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So you are looking for some statistic website such as Statista right?

Ah, a very interesting question! I'd not be too concerned; you're loading the content in through a data attribute rather than directly as text. However, there are definitely a few options you could consider: Render via SVG feels like the safest bet, though that's going to be a pretty large, complex set of vectors. Save + serve as an image (and overcome the file size concerns by using WebP, HTTP/2, a CDN like Cloudflare, etc) Serve the content via a dedicated JavaScript file, which you could block access to via robots.txt (a bit fudgey!) I'd be keen to explore #2 - feels like you should be able to achieve the effect you're after with an image which isn't ridiculously huge.

Hi Pashmina, It looks to me like the problem is that Google doesn't yet understand that "Bar & Cocoa" is a brand in and of itself. Until they receive the signal that "Bar & cocoa" (or "bar and cocoa") is a different query intent than "bar cocoa", this will continue to be an issue. Focus on building your brand online; in particular, I recommend researching the Knowledge Graph to understand how Google catalogs entities. Some things to try: Roman's suggestion to implement Schema markup is a good one; I actually recommend implementing markup both inline and via JSON-LD in your header (you can also use Google Tag Manager to implement JSON-LD schema markup; check out this awesome post by Chris Goddard for more on how to do that: https://moz.com/blog/using-google-tag-manager-to-dynamically-generate-schema-org-json-ld-tags). Make sure you use Store markup on your home page to mark up your business name, logo, contact information, and other important details about your business, and mark up as much information about your products as you can. Spend some time doing some online-focused PR (that's public relations, not page rank); the goal should be to get mentions of your brand name alongside relevant words about your products (like "chocolate shop") in reputable news outlets. It would be ideal if this coverage resulted in links back to your site, but news coverage without a link will still provide something of a brand signal. Start planning your content calendar; think about what's unique about your products and create some content around it that you can then, hopefully, promote to earn links back to your site. Make sure you're behaving like a brand online in other ways. Build out your social media profiles, and start trying to build a following on e.g. Facebook and Twitter. With a highly visually-appealing product like chocolate, you might have success on Pinterest and Instagram. Make an effort to engage with your followers - don't just talk about yourself, but really start a conversation and respond when people talk to you. Having a robust, active social media presence sends search engines and users alike the signal that you are a real, reputable business. Claiming social media profiles under your brand name will also provide additional pages that use your brand name in conjunction with your business. The good news is, all of these activities are worth doing to promote your business online anyway; the bad news is, they will probably take some time to really establish your brand. In the short term, it might be worth investing in some paid search ads to make sure your site shows up for your brand terms.

@Donna Duncan    thanks for clearing this issue it helped me understand Redirect Chain and how to fix it thanks

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here! A meta refresh is caused by some meta tag elements in your site's source code. You can read up on meta refreshes over here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh#Examples There are even some handy examples of what the code might look like! It also looks like Donna Duncan has beat me to the punch here — that's excellent insight into how you might go about fixing the issue! I hope that helps, but if you still have questions, feel free to reach out to us at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to answer them all.

I see a lot of confusion in all the answers :-). The .ie domain is never treated as a generic domain name by Google. It's the country code domain for Ireland. Stop. A country code domain name is geo-targeted by default on its corresponding regional version of Google, but Google doesn't "block" its visibility also in others Google (i.e.: Google.com or Google.co.uk), however, a ccTLD will have more difficulties in ranking higher in another Google than its own. In other words: domain.ie is targeting by default Google.ie; but, it can be shown in Google.co.uk too; however, for ranking in Google.co.uk - because of its geo-targeted nature - it must have stronger signals like mentions and backlinks to justify its visibility than a domain.co.uk or domain.com.

Hey there! Sorry to hear that a couple of your Campaigns are running into Robots.txt crawl issues! Maybe I can help figure out why those sites can't be crawled. It looks like the robots.txt file for the first site you mentioned is returning a 403 Forbidden response to our user-agent, Rogerbot: https://www.screencast.com/t/TFFaWtikf Anything other than a 301 redirect or a 200 OK status wills top us from being able to access the robots.txt file, which will result in a crawl failure. Please make sure your robots.txt file is fully accessible to rogerbot. For the second site, ptone.nl, we're getting a 406 Not Allowed error: https://www.screencast.com/t/np1AEJ3oDiy2 Again, we'll need to be able to access those robots.txt files in order to crawl your site. And that last site is also returning a 403 Forbidden response when we try to access your robots.txt file for that site: https://www.screencast.com/t/CEpKpLq3z I'd recommend checking in with your web developer or whoever manages your site for you. They'll probably know how to make the necessary changes to make sure that your robots.txt files are accessible to our crawler. Hope this helps! If you've still got questions, feel free to drop us a line at help@moz.com and we'll do everything we can to answer them all.

That's great news Bennie! Thanks for persisting and for letting me know that this worked for you! Cheers! Jo

First - Make the redirection using htaccess, plugin or whatever you want. Second - Remember to add the right canonical tag on every page to avoid duplicate content issues. Third - Just to make sure make a simple test. Type "site:www.yoursite.com" and see how many pages have been index by google and check it out, if you made 250 pages and there's 500 pages, you should check your Search Console Account.

Hi vtmoz, I see you have posted an updated question on this issue separately - regarding the spammy inbound links pointing to this subdomain. That is a more likely problem for your site. That said, the more spam that shows up on that subdomain, the more likely Google is to seeing your site as part of a "bad neighborhood" of the web, and this could risk the organic visibility of your root domain. There is no documentation on "how much spammy content is too much" - generally, some spammy content on a subdomain doesn't negatively impact the entire domain. However I have seen cases where an entire domain was negatively impacted by a very large number of spammy pages on various subdomains. It's a matter of scale. If your rankings and traffic on your primary domain are important, my advice would be to mitigate the risk by either policing the content on your forum subdomains by bringing in admins, or shutting down the forums entirely. Best, Mike

Hey! Did you check if these files might potentially be blocked by your robots.txt or could be on a CDN that they can't reach through the Render and Fetch feature? Martijn.

Hey Chris, I'm going to address your concerns in-line as I think that's the best way for me to clear up any confusion here. "My assumption is that organic ranking of my landing page will be effected by bounce rate. When a shopping campaign sends a user to my page and they bounce, Google will see that as a poor user experience with no engagement. This is caused by the Google shopping campaign choosing irrelevant keywords that I have no control over. Running a shopping campaign causes the analytics data to have significantly higher bounce rates and therefore I would think hurts organic ranking of the page." Your organic rankings will NOT be affected. User engagement signals from AdWords will affect your AdWords quality scores, but under no circumstances will they affect your organic rankings. Google states this publicly, like this example, "Running a Google AdWords campaign does not help your SEO rankings, despite some myths and claims.". It does not hurt, it does not help. The data sets are completely separate. Yes, in your data you can see them combined if you wish, but Google Organic does not see your Paid Ad Engagement Metrics. As far as control over your Google Shopping, while Google does sometimes trigger terms that are outside the norm, their matching is generally pretty good. I would encourage you to review the post I linked above and to read other articles about Google Shopping Structures. Your structure is everything for AdWords, but it's especially true for Google Shopping. If you're having trouble with targeting, especially after reviewing the search query report and adding negatives, something is wrong with your setup. Review some posts and see if you find anything that might prove valuable. "So I am paying Google money to lower my rank because of their bad choice of keywords. Google shopping does not allow me to choose the keywords. And the only way to control this is to use negative keywords as you suggest. In my experience this is also not very effective." I addressed this a bit above, but I think it's worth reiterating here, your paid ads are not lowering your organic rank under any circumstances. Even if they share a landing page, the paid ads will not affect your organic rankings. "Here is one example. I have a product with the word "Oxy" in the name. Google shopping sent thousands of impressions for queries related to Oxycodone and Oxycotin drugs. My product is an immune support antioxidant supplement for DOGS! Regardless of negative keywords set with adwords support folks on the phone, they continued to send queries for all sorts of variations. Such as "oxycodone 10mg" "buy oxycodone" ad infinitum! Even setting negative keywords to "broad" didn't help. Eventually tapered off after setting many variations as negative keywords. Close to 50 variations. So of course these clicks seeking oxycodone immediately bounce when they see it is a product for dogs. My question is does that ultimately hurt my organic ranking?" This sounds extremely frustrating and I'm sorry to hear that you're having these issues. I'd encourage you to add "Oxycodone" & "Oxycotin" as negative phrase match terms. That should solve your negative targeting issue as described. But even if these issues still continue to arise, rest assured that your organic rankings will not be affected. Hope that helps! Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Best regards, Trenton

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Use any plugin and notice that external links are nofollowed. Realize that Google has had years to figure out links in comments versus links in content, and is pretty good at discounting comment spam. Know that there are ways to sort this forum by most recent activity, so even comments on posts that are over a year old do get noticed [source: I was the one who heavily pushed for this feature]. One last thing: I'm no longer an employee, and have not been for some time, so I'm able to add a bit of snark that an employee would not. And as soon as your comment is nuked, mine will likely automatically disappear.

Perhaps you would be willing to share the site with me via email [russ at moz dot com]

The first thing I would do is take a deep breath and go run PageSpeed analysis on your top 5 competitors in your space for similar pages. Get a feel for whether you are already doing better than they are in terms of ACTUAL LOAD TIME, not the score they give you.  The score is a measure of how many optimization techniques you have deployed, not whether you are actually fast. Only after you have confirmed that your site is slow relative to competitors should you really go down the optimization path. I would consider throwing your site behind a CDN like cloudflare if possible, which will easily enable both HTTPS and HTTP/2.

Hi, The company page should be promoted basically. If you do 'sponsored InMail' it will be linked with your personal account, i.e. showing you are sending the mails. For all the other advertising products you either need a company page or a focus page (brand). As far as I know you can't do without one of these. At least if you have already a company page connected with your personal account than it leaves you no other option. You need a personal account to set up an advertising account and a company page or a focus page to do all the advertising except for 'sponsored InMail' where a personal account should suffice. Hope this helps you getting started and wish you a lot of success with your LinkedIn campaigns. Cheers, Cesare