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Google had some caching issues for awhile that even John Mueller commented about.  They should have cleared up by now: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cache-updated-19509.html I see that your cache date is now Dec 9th so I'm assuming things are normal with your site & traffic and it was just part of this same issue?

Am guessing the easier way out of things is just to say build a blog, which in a sense means more content, fresh content, involvement from the company and maybe new links. It also allows you to attract new keywords.. so blog is not such a bad idea. I just hope that you could find more people that would devote their time on their content and website rather than just say "ohh I have an seo to do that, he does everything and we don't wanna get involved" but yes there is tens of other things other than a blog that are more important..

Got it! will PM you the problems accordingly!

I understand the theory but I disagree. When you use your H tags properly it doesn't necessarily make a difference where they are located. H1 tags are usually the title, so it is better to have them higher on the page, however it doesn't negatively effect you if they are closer to the bottom of the page. My h2 and h3 tags are actually above my h1 tags and I have not seen any negative effects from this. The important part of these tags is the keyword use and whether or not they are used in order of importance, h1 most relevant to page, h2 is like a subtitle and so on.

Unfortunately, the answer is "it depends". I do have some recent experience with this for 2 very small sites (one has around 300 indexed URL, the other has around 70), which you may find useful. In each case, it took just a day or two to get the most important URLs (best rankings, traffic, link authority, etc.) swapped in for their non-https counterparts. However, deeper URLs with little link authority took up to 90 days to be swapped out. If your most important URLs don't get swapped out in a week or so, I would check these things: Make sure you've updated internal links so that they point to the https URLs. You don't want to pass your link authority through 301s anyways. Make sure all versions of the site are verified in GWT, setting the https version as the preferred version. Make sure your sitemaps (XML and HTML) contain the https versions of your URLs Make sure that the https URLs do not have the non-https URL's set as the canonical version. Hope this helps and good luck!

They've messed up in general really. They should be blocking robots to what appears to be the CMS for their clients use as there are surely numerous effects on their clients (cannibalization caused by the duplication of pages, for instance). As Mike said they've not taken into account the SEO aspects of the way they've implemented their system.

I would have to spend 100-150 per post to reach my entire audience. And that would not lead to a lot of site visits or conversions for me for the money that I am spending.

Your mistake is that you probably used relative URLs and not absolute ones (these are the ones like: http://www.domain.com/) So, the hreflang in sitemaps.xml for your home page should be this (please note that I put /it/ but you should put the real italian version home page, and that is valid for all URLs: <url><loc>http://www.domain.com/</loc></url> As for your second question - mixing matching and not matching URLs in the hreflang annotations - I would not suggest it.

I am being told I have hundreds of duplicate titles and content on my site. It's not possible. Not only do I only have 120ish posts on my site and they all have different titles, but google console shows me that no on on the web is claiming my posts as theirs (ie they are not saying they are the originals, etc.) So what the heck is the issue? Why am I being told that posts that are NOT duplicate of anything are duplicate content and that I have a bunch of duplicate titles when NONE OF MY titles are duplicates of any other title????????? And, how can I have 400 pieces of duplicate content when I only have 120 blog posts?? Please someone help me with this

Yes, I think Party_Experts is right, that duplicating the date will help the user's experience because they'd be able to see all of the information together. As far as H tags, anything lower than the H1 tag is probably not going to have a lot of influence, so I wouldn't worry about that part too much.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-bold-titles-19331.html A post from about a month ago.

I mean both two solutions are good but if you have a static text in the home would be the best choice because google loves textual links and will also help you to rank the related words. Hope it helps you.

Hi, I took a look at your site, and I ran a report in OpenSiteExplorer on your backlinks. It doesn't look at all like Penguin, like others suggested below. My suggestions: 1. Take a look and see what your competitors are doing. If this is recent, we've definitely see fresh/newly updated content be pushed to the front of SERPs temporarily and then die back down to lower numbers. 2. Make sure your content is getting updated. 3. Your content looked pretty thin. While in the past ranking competitively for this term was pretty easy, when I did a search (granted even incognito, I'm in the US), I got many results from UK government sites and wikipedia ranked pretty highly. Without solid, uniquely interesting content and strong, relevant links, it'll be very hard to beat these sites.

Thanks for the response. The link profile is something I am currently working on - but I am new to SEO and am struggling to find good relevant links. Any tips? Thanks

Hi, No, we do not have a place for you to upload a list of your disavowed links. The main reason is that we actively avoid crawling very spammy sites, where most of the links you're disavowing probably live. We try to identify quality links that you'd want to report on. We definitely have more reporting and other helpful SEO tools besides just looking at your backlinks. If you haven't, I suggest signing up for our welcome webinar (or watching a past recording) where we walk you through all our tools.

Good post. However be aware that "UK" is not the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 country code for the United Kingdom - it's GB so en-GB for English speaking users in the United Kingdom.

I agree with Shakur and reusing goals can become messy.  If you do have the need for multiple goals I would also look at creating one or more new profiles in Analytics.  I'm working on a large site that now has 4 profiles, each with goals that make sense within that given profile.  For example, we have a profile name based around chat with a group of chat events and goals within.

Thank you for all the wonderful responses. It was really helpful. I have been in touch with my client and we are moving the site to WP shortly.