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Absolutely not a problem. I do think that SSR would be a really positive way forwards for your website! Hopefully that will begin to get the trend-line going up again instead of down

It's a tricky lesson to learn as Google often release posts and content which over-burdens developers with false-confidence (it's not the developer's fault). Basically, website owners and company owners often ask broad brush questions and pressure Google to respond with simple, succinct answers (like in Matt's old Webmaster videos). Google cave into this pressure and say stuff like "yeah doing redirects for your migration is good", but in some (not all) of their published content, completely neglect to mention that some redirect types are more worthy than others within the context of certain situations. Developers read posts written by Google and just think "ok fine that's how it is now so we just do that" and, of course - unless you make a livelihood studying all this stuff, you end up pretty far wide of the mark. I recently answered this question by a webmaster whom had taken it for granted that, because Google 'can' crawl JS they always will (under all circumstances). He made a move in terms of technical on-site architecture and saw loss as well Just ask the guys who know! And yes, do the redirects, you may as well. You might still get something back from it (probably not a lot though)

Thank you,

Many thanks, Donna. I'm seeing things completely different to you. Screwfix does use both variations on-page (METAs and content). They also rank #1 for both variations. Strange! I am searching from the UK, but the ranking Screwfix pages should be the same regardless. Lee

yea, wouldn't spend too much time recoding that then. i would still block the print pages via robots.txt so that they aren't crawled at all.

I recommend you keep the site as is and just create a shop in a /shop/ subfolder on the main domain. authority comes from external backlinks, if you move the main site to a subdomain (without redirects), traffic will drop and you'll have a ton of links to 404 pages, creating a giant mess. if you do redirect to subdomain, then all of the authority will follow with it (except for links to the main root domain). you'll also need to be careful to not have any urls that overlap with old urls that you are now redirecting (again, high chance of mistakes).

its best to update the links to the new domain if possible (although official google stance is 301 redirect lose 0 link value). if you can't update the backlink, just make sure the old url to new url redirect is only one 301 redirect (no chain redirects, no temporary redirects) definitely make sure all of your internal backlinks point directly to the new urls.

Hi, Can you clarify what you mean by: "none of the links are actually linked within the sitemaps"? Do you mean that some pages aren't part of the sitemaps? Martijn.

That's just laziness on their part, they should update to have an H1 on every page.

I know it's a little late, but my site has the same problem, and it's annoying to see. I know next time google crawl my site, I will have a better ranking, but its been over a month now. So if anybody has a solution to my problem I would be happy Regards Nicklas

In theory as per Joe using a CDN can certainly influence your site speed load, however I found their are a few caveats to this. Firstly are you serving content in the same country/content to your audience and does your CDN have a node in this location to allow a faster pull of content. The speed gain may only be helped if this is the case. Second, can your CDN serve content via SSL be it an installed or shared SSL. And can your CDN serve via HTTP2 for simultaneous loading of files in parallel with one another. All of this can certainly affect your SEO, but hopefully the gains are enough to actually have a positive influence. For Videos - my favourite is still actually Youtube, it can boost your own following and don't forget Youtube is the second largest search engine that I am aware of. Hosting and having content here can only be an added benefit. Cheers Tim

If no pages which support web coding actually exist for the URLs you want to remove from Google's index, I'd probably use the HTTP header instead. Maybe use the X-Robots directives: https://yoast.com/x-robots-tag-play/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/x-robots-tag-simple-alternate-robots-txt-meta-tag/67138/ Even if you have no page with web-code, you can always have a HTTP Header. A HTTP header simply allows a client and / or server to fire additional information through 'requests' (post / get etc). This is the only thing I can think of which would really help. Some people might suggest robots.txt wildcards, but robots.txt handles crawling and not indexation (so those answers wouldn't really be worth anything to you) The other thing you could do (maybe combine this with the X-Robots stuff) is to get all of those URLs to serve status code 410 (gone) instead of 404 (temporarily gone, but coming back)

If you are using anchor text that is not on the landing page it sends mixed signals to the search engine. Remember that search engines are just complex directories trying to give the user the most relevant result. If your keyword doesn't match the page it's linking to then the likelihood is it will lose its relevance equalling a lower authority signal and lower SERP. If you are using a relevant keyword for anchor text then you can weave it into the landing page. Hope that helps

Hi, I had been in a similar position, dealt with 10+ websites with the same issues, but now fixed. The nature of the business were the same, services the same just the markets were different like .in, co.uk, .ca, .us etc. We were skeptical initially as we had a plan to set up a blog or something on all the local sites or not, but then the question arise duplication, conflict etc. So what I did, I went with seperate blogs for few of the top performing sites. Lets say, co.uk and .us, the services were the same and so does the keywords. Since we are using hreflang, ccTLDs, International targeting enough singals for Google to understand which page belongs to which country. We started rephrasing the master content kind of more LSI approach and published them under co.uk since that was 2nd best perfoming markets we had first one was US. In this way, we didn't consfuse Google and our users yet we were writing some quality content and rephrasing them with LSI approach to publish them on other sites. But initially, Google was showing the US content in UK and UK content in US, but it got fixed once we had enough content on the site. Plus moving to subdomain just to make it central no I won't suggest you to do this. What should you do, It's time consuming but long lasting, produce the content, rephrase with the LSI approach, add or less the content based on country requirement or whatever you feel like doing and then tag content / URLs with self-referential hreflang and canonical tags

Great thanks for your help. We'll wait a week or two and check again. Thanks Tanya

It is possible to earn the #1 position away from Amazon.  But, to do that you need one of two things... A) A heavyweight site that is known as an authority in the product category where you are trying to compete with Amazon. B) A lightweight site that has multiple pages of deep content for the keywords that you are after.  You need a site that is well known enough for those keywords that people ask for it by name (meaning that they use the domain in Google queries or type the domain into the address window of Chrome). Situations A) and B) are earned through years of work, not by tossing up a few great pages or a ton of pages loaded with prattle.

Apologies for the delay coming back to you - Christmas didn't help. And thanks for your answer; I will give this specific use of canonical a shot starting with small subsets of the site and monitor the impact on my ranking first. Another interrogation on top of its impact on the site is to know whether it's worth the effort. But I guess I'll only know it by trying directly.

My bad I explained incorrectly subdomain. Ok so redirects are good in my situation. I will just need to be patient because it has indexed the new page but still shows the new and old one in the search results. I imagine it can take a few month for the old address to go away. If I remember well google keeps the old one in its index for 90 days ? Hopefully it replaces it with the new one soon...