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Hi lkomontt76! Any update on this? Are you able to provide any examples so Kristina can look into it?

I would send each agent a questionnaire.  It would be an email or webform with fields that can be extracted.  It would contain questions about the employee's education, experience, and a couple optional personal items.  This will give unique content about the agent. The questionnaire would also ask for information about the office location, phone number and directions on how to get there.  Include a map, a photo of the building, a photo of the agent.  This will include enough information to optimize the agents page for local search. Fields in the questionnaire enable it to draw information that will be used by a program to complete a unique title, meta description and , etc. tags.  The goal of this is to construct an optimized page that will draw local traffic I would not leave it up to the agent to edit this information on the website. Once a year, each agent will be sent to a questionnaire that contains information from last year.  They can edit or approve.  New agents will be asked to complete a new form or edit the form of the person who they replace. Finally, I would not place these on subdomains.  They would be organized in folders.  Then you can draw information from all of the questionnairs to construct category pages for major geographic areas such as states or major cities. Done right, these questionnaire can be used to produce agent pages and many other pages that will compete in local, regional and other categories of search.

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Happy to be of help PS thank you Miriam

Many thanks

Glad I helped you clarify, Gal.

There are SEOs (like myself) who do SEO full time for a company then also do SEO as a part time role outside of working hours just to get a bit of an income boost. I have some customers who pay me as and when they want me to work and some who pay me £50 a month just to do some work for them. I would just be wary and ask to see some of the sites they have worked on. If you want to find these kinds of people, try sites like freelancer, seochat forums, elance. There's a load of seo forums and freelance sites that are more suited.

Hi Miriam. Yes I have now. Thank you so much

Well, in my views yes you will get benefit out of this change. I would suggest you to run a backlink audit of your old site and make disallow list of all toxic links. Disallow all those and put a 301 redirect as soon as you can. Another tip, when you do it, try to change your onsite content. This will add up another plus point for your site. I checked your site, its look amzing i think you will not only retain but will get good result. Moreover, you second domain has more branded power than the current one along with age of the domain. So Good luck with your change.

Thanks for the reply! I will certainly try to build my content up in ways that get it linked from many different sources. I was just concerned that the large amount of backlinks from one domain would negatively affect me. That's great that it won't! Thank you!

If they are external links, and they are pointing to URLs that no longer exist, I wouldn't worry too much about it - it's unlikely that something that is so clearly spam is going to affect your site in any way. If you are really concerned about it, you could disavow the linking sites in Search Console. I hope that helps. I'm still a little unclear as to what you mean by repopulating your back end in this context.

Thanks, man!

Have you reported the change using Google's change of address tool? Here's the intro from Google: If you've moved your site to a new domain or subdomain, use the Change of address tool in Search Console. A change of address notification helps you manage the transition needed by Google to index your new URLs at the new address, while minimizing impact to your current ranking in Google Search results. A change of address notifies Google about the new URLs for your existing content, so that we can update our index to reflect the new domain for your pages. This updated index status remains in effect for 180 days, by which time Googlebot will have crawled and indexed the pages at the new address.

How long ago did you implement canonicals to fix the issue? Its important to remember that a lot of SEO isn't about quick fixes. Some of these things will take weeks/months to completely filter through and for you to see the outcomes you were looking for. You could "NoIndex, Follow" the pages if you really wanted to but I'd suggest waiting a bit longer for the canonicals to start working. If the canonicals really don't seem to be working for some/all of those pages, and you don't want to give it more time after a few weeks, then you could reasonably "NoIndex, Follow" the pages... but you could be harming link equity that would have been attributed to the canon page. As for the 301 idea, it would really depend upon what the filtering parameters are doing. If its filtering out sections of a page for users or its helping you determining lead attribution in analytics, then I wouldn't want to indiscriminately 301 them. If they're being autogenerated but have canonicals in them from the start then you should be fine. Like above though, if after a few weeks of them existing with canonicals Google still is throwing duplicate errors at you for those specific pages then you can NonIndex them if you feel it is necessary.

Hi there, It's definitely possible that you are blocking a folder or subfolder in your robots.txt file that is preventing Google from crawling some of your videos. Could you possibly share a link to the robots.txt file so I could look at it specifically? Also, Google Search Console should tell you which URLs are being blocked specifically so that could be useful as well. Happy to help — just please send some more specific details. Thanks!