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Roman has covered most of the bases with his answer, so I won't retread old ground! But one thing I will note - my understanding is that with mobile-first indexing, content which is default-collapsed (to minimize clutter) won't be discounted. So if there is content you want to have on the site but the long-form nature is making the mobile experience feel cluttered, consider including it in expandable accordion style sections or similar. I would not recommend leaving it out altogether as Googlebot may no longer crawl your desktop site at all and all that content you add to the desktop site only won't give you any benefit.

As per Moon Boot, I would certainly offer a 301 redirect to the new page, otherwise visitors will be potentially getting a 404 and thus have a negative experience upon arrival to the site. In your .htaccess - **redirect 301 /aboutus /about-us ** Cheers Tim

You can geo-target the AU and US subdomain to the respective countries, but you can't target the EU as it isn't a country. HREFLANG can help as well, it depends on the differences in the content. You can do both, but in terms of what you should do: HREFLANG = regional language changes (US English vs AU English) Geo-Targeting = content changed to target that specific country (ex. products sold in the US but not AU, or extra regulatory content due to a country's laws OR (and a better example) the content needs to be different because selling your product in AU vs US is different like Christmas cards in each country, one has Christmas in summer and the other in winter).

Hi, The page seems to work fine with SSL at the moment for me in Google Chrome. I checked with some other tools and also there it seems to recognize the SSL certificate. Make sure that the result for this page isn't cached in Google Chrome, this sometimes happens. Martijn.

Hi Rachel, I think István makes a good point about the translated urls but just as a quick follow-up to your original question - it should not cause technical problems to have the page names the same while they are in different directories, because the total file path should be different, as long as you have hreflang properly set up. Regarding your question about canonical tags - I would not canonicalise some of these language variants to other language variants, even if you do decide to make the page names the same. Hreflang is saying "these two pages are different language variants of the same thing" whereas canonical tags are saying "this page is just the same as this other thing" - the canonical tag doesn't have the language component so could conflict with your hreflang and cause errors with things like return tags. At the very least it could confuse Google as to which page should rank in which country, for instance, how can the /de/ page rank in Germany if we're telling Google it's not the canonical version of the page, but the other one from root is? Hope that helps!

Hi Remko, Apologies for the slow response here - the alert system that lets us know a question has gone unanswered broke down for a time. The short answer: the ideal is to render the content/information as raw HTML, then use a JS library (whatever suits the animation or chart style you're after) to visualize and add animations. Animations handled with jQuery, for example, won't be processed/"viewed" by Google, so if you're using such a library to add polish to your content, it's best that the page "degrades gracefully" - so that without JS support, the key content/information is still there in the HTML source. While Google has made strides in their ability to render and index content delivered via JS resources, it is computationally expensive and we have seen that relying too heavily on JS to render the content itself is sub-optimal. If you're following the above, any modern and widely-adopted JS animation/chart-building library should be fine. Hope this helps, Mike

If I have understood your question correctly, you have set up redirects from the old site to the new site, but old links are still appearing in Google search results. It is in my experience that old links tend to remain for some time, but when clicked and assuming a redirect is correctly set up, the user will be redirected to the new page. It can take some time for Google to update the old page to show the new one instead. I hope that helps. Richard

Hi There, I understand your concern and know how it feels when it looks like one has to start from scratch for establishing Domain authority. Whenever a domain is transferred (hoping it was done with utmost care to transfer authority), it takes search engines and other Bots take a couple of weeks or even months to understand that they have to point to the new website for the searched phrases. The reason is that links are re-crawled, and that takes its own sweet time. In the meantime, if you can start working on directly establishing authority for the new domain, it would be a bonus for DA when eventually bots have re-established and re-configured their serps. I hope it helps. Let me know if you have further questions, I will be happy to answer them. Regards, Vj

In my experience, it will help the overall site, but still... do not expect a huge impact on these. URLs are shared, but I don't believe people will start to link to them except for private conversations.

Thanks Tim, By recently I mean early December 2017 more or less. We were also rebuilding our booking engine and I think I underestimated the care needed in a site change - we changed domain name, url structure and lost some content ... I'm fixing all the issues such as re-adding the content, making sure all technical issues are sorted out etc. before I worry about switching back to the old url, My instinct was to switch back and all will be well but it's clearly not that simple! Thanks again, Dan

Its very simple all depends on how you monetize your blog and how you can drive new traffic to your website. By default migrate to Wordpress will require a dedicated hosting and some hours of maintenance a month and that means money. On the other hands, you will have more and better control over your site. You can apply some advanced SEO optimization Such as schemas, site structure, performance and so on that eventually can generate or increase your income but keep in mind that the migration by itself will not produce any money. Regards

This is a technical question, that they need to tackle from database side. It can be implemented, but it needs a few extra development hours, depending on the complexity of your website architecture/cms used/etc.. Anyways, you are changing the URL, so don't forget about the best practices for them. Good luck!

Title tags are an introduction to your content. Google Algos look at them whrm making a decision about content. Two titles with similar titles create ambiguity. How to solve? Create different titles. If your pages are same. Take one down https://quoracreative.com/article/title-tag

Thanks Tim Just watched, much appreciated, thanks for the help

Hi there! There are several issues to be analyzed here. 1- The site is not offering that useful content to users, im seeing too few words and not that much content. 2- Internal search results are being indexed 3- I do highly recommend you to take a deep read into these resourses: SEO begginers guide - Moz Google Raters guidelines - Google Hope it helps. Best luck! GR

Using the htaccess I 404'd all the pages using "Options All -Indexes". Will this resolve the issue?

Hi Fabrizio, I'd advise you to link to your regular (non AMP) page. Make sure that this page includes a tag with a link to the AMP version of the page. The AMP page should then contain a rel canonical tag to the non AMP version. Because of this canonical tag it makes more sense to focus your link building efforts on the non AMP version of the page. See https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/discovery for more detailed information on how to include the tags on both pages. Hope it helps!

I'm to give that a go Martijn. The text "XML Sitemaps" is in there and flagas as an error. Does this need to be reformatted as well or deleted? Kind regards, James.