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  • i have problem like this i enabled yoast seo for breadcrumb but breadcrumb dont display all sub category you can see the problem on this url : https://www.revdl.com/faceapp-apk-download.html/ i have many url like this. this problem is more for Apk Mod Games Thank you

    | ham35841
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  • A brand new website, even here in Calgary, AB. These sites outrank DA50's while they might have a DA05, but the content is 10 X more valuable. Also, the technical & on-page SEO from this new website could have been perfected, & this plays a major role, as well!

    | Code_Web
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  • If you haven't read this yet, please do (best practices for URLs). So, it's a combination of things. As Devi Allen said, less is more. You want to use (and not over-use) descriptive words, separated by hyphens, "keeping URLs as simple, relevant, compelling, and accurate as possible". "To correctly render in all browsers, URLs must be shorter than 2,083 characters." Which is better, your URL or your competitors? They sound pretty close based on your description but what matters is the actual words used in the URL, the site structure represented by that construct, whether the words truly represent what a visitor will find on the page, and whether the page content will provide visitors with the information they came looking for.  URL length is but one of many factors that go into determining whether you or your competitor will rank higher.

    | DonnaDuncan
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  • Hi there! I'm assuming that you're seeing the traffic loss in your on-site analytics as well as in tools like SEMRush (because if not my first port-of-call would be to check your GA/similar to make sure this isn't just SEMRush seeing only part of the picture). The spam could be a factor but I think you've already addressed that. It could be worth bearing in mind that there was a core algorithm update in May so that could be a factor in the traffic change. However, a couple things interest me here. One is that you mention you've been investing less into this site - this could simply be a matter of the site being out of date and no longer a good result. The other interesting point is you mention "the next site is here". If you have been building another site targeting the same keywords and using roughly the same content, it could just be a matter of the new site taking the old site's rankings, particularly if the new site has had more recent investment. If the new site is targeting the same things as the old site, it'd probably be a good idea to redirect the old site to the new site to make sure that you have one site that's ranking on page 1 rather than two sites that are ranking page 2 and below. If the new site is something very different then I think it comes down to how willing you're willing to invest in the old one. If it's worth the time, the next thing I'd do is look at: GA to see if any pages were particularly badly hit Search console to see if there were any topics which were particularly badly hit Recent dev changes to make sure it's not a tech issue The specifics of that core ranking update (article linked above) to see if any themes jump out to you. If it seems to be sitewide then it's possible it's a dev/algorithm update issue and I'd focus on improving overall site quality. If it's localised on specific topics/pages then I'd start by focusing on how I can update that content specifically. For more specifics, this blog post by Dom Woodman is a pretty good resource. Hope that helps!

    | R0bin_L0rd
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  • Bonjour EGOL! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I suppose I always had niggling doubts which you have just confirmed for me.  I suppose I was wondering if I was missing out somewhere, but clearly, I'm not. I will continue to refuse these people. Thanks again, much appreciated Ken naturalfrenchsoap.com

    | FSW66
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  • What happened in year 2020? The juice on .GOV and .EDU backlinks suddenly dropped?

    | Mar28492
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  • I have a new website (https://sernukers.com/) and there is only 1  article published. I saw some traffic from different countries for last few days. Yesterday I checked my email I find an email from semalt. Should I reply to them or ignore ??

    | Sernukers
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  • Hi Hasanovic, What's your estimate of the strength of the domains that are copying your content?   In other words, are they coming up in search results for relevant queries ahead of you? Are they coming up ahead of you for phrases in quotes?  The point I'm getting at  is --how sure are you that you are seeing a negative impact from this? I  ask because Google is quite good at knowing what content goes up before other content and there may not be any impact to your site at all.  Google is also quite good at knowing when content on a site is copied from another. If there are 15 sites all using the same copy stolen from you Google will have a hard time ranking those sites above sites with original content--unless those site have substantial domain authority. If you are sure of the negative impact, then be sure you are requesting indexation of new content when it goes live and work on developing the strength of your pages and your domain.

    | Chris.Menke
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  • Really Nice post, I have got a lot of information from your blog. Ramadan 2020

    | johnwick99
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  • I know I was penalized because search console recorded an overnight drop in impressions/clicks of 75%. Never was a problem before. I didn't need to run Screaming Frog or anything to find links that explain the problem. I just browsed some of the user generated content and then once I realized that Google was crawling javascript generated links it all made sense. Some of the sites people were liking to included: CheaterLand.com, PredatorsWatch.com, DirtyHomeWreckers.com, EscortBabylon.net, SugarDaddyforMe.com, GFEMonkey.com, EscortBabylon.com, CityXGuide.com, and AdultLook.com. I think as long as Google respects the robots.txt directives I should be just fine. The redirect page itself is blocked by robots.txt so even if Google finds one of those URLs (ex: https://cyberbullyingreport.com/redirect/?url=https://moz.com/community/q/changing-links-to-spans-with-robots-txt-blocked-redirects-using-linkify-jquery) it shouldn't even follow the 302 since the robots.txt file (https://cyberbullyingreport.com/robots.txt) disallows that directory.

    | STDCarriers
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  • Hey Man he is asking that How to get Back links from authority websites like Forbes,CNN etc via 301 redirect. not expired Domains.Do you know how to get one?

    | Ademirates
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  • H have a general question about internal linking, I ask my question by one example: home page---->category (toaster)---->products In product pages I have linked the anchor texts like " Bosch toaster model XXXX " to Toaster category. It is my question: is it right strategy. should I use only "Bosch toaster" to link to the category. I should say I have breadcrumb for internal linking but I need help to have a good strategy to help the categories to be in SERP please help me

    | Mrs.Anastacio
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  • That is just not the case. I saw the same from google, but disavowing globe domains helps in a big way.

    | samdland
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  • Use a system like Fastly.com to quickly and easily easily use the reverse proxy to you make your subdomains into sub folders. So shop. Becomes /shop you can do this using Fastly or “CloudFlare workers” can do it or other reverse proxies you can simply create the subdomains as you have been doing and then we route them through the reverse proxy to a sub folder it will not be hard work once it’s installed. outside of doing that interlinking and using canonicals but you’re never going to actually catch up to using some folders unless you institute a reverse proxy https://twitter.com/randfish/status/955933680416931840?s=21 look at The first response from Rand https://moz.com/community/q/the-great-subdomain-vs-subfolder-debate-what-is-the-best-answer https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/subdirectories-vs-subdomains-for-2019-and-beyond.htm my friend John has a lot of good examples https://www.getcredo.com/subdomain-vs-subdirectory-whats-best-for-seo/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdomains-vs-subfolders-seo/239795/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/subdomains-vs-subdirectories-best-practices-workers-part-1/ Hope I was of help, TOM

    | BlueprintMarketing
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  • Thank you for your input. Some of these are nofollow, those I guess if we are going to disavow them, there is no point? I was going to disavow some of the links but Google repeatedly gave a warning that you shouldn't do it unless you think it's a "considerable amount" or you're sure you're being penalized. Does anyone have thoughts on that?

    | AliMac26
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  • Hi Ali, Yeah, I would agree that it is a spammy site. When I tried visiting it, I went through a lot of redirects and ended up on some random page.  I would disavow the domain and still implement 301 redirects.

    | WebQuest
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