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Fetch as Google is showing this, help!
Hi There, The possible reasons your page might be considered as redirected: The homepage URL redirects to /index.htm or /index.html or /index.php or redirects to https:// version of the website Some website scripts also redirect the pages or so it seems to search engines. A possible malware / virus on the website, which redirects the bots to their own sites. Please check if any of these reasons can be possible for the redirect, this can found using simple tools for SEO audit available online, which will render yours page as Google Fetch will do. Let me know if you have further queries. Regards, Vijay
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Vijay-Gaur0 -
How to rank local keywords?
Dear Nicholas, Thank you for this. I will certainly find some relevant resource and fit into the web content. Is it possible if I place an external link of competitors or any other relevant resource to my website then they can also link to me? Absolutely, I can design some pictures and employ these sites. Regards
Local Listings | | ksmith882 -
Has anyone heard or worked with penwarriors.co
This sounds like MILK, if it smells bad, throw it out. Run don't walk, your gut feeling is rarely wrong. KJr
Link Building | | KevnJr0 -
Did google shorten meta description length? It looks like it is back to around the 150 character length
Hi again, I've seen this which I thought is interesting for the discussion: danny_sullivan_meta_description.jpg
Search Engine Trends | | paupastorlopez1 -
New Magento store, is better to place it in a new url or it can work fine in a subdomain?
It'll depend on the existing domain that you want to use to host the sub-domain. If the existing domain is already an authoritative domain that has been around for a while and has a high domain authority, it would make more sense to host it under the existing domain as that will enable the new sub-domain to 'share' some of the domain authority. Good way to check is if the existing domain is already ranking for similar keywords that your new Magento store will be targeting with it's products. Hope this helps!
Technical SEO Issues | | NgEF0 -
Weird 404 errors in Webmaster Tools
Hi nishthaj, I think blocking with robots.txt is a good solution. But you don't have to block each url manually, it's better to block all urls that have: & or = I think the code for this is: Disallow: /*& Disallow: /*= This way you will automatically block all present and future weird urls like this and prevent present and futures problems. Hope that helped
Technical SEO Issues | | paupastorlopez0 -
Why isnt the crawl recognizing my google my business listing
Hi There, Please provide the correct link for a solution. Regards, Vijay
Link Building | | Vijay-Gaur0 -
Is link equity passed through redirect chains?
With Each redirect probably there is a 15% loss of link equity. Refer this for detail: - https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo
Technical SEO Issues | | dhananjay.kumar11 -
Google isn't crawling my website page
Just at the right of the url you can see the cache version from Google of this page. By clicking to the "arrow" than points down. You can see that the Snapshot is from 28-05-2018: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Pu-yOVqMlVAJ:www.paydaysunny.com/payday-loans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=en Surely the spider-bot will crawl the page soon again and it will show the new title, be patient and don't force this Googlebot takes more or less time to reindex if your site is more or less active. The other questions: The fastest and better way to index a website in Google is to create links in a very active website of your topic. Almost every PBN was very useful 2-3 years ago, today you have to create a very natural and quality PBN to cheat Google with links like this. It takes a lot of work / money, so I don't recommend you this tecnique.
Link Building | | paupastorlopez0 -
Should I submit the same blog post on Linkedin as an article with permalink?
Hi Bimal, I understand that you wish to understand how to use an existing good blog content on LinkedIn. Whether to use it completely as an article on LinkedIn or link to your blog or some content with 'read more' link pointing to the blog. Linkedin can be a good place to promote relevant content as there are real people using it and that too being a social network, it can help promote the content to the more similar audience on the article itself. Advantages Your profile and previous articles get highlighted, increasing the chances that people will read more than just the 1 article. Your own presence and branding gets a boost. There are several opportunities that people who liked your article once, will get to see more of your content later, they can also follow you. Your reach to potential targets is increased. Possible Disadvantages The articles will face competition from other content, and they might get lost if not backed by LinkedIn marketing strategy for these articles. Your readership might remain on LinkedIn and if you don’t incentivize them to visit your website. DUPLICATE CONTENT OR NOT: I have done my research and there are many articles which are published both on websites and LinkedIn without getting penalized. Preferably linking them via a permalink is a good solution for Google to realize that the content is coming from same person/ website/ company/brand. I hope this helps and let me know if you have further queries. Regards, Vijay
Branding / Brand Awareness | | Vijay-Gaur0 -
Google has penalized me for a keyword,and removed from google some one know for how long time is the penalty
Nowadays with Google I would just consider most if not all of those bad links non-existent. In other words Google is ignoring links more than "punishing" you now. You may have ranked temporarily until Google caught up and then just stopped counting the bad links. However, IF you get a manual action notice in search console, then the site IS being "punished" and you need to get that removed. If you do not get a manual action notice, I would just make pretend you're starting from scratch, and you have to build your authority from the start. because of this, there's no time period to wait until it's "fixed" - you most likely will not just recover back to ranking where you were, because the site didn't belong there in the first place. In general, also, I would focus a lot of your SEO efforts not just on links, but lots of other things like great design, great content, building a known company, getting early traffic with paid channels, doing CRO, creating great UX etc.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | evolvingSEO0 -
Promotion Strategy
Muchas gracias! quería confirmar, gracias por los argumentos. Saludos!!!
On-Page / Site Optimization | | WhiteLabelMKT0 -
Will "repurposing" a keyword on our website affect rankings gained over time?
Hi there, I'm just trying to understand what it is you are asking. So are you looking for advice on what happens to a historical page when you repurpose it and use it to target a new keyword? Or are you asking whether or not Google will change the ranking of a historical page when you refresh the content of it? Cheers
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Corbec8880