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Thanks, Nigel I really appreciate your comment Regards

Thank you, Dan. Your answer is very helpful!

Hi, I am also facing a similar issue. My website is https://infinitelabz.com. When I try to crawl and index the site it is saying not able to crawl.

You will also have to get those URLs out of the index once you fix the rel next/prev issue. In order to do that effectively, they should return a 404 or 410 status code in the HTTP header so Google knows that they no longer exist (even though they never really did in the first place). Otherwise, it's what is known as a "soft 404" in which the page doesn't really exist, but returns a 200 (OK) status code, which is confusing to Google if you don't want them indexed.

I guess the reason of this can be the latest algo update, I read that many forum users had detected fluctuations in their ranking  this week. Some are happy with the results and some are not. I'd wait for 5-7 days and see the outcome. My websites are stable so far.

Thanks for the response Peter re: the original post. We are very convinced at this point the issue isn't a technical one.  We're not sure however if there's an issue with that duplicate content site we found stealing some of our articles, or as you mentioned a quality score issue.  We're approaching it as a need to re-group around the quality issue for now, and monitor results over time.  We've identified several areas for improvement in that regard. This stuff is so frustrating to be honest.  I get why Google can't show their cards, but the complete lack of transparency or ability to get some feedback from them makes this a difficult game. Thanks again for the response, much appreciated.

Hey Becky–here's a primer on the hreflang tag that I recommend reading: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag Essentially, if you have an international website with localized or translated versions (mexico.website.com, or website.com.mx, or website.com/mexico), you need to use rel="alternate" hreflang="es-mx" (using my Mexico example above) in the head tags of your site's pages.

Topics of a webpage but your answers seems to answer my question. Go in depth in a few topics seems to be better than to cover many topics but without going in depth.

Hi Tyler - Thanks for the response. I definitely know what you are saying. When we purchased this competitor, it was many different products (over 10 years ago) and gradually we added our products. This site normally does a couple million US each year, which is why redirecting it wasn't even something we thought about, and don't want to think about...and for almost 10 years everything was fine. I focused on unique descriptions, we had unique reviews and unique QA, all user generated...different for each of the two sites. But as I mentioned above, some issues happened during our migration, and with a former employee. I want to get it back to where it was, which I believe is possible. I guess I am wanting to see if anyone sees any other potential issues too.

I think you are taking that rather too literally. For example, as I said the .com could be the one targeted with an hreflang="x-default. A person in the UK would, by definition be served with the .com/uk version. You wouldn't put a hreflang="x-default on the /uk homepage. Regards Nigel

Thank you so much!!!

Hi Gaston! Thanks for getting back to me and answering all my questions. I will work on getting the Canonical live and then wait to see how Google reacts before doing the redirects. Best regards, A

Thank you Miriam! This helps clarify some things. I was leaning toward a format like this so I'm glad to have a second opinion! Now I just need to back it with some empirical evidence!

Hi Dana, Thanks for helping out! It's an ecommerce site. You mention that "content not on Page 1 is not being crawled or indexed by search engines". Wouldn't the pages still be crawled and the products that they list still be crawled and indexed? It's just that Page 2/3/4/5 etc wont be indexed because of the canonical? If this is the case the only negative effect I can see is that if the product combination on a page 2/3/4/5 happened to convey relevance for a particular search query then the page wouldn't be returned in the listings?

Hi Joseph, thanks for your reply, really helpful! 301 is not really an option, because these quantity URL's are sometimes used for promotions and need to be reachable. Therefore I guess canonicals are the second best solution. We will implement the solution I described and see what will happen. Thanks again!

The time's weird stuff like this occurs for me, is usually when Cloudflare causes issues with it's caching. Naturally, that would be too quick of a solution for my luck, I'm guessing you don't have Cloudflare. In that case, more than likely it's going to be an issue with a plugin clashing with Divi.