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  • It is the "normal" way to do it, often times pages are looking for region or browser language and redirect, but thats not the question here. Yes you may need to take care about some links you have control about in any way (yelp, linkedin, socials - whatever it is).  But I bet you link to all languages. Your Homepage  for example links to the other language-versions of the homepage. So the "juice"  you thought is going to one language, would be sent to the other languages in smaller portions.  How it should be, so no Problemo..

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | paints-n-design
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  • No index wouldn't be the best practice, especially if there are links pointing to that page. I would 301 redirect them or let them 404 off. 404 isn't always a bad thing. Its quite useful for getting rid of poor preforming content and unwanted material. You could always combine the old with the new and just 301 re-direct the old URL Hope this helps

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Colemckeon
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  • Hi there! Thanks for writing in  - Sam from Moz's Help Team here! Unfortunately not - I'm so sorry about that.  Any client side loaded content will not be rendered to our crawler as we are only seeing what is rendered by your server. Our crawler works by parsing the source code of your site, looking at HTML elements.  If your site is primarily Javascript, then the data you get back with regards to the crawl report won't be completely accurate because of this. There's no real workaround that I can recommend for this one, since it is a technical limitation of our tools, but there are some good blog posts and discussions in the Q&A about this if you head over to our Help Hub. While the tools and data that rely on our crawl of your site may not return the best results because of that Javascript, your keyword rankings and link profile should work just fine. You might also want to check out a few tools that are compatible with Javascript, like Botify or Screaming Frog. I'm really sorry I can't be of more help here; Please let me know if there's anything else I can help with, or if there are any follow-up questions you might have!

    Getting Started | | samantha.chapman
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  • If what you are doing is working then don't change it! IF your business grows enough to be worth it then fold NY into the larger site. If NY is the primary target, just keep both of them for now. You can refer all the NY traffic that is coming to the MY page to the NY page.

    Whiteboard Friday | | HashtagHustler
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  • Hi A Well done, you are 100% on the right track.  Go get em. Regards

    Link Explorer | | ClaytonJ
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  • You will want to use hreflang, either in the pages or in the sitemaps of the two sites. I'm assuming that you want the pages from the first site to rank for searches in Australia, and the second site's pages to rank in US. And hreflang tags are how you will communicate that desire to the search engines. The AU site should have a self-referencing hreflang tag for "en-AU" and another hreflang tag for "en-US" pointing to the equivalent page on the sister site. You may also want to include an x-default tag as well. The US site should have a self-referencing hreflang tag for "en-US" and another hreflang tag for "en-AU" pointing to the equivalent page on the sister site. You may also want to include an x-default tag as well. And, you also probably want to geographically target the two sites (or at least one of them) in Search Console settings. Lastly, in case a visitor lands on the wrong site (the search engines don't always obey our directives), you will want some way to inform the visitor that there is a "more appropriate" site. This can be a modal dialog based on geo-ip, or it can be just part of the site design, or however makes sense for your business.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoelevated
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  • There are many ways to hide things and Google's response to them can be different.    If you want to learn if Google is viewing and indexing, then place some unique text in the hidden area and search to see if it is findable. Also, if content is hidden, google might decrease its value in search.  We had visible content that was placed behind a hidden... Google still indexed it but it was almost worthless for pulling in longtail traffic.  We brought it back out into the open and it (after many months) returned to its former SEO value.

    Web Design | | EGOL
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  • You generally don't need to take any action on these types of links (you don't need to remove or disavow). Google can see they are just scraped duplicates or a real article and ignore them. But let's say they were harmful bad links (maybe paid links or irrelevant placed sneakily by you - ie: a link to iphones from a page about dogs), then when you remove links it's always a good stop-gap to also disavow. Because Google might not immediately crawl the URLs with bad links right away, but the disavow they will in theory pick up on more quickly.

    Technical SEO Issues | | evolvingSEO
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  • I recommend: landscaping.com/landscapers-houston

    Local Listings | | Kelly-Anne
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  • In my opinion better to ask the publisher to create unique content related to his topic.But yes you can use the same article and apply canonical tags.But for me to get benefit both you in terms of link juice try to accept unique content .

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | invechseo
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  • Domain autority not affect , example https://www.jualpintu.co.id domain autority 9 is powerfull in serp engine, number one is article unic and original. So write content original & informatif for ur website. Jual-Pintu-Furniture-Pintu-Jati-Ukiran-Jepara-Terpercaya.jpg

    International Issues | | fathiazulfianti
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  • Hey Hassan, I can't see what you're seeing in GSC, but it looks like your logo is showing up on Google's actual search results. In my experience, GSC is still a little buggy, so if it's working fine in the wild, you're probably safe! Best, Kristina

    Technical SEO Issues | | KristinaKledzik
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  • Thanks for your answer. It's not about changing the business name, but I guess it's just to guide people to the right version of the website. So there is a 302 redirect but I don't know the exact purpose of that. I want to get rid of it, and I am looking for the best solution, without any loss in UX or rankings.

    Technical SEO Issues | | WeAreDigital_BE
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  • It depends on the relationship between the two domains. Either way, as long as the 2 domains are similar/relevant to each other I would definitely suggest leveraging your old domain (A DA of 20 isnt terrible) in 1 of 2 ways: 1. A 301 redirect as you mentioned or 2. keep the old domain active and link to and from it to build up the DA of both sites.

    Technical SEO Issues | | RyanMeighan
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  • If you're trying to rank the page for the term "PCB Certification" it certainly makes sense to have that as the page name, it also makes sense for it to be in a folder called PCB with the other PCB related pages. You certainly wouldn't be penalised for that approach. Google will separate out the various parts of the path, so you don't need to worry about it treating it as a single keyword.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Xiano
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