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Keep them or remove them, don't redirect them unless they have external links, you want to keep things simple, if you do remove them. make sure you remove all links pointing to them from your own site, you don't want broken links.

Yes I would, I would overlay those images with text, and mark them up using good html5 semantics and schema.org. don't make it hard for the search engine to work out what you page is trying to do. describe your data well so that the search engine knows just when your trying to say.

wonderful thanks.

Hi John I would take a look at your backlink profile in Majestic and take note of your metrics there. I would also take a look at this resource to see if you need to remove links at all or if you have any issues after you research your backlinks. I would also check and see if any drops line up with algorithms or SERP updates. I would also check your Google Webmaster Tools to see if there were any issues that have popped up, like a potential manual action. Also, ask yourself about your partners backlinks: Does this link help my website? Is this link relevant to my website? Would I trust this site (that's linking to me) if I landed on it? Is the website or content in which I am being linked from topically relevant to my website? If you check metrics - does anything about the metrics (domain authority, page authority,Majestic, SEMRush traffic/ranking data, etc) make me feel uneasy? If the link isn't relevant or doesn't help your site, it's better that you lose it. But if for some reason the site isn't sending traffic the way it used to, and it is a relevant partner, I would put their backlink profile through the ringer in Majestic and also check their metrics via SEMRush. Hope this helps! Best of luck!

Wow, Jose, you got a whole audit from Luis. 1. Luis makes a good point about Seville vs Sevilla. When you're trying to target a region other than your own, make sure that you change the location in Google Keyword Planner. Seville is the English version of Sevilla (which I know sounds strange, but we also call your country Spain rather than España). 2. Both subdomains and subfolders can effectively designate different languages. If you've made the call to use subfolders, that's fine. It's probably what I would have done, too, since that means the Domain Authority will transfer easily. 4 & 5. Keyword repetition in URLs isn't necessarily bad in your case, because it's caused by a lot of subfolders. It seems like there's been some debate here on more subfolders vs less: there isn't a hard and fast rule about it. If you have more subfolders, those pages higher up in the structure tend to get more link equity out of the deal and rank better. That takes away from deeper pages, though, which are presumably targeting the most important words. If you use fewer subfolders, the link equity will be evenly distributed, but that means that higher level pages will be weaker and deeper pages will be stronger. In your case, I don't know the answer, since I don't know how competitive different keywords are at different levels. If I were your SEO, I'd tell you to stick with your current URL structure, because moving pages to new URLs tends to cause a big knock in rankings for awhile.

I would also set up your HTTPS site as a new one in Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools (Bing automatically does it), but set it up in GWT. Once you have done that, make sure your sitemap is added and crawled again. Get GWT to crawl the sitemap again from your non HTTPS account too, so redirects are recorded.

Hi, First of all there is no perfect way to show multiple search result for 3-4 times.  Google will show multiple search results from same website when Google find that results are useful & doesn't affect diversity too much. You can achieve what you have mentioned in your question, one is from local result and other one is from organic result. I am sharing a video of Matt cutts in which he explained in which circumstances Google shows multiple listing from same website 1> How does Google decide when to display multiple results from the same website? @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpEdyIcZcU#t=45 As René Hansen suggested you can do it in three ways 1>Local listing 2> Organic listing 3>Paid listing Hope that helps you. Thanks

Great, I put the code, see my source code. Let's see if this warning out now Thanks Tom Roberts

Thanks Dirk, this is the direction we were leaning.

Hey again! I see now - thanks for clearing that up. Depending on your organic traffic to those /tag/widget-a pages and user engagement from search on those pages (which I highly doubt you have much), I would leave them as they are, but "noindex,follow" them. Reason being, those tags can help users if they are looking for something specific, rather than being redirected to the cornerstone page, and having to look through the articles listed to find what they want. This can create a confusing user experience. Keep it easy for them. The reason you should "noindex,follow" them, they aren't useful to search engines but you still want the equity moving through the site to follow links on those pages so that equity can continue to move. Either way, I doubt search engines are giving weight to those tag pages as opposed to your cornerstone page. Hopefully this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or comments!

Hi Patrick, Thanks for the info. To answer your question, the member profile pages are noindexed because there are 80,000 and most have little to no non-duplicate info. Some members fill in something. Most do not. Of the ones that do, they often pull the text from LinkedIn. Rather than have 80,000 duplicate or nearly duplicate pages in the index, we noindexed them. Best... Darcy

Thanks Dirk for your great in-depth response! I will now check with developers what the estimated effort would be. Making the canonical URL available will let me sleep better at night before releasing the new site version. I think the risk shouldn't be huge if we cannot do this and will not waste too many ressources on this (unless, of course, we see a negative impact, which I will then report here;) Best,  Phil

Many thanks Patrick. I will take a look at those posts you suggest Peter

My thought is that for some reason, with the Canadian and US proximity, the algo could see the US page as stronger. Do you see in Analytics for the few times this happens, the organic traffic to that page, is it border Canadian towns? It's definitely not perfect with bordering countries, but if you are geo-targeted correctly and the content is different, then overall you should not have major issues. If you'd like, tell me a few terms and your domain and I'll check it out.

Just be sure that I understand what you're saying: On pages like https://modli.co/dresses/elegant.html & https://modli.co/dresses.html you want to use rel next/rel previous. On pages like https://modli.co/dresses.html?category=43&size=25 you plan to use a canonical to https://modli.co/dresses.html Seem like a good strategy - the only minus is that you would not have a corresponding landing page for somebody looking for "red dress" (page exist on site but points to the generic dresses page). Not sure if these type of queries represent a search volume & if they would be important for your business. rgds, Dirk PS You should check the H1 you use on your pages - on https://modli.co/dresses/elegant.html the H1 is "Elegant" - would be much better if it would be "Elegant dresses"

Thanks Kathy, yeah is an odd one. Ive seen it happen before with some other sites we have done and its always confused me why it happens. Regards Ade

I see that page ranking for both "student loan forgiveness" and "loan forgiveness." So it looks like you accomplished your goal but may have in the process gotten the wrong page to rank now for "loan forgiveness." Can you give us an update? What did you do? Of did Google change its mind?

Completely agree with Bob. The only exception where you might consider using nofollow on internal links would be on links for sign in, add to shopping cart,... - although they indicate that it's not really necessary. Quote from webmaster tools on reasons why you could use no follow: (source:https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en) Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can't sign in or register as a member on your forum, so there's no reason to invite Googlebot to follow "register here" or "sign in" links. Using nofollow on these links enables Googlebot to crawl other pages you'd prefer to see in Google's index. However, a solid information architecture — intuitive navigation, user- and search-engine-friendly URLs, and so on — is likely to be a far more productive use of resources than focusing on crawl prioritization via nofollowed links. rgds, Dirk

Is it possible for you to give a clearer description of the categories? You say they are different products but that one is a second category of the other Does the page you want to rank show up for any other searches? In your analytics are you getting any traffic from Google to that page?

Thumbs up to Tom. I'd only add that Analytics will tell you much in terms of priorities. From there you can see what percentage of your traffic was/is mobile to begin with and how mobile effects the conversion cycle. Often times the same users begin their research on mobile devices but then move to Desktop or Tablet to purchase. The basic idea being, you can get a solid estimate on your own cost/benefit by running through Analytics. Cheers!