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As Matt said, you need to be redirecting all your http urls to https. If you have WordPress or a similar CMS, you can usually do this in one go via the .htaccess file. Just enter the right code to redirect any http url to https and you'll be done.

What is your domain Ishrat-Khan? I want to take a look at the live site.

Hi Miriam, I just fixed #1 and #2 is already true to a degree. My goal isn't to sell more logos to the local market it is to present my business as a visual identity company which is actually a more apt description of what I do for my customers. I have another website that i put together to present myself to local business on a case by case basis when I played with the idea of going to work for someone else. The site is garnergraphics.com and it gives a more well rounded view of the work I do. I'm in the process of redesigning Imageco.com, rewriting all of the copy and showcasing work that has more of a mass appeal so that I won't present myself as the one-trick-pony logo designer that my current site does. I guess my main concern at this point is whether or not I should kill off all of the geographic landing pages that are focused on logo design in order to start ranking locally for other terms. As I mentioned I still get a bit of work from those pages so I was thinking of moving them to a subdirectory and redirecting the traffic while I make the push locally... or will it hurt my local efforts just by having all of those pages? Do you think I should abandon the national market altogether or should I keep them and refocus all of those landing pages on presenting myself as a visual identity business? Ultimately I think my success is going to be determined by getting in front of local businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs so if the best move to accomplish that requires completely abandoning those pages I am more than willing to do so. I very much appreciate your willingness to offer me some guidance on this because I really do need all the help I can get. Thank you!

Hi Alex, I think you are talking about featured snippets here, not rich snippets. There is no structured data markup that will help you get featured snippets. Google uses an algorithm to determine which page it thinks answers the search query the best and pulls through a snippet from that page into the SERPs. If you are not familiar with featured snippets and how to optimize your content to increase your chances of getting them, I would suggest reading/listening to the following resources: What We Learned From Analyzing 1.4 Million Featured Snippets Ahrefs’ Study Of 2 Million Featured Snippets: 10 Important Takeaways Seizing The Featured Snippet Gold Rush w/Rob Bucci [Podcast] I also wrote an in-depth guide on how to find easy featured snippet opportunities for you website, which might help you. Cheers, David

Have you looked at this post, Sunday? I believe it will answer most, if not all, of your questions.

Each domain should have its own robots.txt and sitemap.xml and you should only reference that domain in its sitemap.

Neil, Unfortunately this is not that easy - while you can create tables for delivery based on item (weight, handling time, perishability) the settings for location based variations are only available for the US, Australia and Japan. https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324484?hl=en-GB You can see here that 'location_group_name' is a supported sub-attribute...but, like I say, it is only supported for the US and Australia (and location_id for Japan as well). Without being able to show these location specific variations you are then given an unattractive option...but unfortunately I think this is the one you will need to take. "Overestimate if you can’t provide an accurate delivery cost. Match or overestimate the cost users would pay. " Hope that helps. Richard

Yes, the 75 characters length recommendation includes the http:// Regards.

Apologies I missed your response for some reason - I normally get an email. You are right in that there is a fine line between each of the games and that sits at the heart of the problem. 1. If it was me I would have a sub-category below Kindergarten games and write 300 words about the benefits of Vowel Games in the description backed up by Meta, title, compelling call to action description and a highly relevant H1. Then write specific content talking about just the benefits of each type of game on the game pages 1-4 Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Games>Vowel game 1 etc And sit all four games on that. 2. If you can't do that then you could have one page for all four games as I suggested (like the Zappos model) So: Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Games     (Vowel Games being the product name) Then have the four types of vowel game as attributes as a drop down or separate link on the page. Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Game  (attribute 1 = letter sound)                                                                   (attribute 2 = identifying the vowels)                                                                   (attribute 3 = matching upper and lowercase vowel                                                                   (attribute 4 = letter and image match) Then all of the descriptive text could sit on this on page and the drop downs could be by via ajax (which wouldn't change the URL), or after the URL # or ? e.g  http://www.site.com/kindergarten-games/vowel-game#attribute1=letter sound        http://www.site.com/kindergarten-games/vowel-game#attribute2=identifying the vowels etc If you do it this way you risk splitting the juice four ways: Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Game1  (attribute= letter sound) Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Game 2 (attribute= identifying the vowels) Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Game 3  (attribute= matching upper and lowercase vowels) Site>Kindergarten Games>Vowel Game 4 (attribute= letter and image match) It's clear that people are much more likely to type in vowel games so this is not the strongest way when you have 1 or 2 above. Regards Nigel

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Thanks great sugestion

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Thank you very much I will rewrite the post.

Sorry for the long delay I have been away on vacation. Your response is very valid and indeed in our generated string we do also include product titles,  however since changing the order of the aspx attributes our sales have taken off. An issue we have is that we have many products which have very slight variations in name and come up against the the URL too long issue to give real keyword rich titles.  We choose to use the attributes to make sure that pages are visited by google on feeds to them, but then generate the title on the fly when the page is rendered.  This keeps the url nice and short for Google to locate but allows the spider to see the title in the url. The issue remains that Google are not spidering the all of the attributes but using just the first they come across even if it gives rise to duplicate feeds.  You would think that they would index using a sample with all attributes and then with individual attributes to make sure they gain the most content rich and valid results. We will now run a test to see if truncating the titles improves indexing or shows little or no improvement. I would like to think that this is fairly minor as long as the keywords are close to the start of the title string and hence if Google truncates for result display purposes users will still gain a rich experience.

Hello! There are a few parts to this answer; let's pull it apart a little. Firstly, setting geographic targeting in search console is unlikely to positively impact your rankings, visibility or traffic from the UK - this tool is more to do with helping Google to understand which users should not find your website, and to help manage brand who have websites with different areas (or multiple websites) which target different countries. That said, there's no harm in enabling it, and I'd recommend that you leave it set. It'd also be helpful to understand what you mean when you say that you've "set geo-targeting code at the back end of the website". Are you referring to hreflang tagging? And if so, what does your configuration look like? A partial or erroneous implementation of this can cause more problems than it solves! I'd also double-check what your on-page language tags/attributes look like - there are a number of signals which you can send through your language markup, which might potentially help or confuse google. I wonder how much of this might be a measurement issue I'd be interested to understand if you've selected the option in Google Analytics to try and filter out common bots and crawlers? It may be that much of the traffic you're seeing from India isn't human. That rules out most of the technical and measurement challenges. The next areas I'd look are more challenging, and a bit 'bigger picture'. Are you using tools like Moz, Search Console and SEMrush and others to measure how and where your website is ranking for various queries? Can you see the kinds of keywords which you're visible for, which are driving this traffic? Is your content, brand, product and/or service relevant to a UK audience? Does your website provide a good experience for searchers who are looking for the content you provide; and how does that quality of experience compare to other websites who serve that audience (particularly in the UK)? Is your website well-constructed, managed, and generally _good _and usefu__l? Is it differentiated and distinct? Is your content well-written and helpful? Do other websites, blogs, communities and social audiences link to, talk about, promote and cite your website - again, particularly in the UK? Things I wouldn't worry about: It doesn't really matter where your website is hosted. In an age when most hosting and routing infrastructure is cloud-based and international, this isn't really an issue. Where this _might _affect you is around speed and performance (hosting which is geographically far away from your visitor might mean a slower response) - I'd check with tools like Pingdom and WebPagetest to see how you're performing, and to spot ways to speed things up. I'd not worry overly about directories or submission of any kind - any effort you'd spend submitting your site to these kinds of listings could be better spent on improving your content/website/service and engaging with the communities you operate in, with an aim of encouraging people to talk about, cite and engage with your brand. I appreciate that none of these are easy, quick wins - however, hopefully they'll provide a starting point for you to think about! Let me know if you've any follow-up thoughts or concerns, or if anything I've signposted leads to any further questions.

It's for sure not an issue on the Google side. Usually things are changing on your side that will influence this. It can be the most minimal change that might have an impact on this. Usually I wouldn't worry about it too much and use your sitemaps to verify what % of your pages is submitted versus indexed.