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Yeh, I have just seen a few ranking drops so I'm now a little concerned. Thanks for your advice!

Hi there - Kristina from Moz's Help Team here. Unfortunately at this time our crawler isn't compatible with Server Name Indication (SNI), which appears to be in use on your site. In general, SNI is a totally acceptable security configuration, but our crawler simply isn't equipped to be able to handle these settings. http://screencast.com/t/dB2C3eVJ7gN I found this thread in our Community Q&A forum with lots of other users running into the same problem, so it's definitely something we're aware of and working to address: https://moz.com/community/q/804-https-ssl-error The good news is that a recent update has been made, and we're ready to accept beta SNI customers to test it out. Please see the article here that explains this further: https://moz.com/community/q/moz-pro-our-web-crawler-and-sites-that-use-sni and if you're interested in being a part of the beta testing, the link to the sign up page is here: http://goo.gl/forms/LCvL9Ix8JDHfbAvr1 I apologize for the inconvenience in the meantime, but hopefully we'll have it fixed soon! Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help!

Hi Alexa! In order to solve problem one, I would choose which domain you want to use (it would be a great idea to use Moz's Open Site Explorer tool to see the domain authority of each of these URLs), and redirect the other URL to the preferred domain. If you don't want to redirect the one website, you could  leave both sites up and running just like it is and use the robots.txt file to stop the search engines from indexing one of the domains. Let me know if you need anymore help!

Thanks for the answer Bernadette Coleman. Yes, it can be a Google issues. But the biggest problem is that the Google Adwords team, are trying to make ads with some urls , and some Urls are being blocked by Google Adwords. Note: The URLs that are reproved are not on the console search sampling, do not have 404 http status or redirects. Are the final URLs with 200 https Status - Google Support answer - Disapproved ads It seems that the issue is with the URLs. When our system crawled, they resulted in 404 violations Hence, I request you to check Google Webmaster tools to identify the issue. Also, I request you to speak with your development team to identify the issue. Once the issue has been fixed, I kindly ask you to re-submit the ads in the account, which will cause our system to re-review them. About the 404 errors on console. I had already taken the 404 urls sampling console and tracked screaming frog: 246 urls Status 404 303 urls Status 200 459 urls status 301 70% of URLs were corrected, were marked as corrected on console, but Google insists back them to the list.

Hi Kristen, You should choose a CMS wherein you have a good development team to back you up. Regards, Vijay

I would perform an 80/20 analysis and see if these pages are driving any traffic to your website. If they aren't performing well, I would delete them and redirect them to similar pages or back to the homepage. I agree with Bernadette about checking Open Site Explorer. You want to makes sure you are not going to be giving up any valuable backlinks that these pages might have generated.

If its possible to avoid a redirect, do. www.corporatesite.com/product/ -> www.consumersite.com/product/ is better than adding a redirect into the chain.

Hi Logan, Thanks for your response. Yes, I also agree however it's important that websites are maintained separately, that's why I suggested checking whether the person who asked the question has the resources to maintain them strategically. https://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo Regards, Vijay

Apart from content, how old is your URL? The domain age could be impacting your rankings as well. I would also take a look at how your pages are performing. Do you have a high bounce rate? If users are coming to your website but clicking back to the SERPs, this could be telling Google that your website is not helping the user—thus hurting your rankings.

Looks like the two people who responded to your question yesterday actually gave pretty good answers/followups to your issue.

Awesome! Sometimes you know the answer right after you ask the question

Hey Paul, Thanks for the response! Our site is an ecommerce site through Magento. I though we had all of the canonicalization set up correctly since we followed this article: https://moz.com/ugc/setting-up-magento-for-the-search-engines I was under the impression that the canonicalization was encompassed in the Auto-direct to base url setting. But there is also a setting under Search Engine Optimization to enable canonical link meta tag for categories and products. Both are set to yes. Any idea why the canonical tags might not be working? Also, how can we implement the canonical tag in magento for the homepage?

Hey Paul Did you get any response after tweeting Google? Thx.

Hi there! Difficulty score is solely based on the DA and PA for the top ranking sites for a particular keyword. The only occasion we would take your site's Domain Authority or Page Authority into account is if you yourself were ranking in one of those top spots. So, the Difficulty score would be the same for everyone who searched at that particular time. I hope that clarifies things!

Sorry to hear you are having issues with your site. It appears that you have the two domains due to country targeting? If this is true, I would choose one domain, and 301 redirect the other domain to the one you want to keep. If they have a different weight or authority, then I would check the domain weight to see which is higher. What you don't want to do is potentially redirect a less powerful domain to a weaker one, as that can slow down ranking progress. If you are worried about country targeting, you can add in Language tags into your site and also submit a focus area in webmaster tools. This will also detect the language tags if they are properly installed. Once this process is complete, make sure to fetch the chosen domain in Webmaster Tools to help speed up the indexing of the new domain. Hope this helps!