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Hi Ralph, As Gaston mentioned, it's very, very possible—probably, even—this what you're seeing is a result of this month's somewhat smaller index (161 billion vs. 92 billion URLs). I'd really recommend this Rand post on PA/DA fluctuations, along with the ones Gaston has already mentioned. A PA/DA of 1 almost always means we don't have information on the URL in question in the index. If the sites linking to you weren't indexed, then it's likely your site wasn't, either. It's very likely that your site will be back in the index after the next update.

Hi holdportals! Are you able to provide any of the information Dan asked for?

Exactly.

On that point, I'd say it depends on how you and your developers prefer to work together. Definitely make sure they're familiar with mobile guidelines, at least.

I don't really know any best practices in this topic. Me, in your case, I'd leave them just as they are now. Applying the canonicals, of course.

Logan, Thx for the feedback Edited all our pages and tested and passed! TY, KJr

Hi, That's a great help, thanks a mill! Leaving them in place as a fall back makes sense.

Just seconding Chris. There's no reason to reproduce the site. You're question gets right into why, too—you wouldn't have a lot of control over which would rank. 301ing the exact match domain to the branded one is what I'd do.

Yeap, you are in the right direction. I just wanted to point out that, choosing one of those is a desition you've to make. Gerenaly, the most used are: https://www.domain.com https://domain.com So, when you've chosen one, the others must be redirected with a 301.

Mmmm, Birmingham hotel breaks Birminghan hotels with transfers Boths keywords are long tails from Birmingham hotel, but I'd bet are enough different to deserve separate pages.

Hi David, Thanks for your thoughts. I had just come across the multiple H1 issue and have it as a 'to do' - agree it's not great. Thanks for spotting it and making a it a point. We do have some bad site links, yes. There has been previous SEO work done in the past and I'm trying to understand what has been disavowed before submitting a new file myself. In the mean time I've been trying to get bad links removed manually. I also wonder how much of these bad links (that ski trip article for example) were part of a prior SEO strategy ... Much of this is a guessing game. I'll tackle these two areas and monitor what happens. Many thanks, Jonathan

Thanks Dana , can you help me with redirecting non trailing slash to trailing slash at the end , my wordpress is in sub dictionary http://domain.com/blog/ and i have two .htaccess , one in root and one in the wordpress folder. i tried to solve it by adding that code in the root .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$ RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://ghadaalsaman.com/blog/$1/ [L,R=301] Wordpress give 200 OK with the two versions ( with and without trailing slash ) and that hurts my SEO Thanks in advanced

Yeap, google should be crawling all your site naturaly. Remember that bots have a finite time to crawl your site. It might be that there not enogh time for all yout images. Even more, if you want to be stric with only high res images indexed, that's the main reason to use sitemaps. And yes again, use different sitemaps, ona for images and one for pages.

It's highly unlikely you'd get a manual penalty for incorrect Open Graph markup (especially since Google itslef doesn't use it for anything.) Instead of trying to test one-off pages with the data testing tool, have a look in your Google Search Console under the Search Appearance > Structured Data report. Here you'll see what Google's crawler thinks about the structured markup on all the pages of your site it is able to crawl. Much better chance that the crawler has caught and reported it than that you'll find it checking one page at a time. One of the really common types of markup that earned manual penalties recently was recipes (due to certain plugins not implementing it correctly.) Since your site doesn't include recipes, the other area to check closely is reviews/ratings. If Google thinks you're trying to use these manipulatively, they'll slap you hard, since these actually generate rich snippets in SERPS. In the brief look I had at your site, it didn't appear your reviews/rating were using markup, but that's where an exhaustive check using the GSC report would be vastly more effective than my cursory check. Hope that all makes sense? Good luck! Paul

Hi David! Did Dan's answer help? Let us know if there's anything else we can do to help you work this out.

Hi there. Well, here is my question - how can you be sure that traffic from Bing is related to sitemaps resubmission? How about, simply, rankings? Or one of tons of other reasons?

Ok we have tried everything.  Removed Admin author on blogs, removed word "Buy" from title tags.  Nothing seems to work.  Still offering the bounty for anyone who can solve this problem for us.

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Hello Localwork, By "product attributes" do you mean URLs associated with product variants, like color and size? From the context of your question, I'll assume for now you mean that each product attribute / variant appears on it's own URL (e.g. /?color=red and /?color=blue) and you want to know whether these should be included in the sitemap. As Andy mentions below, more information is needed before prescribing a best practice specifically to your situation. However, in this case you should probably only have the one "canonical" version of the product URL (e.g. without variants). There are many ways to handle this and I recommend Googling "SEO for product variants" to familiarize yourself with the pros and cons of each. To answer your question about sitemap segmentation, yes it is a good thing to do for several reasons, most important of which is easier diagnoses of crawl issues, such as which "sections" of your sites have indexation problems. It also helps on large sites with issues reaching URL limits in sitemaps, and is a more logical tree-like structure for people and machines to follow than having every URL in one sitemap.