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Is using REACT SEO friendly?
I have doing some research on this issue since there are lots of mixed opinion on this. Per my friends who work on this matter closely, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo should all be able to fetch the React based single page applications. Custom Mat Board (which cuts customized mat boards for any Amazon or IKEA picture frames) is a React based application, and it works well. Please check out Fetch as Google and note if there are any major difference between what Google bot sees and what humans can see. If there are significant differences, you should do something about it. But per my experience, Google bots and humans do see the same thing. PM me if you have any questions. Cheers! WJ
Search Engine Trends | | wrhong70 -
Using 410 To Remove URLs Starting With Same Word
Martijn - Thanks for your reply. I tried the code you provided, however it still provided a 404 error. I was able to get the following to work properly - any drawbacks to doing it this way? RewriteRule ^mono(.*)$ - [NC,R=410,L] The browser now shows the following anytime there is the word "mono" immediately after "sitename.com/" The requested resource /mono.php is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource. Additionally, a 410 Gone error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Technical SEO Issues | | vikasnwu0 -
Indexing images? did something just happen?
Here are a few facts about image search.... Images can go in and out of the image search collection - especially if they are new to image search. New images can go in and out for a few months before they stabilize. If your newly uploaded image is already in the image search index (but hosted on another domain), google might index it and then drop it once they realize that your image is a copy - even if your copy is a different size, or slightly different in some way. Precedence has a slight advantage. Your image that has been on your website and in image search for a long time - even as long as a decade - can fall out of image search if the same or very similar image is uploaded to another domain. Precedence does not guarantee persistence. If you are the copyright holder for an image and it is on another domain in image search, you can file DMCA against that other domain using the Copyright Removal form in your search console. To do that, log into the google account for your search console and go here. BUT, BE CAREFUL.... if your copyrighted image is on another domain, the provisions of fair use can apply, so before you file DMCA, have a good knowledge of the fair use provision (U.S. copyright law) before you start filing take downs. The owner of the domain that you file against can sue you in certain instances. I strongly suggest getting that education first, and if you have questions about specific items, check with a copyright attorney before filing. If you are grabbing and republishing images from other websites or other sources and do not own the copyright for them you might get slapped with a DMCA. Many owners of copyrighted images (they don't have to be marked "copyright") will file DMCA against you and some of they will sue you. The owner might also complain to Adsense and get your account turned off if you are a habitual infringer. Lots of copyright holders watch their images like hawks. Some use automated methods or services that monitor their images. A few of them make big bucks by suing infringers. Google usually responds quickly when DMCA is filed, sometimes within a few hours, and almost always within a few days. They will sometimes warn you about fair use issues, but they might not. Google might also tell you to contact the infringing webmaster in some instances - especially if the image is on a really prominent site. Or, they might tell you to file with the host where the image is visible - they often do this with wordpress, typepad, pinterest and other domains protected by Safe Harbor provisions. I am not an attorney and do not give legal advice. I have been advised by three different copyright attorneys. I find that they usually don't cost as much as you fear and they can be worth a lot more than you pay them. This is how good professional service providers should be.
Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | EGOL0 -
Question about influencers
An influencer can absolutely be a travel guide or comparable company rather than only an individual. We run and operate Totally Boise as this purpose, to highlight great things to do and places to see in Boise, for tourists and local. Just keep in mind, influencers should be focused on providing the highest quality content for your query. Dont be a pushy inlfuencer selling goods and services that are not needed. Be a value, as Im sure your plan is to be.
Branding / Brand Awareness | | WebMarkets1 -
AMP for WordPress: To Do Or Not To Do
Hmmn, well, it is always risky to try something like AMP. But, if you are seeing that all of your competitors that are now outranking you are using AMP, I feel like it's at least worth a test. I would suggest using AMP on a portion of these pages experiencing this and see if they get a rankings boost.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | lydiagilbertson1 -
Endless Scrolling and prev/next
Thank you for your reply. I however am unable to see the problem you describe. Even at the page code you pasted, I see that the canonical URL is the same: Where the canonical URL of the page is the same as the page https://www.neakriti.gr/article/kriti/irakleio/1524790/eftase-stin-kriti-o-nikos-kotzias/ When you scroll down, the URL changes and if you "view code" of the updated page that was appended you see the new canonical URL. Can you please explain me your findings as I am unable to replicate it?
Branding / Brand Awareness | | ioannis.anifantakis0 -
Links and images in custom css are not recognised by Moz Toolbar or Yoast plugin
Hi there! Thank you so much for the great question! I just want to make sure I get you the best answer I can- are you not seeing pages get crawled in your Campaign? Or are we not detecting internal or external links when using MozBar on your site? Our tools are designed to search for html links coded as href links in your source code so that may be the problem here. That being said, I'd love to do some more digging on this for you to see what's going on! Can you send the website address you're working with on over to help@moz.com? Looking forward to hearing from you!
Other Research Tools | | meghanpahinui0 -
Google My Business Issue
Hey Jacob! Is there any way you can email me the actual example? My email is my first name @moz.com. Feel free to shoot me the actual screenshot and the actual language of the searches you are doing. Happy to take a look.
Local Listings | | MiriamEllis1 -
Reviews for Plastic Surgeons and Other Businesses where Anonymity is preferred
Hi Dmitrii, Good conversation going on this thread. I will just add, there are some industries where reviews truly aren't prevalent. In such cases, it can help to show the client their competitors' lack of reviews - conclusion being that everyone is in the same boat. Sometimes, however, you find a competitor who is spamming Google with fake reviews, and that looks even stranger! How many people, for example, write reviews about how they love how Mike the bail bondsman got them out of jail because he's the best bails bondsman in the world? I'm just not a fan of anonymous reviews. Most credible review platforms don't allow them. If the nature of the business is so sensitive that customers aren't comfortable leaving third-party reviews, stick to what you can publish on your own website and focus on forms of marketing customers are comfortable with. Industries are different, and sometimes, we have to respect those differences and look beyond generalizations in marketing so that we're doing what really works for brands and their clients.
Reviews and Ratings | | MiriamEllis1 -
44 terms dropped out of the top 3 results on google this past week.
Please let me know you would like more questions answered or if I did not answer the question in full. Respectfully, Tom
Search Engine Trends | | BlueprintMarketing1 -
Moved brand's shop to a new domain. will our organic traffic recuperate?
Here we go again. The problems with technicalities... Ok, here it is - 301 does NOT lose any link equity passed through it. It's known and that's what the linked post and tweets are talking about. What me and @effectdigital are talking about is "downtime" after 301-redirecting from one domain to another. The value of domain IS affected. If you would redirect a page from your own domain to another, on your own domain, sure, there wouldn't be any loss in link equity, but there would be loss in page authority for the new page. Think about it like this - google ranks a page, because it "knows and trusts" it. All of the sudden, that page is not there, and just sends google to another page. Google needs time to make sure that it's the same page, about the same stuff, with the same quality. It never takes away the link equity, but the "trust factor" is not there for a bit. When it happens within the same domain, Google understands that it could be simple content move or URL change. When it's cross-domain, the reasons could be much different. From hacking to selling the website etc. So that's why the rankings and usually traffic goes down, but, after Google realizes that it's all the same, and all good, they recover. Hope this helps, and sorry for the confusion earlier.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DmitriiK0 -
Onpage optimising for multiple sites
No matter the model, the verdict is the same - gotta be fairly unique content on each of websites. P.S. Look at any well established franchises - they have 1 website, where the products are shown, and you can choose your closest store/office and go get the product there. Then the locations itself have their own little subpages, which are unique to them - maybe their story, their staff etc.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DmitriiK0 -
Highly ranked pages to new domain?
Well, since the platforms are both woocommerce, you woudln't have to "copy it twice". That would be applicable if you were changing the environments. Just make sure that you create exact copy of pages - URLs, meta tags, images, alt tags, all text etc etc.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DmitriiK0 -
New Domain, No 301 Possible - Any Advice
Hi there. Unfortunately, there is no way to do what you are asking.. Sorry. You already did what you should have - change all links to website in GMB, social sites etc, copied the content over. Other than that - there is nothing you can do really. The only thing which could be possibly remotely helpful is GSC address moving tool, of course, you'd still have to have access to old domain GSC - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en Hope this helps.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DmitriiK0 -
Hi, how can I improve my keyword list to rank my products?
Hi Meghan thank you so much for your help, I will try with this step by step and keep in contact Best regards
Getting Started | | ceciliaosio1 -
Paginated pages are being indexed?
Hi there. Well, the question is why you don't want those paginated pages ranking. I assume that the content on those pages is different from each other and first page, and is still relevant. correct? If so, then by noindexing you might take away from your SEO, rather than add to it. If anything, canonicalize them to the first page (still very debatable if you should). If you want your first page ranking - just make sure that it's optimized more than paginated pages - more popular products are on the first page, description text is there and is optimized, maybe do some targeted backlink earning to that page. Hope this helps.
Technical SEO Issues | | DmitriiK0