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Super affiliate here. While Everett and Thomas are right to point you in the direction of the FTC texts, keep in mind that the FTC guidelines are just that: guidelines. They're not law, not widely enforced, and Google largely ignores affiliate links so long as they're nofollowed. They don't seem to be quite up to the level of the sponsored links and content that bloggers must disclose to avoid a Google penalty (but again, that's Google's enforcement of their own guidelines, not law.) Some merchants with affiliate programs will insist on clear and conspicuous disclosure if you want to remain in their program, but really their panic over the guidelines died down pretty fast after they were released in 2012. The one major exception that comes to mind are credit cards providers, which are exceptionally picky about compliance on this issue since they're subject to tighter regulation on the banking side of things. All that is not to say that disclosure isn't the right thing to do - only that it's not likely to land you in hot water with anyone anytime soon.

Just incase you haven't seen, I've added a link to a useful Yoast guide for amp seo in wordpress: https://yoast.com/setting-up-wordpress-for-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages/

Thank you Paul, This is exactly what I needed. I've been trying to push us in this direction but it's sometimes hard to break old habits. We might even be able to save a bit of money going this route. Thank again for the input! -Brandon

Really sorry to hear the new site is still struggling, Nicolas. In some quick indexing tests, it certainly appears that your blog posts are being indexed, and I'm seeing them in the search results for the specific post titles. [See screenshot attached] It's possible this may have picked up in the 10 days since you posted this. I'm assuming you submitted your site's xml sitemap to the correct www version of your Google Search Console? What does the sitemaps report indicate as far as the number of pages indexed compared the number submitted? Certainly one of the tradeoffs of a site tool like Squarespace is that you have far less control of the code to implement technical SEO, but it shouldn't be so problematic that you lose rankings completely. If you're interested, I'd be happy to share a short Skype chat to try to narrow down the issues. You can send me a private message through my account here at Moz. Paul

Ah ok, so generally I wouldn't suggest making any forced H1, H2 changes through php. Because, now all of your H1s will be affected (if I'm reading this right), which you don't want to happen. Also if your issue before was having multiple H1 tags before, you'll now have multiple H2's. What CMS are you working in? Did you have multiple H1s before due to styling reasons (ex. Wordpress)? If the header font style is what you were bothered with, modifying the css to reflect similarity across headers would work great. Then use the headers as you normally would. Lastly, this should not affect your rankings that dramatically. I would look at your website analysis, backlink profile and see if any big on-site content changes were made. -Hope this helps-

I see that they're duplicating their indexing as well. I'm curious if they're getting the same error. qGgfWah

Just FYI, noindexing to handle duplication isn't really best practice now and isn't advised by Google. Rel=canoncial is there to help with duplication issues.And you certainly don't want to be implementing iframes to your site to try and get around this -Andy

Hi Alick Thank you for responding. From this past thread, I've tried a tool to verify online duplicate content by using PageSpotter (checking and monitoring tool) but this site is under renovation. I'll be glad if can help me with any other tool. I'm working with couple of campaigns and this problem is killing me. Looking forward for help. Thanks yh3bNoT

These are all great questions that I'll be sure to explore. Thanks again, Ruth! I really appreciate your time and help.

Hi Sergey, Thanks for this. I have read that article at some point a while back. Interesting read. I was just sort of sounding out a few ideas in my last post. The second option seems to be the best way to go. Do you know of any other methods to do this that is common in the industry? Thanks, Brian

Andrew is right: Yoast uses different code for breadcrumbs. I would start searching inside the theme-files for: "void(null);" or "void(" or "ilny-breadcrumbs" That should give you a clue to where the code actually is inside your theme. To show the difference: Yoast's plugin produces code like this: NAME OF THE PAGE Hope this helps a bit as well. Bas

I'm in the same boat, and even tried the DRIVERS GARAGE solution (which is also posted on quite a few other blog sites).  Unfortunately, that did not work for me.  Neither did the REDIRECTION WP plugin, nor did editing my .htaccess a zillion different ways.  Heck, I even tried creating directories and html files with embedded java. Here is the only redirection that DID WORK for me (as indicated it would by Peter): JAVASCRIPT (1) Create a Javascript file with this code: var hashesarr = { "#!old-news/chi3":'/new-page/',  "#!another-news/dkc8":'/another-new-page/',  "#!something-old/eckje8":'/something-new/' }; for (var hash in hashesarr) { var patt = new RegExp(hash); if (window.location.hash.match(patt) !== null) { window.location.href = hashesarr[hash];  }  } (2) Save that file to your theme's child folder (so it doesn't get overwritten in the future by theme or Wordpress updates. I saved my file here: \wp-content\themes\aweseometheme-child\ (3) In your SEO Plugin, or wherever you can edit the home page's HEAD file, add this code: (4) Test, make changes, try again and PRESTO! As a disclaimer, I have not yet tested to see how this will affect SEO Pagerank or Google redirects.  I'm guessing I will still have to implement the Sitemap with the UGLY url's per the DRIVERS GARAGE.  But all my client really cared about was that the client's who bookmarked specific pages, or had links pointing to deep pages would be redirected properly. MY AHA ANSWER WAS FOUND HERE: http://www.simosh.com/article/cbgaifec-301-redirect-from-wix-to-wordpress.html (Alex Nikitenko is a genious!) AND JAVASCRIPT INSTRUCTION HERE: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript

If it is just a few pages and they are only translating, you can create the pages in spanish and use hreflang to markup the English page as being in English as the Spanish in Spanish. Instructions here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

As far as I am aware, the association file is just about which paths the app can handle - I think that if you register the root domain and handle all paths then it will handle all paths across all sub-domains (but you should test this). When you are actually linking individual web pages to the universal page in the app, it uses a fully-qualified URL with protocol and subdomain so should work fine (see this documentation).

Hi there, Full Media! Any way you can provide the info Everett is looking for?

I think it's better to redirect to the main category page on the new platform. Perhaps they've got some external links that point to these pages. And this will tell to bot that now there's only one strong page instead of several.

Well I'm pretty sure that the difference ain't in Schema.org as the differences there have nothing to do with the crawlability and the newsworthiness of the content. The first things I would focus on are making sure that Google can find new content as fast as possible and that your crawl-rate goes up. That's really important, and if you're convinced that is fixed then focus more attention on the authority part. Both ain't easy to fix, but someday you'll get there!

I think the biggest and most important question you need to answer is: Does it do what you want it to do? You need to make sure it converts a user once it's on the site, that the user can navigate through the site well. That's the top priority that people seem to neglect, they focus so much on rankings that they forget a user actually needs to land on the site and fulfill the goal of that site.

Yes, it is an important thing to consider, because Googlers repeatedly told that if the canonicalized page and the canonical are very different, then Google may not take into account the canonicalization.