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If there is something involved with link reclamation, then this is a very involved potential issue. Meaning, I am not sure someone can figure this out on a forum. If you need help, I recommend contacting Alan Bleiweiss, he is an awesome forensic SEO. http://alanbleiweiss.com/ I will leave you with one recommendation. Don't look so much to your competitors as to what is best for your market. I recommend doing your own audience research. While your major competitors might be the same in the US and India, the relevance and needs of your audience are different. This comes out subtly in many instances of SERPs as the results are a blend of over 200 factors and those factors are different in each country version of Google. They do their own testing based on that market not the world wide market. Stick to your site and what might be causing the ranking changes on a per page/per topic basis in each country. Separate them and work at this problem from a technical and user perspective.

Hi Dana Thank you for your answer. But I didnt understand what you meant by 'translated URL using Hindi'? Is it one of the 3 options I gave or yet another URL writing style? Thanks,

Hi There Doing a little research, I understand s.w.org is for emojis. This can be disabled if you don't want to use emjois: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dns-prefetch-of-sworg/ It seems like the Google Fonts one is nothing to worry about: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/dns-prefetch-fonts-googleapis-com/

LuckyOrange is awesome, fairly cheap as well. You can view heatmaps, scroll stats and actual video recordings of users interacting on your website. We have used LuckyOrange for about 3 months now and have gained a lot of insight from it for our client's websites.

Some yes some way off. I'll move on that basis. Thanks Stu

Hi Bee, Provided your company makes face-to-face contact with its customers, then the discipline you need to start learning is Local SEO. Your efforts will involve a combination of website development and local optimization, content development that surrounds the topics that matter to your industry/geography/clients, building and managing local business listings on a variety of platforms whether manually or via a service like Moz Local, review acquisition and then additional forms of outreach like social media and video marketing. All of these practices combine to begin building your geo-topical authority. You'll be striving to earn local pack rankings relating to the city in which you're physically located, and, in some cases, organic rankings for other cities in which lack a physical location but which relate to your business in some meaningful way. There is a lot to learn here. If you have a more specific question, please feel free to ask!

For the site speed, Thomas gave a lot of great tips in his comment above. For backlinks, I would recommend starting with a competitor backlink analysis using Moz's Open Site Explorer, Ahrefs, or SEMrush. Simply put the websites you see ranking high on page 1 of Google for the keyword phrase you would like to target and see what "dofollow" links they have going to their website. Once you compile a list of the backlinks your competitors have see which ones you can go after. The best way to get backlinks is creating awesome, shareable content that is helpful in your industry, and then promoting it and doing outreach for it in any way possible. This can be in the form of a blog post, guide, or resource page on your website. Some quick backlink wins though, would be doing a press release and getting listed on high DA directories (see Moz local).

Yes, you're right. The best way is to host website in China on a CN domain. Hong Kong counts as well. Taiwan doesn't. According to Search Engine Land: "Aside from preferring Chinese domains, Baidu also prefers websites to be hosted in China. This will also help improve page load speed."

I leave this link where someone related to the community answer to the same question https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/HEtEUc1EtIs I hope it helps you

I seem to be having a very similar problem with my client's website. She is also a photographer. Since mid-April, her home page keeps dropping from Google rankings on and off on the desktop in incognito and non-incognito browsing. It seems to always be visible on mobile phones though. One day it's on page 4, the next day it's not anywhere to be found (even though some of her other pages rank). The site is here: evgeniaribinik.com I have done some blog writing (just text) for this client over the last few months, and recently she asked for some SEO help. After looking at her website, I noticed that she had WordPress SEO plugin on her site. She wasn't using this for the blogs, however. I don't think she did much of anything with SEO, but she did say that for the last few years, she was always on page 3 or 4 of Google. In mid-April, she saw that she wasn't ranking at all for the keyword "boudoir photography nyc" anymore, despite a few years of ranking for it. I told her Yoast would be good to use. However, after she installed it, the same issues keep happening. Right now, she has Yoast and WordPress SEO plugins installed (I'm not sure if this is causing an issue as well). But I really can't figure out why she keeps going on and off page 4. She also asked me to optimize older blogs that she wrote herself for SEO. When I look at them, they don't have meta descriptions, good titles or good keywords. I realize this is hurting her, but why would her site be fine for years and all of a sudden not now? Is it because Google made changes? Thank you in advance for any help you can give me! Jill

So as I mentioned I would never delete a page without a redirect (even if that is a redirect to the homepage).  If you do that, there will be a minimal amount of authority that you lose.  There's no way to know exactly how much, but it should be marginal. As for the referral traffic, I mentioned how to measure that above.  But again with a 301 redirect, you will keep that traffic and if it is still relevant traffic, it should still add to your bottom line.

If you do not want to "mess up" your blog with unrelated content, you can create Instagram or Tumblr to this content. _This can cause an increase of fans in them and then use it favor in your blog._What do you think?

I cannot speak to a 'sweet spot' specifically but I would recommend Google's Pagespeed Insights tool for this, you can export optimized/compressed images (as well as CSS and Javascript files) for the page you are analyzing. I've used this method for many clients and have seen improvements in page load time and have never noticed a difference in image quality. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any follow up questions!

Thanks for this! 2 things: I'd suggest that if Site A republishes duplicate (syndicated) content from Site B and references Site B as the original source, you might want to consider simply blocking that content from search engines (on Site A). This will ensure that Google doesn't penalize for dupe content and also will prevent them from seeing the critical errors on the Site B AMP pages. Overall I've tested your example page and couldn't find anything seriously wrong, but one thing I did notice was that in your structured data markup (NewsArticle) you have an error: On the page: http://m.businesstoday.in/lite/story/reliance-jio-is-preparing-new-tariffs-and-exciting-offers-for-you/1/249662.html You list "mainEntityOfPage" as "http://m.businesstoday.in/" However, the Google guidelines state that "mainEntityOfPage" should be the canonical URL of the article page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/articles#type_definitions (in this case: http://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/telecom/reliance-jio-is-preparing-new-tariffs-and-exciting-offers-for-you/story/249662.html) Although the markup does pass the structured data testing tool validation, it is possible that this is breaking the structured data and using NewsArticle markup is something that Google states you must have implemented to feature in the News Carousel. If fixing this doesn't help, I'd suggest cleaning up the non-critical errors next to see if that fixes the issue.

You can write a single redirect rule that will apply to any request on the hostname. I'm not sure what server you're using, but if you use HTACCESS, there's a great post on StackOverflow on how to apply this rule: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29029049/best-practice-301-redirect-http-to-https-standard-domain

First the domain reside on a Country code top-level domains (.fr) ... which means it very hard for google or even impossible for google to target ur english content for UK (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399) when you fix the first note, then you need to implement hreflangs (https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag) this will help google index and find the alternate version of your webpage in the language you announce in the markup. going with 2 domain name like you mentioned is definitely a solution but i recommend going with one domain with a generic tld like a .com or .net and having the root that targets the french/france market and a subfolder that target the english people in UK.

There's no use in getting backlinks from different languages unless your site talks about languages, travelling, political issues in that particular country etc. The link has to look natural and Google has to make the judgement that it's valuable for your visitor. It also depends on your TLD (.com, .co.uk, .ru). If your visitors are mostly from Pakistan, there is usually no value in backlinks from Mexico for example. Moreover, you risk getting spammy links and thus hurting your rankings.