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I didn't realise that there was other Htaccess folder in the /en and /fr... But thank alot for the help and I will chek Regexr.com !

I assume you mean Search > Crawl Diagnostics > Issues overview There is a note telling you that you have a canonical tag which is fine (a black tag) this is more informational and shouldn't worry about it. When to worry - If you have duplicate content. edit also assuming this in Moz reports

Have you checked webmaster tools from google? They can give some information to you.

You can submit them separately. One for video, one for images, one for URL's. This may be a more effective approach at getting things indexed, as it separates them into their own category. If you are already having a high load time, wouldn't hurt to try. To answer your original question: "Sitemaps should be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. These limits help to ensure that your web server does not get bogged down serving very large files." But wait, there's more! http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021559.html "Google has changed the number of Sitemaps you can reference in a Sitemap index file. The number use to be 1,000 sitemaps can be referenced in a Sitemap index file, now the number is 50,000 Sitemaps. This is a huge increase in capacity. Still, each Sitemap file can contain up to 50,000 URLs, so technically 50,000 multiplied by 50,000 is 2,500,000,000 or 2.5 billion URLs can be submitted to Google via Sitemaps."

Ideally, I'd ask to see examples of the companies' work within these platforms for other clients. I agree with Prestashop that many companies have made many different platforms work for them in a variety of ways. Modern platforms are usually not too bad for SEO no matter what you go with, but all have their particular issues. I would not worry too much about keywords further down the URL structure; there are many more important factors for best SEO practice, and it's possible / likely that this is not an issue at all anymore. Where the ecommerce platform is hosted also should not be an issue. The quality of site they can produce within these platforms would be my concern, and it's possible that a company with a "less desirable" platform can actually produce something that is of an overall higher quality, including when it comes to SEO. I'd definitely seek as many case studies / examples as possible.

Many thanks for your reply and suggestions, you have certainly shed some light on the situation and the article mentioned was excellent, a great resource. Thanks again!

Hi there, As far as your platform goes, product name changes simply shouldn't be causing 404s and this can be (relatively) easily bypassed by introducing the product id to the end of the URL. The name can then change but the product id remains the identifier for the product to load on the page. With regards to your 40K pages without meta titles or descriptions, it's going to be almost impossible to fix that manually. It sounds as though you need to establish a business case, which could be done by fixing a few hundred of them (based on the ones that get the most traffic) and seeing if it has any improvement. This might not have an impact though as it sounds as though they aren't doing well in SEO as it is, although I agree there's a chance that these poorly optimised pages might be hurting your overall rankings. The challenge you face sounds like more political/strategic than technical though. Either SEO has actual/potential value to your business or it doesn't. If content producers aren't versed in SEO or focused on maintaining it or producing optimised pages and content then you probably have an uphill battle ahead of you to get them to focus on it. Good luck, George

Hey David, thanks a lot for your response, I'll definitely take that on board!

Hi Sam, Though we relay on  branding, social media, natural backlinks etc.., still RAW SEO helps websites to get traffic. That put me to raise this question. Got your points and inputs. Will sure use them. thanks for your time.

We discussed using the canonical tag but wasn't sure it would be quite as good as using a 301. We will probably go with HT Access method. Thanks for the quick response, BTW! Cheers. Tom V

I'm assuming you changed keywords in the content of your site, as opposed to changing the meta keywords tag, or changing the keywords you are tracking in Moz Analytics, but want to check to be sure. There is a lot of "it depends" here. If you're a big site like Amazon and change your home page, the search engines will notice that right away. If you have a five-page site that hasn't been changed in a year, the search engines might not notice you've changed things for quite a while.

This is all they are saying thus far, make any sense ? We've set it up as network.domain.com so that every language site - including the UK version - can be subfoldered from one master place. So in actuality the UK site is www.domain.com/uk but it is domain mapped to the central URL www.domain.com

If none of these pages are indexed, you can block them via robots.txt. But if someone else links to a search page from somewhere on the web, google might include the url in the index, and then it'll just be a blank entry, as they can't crawl the page and see not to index it, as it's blocked via robots.txt.

As Matt Cutts says in the video Prestashop links to, a short period of downtime should not hurt at all. Google understands that short outages happen fairly regularly. If you know that the site is going to be down for longer, try to serve a 503 server status, indicating that the site is "unavailable" rather than "not found" (404) or "gone" (410). Some URL were lost during the drop of server, what should i do? Create again? Delete on GWT? What exactly do you mean by this? That the rankings were lost or the files were deleted? If the files were deleted but you want those pages back, re-create the files and upload them again to the same location they lived in before, i.e. re-creating the same URLs. If you mean that some URLs lost their rankings but that the files / URLs still exist, you will need to wait a little while to see if their rankings come back. I expect that they will: a 12 hour downtime should not hurt you permanently.

Search for remove base category in Woo-commerce you will find the plugin you are looking for i have also used it but i have forgot the name...

better to work other domains which i have escort-munich.net ?

I think we can all be in agreement that one site with subdomain is the best option. Thank you all for confirming what I thought was probably the right direction, but just needed to hear it somewhere else

I would love to see any of it you are willing to share. I am not saying in any way it is an absolute (what is in SEO?), I just worry over not indexing a page for mobile. Best

blogger has been overused by spammers and if you want a blog with seo benefit it should really be under a domain folder for your site. Even if your site is not php you can make this happen.