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Google should be able to understand that all these are variations on your brand name, so you shouldn't need to worry much about that from a link building/organic search perspective. On the paid search side, you'll want to bid on as many variations of your brand as you currently see driving traffic or mentions to your site.

No problem. Screaming Frog (or any crawler) won't pick it up, because it's not being linked to within the website (it's an "orphaned" page). Google could still index them because they are in the sitemap, but it took so long because they are no actually linked to from the website. So... if it's not supposed to be indexed at all in the first place, you can add a meta "noindex" tag to the page and remove it from the sitemap. Then you'll be all set

Hi Sarah, Somehow I answered this and I must have forgotten to post the answer! Arg, it was a long one, too. Let me try to summarize what I'd do: -If possible, noindex any page that doesn't display content while not logged in. Wait for those pages to drop out of the index, and monitor for errors. If not possible, skip straight to blocking pages behind a login wall with robots.txt. For example, to block anything in the login folder: Disallow: /login Or to block anything with a login variable: Disallow: /*?login This should prevent bots from crawling those URLs where you don't have any content to show them. Make sure to use this carefully. I do apologize for the delay. If you have additional questions please feel free to PM me. I'd be happy to do a quick consult online or over the phone, as I feel bad that I never actually answered, and I can give you more specific ideas if we look at the site. If this answers your question that's fine too. Good luck!

Hello Katherine, I hope I understand your question correctly. So you are using Google's Data Highlighter to mark up page elements on your site, but there is a pop-up window that you need to get rid of when using the highlighter? If you can't get rid of the pop-up when clicking on the X, have your developers temporarily disable it. If you turn off javascript on your browser it will probably kill the pop-up, but it would also probably keep GSC Data Highlighter from working. If you are trying to mark up the information within the pop-up, I'm not sure that's even possible with Data Highlighter. You would probably have to do that in the code on your site.

Thanks! This clears things up.

I agree with Peter, I'm having the same issue with code that we changed over a year ago and that is still showing up as errors in Google Search Console. Hopefully that wouldn't cause any issues anyway as they're just errors or warnings from Google.

It used to be that titles only came from two sources - the <title>tag and DMOZ. If the organic result title didn't match the title tag, then you'd check DMOZ. Unfortunately, now Google pulls data from all over the place, including Google+ listings and the Knowledge Graph. Google has become very interested in understanding brands as entities and is bringing a lot of data into play, sometimes poorly.</p></title>

Thanks Dirk. I also use moz, ahref, semrush and sometimes majestic (free versions). However in the last week I signed up to MOZ.  I'm now thinking that if my main goal to analysis back-links I should probably use another service like ahrefs, as I've tested and get a lot of back-link info from. Thanks again Jon

Moz doesn't crawl everything, nor do they crawl as often as Google.You're getting a subset. You should never take OSE as the sole source of your links. Cross reference with other tools (WMT, Ahrefs, etc). OSE is designed to give you a subsection but to make sure that subsection is as data-rich as possible (note that OSE ranks your links as well).

I have found this useful in the past: https://www.ayima.com/guides/conquering-pagination-guide.html

Excellent, thanks again Miriam! It's a weird one lol

Make sure then that whatever backlink building you do, it'd be for domain.com/language, not just domain.com

Google suggest. I forgot about it. Thanks for reminder. Will have a look at that too. Thanks, A

I doubt that this would be causing the issue - as far as I can see the way the tags are implemented is according to the Google 'standards' - check: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls?hl=en . If I do the mobile friendly test - it's confirming that the page is mobile friendly so Google is reading the tags correctly. Dirk

Thanks again Dirk. I like your direct and knowledgeable responses. I have sent a Linkedin connection!! Many thanks, Sarah

There's a couple of questions to answer here. The first is the difference between asking "Will our Domain Authority Decrease?" versus "Will our Traffic & Rankings Decrease?". The second question is more important so I'll cover that first. The official answer from Google is that, no, your traffic and rankings will not decrease. In practice, however, a number of people have seen 5-15% traffic drops for weeks or months after the transfer - even when completed correctly. The general assumption is that this is due to creating redirects for http -> https, which traditionally reduces the value of your inbound link profile. With that said, it's small enough that you can recover quickly with some link reclamation - basically you should update the links you have control over and also email friendly webmasters and say "we changed our site to be HTTPS secure and were wondering if you could update your link on domain.com/xyzpage/". Deacyde's notes on updating internal links are also correct. You should also reference popular "ssl migration" guides like this one from Yoast: https://yoast.com/dev-blog/move-website-https-ssl/ In regards to your exact question - "Will our Domain Authority Decrease?" - this could reference the literal Domain Authority that is measured by Moz, or you could be referencing the broader concept of domain authority in terms of how Google views your website. I don't have an exact answer for how Moz handles normal 301 redirects and if they treat https redirects different. I would assume that Domain Authority might drop slightly, but that's a guess and not an official answer. As noted above Google says that your website will be treated the same, and I think that is the case within a few months, but there can be initial traffic drops, and worse if you handle the migration incorrectly.

Hey, When you are fixing the website do you roll back to a save version of the website or just change password? Most likely there is Malware hidden away which if you do not remove will allow them to keep doing the same thing. I think generally backups go back 2 weeks but if your server provider has copied a hacked version you will need to remove the Malware manually - not fun. I would Google the plugins you are using and see if anyone has been hacked using that plugin.