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Only a fraction of the sitemap get indexed
Hey Luca, I'm sorry that you are running into this trouble. Here are a few things to review in order to get the number of pages increased in Google: 1. You'll want to review your internal linking structure in the Google Search Console. Adding a xml sitemap and submitting it to Google and Bing can help but inner links can help Google index new pages and deeper pages 2. Add content to key pages on the site like the homepage, category pages and individual product pages. If your site is thin (have pages that have less than 200 words of content), Google will be less likely to index it deeper 3. Build external links to deep pages on the site such as product category pages I hope this helps - I would start with content and inner linking
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JohnSammon0 -
Hoth v Fiverr v general backlinking services
I agree with Will. I would stay away with these services as they can hurt you more than help you - especially down the road. My recommendation would be to look at PR services to help you get backlinks through PR outreach (not just doing e-releases).
Link Building | | JohnSammon0 -
Will switching my domain cause SEO suicide?
I believe that domain type-ins, unlinked domain mentions, navigational queries, and other uses of your domain online have an influence on rankings. So, if your domain has a long and strong history of online use, you will be giving that up - at least until it is reestablished.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EGOL0 -
Google Ignoring region settings on contact pages
Turns out a lot of regions were not set up in Search console. I've added and directed them to the correct regions now. Fingers crossed Google will correct itself soon as our results look very messy currently. Thanks again, Kate
Technical SEO Issues | | WattbikeSEO0 -
Main menu duplication
A couple of other issues were uncovered with certain collections browser rendering. Cleaned up menu duplication and these. Monitoring.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MickEdwards0 -
Moz is showing issues at metadata continuously even though the issues are fixed.
Hey Robin, Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to reach out to help@moz.com so that we can take a closer look at your Campaign. Looking forward to hearing from you, Eli
Other Research Tools | | eli.myers0 -
Video titles and descriptions
I wanted to say that Vijay's answer was fantastic! To add to it - you do want to keep a close eye on if the video adds to the time on site or no once you add it to the page. Some videos may actually do more harm than good with time on site and conversion. Thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JohnSammon0 -
Combining adjacent image and text links
I think you're right to streamline your code, just for neatness! I'd do something more like this: [image: imageurl.jpg]alt="Products Page">Products Page It's just nice to work in some alt text to get higher relevance scores The number of links you deploy per page depends upon the SEO authority of your site and individual web-pages. I am of course talking about PageRank which is still a leading factor in Google's ranking algorithms! Everyone knows that TBPR (Toolbar PageRank) is dead. That's the little metric you used to get on the Google toolbar for Firefox (before Chrome was created). This was a simplified version of PageRank and a rough indicator, which people misused (so Google took it away) 'Actual' PageRank (which SEOs have never seen) is still very much at large and operates, roughly along these principles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank Here's an image to help you out: https://d.pr/i/WsySN1.png Basically web pages are referenced by other URLs across the web and gain PageRank. This gives a web page an amount of 'SEO authority' which travels along axioms of relevance (e.g: even a link from the world's biggest pet store, won't help a car insurance company to rank much higher). Links from web pages with higher authority and trust metrics, which are relevant to the target page (both in terms of linguistic semantics and actual usage) are worth more. Links from pages with low SEO authority which have low trust ratings, which are completely irrelevant (for users and search engines) are pointless at best (and may even have a negative impact) The obvious implications of this knowledge are that, networking your site with other websites is a good way to raise rankings (so long as it is done properly and ethically, in an editorial manner - advertorial links don't count). That being said, these rules also hold true for the internal linking of your website! It's called PageRank, not DomainRank or SiteRank. Any time two pages link between each other (internally or externally) PageRank does flow When one page links to another correctly, it loses some PageRank. A fraction of that PageRank is gained by the receiving web-page (unless no-follow tags are used, in which case the 'sending' page still loses some authority, but the 'receiving' page gains none - it's vented into cyberspace) Many large, well-known sites use this to their advantage. Virgin have several expansive eCommerce driven web properties which leverage deep-linking menus and faceted navigational links to really push their long-tail traffic to its maximum! This serves them very well. That being said, Virgin have monstrous budgets, digital PR and corporate backing which you likely can't match What's right for one site, can be totally wrong for another! If you have very little SEO authority and / or trust to begin with, then using too many internal site links can cause your homepage and category-level URLs to 'bleed out'. Think of it as, hooking up a complex water irrigation system (to feed a greenhouse of tomatoes) to a single bucket of water. All of the tomatoes receive one tiny drop of moisture, and die at basically the same time they would have - had no irrigation been attempted! But were that bucket confined to 2-3 tomato plants, they might survive a few weeks (even if the rest of the crops died). It's the same with internal linking, horses for courses and all that Be careful when reading up on SEO theory as it's almost always highly contextual and applies to very specific situations only
On-Page / Site Optimization | | effectdigital0 -
Experience Getting Google Reviews Restored?
I have experienced the same for my different reviews pages I'm working for a small niche blog that hosted on WordPress. You can check this page for reffernece.
Reviews and Ratings | | Njnbiure45r41 -
Google is indexing bad URLS
All of the plugins I can find allow the tag to be deployed on pages, posts etc. You pick from a pre-defined list of existing content, instead of just whacking in a URL and having it inserted (annoying!) If you put an index.php at that location (the location of the 404), you could put whatever you wanted in it. Might work (maybe test with one). Would resolve a 200 so you'd then need to force a 410 over the top. Not very scalable though...
Technical SEO Issues | | effectdigital0 -
I want to remove my business from Google Local Listing Completely
Dear Sabar-din, Hopefully, the article Hannah linked to will answer your question, but if not, please let us know and please explain why you are trying to remove the listing and what precise steps you've taken so far.
Local Listings | | MiriamEllis1 -
Hide Cross Domain Rel=Canonical
Hi Martijn thanks for the response at this moment i cant see one i have a suspicion that there is one added to the website, but unfortunately i am not finding it so was just wondering can someone hide it in the server or on the website?
Inbound Marketing Industry | | johan80 -
301 redirect from dynamic url to static page
Unfortunately this works only with static Urls. When i am trying to to do this through cpanel like this https://imgur.com/cVDFgit the result is this https://imgur.com/dQDXuMC As you can see cpanel "cuts" the dynamic part of url
Technical SEO Issues | | alstam0 -
Internal pages ranking over the homepage: How to optimise to rank better at Google?
Hey there! Is it possible to give the website URL you are having issues with? I'll be able to better assess the problem that way. Thanks, John
Search Engine Trends | | JohnSammon0