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Ah, all very helpful, thanks! Some interesting bits to pull apart here, I think: hreflang tagging is unlikely to improve your rankings for any given language/territory/page/keyword; rather, it's more likely to prevent the wrong content from showing up in the wrong territory. Make sense? I'd try to manage expectations around "restoring" rankings. What if your performance dropped because of strong competitor activity, changing consumer behaviour, or other factors? Whilst your international setup is part of that picture, the reality is much more complex. I'd try to shift the conversation away from working out ways to / waiting for your rankings to "restore" from a magic bullet fix, and start talking about the many strategies and tactics you might deploy to improve rankings gradually moving forwards. I'd be _really _nervous of outsourced link building. If you're handing money to a third party to get you links, you're only a small amounts of semantics away from buying links outright. What are the doing, exactly? Are you producing exceptionally high quality, useful information and resources, which they're helping to shine a spotlight on - or are you paying them a fee for them to magically acquire links? It feels like, of all the possible risks and causes of your problems, this is the area I'd want to scrutinise the most; and in the meantime, start looking into ways in which your pages can earn links without having to pay a mysterious third party!

Hi Carolyn, Google won't automatically ignore what's after the ? and these URLs can be indexed if they are not dealt with correctly. Usually, query string URLs will be canonicalized to the URL without the query string, which is the correct way to handle it if you don't want them to be indexed. You'll also have to make sure that the canonical URL is not redirecting. Your issue sounds like a common Woo Commerce issue where it adds this type of query string to every page on the site, canonicalizes back to the non-query string, but the canonical URL redirects to the query string URL - and in the end Google ignores your canonical tags because they redirect and they index your query string URLs (I hope that makes sense). There is a setting in Woo Commerce where you can turn off 'Default Customer Location' if you don't want the query string URLs used, but you should check with someone who knows more about the site to make sure that doing so won't cause any unwanted issues. Cheers, David

My pleasure, E2E!

Thank you! Yes, we have a feeling the phone number came from a hidden code somewhere. We asked our client if their website was built by the same developer that built the site of the business where the phone number goes to. If this is the case, then that solves the mystery.

Thanks!

Wishing you best of luck, Dickens!

Hi James, I don't think you have anything to worry about here. I'm assuming you publish the content on your WordPress site first, before you send out the web-based email? If that's the case, Google is pretty good at identifying the original publisher of content and devaluing other web pages that feature the same content. If you are worried about it and can easily add "noindex" tags to these web emails, do it. If you can't "noindex" them, I wouldn't be concerned about any duplicate content "penalties". Cheers, David

Thanks, Lesli, It seems that you were correct.  There seems to have been a coding error, which I fixed and implemented. After pushing the code again, I saw the changes reflected immediately like you said. Thanks for your help with this! Best, Sung

What you are seeing is google showing you specific papers on cancer trials and how many other papers have cited these trials. It is an organic listing. It is part of the Google Scholar search engine https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=5,31&sciodt=0,31 You can read more about google scholar here https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html Thanks, Don

Hi there, This is a weird quirk of Google: sometimes, when their cached version of your page tries to execute some code and fails, the cached page looks blank. Here's the key: when you first load the cache, you'll get the gray banner at the top for about a second as the page tries to load, then everything will go white. In that second or so, if you quickly click on "Text Only Version," you'll see the text version of the cache, at least, and see that Google's reading and saving your content. I tried this with the page you shared, and was able to get text (picture attached). To my knowledge, this does not mean that Google isn't able to properly index your pages. But it may be worth looking closely at the text only version of the page to see if it's missing something that you load with a script. Good luck! Kristina KPVGF

This question only leads me to followup questions... I don't see pagination markup in the parameters, only the query, startDate, and endDate. Where are the parameters as pagination? Why are paginated URLs noindexed?? This is not the ideal way to handle paginated URLs

Dan/James, thanks for the replies. The company owns the domains themselves. Turning off the redirects seems like the easiest, and best thing to do. Cheers guys.

Hi. But do you not effectively get the links from the expired domain if you redirect it?

Thanks, appreciate the advice.  Im using Wordpress for the new site Im creating so Im sure theres a great tool for A/B testing.  Ill give the two options a try.  The other thing is can I have the cta too many times ont he page.  Ive got the CTA on a green button for contrast and its in the header on the right.  Ive also added it 4 times in the content after each section where I explain each benefit.  Ive also then got it at the bottom of the page too.  Not sure whether it will look a bit too spammy or the more the better?

Thanks, thats put my mind at ease

Thanks Ive sent them an email