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No that's not normal and it means you are internally linking to campaign tag URLs which is probably also causing loads of data pollution in GA For something like this, I'd expect it's an infinitely-recursive URL nesting error or something like that. A client of mine had a similar example lately, they had URLs like site.com/fr/product and you could click the flag in the nav to change language, for example ending up at site.com/en/product (English instead of French) The problem was, if you were on EN and you clicked the EN flag again, it would go to site.com/en/en/product (infinitely adding to the language layer). Errors like this on cookie-cutter, cloud-managed sites are very, very common (their tech teams often aren't fantastic to be honest)

Does anyone else think Fiverr with experience. I'm thinking Fiverr is good for 1X but not 10X, but if you think there are some geniuses on there and more people agree, I will give it a try, it's cheap. The community college is a great idea. I'll work on that. Bob

If "ALL" of your pages on example.com are migrating to somewhere on newsite.com, the one approach you could take would be to use the change of address at the domain level, and then set up redirects specifically on newsite.com for each of the old file paths. This would not be relevant if example.com is still going to be around. But if it is going away, then this approach would do what you want.

Thanks for the explanation...

Can share your domain?

Thank you Darin I appreciate your answer and will look to put this in place. Best wishes, Dean

Hi Luke, Moz Pro has a good backlinks tool.  https://moz.com/products/pro Also, Ahrefs has a pretty substantial backlinks tools https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker As does Majestic https://majestic.com For free tools you can use SEO Powersuite which you can run locally on your PC. I would make sure you check the settings on this though and read the user guide. It is a pretty powerful suite of tools. https://www.uk.link-assistant.com/features-and-editions.html The hoth also lets you check your backlinks for free, this is powered by Ahrefs I think. https://www.thehoth.com/backlinks-checker/ I hope this helps.

Hi, While there is no excessive use of keywords, you do not have to have any problems. Always look for naturalness and above all try and experiment. You can read more about keyword stuffing to avoid possible Google penalties Regards

My pleasure, and thank you for responding with this extra info. So, you have an eligible local business model with GMB listings for each of your locations that aren't coming up for the local searches you feel they should or want them to. You have a single site with a landing page for each of the 12 branches, but are aware that you're not yet taking full advantage of GMB features. There are 3 core things you need to do here. First, you need to make certain that there are no obvious barriers to the local pack rankings you feel you should be earning. So, this means ruling out guideline violations, review violations, suspensions, technical website flaws and duplicate listings. It also mean ensuring that there aren't any filters at work that are causing your listings to be filtered out in favor of competitors. For example, if two businesses are in the same building or within a block or two of one another in the same Google category, one may be filtered out at the automatic zoom level of the map due to the Possum filter. Or, in some cases, a business might be located outside of Google's city borders, and therefore find it hard-to-impossible to rank within that city. In other cases, Google might be tightly clustering the results around a specific area of a city, and if you are outside of that radius, it might be a bit harder for you to compete. So, your first step is to establish where these challenges are. If they fall under the realm of bad practices, you'll need to correct them. Otherwise, it's simply important to observe how Google is behaving surrounding your desired search phrases so that you understand the lay of the land. Next, you need to identify the local pack competitors for your core search phrases in each geographic market. Here is my tutorial on Finding Your True Local Competitors.  You have 12 businesses, so I'd start with just one to familiarize yourself with this process. Once you know who the top competitor is for each local pack you're hoping to get ranked in, audit them. Here is an example basic local business audit: https://moz.com/blog/basic-local-competitive-audit Audit your location against the competitor's location and see where they are stronger than you. Now that you've identified your competitors' strengths in each market, create a strategy for improving your metrics so that they match and then surpass those of your competitors. This is the basic process for discovering why you are ranking where you are ranking in the context of each of your geo-markets and for basing a strategy for improvements on the findings of your research. If all else fails and you don't have the internal resources to undertake the work, hire a good local SEO agency to do it for you. Hope this helps!

at least, how fast google is indexing your domain depends on your structure (and more). I read a few weeks ago something about an "indexing race" just to se wich way is the fastest to get your pages indexed (https://searchengineland.com/ready-set-go-googlebot-race-314894). Funny because not my preffered solution won. It depends on google if it would index every page  of a domain - for your given example I think Google will not. Several products in different colors (and thats the only difference) on different urls. Not sure if there was the difference (the color) mentioned anywhere, or if it is just a different image (not my language).  Thats not best practice. You have to deal with your crawl-budget for 1-2 million pages, but at the moment I think - all you can do is wait. And I saw a lot more pages indexed  (460,000) - but somewhere in serps google stops showing me your pages, because they are to equal to others. I think (what I saw) there are a lot of Products without any single description, so you can do a lot of things to improve, until you wait.

I use a free tool called Plagiarism-Checker (https://www.plagiarism-checker.me/). It's pretty basic, but it does the job!

In my opinion, the 'normal' optimised images would be better because this would allow you to insert keywords in both the image name & alt tag. In both instances, I always recommend that you name the image file name using a keyword. In all instances make the images as small as possible WRT file size, that faster your site loads; the more Google will 'reward' you.

I'd have to see the site to answer that question, but when this happens it generally means that users did not think your site was the best result. As you hit page one Google gets more data, including impressions, clicks, click-thru-rate, bounces, query modifications... basically, they'll know if the searchers found what they were looking for or "liked" your site. Then again, it could be something else, but I'd have to see the site. Did you make any changes? Are your redirects still working?

Hi Steven, I assume in the coverage part of search console? If that is the case then Google can find them on your site. You may have a more serious issues Everett suggested. You need to be investigating this pretty quickly. Let us know what you find and I am sure we will be able to help.

In terms of intent, I originally targeted "training" to compete with competitors - they were doing only classroom training and we were trying to sway customers over to online training which we do. But it's been a few years now and searchers are looking more for "online courses", which we get found for, but not positioned as well as we could be. I'll consider putting together a separate page targeting "online course" and use your advice for linking to it from a reworked training page. Thanks.

Hi, When it comes to related questions there is nothing specifically you can do. It's similar to featured snippets. You should make sure that your content is clean and easy to read. You can also look at some over the related questions that you want to be included in and see how the websites that currently are included have their content written. Hope this information helps!

Yes, your understanding of x-default is correct. The purpose of including it everywhere you have alternate HREFLANG links, is to handle any locales you don't explicitly include (to tell the search engine which is the default version of the page for other non-specified locales). And it should be included on each version of the page, along with the other specified alternate links for each locale. Alternatively, you could collect all of these centrally into the sitemap file, rather than inserting into each page. Both types of implementation are valid (but anecdotally I've had better luck with on-page tags instead of sitemap implementation).