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Without Hreflang markup the en-US and en-GB pages will be treated as duplicate content. You do not want that. In fact, even with hreflang the two may be considered duplicates if there isn't enough differentiated content. Also, be careful with canonicals. You shouldn't specify the en-US page as the canonical URL for the fr page. The fr page is its own page and you should use hreflang to specify other language versions.

You need to 404 the old XML sitemaps.  Google loves to hang onto data in old sitemaps unless you 404 them. These should help https://www.lockedowndesign.com/prevent-google-from-crawling-old-sitemaps/ https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en

Have you done anything funny that would warrant your site being removed? Google only notifies webmasters of manual penalties if I am not mistaken.

Hi, Not really, it's not very important to have the priority elements in the sitemaps at all as Google usually decides on the priority to crawl pages themselves. Regardless of what you put in the sitemaps. Having two different locations for sitemaps containing the same URLs might be something to look into in the future. They like having 1 sitemap that is completely correct without mistakes. It provides you with a better authority then having issues with your sitemap(s). Hope this helps!

Definitely, agree with Robert. You do not need rel=canonical tags on filtered / search views of your content. After you remove these rel=canonical's, I'd suggest running your site through Screaming Frog's rel=canonical error report to confirm that the rel=canonical issues are fixed. Hope that helps, B

Moz spam score should be looked as guidance and not a last word. I had some legitimate sites directories shown as spam as directories tend to have lot more outgoing links then the content on the page. And I would have lost , lots of traffic and link juice I would be getting if I consider spam. And some of the sites are high domain authority and really good research resources. I do not agree anything above score 14 is "definitely" spam. But it is "likely" spam

Completely agree with Rob! Doesn't matter in any way usually if you keep or remove it. Even as a publisher ourselves we tested it and what we mostly noticed is that almost nobody cares ;).

My case it not quite that an incorrect page is ranking. It is the right ones, but I want to change the URL for these pages to optimise that part also, since the keywords are not included in the URLs right now.

Schema.org shouldn't be able to get you into duplication issues. It's meant to be duplicated in there.

Hi Martijn, Is it possible via google tag manager? Thanks!

Ok, that works too. You are most welcome to ask further questions.

What I'm looking to do is pass the link juice on from about 5,000 backlinks still pointing at our old site (which exists in domain form only a present) to the new site.  Are these links pointed to the home page? Or are these pointed at relevant landing pages? If to the home page (and page is same on new site) nothing is needed. If  these links are pointed to a landing page, you will need to route them to a related page on the new site and 301. Are you saying there's not point in using a 301 if the page doesn't exist? Yes, no point unless there is a new landing page that is some-how related. I don't really understand why you'd use a 301 if the page still existed...? If the page is on the new site and is the same url, no 301 is needed.

I appreciate your comprehensive article, However, may I kindly point out my question was to do with Disavow in Google Search Console, Not the implementation of secure.

Thank you Bernadette. The one thing I'm struggling with here is how to recognise what the actual duplicate content is as it's a listing page which generates different results each time. Here are some examples: https://www.i-escape.com/boutique-hotels?collection[0]=barefoot https://www.i-escape.com/boutique-hotels?collection[0]=dog-friendly https://www.i-escape.com/mysore/boutique-hotels https://www.i-escape.com/namibia/boutique-hotels Best wishes, Clair

Hi Meisha, If Vijay's suggestion doesn't prove to be the root of the issue, it's important to know that Google can pull info for both the first and second lines of your organic listing from a variety of sources. If that's what's happening in your case, and the data they are pulling is wrong, you need to search Google for the source of that data and correct it there, in hopes that Google will eventually update what they are showing in your second line.

Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate the response. Any other feedback from is welcome. Thank you!

Are you in anyway related to that "Beaver Country" game?  I'm not sure why they would be 301 redirecting that subdomain to you...  It has links from Apple, etc. related to that particular game. If you do have a page/content or something else that would be related to that particular site, then, but aren't the "new" version of that site, you might try a blanket redirect for traffic from that referrer to the related page on your site.  e.g.  adding something like this to htaccess.. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .gameon.timesonline.com.$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.allstatebanners.com/some-page Note.. I have not tested the above code.. but it should give you the basic idea of redirecting all traffic from that referrer to a specific page of your site...  You could also use that same logic to simply block all the referral traffic altogether. -Jake Bohall

Ok, are any of the pages ranking. If not I would look if Google can easily find these new urls from your nav / internal links. Also I would recommend checking your server logs, if Google can't / haven't crawled the pages they can't index them. Final point, if these pages are completely off topic and the rest of the site is about toothbrushes and you add pages about cars, Google might be unsure about these new pages and how authoritative you are in the niche especially if these fall into the YMYL categories. If its the last issue you would probably need to work on link building into this section of the site from authority sites within the niche.

Hi Hamid, If your site is relatively new or you've only just added your sitemap to Google Search Console then it will take a while for you'll see this number go up. What you can do though is check our your Crawl Stats in Google Search Console. There you can find out how many pages Google is currently crawling daily on your site. If this number is very low, then you need to find ways to get more authority to your pages so Google will find it worthwhile to index these pages as well. You have a limited crawl budget and if that's relatively low then it could take a while before Google will index all these pages as they just haven't found them before you submitted the sitemap. Martijn.

Hi There, First of all, understand the fact that Domain Authority and Page authority are third party metrics developed by Moz. Secondly, the domain extension doesn't impact DA value, to get more knowledge about the factors that contribute to Domain authority of any website can be found here https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority Third, and most important point, my own website has a domain authority if 1 till now, but since I focus on my target audience and work on tasks to engage them (to get desirable results), I have been successful in getting achieve my business goals. This means, by creating a good sized website with unique content, you have taken the right step in the direction of achieving your website business goals. Find new off-page  SEO (white-hat) methods to take it further and this would automatically lead to higher rankings, domain authority. The Moz tools are designed to help you achieve this and you can read it to understand how it can help. I hope this helps and please feel free to ask further questions by responding to this answer. Regards, Vijay