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Hi there, Can you elaborate on this a little bit more? Ross

So about updating links to the new one. I see that you said that I should use the https://www.domain.com at all times. Then you said that the www is considered a new entity, but then you mention that it was ok to not use the www in my domain. Are you talking about the backlinking domains I do from here or on the actual website itself? Last thing.  is the backlinking rule that it should always match the exact way it shows in the URL bar? So for example https://www.domain.com should always be https://www.domain.com and never https://domain.com or even domain.com?

The decision to kill [/daytona-beach-web-design/] was rather simple. Even though both pages were created at the same time.  After looking at Google Search Console, only one URL got indexed. So we deleted one and expanded our content on the the other.

Hi, As Ross suggests, it's not. It can be useful sometimes when you want to make sure that the canonical URL set the right way and to not create confusion amongst the same URL with two different variants (one with a slash, the other one without). I'd argue that these days Google is pretty good at solving this problem for you when it exist and ignoring the implications of it. But if you're able to I would always recommend trying to apply a trailing slash (or not), just pick one. Martijn.

Thanks, Ross.

A simple reply to your question is Yes 2-3 articles from 1 domain have more weight than 1 article. From my point of view, it is beneficial for Google as well as users also.  If a site gives you the link for more than one time then it will increase the authority of your pages. Also, you can able to get links for more pages of your website and it's also good for getting more referral traffic. and it is easy to get links from those who already linked to your pages instead of starting a cold outreach, Hope it helps.

Same to you! Happy to help!

Be patience, it will recover after next algo update from google.

Yo, Gael, I don't think any of your ideas are going to work for you. Not only that, but they could hurt your current site, if, in fact that one is ranking. Firstly, it's not about the domain name, it's about the website's relevancy to its target market.  What's that mean? You have to look at your competitors to find that out. What's helping them rank? Where are their links coming from? Are the links coming from Ireland? If so, you're going to need to build  up authority from Ireland. Where it's host could be a factor too. Secondly, your content isn't something you kick around like a an old hackey sack, it's something you grow, nurture and give a permanent home  for, like a puppy. And you don't duplicate it and pass it around to your besties just because they don't have any. You  tell them to make their own--and make it good.  No fluff content is going to rank for you unless there is zero competition. Spinning existing content stopped working more than decade ago. For most small marketers, getting a single site to rank well in a competitive market takes most of their time, let alone three completely different, completely non-networked sites. You might want to start from scratch on these ideas and wrap your arms around some basic SEO principles before you take your next step.

Unfortunately WordPress is always vulnerable if the installation isn't properly managed. I would suggest you to check if there are any links to your websites for spammy domains, phishing domain links farms or any other domains and website of poor quality.  If there are any, go to Google and use "disavow backlinks" option. Any news releases related to the websites would also help. It is not a bad idea to create a publication in your Blog (if any) that explains how a compromised WordPress installations resulted in a drop in SERP. Consider using this WordPress plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-tag-manager/ A professional review of the WordPress installations by any 3rd party would also help, as you might be missing something. Finally, consider using a Managed Website (Managed Wordpress) service.

Thank you Boyd

Ok will do. Thank you,

I would disagree. Schema is a proven ranking factor. Try adding schema on any website that does not have it, and notice how rankings improve even if everything else is kept the same. If the company does not have a physical address, I would recommend using Service schema (https://schema.org/Service) and including your target locations in areaServed.

Not at all, I need more information that I was looking for. Thank you for asking this question in the community. AmazeInvent

Difficult to say, but I would say much sooner than 6 month (I would say 30-60 days or sooner). Take a look at this link scheme  help article from Google and if it fits, let them know (link in last paragraph).  Good luck!

Quite an old style of architecture, it's a shame it cannot be changed. Just so others understand a bit more, what you refer to as a 'suffix' is actually called parameters. In a URL, anything following "?" is parameters If the language on the root is dynamic (it changes) then it's very difficult for you to hreflang to it effectively as it will conflict the the parameter URLs (which are language based) AND additionally, you won't know for certain what language to hreflang to. That also makes canonicals to the root quite tricky IMO I think what you are already doing, is the best of a bad situation. At least the parameter-based URLs set a designated language which you can rely on to be the same If you look at this official URL from Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en Scroll down until you find the heading "Using locale-specific URLs" and look at the table underneath of that heading Parameter-based geo-targeting, is actually the only one of of multiple architectures, which Google put in red text and explicitly warn people away from. Since the site you are looking at has crossed that red line, you may need to manage expectations about results. If they're going to pick the worst possible format and stick with it, without asking you as a consultant what is best, they've kind of shot themselves in the foot there P.S: Regarding 'actual' redirects, not canonicals. For sites that have proper sub-folder structure, usually you redirect users based on their location, but allow them to flag select to 'escape' the redirections (which can sometimes go wrong). You also usually exempt Google's user-agent ('googlebot') from regional redirects, as they can only crawl from one location at once and otherwise they think areas of your site keep going up and down due to all your redirects. But with your structure, I'm not sure I would even touch redirects. It's in enough of a state as it is without rolling those dice