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I would argue that Amazon.com is probably one of the best sites on the web for SEO and they use Meta Keywords on every page. I have used them on our sites and seen no negative impacts either.

A few thoughts: Install the browser extension Ayima, which will let you see if this is actually the result of multiple redirects. There are other ways to see this same info, but the Ayima extension makes it really simple to see the multiple hops, when there are. You might try to sequence the existing redirect that is in your htaccess file (A to B) all the way up, or all the way down. There is a sequence followed (most specific to most general).

Thanks HashtagHustler, yes, there is a space there, not sure how it got left out here! Thanks for your answer

Thanks for your response Nick, Great answer Yes, I am using WordPress Cloudflare.  I will get on to this soon and let you know how I get on.

Just to follow up - I have now actually 410'd the pages and the 410's are still being re-indexed.

Thank you, wise advice. I think you're right, it's part marketing/branding and part technical. I think the marketing strategy for the two sites does, naturally differ, and I will see if I can use it, otherwise consider the 301 redirect route.

+1 for Serge's answer, their answer is textbook and really spot on! If you follow this advice it's impossible to go too far wrong

Hi OP, Not sure what your developer is planning on using but you could easily have some sort of combination of a blog + shop using Wordpress and Woo-Commerce. Why you would specifically want a blog on the homepage and then a shop within a folder is beyond me (surely the otherway round; e-commer site + a blog), but I know for a fact it would be very easy to do for the average Wordpress developer! Kind regards and good luck! Nick

Hi Issa, This is a great question and something I actually asked Gary Illyes of Google on his Google AMA. For me the site:olddomain.com has been inconsistent; sometimes with domain name migrations everything tidies up within a few weeks, other times it lingers like Andreas' fantastic example of SEO Moz. Anyway, Gary said "You don't need to do anything. We're simply surfacing the old URLs to... Not confuse users i guess? Honestly, that URL we show in the results are sometimes fairly useless, maybe we should test again what happens if we remove them" From the answer I think Gary is trying to imply that keeping rankings whilst showing old domain is done to keep things familiar for users. Regarding the index returned during a site search, I understand this is historic. Here's the link for the full question and context: https://www.reddit.com/r/TechSEO/comments/ao3fmk/i_am_gary_illyes_googles_chief_of_sunshine_and/eg1lps1/ Hope this helps slightly! Nick

Amazing, glad that worked out for you!

Hi, Are you referring to PHP functions there? If so, content will be rendered server side and thus Google will have no problems crawling it, unlike some websites with JavaScript dependencies (not all). Regarding duplicate content issues, Donald Silvernail is absolute correct in that using a cross domain canonical is undoubtedly best practice: Rand has done an excellent White Board Friday on it, which explains it here: https://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-rel-canonical-seo-value-cross-posted-content Hope this helps! Nick

It's hard to know everything which could be affecting this without a link to both pages. 1) It's possible that the Chinese version is just so much more popular (links) that it still gets returned instead of the EN page despite Hreflangs (which Google can overrule in extreme circumstances). **2) **It's possible that Google still thinks users will get the 'best deal' on the Chinese version of your site, even when ordering products or services from abroad (look at your currency-normalised price points). 3) It could be that the English version of the page has other technical issues which prevents it from being indexed, which forces Google to list one version only (a common one is if, you have regional redirects implemented for Google - but you forgot to 'exempt' Google from those redirects, and thus it crawls from a particular data centre and can only see one version of your site which it keeps being redirected back to). 4) It could be that the brand term originated in China and thus Google considers the brand term to be part of the Chinese language, not part of the English language (and thus you get keyword targeting problems all over the place). If the brand term looks and sounds Chinese and was originally created in (or for) the Chinese market, if most of the links around the web which mention the brand term are Chinese - you can see how Google could get confused. 5) It could just be a Google glitch which you could post about here (but there's no guarantee of a reply).

Ok, thank you for your reply.

From my understanding of mobile-first indexing, your mobile site will become the primary version Google crawlers see when they are looking at your website. So in terms of the impact of hiding the breadcrumbs on your mobile site, Google will see that you've hidden them and may or may not see them on the desktop version because they may or may not bother to crawl the desktop version. My question to you would be - what value are you seeing from the breadcrumbs on desktop? Can you check your analytics data to see whether users are using these breadcrumbs for navigation? Do you mark up your breadcrumbs with schema to allow them to show up in rich snippets? If the breadcrumbs do not currently add much value to your users and if they don't serve an SEO purpose, you may not need to bother including them on mobile. On the other hand, if you know that they add to a better UX, you may see a benefit from adding them to the mobile version of the site. This is because Google likes to reward sites with a better UX for mobile users. If you are using them more for search engines to have easier crawl access, I would suggest revisiting your site structure more broadly to ensure that no important page is further than 3-4 clicks from the homepage; and/or ensure that you keep your sitemaps up to date with all important pages and submit in GSC and BWT.

You have a very confusing and convoluted site structure. It may be preventing Google from indexing all the pages on your site. For example, when I navigate to Shop > Chakra Essential Oil Roll Ons > Hemp Hoppin Chakra Balancing Essential Roll On Oil, I land on URL 1 https://**www.**hariomhemp.com/collections/essential-oil-roll-ons/products/hemp-hoppin-balancing-essential-roll-on-oil-100mg-cbd. URL 1 redirects to URL 2 - https://hariomhemp.com/**collections**/essential-oil-roll-ons/products/hemp-hoppin-balancing-essential-roll-on-oil-100mg-cbd (without the www). That page (URL 2) canonicalizes to URL 3 - https://hariomhemp.com/products/hemp-hoppin-balancing-essential-roll-on-oil-100mg-cbd, a different one again. URL 3 - https://hariomhemp.com/products/hemp-hoppin-balancing-essential-roll-on-oil-100mg-cbd is indexable. There is a 4th URL that shows up in a site scan - https://hariomhemp.com/collections/frontpage/products/hemp-hoppin-balancing-essential-roll-on-oil-100mg-cbd. It is also canonicalized to URL 3.  It is linked to from the Home page as well as the /collections/ and /collections/frontpage. The later two URLs do not appear in your site navigation. So you need to look at your site navigation again and clean up some of this confusion. That may not be the source of your problem but it's where I'd start.

This is a great response. Thanks for this!

No worries, glad to help. Good luck!

Hi Rogier, Yes, this is usually counting towards crawl budgets as Googlebot is doing this per request. It depends on how your request is being set up obviously, otherwise, I would advise going with the exclusion for the robots.txt that you're already heading towards. Hope this helps!