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Hi, Thanks for the answer and sorry for the late response. I understand what you mean, but I still have the following question: there is no possibility to add extra content to the blog category pages, unless through source code. This means I can not add extra text on these pages, so these blog category pages just sum up all the different blog articles of which the titles are H2's. Will these pages ever rank, because it is not really unique content about one subject? Thanks!

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Hi, I just got a client who has had the same problem as you do, different numbers - drop and goes back up again. I did some analysis as he also had taken some SEO services. Well, I wouldn't blame the backlinks that he had but yes, it was excessive backlinks produced during the Dec 2017 - Mar 2018. Which I believe wasn't required at all. Did some fixing with backlinks and now he is back up again. When it comes to your case, Do not rely 100% on third-party tools like SEMrush they can be right up to some extent but not 100%. Second, season or competition could be another thing that may have pushed you down during a certain period of time. Third, what does GSC says, High impression or Clicks? It's okay to have a higher impression but If clicks are somewhere around the same in comparison to organic traffic that it's okay as you do not get the 100% exactly the same data both in GSC and GA, numbers may differ up to 5%-10%.  Also focus more on High Impression VS. CTR. Do some comparsion what was working in Feb or June or anyother high months and what's not working this month. Which queries dropped in CTR or Impression etc. Do some analysis. Last, we all know there was an update in August that has impacted most of the websites and experienced the dropped in traffic and such small updates are still impacting the sites. My suggestion: Do an audit, go through the backlinks, check your keywords, see which pages were working good? What keywords went down? What could be the reason competition or do you need to change ON page.

Hi Hecksler, Did you ever resolve this? Quick idea from me is to double check ALL version of your website within Google Search Console. You can now register the entire domain property using DNS: https://searchengineland.com/how-to-set-up-google-search-console-domain-verification-for-site-wide-reporting-data-313256 I found that Google was trying to crawl a very old HTTP sitemap from about five years ago for one of my sites, and thus I was able to delete it. There's some mixed comments/feeling within the Search Community about whether or not GoogleBot really "guesses" URLs, so it's probably more than likely they are getting the links from somewhere....https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20855082/googlebot-guesses-urls-how-to-avoid-handle-this-crawling Look forward to hearing from you, Nick

In theory as per Joe using a CDN can certainly influence your site speed load, however I found their are a few caveats to this. Firstly are you serving content in the same country/content to your audience and does your CDN have a node in this location to allow a faster pull of content. The speed gain may only be helped if this is the case. Second, can your CDN serve content via SSL be it an installed or shared SSL. And can your CDN serve via HTTP2 for simultaneous loading of files in parallel with one another. All of this can certainly affect your SEO, but hopefully the gains are enough to actually have a positive influence. For Videos - my favourite is still actually Youtube, it can boost your own following and don't forget Youtube is the second largest search engine that I am aware of. Hosting and having content here can only be an added benefit. Cheers Tim

Hey there. I'm Darren Shaw, the founder of Whitespark. I do most of the planning and design of features for our software. I think I'm a decently seasoned local SEO, but I'm embarrassed to say that I hadn't considered what you are saying in this post. You're absolutely right that we should report ranking movements in the way you propose, and I will get my dev team working on it right away. We'll have this change implemented within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for the excellent suggestion! You can contact me anytime at darren@whitespark.ca if you have any other thoughts, questions, or suggestions.

Hello, Have one article as the main source & mark the others with a Canonicalization tag. Your current approach is somewhat a grey-hat SEO approach.

Hi Thomas, So you're saying you've added all of your language specific subfolders (and have specified language targeting) but you aren't receiving Google Search Console data for all of them? e.g impressions, clicks, keywords. Can I just ask what your overall strategy is here with the localisation? From taking a quick peak, I can see that you basically have English versions targeted at different countries; which elements have you specifically tailored to each country? Hreflang and scaling is never easy and I can't say definitely, but it seems like you might have duplicated quite a lot of your efforts here. Surely it might make more sense to make English the x-default/internalisation version and then ensure each page is translated into the target language e.g Italian or Estonian. Kind regards, Nick

My bad I explained incorrectly subdomain. Ok so redirects are good in my situation. I will just need to be patient because it has indexed the new page but still shows the new and old one in the search results. I imagine it can take a few month for the old address to go away. If I remember well google keeps the old one in its index for 90 days ? Hopefully it replaces it with the new one soon...

Thanks very much for your help Andrew!

Good Morning! You might find this article of some use https://medium.com/@khusbu_machar/what-is-google-knowledge-graph-and-how-to-get-rid-of-wrong-data-on-knowledge-graph-c9dce02fd560 but from what I have seen, it can take Google time to sort out old references to a piece of data from more recent ones. Have you tried to retroactively edit old references to your former CEO where they exist on the top pages coming up for your branded search?

Hello kekepeche, Citing your sources is good practice & you'll;l avoid aby potential penalisation. Google is clever enough to 'know' the original [older] content source Use regular links since you're citing the original authors If you can get your writer to rewrite some source content to make it 80%+original this would be better for your SEO campaigns as it's technically original content so will rank better - Though, take care as not to infringe copyright

Thanks for the prompt reply, Martijn!

Unlike 3XX (301, 302 etc) or 4XX (404 etc) errors, 5XX errors are actually highly variable and relate to server errors. A page can give a 5XX error one second and then in a few seconds, return a full page instead. If you encounter high volumes of 'false-positive' 5XX or 0 (time out) errors, it's usually a sign that at a certain time your server is under strain and Moz is crawling it a bit too quickly (thus resulting in false positive 5XX errors) This could be if Moz decides to crawl your sit too quickly at peak operating time, or if Moz crawls your site when it's running something like a cron job (assuming that the job is handled by the same server which is handling your web requests). There can be many other reasons for 5XX false positives, but this is the most common You can delay Moz's crawl bot (rogerbot) from crawling your site too frequently: https://moz.com/help/moz-procedures/crawlers/rogerbot See if that helps. Keep in mind the change won't be instant, it may take a few weeks for it to be processed effectively. We had to do this recently for a client's site which was bound to a ridiculously weak hosting environ Hope that helps!