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Also OP shouldn't forget to use change of address tool as likely they have subdomain and main domain listed as separate properties in GSC

They can sometimes be harmful yeah. Disavow the domain in Google's disavow tool.  Remember to download the existing disavow file and add your new entries on, otherwise you might undo some previous work. The file you upload doesn't get 'added' to what you have submitted previously, whatever you upload IS the complete file (be wary) Other than that I'd just listen for any traffic from the domain and 301 redirect it somewhere else. The problem you'll get is that if you 301 it back to them, their redirect will pass back to you and you'll get an inter-domain redirect loop I don't know what the consequences of that are. You could just 301 redirect traffic and negative equity from that site, to someone you don't like no? Ok, maybe a bit too volatile and thermonuclear In all seriousness the best thing to do is disavow and code your server to refuse to serve anything to any requests processed from that domain (be they crawlers or users). Just shut it down and disavow it, that's what I'd do. Redirect-wars are seldom beneficial

hi, You can try these tools: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ https://www.pingdom.com/ https://gtmetrix.com/ https://www.dareboost.com/en regards

Hi, Thanks for your answer. As I say before I'm having this problem even when I take off all the structure data from tag manager. Not sure what is generating that schema. Any ideas? Regards,

They haven't performed well for us and based on customer feedback we have gone away from using them if possible.

Hello, Write naturally is about writing without thinking about SEO optimize the text in excess, this means, write contributing content value on the subject you are dealing with in your post, naturally. It is not about "forcing" keywords. Google also analyzes the semantics of the text which means that often, even if you do not put that keyword in particular, Google takes it into account. Regards

What I've usually seen with canonicals is that Google either removes the noncanonical page from its index, or it ignores your canonical and treats them as two separate pages. I haven't seen an example where a canonical lets you get the best of both worlds. I agree with Nozzle - you can tweak your existing content to target both phrases! Google understands synonyms, so if anything, you're just creating a more all around relevant page. Good luck! Kristina

According to dev: We are at magento cloud - htaccess plays no role there since it is nginx and cloud platform.

Hi, I agree with Bagia. It must be a natural link, mixing the anchor text. And not everyone should go to the homepage. Regards

I can't share that information @Nozzle. : / I don't think my company allows that!

Sorry I have to check if I can find screenshots of it, but it was just an image right bottom linking to a subdomain, looking like a chat..

Hi, Not meta tags.  If no other way, You should do it with PHP  header() function. <code>header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: /somelocation");</code> But you need to add some conditions to determine if the page should be redirected. For example to redirect /example.html  to https://www.new-domain.com/example   you need to write something like: if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH) == '/example.html') {header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');header('Location: https://www.new-domain.com/example');exit();} It can be a lot of code, if you need to redirect many pages. In this case, You can try to use PHP 301 Redirect Generator -  https://www.301-redirect.online/php-header-location-generator

Well if you do change the URL and setup the 301 redirect, you can always change, and should change, all the internal links to point to the new URL. As far as losing any PR, Google announced back in 2016 that 301 and 302 redirects no longer lose PageRank. You can read about it in Cyrus Shepard's post, https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo. He states: "While it’s super awesome that Google is no longer “penalizing” 301 redirects through loss of PageRank, keep in mind that PageRank is only one signal out of hundreds that Google uses to rank pages. Ideally, if you 301 redirect a page to an exact copy of that page, and the only thing that changes is the URL, then in theory you may expect no traffic loss with these new guidelines." It sounds like the only thing that will change in your situation is your URL so you should be able to move forward with confidence that 301 redirecting /marvel/avengers/hulk to /marvel/hulk won't have any sort of negative effects, (at least not long lasting). But if you're still feeling cautious, it's fine to not change this one URL.

You have to be patient waiting for Google to re-cache a page and, even after they do, your rankings still might not improve with just onsite changes. You need backlinks too. Also, more internal links from blog posts can help too. In terms of the type of content to write for the Alsace Bike Tours page, we'd recommend looking at the top ten ranking pages and get ideas from their content. Also, include any information that someone might want to see if they are searching for that phrase. We looked at https://www.digngo.com/tour/alsace-bike-tour/ and think that you did a great job talking about Strasbourg and Colmar. Since those cities are the beginning and ending of the bike route it makes sense to talk about what someone can do in those cities.

Sort of. Once crawled, changes made on a page may help or hurt your rankings or do nothing. Also, these changes may help your rankings for some keywords and hurt your rankings for other keywords assigned to that page. On site changes are only one part of ranking a page. Incoming links are the other major part of the equation. If your competitors have more and/or better links than you, your on site changes alone, won't shoot you past them in the SERPs. Rankings improve overtime as you continue to make on site tweaks, build more internal links to a page, and gain more backlinks to that page as well. It takes time to build links and it also takes time for Google to crawl those links as well. Although I know it's tempting, sometimes it's best to not check your ranking report each day because it can be frustrating from day to day if you're not seeing movement. It's better to spend time daily on getting links or adding content to your site and then only check your ranking report weekly to keep your focus on the actual work.

Hi there! On the one hand, site: number of results is not the exact nor the current amount of URLs that Google has indexed. It's only just a way of seeing how much results there are. Google said that it's optimized for speed, that why it's an estimated number. You should trust whats reported in Search Console. On the other, it's possible that Google has checked an URL and considered as valid on one time and not index it, because of canonicals, similar content or any other reason. If you find some URL not indexed, yet reported as indexed in the coverage report, try checking it through the Inspect URL tool, then asking for the TEST LIVE URL option. There you may find some answers. Hope it helps. Best luck. Gaston

Sitemaps cannot (should not) contain more than 50,000 URLs: https://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html#faq_sitemap_size I'd recommend you instead create a sitemap index to house multiple sitemap files. Keep in mind you will need to separate the URLs in them in order to represent all 60K URLs you have in your existing sitemap. Separately, EGOL makes excellent points: sitemaps aren't the only way to get pages indexed. It's entirely possible that you do not have sufficient internal links that aid crawlers' discovery of your content: https://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link You may also have directives (e.g. noindex) on certain pages or in your robots.txt that prevents crawlers from crawling and indexing certain parts of your site. It may be time for a technical audit: https://www.distilled.net/technical-seo-audit-checklist/

All great points, Andreas, and thanks for sharing that resource with Ty1986. I just want to call out user expectation (and ultimately user experience): our expectation is that faceted navigation narrows or alters content on a page. Users _expect _to see this in an easy-to-find place, such as above or to the left of the content the facets will alter. Unless you're proposing a sticky footer-style faceted nav (one that follows the user as they scroll), I encourage you not to use your footer for facets.

Hi, After looking into it more, I tried to submitting the https://www.domain.com to be indexed in Google Search Console. It is saying it is because the robots.txt file is being blocked.  Now after not finding anything related to this in the Robots.txt file, I did see we are blocking SID, and when you click through this page for the first time it takes you to https://domain.com/?SID=da6c01c48dae66de9384d5b71f7af386. Could that potentially be the issue?

Hi Martijn, Thanks for the answer. Regarding the forward slash in the beginning, is it necessary to use this? In the robots text from Zalando for example, you can see that they don't use it for a lot of filters.