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Unfortunately most of the largest examples are not shared publicly. You could go looking for external data (e.g. SEMrush / searchmetrics / similarweb) around the time of big / well-known mergers. There have been a few over the years - but I don't know off-hand what historical data there is available. The biggest I remember being interested in was when Adobe bought Macromedia back in the day (but there won't be historical data going back that far, and anyway everything has changed since then). Aside from "outside looking in" approaches, the biggest public case study I could find is this one. Hope something there helps.

Hi Taylor, I'm not totally familiar with SEOQuake as a tool, so your best bet would probably be to talk to their customer service people, but let's give it a shot! It's fine for your /sitemap.xml page to display a message that it doesn't have any style associated with it - many XML sitemaps are just raw XML documents that don't look pretty on a browser but that search engines can crawl just fine. It looks like the Site Compliance function of SEOQuake just checks to see whether or not an XML sitemap is present. Do you have an XML sitemap at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml? What does the SEOQuake tool say about your sitemap? Have you submitted your sitemap in Google Search Console, and is Google Search Console reporting any errors?

Thank you for clarifying! It's much appreciated.

This is excellent, thank you! I had no idea that mentioning a keyword 15 times in a 500-word copy is something that gets flagged by Moz.

Glinski, You should not be insecure about changes to your content. Remember content is designed for the target audience and if one page is geared towards muscle size and the next is muscle gain then the content of those pages should be written to reflect those ideas. This does not mean you need to be exact with the keywords. The meaning of the content needs to reflect what you want to rank for. So if both pages have similar content google will show the best content that is related to the users search intent. So you have an opportunity to rank for two separate keywords by changing the content on one page to more closely match the users intent "Muscle Size" or Muscle Gain" These are 2 very different ideas and can be easily differentiated with good content.

To echo MichaelAMG - it is possible to install wordpress on a subdirectory rather than subdomain so you'd be able to host your blog at mysite.com/blog  instead of blog.mysite.com. For SEO reasons, subdirectory is the recommended way to go. On https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain, Moz explain that search engines view subdomains differently than they do subfolders, which means that it can be harder for successful content in a subdomain to benefit the site as a whole. Companies who host their blogs on subdomains have started moving them to subdirectories and have quite quickly seen positive results, for instance Salesforce moved their blog from a subdomain to a subdirectory and their traffic doubled pretty immediately. If you are installing wordpress instances on one domain it might be a good idea to keep an eye on your permalinks because if you have url rewriting turned on then the different installs can sometimes confuse each other. Just something to watch out for.

Ok, thank you. now it's clear and it makes sense take care marco

+1 regarding that's not necessary to change the domain structure over just a little higher PA. The way it is now is just fine. Although, i do not agree with that best practice that Martin is saying. I do not believe that there is no gain with www o non-www. The difference could be in the users/visitors in any particular case. Best Luck! GR.

If the content is the same, but translated, without the hreflang tag, it is duplicate content. The hreflang tag is there to serve as a signal that you know the content is the same but translated and you want Google to know that as well. This situation is exactly what hreflang is made for.

I used to write title tags that contained the proper keywords.  I used to be a keyword stuffer. More recently, I have started trying to write title tags with my main keyword on the left but the remainder of the title tag has been written to present a value proposition, share something interesting or simply elicit the click.   These types of title tags will not blast your page to the top of the SERPs, but I believe that if you do a good job, your page will slowly and steadily climb the SERPs to a position where it is competitive. I also try to make the description as interesting and clickable as possible.  I think that google places more importance on how visitors react with your listing in the SERPs and if you can deliver what will hold them if they click into your website.

Hi This is really helpful thank you, I think at the moment I'd rather keep them from being crawled as the pages aren't helpful for crawlers. I will look into it in future if required. Thanks very much!

Super! Thanks for the advice.

Hello! I would suspect the homepage drop was unrelated to the login page changes. As Michael says, it was probably just a coincidence!

Hi Becky, has Logan helped answer your questions? If so, please mark the questions as 'good answer' to close it out. Thanks!

Hey Becky, Those pages will be found by Google if you have links pointing to them somewhere on your site. In terms of crawl budget, the more page depth the more time does Google need to spend on crawling your site. However, with proper internal linking you should be able to significantly lower the amount of clicks. So the next step would be adding some links through relevant anchor texts. After you do this, watch the analytics and let me know if it had any impact. Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Your question is "What we doing wrong"? Could you be more specific? I see at least 44 pages indexed. Can you provide a few examples of URLs that you think "should" be indexed but aren't? Or is your problem not about how many pages you have indexed?

Hi there! Did Martijn help answer your question? If so, please mark as "good answer". Thanks!