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Hi Just to jump in on this, the site I work on hasn't transitioned to full https yet, but the login, basket & payment pages are all https. What is your view on this? I;m aware we need to transition the whole site, but I need to push this with the dev team at our parent company. Thanks Becky

Ok great thanks Donna All Best Dan

Hi Pol, No, not just by changing the both the URL and canonical to something new and different. You'll need a redirect. Is there a reason you can't?

Thanks for your reply. Well, we are using HTML for the Google however not sure why the issue is coming.

Hi, I'd recommend using a sitemap index. It allows you to address multiple sitemaps in GSC so you could have one for 'static pages' and another which generates for blog content.

Hello JoaoCJ, My recommendation is to not allow internal search result pages to be indexed. You should block them from being accessed via the Robots.txt file and then request their removal from GSC. This is what Google recommends. There are always exceptions to the rule. However, best practices is all I can provide without knowing more about the situation, such as whether those internal search pages are an important part of your taxonomy (rare) or are also receiving significant, high quality organic search traffic (also rare).

Hi, Those are Google carousel results.  carousel results are results from Google’s Knowledge Graph. Please check below article for optimization. https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2299454/4-google-carousel-optimization-tips Thanks

Some link building campaigns are more difficult than others. If your blog contains unique content that is useful to people, find your niche market. Hopefully the someone you email agrees that the content is useful and will link to it, also benefiting their users. If it has to do with products, again find your market. This can be more difficult, hopefully your products have features that similar products don't. Focus on those features when finding your target market. I would focus on emailing blogs/bloggers & websites personally instead of guest posting. If you get a response there's a far higher chance you'll get a quality link. If your blog has great content, you'll only need to do this a few times before more and more people find you. If you try many times with no success, work on your content. If searches about your content is highly competitive, focus on sub or even sub-sub topics about your content. Content is king!

Here in INDIA, it's on #1. I think it's recovering.

Thank you, that seems to have addressed that issue!

Thank you will do!

dk7, My experience with amp is that it is not necessary for SEO unless you are writing time sensitive news articles or articles based on current events. These are the real amp pages that google is displaying right now. I  have not seen amp product pages or service pages from small businesses show up in the SERPS. Amp will remove all programming from the page so it will mostly be text based. Sidebars and other page elements are not usually displayed with AMP pages. The purpose of AMP is to increase the user experience on mobile devices. So these pages have basic text and some images.

Definitely go for Option 1: redirecting to the relevant pages on the singular domain. I would also recommend using subfolders to contain content on individual locations, something similar to rapturecamps.com/bali for Bali information. This would allow you to gain authority for that specific niche and add articles to that niche, rather than having them all under one central holder (the root domain).

You guys are awesome!! Thank you so much! That is exactly what we thought! Thank you for confirming, we loaded a backup.

If you want the non-www URLs to be the ones that show up in search, yes, the canonical should be the non-www ones. You are sending mixed messages. Google will pick for you in this case, but why add confusion.

Thanks, Alick300 — unfortunately, the slash doesn't appear like that in the URLs on this site: they look like this www.domain.com/page.html?Page= ......... In running through an online robots.txt tester, all three versions in my original question seem to work. Until proven otherwise, I'm using the first one because it's the simplest.

The information provided here has been helpful. What is the best use for NEW DOMAIN EXTENSIONS? I have built a website around "####.online" and have now purchased many more domains with new extensions. Examples = "####.taxi", "####.services", "####.tours", "####.community", "####.restaurant", "####.villas", "####.business", "####.cafe", "####.energy", "####.solar", "####.cruises", "####.events", "####.fish", "####.news", etc etc etc...I have several more. The "####" is a specific place, a touristic destination. What is the best way to bring these domains together in a whitelist approach in order to improve ranking around searches related to "####"???

I second this! Thanks for all the extra help you've been giving folks in the forum lately, @Hurf.  

Any time you  transfer part of a site you transfer away the strength of that portion of your site.  Your page count will drop, there will be some drop in visitor engagement and the number of inbound links and linking root domains will drop.  I would be prepared to see negative impact on existing rankings.

Thanks, both!