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I would that the example2.html wouldn't be affected by the robots.txt as it can be that a bot will visit example2.html directly without visiting example1.html. Definitely as it could be that the page was picked up after the first time it visited example1.html.

Like [Peter Nikolow](https://moz.com/users/view/397332) said, you need a special sitemap - that one for both like the code above or in his link i guess, or a special mobile sitemap. Your mobile Sitemap is not a mobile Sitemap, the mobile one should look like this: <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0"><url><loc>http://mobile.yourdomain.com/article100.html</loc></url></urlset>

if there is no difference, why try to do as if?  If the products are similar and the image is the same I usually take the same image. I don't know the shop and products, but if the products are the same, even the description, content and so on, you should think about using a canonical tag (from an SEO perspective): https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

Hi Tom Agree with Martijn that it depends for example, the robots.txt is generally the first port of call for bots as it allows them to understand where you want them to spend their finite time crawling your site. You can aslo give direction to all bots at once or specify a subset. It is generally the best option for blocking pages such as you /cart/ etc were they don't need crawling. The problem with robots.txt is that it doesn't always keep pages from being indexed especially if there are other external sources linking to the pages in question. The meta tag noindex on the other hand can be applied to individual pages and you are actually commanding the robots to NOT Index the relevant page in serps, use this option if you have pages you don't want appearing in Google (or other search engines) but the page may still be relevant for authority or able to acquire links (make sure to use Noindex follow) as you still want the robots to crawl the page. Otherwise use Noindex Nofollow hope that this helps.

Thanks Dirk - only just noticed you'd replied! I can't get the links to generate the mistake my end - they both are working fine. I still have the same 901 error showing in MOZ though. Strange! - could be something to do with a Bigcommerce bug?? More likely it's something I've done wrong!...

Thank you both - and sorry for not replying earlier. It sounds like we have some work to do

To add to this, I'd also recommend having a look around in /lib/ just to make sure you aren't blocking important javascript and css files (I've been bitten by this!). More guidance here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/common-mistakes/blocked-resources?hl=en

Thanks and indeed I will probably stick to this one url and put all work in that!

You'd use alt text on an image link, but not text. Alt text is the text that would display instead of the image if the image isn't shown for whatever reason (e.g. for the visually impaired or for those who prefer to browse text-only). Title text is the text that displays when you hover over something. You can use it in addition to the alt text, but it would be the title that displays when you hover over the image. I'm sure all three (alt, title and anchor text) help Google to learn what a link is all about.

Hi. I wouldn't use "noindex", so images are actually getting into Google's image search etc, but canonical sounds fine.

I am needing help with this same thing. Did you ever find a solution to redirecting with yahoo web hosting? TIA

So all tools (including Search Console) have different link indexes they're going to show you. That's one reason why you're seeing a difference between tools. The other reason is that Search Console will only show a **sample of your links, not all of them. **To really find all internal links, you should use a crawling tool like Screaming Frog or Xenu then check inlinks and outlinks on your site. I wouldn't rely on Search Console to give as much insight on your internal linking. To get a better understanding about your backlink profile my recommendation is to use a couple of tools (OSE, aHrefs, Majestic, etc) in addition to the data provided in Search Console. Export the backlink data from all sources into Excel, de-dedupe the data (so you're not looking at duplicate links), and that will help you understand your profile a little better. Using multiple tools will be a little on the expensive side, but will give you a much better understanding what's out there. Like Justin said, make sure you have the correct version of your site verified in Search Console. Google will recognize multiple variations as different sites (HTTP/HTTPS/WWW/Non-WWW). You'll also want to set a preferred domain (www vs non-www) to help Google consolidate data.

Hi Jay Here's what I'd do: Create your new WordPress site As Matt says, try to keep your URLs the same if possible. You can probably adjust these with your Permalink Settings: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks If the URLs are the same, no need for redirects. If they are different, you can do 301 redirects with either a redirect plugin or directly in the .htaccess file You can check everything when you're done by running a crawler, like Moz's crawl tool or Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Fix any additional 404s you find by redirecting them.

Thanks Robert and Erick for your quick and thoughtful answers!  Robert, to clarify based on your foursquare dilemma, we are currently in situation 1) and it sounds like we ought to move to situation 4). Erick, regarding the point you make in reason #4 ("the way you have it set up right now you may not be getting the DA of your parent site anyway") -- It appears that in terms of DA, www.parent.com and blogs.parent.com are the same.  However, the TF and CF for blogs.parent.com are significantly lower than www.parent.com (and lower than www.child.com), so I think your point is valid. I hear what you're saying regarding the Parent/Child relationship and the need to be careful.  I think our situation is very much analogous to the P&G example, so I think we'd be fine. Thanks again to you both for the great insights!

Thanks for the quick replies (and I agree entirely).  I was curious because I came across the URL and you just do not see a lot of sites doing that.  The Grainger brand appears to do quite well in Google, but its probably more a result of the big brand affinity than having solid optimization in place.

When I try the url mobile.gardening-services-edinburgh.com/index.html it seems it's being redirected to http://mobile.gardening-services-edinburgh.com/Mobile/ which is generating a 302 to the lost page. Could you try to take out the last 2 lines - they don't seem to work (adding the trailing slash) and I fear that they are generating this issue. Like most people on this forum I am not really an expert in regex - you could always try to put your question on a forum like stackoverflow - which is much more technically oriented. Dirk

Hi, I agree with Peter, just wanted to add something to your latest question on if you could add it to the noscript tags. Because I wouldn't do that, it's a signal which could show mostly a bad sign on that you would like to show the content.

Thank you for the response Marie. My main concern at the moment is seo because the content was flagged as duplicate in MOZ Crawl Diagnostics, and I want to avoid being penalized for duplicate content. Still, I appreciate the comments on performance vs. seo. Thanks again.

Well, Google does have a crawl budget, they might be using that for your most popular pages. As long as your indexed pages number is going up, that means google is working its way through the backlog.

Although adding a no-index will no doubt remove the page from the index, my suggestion would be to implement a canonical tag which you can use to point to the original/best source page. This way any links from the page will still be used for internal site crawling etc. This way you are actually telling google that you have similar pages but one is the best that you want for indexation purposes. rel="canonical" href="/original-or-page-you-want-to-rank-and-be-the-source.html" />