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"a national keyword shows how the keyword ranks across the entire country." Does this imply that the national rank is the average rank across numerous locations or is there one location used to track national rank? Different wording - If I select national tracking, does the tracking just occur from a default location like "Seattle, WA" or is it pulling rank from throughout the US and averaging?

To piggyback on what Miriam has posted - yes - it's worth the move. Some hosting companies will offer to move your website for you should you give them access to the server. I would recommend siteground if you have a WordPress website. The faster you can get it to load, the better. Thanks! John

I could not agree with you more.

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Dan took the words out of my mouth I would do exactly what he just described honestly. When you search your site for | Search for:    fascinators | You see a lot of good content but it in hub pages as Dan would say and I agree with him on that as well. Sincerely, Tom

Hello Mat, I don't think I'm seeing the same SERPs as you. Is there any way you could give me an example of one of these subdomains? And yes, you're absolutely right that the same problem of keyword cannibalization would apply to subdirectories as well. If it's the woltersk....lu domain I am getting non-secure warnings from Firefox when I try to access it. How many different subdomains are there / will there be? Is it just shop.domain.lu and www.domain.lu or are there others? I didn't see any for "courses." or "software." in the SERP example you provided with the link. If it's just one, I think that's manageable. For example, maybe www. could focus on informational queries (e.g. JavaScript course) and shop. could focus on transactional ones (e.g. Buy Acme JavaScript course). Maybe one could focus on reviews and comparisons, or long-tail queries while the other focuses on short-tail queries. Without knowing more about the domains and your business, it is difficult for me to say.  If you have three or four subdomains all going after the same keywords, that's definitely a problem and I don't think you can avoid cannibalization. At that point, it would be best to choose the strongest domain/subdomain and focus your efforts on ranking one of them instead of watering down your efforts over several.

Hi Yasin, I hope you're well! You can create a disavow file that contains potentially spammy domains, but I would note John Mueller’s statements from a Google Webmaster hangout in November 2017. “With regards to sites that don’t have a manual action for link issues, we do try to take those links out of the equation automatically when we can recognize them.” - JM Do you know if your site was manually penalized by Google? You can confirm this in Google Search Console: google.com/webmasters/tools/ Dashboard > Search Traffic >> Manual Actions. Furthermore, Mueller goes on to explain: “If you’re unsure as to whether or not Google is actually taking those into account or kind of taking those out of the equation then the disavow file is a great way to kind of get peace of mind and to say well I’m sure these won’t get taken into account by any of Google’s algorithms. And that way you’re absolutely certain that you’re not associated with those links to your site that you can’t remove or kind of change.” -JM Marie Haynes, wrote an awesome start to finish guide on how to build and submit your disavow, which can be found here: https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool Note: the article is a bit dated, but the basic premise still applies. Hope this helps! You may also want to make sure everything was redirected properly when you merged sites and switched to https. Are the old domains still being indexed? All the best, Paul

Thanks Roman, I will begin using the on page grader for our local pages.

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Many thanks for your extensive and well explained response Mike - it has given me something to have a look into Kindest Regards Kelly

Question we seem to see people ranking better naturally when they have the SEO term in their title. That's right a basic on-page optimization rule say that you need to have your main keyword in Title, Meta Description, URL and also on the content Say we were optimizing for "red buses". Our company was called Diamond. We are using Diamond.co and have a DA of 32 (Page Title Diamond Red Buses | Bla).  Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword -Brand Name **Should we buy diamondredbuses.co.uk? Is it best to continue on our domain and redirect? Or move domains? How much would it affect? ** Migrate your website is not a simple task even worst if you have a website with traffic and rankings. In fact is a risky process if you don't know what are you doing. So keep your website as it is.

Hi! Could you give any details about the page or key terms? How competitive are the main terms? Can you disclose the site? Any messages in Google Webmaster Console? How is your traffic in your analytics? Has it dropped, or is it doing OK still?

John Mueller of Google recently discussed this topic... https://www.seroundtable.com/google-higher-page-count-seo-26633.html Amazon has millions and millions of pages.  They can be beaten for commercial queries with a 20 page site.  If your 20 pages are bursting with some of the internet's best information for your topic, and visitors engage your site and ask for it by name, then you can beat Amazon with 20 pages.

Good question! The m-dot pages might not actually be indexed at all. Check out this article, and specifically the section I'm quoting: https://searchengineland.com/google-advice-switch-m-dot-domain-responsive-mobile-first-index-rollout-277446 "The rationale is that right now, Google has a desktop-first index. So Google doesn’t really index your m-dot; they just annotate the m-dot URLs, but there is no true indexing of your m-dot content..." You might first want to double-check that Google is actually indexing the mobile site as you suspect, or simply marking up search results with the subdomain. Mobile-first has been a slow rollout, which might not have hit you yet! This might help you check if you have indeed been moved: https://blog.seoprofiler.com/google-check-log-files-find-site-moved-mobile-first-index/ If they are indexing, then yes -  you'll have to make sure the URLs migrate appropriately to the new responsive site, and keep a close eye on mobile traffic changes in Search Console. Hope this helps a bit! Mike

Yes that is right if you go to your keyword explorer and research the term Manzanas you will get this results Difficulty 40 Organic CTR 41% Priority 19 Hope this info answers your question and if my answer were useful do not forget to mark it as a Good Answer.....Regards Have a nice day