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This is a very old tactic, very little if any benefit as far as Google authority concerned. You should remember that PA and DA etc are brand names and have nothing to do with Google themselves and they are not used in any way in the ranking algorithm. To avoid future issues and to minimise the effect of blackhat SEO like this Google will normally 'reset' the domain when it expires.  So any authority it did have it is very much minimised if not completely obliterated.

Thanks a lot Andy for your kind response and I will email you indeed. Bit I magically noticed after latest Google update a few days ago, some blocked articles shows now on top 3 results right away without even the normal ascending time (I usually see my articles on the second page 2 days after publishing them for targeted keyword and during 2 to 3 weeks they jump to top 3 results but it doesn't happen for some certain blocked article and they show right away on top 3 results now)

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There is no set word count that will help rank. It is the quality and depth of the content you are providing. Keep the searches intent in mind when developing content. Be engaging and educational, answering the searchers query. i have pages on my website that rank with as little as 300 words and as much as a1000. so as you see its not the word count. its the quality. Thanks, Don Silvernail

Hey Mike Have you considered using a canonical to the unlogged-in homepage? www.domain.com - canonical is to www.domain.com www.domain.com/loggedin - canonical is to www.domain.com As long as the page can be loaded and the canonical in the head seen by bots, that link equity should go to the homepage.

Both are important, but it depends on your keyword targeting strategy, if you are trying to rank your Specific Product pages on Google, whenever someone searches for the specific product, then I would spend my time and energy there for SEO. However, if your specific products have no search volume or include long model numbers or something that people don't usually search by, then try to work on getting your product pages to rank for non-specific keywords related to that product. You can then also use the "Specific Product" pages to internal link to the "Product" page.

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Andy, your answer makes sense and aligns with what I've heard from other SEO experts. Much appreciated.

Have you considered a guest registration/checkout, whereby the user creates the account by filling out the checkout options and enters required details - e.g. post address for delivery, email for confirmation / username and once check out is complete and the transaction is done you can simply ask for a password to store this registration for later use. By removing the barrier or creating the option of a guest checkout conversion rates may be improved. for those that want to register first have this as an additional option at checkout.

Great, thanks!

Thank you for the different links.

Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. In other words: to build the perfect search engine that helps people nd what they are looking for. Google always wants to show you the best result for your search query. Google has updated its algorithm numerous times over the years, but their goal remains the same: Google tries to get you the best result. Google gives you the best results by ranking the most relevant and usable websites, and combating spam. Sites that are only built to make money, or otherwise created purely to rank in order to make money, should not be on top of the search results. Sites that give the user what they searched for should always be on top. Google also rewards sites that give have nice user experience (including for instance sites that load fast). So Google always keep in mind user behavior and user intents, so probably on specific users and region you fit their needs at least in theory and for the other region you do not fit that need, The other factor is your competition probably you have different competition level so in one country you are the best because there's no better competitor and in another country there are many sites better than you.

Hi Amit, To echo what Nathan has asked, if you could provide more information on what you mean by bad links, that would be helpful and we can provide a better answer. In terms of generating more comments, it really comes down to two things: 1. Writing the kind of content which provokes questions and conversation - this comes down to your writing style and ability to write well. This isn't easy to get right straight away and can take time, but ultimately matters the most because if your content isn't engaging, people will be less likely to comment. You could also leave the post a bit open-ended and ask reader to contribute their opinions. If you look at some of Rand's whiteboard Fridays, such as this one, you'll see he leaves a comment first to provoke conversation. 2. Your audience and the size of the audience - many people will often read and enjoy a blog post, but may not feel compelled to comment. This is just how many people are, so to get more comments, you need to build up your audience and increase the number of people reading your content. There is no shortcut to this either, but comes down to building up good SEO, social followings and content. I hope that helps! Paddy

Yes there can be big impacts, as template changes may result in any of the following changes: Design and UX Site Architecture Internal Linking Page Speed Other possible inconsistencies between themes, depending on your WordPress setup in general (title tags, structured data, etc) In general, to mitigate against these, I would do the following: Design and UX - at minimum take a 'gut check' and be sure the new theme is a design and UX improvement - ie: is content still above the fold? Are there any weird scrolling issues (I see this sometimes with themes that try to be too fancy), are the menus still easy to navigate? Architecture - make sure the new theme doesn't break anything like your URL structure, or pagination links to archive pages etc. Internal linking - aim to keep your menus (main nav, drop downs, footer, sidebars) exactly the same at least for now - if your footer nav has links to important pages for example and those links go away, this might hurt the performance of those pages. Page Speed - as Donald astutely noted, make sure the new theme is at least the same in page speed, or better an improvement. You can use a few tools like WebPageTest or GTMetrix to test. Other - also as noted, try to get your SEO settings situated correctly before making the switch, and use the Yoast plugin. Then when you switch your theme, be sure the Yoast plugin settings are still primary and your new theme has not overridden anything. Hope that helps! -Dan

First, let me say something that may sound strange coming from a Moz employee. Don't try to raise DA. DA is a proxy for your link authority, and if you get obsessed with trying to raise that score alone, you may find yourself link-building in artificial ways. This isn't unique to Moz -- I'd say the same thing about raising toolbar PR in the old days. In a broader, conceptual sense, DA attempts to measure your overall authority. Ultimately, this is a product of PA and means getting high-quality links to a variety of pages (ideally). From a pure DA perspective, that means links from high-DA domains and a diversity of domains (not thousands of links from a handful of sites). From a broader perspective -- which DA doesn't measure -- pursuerelevant links that will drive traffic and produce value. So "How do you raise domain authority?" really becomes "How do you build high-quality links?" and that's a tremendously difficult question to answer. Or, maybe better to say that the answer isn't one most people want to hear, because it's going to require a lot of time, energy, and probably money. I will add this -- don't get tunnel-vision on links from super-high-DA sites. Not every link has to be from the New York Times. Links from low DA sites that are relevant and legitimate are perfectly fine. Plus, it's going to be much easier to approach these sites and build relationships with them, especially in your own industry. Find the sites that would naturally want to link to you, because you offer something of value to them. They don't have to be mega-sites that dominate the web.

You could actually just use the disavow tool and target those toxic links. Google will then ignore them and as long as you have redirected the site properly, you should be good to go. However, it is also worth making a decision on how important the domain is to your over all strategy and if it seriously brings something to the table. If it is not going to make that much of an impact, then you should just get rid of it and move on.

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Exactly that's my point

Hi Nikki, This worked perfectly! Thanks for the reply, it's greatly appreciated!

Hi SvenRi, that's an interesting one! The message you're getting from Google suggests that, rather than not finding the canonical tag, the system has reason to believe that the canonical is not representative of the best content. One thing I'd bear in mind is that Google doesn't take canonical tags as gospel, but rather guidance, so it can just ignore them without there necessarily being a problem in how you've implemented that tag. Another is that while Google says that their crawlers can parse JavaScript, there's evidence that it doesn't parse the page content perfectly. What happens when you fetch and render the pages in question using Search Console (both the page you want to rank and the page Google is selecting)? Can you see all of the content? Google uses the same JavaScript rendering as Chrome 41 (see here) have you tried accessing with that? You could also try a tool like Screaming Frog with JavaScript rendering switched on to see what kind of page content comes back. It could be worth making sure the canonical is generated properly but I'd also be checking that the page content is being rendered properly to make sure Google is seeing the pages as different as you describe. I'd also check to make sure there isn't a second, conflicting, canonical tag on the page. I know some SPA frameworks can have issues with double-opening HTML tags when one page is accessed after another, that could be something that would confuse a crawler so you could double-check that. As ever, there are the rumours that Google will start giving much more weight to mobile in terms of indexing. Given your question about things changing recently - does your site have desktop and mobile parity? If it looks as though everything is kosher, is it possible that the page Google is suggesting is much more heavily linked to internally or externally? If internally you could consider reviewing your internal linking (Will wrote a post about ways to think about internal linking here). You could use a tool like Majestic to look at who is linking to these pages externally, it may be worth double checking that all the links are genuine. TL;DR I would start with the whole page content, not just the search directives, to make sure that's always being understood properly, then I would look in to linking. These are mainly areas of investigation and next debug steps, hopefully they'll help narrow down the search for you!