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ok, Thank you, let try this,

Your question is not very clear, sincerely. if the product pages that marketing only the USA users iare the only ones existing of those products (aka: there aren’t Uk product pages for those same products), then you must not implement the hreflang. The hreflang is a rel=“alternate”, which means that it must always show an alternative URL to the current one. In the ISA product page it should signal as alternative UK users the UK ones, and viceversa. so, if no UK product page exists, then the hreflang does not have an meaning to exist. regarding your second question, if the USA market is very important for you and you want to market it differently thean you are marketing the UK one, then it may be a good idea to create an USa version of your site.

Hi Paris, First, can you clarify if you are just translating the content or if you are targeting specific countries? It sounds like you are geo-targeting, but I am not sure. Second, any page, no matter it's geo-targeting can show up in any Google search, regardless of the country of the user and content. If that is the best content for the user's query, Google will show it. This is why we see .co.uk results here in the US all the time. Can you share what URL was redirected to what URL?

Hi, Thanks for your response. "Ensure the sites aren't low quality or being spammed with low-quality links". How can I ensure this? does Moz spam score will help? if yes then what % of spam score is ok

Thanks for feedback

Hi there! There is no correct information about the harm that it would cause you. It is know that Google considers the best Title and the best description that matches the user intent. Try your best to correct those issues, google will treat you better. There are some theories that considers Google uses the first of those tags. Also, if those tags have the same content, there is no big issue, Google will understand that it could be a problem or something for different optiones of the page. That said, it is common to have several H1 as it could change whether in mobile, tablet or desktop, or even when selecting some options. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR

Hey, a fellow James is helping me out, nice!:) Thanks for the response James, and I get where you are coming from. Despite reading up on Google's algo, and being familiar with the concept of google discerning topic and not keyword(s), it can be tough to get out the superficially easier mindset of focussing on keywords! Based on your response, and supplementary reading, it looks like an article for the 'Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lighting' this year, and a new one if/when they play again next year is the best approach. I like your focus on the user, more important than Google, they may gain context/insight from article 1 even after the fact, and also, two articles give two opportunities to (hopefully) impress on google's algo that I am worthy of ranking. My additional reading also gave me some insight as to how google is becoming far more context aware. If someone searches on that topic this time next year, and google has spidered both my articles, I suspect its context engine would be clever enough to serve the more recent content, assuming that is what the searcher is after. I suppose the only things I need to watch out for is to put some seasonal context in my URL structure, and to tell Yoast to be quiet if it complains about keywords already being used when I create article 2 on the same topic:) Again, I appreciate the advice James, as you say, my next move is not a black or white situation, there are subject nuances so I'll keep this open to see if I've missed anything supplementary.....

Well there's another 'mystery listing' in the same search now.  Same case, business is not in close proximity, no reviews, poor orgranic rank.  It is starting to look like indeed Google rotates in a random listing - sort of like it gives newer advertisers/ads some exposure in the Adwords auction to build some  analytics data to see how effective the ad is (to see if they can make some money off it.) This sort of makes sense from the 3-pack standpoint because businesses listed there will obviously get higher CTR and then would be self-perpetuating so to speak so that if the 3-pack was solely based on reviews, organic rank, CTR, and other aspects, the businesses in the 3-pack would almost never change.  So they need to add some sort of random rotational function to give other businesses a "chance" to demonstrate their relevance.  So one of the 3-pack spots may be rotating newer listings despite have little or poor local ranking factors such as organic rank and reviews.  Just my educated guess based on lots of observations.

I am thinking along the lines of the Google Quality Rater instructions.  I think that Miriam is thinking of that too. These things are the new SEO.

If you have a local website, then posting to directories is foundational to local SEO, and for that I recommend Moz's own service: https://moz.com/products/local It's effective and cost-effective. Just make sure you have Google My Business set up first or it won't work out real well for you. You'll find several businesses besides Moz also offer this service as a core part of doing SEO. Now if you're not a local business, it's still not bad practice to post to directories, especially if they are well established authorities within your niche. That's just good outreach.

Placing a robots.txt in the root of the subdomain will do it: User-agent: * Disallow: /

Hello Andrew, If you you send me a link I'll go check it out. In the meantime, I tend to ignore error warnings for stuff like this if I know I'm doing it the right way. Technically, you should not canonicalized paginated URLs to the non-paginated one. It sounds like you are doing the right thing, but I'd like to check to make sure.

Hello Mr. Brett.  Thanks for taking the time to respond. 1.  I have two domains I am marketing for in adwords.  Both are the same type of business but different locations.  One is well known and the other is not.  The one that is well known I am doing the remarketing for.  I also do some social marketing for that location, but nothing else.  The lesser known location i have a pretty serious adwords campaign running with good results. 2.  The only remarketing I am doing is adwords\search. 3.  I am using google tag manager on the site, but still unable to get cross domain working.  On my site (domain1.com), its a simple widget (domain2.com) that opens up and completes the transaction then pushes them to a thank-you page (back to domain1.com).  I track all the thank-you landings, but they all show they are coming from domain2.com. 4. I am no way an expert, but I am pretty familiar with many of the technologies being deployed. Thanks again for any help you may offer! Doug

I'm also getting a flag from Moz that my website is keyword stuffing. I've reduced the number of keyword mentioned on the webpage to Moz recommended 15, but the alt text, file names, page titles are contributing to the keyword stuffing Avenue South Residence

Can anyone help with this?

This is a bad idea and definitely an abuse of the tool. If the link is from a good/trusted site irrespective of the negative view it will pass decent DA to you. The link will still exist and traffic will still follow it. Essentially, disavowing a link is telling Google that the link is a threat to your site. It’s a serious action to take. So you shouldn’t disavow links indiscriminately. Like Google says, you could hurt your own SEO, and that’s not what you want. If its an issue the first thing to always do is to contact the site owner to get it removed. The disavow tool is to stop spammy links and defeat negative SEO attacks (which I have suffered) not as described in your question. I hope that helps