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Hurf - Thanks for looking into this - Yes I'm running Integrity for mac which is a link scanner - That's where I got the broken link image that I attached to the this ticket.

These kinds of named anchor links have no effect on SEO, fortunately. Google crawlers ignore the anchor variable altogether. Make sure you have correct canonical tags on each page just for extra insurance. Paul

Thanks, helps a lot.

Hi Thomas, You are correct that Mobile First is changing the game when it comes to tabbed / accordion content. Google's take on this now is that they will help usability by not having pages and pages of content on show. From a desktop point of view, will this help when visitors arrive? Will they know to find the answers they seek behind a tab? Can you have one design for desktop and another for mobile? Google haven't really said anything about using tabbed content on a desktop site once Mobile First hits, but based on the fact that it will be powering the desktop SERPs, I wouldn't have thought it was a big problem - as long as it enhances the page for a desktop user. One more thing - John Mueller did tell me in a recent Tweet that layout can affect ranking, so take the time to test what works well for your visitors - it could be the difference between a win and a loss. -Andy

hi, thanks for the reply i think there was some server caching going on as it works just fine now.

Hi Ria, thanks for your reply, yes i am pruning out the bad pages, however i am looking at many factors not just PA. So seems i am on the right track and will continue Gemma

I'm going to try to turn you around, because you're going down the wrong road. It's a bit of a read, but stick with me. Stop thinking about sculpting your internal links, and start thinking about how to create a user friendly navigation. Your SEO and conversions will flow from there. Let's pretend you're in the home services category and you install and replace floors. The services you provide are repair, installation, and replacement of tile, wood, and vinyl floors. You'll want to have a homepage that allows users to navigate to pages that describes the services you provide and the products you offer. So your top navigation could have a menu that looks something like this: Tile Floors -Tile Floor Repair -Tile Floor Installation -Tile Floor Replacement Wood Floors -Wood Floor Repair -Wood Floor Installation -Wood Floor Replacement Vinyl Floors -Vinyl Floor Repair -Vinyl Floor Installation -Vinyl Floor Replacement Now you've got at least ten pages that you can start to write content for, and each of them is easily accessible. If you have pages that you consider important to your users and your business objectives, best practice is to make them easily accessible from the homepage in your main navigation, and to make them accessible from related pages as well. In keeping with the home services theme, something you may consider a "non important page" could be your legal disclaimers. It's important alright, but not necessarily for the majority of your users. It's acceptable to link to content like that in the footer. The reason I'm trying to direct you to think about the way users interact with your site is because that's the way Google has designed their algorithm to work. Since users interact with the footer much less than body content, Google has tagged links in the footer, and those links pass less PageRank. If you spend your time trying to game the system, you'll ultimately lose, whereas if you focus on your users, you'll ultimately win. To go back to our main navigation example for our flooring company, if I followed your strategy I might place content in confusing places, moving my "tile floor repair" page to the footer or a sidebar where users can't find it and Google devalues. So focus on the users and the PageRank will follow. Good Luck!

There's some good news about 301 redirects that you may have missed: Since early/mid 2016, changing the directory structure (alone) and creating 301 redirects isn't going to (or shouldn't) cause any loss in PageRank. The fact that 301s generally resulted in a loss of around 15% of PageRank (which was confirmed by Matt Cutts in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw) is simply no longer the case. Sceptical? So was I. Read on... In February 2016, Google Web Trend Analyst, John Mueller confirmed this: Q. Do I lose "link juice" from the redirects? A. No, for 301 or 302 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS no PageRank is lost. (Source: https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC) Further, Google's Gary Illyes confirmed this in July 2016, on twitter:  "30x redirects don't lose PageRank anymore." (Source: https://twitter.com/methode/status/757923179641839616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) (Bear in mind, PR is not the only ranking signal.) So, changing URLs for SEO purposes, including "Improving directory/subfolder structure" is considered less risky now that 301 redirects preserve PageRank (as long as the content and structure remains the same). There's a great article on the subject of 301 redirect rules: "301 Redirects Rules Change: What You Need to Know for SEO" here: https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo Remember: For this to work out for you, the content of the page at the receiving end of the 301 needs to match the original source as closely as possible. Good luck!

If toptwincitiesrealtors.com has a good authority/backlink profile, it will help mnpropertygroup.com rank. If toptwincitiesrealtors.com is penalized, it may pass along that penalty.

Start by getting things in order in Google Search Console. You should add both non-www. and www. properties to your site. When both are verified you can set your preference (in this case, non.www.) Otherwise, "If you don't specify a preferred domain, we may treat the www and non-www versions of the domain as separate references to separate pages" and risk issues down the line with duplicate content. See here for details about setting your preferred domain: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231 If, as I read your follow-up post, you're saying all of your links point to the www. version of your site then this could be the source of your problems. You need to organise your domains within Google Search Console. Then determine where all of the inbound links and authority are headed and set your preferences within GSC accordingly. You can use 301 directs when things have settled down but don't rush and make mistakes as a result. You can work through GSC documentation here, then follow the appropriate action for your scenario. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34592?hl=en I hope that helps and good luck!

Ack, are you trying to get access to a client's profile? An easier method is to get the owner to give you manager access so you can access it from your own account. You can follow Hurf's article if you're not worried about security and that should do the trick too. I've had some bad experiences with lack of security and wouldn't wish it on anyone, so I don't recommend it if you can avoid it.

Your right , thanks for thewarning !! Will found a freelance asap as even if the service is only available in French speaking country, some of our customers don't speak french. 

Hello Jaro, What Andy says is right, im backing him up. Remember to not include that URL in the sitemap. Also is a good moment to say that with the robots.txt you just tell google bot not no follow it, that differs from indexing it. There are cases where URLs are indexed instead of being "blocked" in the robots.txt. The fine way stop google from indexing a certain URL would be adding the meta robots tag including a noindex atribute. Here there a quote from the Webmaster central help forum in Google: If you block a file from crawling and Google discovers a URL for that file on another site, it may still index the file using whatever information it can find, even though crawling is blocked. So robots.txt disallow does not necessarily stop something being indexed. (in the ets answer, a note below the Disallow part) Hope it's clarifying. Best luck. GR.

Hi Jaro, Please see my answer to your other question. Perhaps have a read of these two resources to get some ideas as well? https://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-for-ecommerce-websites/ http://backlinko.com/ecommerce-seo Depending on how your site is structured, the platform and many other factors, there could be other considerations. -Andy

Thanks for the reply. Presented like that it doesn't look quite so offensive I take on board your feedback; I did look at address your question, near the end of my post, though I confess my language was a little vague, so I'll try again: Having this phrase as part of your title page will not hurt your rankings; there are far greater sins you can commit than that. (Just don't expect to be rewarded - I'm sorry, I can't help myself!) Something else to consider,  mentioning specific savings (to the penny) might be more eye-catching than $1000s, which comes back to my point about case studies. If you do use it in your title. you can split test delivery and engagement of a few variants and see what works best for you. Good luck with the project - I'll hit you up if I start getting any damp problems