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Hi Donford, Excuse the delay. We have been very busy but we are working on updating our .htaccess file. Thank you for the quick response. We will let you know if it resolves our issues.

Actually, Google's Quality Review documentation indicates it being positive that a website have an about us page with credible information on it a relative short distance from the home page. While I think it would be wrong to say that there is any clear SEO value related to putting organization schema on an about page, I think it would be considered a "best practice" and certainly wouldn't hurt.

301s only cause a slight loss in link authority, and is what you want to do longterm. Your current 302s are actually worse, and doing nothing for your link authority to the pages they're redirecting to since 302=temporary, which tells Google you're still making up your mind.

I have read in so many places that it caused a dip for others as well. I had a really bad experience with a site move once so I had a checklist of everything and double and triple checked it, but it has just been a slow decline.

Ali So I assume the keyword is Blouse - name of Product Jessica Women's Blouses | Jessica Blouse | Brandname H1 Fashion Blouses It is a little unusual to have the name of the product in womans fashion in the title - unless it is a big brand like G-Star etc. But that is up to you. An alternate might be Blouses | Peasant, black casual | Brand name H1 Womans fashion Blouses Then leave jessica for the description of the product?  There are 1000 ways to skin a cat, you have to decide which way to go. I prefer the latter. Hope that assists. .

I've found backlinks in scraper websites linking to the scraped website I am taking care of. They are in css, images, forms. What's the point in doing it on their side?

Thank you for your answer Dirk. This looks really solid. Sander

Great answers, thank you for the links!

Yesterday I discovered another 200 live domains, some which are a replica of the main site, most which redirect with a 301. Should I take most of the domains offline - Google will surely think we're guilty of scraping the main website and creating spammy links to it?

If the previous site was penalized in any way and you're trying to start with a new domain, then you don't want to redirect or note a change of domain. This is going to help them update their index to reflect the new domain for your pages. I don't know enough about the penalty, but if it was a manual action then you really should fix the penalized domain before doing this. If you're too far into the penalty box, then you almost need to start fresh. Can you offer any more insight on your current situation? Without knowing much more, my instinct is to say to not note a change of address if you're trying to move forward from a penalized domain.

Lisa It is a personal decision.  There is no right or wrong answer. Big companies - sometimes buy them and do not use them in any shape nor form, but keep from competitors. Smaller companies usually don't as it is a costs issue. My experience is most competitors do not understand their own digital channel let alone, snapping up similar names of competitors...

Great response, Thomas!

No worries Don't forget that both rel=canonical and internal linking can send good signals to Google in terms of which page is prominent. A 301 (if used) can be reversed out of if you ever need to do a semi-permanent redirect, but these days, rel=canonical does pretty much the same. -Andy

Thanks Andy, My thoughts here, as I just answered Russ, is that I will keep two sites (the two best performing ones, but go ahead and add great content to one, and that should help me, right? I ask because the other site that is similar is still getting moderately good traffic and it is a site for one of my other agents so it's not really tied to me, so by making my site better and better, it will make hers less and less similar right?

Hi Laura, Has your question been answered? We'd love an update, thanks! Christy

Thanks Cyrus.

You bet Mitch! Glad to help and let me know if there's anything else I can help answer. Hopefully maybe you'll get a few other opinions as well. As I'm sure you know, that's often valuable in search with so many nuances to the SEO game. Good luck with your search efforts!

Hi, I had and experience for moving not only the file structure, but also the whole domain (domain name change). We have created the 301 redirect from the old site to the new one (from every single old page to the new one). It's not the same as your case, but the general approach is exactly the same. So it looked like olddomainname.com/aaa > 301 >newdomainname.com/aaa in your case it going to be as yourdomainname.com/aaaa >301> yourdomainname.com/site-collection/aaaa Google reindexed all our new pages (about 1500 000 pages) within about 6-8 months, but we still (after more than 18 month) have old domain pages  being indexed by Google (about 10 000 pages). Once the domain name was changed, we had started to monitor all our backlinks to be sure they all are still alive, and we've been checking them every week.  This part was the hardest to deal with, coz in spite of setting the 301 redirect, some links were lost. The problem was not connected to the re-direction from oldsite.com/aaa to newsite.com/aaa, but  to the problem that end-pages were out-dated (products out of stock etc). When we discovered this problem (shame on us!!), we had started to monitor back links more heavily. Now we do it every week to be sure we are not losing traffic due to this stupid problem. As far as I know, there are some free apps for Shopify, dealing with 301 redirects, e.g. https://apps.shopify.com/atomseo-404-error-broken-link-checker, https://apps.shopify.com/redirectify good luck!

Thank you Clever PhD, really valuable insights!

Hey wgilliland! Did that help?