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New WAF/CDN's Only one offers a free plan also I must be upfront and TAGFEE I am a partner of Imperva the company that owns Incapula. Incapula now has a free offer on their content delivery network, of course, there are two catches. If your site Is encrypted a.k.a. Using SSL or https:// you must choose a paid plan. You do not get access to their phenomenal rewrite rules which can speed up your site quite a bit. Still, if you have no or no intention to use https this is better than CloudFlare when it comes to speed plus much better when it comes to security, but you must pay for the safety on both networks https://www.incapsula.com/ The second content delivery network is not free. But worth mentioning. StackPath is a new CDN/WAF built on MaxCDN's network. However, it offers you so much more for the base price of $20 month compared to what that would cost on MaxCDN hundreds of dollars a month. https://www.stackpath.com/ This CDN is unique because you get so much for the money. I bring it up only because people browsing this will hopefully find this useful. Hopefully, this is of use people checking out this question. All the best, Tom KJGioL8.png 6svpMgX.png

Yes, Google will give you credit for adding value to pages. You must have them crawled as a Googlebot immediately after no indexing is removed. Your no indexing will pass page rank of thin content could save you potentially from a penalty however if you have a better page redirected to that page using a 301. You will not receive the existing traffic if your ranking for that keyword at all if you noindex it. Well, you'll lose a lot of it until it's fixed. You will have more trouble ranking for that keyword if you remove the page from Google's index. However, if you feel your content is that thin I would recommend no indexing them if you are going to fix them. And you must be willing to fix them extremely soon. How are you going to rank for a term Organically if you no index it you will hurt it that is not currently getting traffic? A NoIndex tag is an instruction to the search engines that you don’t want a page to be kept within their search results. You should use this when you believe you have a page that search engines might consider being of poor quality. What does a noindex tag do? It is a directive, not a suggestion. I.e., Google will obey it, and not index the page. The page can still be crawled by Google. The page can still accumulate PageRank. The page can still pass PageRank via any links on the page. (PageRank, in reality_, there are a lot of other signals that are potentially passed through any link. Better to say “signals passed” than “PageRank passed.”)_ Crawl frequency of a noindex page will decline over time. Crawl frequency refers to how often Google returns to a page to check whether the page still exists, has any changes, and has accumulated or lost signals. Typically crawl frequency will decline for any page that Google cannot index, for whatever reason. Google will try to recrawl a few times to check if the noindex, error, or whatever was blocking the crawl, is gone or fixed. If the noindex instruction remains, Google will slowly start to lengthen the time to the next attempt to crawl the page, eventually reducing to a check about every two-to-three months to see if the no index tag is still there. The no index page will be excluded from Google's search index, So it will not help you rank for that term unless you have other pages that are cannibalizing it and trying to rank for that term as well. If so 301 redirect the poor content page to the right content page. Your question on page rank and no index yes page rank can accrue Google will still read the page. They will derive some information from the hypertext inside the URLs. Before you remove content The following are some guidelines you can use: Make an educated (non-biased) judgement: Is your content’s quality “worse” than this content? Do you cover the topic in enough length and sufficiently in-depth? Which aspects of this content is your page not covering completely? Which “user intent” queries is your content not answering? How can you make your content better? Can you use any great imagery or diagrams to supplement your content? Are there any YouTube or other videos which can add value to your content. Iterate and do the above for all of the pages which are outranking yours. The first few are going to be the hardest — it’s likely that the rest will follow a similar pattern. There are no short cuts. You’ll have to review all the pages which are outranking you to ensure you leave no gaps. Update Your Content To Fully Answer The User Search Query Once you’ve seen what you are up against, you need to update your content. To put it simply, your content needs to be better than the competition. It also needs to fully answer the user search intent which we have identified previously. Make it the BEST content out there. Given that you’ve already analyzed your competitors’ content, you should have a pretty good idea of what your content is missing. Supplement your existing content with that additional content, but Don’t rewrite it completely. You’ll likely lose the precious content that Google was ranking you for. Don’t write a new post with the hope that this will rank better. It’s a much longer and harder journey than pushing up your already existing content. Of course, don’t change the URL. As discovered in this case study 468% traffic increase case study, Google will reward you for your efforts. Use the judgment calls from your competitive research to plan what needs to be added or updated. Enhance it with any missing content While looking at the organic keywords which you are ranking for you might come across user search intent keywords for which you have no content. Let’s say, for example; your content discusses enabling Joomla SEF URLs. If in your research you find that you are ranking for “disabling Joomla SEF URLs,” make sure that your refreshed content answers that query also. These queries are pure gold — make sure you are answering them You can see a larger version of the photos  below here http://i.imgur.com/cPpz5no.jpg http://i.imgur.com/m1MSsoh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aqMgiWU.png Reference http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/duplicate-content-problems/#thin-content-classifier https://www.stonetemple.com/gary-illyes-what-is-noindex-and-what-does-it-do/ https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ ** when rebuilding** https://moz.com/learn/seo https://ahrefs.com/blog/link-building/ https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/what-is-pagerank/ this is similar because it addresses turning off pages and turning them back on https://moz.com/community/q/inactive-products I hope this helps, Tom cPpz5no.jpg m1MSsoh.jpg aqMgiWU.png

Hi Lewis, Firstly thank you for taking your time to respond in depth to my question. Since reading your response, I have done the following... Identified the parameters that should NOT be indexed, these are; 'brand=', 'min=' and 'max=' The colour filter 'colour=' is to be kept indexed. I have reviewed the website and found that users cannot currently select to filter more than on colour, which eliminates Google from indexing multiple colour filters in one URL. However, users can still filter by colour and brand, hence why I have requested ours devs to meta noindex any URL that contains the 'brand=' parameter as well as any URLs that have the 'min/max=' parameters as these are price filters. I have also requested rel=next/prev to be implemented correctly. The above should drastically reduce our indexed content. As well as this, I have added the following parameters into Search Consoles' URL Parameter tool as 'No Crawl', 'brand, min, max' -  although I understand this is not a guaranteed fix, it was my first option with no immediate dev time over the weekend. Now the only URLs in need of a canonical is the colour filtered URLs as 'brand, min max' are all noindex. I have asked dev to ensure the canonical points back to page 1 for now, however I am looking into a view-all page option so the canonical would point to that. A good learning curve all of this!

Hi David, Good question! When you are logged into Moz.com, if you click on your user avatar in the top, righthand part of the main site nav, you will see a link to your private messages. (I've called it out with a hot pink box in the attached screenshot.) E6PZR

Hi Chris, thanks so much for the answer and thoughts on what you would do! I totally hear what you're saying about the keyword stuffing. As I look back over it, it seems like it would make a great drinking game. Every time you read "Wyoming" you have to take a drink! (Would be a VERY short game haha) Awesome. Based on your feedback, I'm going to go back through and make sure each article is: Not keyword stuffed. Interlinked effectively and organically. Cut any crazy confusing wording. Thanks again Chris. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to look this over and give your honest option. You rock!

HI Alistair, I don't think that is because Google is so Angry and its not letting you verify your site in search engine consule. There might be some technical issue or anyother possibel reason. such as, your server might be not responding to Google bot or Google is unable to connect with your server. In addtion to that if its download is not redirecting. There are other option available for you to verify the site, I am sure, you're femiliar with those but i  reckon to use via domain name provider. Moreover, before you submit site, make sure your site is fully secure. I hope this will help.

Generally speaking, having a flatter URL structure is typically a better play for SEO. To better understand why your network admin may have an issue.. can you provide a few examples of "old url" and "new url"..  You can use anonymous fillers, but I'm just looking to get a better understanding of what you have done. Cheers, Jake

I am not sure if you can secure this or not from your clients. However, I reckon to get link from their about us page or company overview page under the heading of IT team or technical team with a little brief along with one external link to your site.

Hi Rob, Gaston and Andrew have already answered this question with supporting resources. But there is I good guide I came across for website Indexing. If you are still looking for solution, you may find this useful. You can check it here -  The White Hat Guide for Website Indexing If you have already found the solution, do enlighten us with issue (and what was causing the issue). Good Luck,

I don't think you are the only one.... it would seem that there has been a core major Google update. See here from SEO Round Table. and it is still rumbling on... All of the major search watch sites are also reporting a lot activity, some showing gains/recoveries, some showing massive drops. Algaroo MozCast Serpwatch

it still looks to be rolling out, lots of turbulence still. I have been lucky so far to only be seeing small movements and not the big drops some have seen. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

In addition to Joe, I dont see any reason to buy cheap linkbuilding ( pardon me if misunderstood) However, i would stress on organic local citation as well as niche links must be earn by delivering such services. Moreover, try to avoid over optmisation of any keyword/page etc.

Update for anyone else experiencing this issue: If the module on the first page is too large, it gets pushed onto the second page of the report and leaves the first page blank. It sounds like the workaround they're offering up would be to use smaller modules on the first page and include large modules like the Dashboard and keyword rankings for later pages. This solves the blank page issue, but we still can't get our logo to show up.

So what's the best policy if a site uses an e-commerce platform like Magento, which has a robots file, but also has a Wordpress blog installed to another folder. eg: /blog and uses a plugin like YOAST which generated a robots file of the Wordpress installation. Then you have 2 robots files, is this detrimental or no big deal?

Thanks. I think the content on page is pretty good and strong as we have just done an upgrade of the website. Just recently Google decided to show this description from DMOZ.

Hi Arnold, Very Interesting case, and congratulations to you for getting a viral video without even knowing about it. You have asked a much interesting question, how to find out some of your or some else's video that gone viral when they have not tagged you or provided a backlink directly to you. Considering your case scenario as an example, If I were you, I would have first analyzed the traffic patterns, set up a question on the registration form "Where did u hear about us" . Also, called up signing up customers to understand where were they finding out the information about the website. Other than this, there is no direct technical way to understand the video content if the are not connecting your website via backlink or a hashtag. I hope this helps, please feel free to respond and ask further questions. Regards, Vijay

I'm trying to run a site with a sub-folder in the URL e.g. /UK/ but I too think the Keyword Explorer tool only returns results for the whole domain. Does anyone have any idea if this is truly the case as the whole UK website is on the sub-folder and I need to run it through the tool to find out how many keywords the site is ranking for?

There is nothing "bad practices" about allowing a non-existent page to 404. People often times forget that a 404 isn't a signal that something is broken and needs fixing, its just a status code that returns "Not Found". Sometimes it makes sense for things not to be found on your site because they were never there in the first place. 404s eventually stop being crawled and indexed. You shouldn't just bulk redirect things to your homepage though. Its always best to have a 301 point to the most relevant page based on what the original page was. If there is no most relevant page, have you considered 301-ing them to one step up in the site navigation? (i.e. a category page or hub page)

You're welcome. The canonical tag is used to prevent duplicate content concerns. Your traffic reporting is still going to register traffic at the sub-domain page visit.

Hi Chris, Thanks for your response and suggestions. I think I've found a solution to all of the issues I'm currently experiencing! https://www.perfectseourl.com/ This should fix the -2 problem, as I can now dispense with the "product-category" slug completely and also follow your suggestion of going with the "womens" category name etc. Many thanks!