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I'm sorry to hear about the trouble. If you can post the URL, that would be helpful in sorting out the issue.

Nowadays, it's too easy to do Local SEO for your website. I'm working on a project of artificial grass Malaysia that is a local-based project and I have seen many good result in Google.

Hey there! Yes - it's good practice to do this. The sitemap.xml file ultimately helps Google find pages that they haven't indexed. I hope this helps!

Hello Domain Authority in Moz is Moz's own score of your site/site health and it's backlink profile. Google has its own ways of grading your site. Google is not affected by Moz's domain authority score but it my experience, a higher domain authority has correlated with higher rankings and more traffic.

They don't look junkie to me. On Ahrefs, Inman has a UR 80, DR 82.

I wrote this answer to a slightly similar question in 2016, on Quora - and IMO nothing has changed much in this area: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-companies-have-a-big-Twitter-widget-in-the-Google-search-results-and-some-do-not/answer/James-Allen-15 Google is not very good at distinguishing and ignoring, or thinking about brands specifically. Actually Google sees query-spaces in terms of 'search entities' (especially after the Hummingbird update). Different keywords and keyphrases are related to one another and where that definition is pretty clear cut (thematically) you have a search entity. A search entity can exist in multiple different states (place, business, news topic, trending search, regular query space for general interest - etc.) When most of the searches (or search queries / keywords) within a given search entity change in terms of the user's intent, the search entity itself may shift state. If a search entity which previously handled generic 'interest' based queries is intercepted by something like a meme (and suddenly there are an explosion of searches, with clicks going to sites with radically different thematic groundings) - then the state of the search entity and its associated keywords (or most of them) can shift from one contextual niche to a completely different one If you think of it like that, things become much clearer. It's not that Google is saying "hey you're a brand you're cheating I'm kicking you out". Instead Google is saying "well I know that this search entity is not a business or brand, most people are searching for a meme that is trending. As such I'll return sites which more closely match the state of the search entity to which this query-space is bound" Not all search entities are so clear cut. Some query-spaces are very ambiguous! In which case, Google will try to return a balanced mixture of results. "SEO" is actually a very good example as, many people are searching for information but many people are also searching for companies and businesses. As such Google supplies divided results and tries to give the best of both (or all) thematic pillars. These are what we call noisy query-spaces: https://d.pr/i/UX3lON.png (screenshot) I know it's not a very clear-cut answer, but search is diverse and complex :') Hope that helps

Hi there, I wouldn't say its bad per se, as they still allow bots to crawl a website, but I recommend using Search Engine Friendly URLs where possible as they are better rewarded.

Thanks, I'll take a look

Hey there - yep we have certainly got it going on down here. As Lonely Planet said, our gourmet's paradise is "wild & dramatic, cultured & quirky, isolated yet accessible". We have an intoxicating mix of splendid isolation with breathtaking, unspoiled scenery combined with all the mod cons provided by excellent tourist facilities, world class art galleries, festivals, music & culture along with plenty of unique wildlife & hipster cafes/restaurants serving up superb paddock to plate produce. But I am sure I don't need to sell Australia to the Brits! You know where to stay now anyway :). We will look after you if you ever get to Tassie. (It seems this part of my reply was deleted on sending, apologies) I have changed the sitemap to https://3beaches.id.au/sitemap.xml. The 404 is courtesy of hosting provider Hostinger & it has been a struggle to get the 404 page I actually wanted up, but here it is - https://3beaches.id.au/whoops. Thank you so much for the spreadsheet! I am sitting down to give it the attention it deserves as we speak. Unfortunately I can't use 'airbnb hobart tasmania' as we are about an hour out of Hobart in an entirely different region & it will probably annoy people who are looking for Hobart accom as they want the capital city & our strength is being in the country but still only an hour away from a cosmopolitan city. "best airbnb near Hobart" is accurate & I like it! Should we be using this if it doesn't rank however? '5 star accommodation tasmania' is not quite right as we are rated 5 stars by guest feedback which is not to be confused with the official hotel star ratings system. 'airbnb east coast tasmania' at 110 search volume & 'airbnb south australia' at 210 can't be used as they refer to a vwery different area in Tassie in the case of 'east coast' & South Australia is on the mainland of Australia & very different. Your promptings have been very helpful however as I never even thought about searching for 'eggs and bacon bay' as I thought it would be way too obscure & imagine my surprise when I found that this yields a 720 result! I am also going to target 'huon valley tasmania' our region as Moz says in Australia this yields 501-850 volume. I can't see how via the Moz keyword tool to search worldwide, but will check this via the Google keyword planner which I always find ridiculously difficult to find. So I am now targeting - airbnb tasmania, huon valley tasmania, eggs and bacon bay, best airbnb near hobart + huon valley accommodation (which according to Moz gets 51-100 monthly volume. Thanks so much again, will be back in touch once I have finetoothed your spreadsheet! Do send your name & details if you wish via my contact page. Cherie Your Airbnb Tasmania must see & do guides to the best of Huon Valley Tasmania

This is very helpful. Thank you very much for the answer. There is lots to learn!!

Muito obrigado Joe, I thought so much, but I dit want to hear a few other opinions.

1.) I'd use option two: • http://example.com/en-ca/ - hreflang="en-CA" • http://example.com/fr-ca/ - hreflang="fr-CA" ... as it most closely resembles the structure of a double barreled hreflang tag. Some hreflangs only reference a location or a language, a double barreled hreflang references both. Since you're using double barreled hreflangs, it makes sense that your architecture should actually fit your own hreflang deployment If your hreflangs are deployed accurately, there's no reason to use the Search Console geo-targeting. In-fact, a lot of people find it overly constricting as it cuts off the tail-ends of the rough-edges of your traffic. Personally, I usually steer clear of it Hreflang structure basically comes from these two lists: Country codes Language codes The more closely your site structure mirrors that and the hreflang tag, the better 2.) Yes, single barreled hreflang deployment is possible: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/ https://d.pr/i/tuJlYT.png (screenshot) Even Google show that this is possible: https://d.pr/i/HUJESr.png (screenshot) As you can see, it can even be mixed in with other types of hreflangs so that's cool. 3.) From that Google screenshot I just pasted, you can see it's in the header. No - do not add x-default as a hreflang to a URL which has already been assigned a language. In your situation you don't need x-default, ignore and don't use it

I recommend that you keep the 2018 page & guide update the copy to reference the new 2019 guide.

Hi - have you considered contacting the old website hosting providers? Any chance of sharing the URL in question?