Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi Natalie, As SEO Elevated said, the issue is most probably caused by the hreflang tag being within the canonical... Canonical should point to itself for each language version so to speak, have nothing to do with rel alternate or hreflang. Baisc example for language versions, required in both English and French Headers: <ink rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="yoursite.com fr="" "=""></ink rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="yoursite.com> Hope I've understood correctly, I looked at the homepage but feel free to share Good luck! Nick P.S Might be worth checking this tool out: https://technicalseo.com/seo-tools/hreflang/ There's quite a few of these "hreflang" validator type tools which can be useful in troubleshooting

Yeah, I think this was just tripping me up a little bit because of how differently the pages perform. You make a good point - URL doesn't seem to be a big factor in this instance. Thanks for your insight, Alex.

Yes, I tried the old Search Console option before I posted in here but sadly, it just redirects you back to the new version. However, I didn't even think about the redirect opportunity and considering the website is built on Wordpress, that should be easy enough to set up. Thanks so much!

Hi there, Please could you be a bit more specific with regards to the redirect? Are you saying that you're using an iframe to show content form one page of your site to another, or that the URL within the iframe redirects? Whilst iframes are a bit of an old school SEO boogeyman from the days when Googlebot couldn't crawl them properly, they generally have a time and a place. e.g Google Maps and YouTube embeds. These could add valuable context to the page despite being hosted off-site, so it's not quite as simple as saying all iframes=bad for SEO. The same could be true of your content depending on the situation! Hope this kind of helps for now! Nick

Dr. Egol - thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'll give it a try!

thanks, Alex. You make some good points.

Hi Bob, Can I ask what you mean by MIS - Management information system? I can't specifically answer your question but I assume you have seen the official Google documentation here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4/ Also, I don't suppose you've considered Google Data Studios: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/data-studio/ or a connector with Google Sheets? Both of these platforms are growing increasingly popular within the Digital Marketing Community. Kind regards, Nick

Thanks for the detailed response Nick - great summary! "If you choose to try to guess at the user’s language preference when they enter your site, you can use the browser’s language setting or the IP address and ask the user to confirm the choice. Using JavaScript to do this will ensure that Googlebot does not get confused." I presume web developers would know how to do this?

Ok great thanks for clarifying Kate!

No problem, whatsoever. Glad to help a fellow Mozzer out!

Hi there, Sam from Moz's Help Team here - thanks so much for reaching out! So, a couple of things - when you disavow a link through Google, it doesn't actually remove the link, Google just stops putting SEO weight into it. So our crawler will still find the link. Unfortunately there isn't a way in Link Explorer to "disavow" a link yet so we will still show it. Disavowing a link doesn't take it away from our tools, so they will still appear as backlinks to your site. The fact that Google disregards them in relation to your site does not take them off the sites they are on, so best practice is to approach the webmaster first and request the link be removed. If you get no response then disavow with Google:). I also want to note a couple of things about your DA drop in general - overall, seeing your DA drop is a fairly common problem and can be attributed to a few things: 1.Links we previously discovered are now marked as lost. 2. You've earned more links, but the highest authority sites have grown their link profile even more. 3. The links you've earned are from sites that we haven't seen correlate well with higher Google rankings. 4. We've done a better or worse job crawling sites/pages that have links to you (or don't). It's a bit difficult to isolate the exact cause of what happened without your own SEO consultant or developer being able to take a dive into this, but you can definitely read more specific information here if you'd like to understand more about the process:). Something else to note is that on March 5th, we rolled out an entirely new DA calculation method, which affected the DA of many sites. You can read more about this update here https://moz.com/domain-authority-2.0. Do let us know if we can help with anything else!

Okay thanks. I wasn't aware how much the cost would be.

You're welcome, Tim, and good luck!

Thumbs up, checking Ad Rank is for relevancy is a pretty cool idea - thanks for reminding me there's a whole other world out there besides SEO!

Hi there, I'm not sure you will get a recommendation here but it might be worth reaching out to some of the fine companies here: https://moz.com/community/recommended Good luck in your agency hunt! Best regards, Nick

Depending upon how you've set up your previous redirects, it could be a problem, but I suspect you'll be fine. In my experience, a small redirect chain won't cause a massive issue and unless you already have some multi-step redirects going on, your new plan won't put you at risk of more than two steps anyway. Obviously, a loop would cause serious issues, but I don't think you are at risk of this. Your redirects should be relative to absolute, i.e. /oldpage to https://siteImanage.com/newpage. In this case, you would just need to update your absolute paths to the new url. If you ensure these are matched first, then you would only have one redirect regardless of whether the client hits the www or non-www domain. If the full domain redirect is matched first, you'll end up for two steps for those people hitting only pages on the old domain If your redirects are matching based on relative links and redirecting to relative urls (as some plugins do), i.e. /oldpage redirects to /newpage, then you'll end up with a two-step process if someone follows an old link; First, the site will redirect from non-www to www, and then it will redirect to the correct page. If you have redirects such as "https://siteImanage.com/oldpage" redirecting to "https://siteImanage.com/newpage" then you would create a two-step process again, first to the new page and then to the new domain. Of course, your redirects wouldn't work on the new domain as they wouldn't match, which may or may not be a problem for you.

Hello, Write naturally is about writing without thinking about SEO optimize the text in excess, this means, write contributing content value on the subject you are dealing with in your post, naturally. It is not about "forcing" keywords. Google also analyzes the semantics of the text which means that often, even if you do not put that keyword in particular, Google takes it into account. Regards

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to reach out to us at help@moz.com so we can take a closer look at your account. We can send you a guide on how you can export various parts of your Campaign before you cancel. Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli

As long as you could prove that you're not breaking the law (using legal definitions, not your own) and that you have permission to use that content - I don't see why not. If you buy the expired domain and restore it, that can work very well from an SEO POV - however there may be legal ramifications and the original owner may be able to come in later and remove your site or take it over From an SEO POV I have seen this tactic work when re-buying the expired domain and restoring it. I can imagine, however - that the main issues would be legal challenges

Hello SEOhmygod, If you could share your site I would be able to provide better input. From the sound of it though, if I understand correctly, you are canonicalizing each department back to a version of the page for all departments. That is probably not ideal. It would be better to have each department have its own landing page for each category, on which you would customize Title, description and OnPage content for that particular department. You may also want to consider rewriting the URL instead of using a filter so: .com/tyres?department=1 becomes .com/tyres/mountain-biking/ or .com/mountain-biking/tyres