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Thanks, James! That's a good point—it's possible there were a handful of redirects that weren't setup properly from the HTTP to HTTPS migration. I'll check into it!

Hi everyone Thank you for your feedback this is really helpful! Is it worth having any placeholder information on the new domain to build up authority whilst we're in the process of the migration? Obviously we don't want it to be duplicate info however so it doesn't have a negative impact. Thank you

Ok, thanks James. I'll stick it out with the 301s on these. I appreciate your input. bnew

Hi Leebi, As you probably noticed by running the Schema.org snippet in the Structured Data Testing Tool is that the code doesn't verify. You're currently using an array for the sameAs property. But you can't use a @type SocialMediaPosting in there. Basically what it's expecting is an array of strings with the values of your sameAs properties. If you would change that it would likely verify. Martijn.

They are just trying to follow "best practices", but you're one "dollow" link to their website is not hurting their SEO. Either your link is actually helping them a little bit, or it is being ignored by Google and has no factor in their rankings.

First do one thing - Roll back what have you done with webmaster tool. Mean you don't need to change with old property as http to https. When GWT show your site with old property then create new property with https. Your problem would be solved.

That's what I thought. Thanks!

In other words you are saying that if google sees my link not being clicked join my content but if it sees those being click somewhere on my webpage even though they are not contextual it will give moe value to those that are clicked ?

We did slowly drop I think... does it really make a difference ? The website is about 80 pages.

Thank you for the reply, but does it still pass link juice ? My question is how canI talk about the those regions listed on my screen shot on a page about Burgundy for example, it is very difficult to talk about the island of corsica or Normandy on a page about Burgundy...

Hi Alix It will solve your problems as long as you make sure all Meta is completed and that content is separated and those pages noindexed and removed as I said. This is what is causing your duplication. Glad to help Regards Nigel

No I would use Google analytics. "If you use Google Analytics to track your site's traffic, you can verify your site using the Google Analytics tracking code associated with the site. To do this, you must have "edit" permission for the web property whose tracking code is used by that page. Also, your tracking code must use the new asynchronous snippet." Thanks