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  • My pleasure! So glad to have you in the community.

    Local Listings | | MiriamEllis
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  • haha thanks. It's not a typo actually - it's an accepted alternate spelling many other hospitals use as well.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CentreTEK
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  • Hi Slumberjac It's embedded in a piece of Javascript which pulls in an image to your site from theirs.  Just ignore it - it has no effect on SEO whatsoever. the only time it could affect is if it loaded slowly. I would not play about with it in an attempt to no follow. Regards Nigel

    Technical SEO Issues | | Nigel_Carr
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  • Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Unfortunately, this falls outside the scope of the product support we can provide, and more into the realm of SEO consulting. I'm definitely not an SEO expert, so I don't know the best way to go about setting up your site. Hopefully one of our lovely community members will have some thoughts that can help you out! Sorry I can't be more help here — if you have any Moz tool-related questions, just give us a shout at help@moz.com and we'll do our very best to answer them all.

    Other Research Tools | | tawnycase
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  • Some of these affiliates are our affiliates with highest revenue. the website is totally unrelated but still converts (because of massive traffic volumes)

    Affiliate Marketing | | KSafer
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  • Hi Nigel Apologies for the late answer to your reply and thank you so much for your answer.  I actually thought to proceed it the way you suggested Thanks!!!

    Local Website Optimization | | OlatzB
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  • Hi seoanalytics I have spent hours trying to help you on this thread and the other two or three you have started! I have patiently answered every question you have asked, in detail. If you still don't understand what I am saying after acres and acres of help and advice then that's it from me. https://moz.com/community/q/sentences-rdf-format https://moz.com/community/q/asking-a-natural-question-in-h-tags https://moz.com/community/q/bolded-words-in-search-results https://moz.com/community/q/user-intent-and-ranking This comment is simply idiotic, but more than that it is insulting: "I have more chances of winning the lottery than ranking..." Please don't bother me again. Have a good weekend. Nigel

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Nigel_Carr
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  • Although I have no active accordions at the moment, I do have bootstrap tabs and all of the hidden content within the tabs is crawled.  To test your own page, go to webmaster tools and Fetch as Google. When fetching is done, click on the page link and select the tab "Fetching". This shows all of the HTML crawled and you can verify that the content in the accordion has been crawled. You also mentioned "penalty". Google's policy on penalties for hidden content is here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en.  Google would not consider tabs and accordions containing legitimate content (no white text etc.) to fall under this "Hidden text and links" category.

    Technical SEO Issues | | GlennFerrell
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  • Hello, I just went through an issue like this. Are you using WordPress? Also, Do you have any SEO plug-ins installed?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Extima-Christian
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  • Great question Swendt! Linking from your blog to your product page or other blog post is a great SEO practice, as long as it is in moderation. People tend to disagree on what that is, but I've seen having 2-3 internal links, as well as 2-3 external links in a 500-1000 word blog post be a great SEO benefit. Internal linking is an often overlooked SEO strategy that can help distribute authority to page's you want to rank on Google and be visited when someone is on your website, just make sure the links are relevant, helpful, and that you don't have so many that it hurts the user's perception of your blog quality.

    Content & Blogging | | NickW816
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  • Hi Masonman, I generally "noindex" tags in Yoast and for really big sites I will also block them in robots.txt (after I know they have been removed from index) - but it depends how you are using them on your site. Before you "noindex", check GA to make sure your tags pages aren't getting any organic traffic. If they aren't, I would go ahead and set them to "noindex". If you want to then block them from being crawled, you must wait until the pages have been removed from index. Otherwise, they will remain indexed because the pages can't be crawled and the "noindex" tags won't be seen. Tags only exist to help users find similar content. You could check GA pageviews for your tag pages to see if people are actually using them - if they aren't, you might decide to stop using them. You have a few options here...I could give more specific advice on what I would do if I knew more about your site, but I hope this helps! Cheers, David

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | davebuts
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  • Hey thanks. This does not explain the reason for not improving over nearly a year of link building, and actually slipping considerably this last week or so, as we have done lots of on page optimisation on hundreds of pages so I know that cannot be the main issue. Here is an example: This page was ranking 20th 9 months ago. Now 90th or so. perfect on page SEO according to everything - 99% on here (only internal links from menus etc taking it over 100). Our DA was 1 when we were ranking on page 2. Now 25 and we are on page 9 or so. https://www.fitness-savvy.co.uk/product/phd-diet-whey-2kg/ There are no links back to the personal trainers page. On page SEO for the personal trainers page says 69% on Moz, and is showing that lots of work needs to be done for the keyword "best online personal trainers". Page speed is horrendous. Keyword difficulty 25. Yet we are 5th. Sending lots of traffic to personal trainers who are no doubt making sales while no other pages of ours are ranking well at all. This page brings in more traffic then the other 5,000 or so combined pretty much. And it only has a few hundred searches per month compared with millions of searches on all the other keywords on our site. https://www.fitness-savvy.co.uk/best-online-personal-trainer-websites/ I have no idea where to put my efforts as not only are rankings not improving, but are slipping considerably. Any advice from anyone who can see what this issue is, as it must be something pretty big

    Affiliate Marketing | | Fitnesssavvy
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  • Hello there, I'd advise against using a ccTLD that is not used generally as a gTLD. It might be more tricky to rank globally. Take into consideration that .ag ccTLD reffers as the country code domain of Antigua an Barbuda. And its listed as a ccTLD: Delegation Record for .AG - IANA Also, google may consider that TLD as a generic, as stated here: International Targetting - Search Console Help. There might be another TLD that suit a variation of that idea. Hope it helps. Best luck. GR.

    International Issues | | GastonRiera
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  • Yes, you will need to add some lines in your .htaccess file on the .net version pointing to the.com version using 301's. Will you lose any organic positions? If done correctly, you will maintain your rankings (minor fluctuations typically will happen).

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KevinBudzynski
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  • Thanks this is a very good answer. Normally I work on sites for 6 months up to a year and is an ongoing process with ups and downs. Again many thanks for all your comments!

    Link Building | | bill369
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  • I had to do a similar migration, and my solution was similar - 302 redirect all the missing content. In our case, all of the missing content was contained in blog posts, so I 302'd them all to the blog. I would recommend something similar if possible - if you can group the missing content and land people somewhere similar to provide the best possible user experience, that's your best bet. If people are looking for a missing blog article, maybe they can still find something interesting to read in the 30% of blog articles that are posted. If they are looking for a missing product category, maybe they can still find something interesting in your main store page. Alternatively, if you have the ability to keep the 70% of content within the old structure while launching the 30% of updated hierarchy, it would be a better solution. Sometimes moving from one CMS to another, you can leave old content on the old CMS and only redirect and push out new content on the new CMS. Just depends on your situation.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | WebElaine
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