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Hi Jeremy, Hmm, sorry if that's creating an issue. I'd suggest getting in touch with Touchpoint Digital's David Deering to see if he has time to consult with you on any complex schema issues you can't resolve or find good advice for. He's the master, as far as local schema is concerned. Sorry my suggested solution seems like it wouldn't resolve the issue.

Thank you, I will try to add links in the PDFs and see if that helps at all.

Can anyone offer any insight on this? The issue shows no sign of improving, and our organic is tanking. If this really is an issue on Google's side, and it appears based on our technical set up, how can I force Google to take note and reindex the pages? Here are some more examples, from across a number of categories.. Category A: Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/KEQ8Yh Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/DPzFWM Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/5KiQ4s Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/myRWNg Category B: Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/pr3YQs Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/8SEYi5 Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/LqzDrg Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/iwPs45 Category Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/YBZS7c Cached version of that page:https://goo.gl/n33QzG Page that has dropped out of index: https://goo.gl/Ht4gfO Cached version of that page: https://goo.gl/u81vbA

It is dangerous if you simply move the content to another domain and don't have plans to implement redirects, etc. It isn't "dangerous" if done correctly. A well executed migration may see a drop in traffic for a 2-6 weeks (ballpark) and then things should settle back in to normal levels. It's going to depend on the size of the site and the complexity of the migration (content being eliminated, added, massive URL structure changes, etc). Here are some good migration resources: Domain Migration Checklist Domain Migration Lessons How to Change Domain Names and Keep Rankings

We will definitely employ the 301 redirects once we completely audit the HTTPS site for any absolute links. I just wanted to ensure that we wouldn't have two sites in the index during the transition. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the answers! I actually found out it had to do with a subheadline that was in all caps in the articles that was coming through. SEO, the neverending puzzle...

Thanks Tymen, Anthony - that helps a lot. It is indeed - domain.com/post-title (no category in url) so I am safe to clean up the site without repercussions. Better to learn this lesson now than down the line. Cheers!

Hi Frank! Honored to know our Local SEO checklist provided a starting point for your work. That's great! So glad to be of help.

I don't use social.  If you make content like what is described above, the visitors to your website will share it on social for you. It is easy to describe what is above, but difficult to pull it off.  If you want to see examples of this type of content just visit the Moz.com blog.  It takes this type of content to be published there. Again, these links are valuable.... https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday https://moz.com/blog/how-to-create-10x-content-whiteboard-friday

Thank you for your detailed and clear explanation.

Hey Shirley - Thanks for the question! Short answer is no - the information does not have to be different. What should happen with a canonical is that the search engines will see the canonical and apply the ranking for Page A to Page B. However, the search engines do tell us that a canonical is a suggestion and that they do not always respect it if they think it was either a) done in error or b) is being done to manipulate. So, assuming Page B really is a duplicate of or a better version of Page A, yet you want to keep Page A around for some reason (PPC landing page or other), then the meta info will likely be similar anyways. Finally, if you are canonicalling Page A to Page B, make sure that Page A is not in your XML sitemaps! Good luck! John

Hi Rob That's a big sway in favour of shifting to the subfolder, and will absolutely take you up on your offer via PM, thanks very much

Hi Sam! Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. I'm sorry if I'm a bit confused by your questions here. I'm not familiar with a lot of terms outside of what our tools provide, so I may need some additional information from you before I'm able to fully assist here. Our Site Crawl that's available within a Campaign in the Moz Pro tool is going to crawl all pages of your site that it's able to find and crawl and return them within your full Site Crawl report. This report comes in the form of a CSV file. In this Site Crawl report, we will be providing you with information on the HTTP status of the page at the time we crawled it, additionally any other contributing factors that our crawler comes across that we've deemed as important in regards to the overall SEO of your site. Here are all of the factors our crawler considers and will point out for any of your pages if noted on that page: High Priority Issues: Crawl Attempt Errors Duplicate Page Content Title Missing or Empty 5XX Server Error 4XX Server Error Medium Priority Issues: Missing Meta Description Tag Title Element is Too Long Search Engine blocked by robots.txt Duplicate Page Title Title Element is Too Short Meta Refresh Temporary Redirect Low Priority Issues: Long URL In addition to the above issues we'll report back on, we'll also provide the Page Authority, Linking Root Domain Count, Internal and External Link Count if your pages have been included in our Mozscape Index. Additionally Anchor Text, URL Character Count, URL Dynamic Character Count, Title Character Count, Link Count, Redirect URL if one exists, Tag Value, Referrer (what page within your site did we locate a link to the current page we're reporting on), Rel Canonical Tag if one exists, Meta Description Tag, Duplicate Page Content and Duplicate Title if found. You can also check our Site Crawl Help guide on the Help Hub here, too: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/crawl-diagnostics Does this perhaps get close to answering your question? If there's anything else I can assist with, please don't hesitate to let us know or email help@moz.com for directly messaging with my team here as well. Thank you! -Kristina

Thanks a lot Chris Ashton this means a lot to me I was worried what will happened but for now to some extent I am OK with Usual.