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Hi Will, It'd be impossible to find a solution to the problem without having the domain. If you want to message me the URL, I can take a quick look for ya. A lack of either of those files shouldn't create any crawl issues. Setting up those files won't fix your problem, but you should add them both anyway.

Yeah, perhaps they will all naturally rank better for each term. Thats not to say they are not ranking well now I was just in the process of optimising everything I possibly can. Thanks.

Ah, that's the definitive Moz answer I was looking for. Thanks Tawny. Yes I read that blog post. Very useful as always. Many thanks Neil

This. Unless there's unique information on /oak-beams/ about oak beams overall that isn't also on /reclaimed-oak-beams/ and/or /air-dried-oak-beams/, you're going to have a difficult time ranking the brand new page.

Yes, I would like to see some study data on CTR success/failure of Capital First Letter Of Every Word vs. not. Or legibility study for fast reading comprehension. I see this as more important for ad copy than meta data, since ad copy is much more limited in characters and visual real estate.

Thank u so much for your response chris.

Hi Chris, I appreciate you giving me the feedback on my site issues.  I've rectified a few, and will thoroughly go through my site to ensure it complies with the suggestions. What is the likelihood that once Google sees that the page is cleaner, will my site jump back up to the top?  Does the PR3 still factor in SERP? Thanks!

I see. I guess the question is whether to nofollow them and disavow them both. They had a spammy footer linking everything together, got rid of the footer, and kept a few of the links except transferred them to the body content somewhere. Make sense?

nailed it!

I know it's not always the answer people want to here, but Matt's right - this is basically where we're at. OSE tends to focus on higher-authority links and quality over quantity. Unfortunately, while this works well for tracking the strengths in your link profile, it doesn't always do as well at tracking the weaknesses. We're very much interested in expanding the quantity as well, but it's a balancing act and, in the interest of full transparency, there are many engineering challenges. People have compared our index to Majestic and Ahrefs on the blogosphere. Since I can't claim to be unbiased, I'd welcome you to read those posts and make your own judgments. In fairness to Majestic and Ahrefs, all three of us are somewhat transparent about sources and at least our general methodologies. Unfortunately, Google is not very transparent about how they sample links or choose which data to show. So, direct comparison with any of the major SEO tools to Google Search Console proves to be a lot trickier. We're also not clear on Google's update cycle for that data.

Hi Jacob, Use subfolders. Remember to use the hreflag tag, inclufing the country code. If  you have the ccTLD domains, redirect them to the subfolder. For example: If you have yoursite.co.uk point it to yoursite.com/uk/ Also, remember to add every subfolder to Google Search Console (Google Web Masters Tools) and declare for each one the country that is itended to. Hope it helps. GR.

We don't get a ton from image search and the images themselves aren't worth finding. The developers are coding like this for sitespeed reasons (I'd agree with it being "odd"). Thanks.