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This could turn into an extremely long post if we go into everything in detail here A good site structure should be one that is hierarchical and sensible. By this, I mean it should make sense when someone lands on a page, what your intentions are for them and how to achieve them. Keep your call-to-actions clear and concise and don't burden the page with wasted content. Your URLS's should again be descriptive, so that if someone were to land on an internal page, would the URL tell them a bit about where they were? Are the key phrases you are targeting included in the URL itself? Also, you should aim to keep your URL structure to within 3-4 click of the homepage. Any more and it turns into a poor user experience. Your meta titles and descriptions should also be in target for the pages themselves. Something like this: <pin code:="" lohit,="" arunachal="" pradesh,="" india,="" <your="" site="" name="">or  <pin codes="" for="" lohit,="" arunachal="" pradesh,="" india="">Whatever you decide to go for here, I would keep i to under 60-70 characters, with the most important information towards the start.</pin></pin> I hope that helps a little. -Andy

If you have the ability to remove the bad links, then this is always the better option.  It's a bit of a pain and can take some time but removing is always better than disavowing. Feel free to send me an email at marie@hiswebmarketing.com and I'll put you in touch with someone who can give you a good idea as to whether or not your site is a good candidate for recovery.

Hi there! Thanks for writing in to Q&A! Marc is correct across the board! If you decide to discontinue your account, you can totally come back and set back up with the same account later. Secondly, while your campaigns are suspended, they won't gather any new data. Lastly, when you discontinue your account your campaigns are archived, and you won't have access to that data. One work around could be to download your old reports? That way you could still reference the information on some level, even if you choose to leave us. I hope that helps! Happy Wednesday! Erin

Hello Tommy, I am 100% agree to use hreflang to remove duplication issue. But, We're planning to go with TLD. And, We're getting issue to use similar images, content and meta on different region website.

Thank you both for the great answers

Thanks Chris thats cleared that up! Ash

Hi, I would just ignore that. No real harm can come out of this. However, if you do have some time on your hands and there is no other better use of it I would look at the logs and see if Google Bot is hiting both version. If that is the case then you need to deal with those as you are wasting crawl budget that can be used in a more productive way (but that's only if you have a big site and crawling can actually improve your performance). Hope it helps.

Hi Ahalliday That is the plan. I was just hoping there would be a solid automated system or process by now. But I guess its back to the trusted manual approach. Thanks

That is a very open ended question and one I wouldn't even try to answer. Tell your client that there are hundreds of factors at work with Google's algorithms and this is something that is completely out of your control. Even Google couldn't tell you the answer to that one. If they want to know more, then tell them that each of the 200+ primary ranking signals, have their own set of criteria. I think it was 'assessing how links appear on a page', had something like 2,000+ individual signals that Google used. Now imagine that each of the 200 primary signals each have 2,000 of their own signals - this is hundreds of thousands of possibilities that Google will be looking at when ranking a site. -Andy

Hi Maria, With such low external linking root domain numbers (8 and 5), it is likely that links are not the primary ranking factor here. Their 1,388 links are most likely not an attempt to trick Google: they are likely to be from site-wide links where the site has been naturally linked to from a side-bar or blogroll, etc. It's quite common to see this (although if you dig around, you might find that they have done something dodgy - you'd need to look at the specific examples). The same goes for the 773 links from 14 domains. To the best of our knowledge, Google generally takes the total linking root domains or total linking c-classes number most seriously. By c-classes, I mean that Google may discount links if they all come from separate sites hosted on the same server or set of servers. This is to stop someone renting space on three servers, building 800 little websites and linking back to their hub site. This used to work well many years ago! Moz reports on the number of root domains here, which is most likely totally fine for these types of analyses however. If you are ever suspicious as to whether someone is using a "link network" (renting a lot of server space on the same servers to build lots of linking websites), check out the IP addresses of the sites they have links from. You can use a range of free tools for this, like https://www.site24x7.com/find-ip-address-of-web-site.html. Do all the sites have a similar or the same IP? Definitely operated by the same person. Use Bing to search for that IP address and you can see all the other sites hosted on that IP, e.g. http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip%3A69.163.214.222&go=&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=ip%3A69.163.214.222&sc=1-17&sp=-1&sk= In this example, this IP is just shared by a lot of sites hosted with Dreamhost, but that kind of snooping can be interesting for backlink competitive analysis as well As far as why you are not ranking as well goes, it's likely that a lot of other factors are in play with low link numbers. How active are you all on social media? How old are the websites / domains? How long have the domains been registered to their current owners? Have the sites ever been severely penalised in the past? How good is the internal optimisation of the sites? Definitely keep up the link building work because it's a very important ranking factor once you build a higher number of high-quality links and differentiate yourself from the low numbers of your competitors. Also take the advice in this thread about engaging in other audience / content driving activities. Cheers, Jane

Hi Tim, Go with the approach you propose in the post, that's the way it should be done properly to make sure the old pages still will be redirected to a new one, preferably with the 'old' content.

Hi - What I would suggest is getting yourself somewhere comfy to sit down and read through this incredibly helpful SEO guide that MOZ produced. this covers many different aspects, including some that you might not have even thought about. -Andy

I would just pay for it myself instead of losing the whole account. If it's not that important of an account (low points and not much branding for you personally) then I would just create my own one

That's very frustrating! I've never had a problem with HMA specifically, but that script usually works. You may want to try searching for things like "break out of frame proxy" or "break out of frame php" to see if anyone out there has come up with a better solution.

Thank you, Jane. It appears we are able to restore our comments, but it's good to know that it's not a negative factor.

I would spend a lot of time on getting the links removed than just disavowed, at least for now. We get better results after doing disavows that had a bunch of links removed versus just relying on the disavow. To answer your question, the link detox score is a good estimate. Since google treats each niche differently, you might want to look at that as a goal number to reach so you are within the average of the niche. But obviously, you have to still follow through with even better links. It's a pain!