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I will agree with Eric on the maximum number of URLs you can add in one sitemap. Than you can add another sitemap and connect together. My idea is to create separate sitemap for blog, static content, main pages and ads. In my opinion, its ok to keep the URL in the xml site maps as far as the expired ad’s URL. Just a thought!

Hi Pamela can youl provide the URL and the critical issue our tool is not seeing?

If you have any doubts about this.  Decide if you want to put the value of your content out there exposed to the changing whims of the search engines. The upside is what?  An artsy appearance? The downside could be lower rankings, lower traffic, lower sales. Worth it?   Not for me.

Hi there. Do any of those navigation links have nofollow attributes or 302 or 4xx statuses? Also it might be due to crawling history on your website. OSE relies on data from MOZscape crawls, which means that if your website is fairly new or haven't been indexed often enough for whatever reasons, it will be showing fewer pages. links etc overall. Also, since MOZbot has the crawl limit per domain, and you have thousands of pages, the issue might be that mozbot reaching limit before crawling every page. Hope this helps.

Logan, I found your replies very helpful.  We have allowed a site to replicate some of our pages / content on their site and have the rel canonical tag in place pointing back to us. However,  Google has indexed the pages on the partner's site as well. Is this common or has something gone wrong? the partner temporarily had an original source tag pointing to their page as well as the canonical pointing to us. We caught this issue a few weeks ago and had  the original source tag removed. GSC sees the rel canonical tag for our site. But I am concerned our site could be getting hurt for dupe content issues and the partner site may out rank us as their site is much stronger. Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Yep - Eric McGehearty is correct! When we're counting all the links on a page, all links, including <nav>links, will be included. Anything that is <a href="" will="" be="" counted. <="" span="">​ ​Hope this helps!</a></nav>

Thank you both of you for the replies. I try to report as I find them, but will be even more vigilant now about it. As for Rebecca's questions: It's a algorithmic bad ranking penalty, still call it a penalty since it's penalizing us and reason I think it's penguin is the site in question has traffic patterns that best fit a site suffering from panda and penguin issues. Panda is part of the core algo and hasn't recovered from a single keyword and it's synonyms ranking better than page 5. Penguin is the only algo left that corresponds to the traffic being lost as far back as April 2012. Other reason I say it's penguin is the client's backlink profile is horrid, over 20% follow links are that keyword or synonym anchor text to crap sites, if that's not the trigger for the penguin issue then I'm getting results from doing the wrong things. Both our redesign and link cleanup have directly increased keyword ranking however every increase that happens isn't passed page 5, I've seen it one page 4 before but only for a day, nothing longer. So it seems to be able to rank higher but is kicked back almost right away faster than it increased. Really seems like it's being " adjusted " after going passed page 5.

While that is kind of odd to do, it should not have any effect on your site's search engine rankings or visibility. Simply providing a sitemap file is not going to help or hurt rankings in any way. It will help them discover and crawl pages. That's all. A sitemap file is not required at all, and in fact some sites don't have them--they rely on Google's spiders to crawl their site through the links on their site. The sitemap is only a tool to help them crawl.

spot on Eric!

Hi blackbowchauffeur! Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. Are you looking for suggestions to boost your PA and DA, because your site isn't ranking? If that's the case, you'll need to build more high-quality backlinks to your site. I'd recommend starting with our Beginner's Guide to Link Building. Otherwise, you may be best served reaching out to a paid consultant.

During these events we show them the "behind the scenes" of our company as well as the manufacturing process and give them an amazing experience surrounded by our products. I believe that that qualifies as promotional--you are giving them a perk that others don't normally get. So, those links should probably be tagged as nofollow links. The post or article that is written should include an explanation that the writer was invited to the event--which would be clear when reading what they posted. Keep in mind nofollow links aren't always a bad thing--it's logical that your site have both links that have nofollow them and links that don't have nofollow on them. It's ultimately up to the individual blogger or author/site to decide, though, and I wouldn't obsess over these links.

If you have one email account that will have admin access to multiple clients. You want to make sure you only have 25 profiles total as this is the token limit Google has for 3rd party connections. So the options are to either use a client's email credentials for their Google Analytics account, or they make you an admin to manage the profile which you can connect to Moz.

No problem! I meant to mention this in my first comment, but I also noticed that there's no robots.txt file in place. That's obviously not going to help your indexation problem too much, but nonetheless something you should know about.

Hi Aleyda, What you've said makes perfect sense. Thank you so much for your response.

No problem!

Every Subdomain is a domain with own Domain Autority. In general I would not use sub-domains - in a few special cases it is a good decision, but normally a sub-domain is a new domain starting at zero. I like Landing Pages and Blogs in subfolders wich helps a lot for the existing domains autority. By the way, links from subdomains du other subdomain (www, etc) are treaded like internal links. Q:whether having subdomain like this would affect the traffic metric and ineffect affect the SEO and Rankings of our site A: It would be better if it's a subfolder, but yes it will affect in traffic and that allways could lead you to better rankings Q: does not affect the increase in domain authority A: correct Q:considered as seperate websites A: yep! Q: wanted to make sure that it does help in the overall domain A: Like I said in A one it would be better with a subfolder (special the blog) but it wont hurt you

Thanks to both of you. We currently handle it via a sub-nav and intend to keep doing so. I wanted to bounce the request off of some other folks before I go back to the group who proposed it. Thanks again.