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I was hoping to learn More about Portafina. For content management the duplicate content.I was not sure about that but this helped me a lot.

Many thanks for your reply. I appreciate it. If it's approximately a week to take effect, I will experiment and give it a try. Furthermore, I've decided actually to delete the website title. : ) Since my website engine (Adobe Portfolio), for some reason, places the website title in front of the page title (according to Moz Page Optimization Score crawl), my keywords appear only in the second part of the title, instead of the beginning. This way, all my titles are also too long, since the website title is added to the lenght of the page title. I am not sure if deleting is the right solution, but the only way to find out is to test.

The traffic clicking on a link has nothing to do with ranking.

Even though Google does have an international targeting function in GSC, I've had more success with hreflang tags on pages. Technically, hreflang tags can be implemented on each page or in the sitemap, but having experimented with both, I've seen better results from the on-page implementation. So, I would recommend that you try to implement hreflang tags, in which case you can specify both the country and the language (Ireland would be "en-ie"). Make sure to check the following, when you do: include a self-referencing hreflang tag on each page (in other words, a tag for the page's intended locale) include an "x-default" tag on each page verify that each page referenced by another page's hreflang tags has a reciprocal hreflang tag referencing back in the opposite direction. verify that the hreflang tag URLs are also the canonical URL for those pages, and that no redirect occurs when accessing.

No problem, glad it was helpful. Having a country specific IP isn't a deal breaker when it comes to ranking in specific countries. I've heard that it can have some effect i.e. if your website is hosted in the UK and your primary audience is the UK, then it may help a little. But I haven't seen this first hand. I think the primary focus should be on getting solid hosting and uptime, regardless of where it's located. If I have a UK focused domain, I'd rather have a solid hosting company where my website is fast and based in the US, than a UK based IP address that is slow

PS if you can send me the site I'd be happy to take a look at it and give you a lot more information then I can just let you've given me. If you don't feel comfortable posting it publicly just click on my picture and my contact information is there or posted here. Tom

Many thanks for this, it's really helpful.

I would recommend having 2 sitemaps - one for the US store and the other for the EU store. However, technically one sitemap will be fine. The reason I would recommend 2 different ones is for you to be able to see how many URLs from each sitemap are being indexed vs how many are being ignored - this will allow you to further investigate any possible issues. That being said, it sounds like you have a different issue since Google is choosing different canonicals than the ones you are declaring. This would probably be because the US and EU pages are almost identical and Google doesn't see a need to index both. Have you implemented HREFLANG across your website to target the different regions?  I would also look into the on-page elements & content for each page to make them more relevant to their targeted regions. Things like Titles, Headers, descriptive text, etc should be different in both sets of pages depending on the target region of each page. Hope that helps.

Hey grocare, Its a little bit confusing what you are saying because canonicals are used when there is actual duplicate between pages. Internationalization is a specific case where two pages targetting different countries **ARE NOT **duplicate content, even there are really small differences. I don't see that you are having an issue with canonical setup, as long as you are using them correctly. More info about canonicals: What Google says officially: Consolidate URLs with rel=canonical A Moz resource: Canonical tags - Best practice Moz What I did see is that you are using hreflang tags incorrectly: pointing to the home page. Consider THIS PAGE, for instance, your hreflang tags are: When it actually should be pointing to the current page: Its always good to remember that there are some really good resources about internationalization: Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog Hope it helps. Best luck. Gaston

It's all good. Yeap, both hreflang tags in both pages. Think it this way: One hreflang is telling the actual language of the page. The other is telling that there is a version in other language. Best luck! Gaston

That is technically an error. If a page or post doesn't exist in a certain language, hreflangs pointing to it (from other pages) shouldn't exist. When the post is published, then the hreflangs should be written. It's probably not going to destroy your sites rankings by itself, but in SEO, the second you start making concessions on one front - people argue that you should make more concessions in other areas. Before you know it, you have a big tangle of loads of different errors. Optimisation, is about making things 'optimum'. It's not optimum to have hreflang errors like that

I would first like to clarify that the redirect of the users from the fitness website to the main health website will not damage the SEO and rankings of the main health website. However, since you are saying that the traffic is mostly international and only 1-5% of the users would actually be useful for the UK blog, I would rather suggest that you keep both websites, put minimal efforts and content on the fitness website and also indexing it, and you can find other ways to use (monetize) the rest of the traffic. For UK clients, you can put some banners, paid ads or referring articles to bring traffic and add credibility to the main site. you can also set it so that the banners show up only for the UK visitors. As mentioned, doing a 301 redirect from the fitness website to the main health website won't harm your rankings, and if you aren't willing to give the effort of minimally maintaining the fitness blog you can also have an agency managing it for you and monetizing the foreign traffic. Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting https://dalerioconsulting.com/ info@dalerioconsulting.com

There are a number of points to mention here: Firstly. hreflang is not a ranking signal, and therefore it will not provide a ranking boost. Secondly, Google will not auto-translate the pages because hreflang was implemented. You'll need to do the translation yourself. Thirdly, you don't have to translate all pages of your website to Duth, only the ones that would make sense to translate. For example, there could be blog posts that would resonate with an English speaking audience, but not a Dutch one, so there wouldn't be a need to translate these posts. The opposite could be true too. What hreflang does, is that it helps search engines understand which pages are meant to rank for which languages and in which countries. The actual implementation can get tricky if you have multiple languages and several countries and I would recommend looking into a few tutorials/documentation on this, including: Moz's hreflang guide: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag Yoast's hreflanf guide: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/ Google's documentation on hreflang: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Hope that helps!

Domain autority not affect , example https://www.jualpintu.co.id domain autority 9 is powerfull in serp engine, number one is article unic and original. So write content original & informatif for ur website. Jual-Pintu-Furniture-Pintu-Jati-Ukiran-Jepara-Terpercaya.jpg

My site also have this problem please help. Social Sathee

I'm can't fully understand why you would use 302 redirections, these are meant to be for tempory redirects only. https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

In addition to  effectdigitals comments, it partially depends on the CMS. For example a Standatrd WordPress robots.txt is formatted: **User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php** I prefer to add a link to the sitemap.xml: **User-agent: *** Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Sitemap: https://www.website.com/sitemap.xml To allow all web crawlers access to all content, just use: **User-agent: *** Disallow: Refer to https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt for further advise.

Hi! I have similar questions. It sounds like you are posting articles in the main language it was written in and not doing any geo-targeting. Is that right? I'm not sure because you mention "the correct homepage shows up in the appropriate geography." If an article is written in Portuguese, you aren't translating it? Let us know some more details and we are happy to help!