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Hi! Have you no indexed the pages too? That may help to make sure that they aren't being crawled if that's concerning you. May at least give Google another signal not to crawl those pages. Obviously it's not a catch all as there's only so much you can do to tell Google not to crawl a page. Sometimes if the alternative page is linked to internally (which it sounds like it is), then it will automatically crawl it even though you've said it has a canonical on it as you're showing that the page is important to your site. May be worth testing a few pages to see if it has an impact.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. You'll want to add a robots.txt file for that subdomain, and then add a Disallow command to that robots.txt file. So, using your example, you'd want a file like mediabank.mywebsite.org/robots.txt that had a Disallow command for any robots you don't want crawling that subdomain. For all user-agents, that would look something like this: User-agent: * Disallow: / That would stop any user-agents from crawling any pages on that subdomain. I hope this helps! If you've still got questions, feel free to send us a note at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort things out for you.

Hi, With Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .com Google use something called geotagging. In Google Search Console, you are able to select 'unlisted' within the international targeting option. This means that Google will determine what country the user is in and decide whether the site should be shown within this country. However, you would need to specify a language within the URL or the sitemap of the page. For example, if https://www.babyment.com was unlisted in Google Search Console and it was searched for in Malaysia, you would need to specify the country and the language so Google understands that this page can be used by the people in Malaysia. In my opinion, the best URL to have in this situation would be https://www.babyment.com/en/my which indicates 'en' the website is for English speaking and 'my' is the website is targeted for Malaysia. Alternatively you can specify the language and country of the page within the source code of the page using hreflang="en-my"

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Thanks, Dan.

Thanks to everyone for the discussion; i really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Have a great day, Nails

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful IMO the difference between them boils down to where their content appears. Title tags appear in the SERP's (search results) and in a browsers title bar while an H1 appears in the body of your webpage. That difference impacts how search engines and page visitors will analyze your page. That being said, search engines give more weight to Title Tags than Page Headers. Both should provide details about the overall message of your page, right, so the best way to optimize your Title Tags and Headers is to write for your audience. Of course follow best practices when creating each. Moz made this tool that helps with the Title (character/pixel) length. The page also offers other great info on titles as well. Hope that helps better answer your original question! If not please let me know how I can help further. Cheers!!

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. It's tough to say without being able to look at your Campaign directly, but I can give you a hint! If you go to All Crawled Pages and download the CSV, Column B is the Referrer URL, the page our crawler was on when it found the link to the page in Column A. You should be able to trace our steps backward to find where all these links are coming from on your site. I hope that helps! If you're still needing some help, please write in to us at help@moz.com with all the details of your issue, and we'll do our very best to sort things out for ya. Cheers!

Hi, You should use hreflang across the 2 different domains: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-internationalisation#q16 And I would change the content as much as posible to make it relevant to the targeted country. Regards

Perfect, thanks for your feedback We have third party, but I have seen sites which use both third party and google customer reviews. The only thing I am unsure of is, if a customer gets sent 2 emails & ways of leaving feedback it may get confusing... will keep looking into it! Do you have organisation schema or are you just focusing on the local listing?

Hey There!, Deleting a page of a site is always tricky, so I would always consider looking at other factors that may be causing this page to still show in Google results. Firstly I would check the sitemap. The sitemap is an easy way to tell Google what pages you want indexed.  I would remove the page in question from the sitemap if you haven't already, then I would log into Google Search Console and upload the new one. This should provide Google with a fresh new sitemap without the 404 Page hopefully preventing the page being indexed. Another consideration when removing a page from the site, is to ensure there are no other sites still linking to that page, if Google can access your site from another page or another site, chances are it will index it. For this I would implement a 301 re-direct to redirect users(and bots) visiting that page to a relevant equivalent. Hope this helps! Thanks, Ian

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. That sounds like an issue with the Mozbar. Oh dear! It'll help us troubleshoot if you write in to us directly at help@moz.com. We'll need to gather some pretty specific data from you in order to troubleshoot what might be going on here. Please write in to help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort things out for you!

Hi Kelvin, Thank you for posting this question! I have recently look up into Moz Resources and these are some insights. 1. Focus on "Natural" editorial links, those that are editorially given by other website owners. This would be much more efficient than having to contact someone and ask them to link to you. (Provide them a good reason for them to do so. Making them aware of that reason.) - Cons, it takes time but nevertheless is HIGHLY VALUED. 2. Manual 'outreach' link building - most common which involves manually contacting website owners and bloggers to get linked. An important note from Moz Res: Google has been devaluing and even penalizing 'self-created, non-editorial links' which often fall in line with black-hat practices that aim to fool the search engines into thinking a piece of content is relevant and important when it isn't. Non-editorially given link, inherently carry less weight than other types of links. Focus on tactics that give you editorial links that add value to your website and business. **What you should do in my opinion: Look out for blogs with great evergreen content (**with good rankings, good links, seeming decent traffic, etc) and link to a relevant page on your site. Look out for more active sites(usually have better overall quality, search performance, and a more active audience) - with a more active audience, potentially increase your chance to attract more decent traffic to your page. Whether or not you succeed, it is crucial that you have a structure towards link building, which is very much dependent on a combination of your available assets and resources. Hope the above insights have answered to your question applying to all kind of links. Different kind of links brings different impact to your business (whether or not this bring awareness to the potential audience). You can visit my blog at https://www.corsivalab.com/blog and have reference to how I am actually backlinking the necessary stuff. Marketing is all about learning and sharing, the blog too has tips and ways you can better strategize and do links for marketing purposes. Let's learn more as a community! Cheers!

Thanks for your reply Dan. It's an International site. Our target audience is from India, Middle East countries, and East Asia. Google has indexed https version and looks good, but after all the on page optimization also, the traffic not going up, however, we are ranking for more keywords than ever. I've attached the screenshot of traffic stats from Jan to June, if that will help pinpoint issues. Thanks again lAJf0