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Hi there. It's a little hard to be certain based on the screenshots you've provided - the best way of verifying this yourself (or for getting me to help) would be to evaluate the actual website from the "outside" - i.e. when not logged into the admin area. I would suggest reviewing what that looks like and ensuring it operates how you expect and want it to. If you would like me to take a look, please share a link and I'll see if I can help some more. Thanks

The logic for both platforms is sound. In our experience WordPress smashes Square space. WordPress is our SEO platform of choice.  We also see Magento, just marginally sitting above Shopify for SEO. Shopify does not have https2 at its root etc. Good luck, they are always tough decisions.

Hi Curtis, By the sounds of things I think you might well have over-engineered your responsive website! You clearly understand the principles of responsive design and are a better developer than me, but unfortunately it seems the use of media queries here isn't optimal compared to a fluid grid system: https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/w3css_grid.asp  Why don't you make your question redundant by trying to incorporate a single div? Plus then you might be able to remove some jQuery which could speed up your site. To specifically answer your question about duplicate content...the only way of knowing would be to test rankings before and after. Generally it's believed that Googlebot would be smart enough to realise why there's a small amount of "hidden" content, but personally as an SEO (someone trying to optimise as efficiently as possible), I wouldn't want to risk it! How Google Defines Cloaking - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en  A Google product forums discussion around display:none and mobile design; - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/zB0Gqjajfis/E6tgJs7_AwAJ  Best of luck, Nick

Another thing that affects the effectiveness of a 301 redirect, is the 'similarity' of the content (in machine terms, I'm talking about Boolean string similarity). If the content on both pages is highly similar (say, 75% similar) then most of the SEO authority will transfer across. If the content is not very similar at all, what you are doing is replacing 'proven' content with a new, unknown quantity which is a risk to Google. As such, the new content will have to prove itself

I'm a big fan of anchor text. No only for the internal linking value, but, when done properly, increases user retention and conversion by accurately describing the page to the user. IMO

sometimes, designers take shortcuts or are limited on where to place content on a product page. Amazon is the almighty King of ecommerce. They lead with images, then description, then reviews, then price, then features, then specs. With a video at the bottom.

As your website got ranked in top positions use subfolders, let's say for an example if your primary domain in English is abc.com then have subfolder like www.abc.com/de/ Avoid choosing subdomain, If you go for a subdomain, you will lose your current authority as Google assumes subdomains as a separate domain. As you wish to develop your website for other language use properly translated content from the native speaker of the language and use it under subfolders. If you simply use any API to translate your content then you will hit by Google's Panda Update for having poor content quality. Avoid creating a new domain, instead, book that domain and redirect to the subfolder version (www.abc.com/de/) Hope this strategy helps you!

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Hi Wookii, I had the same problem as you have. In my opinion there is not much difference in www with or without. You can read more about it at this link from Moz:  https://moz.com/community/q/should-i-get-an-ssl-if-my-non-ssl-site-is-ranking-well All the best, Daan (Djinq.com)

I agree with Joe. SEO and web development often think differently about website structure. It's gotten better but with Google's emphasis on speed, both teams will need to talk more over the next few years. I would try to be as involved as possible with what they are doing and how they are doing it.

Yes usually google display the order based on the hierarchy of the pages usually use the main menu and the internal links, but that just a personal observation In some case I saw some really deep internal pages on the first page probably based on the rank of the page. Also when I evaluated those result each tool show me different result Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic, Semruhs.

Hi Guys, I was going to post a separate question here., but this thread seems to have answer the questions very well. My client has infinite scrolling on his product pages but also have rel="prev" and rel="next" (but no actual physical page 1, page 2, page 3) buttons. I was just reading the rel="prev" and rel="next" should be in the in this case anyway. Does this mean we don't need actual buttons? I am confirming the date this was put on, as I can't see any reduction in pages indexed which is one of the concerns above. Regards Neil

Hey Alan, sorry for the delayed response I've been away a little while. So you have multiple facets of design. Did you know some developers specialise in the front-end look and feel of a site, without touching much SQL, back-end stuff or databases? In my opinion, stuff like Adobe InDesign or the mocking up of a a page layout, is only part of the design process. If you're using coding to translate a 'static' design into a living, breathing web-page, to me that's still design work (although it relies upon coding). It depends whether you consider front-end dev to be a design facet, a dev facet or somewhere in-between. It's not that long ago that all designers were expected to know some HTML and CSS, in many cases - quite in depth with possible PHP extensions to their knowledge. Knowing what's feasible, what's possible and how to attach the 'pretty pictures' to functions is IMO, still design work whilst the hard-core developers focus on the complex additions and more technical site facets. I personally wouldn't work with any designer who just produced images of work and nothing else. With my view of design being how it is, since your initial question shows that the developer is 'using code' to 'alter the look' of the site, I would say that regardless of mock ups - design is involved. You are right, there are developers who actually know what they're doing - then there are 'WordPress plugin installers' who will 'masquerade' as fully fledged developers and take your money. Watch out, many sharks roam the digital seas!

Thanks Meisha, That's a great answer