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Hi , Best way to check using fetch and render in Google search console. If you see everything is visible in result no need to worry. Hope this helps. Thanks

Hi, Latest article published on the same just a week ago @ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-friendly-url-structure-2/202790/ Thanks

Hi, So the main issue with dynamic search results is that they won't have unique content, and will quite often duplicate other pages, as you've discovered. E.g. Products under £10, Products under £20, and Products under £30 would all include content from the first, and then the first and second categories. The usual answer is to just noindex all of them, particularly if individual product pages are your focus and ranking well. Unless you specifically want to rank for 'x products under £10' then there's no issue with removing them from search results. You have a couple of options for doing this - either by noindexing any dynamic search content via robots.txt, or Noindex,Follow, which still allows crawling, but won't display the results. In general, I'd say that Noindexing the dynamic search results with a wildcard is easiest and most effective. If you did have something you wanted to rank - then it's be a case of setting a specific search result with some unique content describing that category etc. Dan

Instead of using javascript, will adding a title tag within a div help with SEO and accessibility?

Hi Becky Essentially yes although htaccess is for Apache servers only so check with your developer/platform host that they have been inserted correctly. Then find a few old URLs and satisfy yourself they are redirecting to the new ones, Best Regards Nigel

can you put the url of the page please, is hard to give you an advice without information.

I'm having a hard time doing it, but these sites are doing this well: kredibir and bahis.

Hi there! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. Yes, the "http" part of your URL is included in the character count. I hope this helps but please let us know if there's more we can assist with or help to clarify for you! Thank you, -Kristina

Hey David, I thought I'd jump in here, as it's our tool We have more information on bot verification here, including a troubleshooting section with common issues for genuine events being marked as spoofed - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/user-guide/configuration/#verify-bots You can also reach us via our support here - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/log-file-analyser/support/ Cheers. Dan

Jon, If there is no content and these pages are just the download link then instead of putting a canonical link on them, set them as noindex.  I assume you have a landing page that directs people to your downloads, this is where you should optimize your content to get organic traffic, the direct download pages (with 0 content) will have no real value from a search perspective.

Hi, Katarina! Thanks for this very thorough response - I'm beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. When you say stress the address via directories, you are referring to making sure my external listings and directories are current, consistent, correct, yes? Just confirming you are not recommending something internal to the site? We are writing out driving directions where possible, and using the google maps api to display the location. Also, we won't have unique images for the products - I might be able to do something to edit them differently, but they are the same thing. Will naming them uniquely matter? For the rest, we are writing, writing, writing! The client had no idea their former developer (yup, they paid someone to do this to them) had done a bad thing, and when I first read their GA and MOZ data (before we really dove into the content on each page and realized it had literally been pasted from one site to the other), I thought the data had to be wrong, ha! We're pursuing the suggestion about unique content, and think we have a way way to enough of it to matter. Thanks for taking the time to answer. I will try to post some before and after scores when we are done.

Hi SwanseaMedicine, Have a read of this hidden content experiment by Reboot Online: https://www.rebootonline.com/blog/hidden-text-experiment/ It was a very well-run experiment and, in summary, they found that visible content outperformed hidden content. However, this will change once Google's mobile-first index rolls out (sometime in 2018?) where hidden content will be given full weight (source). Cheers, David

Hey Kate, I'd stick with the original one. In case of changing, you'd risk drop in rankings for 18 months which is quite long period of time. On top of that, Google likes bigger pages so multiple topic shouldn't be a problem. Cheers, Martin

No problem. And there are ways around presenting the same content differently. It's hard to be specific without being able to know what the product is, but it's something I've had to solve for various clients, whether it's been for software or actual products.

We had this issue with products which we sell on two different websites, that Google would rank one or the other, randomly swapping them out for each other in the rankings. We used cross-domain canonicals to solve this and it has fixed the issue for us, i.e. the website we want to rank now ranks for these products, the other one doesn't. If you use canonicals, it will most likely mean that only the main page will rank (the canonical URL).

That's a great idea Dan. I could give them a slide presentation and let them post it on their blog.

@Zack Barton Thanks for the info. What would you class as bad neighbourhood ? im looking to post my infographic to about 25 websites with dofollow backlinks. They all are above DA20 and the spam score is 1-2/17 on most of them. There are a few that have spam score 4-5 out of 17. Is there something else i should be looking out for ? Thanks for any info in advance. Kind Regards Rory