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Hi there, I would go with option #1 and use CSS to improve the design of the table. You can then use JavaScript to add functionality if necessary without the risk of some content being un-indexable. Some examples of nicely designed tables using HTML and CSS: https://www.freshdesignweb.com/free-css-tables/

Hi Mike, I think you might get a lot of different opinions again (just like in Ruth's WBF comments) but I think it is pretty safe to say that Google likes sites that are consistent and clear in their internal linking and that do not return a bunch of 404 pages due to bad linking structure or linking mistakes. So with this in mind the first thing to do is decide what your final url structure is going to be. Is it https or http? is it with www on non www? Once this is decided then really 95% of any potential troubles should be solvable with a few lines of code in your htaccess file which will 301 any queries to urls that are not in the final format you have decided on to that format. This means that if you have decided on https and non www then even if google (or any user) comes into the site on a http or www url then the redirect takes them to the https:// version and everything else that is crawled from then should be in the format you have decided on. So far so good. There are two main issues where you might still have problems and this is likely where different opinions will appear as to which problem is more likely to happen and/or be more difficult to fix. Problem 1: Bad implementation of internal relative linking The comments on Ruth's post about spider traps due to missing the / at the beginning of relative urls (and lots of other weird relative url formatting mistakes) happens quite often and on larger sites can seriously damage your crawl budget by creating literally thousands of bad links to 404 pages. This is bad news! There are ways to address this either using a base href tag or simply by editing the relevant links. The moz crawl report will flag these kind of issues so you will find out pretty quickly if you have this kind of problem. Problem 2: Having to manually edit absolute urls because you have decided on changing the final url structure of your site. You mention you have a ssl certificate in place but are not using https at the moment. It is probably safe to assume you will be at some point in the future though I would assume? If so, how many man hours are you willing to dedicate to editing all your absolute http urls to https urls if you decide to do this change? Maybe your tech team can do this by editing urls directly in the database and this is not a big issue for you (although these kind of actions need special care to make sure mistakes do not creep in) - if so then this might not be a big issue for you and in that case feel free to use absolute urls and feel good about it! The above is relevant for images as well as for pages. At the end of the day google wants to be able to crawl your site easily and to find real content/images and not 404 errors all over the place. If you ensure this it doesn't matter much if you are using absolute or relative urls (I guess I better say in my opinion) - you are returning the same content on the same urls in both cases so really why would google care? if it is easy to put absolute urls in the main menu then do it. If it is a nightmare to edit 1000's of relative urls in product descriptions then just make sure they return valid urls and you should be fine. A note on your url examples: http://www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (what I see for most Absolute links) www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (would this work for both http and https?) //www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (would this work for both http and https?) Only the first of those is an absolute url, the second and third are relative urls of one sort or another and are likely to cause you lots of problems. Either use absolute urls with full https or http, or use relative urls with a trailing / (and make sure you do not have spider traps). Do not use those other examples, they will cause you grief! Hope it helps, I am sure others will chime in

No, you won't get penalized for redirecting the PDFs to HTML versions of them. In fact, Google will like it. Here's a video that may help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzq-94lcWQ

For the reasons given in my last post (May 2), could someone from the staff please mark this discussion as "not answered" rather than "answered"? Thanks.

Hey John, Without knowing the complete details of the scenario, I'm not 100% certain (feel free to explain further) but I do believe what you are describing would fall under Google's guideline regarding ineligible business models: An ongoing service, class, or meeting at a location that you don't own or have the authority to represent. Please coordinate with your host to have your information displayed on the page for their business within their "Introduction" field. How I'm understanding your description is that the showroom is actually the host here and that they would need to mention you and all of the other brands they are representing, rather than you building your own GMB listing. If you need to coordinate with the host, I recommend drawing their attention to Google's Guidelines for 'Two or more brands at the same location'. Here are the complete guidelines: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en Hope this helps!

We are looking for someone who is an expert or good writer in a particular subject that fits. This is perfect.  Excellent.

Billy is right, for all intents and purposes. It's VERY possible—even probable—that the authority difference is due to the bulk of your backlinks going to that page. You can learn more about how authority is calculated here.

Thank you for the respond. I like option 3 I like everything they offer. But I want it to be my own. Not belong to another company I pay. What would this type of project be considered. And how much do you think it would cost me?

So I used the Google PageSpeed Insights to get a better idea: I'm somewhat technically saavy, but I can't seem to wrap my brain on HOW TO Enable Compression fix??? Do you happen to have a "simple example" of what needs to be done?  I understand the concept of having a compressed file will save on bandwidth etc...  But am I literally "gzipping" the files like "jquery.js"... but how does the HTML code work etc..   Any straight forward example you could possibly show me? Same with ENABLING CACHE...   My site is done w/ PHP, so i thought sending a simple HEADER command like so: header("Cache-Control: max-age=2592000"); would suffice... but the pagespeed insight still says,the following elements: which are jpgs, css files, js files that my "www.stephita.com" index file references...  Am I doing the Cache statement correct, by putting it on the INDEX.PHP page?  Or do I somehow have to literally have to reference each jpg/css/js file that the PageSpeed insight is saying needs something done?  Again, examples? I appreciate any help on this matter

If they went to burner pages, then I would understand it a little better. However, when I click on the shorten link, it goes to his blog page on his actual site; not a microsite. It's like the shorten link redirects to itself, but is passing equity. And, I can't figure out where the shortened link is actually posted it. It's not in the source code of the actual blog page. Not sure how to find the origin of it. Rube

Roman, Awesome! Glad to hear you tackled the issue! Let us know if we can be of any further assistance! Trenton

In order to help you, can you give us some details : which plugin do you use ? Do you minify code at deployment, before caching ? Minifying can be an issue if the result is not cached, so each time the page is loading, the server must minify the code... And perhaps if your server is on a shared hosting, it can be time consuming !

Google is absolutely smart enough to understand the difference between uppercase and lowercase and ferret out user intent. I'd wager that a lot of people don't bother with capitalization when typing a query, so it would be incredibly important to get that right. I've never seen a difference. Hypothetically speaking, it could be a factor if/when capitalization changes the meaning. Off the top of my head: spring vs Spring fall vs Fall split vs Split But I would imagine that in cases like these, the way you're using it in the query is also providing important contextual clues.

Hi Krishna, If you haven't read it, I'd also suggest checking out our Beginner's Guide to Link Building.

Ben, I'm assuming that you have 301 redirects properly set up for all of those page. Then, make sure  you've used the Google Change of Address Tool to properly tell Google that you've moved from one domain to another. If you are consolidating domains, then you need to verify all of those sites in Google Search Console and then use the Change of Address Tool. You don't mention how long it's been since you've set up those 301 redirects, but it literally can take months before everything is straightened out in Google. One thing you can also do is to look at the site's log files to see if Google is crawling those pages--it could be that they're not crawling. If they have crawled, then it might just take time before they're indexed.

You are a star, thank you!

Hi Thanks, yeah I've done arguably the worlds greatest marathon, so every marathon I now do will never have the same atmosphere, but my first ever marathon was a quite one and they do have their benefits. I will never qualify for Boston, maybe if I can still run a marathon at 70 I might have a chance. I've got 19 weeks so I have decided to do it - the medal looks pretty cool. Depending on the legs I may do one of the group runs as well. Thanks Andy

In that case I wouldn't worry If you want to crawl a version of your site without those parameters Screaming Frog allows you to exclude any specific parameters by going to configuration > URL rewriting. Best of luck!