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I don't understand what the problem is. You have a domain and a subdomain. Do you use href lang? If so, how do you use it? Also, do you rank with your main domain in czeck rankings? From what I understand you should rank with the subdomain, right? Or is it that you do not rank at all (no domain, no subdomain) in the czech language? I don't think that the solution is to delete your language specific subdomain. Why do you think they are considered duplicates? Is the language not different? There are multiple questions that can be asked before reaching your conclusion. This is my input here.

Google can read dynamic content, so I would not do this. In terms of UX, why don't you come up with something really cool while the users are waiting? How many seconds do you need for the change? As a rule, I would keep the sections with their own content because Google can read dynamic content.

Thanks for the advice James. Honestly, not sure why the message was even showing and it seems to be corrected without me doing anything somehow... All's well that ends well! Thanks for your help!

Hey there, The danger of having redirects to your old site, which then redirect to your new site, is that you could create long redirect strings, which pass less SEO value than one off redirects. Ideally, you should redirect directly from what had inbound links. Say you have links to oldsite.com/awesome-article, which redirects to oldsite.com/awesome, which redirects to newsite.com/awesome. Add in a redirect directly from oldsite.com/awesome-article directly to newsite.com/awesome. Hope this helps! Kristina

I have to agree with James Wolff, canonical tags look like the best course of action given the examples above. It does not seem like the 301 redirects are going to be necessary.

Hi there, I would say, discuss with your developer. It happened with one of our developers, who has been using our company's subdomain for a personal project development/staging (without our knowledge) and forget to noindex the dev site. I have found it out exactly with a site: search. As I can see the links are not live anymore, but are indexed with the old.britishcarregistrations.co.uk subdomain.

Its' entirely possible that Google doesn't consider the posts newsworthy. Just having the technical markup for News doesn't mean it will be considered such by the search engine. Paul

William and Ramon have good answers here. Roman also has good points  but some of it may be a bit confusing for this thread because it's not fully explained. If the pages haven't been published they shouldn't be indexable to Google based on standard Wordpress functionality. Having a bunch of messy unfinished pages could slow down use of the cms (if only because you have to paginate through them) but as Will and Ramon have said they're unlikely to slow down the site front end unless they are truly huge amounts. Most relevant is the opportunity cost for not having all those pages published, if they aren't published they can't rank. So if you're posting this to get reasoning to finish the work I'd start by considering the keywords those pages are targeting; use semrush, stat, or similar and pull out the search volume for the keywords. Then you can point to what you're accumulatively missing out on. Hope that helps

Hi seoman10 answering your question They are important, but I think they are not even in the TOP 20 of the priorities when you rank a site, for me the most iportant factor are Content Backlinks Mobile-First User Experience Other Technical Factors To support my point of view you can check the 200 ranking factors from backlinko and Image Optimization is in the 24 position. "24. Image Optimization: Images on-page send search engines important relevancy signals through their file name, alt text, title, description and caption." Optimize the ALT tags can give you a better score but will not give thousands of visitors. In the other hand a good link mixed with agreat content can give you that traffic. When you are making an onpage optimization is really good idea to put your main keywords or releated keywords in the images and those ALT tags must be related to the topic of your article but is very usual that you will have a lot of images without ALT tag, such as icons, ads, backgrounds and Im sure that they will not hurt your SEO Sources Search Engine Journal Backlinko

Rasmus, They one you have provided does not allow you to generate a graphical sitemap from the XML file so it's pretty useless when scanning website with 1000+ dynamic URLs and power mapper does not have an option to ignore /categories or /page=  alike.

Correct. Long term, it could even become a hinderance.

If you can share the site I'll look to see if there is markup on the page that is causing this so you can identify what to remove.

Hi, I know this is an old question but I wanted to ask about the first paragraph of your answer: "You can start by trying the "site:domain.com" search. This won't show you all the pages which are indexed, but it can help you determine which ones aren't indexed." Do you happen to know why doing a site:domain.com search doesn't show all the indexed pages? I've just discovered this for our website. Down the site: command shows 73 pages but checking through the list, there are lots of pages not included. However if I do the site:domain.com/page.html command for those individual pages, they do come up in the search results page. I don't understand why though?

The first thing I would do is take a deep breath and go run PageSpeed analysis on your top 5 competitors in your space for similar pages. Get a feel for whether you are already doing better than they are in terms of ACTUAL LOAD TIME, not the score they give you.  The score is a measure of how many optimization techniques you have deployed, not whether you are actually fast. Only after you have confirmed that your site is slow relative to competitors should you really go down the optimization path. I would consider throwing your site behind a CDN like cloudflare if possible, which will easily enable both HTTPS and HTTP/2.

Most if not all PR sites are now nofollow links so won't help directly your ranking. However,, like James said, the PR may send traffic to your site which can help.

Everything we made perfect even our google plus logo also. Still it's not picking from those sources.

Yes, I understand this. But if we are talking about a concrete example. The categories have been divided into 5. All of the listings belonging to a category have the category name in the url. Now testing it shows, that if the main keyword which you are trying to optimize the homepage for is not in any of the LISTING urls, the homepage does not rank with this keyword well. My question: If my homepage is optimized for **"Prague clubs" and I name one of the categories to something similar (Best Prague clubs etc) and include the "Prague clubs" in the urls of the listings, will this benefit homepage ranking for the keyword or not? ** It would look like this: homepage (optimized for prague clubs, showing latest listings ) - category 1 (best prague clubs www.example.com**/best-prague-clubs) Listing url (www.example.com/prague-clubs/listing-123) .** Will this benefit the ranking of the homepage or it will actually make it weaker? When we used URLs for listings like www.example.com/prague-club-listing-id it was easy to rank the homepage for the keyword. After moving to category URLS (/category-name/listing-id) homepage is not ranking (yet categories rank). My issue is that i optimized homepage for the main keyword, category keywords are a lot smaller volume ones.

Yes they can crawl and index also the contents of PDF's and they are doing that extensively. Its nothing new actually. As long as the contents of the PDF is not only images but also text they will be able to scan the actual text. Interesting article with tips to make your PDF's SEO-friendly: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/pdf-seo-best-practices/59975/ Cheers, Cesare