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This question only leads me to followup questions... I don't see pagination markup in the parameters, only the query, startDate, and endDate. Where are the parameters as pagination? Why are paginated URLs noindexed?? This is not the ideal way to handle paginated URLs

Hi Dan Thanks for the response. I did have 3 but now got the number of affected pages down to 1. Not a / issue, it appears to show the non www to https as the loop. Have set the appearance in GWMT as normal for display and set the derivative options accordingly in Plesk and not via htaccess. It was the plesk v htaccess element that I changed and removed 2 warnings. I shall keep an eye on it and see if this resolves/impacts over time. Thanks again, Daren

It could be an intermittent slow server or one that's dropping out occasionally. There are various services which allow you to monitor uptime (e.g. Pingdom etc).

Hi Igor Thanks for your help with that. I've contacted HP Hosts now so I'll just have to sit a wait. Cheers Richard

Awesome, great link, thanks!

Hi Johny, I recommend only putting schema markup on actual blog posts, and not the category pages. Chances are pretty good that you're not getting much organic traffic to those pages anyway.. There's not a lot of reason for someone to search for something that would land them there, so much so that on every blog I manage I've had /category/ and /tag/ pages deindexed. However, if you're still wanting to do this, you'd have to set the markup for category pages as a separate tag in GTM and then apply a trigger that only applies to URLs in the category folder.

Ok so this allows your website to be saved down to the homescreen as a bookmarked icon. Your phone should select the best resolution for your screen from the above dimensions. If you are doing the same for an App - sorry should of asked it may be different depending on how your app is compiled. EDIT : Ignore last bit in first message, looks like I pasted a bit too much

In addition, I crawled the backlinks from other websites as well, the ones that appear on the search console, but couldn't find the links to the abc.biz website. I searched the url of abc.biz in every source page. really strange

Hi Green_Web, It looks like you have the same default title tag for all of your blog posts. The main pages on the site look like they have more suitable title tags. The blog section looks like it's in WordPress and has a default title tag in place, which hopefully is not hardcoded into the post template. If you don't have access or have the ability to edit titles, I would suggest talking to the devs and get them to use the post name in the title, but ideally, you would be able to independently modify all page titles through a plugin like Yoast. The reason you may be seeing a more suitable title tag sometimes is that Google won't always use your specified title tag in SERPs - it can sometimes use your h1 heading (for example) if it thinks that is more relevant to the user's search query. Cheers, David

Thank you very much Ruth.

I like Logan's answer. You may, however, consider allowing a single "endlessly scrolling" Reviews page for each product, which: 1. Would NOT have the first X reviews shown on the Product page (sorted in whatever way works best for you). 2. Would perform the role of Review Pagination, though without taking anyone off the product page unless they REALLY wanted to see more reviews by clicking the (see all reviews) link. I think this is pretty similar to how Amazon does it, and they know what they're doing when it comes to maximizing conversions. 3. Would be indexable and optimized for "Product Name Reviews". 4. Would never be "built" unless there are at least X-reviews for the product, necessitating pagination.

You are most welcome. I'm glad to hear your road to site recovery is coming along. I'm also glad to confirm that, to all of my knowledge, your understanding of the "*" operator and Disallow /?spam string is correct. One more thing: Fetch as Google and Request Indexing Apologies, I neglected to mention this step in my answer. It should be included. This is the best tool I'm aware of to ask Google, "hey, crawl me please." Do this after you upload your shiny new robots.txt. In GSC, under Crawl, select Fetch as Google. Then, select Fetch and Render. When status is partial or complete, click Request Indexing. There is no guarantee here, and my experience is Google does what it wants. Even so, I've seen results in less than 2 hours (full disclosure: the longest I've waited has been 3 days). Penalty Free I agree. They cannot possibly be penalizing your site. At least, not purposefully. You have taken all recommended actions and then some to resolve site issues. Even if you do have a few bad back links floating around out there from some blackhat t3 site PBN, Penguin 4.0 should discredit that bad link juice. Your site doesn't even have the offending pages. It's just a matter of time before Google's index lines back up with your live site. Good Work Sir, Wipe the Index Clean, CopyChrisSEO and the Vizergy Team

Wow, there are a lot of things going on here so hopefully I've understood it all correctly. By the sound of it, your client purchased the supplier then populated that supplier's website with their own content? If this is the case, I'd expect their biggest issue will be the duplication. If they've now got 2 websites with the same content, it's very likely this alone with limit the second site's ability to rank well. While having duplicate product descriptions isn't the end of the world, it certainly doesn't help. In this scenario they've taken unique content and replaced it with duplicate and so the drop you're seeing is exactly what I would have expected. My question is what's the best thing to do in this case so that the rankings will be back to higher positions and they'll get back their traffic. If I were in your shoes, I'd be looking to get as much uniqueness happening in that content as I could. Since the supplier's site had original content for the same products, you could try reverting to that for the time being. You can test it with a single category as a proof of concept and if that works, move ahead from there. If you're going to try that, make sure you block the subdomain via Robots.txt so Google isn't crawling those old descriptions there or you'll end up in the same position This is all general info since I can't look closer at the site. It could also be a site structure/speed/navigation/page title/meta description problem etc. If you're comfortable sending me the links I'd be happy to take a closer look. Feel free to drop it here or PM.

they don't all point to the homepage but they do all point to the same directory on my site. Pointing them elsewhere would mean they'd point to unrelevant pages.

Hi All, Can anyone reply for my query? It's very important for me to take further action. Thanks!

Hi Logan, Thank you for the practical suggestions! Will speak to the team about putting these things in action! Eric

Thank you, I will look into this.

Hey there, Your issue is very well explained in this thread. The only difference is that the other questioner has more pages in GWT that in "site:" search. But it shouldn't effect relevancy for your question. Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

You are right! Thank you for pointing me to this query, I guess now I need to work on the content and back links to push them up tp first page. Thank you again Logan