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Martijn's answer is correct. To elaborate: You must include the XML sitemaps on all the sitemaps referenced in that same sitemap. If you don't, Google Search Console will identify return tag errors. Every url in your sitemap that references an equivalent URL on another country's site, must have a correlating "return" URL coming back to the originating pages from tthe hreflang XML sitemap associated with that other country's site.

I think I might have found the problem. We're actually, using a 302 redirect from .com to .com/us/en/. From my understanding that doesn't transfer the ranking, right? We use a 302 redirect, because we have multiple stores: https://website.com/us/en/ > United States https://website.com/xl/en/ > Global Store https://website.com.au > Australia If an user visits www.website.com from Australia we send him to https://website.com.au. I'm thinking we should use a redirect 301 to the /us/en/ and keep the 302 for all the other ones. Does it make sense?

Its "just" a Launch with a combined Relaunch You could use both checklist like https://moz.com/blog/10-things-relaunch-your-website for the relaunch part. Here you could find Redirects and so on. Additional you could use https://moz.com/blog/starting-over-part-1-a-prelaunch-checklist for the Launch Part (Domain, Server, CMS, ...). Dont forget part 2 and 3 https://moz.com/blog/starting-over-part-2-launch, https://moz.com/blog/starting-over-part-3-optimize. Depands on the website, but normally it's not a one man job - a team with a lot of knowledge (ideal in relaunch) should support that job.

Hi, I wouldn't consider this is a big issue for now. This would only matter probably if you're in a very heavy competition and this is one of the few differences that you have compared to other sites in your same industry. Which basically never happens. Also in this case the URL structure is pretty optimized for SEO. That's why I wouldn't worry about it too much. Unfortunately, as far as I know you can't turn off the alerts for this though. Martijn.

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Thanks, Samantha! I will direct my question to the help team.

Yes, thank you for that. Makes sense. I just really have to think about the best way to approach this.

Hi there! We can definitely help you out with checking on your invite status. Just reach out to help@moz.com with the email address you registered under. Invites do not depend on paid vs trial status. We've been adding those who signed up in batches, so it's possible we have not yet placed you in the beta, depending on when you registered! Thanks!

Tom, Your use of Moz is unrelated to the drop in DA/PA. There have been some recent changes that Rand addresses in this thread: https://moz.com/community/q/is-everybody-seeing-da-pa-drops-after-last-moz-api-update#reply_359883 For an overall explanation of fluctuations, try this link: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores Have a great day, Matt

Hi Brett, With content being more important now I appreciate DMOZ was a dying breed.  I also became frustrated with the lack of response from some of the editors - not much point in a human edited directory if it takes months to edit parts of it.  I should have thought about it but I just expected it to last a bit longer. I can see what you mean regarding Machine learning.  I bought echo a few months back (mainly because Google Home isn't available in UK yet) but even with their AI you can see how search is becoming more intuitive. It's an obvious advancement and one that has far greater benefit in todays society. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

our dev team has requested to 302 initially and then 301 as the final solution. Could this cause a problem for the temporary 302?

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Donald Silvernail is entirely correct - Moz Pro can help you track keywords and how your site ranks for them, but we won't do the work of adding those keywords to your pages for you. If you're wondering how to add those keywords to your pages, it might be best to work with your web developer or whoever manages your site for you - they should be able to help. Moz's tools can show you how to optimize your site for peak performance and the best possible rankings, but we just give you the tools to do the work of SEO on your own. Unfortunately we don’t offer consulting advice through our support channels. If you’re looking to purchase SEO services, we maintain a list of recommended SEO providers here. If you are looking to build your own capabilities, we have several SEO classes and custom training options on the Moz Training page. Core classes include keyword research, on-site optimization, and link building. Check back often there as the class schedule updates regularly. I hope this helps somewhat! If you have more questions, feel free to send us a message at help@moz.com and we'll do everything we can to help.

Thanks for the answer - allbeit not the answer I wanted to hear!

I think that nobody replied because this is a really complex situation.  It could be something that went wrong with the http to https conversion.  It could be something entirely unrelated. So, a good answer to your question would require much more work that what a person might be able to give in a Q&A reply. If this was my site, my first question would be to dig into my analytics from before the first switch was made and compare to now.  What you want to find out first is what pages lost rankings.  Is this confined to a single area of the website or has the entire site been demoted.   Rankings analysis is the best way to do this.  If you don't have rankings data then dig into the same question by looking at traffic. Look at that and let us know what you find.

Hi Manish, There is some confusion in your question: If you have inbound links that concern you, you can disavow at the domain level once and you should never need to repeat that I'm not clear what you mean by "redirecting to our Sitemap" -- having a redirect from their site to yours is unlikely to hurt you - especially if you have disavowed the domains Thanks - good luck.

I use multiple H2 tags on the websites I create for my clients. I use these as main headings within a piece of content. I have found with proper use of keywords in the H2 tags and clear and concise content that is helpful to the searcher, That pages can rank for multiple related keywords when used in this fashion. I would not recommend over doing it. But if the information in the heading is important it will help you rank especially if your are using long tail keywords.