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Thank you very much! I will be taking a deeper look into both Pete's post as well as the schema.org Best Regards

Hi Martijn.....I have blocked in robots.txt as you have suggested and have fetched as google bot on the soft 404.s and they are blocked. Can i go ahead and mark these as fixed or are they really only fixed if these pages return 404? I am not sure how i can return 404 on them though as they are legit search result pages. I really just want to know the best way to deal with them in wmt now that i have blocked them in robots. thank you

Hi Ian! Did Joey answer your question? If he did, please mark one of his responses as a "Good Answer"—it'll get him some bonus MozPoints, and it helps us keep track of things. Otherwise, what's still stumping you?

No messages from Google about it in my e-mail or on webmaster tools and SDT looks good, so I guess I will wait for a while FuUiuDp.jpg

In a sitemap you include every URL that you want the search engines to have crawled + indexed. If you're running your blog on WordPress it would be good to look into the Yoast plugin for example who will take care of this for you automatically. After this you'll submit your sitemap index file usually to Google Search Console in order for the search engines to pick up the new pages.

That makes sense.  Thanks

Hi Luca! So sorry for the wait. Yes, Google is able to load, crawl, and index pages written in Javascript. There are mixed reports as to how well, exactly, but your research is correct.

Hi SEO 5 Team! If Logan answered your question, mind marking his response as a "Good Answer?" It'll get him some bonus MozPoints, and it helps us keep track of things.

Hi Richard, I don't think that searching your exact site URL is a good statement when asking for your indexing status. In your case, I'd go to search console and check the queries that the site is ranking in wich country. Remember that each site must be configured by their own in Search Console. (I understand that you've already done that). and in a more accurate way, search for any keyword, that you are ranking with both sites, in both google.nl and google.be Hope it helps. GR

Hi Dirk, Thank you very much for your answer!

Hi, Thanks for response. So I went back and unchecked Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL option and also Redirect attachment URLs to parent post URL. option. Hope this will solve the problem. Thanks, Regards, Armands

Hi Marcel, Content duplication shouldn't be an issue if you are using ccTLDs targeting to each country (as you are already doing with The Netherlands & Belgium), the geolocalization feature is disable in the Google Search Console already when you are using ccTLDs as they are "automatically" geolocated to the country of the extension. In fact, this is the "ideal" way to internationalize your web if you're targeting to countries (and not languages) and give the best possible signal to Google that you are targeting to different countries, as in this case. Nonetheless, additionally you should also implement hreflang annotations: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en in order to avoid the situation that due to a higher authority -with stronger link profile- one of the domains rank instead of the other in the non-relevant country. I've seen that you are already including hreflang annotations on your sites pages, however these are not correctly implemented because you are only pointing to the other country URL and specifying its language and country. You need to always specify the language and country of the own page where you are adding the annotation as well as its alternative (check out the specification I included above). Please read: https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool and use this tool to see the type of tags you need to add: http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/. This is how you're going to avoid showing a result for the NL in BE and viceversa. However, the problem that you describe though sounds like if you have suffered from a lost of organic search visibility due to other reasons that don't have to do with internationalization: whether being affected after an update, a configuration change or issue on your site, etc. since I went to check your SEO visibility profile on SEMrush for NL: https://www.semrush.com/nl/info/lavistarelatiegeschenken.nl+(by+organic_positions)?positions=lost that show a few keywords with a negative trend and an overall negative visibility behavior on the site: https://www.semrush.com/nl/info/lavistarelatiegeschenken.nl+(by+organic) since January specifically. My recommendation is that you run a full SEO audit, instead of just focusing on international configuration that is very unlikely to cause this -unless you had release a new international version that wasn't correctly targeted, but is not your case- and verify especially if this coincides with a recent update (in January there were a few that you can see here: https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change and https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fluctuations-continue-likely-not-penguin-21489.html) and if you are suffering from content optimization issues for example that could have triggered this. If you have any other question just let me know!

Ah, I see now. Check out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByTS_rzWsn22NXVkMmRwcTBSakk/view?usp=drivesdk This looks like a prev/next orientation + it contains the actual text "ARTIKEL 9 VON 14". My best guess would be that google is picking up on that (either naturally or through their data highlighter tool).

Hi Rebecca - Thanks for the fast reply!  In my example, how would you structure the "find a business" URL's vs. the "specific business location page" URL: website.com/anxiety-treatment/co/denver to browse a directory to allow users to work backwards to find a location in another city website.com/johnson-anxiety-treatment-center-denver-co as the link to the one specific office in denver named "Johnson Anxiety Treatment Center"? Do you feel that the specific office page needs to be in the same URL structure as the browse a directory? If so then it would be super long like this: website.com/anxiety-treatment/co/denver/johnson1001 Appreciate your thoughts & reply.

No worries. In the case of redirecting from one page to multiple pages, I would recommend redirecting your Blogger site to the most relevant page on your new WordPress site - which will likely be your homepage. That being said, make sure you have good reasons for moving over to WordPress in the first place.

Hi Don, Using these generic blocks for multiple products is an awesome idea, but don't you think it'll end up creating almost duplicate content section on all these product pages? Does bots consider duplicate content across the page, or section wise?

This may be an issue with your hosting provider. Some web hosts may not support SNI (Server Name Indication), so if that's the case, you may need to get a separate IP address for that domain. With SNI you can have multiple SSL certs for one IP address because it's tied to the virtualhost.

It's best to use dimensions in your img code, since this helps speed up the whole rendering process, and if those images are already scaled both in size and resolution for that image size, then things work even better. This is what image optimization is all about, creating less file waste both in time and size during page loads for the user. The best way to prevent distortion with images, is to make sure they are scaled for their size and resolution, using a image editing program like photoshop ( paid ) or Gimp ( free opensource ) you can properly scale the images in just a way to keep the pixels at the right variables for the image quality. Here are a few articles to help explain further. http://www.sitepoint.com/resize-an-image-in-photoshop/ http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282942&p=1888162 http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-resize-and-make-images-larger-without-losing-quality/ And a website that claims will resize without loosing quality, but be warned, I have not used it, just appeared in results and felt it could be of use. http://www.simpleimageresizer.com/

Thanks Rob! That helps a lot. I've been considering beefing up copy content on some of the pages (especially the gallery pages). This kind of gives me a direction to move towards. Devaluing was probably a bad word to use. I mainly just wanted the better content pushed forward without having to actually delete anything. Thanks for the help and also the kind comments on the photography! Mickey

There's a couple of questions to answer here. The first is the difference between asking "Will our Domain Authority Decrease?" versus "Will our Traffic & Rankings Decrease?". The second question is more important so I'll cover that first. The official answer from Google is that, no, your traffic and rankings will not decrease. In practice, however, a number of people have seen 5-15% traffic drops for weeks or months after the transfer - even when completed correctly. The general assumption is that this is due to creating redirects for http -> https, which traditionally reduces the value of your inbound link profile. With that said, it's small enough that you can recover quickly with some link reclamation - basically you should update the links you have control over and also email friendly webmasters and say "we changed our site to be HTTPS secure and were wondering if you could update your link on domain.com/xyzpage/". Deacyde's notes on updating internal links are also correct. You should also reference popular "ssl migration" guides like this one from Yoast: https://yoast.com/dev-blog/move-website-https-ssl/ In regards to your exact question - "Will our Domain Authority Decrease?" - this could reference the literal Domain Authority that is measured by Moz, or you could be referencing the broader concept of domain authority in terms of how Google views your website. I don't have an exact answer for how Moz handles normal 301 redirects and if they treat https redirects different. I would assume that Domain Authority might drop slightly, but that's a guess and not an official answer. As noted above Google says that your website will be treated the same, and I think that is the case within a few months, but there can be initial traffic drops, and worse if you handle the migration incorrectly.