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  • Brilliant! good luck with it. Please do me a favour and hit the 'good answer' button thanks 

    | Nigel_Carr
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  • Update here. Long story short, you need to upgrade to All-in-One SEO Pack Pro to allow translation of meta fields. Our implementation is somewhat complicated, with the aim being to make the workflow for our translators as easy as possible. We use a self-hosted server running Weblate to manage string translation (both for our websites and for our product). On the Wordpress site we use a customised version of the WPML plugin. Things got complicated when exporting strings from WPML and importing to Weblate – talking to the sys admin who implemented it, the meta fields from All-in-One SEO were even trickier to get working. In any case, all working now Keep any eye out for our site update coming soon here: https://vivaldi.com If anyone out there runs into this issue and needs details feel free to get in touch.

    | jonmc
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  • Hi Michel I work with eCommerce sites so have a lot of experience in colour and size split pages. If the exfoliating cream comes in only one size you would be better having the first option. Write a really strong product description 150 words plus along with technical details. If the cream comes in various sizes then have them as a drop-down variant on the page. So you would have a single product with a strong product description and then a drop down box so that the user could choose the size of tube/bottle they needed. The reason is that if you don't do this you will end up duplicating the product descriptions. So say you have 3 sizes then the URLs would conceivably be like this: https://www.example.com.au/aspect-exfoliating-cleanser-240ml https://www.example.com.au/aspect-exfoliating-cleanser-360ml https://www.example.com.au/aspect-exfoliating-cleanser-480ml This would mean that all three would share the same product description and the only thing separating them would be the size. This is bad for SEO as Google doesn't rank pages with duplicate content well. In fact, it could end up that none of them ranks in the top 5 pages. Keep it simple - one product - size drop down. Successful stores do it this way. I hope that helps Regards Nigel

    | Nigel_Carr
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  • Thank you very much! I'll apply the canonical tag to the PPC pages and leave them to stay indexed. They do rank organically for a few keywords and gets leads, so I don't want to lose that. Is the Canonical URL just the "SEO" state page URL that I'm optimizing and want it to point too?

    | LindsayE
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  • Hello! I don't think it would be beneficial to worry about moving just a few pages. Instead, do what you can to link back over to relevant pages on the main site from those blog pages, and try to drive users to the main site if appropriate. Google will also look at traffic patterns in addition to links and pass more value from the blog pages to your main site if they see user behavior as such.

    | evolvingSEO
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  • Thanks very much, Martijn, this wasn't something I was aware of. Cheers Steve

    | steviechat
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  • Yes, I have cross-checked with my analytics and I can see the clear difference in a drop in traffic. When I say organic traffic I mean we are not getting a visit from google/organic which was present earlier. Thanks for your valuable feedback and help. I would love to keep in touch with you.

    | Rajnish_HE
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  • Hi Christy, This is not resolved yet. Thanks Rajesh

    | Rajesh.Prajapati
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  • Hi, I agree with Joseph that what you're seeing is probably due to the style breakpoints you have on that page. **However - **while fetch and render gives us some insight into how Google might interpret a page, it is not what Google is "seeing". Google is viewing the page code and, while there is some evidence it will deprioritise content which is hidden with methods like display:none I really don't think your site will suffer because your break point is different from the one in fetch and render. Changing the break point could conceivably involve quite a lot of front end dev or working with your site templates to avoid causing issues. I understand your concern but I honestly wouldn't put this to the top of your priority list. Hope that helps!

    | R0bin_L0rd
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  • You should contact SEOs and get as much info about backlinks criteria as you can and then you have 2 options: outreach by yourself or hire the SEO specialist that you can trust. Here are some tools for outreach that can help: https://moz.com/blog/14-easy-ways-to-find-any-email-address-in-10-minutes-or-less And there is not fixing price for a link building per time. Backlinks differ in metrics and the price depends on the relevancy (niche) and quality of a website (outbound links, content, permanent links or not etc). Compare prices from different sellers and make up your decision.

    | Lynn12
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  • Your ranking will be decreased. It is better to use canonical URL to avoid duplicate contents in your website.

    | ibalachandar
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  • Hello there, Actually, I think this article could really help you! https://www.danielmorell.com/guides/htaccess-seo/https-www-and-trailing-slash Alternatively, if you want to get the rules right away, just copy below, change the "example.com" to your domain then it should be working. Force HTTPS Force WWW Remove trailing / from file Turn on rewrite engine RewriteEngine on Check if not directory and ends in / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$ If not a directory skip next RewriteRule RewriteRule ^ - [S=2] Check if HTTPS and WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.(.*)$ [OR,NC] RewriteCond %{https} off This RewriteRule skipped if URI was a directory RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] This RewriteRule used if URI was a directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [S=1] RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] Do note, this 301 redirect your URL to the version with trailing slash, and because Google sees the trailing slash and non-trailing slash version of your pages as a different page, you should be doing a 301 to the right one. Read more about it here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-trailing-slashes-url-24943.html Of course, you can choose to remove the trailing slash 301 redirecting, Moz doesn't redirect to either version, and they rank well. But sites like Neilpatel (they have unnecessary redirects) and Backlinko does redirect, and they rank well too. So it's up to you if you want Google to help you identify which version you prefer or you tell Google yourself. Finally, you can use this tool to check if your redirects are working as you expected: https://httpstatus.io/ (When you test, use a blog page or a specific page to test all the 8 variations because trailing slash doesn't matter at the homepage, take a look at screenshots below) uPeMS8X.jpg ugDMJZ9.jpg 0wtlmAX.jpg HV2Byd5.jpg

    | Seenlyst
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  • Hi James, Considering that those redirects are 301, there is nearly no loss in linkjuice, as JohnMueller said. Also, a great study was published by Cyrus Sheperd: 301 Redirects Rules Change: What You Need to Know for SEO - Moz Blog Keep in mind that the middle parts in a redirect chain will never get any authority, as google doesnt see them live. The whole "juice" goes to the last piece of the chain. Do not never forget that GoogleBot can understand a finite number of redirects: Up to 5 hops. More info about that: Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling? - Google Webmaster YouTube Channel Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? - Google Webmaster YouTube Channel Hope it helps. Best luck! GR

    | GastonRiera
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  • Thank you for your answers, that answers my question.

    | seoanalytics
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  • Thanks guys! When using FETCH and RENDER on GSC everything looks normal, I do see navigational items which is good but I see a PARTIAL status. Is that ok?

    | Taysir
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