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Hi Jason, Yes, there is a known bug going on right now with GMB Insights. I recommend this thread for further info: https://www.localsearchforum.com/threads/gmb-insights-reporting-bug.54225/page-2#post-155357

Thanks for the reply, this makes a lot of sense. Very much appreciated

Hello, Yes you can for a number of reasons, the content of your copy & your backlink profile being the 2 main ones.

Hi, After looking into it more, I tried to submitting the https://www.domain.com to be indexed in Google Search Console. It is saying it is because the robots.txt file is being blocked.  Now after not finding anything related to this in the Robots.txt file, I did see we are blocking SID, and when you click through this page for the first time it takes you to https://domain.com/?SID=da6c01c48dae66de9384d5b71f7af386. Could that potentially be the issue?

It could easily be possible. Google usually takes the most specific directive when multiple directives contradict each other If you previously had your site targeting 'international' in GSC and you had US hreflangs, Google would have still targeted to USA as US directive is more specific Since you say you had targeting set to USA (and still do) and you may have had US hreflangs which were removed, this is a bit odd. Even without hreflangs, the GSC target US users directive is still more specific and thus Google 'should' default back to that That being said, hreflangs might be a bit of a harder directive as they are actually coded onto your web pages. It may also be Google ignoring GSC directives for some sites to try and 'encourage' more webmasters to embrace hreflangs and proper internationally targeted websites Google won't look at your bounce rate I don't think. Certainly not from Google Analytics (as that's your own data and it's also really easy to manipulate, e.g: you could use JS to detect what country people are connecting from and when you serve the pages you could strip out the analytics tracking script, thus lowering the bounce rate). Google use their own data, mostly the metrics from Search Console (clicks, impressions etc) People talk about bounce rate being bad because it's bad UX (usually) and Google wants sites built with proper UX, sites that are useful to people. But the aim is to make your site better so that real people won't bounce as easily, not to get better GA bounce-rate metrics (which aren't used in Google's algorithm). Of course Google must have a way to evaluate something similar, but that number in that database wouldn't be 'the one' that they factor I would try embedding the relevant hreflangs to support your geo-targeting and additionally checking what GSC property has your US settings in.  You can always block traffic from other countries, like how if you try to view a certain series on Netflix from the UK which is only available in the USA - it says "this show isn't available in your region". If you really care that much, just do something similar (this page is not available in your region)

Hi bro .... it's ok, you can creat backlink

Hi Caroline, Recommendations would be to do as you have suggested review keywords, & pages. Make sure you have a robust About us section that proves you are experts, look to introduce new high quality and relevant content. Start actively searching for relevant and quality backlinks. Steve

Google "recognises" the original source & will rank it higher, this has been the case for some time

As Alex & MrWhippy said, if structure urls --regex is best. If you can't use regex and have to redirect that many, will impact speed of the site. You can do it w/the include directive in httpd.conf.  Good luck.

Thank you very much for all of your feedback folks. I really appreciate it. Cloudflare has acknowledged that they are aware of the issue and working to correct it. It also affected Bing Bots. I ended up white listing the IP ranges, and our Google crawl has increased as a result.

These are good answers, however if your site has a blog and other content which frequently changes (e.g: you are an eCommerce site and you have hundreds of products that go up and down every day) - there is no point re-submitting your product sitemap(s) every 15mins when one product changes. Let Google just digest that stuff naturally For your posts sitemap (which should be separate and linked in your sitemap index), if you only post once or twice a week - but the posts are high quality and in-depth, then yes - re-submit your post sitemap as needed

Thanks Rajesh! Very clear, will pass that on to developers!

Its nothing tough to uninstall but you must have a proper guide where easy to make it uninstall totally.

You should only need example.com -> Canonical to example.com/nl

We don't sell online and I'm having the exact same problem. I'd love to implement Schema but I don't see how without listing a price.