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Hello Billy, As you're probably aware, load balancing services are for distributing traffic to more than one server in order to maintain high performance even when traffic levels spike. There is nothing wrong with this from an SEO perspective, as it all happens server-side before the user agent (e.g. Google) ever receives anything. It is a common practice amongst enterprise-level websites. However, you are right to be concerned about this implementation, as it is definitely not the intended use of the technology, and sounds like a workaround instead of an actual fix. It may be a good workaround if you only allow one version of the content to be indexed, and ensure proper use of cross-domain rel canonical tags. Or you could even simply block anyone, including Google, from accessing the non-canonical version (on your subdomain, I take it) by returning a 401 (unauthorized) or a 403 (forbidden) status code.

Good share, thx Dean

Hello! Currently there isn't a way to directly send the alerts to a second email address. This will be solved with our release of multi-seat next year. What you can do is if you have any campaigns setup, you can create a custom report for brand & mentions in a campaign and set the report to email anyone in the last step. Brand & Mentions are powered by Freshscape and you can have up to 25 alerts total for the account. Freshweb explorer only limits to 10. Let me know if this helps!

Hello! Sorry for the delay. This bug has been resolved and we are wondering if you are still experiencing issues.

Hi Ram Is this you? I found it searching Google: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-my-site-getting-soft-404-errors-from-search-term-on-404-page-showing-in-gwt - and thought it would be helpful to know the actual site (and there's some more details in your thread there). Anyhow, this is the URL getting a soft 404: https://akclinics.org/search/{search_term}/ (because you are showing a 200 OK, but there really is no content there, and looks like a 404 to the user) You mention it's linked from here: https://akclinics.org/search/{search_term}/ But the question is - where is that linked from? I've crawled the entire site and can't find a reference to that URL anywhere. You're normal search URL looks like this (even if the query is empty): https://akclinics.org/?s= It shows the proper ?s= parameter. So somehow, it looks like Google is finding and crawling the wrong search URL. It's using /search/%7Bsearch_term%7D/ instead of /?s= - even for an empty query. Maybe this was the old search URL for your old site? The fix I think is to: find out where / why Google can access /search/%7Bsearch_term%7D/ remove any links or references to /search/%7Bsearch_term%7D/  and/or redirect it to /?s= OR just return a real 404 code for /search/%7Bsearch_term%7D/ Let me know if that makes sense.

True. Thanks Matt.

Years ago, we used Fontographer to create custom chars to add to a font which when published would make all kinds of chars avaiable in Google et al... Don't know if it's still in play....but seems like it from what is above...

Thank you so much! This is the best explanation I've gotten so far!

Glad to help! Hope you have a great New Year.

The title should be pretty unique and is a huge ranking factor. It should fit to the content and (imo) to the h1 tag. The content of the description isn't used for ranking, but makes the differnce between click or no click. What I also saw: it is better to have no Meta Description (if the content is good enaugh) as often the same Description. I saw many many pages ranking bad, wich fast get a bit better when I made the descriptions unique. So it may be a ranking faktor how unique the page is. Wich means everything - content, pics, titles, descriptions ... I am running a lot of tests wich take a look on that

Without getting too technical, .htaccess might be the solution you are looking for. This will allow you to retain both websites and transfer your organic traffic without risk of penalty. You can find .htaccess commands in the link below: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs/-httpexamplecomfolder1-to-httpexamplecomfolder2-- At the end of the day, you can insert the following into the .htaccess on your web hosting: Redirect 301 /url1 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url1 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url2 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url2 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url3 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url3 (Website A) Redirect 301 /url4 (Website B) http://www.newsite.com/url4 (Website A) If you are looking for a redirection tool without needing .htaccess (and are using wordpress), I have found that this one works wonders: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Either way, I don't think there is much to worry about in regards to risking negative effects as long as you are not transferring urls with penalties on them already.

Hi Ray-pp, Thanks for this. I think we will redirect to similar pages. Much appreciated!

Hi Rachel, So glad I was able to identify this for you. It's a few weeks old now, so you should be able to find a ton of articles about it. Mike Blumenthal tends to offer some of the best insight on this topic, so check out his blog. You might looks this up on Linda Buquet's Local Search Forum as well. Hope this helps!