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  • Hey Alan It sounds like you are  saying that you have some old pages/urls from a website that you own and they have some external links pointing to them and you would like your site to be able to make use of any link juice coming from them.  (Makes me think of old websites/domains I bought back in the day.) The way this is usually done is via a 301 redirect from the old page (that the external links are pointing to) to the current live page on your site that you would like to be the recipient of said link juice. Most hosts have an easy way to do this on their dashboard. Just wondering--why can't you see in your analytics if your site already is getting traffic from those pages/links? Caveats: If the content of the pages that contain those external links is not relevant to the pages on your site that the links will be 301'd to, the link juice will be of little or no value to your page's organic ranking.  Also, Google, being a domain registrar itself, will be able to see if you are the owner of a site or network of  sites with a bunch of links going between them.  I'd definitely recommend spending some time with  Moz's beginners guide to SEO so to get a good lay of the land SEO-wise-speaking.

    | Chris.Menke
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    | Dudy1
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  • As a user, there are certainly times it's helpful to have the browser tab text, especially if I have a few tabs open on a single site and want to distinguish between them quickly. From a search engine's standpoint, I don't see why this wouldn't be one more piece of possibly useful information. However, as you pointed out, if the user happens to have one window open with dozens of tabs, then each individual tab is so skinny which results in only the brand favicon/icon as important.

    | sb1030
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    | ahmadi11
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  • The first thing to look at is if those new pages and the new changes to any pages have even been crawled yet by Google. If not, then that is why you aren't ranking in the top 100 yet. To check if the page has been cached yet, paste that URL into Google.com and if there are no results, then it is not cached. If Google shows that page as a SERP listing, then it has been cached. To see the last date that Google cached that page, click on the green drop down arrow next to the URL and then click "Cached". Then you'll be able to see that last date that Google crawled that page.

    | Nozzle
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  • Hi there, This is exactly the case where Google recommends to use canonical, on this resource page: Consolidate duplicate URLs - google Search Console Help. Keep in mind that canonicals are efficient when different URLs have the same content. I'd avoid redirections because that would be hurt user experiences when navigating the website, and we know that hurting UX upsets Google. Hope it helps Best luck. Gaston

    | GastonRiera
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  • We used this same approach (except we are not using TLD, but instead are using directory paths for the regions). We have storefronts in US, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, and EU. The hreflang tags are working very well for all the storefronts except EU. In these other regions, for all of our key tracked search terms, our ranking page is one within the right region for, when checked by the Moz Rank Tracker using the corresponding Google search engine. And, none of the pages from these other regions are ranking in a Google US search. So far so good. But, for Europe, only our US pages are ranking when I check with any of the EU country Google engines. And, The EU home page is ranking for some searches in the US, including right now it is showing as one of our organic sitelinks for our brand name search. We also geo-targeted all of our properties except for two, on Google Search Console. Originally. That would be EU (because Google doesn't allow to target for EU, only for specific countries) and our US site (because we use our www domain in US with no directory path, and in Google Search Console if we geo-target that, it applies to all of our regional directory paths). So, we changed our geo targeting recently, and targeted our EU property to Germany. We chose that because Germany is our largest market in EU. But this hasn't helped either. Basically, all the available tools we know of (hreflang tags, GSC geo-targeting) seem to fail at targeting EU. It is a shame, because many brands have an EU site (rather than individual sites for each country). But we have not yet found an approach which works well.

    | seoelevated
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  • I have a simple question to the experts: If we go with 301 Redirect < links from Forbes, Bloomberg& other big sites > can improve DA?

    | Awais12525
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  • Excellent, thank you Chris. I would prefer to keep the URL path the same, but to be honest the original URL path is a bit of a mess, so I'm taking this opportunity to clean it up. Really appreciate your help on this!

    | RWesley
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  • In the HTML of your pages there's an <a href="">link with "javascript:void(0". It appears that Google is getting into those. Is possible, remove that link or take it out of an</a> <a href="">element. Otherwise, you should be OK, those pages should 404. </a>

    | GFD_Chris
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  • That's a good idea - you could even display a banner ad that pops up anytime a user accesses the site "Shipping on all products delayed x weeks due to global pandemic". I think people would be pretty understanding.

    | JordanLowry
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  • HI David, Its really hard to say that for having some internal pages with canonical pointing to the home page, this one might get removed from google. It should the other way around, pages with that canonical shouldn't be indexed. But, from what I'm reading, your issue is about traffic and that the homepage is not ranking well anymore, isn't it? If that's the case there should be many other potential issues that you could be facing. Without knowing your website its hard to fully assess that. There is a big chance that google is not seeing your page or content as relevant for the searches that you are searching or willing to rank. This is a completely different matter as actually having your page indexed and ready to rank on google searches. Did I answer your question? Hope it helps. Best luck. Gaston

    | GastonRiera
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    | BabaBha0173
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  • Hey Lee! Thanks for reading my post! Are there any theme files other than the product.grid-item.liquid file that control those product description pages links? For some sites, we've had to make multiple adjustments to get all of the product listing pages pointing directly to the description pages.

    | GFD_Chris
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  • I'm also facing the same problem with my website pages. My Blackpods pro website pages don't show the exact permalink urls.

    | hamzauuuu
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