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hey nice question i recently got lil knowledge about how we can remove our site backlink  from other site webmaster tool is very useful in that it also have feature to remove negative backlink.  disavow tool will help you in this problem.  **[Irrelevant link removed by forum moderator.] **

It's unlikely that they'll stop counting at all. I think that at least part of the value should still flow to the domain. i think it would be better if you could create a better version of those pages with good links and canonicalize the old ones.

Very good point Kris

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I don't think migrating to another platform is an option, to be honest, but I appreciate the advice. Thanks.

Hi there, Our UK-based company was facing this problem a while ago and we decided for the first option. Originally we had .com + /uk +/us and what we decided to do now is: we are keeping .com (we changed /uk to .com - it became our global) and the /us remained the same. We have hreflang tags. Basically, from the point of view of SEO, you might already have a strong site that will outperform the /au. Especially if you have a number of backlinks, you might drop in performance, you are right. The 301s won't help either. To keep it simple, I would go with what you have - you have started your journey and you might be pretty established there. Have a look at how you can improve your existing site further and don't risk the drop. I would keep the .com - I am saying it from the point of view of a global company launching in the US that can't afford any mistakes. I hope this helps. Good luck! Katarina

Google is incredibly good at entity detection (i.e. figuring out when someone is searching for a "thing"). When there is a canonical right answer for that thing (e.g. the company website in the case of a company), it will often rank very well despite not necessarily having any of the "traditional" ranking factors in place. Typically, when the search is unambiguously for the thing in question, the company will rank #1 even if there are much stronger websites and pages about that company. You will rarely find that a company is outranked on their own company name when it's sufficiently distinguished from other entities even if it's a really small company and there are (for example) major media stories about it. There are a variety of other factors - like query sequences (e.g. a user searching [seo] followed by [seo trucks] in your example) that Google can use to associate more specific sites with more general queries as well. Most importantly - I'm not sure there's a great deal you can do about it, not any general lessons you can apply to your own attempts in this market / keyword space - so I wouldn't spend too long worrying about it!

Will, Write amazing content!!! So start with what your competitors are doing (market research) see what type of content ranks locally. Then produce a content campaign that exceeds usability, engagement and information that your competitors are producing. I don't think it is as necessary to do exact match domains these days. If you want to dominate the local space you have to do the technical local objectives, such as listing and google my business verification, Facebook page and Moz Local. Thanks, Don

I think it's your handling of the /ar/ version and multilingual setup. On https://new-waves.net/ you have: rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="https://new-waves.net/ar/" /> But you should self reference the English version: <code>https://new-waves.net/" /></code> And you should also add that to the /ar/ version of every page. Here's Google full documentation on hreflang: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Hey BigChad, Embedding a G Map wasn't considered a Top 50 local or organic ranking factor in this year's Local Search Ranking Factors survey (https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors). That being said, one thing that could potentially help you is to drive users to Google Maps to get driving directions to your business, as this behavior could potentially influence rankings.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Unfortunately, there's no way to use our tools to find out when an inbound link was created, and there's no way to import that sort of data into Moz Pro campaigns. Sorry about that! If you have any other questions we can help with, feel free to shoot us a note over at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to answer any and all questions you might have.

Roy, Are you trying to get the several pages of each tag indexed?

Hi There It's more beneficial for you to keep abc123.com. You have 60,000 visitors a month to the main site. You will then move to be a directory of the main site - they keep the 60k and you are now banking on visitors clicking the link to the US site. Yet the main .com is a US site. You will only, therefore, get a fraction of the visitors you had before. The other issue, of course, is that I would assume that the main site will be in US English? the same as yours? So yours will not only be a new subdirectory of the main site but now a 100% duplicate, which will kill both sites in search engines.Google will pick the main site as the primary and yours will never feature independently in search. Also the fact that yours duplicates theirs will impact badly in search for them. If you have an option you must keep the original and let them set up separate country sites. Or you take the missive from above and do what they say - but populate your new site with vastly different content - if you want to rank. Regards Nigel

Nigel, Thanks for the feedback. The product pages do not have the categories in the breadcrumbs. It is just home > product. The thing is, the category pages that were indexed are already deindexed. And, we didn't build any links to the category pages as it was a new e-commerce site. I will try to see if there is a faster way of mapping the native categories to the hosted navigation pages. Although it is much faster and more user friendly, I do regret using hosted navigation on the site now. Also, I may not use the hosted navigation service at the end of the year. I am wondering if I should hold off on the 301s, as will have to reverse the 301s if we cancel the service. What are your thoughts?