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I agree with Chris, focus on a smaller segment and get it ranking. At the same time, think of Google spending money processing your website, so whatever you have them processed, should be high quality, unique content, having the user in mind, and being well inter-linked within your site structure. Content not being indexed is often a sign of poor site architecture or huge amounts of low-value content.

Hi, seem to of figured it out, cheers anyways.

Unlikely, as long as they're returning 404 errors you should be OK. Maybe update your disavow file and you should be good to go!

Depending on the hosting situation, it might be possible that the issue could be fully resolved without involving the other party but I would not recommend jumping into this on your own. Not that the basics are terribly difficult but there are a number of basics you would need to wrap your arms around and there are numerous non-basic things to check and verify before you pull the trigger on a fix. Doing it incorrectly could easily leave you with a bigger pickle than you have now.  I recommend that you get very familiar with the topic via guides here on Moz and elsewhere before doing it yourself or have someone with experience take care of it for you. But to partially answer your question, yes, you can install redirects after a year or even longer.  Whether they fix the issue you are describing would be quite another thing, however.

I also want to know how to increase the Authority of my website. I have taken the Moz course to learn the SEO to give their services. Can you guide more?

Agreed, you'll likely want to go with option #2. Dynamic sitemaps are a must when you're dealing with large sites like this. We advise them on all of our clients with larger sites. If your forum content is important for search then these are definitely important to include as the content likely changes often and might be naturally deeper in the architecture. In general, I'd think of sitemaps from a discoverability perspective instead of a ranking one. The primary goal is to give Googlebot an avenue to crawl your sites content regardless of internal linking structure.

Nope! Your email domain shouldn't have any impact on your site's SEO.

Hi there, First of all, its a mistake to think that when searching with _site:  _operator, the first results are the most important nor the more relevant. Google has said a few times that we shouldn't rely that much on what that search in terms of what's being shown. Blocking search results with robots.txt wont be of help, as it will not remove already indexed pages and cant prevent for new pages to be indexed (if there's an external link to a robots.txt blocked page, google can still index it) it'll only prevent Googlebot from discovering new ones FROM YOUR SITE. Again, i'd try to dig deeper to understand where are the links to internal searches that google is finding. Googlebot will not do any search in your site. The thing with GSC, might be related to quite a few reasons. I cant say much because I don't know any more specifics, but from what you are telling me it looks like you are getting impressions in searches that you don't relate to your site and that land on pages that google is noindexing. Yeah im repeating the obvious, hehe.  In my experience, Google can have these strange behaviours. You know, there are cases when a page is canonicalized, but it can still be shown in SERPS. Dont ask me why, but it happens. It takes a little time to google fully replace it with the correct one. I'd wait a little longer to see how Google is handling them. I don't know if im helping you.  it kinda took me a few minutes to understand/process what you wrote and come up with an answer. Please, feel free ask again or comment on my reply if I misunderstood something. Best luck, Gaston

Hi Ruth, I'm getting an alert in Moz Pro's analysis of my site about my Blog having duplicate content. https://pacificbeachhomes.com/blog/ It's because my blog shows 5 posts per page, so older blog posts spill over into "page 2" etc. . . and each of those pages has the same title and meta description. I read that the rel="prev" and rel="next" are not used by google anymore, and I also noticed that my site is not using it. Do you have any suggestions for my blog to avoid any duplicate content issues. maybe it's fine that the blog pages are similar?

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Hi, I have exactly the same issue as described above. Has anything changed since 2012? What is the rule of thumb when it comes to Russian URLs, is it best to keep the in Cyrillic or convert them to Latin characters? I did notice the URLs in Cyrillic get broken when copy-pasting them and also Moz crawlers detect them as too long. What about Google's crawlers, do they see it any differently? Thanks, Anja

Yes you are correct, I would advise to only include canonical URLs in your XML sitemap files.

Thank you very much for so many solutions, I will implement it if I see any issues again and bookmarking this page also. Regards Dinesh Singh

Yes should be done, there's an article on Neil Patel's blog where he makes a test and sees a difference on rankings. You should check that. Just don't do random comments on random blogs...