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You need to. use either a local domain and choose that domain or create a subfolder if you are writing all of this in Arabic or use a separate domain that ends in com.PK  hreflang or make sure you have correctly set up targeting in Google search console for .com.pk hreflang if you want to rank in English-speaking countries & com.pk or make sure you have correctly set up targeting in Google search console for .com.pk you are going to continue to write in English? make sure Google understands where you are targeting your website. Set a country target https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en On the International Targeting report, click the Country tab. Check the Geographic target checkbox and choose your country target. If you want to ensure that your site is not associated with any country or region, select Unlisted in the drop-down list. find Pakistan if you want to rank more than one country or region look at the information below. hreflang https://www.branded3.com/blog/implementing-hreflang-tag/ http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/ Respectfully, Thomas

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Thanks for the response Bronn. While I am not sure what a PBN is, it sounds like it is outside Terms of Service.  I am trying to avoid anything that will harm our website so it doesn't sound like something for us. The video seemed within Terms of Service/Webmaster Guidelines though so I am not sure if they are related. Is there anyone who can reassure me that this process described is within Google Webmaster Guidelines?

Yes I would recommend moving to https over  the curent http it will be very unlikely that you have an issue with google and  The end-users will feel much more secure. If you are doing this on a bespoke site ( not very common CMS or made by hand) I know tools like  letsencrypt.com give you a free certificate so will CloudFlare.com  so if you're trying to have HTTP/2 , HSTS, forced https & a cert you can use for free version and it will do everything you need for https cost  (free-$5,000) (any reverse proxy CDN or WAF) stackpath.com ($20)  incapsula.com ($59) sucuri.net WAF ($19) Armor.com ($600-7,000) WAF only (under $200) Speedyrails.com has always had deals on cloudflare (35-40% off) if you're going to use it. if you use a EV cert or just want to have a regular certificate I strongly recommend looking at third-party sites you can save a lot of money. I like  DigiCert and GlobalSign  personal most of the others are on the Symantec what was VERISIGN you can definitely get away with getting one for $5-100 on namecheap  but remember to search for the best price on Google. They tend to make the job a lot easier and  my personal opinion is that every person should actually do have WAF for their sites they like.

The above advice is good, but also check the hosting situation for each of your sites. Anything but Class A hosting will leave a footprint which can be traced back to each of your sites - this is why PBN's are really getting crunched now. It probably won't hurt you if you do it a couple times for each of your websites from a single source. After all, that is pretty common. However, if you are planning on repeating this strategy from multiple link sources for all 3 of your sites, this is a very noticeable PBN linking strategy and has been under fire for the last couple of years. The only way to avoid this is to ensure your sites are hosted on separate servers (Class A hosting). This will eliminate most issues related to "paid" links, PBN's and the like. It isn't a guaranteed fix, but it's your best bet if you haven't taken other precautions and plan on using this kind of strategy on a large scale. After that it's just a matter of making sure your websites are relevant to the pages linking to you, and your content is worth reading. Follow the above suggestions (no over-optimization, etc.) and you should be fine.

You are right Karina I completely forgot add Semrush even when It is my favorite tool.

I agree with Robert. So of course with the Clarks examples pages may be: Clarks Boots Clarks Sandals Clarks Slippers And each of those pages would be different. Filled with contextually rich content surrounding those terms. "It won't put you on the 1st page" - I don't agree with this. I have many clients who have been hoiked up to page one by adding contextually relevant content to a key phrase (Brand + Category) constructed the page. If you _are _the brand and you construct pages like this (With 300+ words contextual content) you will be No. 1 or 2 in Google, never mind just on the front page. Just search 'Carousel Projects SEO' Regards Nigel

Hey there Shahin, make sure your breadcrumbs reflect the path the users took. It's a navigational aid that's meant to help the user and creating a canonical version of the breadcrumbs would just create a confusing experience. If your user was trying to get back to the mountain tours page but the breadcrumbs only listed glacier hiking, wouldn't that be odd? Since the URLs are already canonicalized it shouldn't hurt your SEO to set things up this way.

You can upload them to Google search console but you will not be given the option to specify which location the sub-folders should target. But you should still do that as It is still helpful to segment them in search console for better search data, broken links etc. Especially if you have dedicated webmasters for each locale. Good luck.

I would also 2nd Disqus. I have used it on the DNN platforms and like it a lot.

Slap to the forehead! Of course that makes complete sense. It's been a very long Monday. Thanks for your help. -Christina

Hi there, Yes, the overall website situation impacts particular pages. Shortly: It's not only about how the particular page is optimised, it's also considered what it's surrounded by - i.e. other pages / rest of the website. So when you analyse your page, you should also analyse your website to see bounce rates, or time on site for example. If you want to improve pages, you should look at its complexity. I don't believe you can succeed long-term if you have 5% of over-optimised pages and 95% don't even rank. Google is becoming more and more clever. Try to optimise those 95% of pages (or at least some of them), get them some backlinks and you'll see DA growing and it should have positive impact on PA of your focus pages. I hope this helps. Good luck! Katarina

Hi there The only way to "get the top spots" in Google is to make sure your site abides by SEO best practices, that great content is being written, and that you are building great backlinks. If you are conducting proper keyword research for your content, then you should be able to find a healthy balance between the language your target audience uses and what keywords get a healthy amount of search volume in search engines. Use these words / phrases naturally in your content and you'll be just fine. Remember - Google is fantastic and making connections between topics and variations. If you are able to write your content that methodically uses these keywords, and your pages are optimized, then look into your link building strategy to begin distributing your content more effectively. Also - don't forget to be conduct ongoing audits of your website as this will help / hinder ongoing search engine performance. Hope this all helps! Good luck! Patrick

Thanks for the response. I don't think this would be possible since owing to domain suspension (serverHOLD), the DNS is no longer getting resolved. And my domain is now showing "unverified" status in Google Search Console and owing to domain suspension I can't verify it via Google Analytics or any of the CNAME, TXT Record or HTML tags method.

Hi Rob ! Thank you very much for taking the time to write a really detailed and clear answer, I really appreciate it. This was insightful and answered my question. Cheers.

Yup, if you fetch it, it's more likely to appear fresh in the index. If you don't fetch it, you'll have to wait for Google to crawl your site again. This does not mean that your site is instantly indexed as soon as you fetch it; you just send a signal to Google that you want it crawled again and you'll see a status next to the page.

301 redirects should do the trick but you need to figure out how this happened to begin with and make sure to squash the bug to fix the issue.

I am talking about the subfolder and anything past the forward /

Thanks Patrick, I am based in Australia so unfortunately can't take advantage of MOZ local. But hopefully it will be available here too. Ill get hacking away at the business directories then. We have 3 business sites that need to be uploaded. All have different details, can anyone suggest a quicker fill option. Ive heard Google has a extension Call Auto fill but I cant seem to get it to work. Ive also heard of CSV files? Anyone with advice or experience with this? Thanks