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Hi Richard, Interesting question. Google will for sure know where your IP address is located. To get the search results for your keyword combination like somebody sitting in Kansas City KS you could use the "Ad Preview and Diagnosis" Tool in AdWords (under Tools). You can also chose the location, e.g. Kansas City/KS the language/device the search query would be executed on. (Once you could simply set the location of your query on the bottom of the Google search page but this times are gone now.) --> I can confirm that your customer appears in the local pac (3rd) and organic Serps (2nd) for the above keyword combination. I am sitting in Switzerland and checked it with the Ad Preview and Diagnosis Tool in AdWords. The MOZ data might not be accurate yet for your client's website. Do you have a campaign for that client? MOZ should have crawled the site actually. It usually crawls a campaign site all 7 days but you can also initiate a crawl manually. If you don't want to have search results that are taking account of your behaviour/browse history/preferences, etc. you can switch that off actually. Go to google.com on the bottom right - Settings - Search Settings - turn off 'search history'. Hope this brings you a step forward. Cheers, Cesare

We did slowly drop I think... does it really make a difference ? The website is about 80 pages.

In other words you are saying that if google sees my link not being clicked join my content but if it sees those being click somewhere on my webpage even though they are not contextual it will give moe value to those that are clicked ?

Thank you for the reply, but does it still pass link juice ? My question is how canI talk about the those regions listed on my screen shot on a page about Burgundy for example, it is very difficult to talk about the island of corsica or Normandy on a page about Burgundy...

Glad to help!

Oh that's a good idea. I just tried it (link) and it actually doesn't seem so bad

You're welcome!

Thanks so much I'll try that right away

thank you Moz, and Sam, for all your help!

I can confirm that Andy is correct here, implementing that 301 redirect is best practice for this scenario.

Hi. I think mememax gave a very good answer. The only thing I would submit for consideration is making too many changes at one time can be hard to track later. When we did the switch to https, I was super paranoid we would screw something up and lose rankings. So I chose to leave the disavow file exactly the same. It turned out the switch was not as bad as I thought and we didn't have any noticeable effect on rankings. So later when I was convinced that the https switch was not a factor, I could modify the disavow file. I also left the old domains from years ago in there for the reasons mememax points out. Good Luck!

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This got resolved, so here's what happened for anyone else with this issue. After 6 weeks of the page ranking well on mobile, but not ranking at all on desktop, we: specified the old URL in the sitemap.xml put in an individual 301 from the old URL to the new (ie didn't just rely on the rules we were using for other URLs) ensured only one redirect was required from old to new URL put a link on the homepage, using the targeted keyword phrase, to the new URL (these were in addition to the other technical fixes detailed in the original post above) About a week after this, the desktop ranking returned, with the new URL ranking.  Maybe coincidence, maybe the extra steps were required. But it's worked, whatever the reason.

Hi James Please, can you explain to vtmoz what LSI means as he may not be familiar with the acronym? He was talking about paragraphs, not titles. That much was clear. You have repeated exactly what I told him and it's not clearer. Kind Regards Nigel

Agree with Kevin's question, but 99% of the time you want to use a 301. 302 is causing google to index the new page without dropping the old one. This means that now google is seeing 2 pages with identical content. While this is not an issue per se, it may dilute a lot your seo value as it's split across two pages. Moreover, sometimes Google may decide to serve the old page and not the new one as it may have backlinks pointing to it. I strongly suggest you update your redirect rule to 301. I don't know specifically about Magento but there are many discussions out there. Here the code you may include in your .HTACCESS file. *NOTE: do not touch the htaccess file if you don't know what you're doing or you can break the whole site <code>RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code> you may want to change the rewrite rule to https://www. if your site is secure.

Hi I have the same issue with my website- I do not agree with you Andreas - I had a look on a famous ecommerce website I can see that they are using Oracle for their help center - the content is indexed but urls are not friendly and it seems oracle does not support SEO- According to you is there a way to do it properly?