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In addition to IP address you should likely read into Fingerprinting technology. The differences between a incognito browser and your regular window are quite minimal using that technique.

Hi there! Thanks so much for the feedback! We really appreciate hearing from our users like this! I will be sure to pass this along to our team here. Thanks, again!

Hi belton It's perfectly OK to do cross-domain canonicals which is essentially the same as saying source:. What you are actually saying is that these two pages are the same as each other, don't rank that one, rank this instead. so for example: abc.com/page1 has a duplicate, abc123.com/page1 Put this code on abc123.com/page1 rel="canonical" href="abc.com/page1" /> Google will likely not rank abc123.com/page1 and only rank abc.com/page1. The result in my experience is that abc.com/page1 will rocket northward in search now you have taken the duplicate away! I hope that helps, Best Regards Nigel

New address is better than 302 or 301

Do you mean on mobile? If so I have seen the buttons too and wondered how some industries showed these and others did not.

Yes, there is a corporate site which links to all the sites. We essentially want to do the same on the individual websites.

Hi Judd, If you are only hiding these elements on the mobile view, this shouldn't cause an issue from a rankings perspective. You will want to make sure that they can access your CSS file (sometimes CSS files are blocked from crawlers). It is possible that having it hidden will mean they discount that content slightly for the mobile version, but as long as they know it's a mobile version of the desktop site they will primarily take the desktop signals into consideration when it comes to rankings (with a small boost for mobile-friendliness in the mobile SERPs). Once the mobile-first index rolls out this will change but they have stated that with mobile-first indexing, hiding content for space reasons won't negatively impact how they weight that content, so that shouldn't affect your approach practically speaking.

Hi there, It is not a bad signal if you are in fact deleting low-value content that does not drive traffic or back links. Content is becoming more of a 'quality over quantity' game (thankfully). If you are making your site more efficient for Google to crawl and condensing SEO authority (link juice) and pointing more of that your more 'important' pages, you could actually see an uptick in business from organic search. I will note that you should look at your blog posts to see if there are opportunities to update them to make them more informative and/or more current. If any of the posts you are removing have inbound links or rankings, you will want to properly 301 redirect them. Take a look at these resources where sites removed old pages and maintained site performance or even saw an uptick. The content audit portion of your analysis is going to be crucial, you must be sure you are not deleting content that is driving traffic. How Deleting Bad Blog Post Content Can Increase Traffic - Why We Deleted 900 Blog Posts And What Happened Next Why Deleting Old Blog Posts Help My Website Grow Hope this helps!

Your answer is confusing sorry. If you're not supposed to add the old site's verification to your new site, how does anyone complete the Name Change Tool? Step 2 of the tool requires 301 redirects be in place before you can move on Step 3 of the tool requires you verify the old site Obviously, if step 2 is working, then step 3 will always fail. How do you complete the name change tool?

Hi Samantha, Thank you for taking time to answer. As SEMrush, Ahrefs and other keyword tools are all associating the right keyword to the intended page, as well as per my Google reports, it remains baffling. I have a page with the exact URL of "google-structured-data-update", so it would be great if Moz could associate my Google Algorithm Updates page with the correct keyword association. Maybe 6 months ago we had the wrong canonical tag - just maybe. If so, is there a way to "reset" Moz's data? Hopefully, you are right and someone in the Moz community can weigh in on what is happening. Thank you.

I received a Moz prompt to check out if this question was answered yet. Any chance that you have had a response from your development team? The client's site is still archived. I am looking forward  (dare I hope?) to those awesome reports coming again soon.

^^ Ayup.

Hi Christy, My question is following : I am wondering if sentences with the “you" as the subject such as the one below are any helpful to rank ?Or if the ones that only count (in the eyes of google) are the ones that have my entity / keyword or related keywords as subjects.Let’s say I want to rank on "Burgundy bike tour"Is having Burgundy, cyclist, bike tour, route, Dijon, wine as a subject in a few of my sentence better than for example having "you "as a subject ? or is the "you" counted in some way if the sentence is well constructed.For example : "It’s not every day you get to taste world-class wine at its source."Subject is “you”Predicate is “get”Object is "to taste world-class  wine at its source”Does this sentence which is well constructed have any value for the keyword "Burgundy bike tour"By the way if my subject in a sentence is the pronoun "it" does it count in any way also ?Thank you,

I agree with  James. Move them all into one carefully & methodically. Start with crawling all the sites and getting a good idea of how many pages you are dealing with & where they would 301 on the new site. Slow and steady amigo. Good Luck! G

Hi, We are on Magento and moving to https for all URLS soon as well. We have just had them on customer pages, checkout and admin but time to move on. Interesting to read about those database redirects also. We have thousands in place over years as we've tidied up the catalogue and they get automatically created. A few years back I deleted them on a site upgrade and we seemed to take a knock in rankings... but it could have been the new site source code contributing to this also. Things have settled and we have good seo ... but ive concerns over changing to full https...eekkk. What htaccess codes did you use to redirect all existing http urls to the https versions? Was it just something like? RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Be aware that a ccTLD is meant for people in that country, it does not mean it is targeting all people who speak a language of the same name. Spanish is spoken in more countries than Spain, so if you wish to reach all Spanish speakers, I would recommend a .com site (which is country agnostic) and having English and Spanish language content there. If you wish to target Spain citizens, the .es domain is perfect. The way you have it set up above though, what will most likely happen (but this depends on your industry, competition, etc) is that the English language queries coming from Spain will see the .com version of your site as they should be searching in English. If someone in the US or Mexico is looking in Spainsh, they might not see the .es site as it is targeted to Spain, not Spanish. That doesn't mean they won't see it at all - if there isn't much competition they will see the .es if it is the best result for their search, but .es is meant to Spain based businesses and you can't change the country targeting on a ccTLD like .es You can try to help Google understand with HREFlang as Joe said, but do understand that you'll be sending mixed signals with a .es domain if you are trying to get Spanish speaking searchers from other countries. Hope that makes sense!