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Ok, so here is what you do. Primary Number will = you Call Tracking Number The Secondary Number: Will equal the number reflected on your website (So yes add your real number to the local landing page) Then reach out to Google via the reinstatement form and you should get reinstated: https://support.google.com/business/troubleshooter/2690129?hl=en

At this time, I think that lots of people are seeing shrinkage in the number of links displayed for their pages in Search Console. If you know of some really good links that you had in the past, you might check for them, both on the website that linked to you, and in Search Console. I agree with Keri, not to worry if your site is behaving healthy.

You're homepage dissapearing is of concern. What version domain name is connected to your IP with your domain name provider? Have you set up search console with your preferred domain?

Hi Rand, I found myself last night explaining to my fiancee (and owner of my business) about why we'd lost some of our precious Moz DA points.  She was disappointed looking at the new metric and I assured her the below and wonder whether you could sort of give a semi official 'what to tell stakeholders' in the event of a loss of DA. This is probably a much bigger issue for agencies than in-house people. Let me assure you _I understand _that DA is a comparative metric and prefer a more accurate picture and prefer to know the real picture. Plus there's all the benefits you outline in the OP.  But I found myself saying: Dont worry - it isn't actually linked to google in any way.  A lowered DA assessment by Moz isn't going to affect our traffic, conversions or ROI.  That's a big one. We now have better data and it's not just affected us but our competitors will now have new DA scores and some are better and some are not. 3)  Nothing substantive has changed in the real world.  This is a measuring tool.  So imagine you were proud of your 40 ft yacht but then the length of 1 ft was changed to 11 inches.  Your boat would now be 'shorter' but nothing has actually changed.  Just how we measure it? Wasn't sure about that analogy. Have you a better one? Thanks.

Hi Humanique - you don't absolutely "need" a canonical tag on every page, but it is recommended. For example, say I had the URL: https://sparktoro.com/contact and I used a tracking parameter when I shared it on Twitter, like this: https://sparktoro.com/contact?share=twitter. Technically, it's a new URL, but it should be treated exactly like the regular version by search engines. Rel = canonical is a way to do that. You want to take the cleanest, most standard version of any page's URL and make that the one in the canonical tag in the header. Then any alternative versions that crop up through social sharing or tracking or any other way can be easily canonicaled to the right version. Again - you don't have to do this, but it is recommended by search engines and most SEOs. All the best!

Sorry I just reread your question. Deleting the http site in search console would not cause 404 errors in moz. They are an independent issue.

After 512 pixels, Google will truncate your URL in search results pages. A good rule of thumb is to keep your URLs as short as you can, without losing their general meaning.

Hi SharonEKG, Did you see Paul's response to your question? If it answered your question, please mark it as a "Good Answer." And if you need clarification, please let us know how we can help. Christy

Using your old content on other sites and generating backlinks from it is certainly a good strategy. If your not using it on your main site and can use it on relevant industry sites and generate backlinks, then that sounds like a winner to me.

Thank you,

Hi, I would mostly be worried about other sites linking to you with or without the www. version of it. If you never had a site with both versions then I wouldn't worry too much about it. But this is in most cases a server side fix that could go live in a few minutes as it's just a setting in your NGINX/Apache configurations on the webserver. Martijn.

If you only did one thing its Redirects Redirects Redirects. Make sure all your current content has a new home to go to, to maintain traffic. Keep a similar website structure were you can to limit the amount of redirects you have to do. Then monitor search console closely. Any redirects you've missed will 404. Redirect these. Redirect to relevant pages, never redirect a content page to the home page. Maintaining traffic is the priority and this process will do that. Transfer you meta information over to the new site, titles and descriptions etc. Don't overhall your SEO during a site move or it will be hard to identify why traffic is missing if you get any missing traffic. Do the move, wait for things to settle. Then consider your revamping your meta information if you currently plan to. If you're adding new content it gets slightly more complicated but try and compare like for like.