Hi Roman,

Thanks for your answer!

It's a commercial tool.

I checked the robots.txt file and .htaccess, but didn't saw any problems.
As you say, the problem can just be caused by the user-agent.

If so, this will not affect my SEO efforts, right?

Hi Everyone,

A crawler from our SEO tool detects a 403 error from a link from our main domain to a a couple of subdomains. However, these subdomains are perfect accessibly. What could be the problem? Is this error caused by the server, the crawlbot or something else?

I would love to hear your thoughts.
Jens

Hi SEOchris,

Thanks for your answer. I checked the robots.txt file, changed the User Agent to Googlebot in Screaming Frog, but non of these gave new insights. For now, we don't have access yet to the server log files, but when we have, hopefully they will tell us more.

Hi everyone,

A client of us has a quite new website with a lot of URLs. (Google Search Console indicates around 5300.) However, when I execute a site crawl with screaming frog, or a crawl test in MOZ, it only shows me one URL, the homepage.

Does somebody have an idea why the other pages of the website are not showing up?

Thanks,
Jens

Hi Guys,

Just as Jon-S, I'm curious about any updates on this item. Does someone have experienced SEO benefits by using or not using a trailing slash at the end of their URLs?

Any news would be more than welcome!

Regards,
Jens

Hi Mozzers,

I was just looking at the dwell time tip from Mike Arnesen and have some difficulties understanding it. This is the formula:

(Words on page)/15*1000

Why is he using 15? Where does the number stand for? What is it that I'm actually calculating now?

Thanks!
Sander

Thank you for your answer Dirk. This looks really solid.

Sander

Hi Mozzers,

The background:

I have this very corporate .com domain which is used worldwide. Next to that, we have another .com domain which is specifically created for the US visitors. Within the organic rankings, we notice that our corporate domain is ranking much better in the US. Many visitors are arriving on this domain. As it is a corporate domain being used worldwide, they get lost.

My questions:

I know there are ways to redirect by location. Would it be smart to automatically redirect US visitors for the corporate domain to the commercial US-specific domain? Is it possible to only redirect US visitors and leave the website as it is for visitors from other countries. Won't this harm the corporate website (organically) worldwide?

If this would be a good idea, any recommended plugins or concrete procedures?

Thank you so much for helping me out!
Sander

Hi there,

My client has a product URL: www.company.com/product. They are only serving one state in the US. The existing URL is ranking in a position between 8-15 at the moment for local searches. Would it be interesting to add the location to the URL in order to get a higher position or is it dangerous as we have our rankings at the moment. Is it really giving you an advantage that is worth the risk?

Thank you for your opinions!
Sander

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your response!

On our local websites, we have specific meta-descriptions in place. Do you know another technical solution to do this on a corporate .com domain (meta-description per country)? This domain is used in the whole world but we want to test multiple meta-descriptions for this .com domain.