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Hi, Cool question! I previously ran a startup that was essentially an aggregator, something similar to an OTA, but we were aggregating classes instead of properties/homestays. I found that the best way to structure the site was some thing like this: 1. Home (Targeting the biggest, baddest keyword you can find) https://qualistay.com/ 1.2 Category pages Broad keywords in each category (in your case, 'tenerife south apartments for rent' etc) You currently have this as https://qualistay.com/properties/tenerife/  I'd have gone with creating multiple 'category' pages like  https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/apartments https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas https://qualistay.com/tenerife-north/apartments https://qualistay.com/tenerife-north/villas 1.2.1 Sub-Category pages Still relatively broad, but more specific keywords You didn't choose to sub-categorize these pages even more, but here's what I would have done: https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/apartments/adeje https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas/adeje https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/apartments/arico https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas/arico https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/apartments/granadilla-de-abona 1.2.1.1 Property pages Specific keywords https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas/playa-de-las-americas/villa-victoria These pages would tend be targeting the so-called 'brand keyword' of each individual property. Structuring your site this was enables you to include the targeted keywords in your URLs and enables you to rank almost every single page efficiently based purely on the location of each property. In this manner, you would be able to rank for the top tier keywords which I'm guessing is 'tenerife villas' and 'tenerife apartments', the 2nd tier keywords which would be 'tenerife south villas for rent', 'tenerife south apartments for rent' and the 3rd tier keywords which would be 'playa de las americas villas for rent'. You also get the benefit of ranking for each individual property's 'brand name' like 'villa victora tenerife south'. If the property happens to fall on the same building, then you can sub-categorize it even further like  https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas/playa-de-las-americas/villa-victoria/level-1 https://qualistay.com/tenerife-south/villas/playa-de-las-americas/villa-victoria/level-2 Hope this helps!

Thanks a lot Martin, will keep that in mind.

Hi Steve, This appears to be schema used to help search engines understand the nature of content in objects containing "stuff" that search engines have trouble completely understanding. For example, I found keywords as possible markup element for a Video: http://schema.org/VideoObject I don't think this plays into rankings at all. Google is so over that kind of easy manipulation. However, I DO think that when these are marked up in conjunction with ALT attributes for images, or transcriptions for videos, they can help Google understand the semantic relevance of that content. For example (and I am totally making this up), imagine a video of a veterinarian administering vaccines to an animal. During the video the vet keeps referring to the animal as "the patient." So from the transcript, a search engine (or someone who's visually impaired) wouldn't know that this video is about medicine for animals instead of humans. Using the schema.org markup for keywords would allow terms like "animal vaccine best practices" to be included to help search engines understand better what the content is really about. That's my 2 cents. Hope it helps! Dana

Awesome,  checking it out right now.

Hi, the first thing I would note is that a responsive design means you have the exact same content on the desktop and mobile versions - if you're considering serving different HTML to different users on the same URL this would be considered dynamic serving and you'll want to make sure you add the Vary-HTTP user agent header. To answer your other questions: 1) Do you think there is any SEO value in the desktop footer links? There is certainly some value, although how much is debatable - that would depend on how many total pages there are on the site, how much other content you have, and whether these pages are linked to elsewhere etc. You could test it by removing a handful of the links temporarily and see whether those pages see any sort of negative impact over 3-4 weeks. If you do this, make sure you do link to those pages from somewhere else on the site so they don't become orphaned. 2) Do you have any suggestions about how best to include these 60-odd links in a way that works for mobile? I would suggest either leaving them in the footer in a collapsible div to help keep a clean look (maybe with your 5 or so most important links visible and a 'see more' option), or moving them to a hamburger menu on a mobile view. Hope that helps!

Hey there, Sorry for the silence! Okay, a few things here: Yeah, you're going to run into duplicate content issues, since you're using English on all sites. You only need www.website.com for the US. Don't create us.website.com. For the UK and EU domain, localize with different currency, standard shipping, and legal information. (What's your plan, since the UK and EU use different currencies, to have them on the same site section?) If you have any content that's universal, like a blog post, keep that part of the site on the www.website.com section and don't duplicate it on the UK / EU site (unless you translate it). If at all possible, don't use subdomains for different countries. Subdomains split your domain value (which weakens your site) and also makes it clear that you're not a truly localized site, since you're using a .com instead of the right ccTLD for the country (not bad for SEO, but not great for click through rates). Better options are: Get the ccTLD for each country you're operating in. This is much more expensive, but better for localizing long term. Put each site section on a subdirectory, like www.website.com/uk/ Link between the different country versions of your site, so you can be sure Googlebot will find it. Moz has got a good article on this I recommend:https://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions, Kristina

Forget it... I know this answer.  I've already fetched the previous url in GSC and it shows as redirected. Google is seeing it properly but for some reason still showing it  in SERPs.

for your info, in my search console, it shown 8344 pages indexed since 7 days ago til now. is it something wrong with the indexing? i expect googlebot should have finished indexing all my pages, rite? should i request for fetch and render again?

Hi Thomas, Set up filter as mentioned in this article @ https://briefmetrics.com/articles/remove-localhost-from-referrers **In Select expression select 'that contain' instead of 'that are equal to'. ****** Hope this helps. Thanks

Hi Gareth, IF the old backlinks to the recently bought domain come from a different topic and you recognize that them are not related in any way: Yes, you shoud disavow them. Best luck. GR.

Thank you Sam. That is exactly what I needed to know.

Just posting to back Nicholas up! Totally agree with him

Hi there, Lisa from the Moz help team here! Sorry for the confusion about this! There's no set amount of time that it takes for us to find your new listings. We're generally waiting for the address to be confirmed by Google/Facebook and for them to add the listing to their API. In some cases, though, there are other elements that prevent us from finding these sources. With your Facebook and Google Maps listings, you do seem to have hidden the address. This means that it is not shown to us so that we can find the listing and match it to Moz Local. We use your Facebook and Google Maps listings to verify the address, which means it does need to be visible.

Thanks for the response @Nicholas White . We are thinking about duplicating the site and updating the content and imagery on the new site and leave the other one active. Once we hit critical mass then we setup the redirects as to now take the hit in the short term. What do you think? Anybody done this before?

Thanks, and I agree with you. The similar descriptions are because I'm not personally setting them each time, so I wanted to provide a template to other users so we at least have something custom for search results pages instead of the default text from the beginning of the post.

Hi Zack! Migrating your site to HTTPS all your URLs will turn into HTTPS. So, there will no need to keep the old sitemap alive or keep track of the http indexation. Of course you must keep track of the indexation of the new site. Remember to create a new Search Console profile for that. Here, an excellent article and a checklist on everthing you should do in a HTTPS migration. The HTTP to HTTPs Migration Checklist in Google Docs to Share, Copy & Download, from Aleyda Solis. Hope this helped you. Best luck. GR.

Thanks for the thoughts. Meta updates was my first instinct, as I have had instant success when making those changes, but there were no meta changes found. Inbound and outbound links is a definite possibility. Unfortunately, I haven't tracked their inbound/outbound links, so I wouldn't be able to compare differences.

Hmmm - are you referring to a list of keywords that are relevant to each of their clients? EG if they're working with a pet food company, they're tracking "Dog food", "cat food", etc.? Or are you referring to agencies that track an index of general competitive keywords to see how SERPs are changing over time? EG "credit card consolidation", "payday loans", "Women's heels", etc.?

Hi, Our login page is for users, nit employees. Most of the people browsing from our website will browse through login page. So I'm afraid what signals we are sending to Google by noindex or nofollow such important page. Again, I don't think login page has been making on results just because it's highly browsed.