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Hey There SEOJaz, As you mentioned the word 'optimal' my own description of this would be: A single website representing the brand A store locator linking to an excellent set of landing pages representing the physical locations of the brand. These pages feature unique, compelling content and good CTAs. A submenu or sitemap somewhere on the site linking to these landing pages to sure they are indexable. And that's it. When we start throwing subdomains, 20% different content and micro-sites into the game, what you typically wind up with is confusion, mistakes, content of less than sterling quality and marketing efforts having to be spread too thin across an ecosystem of properties instead of being poured into a single, very strong, branded website. What I've described is optimal, but I'm not sure I've answered your questions...

That answers my question. Thank you,

Google will not treat content that is concealed behind tabs, accordions, or any other element where JavaScript is used to reveal content, in the same way as content that is visible as standard. However, it will still be indexed, so pages may rank for search phrases related to content contained within the hidden sections. Why does Google devalue hidden content? Google’s focus is on ensuring that the user experience within its search results is as good as possible. If the algorithm gave full weight to content hidden using JavaScript, this could be compromised. For example, say a user searches for a term that is matched on a page but only in the hidden section. The user then clicks the search result to go through to that page but can’t immediately see the information they’re looking for because it’s hidden. They give up and return to the search results or head to another website. This, in Google’s assessment, would not be a high quality user experience and the content within the hidden sections is therefore down-weighted. In Summary Hiding content within tabs, accordions, or other elements that rely on JavaScript to reveal it to users is likely to be treated differently by Google, and assigned far less importance Websites, therefore, must take a considered approach and use this method only to hide content that is of secondary importance to the primary topic of the page, or that covers related topics

I believe you are seeing "FOUC" Flash of Unstyled Content. Do a google search for that phrase. Lots of info.

Hi there, While I do encourage adding internal links where it makes sense, you will also want to amplify, promote and share this content in social media, with relevant industry sites and with industry influencers. The more sites that pick up/share your resource and the more back links it acquires, the better off it is going to perform in organic search. Here are a few resources for amplifying your content: How to Get Content into the Hands of Influencers Who Can Help Amplify It - Whiteboard Friday How to Hack the Amplification Process - Whiteboard Friday

I can't replicate this in live SERPs, but Matthew's explanation seems to match the evidence. It does appear that Google is doing some kind of implicit canonicalization. It's rare, but it does happen. You could try giving the PDF a unique title in its own meta information (the document doesn't seem to have any). It's more likely to look like a duplicate if that's undefined. The next step would be to recreate the PDF slightly and make it unique, but honestly, each step is going to get to be progressively more work. It really depends whether this is just an anomaly or it's causing you actual issues as a business.

Ohhh yes, i see now thanks, but are imagination of myself or before you could see more?

In my experiece I created some brand pages related to one of my product, create some trending content and when the page is ranked I merge the old with the new one.

It's not best practice for sure, and it doesn't help with SEO (ideally, you want clean, clear, descriptive URLs and paths). That said, if Google can index the content of the page (or the image), it's not a dealbreaker. You can check by using the URL/image path in Google Images e.g. this one.

Yes, but article got 1y so it can be not so accurate now.

Thank you for the information, I will start working on that.

Hi Gastro, How is the structure of the other tags are not correctly set up? There is one h1 tag on the page? No h2 tag, and the other tags look fine to me. Cheers.

I wouldn't suggest redirecting a homepage to another site if you still want to rank that original domain for stuff. It's just showing G that you're not taking that domain as serious as you are others. Hope this helps If it does please send a like. Thanks!

Absolutely not. Google reads a text view (view source) of the page, where it doesn't matter if that content is "hidden" first of all. Unless it's being dynamically loaded with ajax when you click on the button. If it's there from moment 0 when the page loads, but just hidden with CSS you have nothing to worry about. Hope this helps If it does please send a like. Thanks!

Hi, Launching a new website on your domain can be challenging, especially from an SEO perspective. There are a lot of things that need to be "ticked off" before you press the launch button. I understand that your new website is already live, so I'll adjust my recommendations below based on that to try and help: Ensure that Google Analytics and any other tracking codes from your old website have been copied across to the new site. You can use the wayback machine to check the code of your old website if you have lost any of these. Complete technical checks on things like: a) www and non-www versions - do they redirect correctly? b) Is there an XML sitemap in place? Has it been resubmitted in Google Search Console? c) Is the new website mobile friendly? d) Check page speed e) Is the site launching on HTTPS? Are redirects setup correctly? f) Are canonical tags in place? g) Test web forms and ensure they work correctly h) Check for any 404 errors in Google Search Console i) Ensure NOINDEX and robots.txt block is removed on the new website j) Request a recrawl in Google Search Console k) Ensure any Goals in GA are reconfigured to work on the new site l) Add an annotation in GA to mark the launch of the new site Recreate any high ranking/high traffic pages from your old website. Open Google Analytics and select a date range for 2-3 months BEFORE your new website went live. Have a look at the top landing pages on your website. For pages that were generating a significant amount of organic traffic, ensure they are replicated as closely as possible on your new website (including meta tags). For other pages on the new website, ensure content and meta tags have been optimised. If this was done previously on your old website, you can copy across your previous meta tags and look at modifying your content. Using the same method in point 3, get a list of URLS from your old website and ensure they all 301 redirect to your new URL structures on a page level. Hope this helps! Thanks Matt

you are welcome. if you like you can mark the question as answered if you liked my answers. cheers

Hi Meier, Did Robert van Heerde's answer help you resolve your issue? If so, please mark it as a "Good Answer." If you are still having issues, though, we'd love to get an update about that, too, so we can try to get you resolve this. Christy

Yes, its complicated. The new listing is in place to stand alongside the existing Adwords campaigns which are in the other Google account. Neither of the listings have reviews, at least not at the moment, it's something we need to work on. Working on amending the citations to the new address at the moment. What do you mean by ranking signals, other than citations and reviews, what other aspects come into play?

Thanks for your reply, I submitted each language URL to google webmasters, Should i use international target option for each language to target the countries? will that hurt the language targeting? or i have to leave international targeting option unchecked for each language? Thanks in advance