Category: Technical SEO Issues
Discuss site health, structure, and other technical SEO issues.
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Site hacked, but can't find the code
use sucuri.net to do a full website scan and see if it's still infected (and where it's infected). the scan if totally free.
| LinkWheelOldSchool0 -
How to get only the most needed css for faster loading?
This seems like something that's a little beyond the scale of an app. SitePoint did a great breakdown of the whole ecosystem of page rending here: http://www.sitepoint.com/optimizing-critical-rendering-path/ that details the steps to go through regarding loading pages as quickly as possible. That said, a CDN like Cloudflare would be better suited to the task: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer. Cheers!
| RyanPurkey0 -
We lost ranking for balers keywords for sinobaler.com site, What could be wrong?
Hey, Meanwhile Dan gave you quite a nice answer below. Gr., Keszi
| Keszi0 -
Ajax, SEO and Angular
Great answer. It makes it clear for us, concerning the tests you made it is useful for us, as we were worried about same issues. We will anyway work in providing every static page which loads first a good dynamic content rather than just a paragraph of 400 characters. But a bit by a bit. Thank you!
| Eurasmus.com0 -
I've consolidated other domains to a single one with 301 redirects, yet the new domain authority in MOZ is much less that the redirected ones. Is that right?
Hi Bernard, Has this worked? Did the high authority of the other site transfer over to the one you 301'd to? Please advice as I am trying to do similar consolidation. Thanks in advance. Mash
| MashBonigala2 -
Robots.txt blocking Addon Domains
Sort of resolved, maybe the wrong place to ask any further. The above is a working fix for what seems like a legit bug, I'll update if WordPress forums say anything.
| eglove0 -
Duplicate content and canonicalization confusion
I agree with you. It's all very confusing and little details make a BIG difference. Thanks for sticking with this.
| DonnaDuncan0 -
Will removing the trailing slash impact my SEO?
Hi, Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete. Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content. But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO. Thanks
| Alick3000 -
Should I go with a Mobile Site or Responsive Design
I agree with Anthony. It is important to offer the same experience to desktop and mobile users. A responsive design, in my opinion, is much easier to manage and offers the best user experience. Google has said that they do not have a preference for one version over the other, the important thing is to have a mobile friendly version of your site. I think most professionals would recommend a responsive design unless having a responsive design creates a user experience that would be better if there were simply a mobile version of the site. I think that is the only exception.
| MonicaOConnor1 -
How many tiers are the best?
It is a simple question. I have some tiers but I need how many tiers more I need. In addition, I have two levels from link building but I don't know if it is enough.
| CarlosZambrana0 -
Where i am making mistake ? please help
i understand Jonathan & i truly appreciate your efforts to help me here. i have already started following your suggestions thank you once again
| cepprolimehost1 -
Good alternatives to Xenu's Link Sleuth and AuditMyPc.com Sitemap Generator
import.io and it's free
| TheeDigital0 -
Domain prefix changed, will this impact SEO?
Thanks Ryan. It seems the results are already starting to reappear which is quicker than I expected. Our web development company should have definitely consulted us before making this change but at least there's no major issue now. Thanks again.
| Jseddon920 -
Is Schema markup important for SEO?
Thanks for the advice, we will certainly implement this into our site.
| Jseddon920 -
Best SEO service/process to harness the power of quality backlinks?
It's really hard to say, and it's definitely not unheard of for rankings to vary wildly between search engines. It's possible that you lost some ranking power when you nofollowed those links, or that Google is just trying to figure out where to rank you now that your link profile has changed. It's also possible that it's completely unrelated. Honestly, that's why I recommend the Full SERP Report—it might help you work out what it is that's letting the sites ranking above you pull ahead.
| MattRoney0 -
I Lost Index Status of My Sitemap
Thanks for the opinion. You were also right. Without even doing anything, I'm back at 24/24.
| RLG0 -
Redirecting 301 or 302?
Hi, Thank you for useful information, really helps! I wish I could manually (I'm a designer and parttime webmaster on our site), but since the links are too many from too many places, and login page has nofollow norobot, I will recommend my boss 301... Thanks again! : )
| HypermediaSystems0 -
Mobile update: referrer in alternate URL
Thank you both. I think we should go for this solution. Marcel
| MarcelMoz0