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Hello there! I might need some clarification here. The screenshots look to me like they are extracted from a Google Business Profile, in which case, they are stemming directly from the reviews customers leave you on Google. If I'm misunderstanding, would you mind taking a screenshot of the whole search engine results page so I can better understand the context of where you are hoping your reviews will appear? Thanks and I'll check back on this thread.

I have to note, as with any SEO question, the answer is just my opinion and not knowing the full and specific scenario, take it with a grain of sale. As a general rule in that scenario though I'd simply let the bots do what they will with it but make sure to canonical the page to itself so if the other sub you're CNAMEing gets picked up it canonical's back to the real one. In essence, let the link weight flow as it will - just make sure you don't get hit with a dup-content issue on the page. As for ranking ... I'd focus your energies on the main site unless there's a term that the page lends itself to. But then ... that's pretty much a global truth: focus on rankings a page with content that lends itself to the term you want to rank for. Good luck !!! Dave

What would a user who wasn't logged in see if they visited it? Depending upon your company, I would suggest exposing the knowledgebase, that could possibly rank for people looking to solve problems that your products would help with. Same with the forum. If you chose to do that, you might be better off simply moving that content to somewhere else in your site structure. For everything else, Google wouldn't typically be able to login, and what would you actually show it? It's not a customer, so it would have any tickets or products to list serial numbers of. You could detect that it's GoogleBot and show something else, but that's very bad practice!

In Search Console (new version) go to Coverage > All Known Pages. Then click "Valid" above the chart, Then click on "Submitted and Indexed" and download to a spreadsheet. Do the same for "Indexed, not Submitted in Sitemap". Combine these two downloaded lists into one list in a tab in excel, and in another tab you can put the URLs of all the pages you think should be getting indexed (unless you think all of them are in your sitemap anyway). And then use vlookup formulas to find whether each of the pages you know are on your site are actually indexed (by looking up in the tab containing the downloaded lists).

Hi Dennis, I wouldn't worry too much about this, in the end having the same server location and CMS have such an incredibly tiny impact on your SEO that there is likely 100 other things to worry about first. Content + Links and many other things are much more valuable to focus on than having to worry about a competitors server. Hope this helps! Martijn.

That is exactly the same thing am facing on my music download website

Don't worry, it is happening because of Google technical issues. They are trying to fix there a problem

Or maybe somebody on this forum can recommend a forum where someone may know what is going on with my url's? I also have www.www in my url's when I do site:coastlinetvinstalls.com    Yikes!

Dr. Egol - thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'll give it a try!

Hi Andrew, That's a pretty interesting question and quite difficult to definitely answer (hence a lack of replies I'd guess.) Just to clarify, which rule in the robots.txt are you referring to; Disallow: / or Noindex: /? So if the page is disallowed from crawling then my best guess is it would have the same impact as a link being no-followed i.e you are saying to GoogleBot please don't crawl or count this page...you're not vouching for it and perhaps don't want it to be indexed. If you are saying you are linking to a page which has a Lastly, specifically with regards to Link Juice, you might find this old post from Matt Cutts interesting: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ It was written in 2009 about the idea of "PageRank Sculpting" or Link-juice funelling. The official line from Matt back then was that it wasn't really a thing, and as he says, Google will have got a lot smarter about assessing the value of internal/external links 10 years on whether they have a nofollow property or not. He also advises that you don't worry about it and in his own imitable way, focus more on creating great content Belated happy new year, and I hope this sort of helps! Nick

The issue is now being reported as fixed, with a response from Google’s John Mueller saying it was a technical issue their end. https://searchengineland.com/google-de-indexing-issue-now-fixed-result-of-technical-issues-315058

Hi there, Please could you be a bit more specific with regards to the redirect? Are you saying that you're using an iframe to show content form one page of your site to another, or that the URL within the iframe redirects? Whilst iframes are a bit of an old school SEO boogeyman from the days when Googlebot couldn't crawl them properly, they generally have a time and a place. e.g Google Maps and YouTube embeds. These could add valuable context to the page despite being hosted off-site, so it's not quite as simple as saying all iframes=bad for SEO. The same could be true of your content depending on the situation! Hope this kind of helps for now! Nick

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Yeah, I think this was just tripping me up a little bit because of how differently the pages perform. You make a good point - URL doesn't seem to be a big factor in this instance. Thanks for your insight, Alex.

Thanks Mike.  How do we preserve any 'link juice' from the existing page that will have the redirect? Do the noindex and nofollow tags hurt the passing of link equity vs. just having the 301 redirect without those tags?

As Don_quixote mentioned, yes it would be helpful to change to URL's so they correspond to your content. That will make them "SEO Friendly". However, remember to redirect them with a 301 every time you are changing them. That will spare you a lot of problems later and you'll keep your page rank (if they have any).

Have you ensured the href-lang tags are set up correctly? rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://www.napoleon.com/en/us/welcome" /> I spotted a few errors right away

Interesting development which may be of interest to you Ernst: Google admitted just the other day that they "haven't supported rel=next/prev for years." https://searchengineland.com/google-apologizes-for-relnext-prev-mixup-314494 "Should you remove the markup? Probably not. Google has communicated this morning in a video hangout that while it may not use rel=next/prev for search, it can still be used by other search engines and by browsers, among other reasons. So while Google may not use it for search indexing, rel=prev/next can still be useful for users. Specifically some browsers might use those annotations for things like prefetching and accessibility purposes."

Hi Avaye, Unfortunately "improving your SEO" is such an incredibly broad term, it's going to be hard to give a super specific answer within Moz's Q&A Forum. What ZoZoMe was trying to say I believe is that the search engine results in Google are constantly changing as Google changes its algorithm and looks to improve its search results. Just because you previously ranked 1st place doesn't guarantee that you will in the future. In addition to Google changing, your competitors may have also improved the quality of their website and competing pages. Here are a few tips: Check the top 5 search results and benchmark them against your website Do a site speed audit and see if you can improve the loading time of your webpage e.g GT Metix or Google Page Speed insights See if you can update the page you are trying to rank for and add new high quality information or optimise your meta data again Build new high quality bank links by doing some outreach Hope this helps! Nick