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Hi Christy, Site launched! The e-commerce part is still under development but the basic site has been up a couple months. Masked text doing great! No issues whatsoever on the SEO side. Ranking super high still and load speeds are good. Service workers will be activated in the coming weeks as we build out our food delivery platform. So, I'll mark my question as answered. https://www.88k.com.tw

Hi there, In addition to the advice John Sammon gave you. Talk to your hosting company or developers as they should be able to update the servers

Have you reviewed this? https://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranks-for-keywords-whiteboard-friday

I agree with Gaston. Something else I wanted to point out - the first site you listed is responsive. Usually, people create a mobile only site when their site isn't responsive. It's just something to note as you could be getting hit for duplicate content with your mobile site. Thanks!

It comes down to a lot of factors but the typical reason is because the homepage has the most inbound links which gives it the most authority. In order to rank an inner page over a homepage: 1. I would make sure that you have the inner page properly optimized (500+ words of content with a few mentions of the keyword phrase) 2. Make sure to inner link to the page within your site where it makes sense. A high number of inner links usually helps rank the page 3. Build some external links to that landing page as part of your overall link building campaign I hope that helps!

Hi there, There are many ways of handling Out Of Stock products, it essentially depends on how probable is that the product has stock again: 1- Unique item. You can go for: 404 that page, hide it under a login or redirect to a custom out of stock page, so as users can search for anything else. 2- Will have stock soon: Schema is the way to go. This the parameter could be useful: https://schema.org/OutOfStock It always depends on how you want to handle user experience for people coming from search engines. Some ecommerce just convert them into 404, others redirect it to he category or to a internal search page and other even just set a noindex tag. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

Hi Jason, I wouldn't worry about changing this at all, in the end, the 50K limit that has been put on sitemap is an arbitrary one. So if you keep your sitemaps well under that it doesn't really change anything at all. In the end, the files itself are not a ranking factor, they're being used to become aware of URLs that don't exist on the site or for search engines to be notified of URLs that have been updated (through the last mod attribute). So changing it to 15K shouldn't harm you. Martijn.

Looks like you took Nigel's excellent advice and have implemented the redirects. That's great. I did notice however, that you're redirecting vivitecsolutions to www.vivitec and then www.vivitec to vivitec (without the www subdomain). I suggest you get rid of the middle redirect and go directly from vivitecsolutions to vivitec. The redirect "chain" unnecessarily slows your site.

Thanks, I'll take a look

Ok, thanks Kate!

Hey Neil Wow, we are really chuffed here at Effect Digital! I guess... we have a lot of combined experience - and we also try to give something back to the community (as well as making profit, obviously) We didn't actually know how many people used the Moz Q&A forum until recently. It seemed like a good hub to demonstrate that, not all agency accounts have to exist to give shallow 1-liner replies from a position of complete ignorance (usually just so they can link spam the comments). Groups of people, **can **be insightful and 'to the point' Again we're just really thrilled that you found our analysis to be useful. It also shows what goes into what we do. Most of the responses on here which are under-detailed have the potential to lead people down rabbit holes. Sometimes you just have to get into the thick of it right? I think our email address is publicly listed on our profile page. Feel free to hit us up

Unfortunately this works only with static Urls. When i am trying to to do this through cpanel like this https://imgur.com/cVDFgit the result is this https://imgur.com/dQDXuMC As you can see cpanel "cuts" the dynamic part of url

Also found a smidge over 1000 in SEM Rush.  That figures though because you have about 50 x 5 in your navigation alone.  Then the best sellers and then all the gifts and sliders and footer etc.  THere's an awful lot on the page.  Every basic advertising book warns about the common mistake people make when advertising - they write everything they do on one ad (or page). Perhaps you need to organise things a little more.  Read up on data architecture.  It's a big word but not a particularly difficult subject.  They are big on DA at google so the inference is that they use it to rank sites.  I've also found in my own SEO experience that finding the defined edges of topics and sorting into those topics really works.  There is no right answer as usual, it's a game of trial and error.  You need to test everything and add / subtract subtopics from pages and swop them around to find the optimum position.  No tool will do this for you - pen and paper is best. I would say about 100-200 is the maximum amount you want to dilute the links coming from a page.  I think 200 is ok if it's ecommerce.   People say it doesn't work anymore but pagerank sculpting works for me.  I don't do it intentionally but there is a strong correlation between number of links x 'link from' page's authority and target pages authority.  When I link over about 250 links this stops working - presumably because the links are spread too thinly. So get to grips with information architecture and then look at sensible topics for a page.   Or just go to another page like yours that's ranking well and steal their IA, topics and internal linking strategy.  Learning new stuff is great but plagiarism is quicker. 

Thats great thanks Tim !

I was curious if you found any resolution to your question about the Software top carousel. I am an SEO for a global software company and have noticed our listings in some of these but not others. They are not showing in any tools I'm using to track search features/snippets. I assume that's because a click on the listing goes to another search (of that product name) rather than to a URL. I've considered adding Software Schema to our pages thinking that might give us a boost. But reading your responses, it sounds like there is no correlation. Have you found anything new about how to optimize for these?

Well, seems that GSC contradicted this report. I don't think that's the issue.

Turns out a lot of regions were not set up in Search console. I've added and directed them to the correct regions now. Fingers crossed Google will correct itself soon as our results look very messy currently. Thanks again, Kate

The UK website has been assigned to target the United Kingdom in Search Console and the US website has been assigned to target the United States. We also do not have access to robots.txt file, unfortunately. So you have claimed www.domain.com and targeted it to the UK. And you have claimed us.domain.com and targeted it to the US in Search Console? And for the two URLs below are these tags all on each page exactly as I have them below? https://www.example.com/products/pac-man-arcade-cabinet is the canonical tag <link rel="alternate" href="https: www.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-gb">- UK hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> <link rel="alternate" href="https: us.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-us">- US Hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> https://us.example.com/products/pac-man-arcade-cabinet is the canonical tag <link rel="alternate" href="https: www.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-gb">- UK hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> <link rel="alternate" href="https: us.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-us">- US Hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> Where are you searching from? What are you searching? And is there anything different between those two pages other than targeting? Do you redirect users based on IP?

Thanks, Zee! I'd love to keep this discussion open for anyone who has worked with GTM. Curious to know more about the pros/cons from other perspectives.