Hi,

Hope this enlightens the main issues regarding on how to improve DA and PA.

First, about the inbound links; although you have 18 domains pointing links to your website, 12 of the 18 domains had set the links as nofollow:  https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/linking-domains?site=https%3A%2F%2Fpickhunting.com%2F&src=mb&state=not_deleted&target=domain&type=nofollow

The website has 22 page titles equal to each H1. It is a best practise to include the Brand at the end of the page title. Why at the right end? Brand matters a lot, but first the name and keywords that tells the potential visitors and to the algorithms of the Search Engines what each page is about. At the same time, by including the brand into each page title, you will differentiate the page title from the H1 as it should be.

If somebody is looking for your brand, that action does not need SEO, due to already knows about you. SEO is for new searchers looking for your products and/or services.

Page title: About | Pick Hunting
H1: About

Maybe, you can set up unique meta descriptions for each page. Perhaps using the free Yoast plugin can help with the task. Good luck and Happy New Year 2020!

Mª Verónica

Hi,

Hope this clarifies.

It is not a penalisation, your links are telling to the algorithms of the search engines that your website is popular in the USA and not so popular in the UK.

If your only target market is UK, not delivering to USA; At least 75% of your links should be local, related to the topic, low spam score, dofollow, hopefully PA over the one you are targeting and DA also over your website´s DA. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Miriam,

Thank you! for taking the time to give me such a complete analysis of the problem here.

You are absolutely right, we have to deal with the encroachment of Google into this space, "our piece of cheese is even smaller as time goes by."

Of course, I will focus on the recommendations and tips you gave me. Really, a very good road map. Thanks again. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Mª Verónica

Hi Miriam,

Thank you so much for taking time to answer this.

So far, officially Google Jobs is not working in Ireland, but in fact we see these results for almost all best keywords.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqi8nt2A_up9R0UZgxyjq-VXjg3O7HRl/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OFH-qreM4lKlfJ_-RLYBNh1Kcw_j8k1Y/view

Big jobs companies, pull jobs data and publish it "mediated" by them.
Therefore, my client's website from rank an average of #9 two months ago, now it has an average of #11.

That is one result. Of course, the big companies publish the jobs, which are published first in my client's website. Those companies do not offer a link to my client's website, instead the URL without a link, the same with the contact email.

Truly, I can advise him to improve the structured data for jobs, but with those overwhelming DAs, I am not sure if it might work at all.

I am fully aware that it is imposible to compete with companies with over 100,000 back-links, despite my client has a 21 years old recruiter company with great reputation.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help and/or thinking about the issue.

Hi Moz fans,

I face an issue with Google for Jobs, Dublin, Ireland market.
My client, a local job agency lose rank, his posts appear mediated by other big job companies who have high DA, over 60, client has less than 30 DA.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Mª Verónica

Hi IcarusSEO,

As Alick has said, you do not need to write it into the meta description. Although, if you have a local business you might consider include it into your NAP (name, address, phone) if it is necesary as part of your business name.

On regard the meta descriptions, Google now allows up to 320 characteres, although best SEOs recommend about 290 characters. Therefore plenty of room for write compelling meta descriptions. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Paul,

The wrong name in the 'Property name' field or wrong setting in the http or https doesn't affect the data collection in your GA account. The data is collected via UA number in the GA tag for your website regardless of the domain your GA tag is on.

Assuming GA is linked to Google Search Console, where it is essential to verify all the properties and choose the preferred one for getting accurate data, plus this will "help me avoid a common problem others have experienced".

Mª Verónica

Hi Kamishah,

On regard your question, is domain redirection a good method for SEO?
No, it is not.

Said that, if the mistake was already done: you should study the DA and the spam score of the xyz site before thinking on setting a 301 domain redirect.

Considering that the xyz site has a low spam score and a good DA, at least equal to the solutionfall.com you might go ahead.

Perhaps you consider, from now on, to get true organic backlinks by having unique high quality content instead of "comment backlink". Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Nickington,

Good question!

The FAQs are for better UX.
Also, thinking on mobile UX it is great to have a list and quickly find out the option that I really need.
Browseo's amazing tool might help you to kow out what are the signasl that the algorithms can read about a page of your website.

Said that, I think that your FAQs page is doing great.
Although you might consider to check the Moz SEO Guide on regard the Meta Keywords. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Paul,

If I understood correctly, we are talking about two different websites, not a website with subdomains.
Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content as I stated above.

site A: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.com

site B: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.co.uk

The recommendations that Google gives are for the purpose of having the pages crawled and indexed not for having success with 100% duplicate content which do not serve a good UX, therefore gain a high bounce rate, then the overall SEO fall down.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Jim,

Forgot to mention the bad news on regard a migration to https, due to Google considers the https a new website, it will crawl all as "a new website".
That is great at first, though any failure from old times will appear with "red flags" because the 2017 algorithms will work. I mean broken links, 404s and so, that you didn´t know those were there, will be shown up.

That is why it is highly advisable to perform an SEO audit and fix up all, before the migration.
Although, in many years of SEO practice, only one client came before the migration.

Hope you recover your website's great DA soon

oEQREK

Hi CommercePundit,

Sadly, there is not "a non painful way to say it".
You cannot gain business from Adwords and Organic SEO marketing having 100% duplicated content.

The options; canonical and hreflang would not work in this case.

The only option is language "localization", mean rewrite the whole content by a local writer.

Canonical can be used for up to 10% not for the whole 100%. Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content.

Sorry to tell the bad news. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Kevin,

Assuming that you set up a 301 (permanent redirect) from the http to the https:

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

Where?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

What properties?:
http://example.com/
https://example.com/
http://www.example.com/
https://www.example.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://example.com/ (Assuming that you prefer the https non www version)
verify the robot texts
upload a sitemap
fetch as google
You will see data starts to be shown and index within a few days.

Forgot to mention the bad news on regard a migration to https, due to Google considers the https a new website, it will crawl all as "a new website".

That is great at first, though any failure from old times will appear with "red flags" because the 2017 algorithms will work. I mean broken links, 404s and so, that you didn´t know those were there, will be shown up.

That is why it is highly advisable to perform an SEO audit and fix up all, before a migration.

Although, in many years of SEO practice, only one client came before the migration.

You do NOT change the Analytics code, therefore it will continously showing old data and new data into the same view. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Jim,

Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
No
Great

Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
how to add https to Google Search Console? Should we do it or not?

Yes you ought to!
You have to add all versions of the website (if you did not add the http versions in the past to Google Search Console, formerly known as Google Webmasters).

Where?:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

What properties?:
http://infohub.com/
https:/infohub.com/
http://www.infohub.com/
https://www.infohub.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://www.infohub.com/
veryfy the robot texts
upload a site map
fetch as google
You will see data starts to be shown and index within a few days.

Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Don't think so. We still see site traffic stats in our GA account. That means the GA code is in place, right?
Yes.

Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Kingalan,

This tutorial might help you.
It worked smoothly for me. Hope it works for you too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Ps: In case you are using the Yoast plugin, there is an option into the set up for display or not the dates.

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Hi Jim,
Besides Gaston and Eli's responses, I truly think that is weird.
I mean that you have not a single inbound link after 22 years!
Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Good luck!
Mª Verónica