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Hi there I would make sure that your meta tags and robots.txt are both allowing for proper crawling / indexing of that page. I would then make sure your internal links are all pointing to the correct URL and your sitemap.xml is up to date and correctly submitted to Google and other search engines, like Bing. Take the time to learn proper SEO techniques and Google Webmaster Guidelines, then make sure your pages are properly optimized for the keywords / queries you wish for them to rank for. From there, it's a waiting game. If you have everything in place, Google and other search engines will find you and rank you accordingly. Make sure you look into Moz Pro to properly track keyword rankings as well so you know where opportunities lie and where you need work. Hope this all helps! Good luck! Patrick

Hi Chris, Think you're right. We go for plan B. Thanks

I think the best way to answer this is to determine exactly how Moz calculates the score in the first place. They have a handy video explaining it on this page along with more detailed info. Long story short, to improve your Trust score, improve the overall quality of your backlink profile. Technical Definition of MozTrust MozTrust quantifies the trustworthiness of a web page relative to all other pages on the web. It is based off of an algorithm developed by Yahoo! search engineers that is likely similar to the trust algorithms used by Google and Bing search engineers. Just as links express global link popularity, they also express information about the trustworthiness of URLs. As mentioned above, receiving links from sources with inherent trust, like university and government homepages, is a strong trust endorsement for your own page or site. By measuring the occurrence and frequency of these endorsements, MozTrust can quantify trust on the web.

Hello Experts, Can anyone reply me please? Thanks!

I have the same issue. Since I only wrote 2 posts I am considering creating a page called Blog, then under this creating pages for each blog post, rather than use the blog area. Since I post about once a month this should be ok. That would be a work around.

Hi Billy, I read through your question and it appears it's been 6 months since this post. I wondered how things were going here? Did you effectively canonicalize your old pages to your new URLs with Anchor Links? We may be in the process of doing the same thing so just wanted to ask for an update on your outcome? Thanks

Hi there, You will be fine making this change in terms of technical SEO - as long as there's a link featuring anchor text and an equivalent H1/Title tag set up (along with other SEO considerations of course), this is no different than having your internal link navigating through your header. The only impact might be as a result of having your internal links indexed lower down the page than they might be on your header, but at that point you're talking such a small impact that it effectively doesn't matter. On the other hand, however, is your user experience. I'm sure you've already considered this, but relocating your link structure from your header to another area may impact your visitor's ability to find what they are looking for on your site. For my money, your priorities with regards to this question aught to be: Can my visitors find what I want them to find? How is the content set up to give my pages the best chance of ranking? What link building strategy will best support my choices in 1) and 2) above? If you are making this decision based on aesthetics, I would give it another look. If you are making it based on technical SEO strategy, there isn't much basis that it will help or hurt - just a different way of going about it. E-commerce sites represent a difficult SEO problem, so you probably have bigger fish to fry. Hope that helps and clarifies the situation a little bit - if not, feel free to reach out any time and I'd be happy to discuss. Cheers and best of luck moving forward! Rob

Hi there Right now, you're telling crawlers to not crawl your entire site, so the sitemap XML would be included in that. Are you wanting your site to be crawled completely? Simply change the robots.txt to this... User-agent: * Allow: / Here is another great resource from SEOBook to check out! Hope this helps! Good luck! Patrick

Hi Andy, thanks for the reply.  Yes, each p=* is identical to the base category URL, the only differences are a small handful of products on each p=* which are not really offering anything to those pages in the way of uniqueness at all in the way they are presented.  So from that point of view the canonical makes sense.  However, I don't want to take Google's focus away from cleanly crawling all the products within p=* So rel=next & prev for me opens up duplication issues as there are no "parts" of content, it's going to be effectively the same category textual content. However if I implement &view-all and set the canonical to that version i'm then worried Google may be problematic and not play ball.

Thanks Oleg. The implementation we were looking at was similar to this: table style="width: 54px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">[image: badge_26_7@2x.png]

Thanks, Oleg. Appreciate your response.

Its recommended to noindex tags and category pages unless you add unique content to them (otherwise you are cannibalizing the individual post rankings). This is especially true if you only have 1 post in the tag/category and if you display the full text in the tag/category pages. If you want to index and rank the tag/category pages: Add unique text to the category/tag page that describes the types of posts that are listed there + include target keywords Make sure it has a unique title and meta description Don't show the entire posts within the category/tag pages.. instead show excerpts and link to read more.

Here is the official suggested markup: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6340290?hl=en On any non-AMP page, reference the AMP version of the page to let Google and other platforms know about it: On the AMP page, add the following text to reference its non-AMP canonical version:

You are quite welcome.

Yes, redirect as many pages to the same page or a similar page as you can. Then other pages to a more general product section if you cannot find one-to-one. This is really about the user experience more so than SEO. You don't want the users ending up on a 404 page. So long as you address it from the user experience, and it sounds like you are, then you should be fine.

I think you may have some traffic loss in the short-term, but over the long term, you ought to be able to get the site traffic back up, especially if you point the old domain to the new subdomain, along with related 301 redirects for individual pages, if you keep the same or a similar site structure. I happened to have read this earlier today. "Keep in mind though that subdomains may not fully benefit from the link equity, positive metrics or rankings from the main domain they are associated with and vice versa, if Google thinks of them as being under separate ownership. For example, a blog on blogspot.com does not benefit from the authority of blogspot.com. That said, if you already have content on a subdomain, it’s worth noting that the effort and consequences of moving that content to a root domain is typically not worth it, unless you spot an issue that compels you to do so. (If you do decide to move the content from a subdomain to your main domain, a short-term loss in traffic is typical.)" Via Moz's Top 10 newsletter: https://www.stonetemple.com/subfolders-subdomains-microsites-and-seo/ So, I think you need to fully evaluate the value of moving to a subdomain over staying on a 2nd level domain. -- Jewel

Hi there Alot of this sounds off to me. First, I'd think you'd want /category living in the navigation, be indexed, have links, and have a great user experience. In my mind, www.example.com/category?view=all should only exist as a filtering URL when you change the number of URLs you want to see on the page itself. You'll have substantially more luck focusing on version A in my opinion. Focus on creating a great user experience and optimization strategy, and you should reap the benefits at a deeper level. Let me know if this helps! Good luck! Patrick

Hello, if anybody has an idea, we would much appreciate some input. Thank you in advance.

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OK will try that thanks