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Hi Furtak, I will send you in PM. Thanks, Satish

Thank you all very much. Yes, Farsi is Persian. CleverPhD, I'm definitely going to add the markups you suggested. Gianluca, I'm not targeting Iran with the Farsi translations - that is definitely a second goal. I'm targeting Iranians around the world who search on Google in Farsi. Or simply Iranians who land on the site because our offline marketing but they prefer a Farsi website because their English is not very good. The language markup and the hreflang markup seem basic and easy enough to implement. I also found a bunch of wrong URLs in our sitemap that might have caused some duplicate content issues. I've ran the on-page SEO tool here on Moz too. Moz bot doesn't seem to be able read Farsi but it doens't give me any accessibility issues. Again, thank you for your replies.

Thanks Egol, Their site content is definitely good, so we're looking good on that front Thanks for your feedback.

Thanks Joe, I would agree that around 30 minutes per article, so around 15/day should be fair, as you say it is fairly straightforward. I'll see what we can do about using excel and other tools to speed things up. I already worked on something like this to organise keywords and topically relevant phrases so it was quicker to work with when I had input on content, but I'll see how we can optimise and scale up this current project.

As I said use robots.txt or htaccess rules for bots, where you would be able to allow access to specific bots like seofrog (at least temporary). Or, maybe they can allow seofrog to crawl it temporarily or something. As for Google bot - try to "fetch as google" within Google Search console. See what response there is.

Sorry for delay - thanks for this - will most likely give your suggested steps a try!

It's not a good or bad thing if you have 27,000 pages that Google has indexed on your site. What's important is, how many of your pages has Google indexed, how many of those are duplicates, and how many of those are unimportant pages? To find how many of your pages Google has indexed: Make sure that you have an XML sitemap that includes EVERY PAGE on your site. Submit that to Google Search Console. Check back in a day or so, and Google Search Console will show you how many of the pages on your XML sitemap are in their index. If you only have 5,000 pages on your site, but Google shows that you have 27,000, then you're probably dealing with duplicate pages, or tags that are built by your site and have gotten out of control. To find out if Google has indexed duplicate versions of your pages: Use Google Analytics' Search Channel report (Acquisition All Traffic Channels Organic, then change the Dimension to Landing Page) to download a list of all pages on your site Google or Bing has sent visitors to. Create a new column, stripping out portions of the URL that can change without changing the content of the page. Some common offenders: Parameters Different categories earlier on in the URL www vs non-www https vs http Now, find the duplicates in the "unique" column. I like using the countif function for this. For any page that's got duplicates, find a way to fix those! It varies by the problem, but the answer is generally to 301 redirect all versions to one canonical version. To find out if you have too many tags, because they're autogenerated Use an internal tool, like an XML sitemap creator, to figure out how many tags you have Compare that to the number of tags actually bringing you traffic Check to see if you're creating tag pages that are the same content as your category pages Check to see how many tag pages you have with fewer than five products matching - those probably aren't great pages! Going through these steps should let you know if your site is well optimized - again, it's not the total count that matters! Good luck! Kristina

Hi Ramon, Thanks for your detailed response. I could do both the above things you mentioned but there is a basic problem: there is no webmasters account for the old sub-domain. Only if I have webmasters - I can remove the URLs manually/automatically. Can I remove sub-domain URLs from main domain webmasters? What other options do I have to go about doing this - create new webmasters? (Verification would be an issue then)

Hi there. As far as I know (99% sure), GSC won't let you do the address change for the same domain name. Also, they recommend having all versions - http and https. So, I'd say just add another version

Hey Donald, I have 4 questions: Are these local businesses (i.e. do they serve clients in person vs. virtually?) Are they branded separately? If so, how separately? Is it Jones Payroll and Davis Time & Attendance, or is it Jones Payroll and Jones Time & Attendance? Do they occupy the same physical address? Do they each have a unique phone number?

No, the hreflang tag is to indicate that the content is localized for a certain market (language + geo). If you simply use hreflang tags without genuinely localizing your content, Google might treat it as duplicate. See John Mueller's answer here where he clearly says this exact thing: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/6XWuM1fIDgA

I would view this a a usability matter. Where would someone expect to land after clicking on a link in an author bio? I would likely expect to land on your home page, or a good About me page. Chances are, if it's a well set up bio section, it will be a nofollow link. So there won't be any benefits other than to the user who clicks on it. ~Caro

Thanks Rob, That really does help tremendously. Your point about Google being 2-4 weeks behind the curve makes a lot of sense, so I hope that the work we're doing at the moment will start to bear fruit. That said, I can still see a lot of merit in the points you have raised. Yes, anything you can suggest to give me more to work with would be really helpful. Perhaps we can have a conversation away from here? My skype is: sushihosting Perhaps we can have a text chat there? Many thanks again, Bob

Yeah, these articles pretty good and have all you'd need. Still, I wonder why you want to go necessarily with cdn, rather than a hosting, which provides CDN by default. From the top of my head - Google App Engine, Liquid Web and others.

Hi Juan, Nope, there is no problem in uploading several sitemaps and/or index of sitemaps. I haven't either found anyone that said anything about that. Best Luck! GR.

You might also want to consider repeat custom. Having a database of repeat customers can be huge for ecommerce. Increasing lifetime value is one of the keys to success here. A few ideas (I am assuming the CD key selling is legal, of course): Loyalty programmes (buy 'x' products and get 1 free, such as buy 'x' CD keys and get a random free one, obviously work your pricing to be sure you're in good profit, the freebie doesn't have to be an expensive one). Consider cross-selling at checkout. By offering an additional, related game at a decent discount, you may increase the average basket value considerably. Run seasonal promos, check Google Trends and other sources for when hotspots are (Christmas etc) and ramp-up your promotions - mailing out customers in a 'countdown' style fashion to build the PR (but monitor open rates and unsubscribes to make sure you're not annoying them!). Just before big game launches, piggy-back on the publicity & PR that the game generates and run discounts or contests - tie these in with you doing a video review of the game and upload to YouTube (you have a branded YouTube channel right?). Mail out to your list with the review of the new/just released game. Other than Lifetime Value increasing: Have you considered Twitch? Why not run a Twitch giveaway - Try to team-up with a popular streamer (if you're not well known yet, don't go for top-tier streamers at first. Find well known but approachable ones) and get them to do a sponsored CD Key giveaway. You'd need to make sure you get good coverage from the streamer (links from their chat, link from their bio for 'x' weeks, stream uploaded to their YouTube channel too if possible, with a link to your store etc). What about asking any YouTube game streamers if you can sponsor their channel? Obviously, the likes of PewDiePie would be a bit too expensive, but aim for niche gamers with a decent following, you may be surprised how cheap you can sponsor them (CD keys?!) for links/mentions etc. Just a few more ideas for you there, hope it helps

Mark, for our WordPress client sites and our own sites, we're implementing AMP on all pages on the site(s). What we know is that Google's implementation (adding the pages to the results) is changing, and we don't know what the rollout plan is in search. We started only seeing it on news sites, but it's been expanded. I do recommend making the pages available on sites if it doesn't take away from the content on the pages. So, if the content of a page relies heavily on images, for example, it might not be appropriate to use AMP or have an AMP version because it really isn't going to be a mobile friendly page. But, if it's primarily content-based or text-based, then you would want AMP to be available on those pages.