broad question, one to which there is no simple answer. You need to ask yourself "what kind of a market would want my services?" and search for bloggers within that market that have a decent DA (although not an accurate measurement currently due to Moz updating it, should have it's accuracy returned in November).
Use a tool like Buzzstream to collect these blog sites and let the software dig for the contact info. From there reach out to the individual bloggers and see what they would like to write about your services. I would steer away from straight up offer money, but they might something in return, maybe a social push or some advice about the service you offer.
I hope that helps.
I haven't noticed any change as well, although for the last update it took a few days for me to see a change in the tools. Usually, a Moz staffer will post a post about the change and pin it. Maybe we see that later today.
I'm going to not stress it at this point and check back on Monday.
Moz is currently indexing and had to cancel last months crawl, so the 1.5 month delay is to be expected. You can monitor the progress at https://moz.com/products/api/updates and it looks like they should be releasing the results tomorrow. Check back at the end of the week and you should see your metrics.
Hi Peter,
Very odd issue, Moz Local in the UK is fairly new and issues are bound to arise. This should be brought to the attention of the Moz Local support team, they have been very quick (within a day mostly) in responded for every issue I have had with my UK clients.
To contact them navigate to your profile page, and click the question mark in the bottom right-hand corner.
I hope that helps, let me know what they say the issue is, I'll watch for similar issues with my other UK clients.
I believe you are doing this to deal with individual property pages that no longer exist after they have sold. A fear to consider with using the 410 to deal with these pages is that f this property ever comes back on the market you have permanently marked this URL as gone and might have issue getting a URL with the same structure back in the index.
I have a similar issue with a client who offers travel deals with a specific time frame and the way we have handled it is we have a custom 404 handler, that when visiting a travel deal that longer exists before the 404 page returns the http status of 404 it 301 redirects the user to the man travel deal page. The reason we took this approach was so any legacy backlinks to travel deals will still give the user a list of deals that are relevant to why they followed the link in the past. We can also bring back annual specials without having to make changes to the .htaccess. This approach helped us maintain existing Authority from previous backlinks, significantly reduced 404's (which in turn let us focus on the more specific real errors)
BTW, there is no reason why you can't have a search page on a 404 page. In fact I would recommend it.
htttp://www.enviosadomicilio.com/florerias/aguascalientes/ is the version indexed by google. The trailing slash looks to be the default way your site handles URL's so I would update all internal links to have the trailing slash at the end.
htttp://www.enviosadomicilio.com/florerias/aguascalientes
Hi Salvador,
When I try to visit http://www.enviosadomicilio.com/mexico I get redirected to http://www.enviosadomicilio.com/mexico/. The second URL is index by Google, so this is the URL you should stick with. The last Moz data pull was in August so the Ope SIte explorer info is based on that crawl, I wouldn't start panicking about anything until the next Moz crawl (which is set to show info October 8th. If the URL structure change is new you might not see an update until the following crawl by Moz (most likely early November, but they haven't announced it yet. I would suggest checking it again in mid October.
As for your second question, I'm sorry but it's not too clear can you elaborate? There are a few different ways to redirect not just the .htaccess.
I hope that helps!
Odd, did your meta description always have the rating in it? or was this a new addition after you lost the rating microdata in the search results? If this is old, it might explain why the microdata is not displaying.
If you want an image to rank high for a certain keyword, we would suggest updating the "alt" with logical keywords. Don't stuff it with keywords, think of it as what you would like to show if the image wasn't available. Think of it as images for people who can't see, if you were going to describe the image what would you say.
Hi Icourse,
The issue seems to be that because you offer the individual reviews in the schema, the crawler sees the most recent review in the Search Results. I would suggest removing the schema markup on the individual reviews but keep it on the aggregated rating content.
As an example if you look at http://www.microdatagenerator.com/aggregate-rating-schema-generator/ in Google schema testing tool it only has an aggregated review data and that is the only thing to show up in a search for the page, try a site search site:www.microdatagenerator.com/aggregate-rating-schema-generator/ in google.
Good luck and let me know if this results in what you were hoping for.
Hi Sean again,
Thank you, and I can appreciate putting requests like this through the help@ email. I'll note that for the future. I'll keep an eye out for the response to the ticket.
Hi Sean,
Thank you! I'll keep an eye out for their response.
I have a client address (1-8 Russel Square) but Moz local picks it up as either 18 (when comparing duplicates) or drops the number altogether (in the actual listing info in Moz Local). How can I get this corrected?
My listing for Kenwood Hall was paused and after waiting almost a week I'm not sure how to get it unpaused. The verified Google My business profile is at https://plus.google.com/106845835431357734064/about and the facebook listing is at https://www.facebook.com/Kenwood-Hall-390682141103826/timeline/. Any idea what I can do to make it active again?
Hi again Tymen,
The mozscape crawl didn't work as intended and the data is incomplete from the last crawl, (see: https://moz.com/community/q/september-s-mozscape-update-broke-we-re-building-a-new-index) so you might not see these updated links until the next scheduled crawl (early October) Are you see the new links in Google Webmaster Tools (AKA search console)?
I wouldn't focus on seeing the backlinks in Moz and focus more on continuing to build more links. As the saying goes "a watched kettle never boils" set a reminder to check back in early October to see if your links are showing up, but in the meantime continue to focus on building more links.
I hope that helps.
https://moz.com/community/q/september-s-mozscape-update-broke-we-re-building-a-new-index
Hi Peter,
I'm going to assume that you have the Google My Business profiles all claimed and verified. If not that is your first step.
If so, for the third location that has the same address add the suite or office number to address line 2, this will help separate the listings from the others that share the same address. Try that and give it 48 hours to propagate on google maps and try your search again. Check out https://support.google.com/business/answer/2853879?hl=en for more details on the guidelines.
I hope that helps.
I must second Dirk's suggestion of screaming frog, great tool and I use it daily, a license is well worth the cost. Although spider crawl of the site will only point out 404's that have are links from an existing page, so if the hosting company cleaned up the not all of these 404's will surface.
One approach I would suggest is run the current 1000 404's in GWT through Screaming frog as a manually added list, (do it in 2 batches if you have the free version), start a spreadsheet of the resulting 404's and start working through that list. Once you have the 404's mark those as fixed as GWT tools set a reminder to check back in a few days and after a few days export the new list of 1000 404's and run these through screaming frog adding the resulting list to your spreadsheet. Keep doing this until you get the 404's errors in GWT down a manageable level.
I hope that helps, good luck.
Have you updated the dev sites robots.txt to disallow everything? It is up to the bot to listen, but that combined with removing all of the dev URLs from Google Webmaster tools should do the trick.
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Thank you IssueTrak,
Although we have been a member for a long time we just started being more active on the Q&A, more stars will come. Let us know how it works out.
Hi Luke,
If these 301's are old, then any indexing robot has already compensated for them and updated their index with the right URL. What you have to worry about is backlinks from other sites, this should surface GWT (Google Webmaster Tools or Search Console these days).
What I would be more concerned about is 301 redirecting the current URL structure to the new one as that is what most likely is being indexed currently. If I were you I would make a backup the old redirects (just in case), and start clean with a new list of redirects. To create this new list of redirects I would crawl the current site, take that list of URL's determine if any of that old content is going to exist on a new URL when launching the new site, set up the new redirects. Once launched I would monitor the new site in GWT over the next few weeks/months to see what surfaces and redirect any 404's that surface
Hi IssueTrak,
I do agree with Dr. Pete, anything done is merely a suggestion, I like to think of it as farming, you create the most ideal situation for your organic search results to grow but unexpected influences will cause you to change your approach and some of these unexpected influences will be beyond your control.
One thing I would mention that is a bit of a red flag for me is that your structured data offers no additional organizational info on the home page. So when the google bot crawls the home page they see you are trying to push the Name, Url and the social accounts, this could be considered a bit scammy. I would suggest expanding on the content and add a description, mailing address, etc anything to make it your info more robust. In addition explore the adding the schema for https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication since you folks seem to be a software application company.
The Knowledge Graph info is pulled from multiple avenues, if these suggestions for Schema changes don't start producing better results, start looking outside of the Schema, for an example submit a request for a Wikipedia entry to be written (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_economics/Companies)
I hope this helps,
VERB
Excellent point Dirk there can't be a direct relationship between Google Disavow and Moz's index.
Haven't had my coffee yet this morning.
You disavowed 6-7 weeks ago, is that when you submitted the disavow file or when you receive the notification in webmaster tools that the links were disavowed?
Hi Tom,
The first flag to me is the markup for Webpage/mainContentOfPage/WebPageElement/Name is literally all of the text content of the page. I would change that to the name of the page.
You also use the markup for https://schema.org/CreativeWork which is meant for creative works, I would not consider Travel Insurance as creative work. Again, you are cramming all of the pages content into the text, so another flag to me.
And the duplicate Local Business Schema that offers no other information except the name (but actually the website) and the Aggregated review data. Local Business Schema is reserved for business that have a physical location (see: https://schema.org/LocalBusiness) which it appears you are based on your footer, but you do not markup in the Schema. I would suggest marking up the address info in the footer for Local Business.
I hope that points you in the right direction.
WebPage
Hi Sander,
If you just recently disavowed these links you are going to have to wait for Moz to reindex in order to see your results change. The next crawl is scheduled to be completed for Sept 9th.
See: https://moz.com/products/api/updates If you don't see a change in your Spam Score at that point I would dig deeper at that point.
Link Analysis data
I agree with Martijn, but I also feel you are not using the Q&A as it was intended. You ask a question in your subject line and instead of elaborating on the question in the body, you post your own answer twice. How are you proving this info?
If you are looking to start a conversation about this topic I would suggest writing the body as if it was your opinion and see what others have to say. You might find some research/opinions that you haven't considered.
Your Google Maps profile does have a link to your site (without the www, but it properly redirects to the www version, so no issue there) if you update the URL for your website in Google My Business to the www. version, it will take 24-48 hours for the change to reflect.
BTW, if you are looking for more high DA authority pages to add links back to your site on, I found this article which lays out some additional options: https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/experts/increasing-your-domains-trust/ They might not all be applicable, but worth checking out.
https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/experts/increasing-your-domains-trust/
Hi Tymen,
The first thing I notice is that you have very few backlinks. So to start I would claim and verify your Google My Business profile (see: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Eppinga+hout+%26+bouwmaterialen/@53.111369,6.143882,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47c84e457e3c04ad:0x237e27544c5c0614) After that I would set up profiles on some of the major social media platforms. (I see you have a Facebook profile, look into Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.) this will give you a backlink and also platforms to promote the business. A local listing campaign would help too, claim and verify your Yelp listing for an example.
I hope that points you in the right direction, Good luck!
I am curious if anyone can share some advice. I am working on planning architecture for a tour company. The key piece of the content strategy will be providing details on each of the tour destinations, with associated profiles for each city within those destinations. Lots of content, which should be great for the SEO strategy.
With regards to the architecture, I have a ‘destinations’ section on the Website where users can access each of the key destinations served by the tour company. My question is – from a planning perspective I can organize my folder structure in a few different ways.
http://www.companyurl.com/destinations/touring-regions/cities/
or
http://www.companyurl.com/destinations/
http://www.companyurl.com/touring-regionA/
http://www.companyurl.com/touring-regionB/cities-profile/
I am curious if anyone has an opinion on what might perform best in terms of the site structure from an SEO perspective. My fear is taking all of this rich content and placing it so many tiers down in the architecture of the site. Any advice that could be offered would be appreciated. Thanks.
I submitted my site map to Bing Webmaster tools yesterday and it's still flagged as 'pending'. Does it normally take that long?
I currently have a Website that is ranking #1 or #2 for almost every keyword we are targeting in Google; however, when I go to Yahoo or Bing the site doesn’t appear at all. In fact, even when I search for the domain using these engines I don’t appear – only a sub-domain that’s hosted on the site does and at the bottom of page 1 for the domain search.
Any insight as to what might be causing this or where I should start looking?
I've always been under the assumption that when building a micro-site it was better to use a true path (e.g. yourcompany.com/microsite) URL as opposed to a sub domain (microsite.yourcompany.com) from an SEO perspective. Can you still generate significant SEO gains from a sub domain if you were forced to use it providing the primary (e.g. yourcompany.com) had a lot of link clout/authority?
Meaning, if I had to go the sub domain route would it be the end of the world?