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Sorry for disappearing on you - any updates here?

How did this go? I'm doing this myself. The main concern would be loss of backlinks. But otherwise this is a good practice

Sounds like youve got a good plan. You might consider meta noindex on these pages until you have your new content.

You need to make the content as unique as possible. Look up keyword capitalisation.  You need to only use certain words on each page. 1 and 1.4 share the keyword 'metal'. You will need higher word counts to differentiate the content. Include sub titles has specific to each page

You're homepage dissapearing is of concern. What version domain name is connected to your IP with your domain name provider? Have you set up search console with your preferred domain?

I'm inclined to stick with branding so all one word. However, what would affect this decision is search data. Go into search console or connect search console to analytics. Look in the search terms panel. Are people typing it as one word or separate words. Often it's best to display what people expect to see. That improves CTR

Thanks for the follow up! There was also some indexing issues going on with google last week (pages were taking hours to get indexed, even using the fetch and render tool) so maybe this was somehow related. Glad it's resolved for now!

Hi CarlLSweet, I'm not sure what you are asking. We'd love to help you out, so please provide us with clarification. Thanks! Christy

I don't know how the East got in there. One thing to try is to look at the footer on the Bing result, and click Feedback. You can give negative feedback or comments about the result, and request that they contact you for followup. That may help, and I'd be interested to hear if they did get back to you and what they said.

Appreciate the thoroughness of the response Ed, thanks for taking the time.

Short answer; I think you  can get more value from an H1 tag, so its a small SEO issue. However, it really depends what image you're talking about. Is this just a logo? If so it doesn't adequately describe page content in a way that people or search engines can understand. Regardless, putting that image in an H1 tag does nothing for the image. H tags should display a hierarchy. As James mentions above, H1 tags should contain an editorial description of the page; a headline, this is best for usability (which trickles down to SEO impact). Anecdotally I've found keywords in H1 tags to have greater sway over page relevance than keywords in body copy. They are certainly one of the areas I pay more attention to. Despite that, it's not unusual to find logos in H1 tags, especially on homepages. But I'd encourage you to consider putting that H1 tag around a keyword optimised mission statement/heading on your homepage instead. The logo can remain visually as prominent. Ranking for your companies name is rarely hard so why have the code focus on that? What about standards? Well interstingly w3c uses img in an H1 tag. With an alt tag of "w3c". That will be machine readable, but not very helpful as a page heading. Then again w3c goes on to use h1 tag for its page titles as well thus committing the sin of multiple H1 tags. Only thing of relevance they say is that you can include HTML in an H1 tag, so one option is an image and text. In summary; one H1 tag per page the right place in the hierarchy (with h2 etc) keyword optimised but not spammy/stuffy (for deeper pages consider long tail kewords) Short, descriptive and engaging text* *for example mission statements should say who the website represents, what they do and why they're special. Ideally in less than 20 words; think snappy newspaper headline. Answer user intent!

Hey Gaston, Thank you for your reply. Yes, that makes sense to me! All fixed now.

Thanks Steve.  I agree that the site: query is not working in an appropriate manner. But I have noticed that the pages indexed by google are showing up in SERP with site: query . I have checked new GSC and found that few pages are not indexed for my website, when I searched these pages in Google using "info:" query, it appears. It concluded that the pages which are not indexed by Google will not appear for "site:" query but can appear for "info:" query. site: Indexed by Google info: Known by Google Moreover, making root file available to bot makes structure search friendly but what if we don't make this file available to bot? Will my other dynamic pages get affected which are generated through this file? Please advice. Thanks

Sorry, I must not have been clear. The site/page has words - one of the first paragraphs has 92 words and 472 characters without spaces, so that isn't the issue. The issue is that Moz/Google cannot see the text - they think the page has no words on it.

Thank you, you answered all of my questions and some more I didn't ask...but should have! The notable alumni page is a great idea, and not one I'd thought of. It's going to be a lengthy process, but I'm no happy that I know I'm doing the right things. Thank you again!

Hi, I was wondering exactly the same thing as above - in MOZ it classes this as a redirect chain. Is this an issue that it picks up that isn't really a problem? we are using: RewriteRule (.) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.MYSITE.co.uk [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^(.) https://www.MYSITE.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Meta-keywords in the head of pages have no SEO value, and in some instances may even be used as spam signals. It's been a very long time since they ever had any value. So Drupal did the right thing by removing them by default. I understand there may be a few smaller European search engines that might still use meta-keywords, and there are some internal site search engines that use them for internal indexing purposes. But if neither of those cases applies, there's no point in wasting any time implementing them. Hope that helps? Paul

Hi Cloudflare does not need to be added two times (or to each domain) to work or it would only be used on the old domain for an Automattic 301 redirect to the new site/ domain so I would only use it once to make sure I get the set of 301s for the old domain. Does that make sense? (The "yournewdomain.com" does not need to run on Cloudflare only the "yourolddomain.com" domain) You will then want to see how this is used in the following pattern: https://yourolddomain.com/* Select “Forwarding URL” and “301 – Permanent Redirect” for the settings, and input the following rule: https://newyourdomain.com/$1 The /$1 enables the wildcard part to function. Then click on “Save and Deploy.” [image: 301-redirect-wildcard-cloudflare-1.png] cite: https://woorkup.com/free-url-forwarding/ Let me know if I can be of any help, Thomas Zickell zhs0fMk.png