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Canonical tag isn't likely to have the effect you want here. Search engines expect (require) that conicalised pages be essentially identical to each other or they will likely ignore the canonical "suggestion". Identical meaning essentially word for word, except for perhaps word order, like on parameter-sorted product category p[ages. In my experience, EGOL's solution is vastly superior. Create a permanent page for each, then find all the old related blog posts and redirect them to the permanent page to harness whatever authority those pages have for the new one. That way all further authority to the same page year after year, instead of being diffused amongst many weak separate pages. Paul

Hey There! Are you talking about reviews from Facebook appearing in your Google Knowledge Panel? Feel free to link to a screenshot, or to one of the older articles you're referring to, just for some more clarification. Thanks!

James, Thank you so much!  That is what I suspect is the case too. A handful of highly relevant, quality links is better than hundreds of junky affiliate links.  And there will be no advertisement of the network.

Do you have any recommendations on how to make sure we index the locales?

I have to agree with James Wolff, canonical tags look like the best course of action given the examples above. It does not seem like the 301 redirects are going to be necessary.

First of all, you must ask your client if she target different regions like continents for some reason related to her business. If not, then going multilingual is the best solution that trying to geotarget countries... also because, as Gaston wrote already, you cannot geotarget anything but nations: no continents, no political or economic states unions (like the UE). If there's some justified business reason why the client needs to specify different versions for different large areas, then things can be weird, but there's a way to do it: using as many hreflang annotations as they are the countries present in a bigger geo area and targeted by a specific website. Remember, in fact, that an URL can be annotated with as many hreflang annotations as needed. i.e.: the www.domain.com targets Italy, UK and France with its English version but not other states for whatever reason (so not able to use simply hreflang="en") and Spain with the Spanish one, then its hreflang will be: <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/" hreflang="es-ES"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-GB"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-IT"></rel="alternate"> <rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en/" hreflang="en-FR"></rel="alternate"> (I know it would be better to create an Italian and French version too, but this was just an example to give you an idea of what I was saying).

It looks like you are doing some "Onsite" optimization, but you may need to concentrate on doing some "Offsite" seo. Try to get a few good articles written and posted on "High" value sites and have better "DA" Domain Authority scores than your site does. High-quality backlinks will really help your rankings as long as they have real value and are not Spammy. The search engines will reward you even though it can take some time and a lot of work. Remember even if you get a few good links from strong sites, there are many other factors to consider. Here is a link to a good article about "Offsite SEO". Best Regards.

Actually our sub domains are ranking for brand related queries like "nike shoes" or "nike sports wear" (brand + keyword) and they are generating good traffic. I just wonder if we employ same landing pages on our main website (branded site); will it help my main website to rank for related keywords? And this traffic on sub domains generated from organic traffic is helping my main website or not?

Its' entirely possible that Google doesn't consider the posts newsworthy. Just having the technical markup for News doesn't mean it will be considered such by the search engine. Paul

Thank you, I think that having only 1 backlink on the homepage footer is the best approach.

You need one of the robust social media monitoring tools which provide advanced boolean search queries. Many tools only allow 3 boxes (include any of these terms, must include these terms, exclude these terms), and there is no way to imply proximity or use context. The only way to really trim the results to what is relevant is to use boolean logic. For example, if you were monitoring for amazon, you could exclude:   (amazon AND (jungle OR brazil OR rainforest OR "rain forest")). Or use proximity like:    (amazon NEAR/5 (shopping OR products OR ecommerce OR e-commerce)). Additionally you can look for user intent with phrases like:    ("shopping on" OR "buy from" OR "need to shop" OR "research products on") NEAR/3 amazon Obviously these examples are just small samples of what can be done. Some queries for common words may end up being 2000 characters long to catch all use cases. But without the ability to create custom boolean queries that include nesting parenthesis, quotes for phrases and proximity operators like NEAR, the other tools won't help. In a previous job, I wrote a white paper explaining why Boolean is important for social media monitoring and provide some tips on what to look for in a social media monitoring tool: https://www.dragonsearch.com/files/social-media-monitoring-tools-boolean-search-query.pdf Good luck! Jannette

Hi Jenna, In relation to the client searching their Business name, that shouldn´t be a big issue (unless they have chosen highly competitive generic words for their business name like "low interest loans") as EGOL mentioned they should rank fairly fast for this. For adwords you can show them this http://www.tbkcreative.com/why-you-shouldnt-google-your-own-ads/ .  Many times though the clients will still continue to search anyway.  One of my clients only stopped after i showed him in his account that the keyword he was constantly searching had a ctr of 4% where all others in the account were more close to 20% and that it was the only one with a Quality score 3 points lower than the rest.  After this i showed him the results of him having stopped searching and he hasn´t restarted.  In this case though we were talking about 15-20 searches a day minimum.  Sporadich searches shouldn´t impact that much. You need to also setup a regular reporting where you can show the results and this should be part of the inicial agreement.  Here you can show either data from analytics, GSC, Adwords, Moz etc... that will assure them there are actual results from your work. And be very clear from the start about what they can expect.

If you upload a new file, it will overwrite your previous file. So if you want any URLs from previous disavow files to remain disavowed, they need to be included in every following list as well. Have a look at this article: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en: Note: Uploading a new file will replace all previously uploaded ones.

I have this issue can you please explain more in details how to remove it

Both the hreflang looks correct if your site is targeting only : Spanish speaking users in Spain (hreflang="es-ES") English speaking users in Spain (hreflang="en-ES" If you are targeting English speaking users no matter the country, then you should use the hreflang="en" and not "en-ES".

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Hi Flyyazp Hi Kevin I've checked view-source and - yes! Content is hidden. Thanks a lot for a correct assumption! I think the reason is that my website is built as a single page application on Angular2. Further steps will be checked with my dev team:) I know that SPAs have some issues with SEO so it's time to do some research on best practices Thanks a lot!

1) Will this traffic be counted as traffic in main website as per Google? Depends "blog.yourwebsite.com" is not the same "yourwebsite.com/blog/" the first will count for Google as a different website. In fact you can check it on Google Analytics you can create 2 tracking codes and you will see that there is no relation betwen the 2 websites. In the other hands the sencond option "yourwebsite.com/blog/" will count as an internal page so all the traffic generated by the blog will count for the website. In my case I use subdomains for Landing Pages such as "promotions.mywebsite.com" to avoid orphan pages errors and "mywebsite.com/blog/" to generate and rank content 2) Traffic increase in main website really an ranking factor? It’s confirmed that Google uses data from Google Chrome to determine whether or not people visit a site (and how often). Sites with lots of _dir_ect traffic are likely higher quality than sites that get very little direct traffic. But this not 100% True. I have several websites with thousand of visits per day generated by ads networks, affiliate networks and they doesnt have a good rank.....Yeah I know sounds contradictory? the point is that those websites were builded for make money, and drive sales or leads, not for SEO. This are the Most Important Ranking Factors, According to SEO Industry Studies Content Backlinks Mobile-First User Experience Other Technical Factors 3) Will the "brand + topic" related keywords' traffic is more for a website; will it ranking improves even for "topic keywords"? In my experience google classify by content or topic not just for keyword, as an example I will mention one of my websites, a product named phen375, is weight loss pill, normally an affiliate create a post or article to promote it, usually the create somethig like "definitive guide about phen375" or "truth about phen375" and this affiliate is ranked in first place with keywords like "phen375", "phen375 reviews", or "how to take phen375" .....Why? because Google always try to define the intention of the users and if a website meet that intention then Google rank that website. How? the affiliate made I really good job creating an article that meets those criteria. Create Links, Onpage Optimization, Good Content ect ect ect Sources https://www.searchenginejournal.com/4-important-ranking-factors-according-seo-industry-studies/184619/ https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors

For Google are different pages so if you dont have cannonical tags or redirections, can create a duplicated content Issues. No is not normal, maybe you need to check the settings of your website.