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Hi Martin,

Here I have question about 301 on my mind for long time. We avoid 301 redirects internally which will not cause page slow loading. What about 301 redirects for the links referred from external sources? I mean page A has been mentioned on a external website which has been redirected to page B?

Hi all,

There are some old images (non-existing now) from our website which have backlinks. We would like to redirect them to some live images to reclaim the backlinks. Is this Okay or sounds suspicious to Google?

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Hi all,

Google picks up a non-homepage to rank for primary keyword where homepage is actually optimised to rank for same keyword. This means Google is ignoring the actual page and ranking other page. Does this scenario means that we are ranking lower as the homepage is not considered here? We may rank much better if homepage is preferred by Google?

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Thank you. Do these pages with canonical tags take away pagerank? I think they'll pass the pagerank to referring pages. Will there be any link juice dilution?

Hi all,

Our website has more than 30 pages which are duplicates. So canonicals have been deployed to show up only 10 of these pages. Do more of these pages impact rankings?

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Hi all,

First, we have created a HTML sitemap for our wordpress website. Then we again generated XML sitemap and submitted same in search console. It's been more than a week and still new XML sitemap has not been indexed yet. I can still only see HTML sitemap for search results "company sitemap". Also search console do have only XML sitemap. Both sitemaps are accessible but only HTML has been indexed. Is there anything wrong having 2 sitemaps? Why XML sitemap not been indexed?

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Hi all,

I know Google shows a different page titles. Happens when over optimised or when we copied competitors page title. But we did neither. Suddenly Google changed our homepage page title in search results. Our page title suffix "brand name" has been moved to beginning. Our page title is still for years.

We meant to move the login page to dedicated server away from website for security concerns. So login.website.com sub-domain will no more part of our website. I wonder the traffic to this separate page counts into website. Will 301 redirect will make sure the traffic to login page count as our website traffic?

We meant to move the login page to dedicated server away from website for security concerns. So login.website.com sub-domain will no more part of our website. Still 301 redirect makes the traffic to be counted as our website traffic?

Hi Alick,

We meant to move the login page to dedicated server away from website for security concerns. So login.website.com sub-domain will no more part of our website. I wonder the traffic to this separate page counts into website.

Our current login page looks like www.website.com/log-in/. We are planning to migrate it to a sub directory login.website.com. For years, our login page is the top landing with highest visits after homepage. If we migrate this now, are we going to loose traffic and drop in rankings?

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Hi all,

We have 3 editions of our product we are trying to rank better. Some of our features level pages from these editions are repeating in these 3 editions. Exactly like below example:

clothes.com/cotton-fabrics/shirts

clothes.com/wool-fabrics/shirts

clothes.com/polyester-fabrics/shirts

"Shirts" pages repeat in "cotton-fabrics", "wool-fabrics" and "polyester-fabrics".

We have added rel=canonical to rank "shirts" in rank only one category.

I wonder do we need to take any other measures to make sure that these pages don't affect us negatively.

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Hi all,

I would like to know the community's opinion on this. A website with more pages or less pages will rank better? Websites with more pages have an advantage of more landing pages for targeted keywords. Less pages will have advantage of holding up page rank with limited pages which might impact in better ranking of pages. I know this is highly dependent. I mean to get answers for an ideal website.

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Hi,

Our login page is for users, nit employees. Most of the people browsing from our website will browse through login page. So I'm afraid what signals we are sending to Google by noindex or nofollow such important page. Again, I don't think login page has been making on results just because it's highly browsed.

Hi Kate,

Thanks for the answers. We have same content for US and India like our competitors as the niche is globally popular and accessed. Our competitors are almost same in India and US as the industry is globally extended. We don't see this ranking pattern for any of our competitors. Just wonder why exactly the rankings are hitting each other in these countries. I wonder any backlinks have triggered the Google algorithm. Do you think so? Coz we noticed this post the link reclamation process.

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Our homepage is outranked by log-in page for "primary keyword" in Google search results; for which actually our homepage was optimised. I have gone through the other answers for the same question here. But I couldn't find them related with our website. We are not over optimised. We have link from top navigation menu of blog to our homepage. Does this causing this?

Our website ranking always fluctuates from US and India. Our primary visitors are from US followed by India. We can see 10 ranking positions difference in these countries whenever we did some changes. Why this? More precisely to say, rankings are inversely proportional like rank drops in other country while improved in one country and vice versa. What could be the possibility? We been facing this from an year and searching for someone who could really make a move on it.

We have given below as DNS prefetch in our website. CMS is wordpress.

Are these okay? I wonder why fonts.googleapis.com is not working. One of our competitors is using youtube. Can we improve it any how?

Hi Logan,

Thanks for the response. We are clear about internal redirects and removed such by replacing with original links. I mean here specific about the external links pointing to old pages of website which have been redirected multiple times. Like page A referred somewhere which is actually landing on page C via page B. In this case also, we need to cut the middle hop like page B?

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In the process of website migrations and redesign, we create & replace new pages which will lead to multiple redirects unknowingly. Like: page A to page B & page B to page C. Will these kind of multiple redirects hurt? I would be happy to hear what happens with WordPress with this scenario in particular.

Hope I'm not resurfacing this question. I don't mean about unrelated video. I wonder how much a brand video will entice the website visitors on homepage or any other landing page? And does Google consider it as a ranking factor?

Hi Alick,

Our sub-domains are taking away the traffic ranking for our "brand" related queries. So we are planning to migrate them to sub-directories to increase the total traffic and visits of our website. I wonder will these visits from "brand" related queries increase our ranking position for keywords?

Hi all,

If a website's traffic increase in "New visitors"; will this impact rankings? Do the website overall traffic affect rankings? How much this is related with ranking improvement for main keywords? Just because thousands of visits increased for website, will it count as a strong ranking improvement signal?

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Let's say we create landing pages for targeted keywords in our niche. So like we have landing pages optimised for 80% of the top keywords with decent search volume. If these pages started ranking at first page or around; will this scenario improves the ranking of website? Right now, only few of our top pages are ranking good. Planning to create more of such.

Hi Dana,

We didn't change the domain name. Same domain name for last 10 years. Recently we migrated to same CMS (Wordpress to wordpress). Just redesigned the website and launched back

Hi all,

We usually give "brand & primary keyword" across all pages in website like "vertigo tiles". Do we need to maintain this suffix across all page titles? What if we change according to the page? Will Google downlook for not maintaining these page titles suffix like I mentioned?

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Our website has been migrated from Joomla to Wordpress at the end of 2015 and we have tasted the loss of 20% of the traffic. After an year at the end of 2016, we have relaunched the website in same word press with new theme.  Again we lost n rankings and traffic. I would say ranking. Because mostly people land on our website by searching for our brand. Now we almost went invisible for "keywords" we been targeting. We have checked all the possibilities like duplicate content, redirection, alt tags, speed, canonicals, backlinks, etc..and couldn't find what is hitting us. What could be such strong factor hitting us ?

Our website cms is WordPress. We have recently changed the URL pattern of our blog pages which resulted in hundreds of crawl errors in Google search console. Even though we don't have any broken links; old pages have been reported at Google. We are trying to redirect the old URLs to new which will be handled by auto redirects or manual redirects. Will so many redirects impact on website? I don't mean about internal redirects. I mean about redirects made for the cause of reclaiming non existing pages referred from external sites

Have you tries ahrefs tool? It will give the new back links with dates. May be this helps

If we get any backlinks from discussions/forums of top websites like wordpress and joomla forums; do they count as valid and authority improving backlinks? I mean about the dofollow links.

Apache

Hi Alick,

Thanks for the answer. I wonder how Google handles it in all the cases. There are many websites which have reciprocal links being associated professionally but not just for link building. And if we need to "nofollow" them; does it mean that we don't trust them? How come we don't trust our business partners?

So, we all "nofollow" most of the external links or all external links to hold back the page rank. Is it correct? As per Google, only non-trusty and paid links must be nofollow. Is it all same about external links and nofollow now?

Hi,

We have reciprocal links with our business partners. Their websites have been listed on our website with "nofollow" links and they link to our website with "nofollow" or "dofollow" links.

Is this wrong having reciprocal links? And if they are our partners, "nofollow" or "dofollow" is better? I don't think there will be anymore link juice loss with dofollow links from our website?

Hi all,

Ours is website's blog is built with wordpress. We used to have the below URL pattern like may other websites:  www.website.com/blog/2016/04/10/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog.

Recently we removed the date and made the URL pattern to just like: www.website.com/blog/topic-on-how-to-optimise-blog

All the links have been generated with new URLs across the blog. Still all the old URLs have been reported as crawl errors in search console. I am wondering will there be any auto redirect formula to redirect all the old URLs to new URLs.

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Hi all,

When we search for top tools or software like "top cms systems", we can see Google listing some companies in boxes. What these results are called? I know search snippets are different. Any idea on what basis Google is listing them? I couldn't able to give you screenshot as imgur failed to upload image.

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Can we have rel=canonical across all pages of a wordpress CMS website? I don't know why same page has been as canonical but not for duplicate pages

Hi Alick,

Thanks for the answer. Will there be any negative impact if we use option 1 and option 2 at different pages. Or it's mandatory to follow one pattern across all pages of website?

Hi,

I agree that brand at page titles is for recognition. In-terms of SEO benefits; I would like to know suffix of every page title giving keyword at prefix....or keyword along with brand name at suffix for all pages? Which will have more impact at Google

HI Martijn,

Thanks for the response. I agree with what you said. But I would like to know...brand is enough at suffix of every page title giving keyword at prefix....or keyword along with brand name at suffix for all pages? Which will have more impact at Google

Hi all,

It's a common practice giving the "brand name" or "brand name & primary keyword" as suffix on EVERY page title. Well then it's just we are giving "primary keyword" across all pages and we expect "homepage" to rank better for that "primary keyword". Still Google ranks the pages accordingly? How Google handles it? The default suffix with primary keyword across all pages will be ignored or devalued by Google for ranking certain pages? Or by the ranking of website improves for "primary keyword" just because it has been added to all page titles?

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the answer. That's where we are confused. We been giving the suffix as "brand & primary keyword" like how most of the websites do. Example is "Page topic xxxx | vertigo tiles" where "vertigo" is brand and "tiles" is our primary keyword to rank for. While choosing the same suffix for all pages, "primary keyword" is at the end of every page title. I think how it will work if we bring "primary keyword" along with topic and give just "brand name" and suffix. Like.... "black colour tiles | vertigo". I wonder which suffix will make more impact at Google.

General public search with our "brand name" and only 10% search with our "brand name and primary keyword". So do we need to change the suffix to just "brand name"? Will it helps?

If a there is page like website.com/page; I think this page will be indexed by Google even we don't link it internally from anywhere. Is this true? Will it makes any difference in-terms of "indexability" if we list this page on sitemap? I know page's visibility will increase when link from multiple internal pages. I wonder will there be any noticeable  difference while this page is listed in sitemap.

Hi,

I would like to know header tags (h5 or h6) or list items (

• ) works better for footer menu links for the best linking structure.

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Most of these links might help in technical SEO but not something users might be visiting. And I think this way, before link reanimation, we lost many links. Does this hurt?

I am confused with the answers. Even though majority claims that different landing pages are not required, I can see clearly top landing pages in our niche are created for same purpose of targeting to rank for particular keywords and majority of them are  successful. I would like to know if there will be any penalty if we create related landing pages.

Hi James,

Thanks for the answer. Let me elaborate the question:

Generally homepage will be optimised and expected to rank for "primary keyword". And the other landing pages are optimised and expected for "secondary keywords".

So, now let's take homepage is ranking well for "primary keyword"; does this impact on improving rankings of other landing pages for "secondary keywords"? And vice versa....if couple of landing pages are ranking well for "secondary keywords"; does this impact on improving ranking of homepage?

I am just wondering about it. Because I doubt if website (homepage) is not ranking well, will this push other ranking pages little down?

Months back, we can notice "keyword" will be bold and highlighted if its in the SERP URL. Now Google no more highlights any URLs even with exact match of keyword we search. Beside UI, Does this mean Google might devalued or reduced the importance of URL as ranking factor? We can see many search results match partially or completely in URL with search keywords.