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Check which architecture receives your highest quality backlinks and then force that structure using 301 redirects

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If you are moving a link permanently the best way to do is to make your old page into 301. The 301 tells that your link is moved permanently to your new site link.

Lots of SEOs believe that putting a bunch of pages (especially your money pages) on a subdomain is not a good idea - because if they were in a folder they would rank better because their linkjuice is part of the main site. Having a duplicate set of product pages that have noindex links into them is a crazy idea for many reasons (SEO, maintenance, linkjuice waste, plain irrationality). Your company, IMO, is a good target for take-over or buy-out.  A new owner could streamline this stuff and make a lot more money.    If a new company buys for this reason, they will probably fire all of the SEOs and use their own. Opinions on this may differ.   As a manager who is paid in the basis of performance, I have told you where my bets would be placed.

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Hi, I hope this helps, Do NOT point desktop pages to m. pages via a rel="canonical" tags use rel="alternate" for that & make sure rel="canonical" tag on the m. URL pointing to the corresponding desktop URL Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs On the desktop page, add a rel="alternate" tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site's mobile pages. On the mobile page, add a rel="canonical" tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL. We support two methods to have this annotation: in the HTML of the pages themselves and in sitemaps. For example, suppose that the desktop URL is https://example.com/page-1 and the corresponding mobile URL is https://m.example.com/page-1. The annotations in this example would be as follows. Annotations in the HTML On the desktop page (https://www.example.com/page-1), add the following annotation: <code dir="ltr"><linkrel="alternate"media="only screen="" and="" (max-width:="" 640px)"<br="">href="https://m.example.com/page-1"></linkrel="alternate"media="only></code> On the mobile page (https://m.example.com/page-1), the required annotation should be: <code dir="ltr"><linkrel="canonical"href="https: www.example.com="" page-1"=""></linkrel="canonical"href="https:></code> This rel="canonical" tag on the mobile URL pointing to the desktop page is required. A page have a self-referencing canonical URL In the example above, we link the non-canonical page to the canonical version. But should a page set a rel=canonical for itself? I strongly recommend having a canonical link element on every page and Google has confirmed that’s best. That’s because most Sites & CMS’s will allow URL parameters without changing the content. So all of these URLs would show the same content: https://www.example.com/page-1 https://www.example.com/page-1/?isnt=it-awesome https://www.example.com/page-1/?cmpgn=twitter https://www.example.com/page-1/?cmpgn=facebook Using a mobile website version of their desktop version, they need to implement a canonical tag on their mobile website page with an URL of the desktop version. For example, Your main domain: iamexample.com Your mobile version: m.iamexample.com Then, have this tag in the section of your main domain - And, have this tag in the section of your mobile version page - Mobile-Specific URLs, Such as AMP Pages or a Mobile-Specific Subdomain Creating content with mobile in mind is a marketing must -- just be sure to remember to set your canonical URLs when you have pages that are specific to mobile but have the same content as a page on the desktop version of your website. For AMP pages specifically, Google also provides detailed guidelines on how to correctly differentiate your Accelerated Mobile Page from your standard webpage. SEE: https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/ https://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-rel-canonical-seo-value-cross-posted-content https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization https://moz.com/blog/rel-canonical Hope this helps, Tom

It can do under certain circumstances, particularly if vulnerabilities are detected. If your news section had malware or if links from your news section were detected to HTTP resources (internal / external pages, images embedded from HTTP) that could cause problems (Google want everything on HTTPS now) It would be unusual but there are certain circumstances where you could see wider impact(s). Another thing is, if the news section garnered your site a manual penalty, then quite often that could spread to all pages / keywords / rankings. Simply deleting the news section would be unlikely to restore performance instantly If it were something like poor content or duplicate content, that would be more likely to just affect your news section without impacting your other pages (e.g: products) unless of course they shared the same issues If the news section is riddled with technical errors it could bring the site health metrics for your overall domain slightly but in general the impact to the rest of the site should be non-radical Hope that helps

Hi Samantha. We had the same issue last week. Drop Bing webmaster support a message here and describe your issue and they should get you indexed again: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/support?ocid=fwsupport They explained we had been added to a block list, but couldn't disclose why. They apologised and removed the block within 48 hours! I've read some other posts suggesting there doesn't seem to be much reasoning behind this seemingly random blocking of reputable and high ranking sites. Cheers.

Answers above is spot on, A comprehensive robots file should help with this, if your in a hurry to clean the indexation up, you a can remove URLs witihin the search console. One other thing to consider is, your xml sitemap. look at this in detail & what your asking the search engine to crawl.  End of life products, legacy catalogues should not be included.

In the age of people rarely actually typing domains directly, rather opting to type a brand name or part of the domain and letting Google et al. do the work, I'm not sure there is much issue having a dash. I'd certainly rather have the shorter domain with a dash than a longer one without.

Set it manually on where it lives best, or programmatically let them pick the one that is most relevant. I would not implement any logic based on where users are coming from. You're likely well of by spending your engineering resources better than doing that for SEO.

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You should use a canonical for pages with  this utm - but the canonical is without utm. Otherwise you have a chance that you earn duplicate content (you mentioned utms in SERPs).  It doesn't make sense to use a canonical with utm, because this would make organic users to utm=gmb users (if indexed and clicked). And if you dont use canonical and link internally without utm? It happens, that people click on the found knowledge panel url and link to it - bamm! indexed and you cant trust your utm anymore and again, duplicate content. Use canonical = yes  include utm = no your pages: https://yourpage.com/subpage https://yourpage.com/subpage?_utm_source=gmb_ should both have this canonical: <link rel="canonical" href="yourpage.com/subpage"> ```

Thanks for your answer. It's not about changing the business name, but I guess it's just to guide people to the right version of the website. So there is a 302 redirect but I don't know the exact purpose of that. I want to get rid of it, and I am looking for the best solution, without any loss in UX or rankings.

Great! Happy to help