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That's a great point -- I've been thinking about that. My only concern is that doing a conditional noindex, might send confusing messages to Google. What are your thoughts on this? Appreciate the help!

First of all, you must ask your client if she target different regions like continents for some reason related to her business. If not, then going multilingual is the best solution that trying to geotarget countries... also because, as Gaston wrote already, you cannot geotarget anything but nations: no continents, no political or economic states unions (like the UE). If there's some justified business reason why the client needs to specify different versions for different large areas, then things can be weird, but there's a way to do it: using as many hreflang annotations as they are the countries present in a bigger geo area and targeted by a specific website. Remember, in fact, that an URL can be annotated with as many hreflang annotations as needed. i.e.: the www.domain.com targets Italy, UK and France with its English version but not other states for whatever reason (so not able to use simply hreflang="en") and Spain with the Spanish one, then its hreflang will be: <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/" hreflang="es-ES"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-GB"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-IT"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-FR"></rel="alternate"> (I know it would be better to create an Italian and French version too, but this was just an example to give you an idea of what I was saying).

Both the hreflang looks correct if your site is targeting only : Spanish speaking users in Spain (hreflang="es-ES") English speaking users in Spain (hreflang="en-ES" If you are targeting English speaking users no matter the country, then you should use the hreflang="en" and not "en-ES".

Google tries to index the rendered page, not the raw page code. The best way to see that page as Google sees it is to use the Fetch and Render tool in Google Search Console. Alternately, you can use the developer tools in Chrome or Firefox to show the rendered version of the page code. Right-click in an area of the page you wish to view, and then select Inspect. This will bring up the inspector which will show you the rendered page code close to how Google sees it. (Google uses Chrome V42 for indexing, while the current version of Chrome is 62 - so you're not necessarily seeing exactly what G is seeing, which is why Fetch and Render is more the view G actually sees.) The screenshot below shows the Inspect method of viewing the rendered page in current Chrome - but as I say, safest is to view within Google Search Console's Fetch tool. Hope that helps? Paul P.S. This is an example of why Wix is not recommended for critical websites - it's using JavaScript methods to render basic page content which Google "says" it can index, but it's depending on a completely non-standard way of presenting page content which depends on search crawlers deviating from their standard methods to try to crawl it. (And there have been incidents in the past where G's crawling capabilti8y for this kind of JavaScript wasn't indexing it properly, causing major issues for a huge number of sites.) hgWsq

Our company uses a custom CMS for each of our niche classified websites.  Ideally, we would like an online/cloud-based platform that would generate our sitemaps for us.  Dyno Mapper looks like a good contender, but the $108 monthly fee seems a bit steep.

Ok, Updated. I need to wait 1 week then Thank You, Gaston

Bang on Nigel! Canonical tags are definitely the way to go on this one!

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Hi Timmy3 That's a problem but it is not insurmountable. Clearly, you will have an issue with duplicate content so what I would do is create more content. Put in a section about Auckland with some photos of the city and name them appropriately. The main image Alt text should be Crowne Plaza Aukland but then put further images in with Alt text, Auckland City, Aukland New Zealand, Crowne Plaza Hotel - Aukland New Zealand. The additional images with Alt text (essentially baby anchor text) will enhance your page and make it feel really local. If this is combined with say 500 words of local information and facts about the city and your hotel/the city then you will create a really rich local page. Then head over to whichever local citation service you use - I use Bright Local but there are versions on Whitespark and MOZ and make sure all your NAPS list your page as the one to go to first. Bright Local allows you to do a 'citation burst' which will cover the top 25 local citation sites (Yelp, Yell etc) along with Factual for around $85 USD. It is totally worth it. I think if you do this you will outrank the more generic booking pages within a month or so. More on local citations here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/local-citations Robots.txt - Yes it performs the same function as noindex, the pages will not be crawled. "and should we also no index /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php "- Yes noindex that too. If you are blogging then no index tags, archive & author pages. You can do this in Yoast. Regards Nigel

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I would not 301 redirects because it passes link juice, it will also pass the link juice from sites that have nothing to do with your phrases. What I would recommend is starting a new site. Manually check all your old backlinks.

New address is better than 302 or 301

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I agree with  James. Move them all into one carefully & methodically. Start with crawling all the sites and getting a good idea of how many pages you are dealing with & where they would 301 on the new site. Slow and steady amigo. Good Luck! G

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I agree with Cesare, if your blog has been a big part of your website I wouldn't move it to a subdomain. You'll lose any authority you've built to your website with your blog content.

Hi SEO Analytics, You can start understanding how Google ranks websites by reading Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO. Once you've finished reading it, read it again. Cheers, David