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Thank you both for the information. I agree links are very useful especially for competitive keyword but hard to get those days... Do you have any advice on how to acquire links these days ? Thank you,

Good suggestions from Brooks, but sounds like you've checked off the things he mentioned. So, typically, Google will display the one you designate as the profile pick, but as you've seen, not always. If you've removed the unwanted photo from your website, you can ask a GMB forum TC to help you get your listing updated. Here's a thread from Google's forum along those lines: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Enhance-Your-Presence/Photos-pulling-from-website-that-are-not-wanted-to-show/m-p/1119604/highlight/true#M6409 But, if you want to keep that photo on your website, you can try flagging the image from several accounts over the next few weeks to see if Google will get rid of it. If nothing happens after a few weeks, you could take this to the GMB forum, but I'm not sure they'll be able to do much unless the photo is really inappropriate, in which case, you may just want to remove it from the website. Other advice: be sure you're not using a logo as your profile pic. Google really doesn't like those and often will replace them. Be sure every photo you've uploaded to your GMB dash is of best quality and is something you'd be okay with having Google use to represent the business.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I agree with you there is probably more a penalty if you are slow than a bonus if you are fast or average.

Hello Hijabgem, You should NOT have more than one Rel = "Canonical" tag per page. However, as is the case with the page below, if the tag is the same URL in both instances on the page it probably isn't going to cause any problems: | rel="canonical" href="https://www.hijabgem.com/maxi-shirt-dress.html" /> | |   | rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" /> | |   | rel="canonical" href="https://www.hijabgem.com/maxi-shirt-dress.html" /> |

Hi - yes I have seen this, it's been raised with our developers so waiting for the fix Thank you

Ah thanks for that. That makes more sense now. When I put their site through moz I got 0 for everything which is why I was so confused. Cleanershost was the old domain which moved to the new one I mentioned above.

Absolute pleasure! Your gratefulness is even more appreciated! Eli

Hey Varunrupal, Great question and something that anyone doing outreach runs into from time to time. This is a bit of a sticky situation. Guest posting is against Google's Guidelines, and paying for a guest post is doubly so. So I would encourage you to reply with a polite reply thanking them for their time. Then move on and continue your outreach with other potential bloggers. That said, I think if a blogger is wanting compensation for a post I would encourage you to change your offer to be a bit more appealing. If you can structure the outreach in a way that creates tangible value for the blogger or their readers, you're more likely to gain some traction without the need for monetary compensation. Make your value add the compensation. Let me know if you have any other questions on this! Regards, Trenton

Thanks so much for the follow up question! I don’t have a specific frequency or timeline I can provide however, you can use Mozcast (http://mozcast.com/) as a resource to help determine how turbulent Google SERPS are for any given day. As far as changing your keywords in your Campaign, that would really be up to your discretion. Keep in mind though, that any time you add keywords to your Campaign, data won’t populate for those keywords until the following Campaign update.  If you add or remove keywords between each update, you may see significant fluctuations in your Search Visibility, too.

This sounds like the best approach. Typically, most crawlers won't save or interact with cookies, so Google etc will just see the site they've requested.

You can control parameter handling in Google Search Console and direct Google explicitly how to treat parameters. If Google deems a parameter page worthy of being indexed it will index. But if you edit the parameter handling in GSC as mentioned above, they will usually/always follow that. If you get links to a parameter URL and it canonicalizes to the non-parameter, that link equity should flow just find to the non-param page. Triple check meta robots, robots.txt, canonicalization setting to be sure.

You have the instance that is the reason I took a liking to international SEO. In your instance, because of the annoyances of commonly used languages that are also countries ... I suggest ccTLDs or subdomains. Subdomains - You will have to claim each subdomain in Search Console and target them to their specific countries and then use hreflang between the languages within the country subsites. www.domain.com (main) www.domain.com/fr (french) www.domain.com/es (spanish) ca.domain.com/en (Canadian, english) ca.domain.com/fr (Canadian, french) fr.domain.com (France) ccTLDs - This does the geo-targeting for you. You will need to put the hreflang between the languages within the country sites. www.domain.com (main) www.domain.com/fr (french) www.domain.com/es (spanish) www.domain.ca/en (Canadian, english) www.domain.ca/fr  (Canadian, french) www.domain.fr (France) It does not matter which you use. But if you wanted to use the same root domain, the subdomains are a good way to go about that!

Howdy iHasco! Big site changes like this can always be tricky. Depending on how often these paginated pages are indexed and how many external links are currently pointing to them (I'd take a look and analyze both of these things before making any concrete decisions). Either of these decisions could be an okay route. 404 ing them is appropriate if the pages arn't indexed in Google, and have no backlinks.  (Be sure to remove all internal links pointing to them as well) 301 redirecting these pages is the correct route if your pages have link equity you want to preserve or the pages are indexed and users could potentially still access them from the SERP. Since the blog homepage will contain the content these users would potentially be looking to access, I think that the blog homepage is the correct page to redirect to, as it will house the same content as the pagination used to have.

You are welcome Ed Challinor

Hey JuanWork–_it depends, _but if the subpage is a more appropriate new location for the old domain (e.g. old domain's company was acquired by a new company, and is now a _service _on new company's website, it'd be more fitting for old domain to be 301 redirected to the service page on new company's site). You mentioned that it's a "good old expired domain"–is the domain actually expired, or do you still have ownership of the domain name? If the former, TRY TO BUY IT BACK! If the latter, no worries