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Imo internal Link-structure could help or be a problem, but its hard to say, maybe These Pages are Ranking exactly where they should rank. May be its not necessary to have These categories or they cannibalize, hard to say without Note Info.

Hi yukung, Did anything change on the page when you moved URLs? Was it redesigned? Content changed? Anything? If any changes were made, it's possible that these are the reason for the decrease in traffic...but it's hard to give good advice without knowing the URL. Are you able to PM me the URL? Cheers, David

Hi, I'm not sure of the relationship between Google's cache and their crawls, but I hope this helps if you're wanting Google to know that you've updated a page? Do you submit new / updated pages for indexing on Google Search Console? We find that helps rather than leaving it for chance for Google to crawl. You can then request that Google crawls the updated page so changes should happen a bit quicker. Kelly

I have emailed. But this is one page of many it is complaining about. We need a solution asap as we think it may be hurting our analytics. https://www.themedievalstore.com/armor

Hello, If you want to use review markup on the main listing page, this page should clearly display the review content that you're referencing with the markup. It's part of Google's guidelines: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#review-snippet-guidelines  So yes, you will need to display some reviews on the main listing page. Hope this helps! Thanks, Matt

Well, I'll start with your recommendations. Thank you)

You are welcome!

Hi there I just want to make sure I'm interpreting the question right so do let me know if any of the below is false; You're launching a website subdomain to target a different industry niche You cannot target this niche with your main site Your subdomain will be duplicating the content on your main site and you are concerned about the drawbacks of that duplicate content. One of my questions would be - if you can't target this niche on the main site, why is the strategy to copy main site content over? It seems as though if duplicate content will successfully target this niche on a subdomain, surely it can do the same on the main domain? If it is the case that there needs to be differentiation then it'd be a good idea to consider how to create content specifically targeting that niche. Search engines are doing everything they can to make it so that their definition of a good site aligns with users' definition of a good site, it's worth considering why it's so difficult to figure out how to get these pages ranking - is it because we're trying to create something that actually isn't targeted to users in a way that'll be successful even if it does rank? You're right, if you canonicalise the new pages to the old pages they are duplicating, then by design the new ones are unlikely to rank. If you don't canonicalise them, you aren't giving either the old pages or the new pages a fair shot because they aren't offering anything new for the search terms they do target, and you're ignoring the opportunity to cover off new and more specific search terms you couldn't before. Without knowing the exact details of the situation I would say; don't duplicate main site content onto this subdomain, start from scratch, find out what people in this niche want, what they are searching, what matters to them, design the subdomain to fit that need and only consider the main site in terms of avoiding competing with it. Re: the issue of whether to go subdomain at all, there is evidence that subdomains don't share as much authority with the site overall as subdirectories do, it depends on how different this new niche is from your main offering. Does it make sense for a user to find this whole other niche in a subdirectory of your main site, or is the niche dissimilar enough that you should differentiate it with a subdomain? I hope that helps, I think I've probably given more questions than answers but I think they are important questions for your business to consider. If I've misunderstood or if there's anything you'd like to discuss, do message back.

Our hearts are with you and the whole city/region. Glad to hear the outage is shorter than expected, and certainly let us know if we can help more.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here! I think I can help! All you need to do is head to the Add & Manage section of your Rankings, here: https://www.screencast.com/t/np2VOGtTc2 From there you should be able to add in any keywords you missed the first time through. Hope that helps! If you have any more questions we can help with, feel free to give us a shout over at help@moz.com.

Hi D, As per Martijn's response, this example is a JS asset required by your WordPress theme. It's unusual that this would end up indexed by Google (even more unusual that any users would inadvertently stumble upon it - is there any indication of that?). It sounds like there's a lot of this going on, but one thing I'd suggest initially is first verifying whether these URLs are actually getting impressions/clicks in search results via Search Console's "Search Analytics" report. I suspect Martijn is right in that this isn't an issue worth much time/attention (a huge portion of the web runs on WordPress, Google has no trouble sorting out actual pages vs JS resources and similar URLs that shouldn't be served to users), but if there are really "a ton" of these URLs showing up, it might be worth verifying search users aren't actually seeing/clicking on these URLs so you can rest assured it's not a high-priority concern. Best, Mike

Understood, and thanks!  Really appreciate your time Rand!

Hi Joel, It certainly is not a simple fix as we have ticked all the standard boxes. The hreflang has been in a good 4-5 months now. We have offices and stores in the Uk so have business listings set up for them to cover the local citation and pack. hopefully will have physical offices in the USA soon so I can do the same. Its not a massive issue as the UK domain holds the top spot but the directors and I cant fathom why the US serp is still showing.

Hi D E! Thanks for the opportunity of looking at your client's site. A foundational concept to understand is that the company's local pack rankings will depend on their physical address, not on the addresses of the homes they build in various communities. So, as the home builder is in Saint Louis, their local pack rankings will be most achievable for searches containing the words 'st. louis' or stemming from Saint Louis-based devices. They are unlikely to rank in the local packs for any city other than St. Louis because of Google's documented bias towards physical locale of the business. So, where we move beyond this kind of understanding of how local packs work is when we are going after additional organic rankings, instead of local ones. For this purpose, building out content that showcases the homebuilder's work in specific neighborhoods or in neighboring cities supports goals of ranking organically for searches that use these geographic terms. For a good example of how to build landing pages that serve users making these types of searches, please read: https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages In that post, you'll see an example of how a house painter could create a landing page showcasing his projects in a specific community, so that seems quite similar to what you're hoping to do. That being said, I can't predict whether city landing page or style-of-home landing pages will convert better for your particular client. Are you tracking how people currently interact with the website? When a potential customer contacts the business, are the asking what styles of housing are available, or are they inquiring about neighborhoods? Answering questions like these will necessitate some serious research. Without knowing all of the details, I'd be inclined to think that you could have both a set of landing pages based on the neighborhoods of St. Louis, and then a separate gallery depicting popular home designs, regardless of what part of the city the homes are in. You'd have the best of both worlds that way, but if there's a reason why you have to choose one or the other, only real research into the preferences and needs of the client's customers can provide a data-based answer.

Hi webengageseo, Do you have any results to report from the changes you made? We would love an update! Christy

Yes, we have contacted GoDaddy several times. GoDaddy has insisted it is not their problem and they do not have any advice to resolve this issue. GoDaddy support said there can be strange behavior when forward and masking. We tested removing the masking, but it did not make a difference. Nor does 301 vs. 302 redirecting. I understand the latter should not be used as a workaround as these responses have different meanings, but we did test (which also made no difference). Check this link for more details: https://www.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Domains/My-domain-name-not-resolving-correctly-6-random-characters-are/m-p/64440#M16148 Others are experiencing the same issue and somewhere in the thread it was stated that GoDaddy recently rolled out a new system which likely created this issue. We can trace the issue beginning in late August 2017 via Google Analytics, Search Console 404s and testing via Chrome Dev Tools (Network pane with Preserve log checked). We would also like to understand why in order to address the root cause, instead of using a workaround. This is significant issue. Unfortunately, GoDaddy is not handling the issue professionally and will impact our future business decisions involving GoDaddy.

what's the IP they're hosted? Maybe google is serving the same site as their IP is identical? I see that the .de version is returning a security certificate issue so I wonder if Google may be demoting the site. Moreover, where are you guys googling from ? Maybe google is forcing the UK version as you are searching from UK.

Hi I don't know anything about your website but it looks to me like the links on the page do not have https://www. in front of them and are therefore appending themselves to the page they are on instead of creating a link to another page.. So look at the links on the page: If the page is https://www.atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use/ and you add a link to that page thus: atouchofrust.com/vendor-news Then the result will be a concatenated string thus: https://www.atouchofrust.com/terms-of-use/atouchofrust.com/vendor-news Which will 404. If you change the link on the page to **https://www.**atouchofrust.com/vendor-news Then the link will resolve to the page it is meant to. I think that is your problem. Go through all the cross site links and add the https://www Regards Nigel Carousel Projects.