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Hi Chase, Removing dev via web master tools should do the trick for now. Then since google won't get to dev anymore you should be safe. Adding both noindex and password protection is not needed. Since it's password protected Google won't get to see the noindex on the pages. So you should only do one of the two. No need to change now. The password protection is safe. As expected 'dev.chiplab.com' was removed from the SERP.  Now, I'm a bit worried that the link equity was transferred for good to the subdomain from 'www.chiplab.com'.  That's not possible, right? *** Yes, that's not possible so you are good. Only 301 redirections are "mandatory" for Google to pass equity - so all good.

Hi Tormar! To my knowledge, having a title element within a link tag adds no SEO value. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Alt tags in images, though, are rather important, both for user experience and for SEO. Among other things, they're covered here.

I'm not personally aware of anything that would make it inherently bad, but I do think you should take some time to consider why people visit your blog, and who you'd like the audience for your blog to be. If your blog is mainly for content that's reasonably "evergreen" and that will draw repeat visitors, then using it for this sort of promotional material might not be the best idea. If you're just looking to draw one-off visitors or fill your funnel, it might be fine. For example, take the Moz blog—the vast majority of our posts aren't about Moz products at all, and when we do post about our own products and events, the posts are in addition to our regularly-scheduled, educational posts. Our blog has a large readership who are generally looking for information they can apply to their own marketing. If they saw posts that serve as little more than advertisements for our products, they'd have no reason to come back. Running the sort of content we run helps us keep our position as an industry thought leader, and keeps us front-of-mind when members of our community are in the market for tools like ours. You note that property listings tend to draw a lot of clicks, but those clicks are coming from folks who are actively looking for property listings. Those types of visitors strike me as pretty likely to see the listing on your blog, consider whether they're interested, and then bounce along to the next search result. I don't see them sticking around to read and engage with your blog. If you're fine with that, go ahead. If you'd like your blog to be a knowledge source for your visitors, though, maybe leave the listings to the listings.

Hi Jonathan, When I visit your site and I go to www.swiftcomm.co.uk/, it redirects me to www.swiftcomm.co.uk, so this looks OK.If I check the Google cache for both versions of the URL, the only one cached is www.swiftcomm.co.uk/ - this looks fine to me. Might I suggest you download Screaming Frog and run a crawl with that as well, just to be sure. I can't do this today myself as I am on a Chrome box. -Andy

I like Everett's suggestion. My retail sites have very few pages with a single item.  Most pages have several very closely-related items.  This makes for a more compact site with very rich pages that ranks better in search and pulls in more long-tail traffic.  In my opinion these pages convert just as well as single-item pages (as long as the items do not require a long complex description).

I am using Wordpress for CMS.

Hi Abs, Changing brand and domain name are very crucial steps, so it requires proper attention and good strategy prior to the implementation. These changes can have the serious impact on the SEO work and branding you have ever done. Below is the list of recommendation that you should follow: Redirect all the old website URLs to the relevant URLs of the new website Keep a close eye on Google webmaster to analyze and fix 404 errors If you have subdomains linking to old website, redirect them to the new domain Setup sitemap for your new domain Do press release for your new brand so that visitors can know about the change Perform Google Adwords for rebranding message like We have shifted to a new brand. After following above steps, keep analysing your website to check the impact of domain change and rebranding on your website. So that you can fix the problems as soon as possible. The real example of rebranding is Odesk, which has become Upwork now. You can get the detailed information of my mentioned point in the below link: http://searchengineland.com/odesk-upwork-migrate-domain-not-kill-seo-223494 Hope this will help. Regards, Varun

Yes, even though it says temporary, when it comes back to re-crawl, it won't find the old page. You will be fine -Andy

I can see the meta descriptions in SERPs. do you have any sample pages where it does not show up?

I think Bing is more sensitive to links, and use fewer algorithms to penalize (like Penguin or Panda). So with few good links and exact anchor you can rank easily.

Google is adding and removing URLs from its index fairly slowly right now, and it's not uncommon for changes to take several weeks to filter up into the index, especially for site: searches. This is very annoying (even more so for people who are trying to launch brand-new sites), but not a huge deal since, to Laura's point, these URLs are most likely not showing up for any searches, they just haven't filtered out of the index. I would give it another week or two and see what happens. You may also want to do a Fetch+Submit in Search Console for a few of the subdirectory URLs, to make sure that Google revisits them and registers that they are 410s now - if they've been redirecting for 2 years, Google may just not be crawling them that frequently.

The links to metro-manhattan may be losing a small amount of value as they pass through the redirects. Google has previously stated that this is not the case, but I think it's more accurate to say that it's not always the case, and I have certainly seen a measurable decrease in link value (usually around 15%) when passing through a redirect. I doubt that Google is confused about the two domains, though, since metro-manhattan has been redirecting to nyc-officespace-leader for 4 years and, unless I'm reading your question wrong, has never had content on it. If metro-manhattan has more inbound links pointing to it than nyc-officespace-leader, AND is a better reflection of your current brand, it may indeed be worth moving the domain. I would not move the site from one domain to the other just based on the reasons you've outlined above, though. Moving your site from one domain to the other is likely to negatively impact your rankings and traffic in the short term as Google gets used to it being in the new spot. This is entirely possible to overcome through marketing the new site, but will not be a quick fix to the problems you've outlined. So if you want to move the site, and commit to marketing that site, go ahead, but don't do it just to capture link value pointing to metro-manhattan. If you do decide to move the site, my advice is always to make a domain change separate from making other major site changes in layout, content, etc. So you would either want to: Move the site as-is, do some proactive link building to the new domain/reach out to people who link to the old domain to get them to update their links, get a marketing and promotion plan in place, and then once your rankings and traffic have stabilized from the move, start making improvements, or: Make the improvements to the site you want to make now, and revisit moving the domain after those changes have been in place for a while. Your other option would be to reach out to sites that link to metro-manhattan and ask them to update their links to point to nyc-officespace-leader. That would allow you to get more value from those links, but I know it's not always possible to do. So like I said, unless you have additional compelling reasons to move the site beyond what you've said in your question, I would leave it where it is and focus on improving it.

There are a few issues with the DNS that I can see. First off, the email address in the SOA record is wrongly formatted, so won't receive mail. While that isn't the source of your issue, your IT people should change it so that they can receive messages about the DNS. Change this: jliodns.admins@ril.com. to this: jliodns\admins.ril.com. (Copy all of that exactly, including the dot at the end of the line.) Secondly, there are different SOA serial numbers available. There are four nameservers for ajio.com, and they are ns1.ajio.com, ns2.ajio.com, ns3.ajio.com, and ns4.ajio.com. When I query ns1, ns2, or ns4, I get back a line like this: ajio.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.ajio.com. jiodns.admins@ril.com. 2016052708 10800 900 1209600 86400 But from ns3 I get this line: ajio.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.ajio.com. jiodns.admins@ril.com. 2016041301 10800 900 1209600 86400 The difference is the serial number (the bit after ril.com.): it's 2016052708 in the first case, and 2016041301 in the second. These numbers should always be the same. It looks from this line as though the ns3 nameserver should be fetching the newer serial number every 10800 seconds, yet it clearly isn't because it has a serial number from April 2016, while the other three nameservers have a serial number from May 2016. That's still not enough to explain your issue, but basically, your IT team need to investigate the performance of their nameservers, because this may be the symptom of a wider issue. Good places for them to start are here and here. The first of those two links is the Pingdom test that Nicolas linked to, but with the important difference that it's checking ajio.com, rather than www.ajio.com.

Not entirely sure what you mean, but from what I understand, you're asking if you have Image A on Product page A (this product page is already indexed) Image B on Product page B (this product page is not indexed) If so, then sure you can put Image B in your sitemap. I would be hesitant doing it if you do not want your Product page B to be indexed, though... Hope this helps

Hi Matt, Google probably will ignore all of these - they are pretty good at recognising spam like this, but to err on the side of caution, start to disavow the spam sites as Nick said. It's fairly easy to do if you haven't done it before, but I know you can build a disavow file from within Ahrefs. -Andy

If they are external links, and they are pointing to URLs that no longer exist, I wouldn't worry too much about it - it's unlikely that something that is so clearly spam is going to affect your site in any way. If you are really concerned about it, you could disavow the linking sites in Search Console. I hope that helps. I'm still a little unclear as to what you mean by repopulating your back end in this context.

Hi Aviad, I have the Moz toolbar installed and this gives you a quick view on the "spaminess" of the potential linkpartner. The scores are ok 1: 3/17 2: 3/17 and 3: 0/17. Additionally I use the OSE Open Site Explorer from Moz to see what comes up. From this you could say youre good to go. The sites indeed look very SEO marketing with the Adsense running. Good luck! Tymen

Hi there, The best option is to have different information in every page. I'd be advise you to re write as many as possible. Hope it helps. GR.