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Why rankings dropped from 2 page to 8th page and no penalization?
Yes I'm trying to even the anchor text. Too many links with the word Viajes a Grecia, but the thing is that you never know what percentage is correct... it's up to assumptions I guess.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Tintanus0 -
What happens if we remove all the links to internal pages from our homepage?
Great point Chris, this is definitely worth looking into! A "lightbox pop up thingy" may give you what you want from a functionality standpoint, without having to kill those links. Also, I do believe "lightbox pop up thingy" is the technical term. I've heard others refer to them as a "modal window" or something silly like that =P
Search Engine Trends | | Bryan_Loconto0 -
Social engineering Content detected
Hi we did check almost Everything seems very ok, can you tell if there any feature tools which we can use to check where That malicious content lies, as we did scan With Norton safety. like that any other tool or software except Google search console ? Thnx in advance
On-Page / Site Optimization | | iepl20 -
Historic issue with incomplete indexing
Hi Ian, The details URL should ideally have keywords in it, getting property name in details page URL would be of great help, like : https://realla.co/to-rent/details/Office-to-let-John-Eccles-House-Robert Robinson-Avenue-Oxford-Science-Park-Oxford-OX4-4GP About the category (locations in your case), you are submitting too many of them, your URL structure needs to re-structured, there is work to be done there and sitemap updated according to that. For example: https://realla.co/to-rent/commercial-property/ can be changed to https://realla.co/commercial-property-to-rent/ I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries. Regards, Vijay
Technical SEO Issues | | Vijay-Gaur0 -
Site with both subfolders and subdomains
Hi There, I completely understand your dilemma, it's painful to see a divided opinion of experts on sub-domain vs sub-directories debate; more pain is both sides are trying to logically justify their conclusion. We have faced such situations in the past and tested both sub-domain and sub-directories versions of the website, here are some of our own findings. Website's own structure to showcase to search engines that you are multi-lingual or a specific language domain is VERY important part of building an ML website. The main website's authority has a very little contribution when it comes to sub-domains, and some contribution when it comes to sub-directories. Ultimately, it is the content and its presentation to search engines at the right places what matters(to make them understand what language search should point to what content). I hope this help, let me know if you have further queries. Regards, Vijay
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Vijay-Gaur0 -
What are the SEO value of revolving or rotating lists of links?
Hi Vijay. Yeah that is what I wanted to know. Thanks for the response and explaining that!
Link Building | | RandyHT0 -
Googlebot and other spiders are searching for odd links in our website trying to understand why, and what to do about it.
Thanks, Kevin. Glad I'm not the only one. Disabling tags and categories aren't an option, in my case. Guess I need to look at more of the potential upside. Seems tags and categories, if handled correctly, could provide a new way to engage visitors and search engines. I've heard people refer to 'spidering budgets, or whatnot'. Guess it's an entirely new topic of discussion... if limiting the spurious spider searching, (from good spiders,) means that said spiders will spend more time on the conventional pathways of a site.
Technical SEO Issues | | linkjuiced0 -
I lost traffic from my website and the rankings also gone down... What should I do?
Unpaid plug: WPMU DEV is a good service for Wordpress as well. With their backup, optimization, CDN, and compression tech their annual fee is still below what you'd pay trying to piece together all those services somewhere else. Plus GREAT support. There used to be a coupon code here in Moz's partner section as well. They might still have a special deal if you ask. For your situation, you'll want to check to see that your database is still referencing the same URL structure as well (look for things like switching from www to non-www as default or HTTP vs. HTTPS.) As Sean says, focus on URL structures. If old URLs are working just the same as the ones on the new server, things should be fine. Do you see any crawl errors in Google Search Console? That will give you some of the best insights.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | RyanPurkey0 -
How does Yoast SEO premium determine prominent keywords?
exactly it just dossn´t count the words in the page titles and meta descriptions, since they aint rly an part of the content.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Jesper-Bak-SEO-specialist0 -
Canonicals
Hello there.. Regarding the problem you do experience with Google choosed not to crawl the pages, that was marked as duplicate content. I don't understand how the pages can look the same but have different content? That does not make sense, either the pages are the same or they are not. So if they have different content, they can't be the same and if google marked them as duplicate content because of canonicals. You can always ask them to recrawl the pages by creating a sitemap, make sure the new URLs are in it and then resend the sitemap in webmaster tools. Also, I would suggest you edit all the pages and change something on each of them from your WordPress administration. That will tell Google that something on the pages has changed. I hope this was a help ... [Signature removed by moderator and response edited to comply with Community Etiquette Guidelines.]
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Jesper-Bak-SEO-specialist0 -
What to do about spam links I didn't create?
Hello there, Like Joseph says allot of people thinks that Google doesn't give them penalty for the spammed links. That is NOT true, i have ben testing that fact and actually even tho Google knows that a site is a spamming site, they will give you penalty untill the current domain / server IP is blacklisted by Google. To blacklist spammers theres actually only 1 way: Disavow the links comming from spammers, as more and other site owners will disavow the same domains / ip, the faster Google will blacklist them. If you aint sure how to Disavow and make sure you dosn´t disavow some urls that is known as a good site on Google, coz that can also make you suffer a penalty on youre rankings. So a good tip is to check the page Aut. and domain age, if it is an old domain with allot of Aut. You need to ask the siteowner to remove the links, after that and if they dont remove the link, you can Disavow followed with a message to Google regarding youre dialog with the websiteowner refuses to remove the link to youre domain.
Technical SEO Issues | | Jesper-Bak-SEO-specialist0 -
Website cache has removed
Yes Vijay, We changed the title and re-submitting the cache and it cached. we are hoping to get this stable. Thanks for your time
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Devtechexpert0 -
What markup/schema is "responsible" for location pin in mobile rich snippets?
The one with your screenshot is pulling it off the local business markup it seems aS0LYFc.png
Local Strategy | | TucsonAZWebDesign0 -
Crawl Budget and Faceted Navigation
Hello, I have also been in a similar situation. What I did was to disallow the urls with parameters using the robots.txt and place (in only the pages with parameters) the following two html tags: This will expressly indicate to google not to index these pages. I still have some errors but I guess they will disappear in a few months. Regards
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jcnotfound20830