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Hi Drew, If you have multiple canonical tags on a single page, Google will ignore both of them so you will definitely need to to remove the old canonical tag so there is only one on each page. But it sounds like you are trying to use canonical tags correctly to resolve these duplicate content issues. If you wan't to read more about canonical tags, this recent article by Patrick Stox on Search Engine Land is excellent: http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tags-easy-right-whats-worst-happen-274635 Cheers, David

It's been about 4 months since you've noted this problem. How is it looking for you now? I'm curious if your rankings came back and whether or not you took action to get them back.

The Moz Q&A right above yours titled "Wrong Title Tag" expressed the same concern, since yours had been consistently the same until recently, it makes me think that this is maybe something Google is manually or algorithmically updating recently.

I generally agree with George and Nicholas. I also think that the strength of your site vs the strength of the competition is important - along with the difficulty of the keywords. If you are going after long tail keywords against weaker competition, then six shorter content pages targeting six different keywords would be best.  However, if the competition is strong and the keywords difficult then one big kickass page will have the best chance. Finally, presenting one comprehensive article with all of your text and photos on one page is better for link-earning than breaking it up into six short pages. This is a complex question asked simply.  We could also consider the ad impression opportunity of getting the visitor to click through six pages.

Hi Yes it bounced back a little, not a huge amount however!

It's being seen a lot recently, https://www.seroundtable.com/webmasters-upset-with-google-featured-snippet-images-23786.html

Hi It's actually worked for us on certain pages, I don't like to just throw content under a tab on the page, but for now it's helping whilst we work on the design of the pages. I think they need improvement from a UX perspective still but for now it's helping. Thanks!

Hi, Chances are, a brand video won't do anything for your SEO as such, but it could help with brand visibility and explaining more about what you do. It is highly unlikely that in adding this, you will entice any new visitors, but if it does help explain a service or product, then it can help with those already on the page. Don't have it auto start though and be careful that however you embed it so it doesn't slow the page loading down. -Andy

I'm not sure how many redirects you're doing, but generally, they're not a problem if you're trying to redirect broken pages to new ones so that users get a better experience. A few things to bear in mind though which can cause problems: Avoid multiple redirect "hops" e.g. going from page A to page B to page C. Wherever you can, write the redirects so that they go directly to the new page which is the final destination for the user. Keep the redirects "one to one" - basically avoid redirecting lots and lots of pages to a single destination if you can. Redirect to the most relevant page that you can in terms of the topic of the pages e.g. redirect a page about blue widgets to a blue widgets page, not a red widgets page - if that's possible. Do a crawl of the redirects using a tool such as Screaming Frog in list mode to check them all and make sure you turn on "follow redirects" and check the "redirect chains" report it provides. I hope that helps!

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Hey, just wanted to address this. While I believe that is most certainly possible for some other sites that were hit in the latter half of 2016, I'm convinced that is not the case for me. My competitors' positions (All smaller blogs like mine, for every important keyword) have not moved at all - I have simply dropped. Of course, the ad results show up for certain keywords, but they are not relevant to what these keywords are targeting, thus they don't get much traffic - consumers in my niche are pretty savvy about that kind of thing. If I'm looking for a guide going over how to build a computer, and the ads show ""Selling Computers", that isn't going to offer much value to the person specifically searching for one thing. They know they can buy a computer, but they don't want to - they want to build it themselves, which is why they googled that phrase. No bigger companies or websites have been pushed to the top with the little guys getting pushed to the bottom, in my case. And I wasn't just going by traffic dropping, I am also actually tracking positions - while a few keywords did drop to page 2 or 3, the vast majority have dropped well into the 100s+ positions. In both cases, it is purely small blogs (Sometimes with worse DA and backlinks than I) out ranking me. My strategy right now is to simply get as many quality backlinks as I can. We'll see where I am 6 months from now!

When creating landing pages it's good practice to keep the end in mind. I love the idea of the content hub, which allows you to map out your content and keywords you're going to be targeting. This approach will allow you to rank for various long-tail keyword terms, all-the-time focusing on your main (broader) keyword(s). Next, work on gathering backlinks to your pages. I know it can be time-consuming and draining, but earning backlinks is what will really help your domain to rank better. For reference, I grabbed that content hub infographic from: https://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank Best of Luck!

Hi, I think I have already answered your query in old thread. I'm saying again you don't need to maintain suffix as you mentioned in your query. https://moz.com/community/q/does-google-ignores-page-title-suffix Thanks

Thanks Jim,  When I said drop that was page rank as I have been tracking through Google Search Console search analytics.  We have an adaptive site that detects the users equipment.  I URLs are the same in both environments.    When I look at desktop the average page rank dropped 4 positions taking us off the front page while the average position on mobile dropped a half a position.  Does that help?  Thanks

Can you share the listing? I can provide some feedback with the NAP. Also, did it used to rank?

Hi Zack, Thanks for answering my question. I don't wank to link any pages. For example: Page is about MS Excel training and At the bottom of page I would like to add: Related searches - MS excel tutorial, Microsoft excel guide,best way to learn excel online, How to learn excel online. So in this case, it will be treated as keyword stuffing or will be considered as topic query exploration (For search engines and visitors)to drive more relevant traffic toward webpage. Thanks James

Hi Those are Google carousel results.  carousel results are results from Google’s Knowledge Graph. https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2299454/4-google-carousel-optimization-tips Hope this helps. Thanks

Hi, According to Dr. Peter J. Meyers "I’d say to use rel=canonical on the home-page, known duplicates, and any pages with parameters that could drive duplicate content, and leave the rest alone." Here is full article @ https://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions According to Yoast "At Yoast, we have a strong preference for having a canonical link element on every page and Google has confirmed that’s best. The reason is that most CMSes will allow URL parameters without changing the content. So all of these URLs would show the same content: if you don’t have a self-referencing canonical on the page that points to the cleanest version of the URL, you risk being hit by this stuff. Even if you don’t do it yourself, someone else could do this to you and cause a duplicate content issue. So adding a self-referencing canonical to URLs across your site is a good “defensive” SEO move. Luckily for you, our Yoast SEO plugin does this for you." Yes for wordpress use rel="canonical" for all pages. Thanks

If you search brand name in Google /Bing you will always come on top except where there are too many similar brands so IMO using option 1 wouldn't be a good idea.

Hey, Yes sorry you've lost me! I've seen a lot of backlinks from one of our sister companies in March, they are no follow, but they're footer links - would this have any impact? Thanks!