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Hey MissThumann, there is no good way to tell Google not to include a specific alt text. You could move the image down lower on the page to the second paragraph if you need to keep that specific image and alt text. Otherwise, I would suggest that you change the alt text to something better that works in your search description or to remove it entirely and just leave the alt tag empty (alt=""). Hope this helps!

I was advised to deindex pages that had not been visited in the recent past. I deindexed about 150 pages and had a nice bump in the SERPS. Previously I was #9 and I jumped to #4. I have about a hundred more thin pages I'm working on and #crossyourfingers maybe I'll be top three.

Hi Ricky, Got it. On that page I've linked to, Google gives instructions for what to do if an Editorial Summary is wrong. Please, check that out.

Hey there, in addition to Oleg's comment you can add an htpasswd file to your server to require a username and password to be entered before any users or robots are allowed to access your website. You can find information on setting this up here.

Hi Andrea, To answer your questions: The redirect you mention will impact your rankings for keywords that are locally based (New Zealand copywriter, for example) or for folks using specific search engines (google.co.uk/google.co.nz) which will identify your website according to relevancy (UK to UK, NZ to NZ). The redirect should probably point from your UK site to your NZ site, since your contacts in the UK can still find your site using google.co.uk, which will redirect them to your NZ site. Meanwhile, your NZ leads will be able to find your NZ site more easily if it is optimized for New Zealand. What that redirect is currently telling Google is that you moved from NZ to the UK, and are carrying forward your domain, which is essentially the opposite of what you have actually done. There are a few ways to move forward: a) You create 1 website which optimizes for both NZ and the UK. Create a "locations" page of sorts which optimizes the same keywords for different geographic areas. (i.e. have  a "New Zealand copywriter" page and a "United Kingdom copywriter" page). You can remove the redirect if you like, or keep it. This would be best utilized on whichever page currently has better rankings, although ideally you would use your NZ domain since that is where you are based. Not an ideal answer since keyword relevancy will be lacking for one country or the other depending on your choice of domain. b) You cancel the redirect and optimize both websites. This is probably your best option but requires twice as much work. Duplicate content is an issue to some degree, but it won't really hurt you. Duplicate content is more of a "you won't gain any benefit from your content, but it won't hurt you" issue. You can use canonical tags to minimize the damage you do to your rankings for each site, or you can create unique content for both sites (this is your best case scenario). It would probably be best to separate your hosting (at least have these 2 sites on different servers) in order to avoid any cross-contamination if/when you conduct linkbuilding for your site. In an ideal world, you create unique content for both sites. In a pinch, you duplicate your content from the site you plan to use most to the site you plan to use least, providing canonical tags for content on your main website. There will be a lot of work on your plate when it comes to optimizing both sites, but that is the best way to move forward, in my opinion. I'm sure other Mozzers will have more to say on that. Hope this helps and feel free to follow up with me if you need any more help! Cheers, Rob

hi and thanks for the feedback i realised yesterday when i was reviewing your messages that the page i mentioned is actually quite new compared the rest of the site. I guess it will take time for the links to filter through.

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Hi Rob, Thanks for the reply and helping hand. We are "crm" industry players. We are globally relevant. Product used globally and website has global visitors across different countries. We don't have any dedicated pages to any country. English language website. There are many internal redirects. And some sub-domains redirected as sub-folders. Reclaimed links sources are not from India/US. Mostly from Europe. Our domain is based in Germany. If you are Okay with private messages, I can send you more details. Please let me know what you need to know more. Thanks, Satish

Hi Toni, Hosting location isn't going to play a big role in your rankings. Server stats are going to have more to do with that (i.e. is it shared/private/dedicated etc.). You won't have any difficulties or problems with Search Console. In terms of rankings, you will have the traditional issues of ranking a subdomain (split link juice, the need for unique content, etc.) but nothing out of the ordinary. If you are targeting a UK audience, the domain should probably be set up as a .co.uk domain, and you should ensure that you are following SEO best practices in setting it up. You will also want to ensure that you are generating backlinks from UK sites to show relevancy. If you stick within those guidelines you will be just fine. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions. Cheers, Rob

That robots.txt should be fine.. its not blocking anything. The reason the crawl is stopping on the homepage is this code: <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">nofollow</a>"> Which tells bots to not follow any links on the page. Remove that and you should be good.

Hey Sean, Left a message for you in your private inbox, feel free to reach out any time! All the best, Rob

Yes, building enough backlinks with the correct anchor text will get the page ranked high but there are 100s of similar pages to that on our website. I can't have backlinks to every one of those pages.

we'd need some specific examples. in general, any new page will have a lower PA than an established page.

So happy it helped, Nathan!

Hi there, are you a MOZ PRO member? I can see the crawl test when I click MOZ PRO in my navigation bar at the top. It is one from the bottom. Kelly

That's really true.Perhaps the best solution is to have another shop @ sellparts.com/buyparts Perhaps the best affordable solution is to have another shop @ sellparts.com/buyparts ? It then could be another site on the same Magento install with different shopping cart extensions. I really appreciate your help. Thanks.

Thanks lisa I think i figured it out. My client's got 2 businesses with 1 phone number which is why i think it's causing a problem