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Appreciate the answer. That was sort of my game plan to pick out our top 4 keywords that we aren't ranked on Google spots 1-3 but would bring us back the most volume of traffic.  I do have four keywords like this that we are are either at the bottom of page 1 or on page 2 & if we obtained a better rank could bring back 11,500 to 30,000 per-keyword. I just didn't want to focus on only 4 keywords by trying to get anchored text links or high quality links by manually reaching out to sites for only those four keywords if there was another plan to distribute more juice to a wider variety of words. But you are correct that is the issue with coming up with a plan, that we have so many keywords some that bring back little traffic some that bring back a lot and how do we focus on the many or should we just focus on the four for now and then focus on a new set once a goal is accomplished.

No stress whatsoever. What you have done is identified  an issue, to be monitored.   If no sudden change in rankings or even a slow decline you are in a strong position. So no need for concern. We are getting a lot of wins, by improving schema markup for our clients, perhaps do a schema review. Keep ahead of the pack. Go get em, Regards

Have you ever listened about EMD Google Algo? And you are following this website - sugarbabieswebsites.

Google is much quicker to index than 3rd parties. It is most likely a lag in the rank tracker. Keep in mind, SERP results change multiple times per day and URL's are always shifting rankings. If it doesn't show up in the next few days comment again on this thread and ill see if I can help further!

Better yet look at the Linking Domains and Inbound link tool on MOZ. Then you can see what links they have and what you should get to beat them.

There are a number of points to mention here: Firstly. hreflang is not a ranking signal, and therefore it will not provide a ranking boost. Secondly, Google will not auto-translate the pages because hreflang was implemented. You'll need to do the translation yourself. Thirdly, you don't have to translate all pages of your website to Duth, only the ones that would make sense to translate. For example, there could be blog posts that would resonate with an English speaking audience, but not a Dutch one, so there wouldn't be a need to translate these posts. The opposite could be true too. What hreflang does, is that it helps search engines understand which pages are meant to rank for which languages and in which countries. The actual implementation can get tricky if you have multiple languages and several countries and I would recommend looking into a few tutorials/documentation on this, including: Moz's hreflang guide: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag Yoast's hreflanf guide: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/ Google's documentation on hreflang: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Hope that helps!

Thank you for your reply.

Good to know. Thank you.

There is no big difference between optimizing in general and your case. You have to be sure that there is no Cannibalization. So be sure you decrease the optimization of your homepage. And of course you have to: get both urls crawled.  Otherwise it couldn't be possible (but you managed that allready) its a hard move, Search Engines need to see the new content well linked, and finally understand, that the content is gone frome home Link from home to the new page, just to show where the new page is It is hard because the homepage is easier to rank. But it doesn’t make sense for all your keywords. Also means - it is harder to rank with you new service page.  Whatever made you rank on 6-7 is maybe not enaugh for a new sub-page. Make it faster, more useful everything to provide the best answer.  Get some natural Links may also help I had the same thing 2 or 3 years ago. Fact is, the new Page is finally in Top 3. It just took a few weeks (so it is possible). I did everything to make pretty clear where the stuff is gone. But the homepage (linking with exact match anchor to the new page) is still in top 5.. The content is less good optimized or better, just gone to the new page. It somehow looks like google doesn’t want to forget.  Ok the User will find the link, maybe that is one reason.

Took a quick look at your site... you are not on the first page of Google because you have not earned it. If you want to earn it, write some real content about the subject. What is it?  Who cares?  Why is it important? Now go deeper on all of those.  Start writing a library about this.  Having it sprinkled in the titles of a few articles and in the title tag of your homepage doesn't earn anything. #1 positions, even #10 positions are earned by becoming the global school for something. If this is where you want to be seen, then when a visitor lands on the homepage  of your site they will realize that they have arrived at the right place.

I think that optimizing for a specific keyword or keywords is sort of out of date I think this piece of content is excellent regarding this topic. Keywords obviously matter but not in the same way most people think they do. https://www.getcredo.com/content-keyword-topics/ Also please pay attention to what Cyrus is written below this post. https://moz.com/blog/7-advanced-seo-concepts to answer your question definitely optimize all titles open graph etc. if that's what you're asking and yes do conversion rate optimization Title Tag/Meta Description optimized for CTR just in case YES

Sadly I don't know the answer to your question. I am very curious to see if anyone does have a concrete answer. I googled around a bit trying to learn but couldn't find any real solid information. My intuition is that they are not treated as no follow but are actually not considered links at all. Just a guess based on their name, no experience with them whatsoever. Or something a black hat does to hide links?  That would be even more obvious though... Interesting!

Hi Tom, Thanks for your response on this. I have seen several credible websites state that canonical image URLs are not used by Google and should not be used, even on MOZ I have read this too I believe. Interested to know your source on this? The use of our own self-hosted cdn to load images using multiple connections is following Google's image best practices - this is recommended across the web too. So not sure what the problem is you are highlighting there? The only thing that was a concern was the fact we are using a different domain entire, not the deployment of the self-hosted cdn. The og:image and structured data image are using the primary domain, and again, that is following best practices. Thanks

Hi JH, Typically, collapsing lengthier content on a mobile site (with an option to expand/view the content if desired) in order to improve UX is not considered an issue for Google. However, anytime you're using JS, there's a risk that search engine crawlers won't be able to see what you're doing. You may want to test with JS disabled in your browser to get an idea of what they might be seeing otherwise. What is the reason for the length of the content at the top of the page? Are you creating that content for users or for search engines? I'm guessing it's not really for users if you're auto-scrolling them past it? This is often something that Google can spot and discount the value of. I would probably recommend (if possible) a "collapse and expand" approach to lengthy content at the top of the page, rather than autoscrolling down to the products. Show the beginning of that content and offer a "click to expand" if users want to read the full text. You could use JS for that expand and default a non-JS experience to simply display the full content, to ensure that search engines do see the full text. Or if the content includes images, consider removing the images or shrinking them for the mobile version of the site. You may also want to test shortening the length of the content on some of your pages and see whether this impacts performance in one direction or the other. Hope that helps!

Also, many people don't know this, for an example, you have spam score at MOZ  20,30 but you have just a few backlinks with also big spam score then you go and find links with spam score 0,1,2 and connect with them you will see as many links with lower spam score you connect your spam score is going down. LIKE SOME WAGE.

Hi Jo, Thanks for checking! I will ask our website provider (HubSpot) if they block AWS or rogerbot. Thanks, Tamara