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OK will try that thanks

Hi spacecollective, I think you will be fine. The way the domain names are named themselves already show they are spammy links. The fact that they lead to 522 error confirms it. Jac

HI Anna, Generally speaking, Google is pretty good at indexing only the / version of a homepage. But if you're having problems with them indexing both, you can use a canonical tag on the homepage to solve this. For more information on this, check out Moz's guide to canonicals. From a traffic measurement perspective, you can configure Google Analytics to associate metrics from both URLs with only the / version. Simply go to your filters and create a new custom filter. Select 'search and replace' and set search string as /index.html and replace string as /. Hope that's helpful!

It is not at all uncommon to have the category taxonomy run three levels deep like this. What page should I land on if I search for "Volunteer Firefighter Patches"? If it's /fire-patches/ you may have trouble targeting "Volunteer" while also targeting Ambulance, Hazmat... I think pages specifically targeting topics like "EMS Patches" are necessary for this site and would not recommend removing them. While you're rethinking the taxonomy though, I would change /fire-patches/ to /first-responders/ because at the moment the site has EMS and Ambulance under "Fire". Really, all of these professionals are "First Responders". Then /first-responders/fire-patches/ may even continue another level deep, such as /first-responders/fire-patches/volunteer/ .

Just curious--did you end up responding to the reviews, and if you did did you get any feedback from the original reviewers?

Spacecollective, Ah, got it. Re this question: "I was worried that because Google indexed thespacebazaar.com (and subsequently all of its content) before it was transferred over to thespacecollective.com, would Google think thespacebazaar.com was the original author of the content and see thespacecollective.com as copying." People change domains all of the time. They rebuild their site structures, too. Since you have the old domain rolling over to the new one, AFAIK the Google search engine bots will figure out your site has moved and you have a new structure. AFAIK, you're good. As for the SEO work, I'm sorry you have had those experiences. To some extent, SEO is both art and science. There is snake oil out there, but there are also a lot of knowledgeable people. Feel free to ping me if you put another question here on the forum. I have over 20 years experience in IT, and I am a doctoral candidate. I'd be done if I hadn't started my own company! My academic background means I am happy to teach and do a certain amount of service work when I have a moment. (Moderators, please let me know if I am not allowed to say that; I'm still new to the forum. I'm happy to edit this response.)  -- Jewel

Hi Michael! I recommend checking out this blog for more insight: http://searchengineland.com/how-many-301s-are-too-many-16960 The video on the blog linked above answers: Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? How about how many redirects I can chain together? Other things to watch out for with chained redirects: Avoid infinite loops. Browsers may also have redirect limits, and these limits can vary by browser, so multiple redirects may affect regular users in addition to Googlebot. Minimizing redirects can improve page speed Hope this helps!

You were trying to get a link back ? LOL Get life dude.

Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem, and my Facebook page has been live for a couple years. The  information on the fb page is complete, and it matches the info on everything else. My Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/GleamingGlass/

Yes.

Hi, Yes! You would need to do this for every specific post that you have as Google (and other search engines) would like to know about the specifics of 1 URL to see where the copies of that one are in multiple languages. A feature that I could imagine is that you would have an input field for multipe languages. If the URL structures + language always have the same way of being structured you can make sure to automate this. Usually HREF lang is something that you have your developers code into your codebase. Martijn.

We used RankScience for SEO A/B testing and found a few big winners that were impressive but ran out of things to test after about a year. My understanding is they're focused more on NLP Content Optimization software now.

301 redirects no longer lose pagerank. https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo But, even though there is no loss of pagerank, I would recode those links promptly if they were on my website.  Each redirect places load on the server, creates a small delay in page delivery, and it is simply best practice not to redirect links on your own site.

Hi there! Jo from the Moz support team here :] I wonder if you could let me know a bit more about which bit of the tool you're looking at? If you have account specific query that you don't wish to share publicly you're welcome to reach out to us at help@moz.com. Cheers! Jo

Depending where you are hosted, you might find some help from them - certainly in terms of fast servers. Some of this can be handled with plugins (if you're using Wordpress) but you can also edit your .htaccess file to make some changes yourself. Just be careful with plugins though because I have seen these cause more problems than you want. -Andy

Hi, ...how much will we penalised for having the same 'Things to do' content on say up to 10 hotels + 1 location page? Simple answer is that you won't. Google doesn't have a 'duplication' penalty but anything you can do to make pages as unique as possible, is a good move. If there was nothing else on that page, then it might be a different conversation. Could this impact on the quality score of the page? It is possible and I might do things differently if I were designing the page to help avoid this (Modal popup on click?). By the looks of things, the content is towards the end of the page, so it is supplementary content rather than main. Just always try and make the pages as unique as possible and always concentrate on the usability - make it is easy to navigate as possible. -Andy

Hi, Google is pretty smart, so it knows that when someone types 'Voucher Codes', that is can also mean 'Coupons', 'Promo Codes', 'Discount Codes', et al. I would be looking to create as much great content as you can and in that content, do some keyword research and use these variants to help Google understand more about the page. That is a very simplistic way of looking at it because you also need to look at primary and supplementary content and how you distinguish yourselves as a specialist site. Have a look at MOZ's Keyword Tool to help with the keyword research. -Andy