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Here is what I would do Disavow the domain that is linking to you from the adult site(s). The fact that Google search console is showing that you have an internal page linking as well makes me want to know a) have you always owned this domain and maybe someone previously did link internally like this or b) you may have been or are hacked In the case of b) this can be really tricky.  I once had a site that in a crawl it was showing sitewide links to various external sites that we should not be linking to. When I looked at the internal pages via my browser, there was no link as far as I could see even though it showed up on the crawler report. Here was the trick. The hacker had setup a script to only show the link when a bot was viewing the page. Plus, we were running mirrored servers and they had only hacked one server. So, the links only showed up when you were spidering a specific mirrored instance as a bot. So thanks to the hacking, not only were we showing bad links to bad sites, we were doing this through cloaking methodology. Two strikes against us. Luckily we picked this up pretty quick and fixed immediately. Use a spidering program or browser program to show a user agent of Googlebot and go visit your pages that are linking internally. You might be surprised. Summary Googlebot has a very long memory. It may be that this was an old issue that was fixed long ago. If that was the case, just show the 404s for the pages that do not exist, and disavow the bad domain and move on. Make sure that you have not been hacked as this would also be why this is showing. Regardless, the fact that Google did find it at one point, you need to make sure you resolve. Pull all the URLs into a spreadsheet and run Screaming Frog in list mode to check them all to make sure you fix all of it.

Thanks guys, The client has presence in over 200 countries? Does it mean the client should implement 200 lines of hreflangs? The sitemap route appears to be ideal in that case. Thanks, Asad

Thankies, thanks also for a great program, amazing piece of seo keywording, have a great Christmas one and all. Alex

Hello, yes, its a bit cheeky but if its a work in progress I'd take the risk, you can also use OG tags http://ogp.me/ to help specify the target country/language (e.g. en_ar) and you can set the target country in your search engine console, so whilst not a language target your targeting a region which may be helpful. This is assuming you've got is as a sub-domain or similar and that you are Target a country more that a language. Hope that helps a bit with your Arabic audience.

Hello Hans, Thanks for reaching out. Jo here from the Moz Support team, I'm currently tracking your page optimisation reports to nail down what is at play here. I'll be sure to keep you updated through through your support ticket. Cheers! Jo

I'm a bit curious, it sounds like you haven't redirected the old site to the new one? If you have, have you performed a change of address in Google Search Console? And lastly, are there language differences between your .fr and .com sites? Have you set up your hreflang tags on one and not the other? All else being equal, if you have two sites and one is optimized for a french audience via hreflang tags and a .fr domain, it would not shock me at all to see that Google is displaying one over the other on google.fr. Also consider that your french users could be clicking on the .fr site and boosting its ranking that way, causing Google to consider your old domain a more relevant source of information for your audience. I very much doubt your competitor is affecting your ranking. If anyone could bowl sites on Google with that kind of cheap tactic they wouldn't have a working search engine in today's day and age. More likely your competitor is harming his own rankings. Switching hosts will do nothing. Stick with GoDaddy and save yourself the trouble and expense.

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Hi Foothills! Good advice from Donna, and I highly recommend that you go through Joy Hawkins article http://www.joyannehawkins.com/the-proper-way-to-deal-with-duplicates-in-google-my-business/ with fine toothed comb before you make a move in any direction. The article does a super job of explaining deletion, merging, etc. and links to another resource for understanding moving reviews from one entity to another. I believe it will be exactly what you're looking for!

Absolutely. I definitely do not believe that Google is just ignoring bad links now, and Penguin can be a really hard one to debug once you think you have been affected especially since they aren't really (from what I have seen) announcing them anymore because they folded it into the main algorithm. When you have a manual penalty for manipulative links, sometimes you have to go the hard way of disavowing after you've tried rounds of getting them removed and it's still not enough. This may be the main reason, along with negative SEO, that Google has left that tool in Search Console. I don't expect it to go away anytime soon. Interesting times we live in.

A search for the www subdomain will likely pull up very similar results to searching for the non-www root domain, but it's still possible that the results will be different, depending on how other sites are linking back to yours. You can always use the filters to see links pointing at the root domain level!

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Hi Megan,  Bit slow on responses sorry - thanks to the festive season haha. The answers were exactly what I was looking for.  Marked as answered. Cheers, K

Hi AdamJack - Welcome to the Moz Q&A Forum! Hmm, I'm not sure exactly what you are asking in your original question... are you asking if there is a better tool to check the code to text ratio of a secure site than the one you originally mentioned (and gave the URL for)? Or are you asking if that particular tool can check an https site (as well as an http site)? I look forward to your response. Christy

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I'm going to recommend Screaming Frog here. Run a scan of your site and then filter it by duplicate title tags, duplicate meta descriptions, and (my favorite) word count. Usually I don't need to go any further than duplicate title tags. There's also www.siteliner.com. I've used that regularly and it has been tremendously helpful for pages that have duplicate content in the body but not in the META. Finally, Google Search Console. Go to Search Appearance and click on HTML Improvements. You can also find all your duplicate title tags there, which should help you identify duplicate content easily.