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Yes, you can link them to each other with a regular link, no need to place a No Follow.
Since this is the same website in different languages and targeting different countries, you should look into implementing hreflang on both websites.
You can check MOZ's guide to hreflang here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
Hi Ali,
Yeah, I would agree that it is a spammy site. When I tried visiting it, I went through a lot of redirects and ended up on some random page. I would disavow the domain and still implement 301 redirects.
Hi,
A spam score of 20%-40% doesn't necessarily mean that the backlink is bad/spammy. It's only an indication - you can read more about MOZ's spam score calculation here.
I would strongly advise implementing 301 redirects because the old URL can have more valuable backlinks that you still can't see. As good as MOZ's crawler is, it won't pick up everything Google does.
If you're worried about a certain link being spammy, I would go visit it and see what kind of website/page it's sitting on and if it does turn out to be pure spam, you can Disavow that link from Google Search Console. Otherwise, I'd keep the link.
Hope that helps!
Hi Jeff,
I think you'll be fine with a local service providers' page, even if they link back to you within the same capacity. Google's aim is to root out spam and links that don't make sense. In this case, its perfectly fine. A good question to ask yourself when placing the link is "Does this link make sense to be here? Does it help the reader?" If it does, then go ahead.
The internet is full of examples of websites linking to each others' resources and guides.
Hope that clears it up!
Hi Daniele,
I think your homepage should have some text that describes what the website is about and what services/products do you offer. A great place to get ideas would be for you to see the top ranking websites for the keywords you want to rank for. Take a look at their homepages, what kind of content they've put up and how they broke down their homepage. That should give you a few solid ideas to build on.
Hope that helps!
Running a quick "site:" search on your website, I can see that there are a handful of pages that are indexed. I can also see that you only have 2 posts up and they were published very recently. Additionally, a few elements on the menu are not linked to any pages. So I'm wondering if the site is relatively new or has been redesigned recently?
Based on Google's Help Center: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en - it can take a few weeks for them to process the information in the file.
Based on the few times we've used the tool, I can say that the effect roles out across 2-4 weeks. But that's based on a small number of cases and it might be very different for other sites.
Hope that helps!
I'd recommend you install it and try it out. We've been using it for a few sites and its great
The spam score is based on a lot of factors that MOZ's crawler takes into account. You can learn more about the how the spam score works here and see what's affecting your site.
Having a high spam score doesn't automatically mean the site is spammy, but its worth looking into what's happening.
Doing a "site:" search for your website shows that there are over 90k pages sitting in the index. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but at least the site is properly indexed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "how can i change my content" - this is a WordPress site, so I'm assuming adding/changing content isn't a difficult task since you have what appears to be a well-built site.
Hi Jeff,
I think you'll be fine with a local service providers' page, even if they link back to you within the same capacity. Google's aim is to root out spam and links that don't make sense. In this case, its perfectly fine. A good question to ask yourself when placing the link is "Does this link make sense to be here? Does it help the reader?" If it does, then go ahead.
The internet is full of examples of websites linking to each others' resources and guides.
Hope that clears it up!
Hi Tara,
Since you already placed a 301 redirect from the old post to the new one, then you're all set and there is no need to delete the old posts because as soon as you, or a crawler, access the old page,s you'll be redirected to the new ones without "seeing" the old content.
If you are referring to deleting the content from your CMS, then you can go ahead and do so as they are not accessible anymore. Just make sure that the 301 redirects are still in place.
There are a few very good ones. I can share the ones I know and used:
RankMath is relatively new and offers a lot of features for free that are found in the premium version of the others.
The spam score is based on a lot of factors that MOZ's crawler takes into account. You can learn more about the how the spam score works here and see what's affecting your site.
Having a high spam score doesn't automatically mean the site is spammy, but its worth looking into what's happening.
Where are you starting your crawl or check from?
If you are staring from http://www.example-link and you have SSL configured, then naturally you will be redirected to https://www.example-link - if that's the case, you can reconfigure your tools to start from the https version of your website and see what's happening then.
You should also check all your internal links and see if any of them are pointing to the http version and then update them all to the https version. This should sort out your http to https chains.
That's highly dependent on the query itself. For example, for research-based searches, you'll see authoritative websites like Wikipedia dominate the search results as those kinds of searches are not relevant to any location. Think of a medical term, or a name of a movie, or a type of flower for example.
However, for navigation-based searches, and local services based searches, you'll see very localized results. If you search for "plumber in CityName" - you'll see different results every time you use a different city name.
It comes down to the search intent as Google always aims to serve that intent to the best of its ability & understanding.
Hi Carrie,
Your CMS should be able to handle the trailing "/" on your website and provide consistency across all pages. If not, I would advise you to check with your developers on handling this.
You can also do the following since both pages are treated "differently"
Identify which version of the page you want to have as your main one. The one with a hight PA would probably be better.
Have all your internal & menu links point the page you identified as being the main one.
Once you've chosen your primary version, configure the Canonical element of the other page to point to this page.
Hope that helps!
Implementing the FAQ Schema doesn't guarantee that it will show in the search results. It's up to Google to decide on whether to do so or not keeping in mind that there are probably other elements that Google checks for on the site in addition to the Schema.
Hi Ken,
Running a quick "site:" query on both URLs, I can see that they are indexed.
You can use the robots.txt tester from the Old Search Console interface and comment out the lines that could be contributing to the block.
In all cases, the pages are sitting in the index as of this writing.
Yes, you can link them to each other with a regular link, no need to place a No Follow.
Since this is the same website in different languages and targeting different countries, you should look into implementing hreflang on both websites.
You can check MOZ's guide to hreflang here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag