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  • Hello Dan, Playing with URl structure is considered as a risky business. It’s highly rewarding or disappointing. I personally do not want to change URL structure but as you said, No recent hits & ranking so its worth a try as there is nothing to lose. There are many things to consider before you implement the changes which cannot be explained here (you can read on internet, which we SEO mostly do). As far as your questions are concerned: **What do I need to keep in mind when deleting posts, categories, and tags - besides 410, Google URL removal? ** When you make a link 404,410 make sure, every internal anchor (pointed to 404) should be replaced with suitable link or removed.  There should be no reference of 404 link on website including sitemap, old navigation or images. **What do I do with all the old posts that I am going to re-direct? Each post has between 10-15 internal links. I've started manually removing each link in old posts before 301'ing them. ** There is no need to replace the internal links of article which need to be redirected as they will be null and void (uncrawlable/ inaccessible) after redirection. But make sure every instance of internal link pointed to old url should point to new redirected Url (to keep things less messy and quick). Best of luck

    Web Design | | Asif.Dilshad
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  • Thank you Miriam! This helps clarify some things. I was leaning toward a format like this so I'm glad to have a second opinion! Now I just need to back it with some empirical evidence!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MJTrevens
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  • Hi there! Have you tried looking at SEMrush organic research? As long as SEMRush index has your site and country you target it could probably show you those searches where your site is ranking for Featured Snippets. Just checked it and you need to: Enter your domain, Select "organic research" in the left panel In "Advanced filter" options select:  a- SERP features b- Featured Snippets (check image attached) Hope it helps Best lukc. GR BhG4c1v

    Other Research Tools | | GastonRiera
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  • Hi Nahuel! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. To change the owner of a particular account, you would need to login under the account holder's email address as the username, then navigate to https://moz.com/users/auth to change the email address on file. Similarly, to change the credit card on file, you'd need to login and head to https://moz.com/billing and click the "Replace" button next to the current card on file. If you need to reset the password associated with the account in order to get logged in, you can do that here: https://moz.com/lost-password. If you need further assistance with getting logged into the account, please email help@moz.com as we'll need to verify more information from you in order to assist. Thanks so much! -Kristina

    Technical Support | | KristinaKeyser
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  • The time's weird stuff like this occurs for me, is usually when Cloudflare causes issues with it's caching. Naturally, that would be too quick of a solution for my luck, I'm guessing you don't have Cloudflare. In that case, more than likely it's going to be an issue with a plugin clashing with Divi.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TucsonAZWebDesign
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  • /pro/analytics/rankings and there is an option to add keywords

    Getting Started | | TucsonAZWebDesign
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  • The great thing about Themes is pretty much over 90 something percent of them are under 100 bucks. In all honesty, there's like maybe a handful that is just simply amazing! I personally love Divi. I've tried many themes, the only one I really need outside of Divi is my retro tube for an adult niche. The problem with a platform like WordPress is that there are a LOT of themes. Which means naturally a LOT of themes will most likely SUCK. If it becomes even slightly a hassle, in the beginning, I would get out dodge and get a better one quick. Take it from me and my poor experiences trying desperately to make my theme not suck for the first website I ever made. I did eventually but thinking back on it, that was such a torturously miserable painful process. A few traits of themes to avoid: Top heavy visual builders Ridiculously large amounts of mandatory plugins. (install as few as possible is a great practice to follow) Some sites I have like literally just use Yoast and do quite well. Not having some form of responsiveness. With so many optional frameworks easily attached, there is no excuse. 431 premade page layouts, Email popup software Bloom/social share software called Monarch. I would go with either Either that one or just ridiculously godly fast like Generate Press which utilizes varnish. And in reference to optimizing before or after the process of configuring a theme for your site, it's actually both. Any well optimized site, will involve modifying content frequently and I would definitely suggest optimizing everything you have right away or as quickly as possible

    Web Design | | TucsonAZWebDesign
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  • Hello Thanks for your very complete answer. As for furniture repair work, we meet our tiny houses clients face to face , at least twice, at our shop,  where all our tiny houses are built, and we deliver (drive ) our small houses accross europe, we re not shipping any part for self building. So i am pretty sure we are eligible. Our two activities are really différents businesses in one company, with completly different products and services,  different clients and targets. We have 2 websites, 2  names, 2 logos, and we could work out 2 differents phone numbers. But it will be all located at the address where all the machinery and tools are . Because of the single address, i looked into the department option offered by google , as  mentionned at the bottom of my first post . I think i d be right to open a second listing, but i also feel Google could kick me ... can't make up my mind on this .

    Local Listings | | uservices
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  • Hi Gaston! Thanks for getting back to me and answering all my questions. I will work on getting the Canonical live and then wait to see how Google reacts before doing the redirects. Best regards, A

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SDCMarketing
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  • From a hacker's perspective, the first order of business is going to be gathering information on the target. does a hacker or someone with malicious intent gain something in obtaining access to your sitemap? Yes, they do, and that is more information on the layout of your site. How common would there actually be something on the sitemap that could critically expose you to compromise on your VPS/Shared hosting? Um, probably super ultra rare. But yes there was one time that I was doing an audit for a company and the sitemap did point to a directory that was vulnerable to directory browsing. Fishing around in the directory, I was able to obtain a picture of a PayPal MasterCard front and back because some idiot snapped pictures of it and uploaded it onto the site. So there are benefits to hiding it, it's relatively easy to do, but if your lazy and don't want to, chances are your good.

    Technical SEO Issues | | TucsonAZWebDesign
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  • Gaston, Interestingly enough by default the generator only located only half of the URLs. I hope that one of those 2 fields will do the trick.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Taysir
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  • Many thanks. I'll start from here. Katarina

    Affiliate Marketing | | Katarina-Borovska
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  • Hi, I am also facing a similar issue. My website is https://infinitelabz.com. When I try to crawl and index the site it is saying not able to crawl.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KHsdhkfn
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