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Hey Katherine, If you could share the URL of your home page, I could likely tell you what the issue is but if you don't feel comfortable doing that, here are a few suggestions. 1. Install the "Link Redirect Trace" Chrome extension. An awesome extension that gives you the HTTP headers on every URL in real time. 2. Check for some pretty standard domain redirect issues such as:     -http://example.com to http://www.example.com     -http://example.com to https://example.com     -https://example.com to https://www.example.com The http to https redirect is very common due to old links, the habit of typing http, and the fact that browsers still default to http unless you specify otherwise. For instance, if you type example.com in the nav bar, your browser will assume you mean http://example.com and try that, at which time you'll be redirected to the https version. The .htaccess file (if you're on apache) can be a good place to fix the issue once you know what is happening. It's also worth noting that redirects on your home page are not necessarily a bad thing as long as they're one of the aforementioned examples and they're 301 redirects. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions! -Tyler

Hi Jens I don't know Drupal but if it's like Wordpress it will add a noindex tag to the page. Do it for one page then take a look at the code. Go to the page: right click > View Source Then go to the three dots top right in chrome and search noindex. It will look like this attached. (ignore the red line crossed out piece) Best Regards Nigel x6DFb9q.jpg

Thanks for your answer! I will discuss it with our developer. But good to know it isn't a huge problem regarding SEO.

Thanks for the helpful tips Donna. We recently moved over to Wordpress from another platform with a subdomain on http, so we have quite a bit of content to transfer over to the new blog and redirect it from the old. Available time and resources are definitely a huge challenge right now. I'm just trying to make sure I am going forward doing the best I can of categorizing the information (specific tags) and making them visibly available because our staff uses it regularly to direct clients to show what they will get for certain locations and shoot types etc. Wordpress is our blogging back end and our front-end site isn't as easy to work with from a categorization standpoint, but works extremely well from a design standpoint so I am trying to make the most of what I have to work with. I guess I am really looking at some good design ideas of how to organize the tags from a visibility and usability standpoint. I'm definitely in the house cleaning stage of the whole process.

Thanks for the response Peter re: the original post. We are very convinced at this point the issue isn't a technical one.  We're not sure however if there's an issue with that duplicate content site we found stealing some of our articles, or as you mentioned a quality score issue.  We're approaching it as a need to re-group around the quality issue for now, and monitor results over time.  We've identified several areas for improvement in that regard. This stuff is so frustrating to be honest.  I get why Google can't show their cards, but the complete lack of transparency or ability to get some feedback from them makes this a difficult game. Thanks again for the response, much appreciated.

Thanks for the help, Nicholas!

Hi Kuldeep, It is there. It was 6th for the search Blinds Online Shop and 10th for blinds UK. I agree that searching site:blinds4uk.co.uk doesn't bring the site up for some reason but for many other searches it is there. There are a lot of short titles at product level which won't be doing the site much good. Around 40% of the site, some duplicate & missing descriptions Some weird duplicate 'pages' https://www.blinds4uk.co.uk/pages/about-us https://www.blinds4uk.co.uk/about-us You also have a slew of non-secure PDFs indexed - 162 of them http://www.blinds4uk.co.uk/static/images/products/guide_temp/1427212718Traditions Aluminium Venetian fitting instructions.pdf The site needs a full site audit. Regards Nigel undefined.jpg

Hi Rajesh, Based on what you've described, it sounds like a desktop PWA could be a good way to go! But I would avoid hiding any content from Google crawlers. Instead, check out these articles for some guidelines on how to optimize a PWA site for SEO: https://moz.com/blog/introducing-progressive-web-apps https://searchengineland.com/google-progressive-web-apps-mobile-experience-seo-259866 https://www.keylimetoolbox.com/news/technical-seo-progressive-web-apps-pwa-javascript-ajax/ Also, be aware that PWAs are not supported by all browsers, so before you go forward with that approach and ditch a regular website, make sure you look into what browsers your customers are using and ensure that all browsers which are used by a significant percentage of your audience have a supported experience. Hope this helps!

Did you mean https://www.gizmocombat.com/? If you did, your website is live, but according to https://ismywebsitepenalized.com/gizmocombat.com, it is penalized by Google. You can get more insights on why if you set up and verify Google Search Console for your website and then look under Manual Actions.

I think you are taking that rather too literally. For example, as I said the .com could be the one targeted with an hreflang="x-default. A person in the UK would, by definition be served with the .com/uk version. You wouldn't put a hreflang="x-default on the /uk homepage. Regards Nigel

yes, thank you:) but if we call api for backlinks and then cross reference this with the links found the last time, we are able to get only NET links, but we want to get "just discovered and lost links" separately.  for example: inbound links for 27 July is 600, inbound links for 30 July is 750, okay, NET links from 27 July to 30 July = 750-600=150. And in this case "discovered and lost links" maybe: 400 and -250, 300 and -150, 150 and 0, and etc. Maybe I can not understand something, give example please. Thank you!

put canonical in mydomain.com/ of mydomain.com

I've had a similar problem years ago. Check to see if that page has a no-crawl or no-follow designation in your CMS. Hop on the page and hit a control+U, then find "follow". Look for this: name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />