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Hi Anoop, It looks like a hosting issue. Might have something to do with your DNS. I would check with your hosting provider to start with and then work backwards, checking your pages one by one to determine which ones are throwing you 400 error codes. You can use Screaming Frog or SEO SpyGlass from SEO Powersuite for this. A basic website audit through SEMrush or Site Auditor would also work. Based on the results of that research, you will know if it is sitewide (almost definitely hosting) or page-specific (almost definitely coding and site architecture). Let me know if you need any further help. Cheers, Rob

Hi there. No, none of SEO related benefits would ever come from what email you use to login or URL in your profile. The way to use YouTube for SEO is actually to use it (surprise here:) for it's intended purposes - create awesome video content, put compelling descriptions, titles and thumbnails for your videos, grow the audience and, eventually, people will remember your brand, and start coming to your website from youtube, which will indirectly influence SEO. Cheers. P.S. Here are some links you might find useful: https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/youtube-video-optimization-best-practices/ https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/page/lesson/discovery?hl=en https://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2262954/optimizing-videos-for-youtube-search https://moz.com/blog/youtube-ranking-factors-whiteboard-friday https://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/

Correct. I just confirmed that it is how Mozscape handles the hreflang tag. We do not yet transpose the actual value of the canonical version onto the hreflang variant. You should, in theory, assume the Page Authority of your homepage is identical with the Page Authority of the de.* variant. At least, that appears to be the way in which hreflang is supposed to be handled.

Hi Dave, 301 means that the page has been moved permanently.  I suspect the search engines take specific actions upon seeing a 301 for a short period of time. A 410 - means that the page is gone, and gone forever.  And a 404 means that the page is temporarily unavailable. In your case, I think I'd want to setup a process where for 3-7 days, you return a simple 404.  I.e. the page is temporarily unavailable.  If during those 3-7 days, the page comes back up - start serving it per normal. If after 3-7 days, the page is still not up, I'd serve up a custom 410 page that offers alternatives that can be clicked through to if the customer/property owner did not list again.  If he ever DOES list again, I'd be sure to 301 to the new page, regardless of time delay. There may also be some thought to allowing pages to display in a historical sense.  I.e. - this is what the page you want looked like - but it's no longer available.  Thus preserving some of the traffic, which you might find some use for. Finally - some possible ideas for "missing pages" Present other properties very close to the missing property Communicate with your viewer what is happening.  i.e. - the listing agent/owner removed the listing - but over XX% of properties delisted come back within 10 days!  Please check back - would you like us to email you if this property comes back online? (collect email opportunity!) Present a historical page showing what the listing used to look like. (legal issues?) Display a 404 page - but provide other interesting information/content.  i.e. since you know what the old page was like - you probably can figure out related/highly related content to present in it's stead. Hope this helps Kevin

Hi, I would think it is the javascript being used on the pages (google can theoretically render the page as a browser would, screaming frog and other similar tools on the whole cannot). If you visit the homepage with js turned off then you see a pretty empty page with a list of links (region, activity, country) which are the same links that screaming frog is picking up. If you go into one of the search results pages with js turned off, you don't really see much of anything at all. Google is obviously doing a better job of crawling the js content! A solution would be to present the data in a simpler, crawlable format for non js enabled browsers but that is (probably a big) conversation with your developers

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Not too big a problem to have slightly longer title. Just be aware that how they display in SERPs can affect CTR, which can affect rankings. You can use https://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool to get a good view of that.

Hi Everett, Yes it seems that this is the way. Thanks a lot.

Hi Ajay, Great question. First off, I think that both a video sitemap and the correct schema optimizations are extremely important in getting your videos to rank. Personally, I would start off with creating a video sitemap and then branch off into utilizing schema. This is just a matter of preference for me because I like to get the foundational elements done first. In terms of what tools you can use - I know of a few. If your site is in WordPress the Yoast Video SEO plugin has worked well for me in the past. If not, here are some great posts on Video Sitemaps and the best process for creating them. https://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/ https://moz.com/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube Hope that helps! Serge

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Thank you! That worked

Yes! Bing responded quickly. I think they fixed the matter within 48 hours of my notifying them. I am quite impressed with Bing and thankful for Kristen Hilley's advice here.

I'm doing some experimenting with Instructables, and some profile links are no-follow. I don't know if it's because the accounts are new, or that you need to have a PRO account to get follow links ...

WordPress should take care of it, I don't know why it didn't happen. Between that and you seeing the non-www canonical, maybe there's a full-page cache in action, that hadn't been invalidated yet.

Hi Anoop! I agree with VERBInteractive—this is one of those questions that requires us to be able to see the site and the pages that aren't being indexed.

When I visit the duplicate URLs, for example http://www.ebids.com.pk/store/fashion-point/?category_name=spare-parts-accessories&parent_id=3708&page=store_about, I don't get redirected - the URL stays the same. It looks like these are different tabs within the section of the seller Fashion Point - and both the title tag and content looks the same for all of them. For the URLs that are top-level tabs, like &page=store_about, or &page=company_policies, etc, I would do 2 things: Update the title tag to say something like "About Fashion Point" or "Fashion Point's Company Policies." This will take care of a duplicate title tag problem. Encourage, the people behind the Fashion Point account, (and probably all accounts), to fill out all of the tabs, so there's actual About, Company Policy, etc. content there - then the content will actually be different, so you won't get duplicate content problems. It might be a good idea to require that those sections are filled out before making the storefront public for a user, that way potential buyers will have more information about who they're buying from, and and the empty sections won't cause duplicate content problems.

Hi Thomas Unless I'm mistaken. If you list multiple user agents before a rule all the users agents are subjected to the rule. So what you have is a list of 3 user agents allowed "anything" disallowed 4 specific things. In the end the rules apply to all. Don

Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot for your response.

If the canonical page disappears when it's out of stock, the user will get a 404 error when they try to access that URL. You'll need to canonicalize duplicates to a generic product or category page that won't disappear when the product is out of stock.  Furthermore, if a product goes out of stock and you'll have more in stock later, it's best (for SEO purposes) to leave the page with an "out of stock" notice rather than remove it completely from the website.