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Thank you so much Martin and David! These were very informative and helpful responses. They answered my question.

Hey Alex–building from David's note. Without more information (like your site), it's hard to see exactly what's going on, but a few things come to mind: Are you using hreflang tags? If you're not, the 302 redirects may be a workaround that a content editor or dev put in place to get users to their appropriate location on your site. In addition to resolving these redirects, I highly recommend you implement hreflang tags in the of your site's pages so that crawlers know that these different international TLDs are all related. You should definitely remove these redirects, especially if there are versions of these URLs that exist with 200 status codes. There may be a rule in your site's htaccess file (you'll need to talk to your developer and/or server manager to update this), or within meta directives in the tags of your pages.

Hi Muzz, No need to use hreflang if you only have your content available for a single region/language.. If you eventually have your content available in other regions/languages, whether it's on the same domain or a different domain, you should definitely use hreflang to ensure the locations are being served the most relevant version of your content. Cheers, David

No—Google won't penalize you for using the same image across different landing pages. However, I would recommend using a unique image if you have an ecommerce site and are selling different products (or variations of the same product). From a user experience, if the image looks good, is compressed for quick loading, and makes sense on your pages you should be good.

I'm using www.jigsy.com . It's pretty good, but there have been a few times when I've had to code my own html to get something to work

Donald is right, here's an article on the Search Engine Journal website that might be helpful in getting you started, it was published about a year ago but should still hold true. It talks mainly about the potential secondary benefits of adopting IA, in terms of having a cleaner setup and therefore potentially ranking better, but those improvements also give some clue as to the hoops you may need to jump through.

Thank you very much Ruth.

Yes, unfortunately, what the agency is suggesting is like a recipe from a duplicate content cookbook. They are trying to offer a shortcut to doing the actual work that should be involved in publishing hundreds of websites. Has the business ever considered consolidating everything into a single brand with a single site? That way, they could have 1 page for each city and 1 page for each service, redirecting all the old sites to the new one, and never having to worry again about creating content for hundreds of microsites.

Thank you James

Hey There! I am sorry for the delayed reply. It looks like this didn't get assigned to our help team, so we didn't see it. I apologize for that! The error you are seeing is for our old crawler, which had some issues crawling certain sites based on security settings. We launched a new crawler on June 7th, and you should be seeing much better data in the Site Crawl section of your campaign now. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Thanks Michael, That is the route we have taken with our client it seems to be working out well, so far. Kirk

Whoa, this is a weird one. I saw that you posted this on Google's forums as well, and they suggested that this might be the Japanese keyword hack. Did you look into that? If that's not it, did you try loading the URLs that are showing up on the Wayback Machine? It's possible that someone who owned this site before your client created these pages. Either way, the answer is to double check that your 404 pages really are 404ing. If that doesn't remove them from the index fast enough, you can actually create all of those pages, with a noindex tag, add them all to a sitemap, and submit them to Google. But the 404ing is really your long term solution. Good luck!

Hey there! There are several different ways to go about this. Tracking keywords in a campaign will provide data on the best-performing pages on that particular domain for those keywords. However, you do have the option to restrict a campaign to a particular subdomain, and depending on how your site is structured, it could be feasible to make several different campaigns all tracking a separate subdomain or subfolder. If you're looking to check rankings for particular keywords on specific pages, you might want to use the Rank Tracker tool instead, as that will report on the exact URL you enter. I hope that helps! Campaign setups can vary wildly depending on your site structure.

Hey there Lisa, Sam from Moz's Help Team here! So something to consider here is how long ago he switched domains/URLs and how long ago those 301 redirects were implemented. Using 301 redirects will redirect your link juice (PA/DA), but you might need to wait a little while (a few index updates) for our crawler to pick up those changes and display the appropriate numbers. If the domain switch was somewhat recent this would explain it. Our Mozscape Index is not a live representation of links. We can store link data for up to 190 days (~6 months) if links are not re-discovered from external linking sites. Generally, most new links that appear in our Index were crawled 3 months ago as this is the current timeframe it takes for us to process new links (and therefore to find and follow/process the 301 redirects). I hope this helps to explain. If you have any other questions, just let us know!

Thanks, that's a great tip! I've bookmarked that page, very handy to have that link. I'll bring it up with the team. I agree, it might be easiest for the sales team to share the link.

Hey there, I'd recommend the version 1) with a little update. To keep URLs short as possible, you don't need to add _/en-gb/ _since .com is already considered as English version. Also, instead of /en-gb/ (but for other countries and languages)I'd put just /en/ or /es/ and so on. Cheers, Martin

I think it is not necessary to redirect the duplicate domain, just a faster way 2 show that the content is on the original only. Depending on the topic and competitors, changing the title can make a huge difference and that pretty quickly...