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Yes, that's interesting.  I had wondered if it was something like that. The biggest change I made was only two or three days ago, it's only a small lower authority site so therefore likely wouldn't have been re-crawled yet.

Hey Steven, it's hard for giving you a 100% valid answer as we do not know your site as well as you do, but here I will try clarify your doubts with my PoV: 1. beware of the definition of original content. Google is starting to move away from the solely written by me = original = deemed to rank. They are trying to figure out which content is unique and also adds value to user experience. You need to try to provide content which is providing a meaningful addition to user experience. 2. care with internal duplication. the walt disney piece on the right looks like a boilerplate content which is present on more the 51 pages on your website (google search). Take into account that if you create an original piece and then you splash it across multiple pages of your website google may dilute its value 3. Panda is a page-level algorithm. Panda doesn't act on the site as a whole. Even before being integrated with Core algorithm it was clear that panda acted on a page-level basis, only after reaching a certain threshold the system may decide to rule out a site from google rankings. It's definitely likely that google may be discounting only the pages it feels that are not useful while keeping the ones that are adding a value. The cancer quotes list is a good list of quotes that may be not found elsewhere. You know better than we do which unique functionalities you ahve added to your website to assess which are pages that deserves to rank vs pages which are just a rework on already existing (onsite) pages. I hope this helps you! e

Thanks for your helpful answers - much appreciated

This is a new question for me! I actually hadn't considered Google+ pages for international expansion. I'd determine the best way to go about this by asking yourself if what you would post on separate Google+ pages would be different? Does the market require different material? Are they interested in different things? Are there different products and services for that market? Do you have a separate subsite (either ccTLD or a subfolder/subdomain of your main TLD) for that market? Is it different? If the answer to those questions is yes, then yes. If not, then stick with one.

Some good stuff! I am wondering about the other SEO factors you recommended... Backup info: Since there are very few informational keywords I am just writing (yes unique! good point!) very helpful high quality articles on topics that people need help with. Then refining them to 10X when there is competition. We let our customer service team provide most of the meat of the articles, then rewrite them for quality, visuals, etc. They are very experienced The only cost is our time. I've made a list. We can probably squeeze out 20 unique topics Question: What can I do besides just post topics and post them (for free) on Facebook? I thought I needed to focus on 10X content and just earn links. Please explain what you guys mean by other SEO factors. And any more feedback you have based on my refined information. Thanks.

Hi Blue Corona, I didn't did anything. So you mean to say there is no issue from google end as per given link of searchengineland? Thanks!

I wouldn't recommend using iframes, since in that case you would lose the reviews as part of your website. I say don't worry about it, if it makes sense from user experience point of view. If those reviews are expected to be where they are, and there is other content, which makes pages differ from each other. 2nd - updating content is not 'job' for reviews. Updating content is updating content. But sending email - sure, it might help you get some extra traction.

Yeah definitely not with a client website lol

Hello Cooper! I would say that domain age could really be impacting this, but that does seem a little unlikely to be the only reason why your website is performing poorly compared to this competitor. I recommend going through GSC to see if there are any messages or anything that indicates your website might have a penalty lingering somewhere. If you want to share the links to the websites I would be happy to take a deeper look into the problem.

This is what I was looking for, thank you.

Hi, Not sure if you've already tried this, but got to chrome settings (the 3 vertical dots icon in the top right corner) > More Tools > Extensions > Find MozBar and hit reload button Thanks,

First of all, a quick question: How is a new domain going to influence user experience? Couldn't you redesign the website and keep the current domain? Domain's build up a track record with search engines, historical data is factored in. So yes, you will see a significant impact to your organic traffic. Anytime there is a brand new domain in the picture, you're essentially starting at ground zero. 301 redirects will pass traffic and authority eventually, and as per Gary Ilyes do not lose PageRank anymore. BUT, that doesn't mean you should add a bunch of redirects without a really good reason. I strongly recommend you reconsider switching domain names and simply redesign the domain you've already got.

Hi Does your client have a trademark / copyright on the business name - that would be my first place to start. See if legally you can get them to take down the website for trademark / copyright infringement. If not then have to agree with Vijay - its going to be hard work but you have to be better than them - build up the brand. Thanks Andy

Yes, I would link. Yes, it would change breadcrumbs.

Thanks Michael for the response. Excuse my poor description by indexing I was refereeing to my ever growing list of crawl errors. When you say "It looks like not only do you need to resolve any MANAdev issues but you need to do an audit on the site as I think you have several issues." Is there some obvious errors you can see? Thanks

Hi While I haven't done it yet, I do have a client which I am looking at this issue for. I came across this plugin which looks decent and will do the job. https://store.plumrocket.com/magento-extensions/accelerated-mobile-pages-magento-extension.html My client has some other issues which needs fixing first before we start looking into making their site AMP. Thanks Andy

Hi Thom, Like Mike mentioned, I think that culling through this information yourself with Excel will probably be your best bet for analyzing the data you mentioned. I'll give you a few ideas on how I would start if I was you: You mentioned that many of the queries were only searched once. I would start by organizing your information into two columns: one with the query, and one with the search volume. Then, I would filter those down to only queries that have been searched more than [a certain threshold]. I think that while queries that have only been searched once can give you valuable information, especially compared to others and analyzed in aggregate, you will be less overwhelmed if you start with the most important (and a smaller set of) queries first. After you've done that, I would start to filter your data by query. You can sort by queries that contain, begin with, end with, or do not contain a term, or any sort of custom filter. Given your example, I would probably start with filtering by queries that contain the word "cat" or "dog" or "turtle," and then try to find trends within that smaller set of data. They will be much easier and less overwhelming to find when you are not dealing with so much data. This next step is a little more tedious, but I would also recommend adding another column that you manually populate. You mentioned that there are misspellings; you could account for those by creating another column in which you populate the word "cat" for all queries that contain "cat" and also all queries that contain "cta" or any other misspelling. That way, later, you can easily sort by keywords that were about cats, but didn't necessarily contain the exact word "cat." Or, you could populate the column by grouping all queries that were about one animal, two animals, three animals, etc. Once you have a ton of information, I would recommend creating pivot tables and charts that help you compare the data. Ultimately, what I'm recommending is probably very time intensive and tedious, but I really think it will be rewarding once it's completed, because you will very thoroughly understand the trends going on in the data. One of the benefits of doing it yourself, rather than using a tool, is that you will understand the context around these words; you will be able to better interpret trends or make connections than an automated tool would be. Here is a great article that walks you step by step through some of the steps I mentioned, and it also goes into depth about other ways you can use Excel to analyze this kind of data: http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2015/09/11/4-excel-tips-applied-to-keyword-research/ Hope this helped!

You can tell Google what URL parameters to ignore in Google Search Console. It's under Crawl > URL Parameters > Configure URL Parameters. Google does advise to use caution when changing how Google bot handles the parameters.