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Hey Srbello, You should be fine, although if your domains are currently on different servers and are linking to each other, there's a chance that moving them to the same server will lower the value of those links. This has been discussed more in depth here: https://moz.com/community/q/multiple-domains-on-1-ip-address Now, as to your redirect question: do you want to merge all of these sites to one domain? Some of them? I'm not sure what your goal is, when you said you'd want to 301 redirect to the primary domain. Best, Kristina

Sorry Sean, I misunderstood your question. No, you cannot redirect any website you don't have access to. My recommendation would be to contact the host and work with them to obtain access. It's usually not a complex process.

Standard operating procedure for us is to nofollow anything we noindex. Theory is that pagerank will still flow through a link to another page that has been noindexed if you don't nofollow it. But since it has been noindexed the PR will just be trapped there and can't move on to another page through any links on that page. I don't know how true that theory is, but erring on the side of caution has never cost me a dime, and nofollowing links to a page that is noindexed won't have a negative impact.

Thanks for the answer Greg. The key is that the PDF would be added and linked by users and not by us. If we develope a specific feature in a client online service we might earn some quality backlinks for their domain but only to an isolated PDFs.

This is a great question.  You will likely get a few different opinions as well.  I for one am a fan of using the Google Text Cache as my primary source to determine if something is crawlable.  However, I do tend to support my hypothesis with the fetch and render tool as well. Screaming Frog recently launched an update to their toolset which includes rendering.  Consider downloading and seeing how their toolset displays your pages content.  It can be another good source for validating if everything is crawlable. Nick

Howdy. Yes, it can strengthen and yes, google will notice. At least eventually. Now, it's not clear which link you are talking about - inbound or outbound. But anyway, the answer is the same, just the "amount" of benefits will be different. Hope this helps

Howdy. Hmm.. Hreflang is for telling google that there is the same article/page/post, just in different language. It doesn't really have much to do with actual rankings, unless you already have bunch of duplicate content. Since you said you are separating duplicate content, there shouldn't be any issues (btw, what exactly do you mean by "Separating duplicate content"?). As for rankings improvements - SEO, links, competitions research etc. Most likely the reason of ranking lower in AU due to AU competition. Or are the competitors who are outranking you in AU are the same as the ones which are not outranking you is US?

well, hopefully it will help. Let us know how it goes.

Thanks a lot for your reply Stephan! I would be super intertesting to read a little more around the subject. Do you have any studies or cases you might refer me to which describe the flow of link equity to "page C" from "Page A"? Many thanks

Hello, yes, its a bit cheeky but if its a work in progress I'd take the risk, you can also use OG tags http://ogp.me/ to help specify the target country/language (e.g. en_ar) and you can set the target country in your search engine console, so whilst not a language target your targeting a region which may be helpful. This is assuming you've got is as a sub-domain or similar and that you are Target a country more that a language. Hope that helps a bit with your Arabic audience.

Just to add on, you'll find some b2b sites have "reviews" and this can also be used for schema! Helpful for social proof but not always a guarantee to work for Google but useful to have coded.

I did test the page in Google Rich Snippet tester and it showed nothing. I see the same thing with Wikipedia's listing on https://www.google.com/search?q=tanzanite&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Tanzanite - Wikipedia <cite class="_Rm">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Tanzanite**</cite> Tanzanite is the blue/violet variety of the mineral zoisite belonging to the epidote group. It was discovered by a Tanzanian Jumanne Mhero Ngoma in the ... Color‎: ‎Blue, VioletCrystal habit‎: ‎Prismatic crystals with striations; ...Crystal system‎: ‎OrthorhombicStreak‎: ‎White or colorless

Yeah, I mean with big news sites you can see that their articles get indexed by Google almost immediately after it's published. As you said, depends on the prominence of the site, as well as how deep the page is within the site structure. On ecommerce sites, sometimes you can see that product pages that are really deep within the site structure and buried amongst thousands upon thousands of other products won't have been crawled in like 2 months. You can always check pages in Google search to see when the page was last cached or, if you're using Chrome, by appending "cache:" before the URL in the address bar (e.g. cache:www.moz.com). Gives you the date and time of Google's last cache of the page. Could always monitor that every day on another site for up to a week, and see how many times Google crawls it in a week to get an idea of frequency.

Edited the above re: clarifying rel=canonical advice

Congratz on the publicity! Those are some great links! Unfortunately though, Google may be ignoring them because they contain the tag rel="nofollow" which basically tells Google (and other search engines) not to follow it. The Daily Mail one definitely does, so I would check the others too. Many big publishers will nofollow external links, as they can't "vouch" for what they're linking to and don't want to risk the association. Though the mention of your site, even with a nofollow link, isn't without benefit to your website! The Daily Mail one alone has a page authority of 51 and a domain authority of 94, so being linked to from there is impressive. It puts your website in a "good neighbourhood", so to speak. But just not as SEO-effective as it would have been if it were followed. If the link doesn't contain the rel="nofollow" tag then it doesn't matter if the link was added after Google first indexed it. If Google crawls the page again, after the link was added, it would count it.

Thanks for your response Robert, My question is not relating to lost "link juice" from 301 redirects. I am asking if after the 301 redirect (bringing the currently external personal blog domain, internal), will the link across to the other internal page then be worth less/more as an internal link (minus the tiny bit of loss from the 301).

Thanks for the response Davinia. We don't use the mentions methods to block crawlers.

Becky, I think Sean has given you some great advice. I'd just like to add a few things. I have seen rankings drop when sites add a bunch (thousands) of products with manufacturer descriptions and allow them to be indexed. I have seen rankings rise when these are either removed from the index, or improved with unique copy. However, you have the manufacturer description so why not leverage it? One idea I have proposed to a few clients is to use that as the description provided to channel partners, affiliates and sites like Amazon, eBay and Google Shopping. Let them deal with the duplicate content while you keep yours unique. Otherwise you'll write all of that unique copy and within months they'll all have it on their sites (because you gave it to them in feeds) and that hard work and money will have been for nothing.

Hey thanks for the detailed response!  I am not sure that IIS SEO Toolkit works for IIS 10.  However, I will look into it.

No problem