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Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! I see that you have contacted us at help@moz.com so I have responded to your ticket there Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll be more than happy to help! Have a great day! ​Eli

Lots of people grab content and republish it. Lots of people grab the same content and republish it. The first few people who do it have the best chance of getting away with it.  But, if you are the tenth or the twentith, then you are more likely to be ignored by Google.  (After you republish this duplicate, Google might find it, index it, and rank it... then some months down the road they realize that your stuff is duplicate and take action against it.) The exception to the above is when you are a powerful publisher.  Then you can get away with a lot more than other republishers, and you might even outrank the original source. "If you've realized that your local industry is riddled with poor quality content, see this as your opportunity to beat out lazier competitors. If you deliver the superior experience, it may give you a very valuable edge, while also safeguarding your reputation and rankings against Google filters and penalties in future." This is so true and so surprising.  There are still a lot of topics on the internet that are not covered by substantive, high quality content written by an authoritative author.

Hi Luciano, Like yourself, we had used TrustPilot for a couple of years but were recommended Reviews.io. We moved about 3 years ago and has genuinely been one of the better business decisions we have made. From the support received through to the actual product/back-end system Reviews.io, in my opinion, are better for our business and are cheaper than we were paying previously, which is a nice bonus! Good luck with whoever you go with. John

What I can count and have contrasted in my web, is that the Javascript in Google is processed differently. Google crawls javascript and also the url inside, while Bing does not. I think I'm a bit short to answer your question, but that's what I've checked.

It sounds like you're on the right track. If users and bots start off with the same content, that's a good start. From there, the question is "how much content is being customized, and how frequently?" For example, if you're swapping out 5 different headlines for 40% of users, and 60% of users see the original, that's not a big deal, particularly if the rest of the page is the same. But if you're swapping out 80% of page copy (eg removing a bunch of excess copy that is shown for SEO purposes), and 60-90% of users are seeing that "light" version of the page, you run the risk of two things: First, the chance that it wouldn't pass a manual review if one was performed. Second, the chance that Google may render a copy of the page as a user (not announcing themselves as a crawler), seeing a different version of the page multiple times, and then effectively devaluing the missing content, or worse, flagging the page in their system as cloaked content. We could get lost in details of whether or not they're doing this, or how they're doing this, but from a technology standpoint it's pretty simply for them to render content from non-official IPs and user-agents and do an 'honesty check' for situations where content is showing up multiple ways. This is already how them compare the page on desktop vs mobile to see which sections of the page render, and which are changed. I think you are also right to rely on site interaction before personalizing, but since there are multiple ways to do that, you should know that it's possible for Google to simulate some of those interactions. So there's a chance at some point they will render your content in a personalized manner, particularly if personalization is the result of visiting a URL or clicking a simple toggle switch or button.

Panic not Kev, I can see your homepage is indexed, Sometimes the 'site:' parameter ignores the homepage. Trust in the console. It sounds like you did all the neccesary checks and but didn't believe in them.

Recently I faced the same issue for one of my client and yes! you're right about the Search Console Disavow Tool. Well.. that helped me! I hope it helps you too.

Thanks Tawny. The Monthly view is available now.

Hi, On our website we show a list of industrial products on a table form, we do it with a table format because we want to show the functionalities and capabilities of each machine. Regards

Hi Daniel, That does seem very odd! There can be various different things at play here in my experience: Publishing and un-publishing in the CMS - Sometimes clients and CMS users will switch the page publish status around which can make it difficult to keep track of whether the page exists or not Removal of redirects - Much the same as above, there's the possibility that someone is adding/removing redirects. This could also be something to do with the removal of the server level redirects file, be that htaccess or IIS. Crawling tool issue - If you're using a crawling tool (especially if doing so with JS rendering active), sometimes this can put a lot of pressure on the server and it can spit out the occasional error where there actually isn't one It could also be a problem with how you're handing hard 404 errors vs soft 404s - i.e. actual not founds vs pages that don't function but the server is under the impression that they're fine. Best of luck! Sean

Very hard to say what's going on Kingalan1 without a detailed analysis. You've done a domain and https migration at the same time. It could just be a result of the transition given Google will have indexed multiple versions of the same content. Give it some more time. After that, if things don't improve you'll need to do a detailed analysis to diagnose what the problem is.

Miriam is dead on, I would like to add one other thing to consider. You can still be an owner, transfer primary ownership to the actual owner and that will leave you as an owner. Another consideration, if for any reason your account was to become compromised (flagged as spammy for instance) then all your GMB listings would become suspended since you are the primary owner of all the listings. In the case of a soft suspension, you would have to reverify all your listings.

I would firstly review whether the content can be touched up to make better use of it. Failing that, I’d 301 redirect all to the homepage/most relevant page on the site. doing this many redirects will not hurt your site from my experience. Best of luck! Cheers, Casey

That is a long URL, but I don't think shortening it will help in terms of SEO. Google is generally good at understanding the structure of your site without the structure of URLs. They are also good at determining the topic without the use of the URL. In my experience, the work from changing the URL is more than it would help. If you find a reason to change the URL structure in the future that is very necessary (new CMS as an example), update the structure then. Until then, unless you are getting feedback from your users that it is annoying them, I'd leave them as is.

Hi I’d recommend trying to manually remove them first by going directly to the webmaster. Failing that you may need to look at using Google’s disavow tool however lately I heard you shouldn’t really use it unless you have a manual action. Hope this helps! Cheers, Casey

My first thought would be to have an IVR on your phone system with a "Press 1 if you're located in the XXX metro area, press 2 if you're located outside this area." Then if callers press 2, you have have an apologetic message that states your business qualifications. If that's not possible for some reason, you could use redirects based on geolocation with services from Maxmind. Alternatively, paid accounts on Cloudflare allow geoip rules that could redirect visitors from outside your IP range to a "sorry" page. My opinion on this is to modify your business processes to accommodate out-of-area customers.

Hi Lindsay. I personally use the notes add-on. The design of notes is better than standard posts. They offer more features. Some drawbacks however: They cannot be read on smartphones. More than 50% of your traffic cannot access it You need to prepare your draft on a text editor and then publish it on facebook. Don't try using the "save and publish later" feature, this one doesn't work.