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Thanks for the reply. The files are not blocked, just highly compressed (and some are set to cache). I wonder if they are getting confused when trying to read the files...

So happy to have you in the community, Donna

I agree with the responses here: having two sites is generally not the way forward. I just want to add one other option. Most people who received link-based penalties were building links to 2 or 3 pages. If that's the case you could 301 redirect most of the site on a page level and let the pages with bad links 404. If you have cleared the penalty it might not even be an issue to 301 redirect the whole domain. Just make sure that you update your disavow on the new domain.

Thanks so much for letting our community know you're finding a lot of help here. That's wonderful! Sounds like you have some good improvements planned migrating to Wordpress. To me, it looks like location/contact could possibly be turned into a single page, making more room in your menu for a blog link, but that's a call you'd need to make. I can see from the blog post you've shared that you're looking to put lots of effort into the blog, so giving it a priority link makes sense to me! Good luck with all you're doing!

This is the second question you have posted around a site and Panda issues. From "reset project of a site caught in Panda" I have to assume what you did was got a new site and tried to get it to rank. You state that you tried not to use any redirects, but the bigger issue is did you reuse content? was the site "spammy" to start with and is it still "spammy?" Are you in an area like payday loans that Google is really more careful with today? Etc. From looking at both questions, I have to think there was something wrong initially and that you have in someway brought that with you to the new site. I do not believe you are suffering from any type of sandbox effect for 6 months. Best

Spanish, I think you really need to consider what you are doing and why you are doing it. First, a manual penalty means you are on Googles radar and you are outside their terms of service in some way. If your decision is to get a new domain then what you should do is put the old one in the trash and forget it ever happened. You are starting from square one if you are smart IMO. Why? because if it is a penalty around linking and you redirect to a new domain, you are going to carry that wait to the next site. That doesn't mean that the penalty will show up on your new domain at point just because of the old, but there is no real value in the links so why risk it? There are just too many reasons not to try and save the old and move it to the new with redirects. BUT, is there a reason you would not simply address the penalty? Maybe it is cost as cleanup is expensive; if so, you weigh cost of cleanup versus cost of rebuild to all new site with new domain. Second, an "algorithmic penalty" is something we say from time to time, but if you are using that as a line of thinking - "the algorithm has in some way penalized us" - you are then setting yourself up for further pain down the road IMO. With a site failing to rank because you have bad links, poor content, ads everywhere, I suggest you not look at it as a penalty. Look at is as: "What must we do in order to grow our site in value to our customer and in ranking against our competitors?" If you believe you have a "penalty" of sorts you are really saying things are not as good as they could be. Why not change things? If it is linking, disavow bad domains and links and move on. If it is Panda in your thinking, what can you do to change the content, etc.? Often, when this type of question arises there have been a series of missteps by a site owner trying to shortcut really building a web property. If there were true short cuts without risk, I can tell you I would have found them or learned of them from people on various forums like Moz. I simply do not know of any. Clean things up and move on or start over and move on. I think that is the only choice you face. I wish it were easier for all of us.  Best

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but we typically recommend downloading all of the links from OSE, Majestic, ahrefs, and Google Search Console--and then putting them all into your own spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. If you're wanting to look at anchor text data, you can combine that all into one spreadsheet (except for the GSC link data). You might also try combining all that link data into Link Research Tools' link detox tool to review the links. That way you can include all of the Google Search Console link data.

Personally I would doubt that you would get penalised for it especially as these are genuine reviews. We use a similar tactic here and post individual user reviews gathered locally on site and then also feature aggregate review for an overall score located on a third party site. As you are using TrustPilot which is a Google Partner for reviews, I would imagine this will only benefit you in the long run, but check with them about featuring their logos on your site. Some review sites are quite particular about how you display their logo/artwork and may also require a link back  Due to TrustPilot being a Google Partner, you also have the added benefit of having star ratings in any Google Adwords activity you may be doing, thus helping to further increase their positive impact on CTA's and conversions when landing. Hope that helps. As per Robert, just make sure you get your schema correct to ensure accurate portrayal of the review data so it is picked up. Finally, there is a chance that you will get your review snippet on Google, but this is not guaranteed even if your schema markup 100% correct. Good luck Tim

Thanks for the answer Robert. Yes, I´m using hreflang correctly and the serps of the different country versions shows the corresponding country folders. i.e. google.co.uk shows results from the uk folder, google.fr shows the fr folder,… The redirect only occurs on the homepage from mydomain.com to mydomain.com/fr, mydomain.com/uk,….. If a user is in the French folder but is located in London isn’t redirect to the UK folder.

Hi Robert, Thank you very much for the detailed reply. The main website is also based in the UK but I'm not sure about the DNS which I will check. If they are on the same DNS, are you saying that redirecting the EMD to the main brand website would contravene Google best practice and we shouldn't do it? We have a full section for this product range on the main site so it means that there is a viable target for the 301. I just feel like we should be building up this section on the main site and making that better, rather than focusing on the other one, but unfortunately because it ranks so well (I thought Google stopped ranking websites just for the EMD), I need to do something with it! Thank you for your advise so far. I'm really grateful to you. Carla

Hi Radi, There really isn't any advantage to placing multiple links from your Home Page to a single page on your site. It splits your link juice among those pages and adversely affects their ability to rank. The only benefit might be if you are attempting to generate more leads from a UX perspective and want to create multiple CTA's to your digital marketing page. From an SEO perspective, however, any internal linking should be strictly limited to relevancy and pragmatism - give your visitors what they want in the easiest way you can without spamming your own site. One link from your Home Page to any page on your site is plenty. Cheers and hope this helps! Rob

Hi Radi, The time it takes for Google to crawl your website very rarely fluctuates. It will typically take about 2 weeks for a crawl regardless of whether you use the Console to request a recrawl or not. You may save a day or two of waiting with the request but realistically it is probably best to just let Google do its thing and crawl your site when it comes around. It's a much better idea to focus on your content and to make the most of each crawl you make rather than to make small changes and demand a recrawl to determine if it has had any effect. That's a good way to drive yourself insane! Hope this answers your question, Rob

Thanks a lot for your response ! Much appreciated.

Hey there! Thanks for the question! Unfortunately we don't support automated CSV report emails at this time. You can manually request these emails in theRankings section of your campaign. I'll be sure to let the product team know this is something you're interested in seeing, however!

Hi Rob, thanks again very much. I will implement more links and switch the title tags! Thank you very much again! I'm really grateful for your help and advice! Best regards Marc

I thought that your presentation of the product and writing below the product was entirely appropriate.   I would not change anything about your use of "kiln dried logs".  Those three words describe your product perfectly - perhaps legally - and the description is inadequate without those three words presented in the order in which you employ them. One should always write in clear natural language regardless of the guidance given by keyword monitoring tools.  The best way to stink up good writing is modify it in homage to a mindless tool or a stupid rule.   It is good that you have the common sense to hold true to your writing skill. These tools particularly fail when writing long articles.  If you allow them to throttle your use of the most important words of your page the reader will forget what you are talking about. I have pages ranking at the top of Google for very difficult queries that if I ran them thorough that tool it would probably catch afire.  If you expand that article and include some graphs, a photo of a kiln, and more information about the kiln-drying process, it would be a fine article that could stand alone on a separate page. btw...  I know quite a bit about many types of fuel other than wood.  I thought that the article below the products was informative and worth reading.   You did a fine job of explaining the importance of moisture content and why kiln drying is an important preparation method.  If you take that article, rewrite, and include moisture content comparison graphs of green, air-dried and kiln-dried wood, along with photos of a kiln and more details about the kiln-drying process, the article would be informative enough and interesting enough to stand on its own.   Nice work.

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