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Hi Becky, As Joseph mentioned, Wistia and YouTube are two very different platforms with different goals. There are times when using both is a great strategy! So it depends on the goals you've set. YouTube is an entire platform you can build on to increase brand awareness, revenue, and get your name out there. Some businesses/marketers entire strategy is within the YouTube world. Wistia is geared towards making sure any on-site videos is as ideal as can be. So, if you are just focused on creating videos to enhance your product pages, Wistia is a great option. However, if you wanted to create videos showing off your products in a unique way and build an audience/following outside of just your site, YouTube would be your best bet. Hope that helps!

Hi Matt! I've seen information about 2 algorithm updates in the last 2 weeks: June 18: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-algorithm-update-signals-chatter-25915.html June 8: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-algorithm-update-on-friday-june-8-25877.html Greetings!

Thanks for your answer @Pau PL

Hi Becky, I agree with Yaroslav, the better practice is to use 301 redirects. Greetings

Good tip, Sean! I wouldn't say that content on the homepage will completely resolve David's question, but it will certainly help! David's scenario is one that every multi-practitioner or multi-location local business has to grapple with: how to ensure that a set of pages that basically share a topic are uniquely useful, as well as optimized. It takes some doing!

We have had this lively debate at our agency and another factor is ADA conformance - which requires an H1 for screenreaders. Does anyone have research as to if the H1 is visually hidden (but in code for screenreaders), this is a black hat technique or acceptable? Looking at even Moz's own site and Google for H1 best practices is a rabbit hole of this H1 argument between developers and marketing.

I just got done reading the discussion between Brian Dean and Gianluca Fiorelli in reference to the "200 Google Ranking Factors" slightly throwing me for a loop on my thoughts for this. If we went by Brian, AKA Backlinko's methodology of site level factors theres kind of a mechanism behind the URL Extensions usage, and the actual domain name/subdomain. Assuming that Brian's factors are close to Googles actual algorithm and we take it to be accurate, the trump card is an exact match domain. second to that is when the site contains keywords in the beginning of name but not the entire phrase and then next is keywords anywhere in domain. Then Sub Domains, and lastly url extensions. for your 2nd url, I wouldn't use the url extension you selected because it's in the domain name. I kind of had a similar link structure on my first drop shipping store and I kept using "Burlesque" for every single thing, and I don't think it gave me an edge. One of my best structured sites was an adult affiliate domain and I basically took 1 thing that was pretty much just 1 single genre and just completely dissected it into hair color, eye color, nationality, wardrobe, celebrities on and on and on. Basically what I'm eluding to is that im not knowledgable in this particular vastu buildings, but you certainly are.  Perhaps the way to structure it would be based upon different sub types, maybe even the historians that developed and found their variances, like.. Silpa Prakasa? Because then you'd have more keywords and an exansion of relevance in your content increasing the odds of longtails. As far as clarity and simplifying the obstacle at hand which is to get in the top ranks of the key term I think perhaps something innovative and unique implemented into your content would add some new flavor and obtain the audiences reactions necessary to boost you back into the game. Videos Infographs Images with superiorly optimized dimensions and metrics that include captions I think those would be game breaking! Where it stands your domain's DA matches the difficulty of the key term. So I theorize adding some amazing to the content would be the game changer needed! You see "Stealing Backlinks my little baby blog couldn't possibly make board against neil patel and brian dean in the race. But image number 4 was number 1 for like a month. Google has some amazing dynamic to it's algorithm and if you produce high grade stuff, it knows! dDuM7jJ.png

If you are targeting the .com at English speaking countries, then why start targeting other sites at specific countries rather than languages? If you targeted the French language (in which you should not use .fr), you'd target more people than targeting France. Based on your situation, I would have one site with translated content, rather than country-specific content. This would allow you to use the strength of one domain while giving your users the right content in their language. Using hreflang tags between translated content is how you alert the search engines that the content is the same, just translated.

Nigel's right in saying that despite everyone loving to say duplicate content has no negative impact on you it definitely does. I've recently had some creep online stalker clone throw away websites of some of my recent backlinks in an effort to cause me ranking issues. I submitted them all to Google for fishing/credential harvest accounts. REAL LINK activerain com **FAKE LINKS ** activerain net  activereign net REAL LINK seoeffect com FAKE LINKS demo-seoeffect nl REAL LINK stripperweb com FAKE LINKS clarxidad gq tirtas cf hascrafot ga

Like Nigel said, pretty much the only reason I would ever aim to try and put something in front of my root domain name, would be because I'm trying to pass the domain off as something it's not. So whether that is affiliate links that nobody wants, or a federal prison sentence for taking Kali linux endeavors a little to far, is not for me to know

Hi Kevin! What a great tool, thank you! I've bookmarked the transparency report website and will read the guide on the disavow tool. I appreciate it!

Hi Paris, First, can you clarify if you are just translating the content or if you are targeting specific countries? It sounds like you are geo-targeting, but I am not sure. Second, any page, no matter it's geo-targeting can show up in any Google search, regardless of the country of the user and content. If that is the best content for the user's query, Google will show it. This is why we see .co.uk results here in the US all the time. Can you share what URL was redirected to what URL?

Thank you very much!

Also helpful, thanks! Yael

Very helpful, thanks! Yael

Hi chris There can be a number of different types of migration. If you are talking about a migration from http to https then it is likely that both versions of the pages will persist for a while until Google reindexes everything. Whatever you can check what is being indexed by performing a site search as follows. Do a site search in Google - site:yourdomain(no http or https) inurl:http://  and see how many of the old pages are left, If this is splitting out content to other country base subfolders then teh same thing can apply. It is quite common to see a temporary drop and it can take a while for all pages to be indexed properly. You can try fetching Google (in search console) but in my experience, it is just a matter of time before things start to bounce back upwards. Just check that you have the appropriate 301 redirects set up in your htaccess file, that you have set up the preferred domain in search console and that the appropriate hreflang tags are set up on the site to point to the different country and language combinations, to avoid any duplication issues. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en I hope this helps Regards Nigel

I usually use nofollow for links that point to pages like "Privacy policy" or "Legal advice", and noindex in those pages. I don't do it for authority, I do it for duplicated content, this pages a lot of times have very similar content to the same pages in other sites.

Years? I saw 3 competitor companies boosting (alle-noten.de, notenbuch.de, stretta-music.com) their DA from 30 to 50 within a couple of weeks. Obviously concentratation on what the customers wants gets more and more irrelevant. Instead the massive purchse of links is key.

Hello Kingalan1, I did not see a screenshot. Has it been removed? If Google is unable to access the old URLs (i.e. URL Not Allowed) they will be unable to see the redirect to the new one. I'd like to help you with this. Can I see the screenshot or can you give me some examples of old URLs?

Hello Andrew, If you you send me a link I'll go check it out. In the meantime, I tend to ignore error warnings for stuff like this if I know I'm doing it the right way. Technically, you should not canonicalized paginated URLs to the non-paginated one. It sounds like you are doing the right thing, but I'd like to check to make sure.