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Yes, absolutely. If the subdomain (e.g. xyz.domain.com) was migrated, using appropriate permanent redirects, to a subdirectory (e.g. domain.com/xyz) then this would support the overall site in terms of visibility and reputation on Google

I don't think it would be triggered but only testing would give you a definitive answer.

DA is not related to Google updates as it is a score given by Moz and as I already said, it only updates when a new Mozscape index is available. The drop you noticed in February must have happened with the 26/1 update. If you did see a change in it today, it was likely because they were trying to roll out the new index (and failed).

Google left us in "confusion world" and making money. First, does anybody guess what is good or bad link as per Google? No. May be very less SEO experts; that too after using expensive tools. Google agreed that they "try hard" to stop the negative SEO affect; but cannot guarantee you that no links hurt. So it implies that Google algorithm is never going to be accurate even they update with Penguin or Peacock. That too it'll be more less accurate coming to websites like us with thousands of backlinks where hundreds and thousands of new clueless backlinks add every month making it hard finding the culprits. Wikipedia page is sure a strong hit. Wikipedia page is not a feasibility every company but only for which holds some genuine reputation can get a page and backlink. So, even it's a nofollow technically, Google gives a weight to it. One of our sub-domain is hitting with backlinks from same domain for last few months...all added up to 5k links...mostly from comments. Do we need to worry about this hitting our domain and website rankings?

Hi All sounds very strange - when you look in GSC and refine down to the page level looking at a few individiual pages such as the ones you know havnt been showing up in results (over the time period this has been going on) are you seeing massive drops in impressions and clicks ? I think worth checking this just to double check that Google is dropping them out of the index for sure rather than it being simply a ranking position drop. Thanks for commenting on my thread too All BEst Dan

OK, so if your homepage is completely deindexed, then there has to be a technical issue or a manual penalty. I'd say that a technical issue is much more likely. To look for a manual penalty, go to Google Search Console --> Search Traffic --> Manual Actions. If there is nothing there, then I'm happy to take a quick look if you want to PM me the url or better yet, send me an email at marie at marie haynes dot com.

Make sure you're doing this for the right reasons: Don't do this to in an effort to improve rankings; do it because it's it improves the user experience, particularly if the site is sizeable. Adding an HTML version of the sitemap can help users find what they want on your site as quickly as possible. This, will reduce bounce rates and increase time on site, which can be a signal that your site delivers content that is relevant to the user's search (which is Google's primary objective - if they deliver relevant search results, people will continue to use their service).  Everything you do to help your visitors find what they are looking for (be that a product or information) as quickly and as painlessly as possible will benefit you directly. Google will reward you for that. "Provide a sitemap file with links that point to the important pages on your site. Also provide a page with a human-readable list of links to these pages (sometimes called a site index or site map page)." If it's a large site, you may want to break this down over several pages. - "Limit the number of links on a page to a reasonable number (a few thousand at most)." I'd be inclined to add a link to this in the footer of the site and/or in an on-site search page. Source Google Webmaster Guidelines (under Help Google Find Your Pages section): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en Good luck.

As I think if you have a Business website then the Product FAQ at the below. Because if a Person looking for a Product, then it finds the faq on the same page will help you to grow your sales as well as reduces the use of Email Support or Call Support.

Hi, Yes! They're still important, in itself they won't give you any ranking boost as it will only increase the easiness for the search engines to crawl your pages. So they will find all your pages on your site more easily. If you're already using WordPress you can easily set up your plugins to provide you with sitemaps, don't forget to add them in a line to your robots.txt and definitely make sure you submit them in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Martijn.

Thank you guys. I appreciate your thoughts.

One more question, what about longer meta descriptions> I noticed find law and a lot of others allow longer metas to show in their search results in Google

But as per the current SEO buzz,  internal nofollow leads of waste of link juice and we cannot preserve it. Moreover some suggests not to use nofollow internally.

Hi, I just did a site:crocozino.io and I can see your homepage is actually indexed. -Andy

Hi Oh not to worry, there's no rush It's a development issue, but they are currently reviewing this and we have requested lower levels in the menu structure.

Hi. I think you misuse or maybe misunderstand what canonical link is. It's basically to say to search engines that the page, which canonical link is pointing to is the original page for a given content. So, if you have on fr.domain.com canonical link which will point to www.domain.com, it means that you are saying that all content on fr.domain is duplicate (or should not be considered separately) of www.domain.com. This will mean that all the ranking juice from fr will go to www. I believe what you are looking for are hreflangs, which are for telling search engines which subdomains/domains are for which country. Hope this helps.

The question that isn't being asked here is if rebranding to establish a brand is the better play.  As you are finding out, when you register domains and build out sites determined by your offering/product your site is a bit limited.   So why not reconsider the rebrand with a new domain that doesn't put you in this situation again.  Then you'll of course want to migrate the appropriate content add the 301 redirects etc. Good Luck