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What's the point of the new domains in relation to the primary domain? Are you planning on using them to cover niche's unrelated to the main site? Are they different businesses branching off of the main company (subsidiaries on the main)? Depending on how you're planning on using them, there's a variety of different things you can do. There are a variety of ways to solve a problem so depending on what your goals are, the community may suggest something different. Share a little more about what you're doing (you don't need to give away full specifics), and maybe we can come up with a good way to use them.

Thanks so much Gianluca, I'll take all your ideas into account.

Hi there. No, there is no other way than backlinks. Basically, the way Search Engines work is that they know what your website (domain) is about and than try to find the best page to match the query. One of the strongest signals engines look at is backlinks. So, if your home page has good backlink profile, secondary page doesn't have any, and Google understands that your website is about, let's say, apples, your index page will be ranking no matter how much you optimize content on secondary page. You can try doing solid internal linking with exact matching anchor text, but I doubt it will help much. Just try to get couple good backlinks to secondary page and you'll be fine.

Hi Bas, The change is made. Do you know if (and what) I now have to do with my Moz campaign? Thanx in aadvance

Got rid of the pervy quest. How do you recommend we organize the site? And what do you mean by URLs are all over the place? We have one blog because some people are going to want a wide range of topics - the theory of everything - but maybe I can feature each separate blog at the top of the single blog and tie them together. I'll tie together the home page and get rid of the stock images. What would you recommend for the design of the home page? After you answer and I adjust, will you take a second look? Appreciate it if you would Thanks, good response, Bob

Hello! There are two parts of our on-page grader. The discover tab which grades keywords we find ranking in the top 50 automatically and Track & Discover where you can add the URL + Keyword combo we will automatically grade each week. You can set up a custom report to obtain a PDF update to email for the overview but not for individual reports. This is only available in a Moz Campaign. Hope this helps!

Thank you Highland That was very helpful!

Well - this was asked many times and answer is No. Here are more info about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIzr3eWK8I https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-geo-location-server-google-17468.html https://moz.com/community/q/does-the-location-of-my-server-effect-my-seo But if you are using generic domain (not ccTLD or SearchConsole targeting country) this could be problem - https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/ They have .com domain and targeting UK market So - if you have .de domain and in SC you set preferred geo location to Germany and your server is located in France (near Germany) then you shouldn't have to worry about it.

Hi there. ok, Large mount of crawled pages doesn't mean that every single page has been fully downloaded NOT from cache. If that would be happening, Google would bankrupt in two days. Most likely Google checks the difference in cached and live page and updates the information, rather than downloading the whole thing every time it crawls a page. That's why there is a "fetch as Google" and limit on crawl pages. It would depend on which pages those are. If it's one of main pages (like index or main service) - it'd be pretty bad. If it's a page, buried under thousands of other pages, then no, it wouldn't be a problem, however, when google does get to that page, you cut yourself that crawl, since Google bots has limited resources per domain. Basically, you'd be wasting bots resources on that non-responsive page. I'd recommend either fixing it or deleting that page if it's not important. Cheers.

Although Google can now get to js, I would still be nervous on choosing a theme/CMS  that is using lazy loading. According to John Muller from Google: “Is Googlebot able to trigger lazy loading scripts- lazy loading images for below the fold content” – “This is a tricky thing.” On lazy loading images John says  “test this with Fetch as Google in Webmaster Tools” and “imagine those are things that Googlebot might miss out on.” http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/john-muellers-seo-advice/

Hi Justin, By "embeddable" I was just thinking of some kind of social friendly gizmo/result that lures people in to find out what movie their life is like or what movie character or actor they are like or some kind of pop media crap like that for grabbing eyeballs out of social. Until comments can deepen page text, you might want to "noindex, follow" and remove those thin pages out of the sitemap and index, just so Google doesn't find too many thin pages to whack you over the head with. Best.... Mike

hi Tymen, Thanks. I learn something new today! J

This is normal. First you need to evaluate this guide: http://www.elite-strategies.com/flavors-types-google-penalties/ and see what kind of penalty you have. Then you need to get all data from Analytics, Search Console both Links and Analytics there. And here is huge analysis... You need to check timeframe of your sudden drop. Are there some turbulence in SERP? New algo released? Anything weird in your own castle (server, CMS, hosting provider, etc)? If there is something - fix it. Also read about algos/turbulences in industry news sites. Check for messages in SearchConsole about "Manual Actions" and fix them if it's any. Check for sudden change of your links and create linking profile. If there are new and weird links from spammy sources - disavow them ASAP. If there is overoptimization for keywords - change anchor or disavow. This can be something Penguin algo related. Check for sudden change of your site - thin content, aggregated content, duplicate, irrevelant, etc. Check also user signals - low CTR, high bounce rate, low time on site and low % of returning users. Also check bad UI - design, navigation, mobile redirects, site speed, ads. Check for low trustworthiness - in Google Raters Handbook that was recently released. This can be - providing contact information, ToS, PP, etc. And last - overoptimization. This can be something to Panda algo related. Check for other algorithms - like TopHeavy aka Page Layout Algorithms that may affect your site. So after you know what can be your drop related then check and recheck. Isn't first nor last time when you can think about Panda but in reality was Penguin or vice versa. This can save you few months. After you're 100% sure what was then try to make changes to escape from algo penalty. Same happens to me almost year and half. We're running brand new site and faced sandbox algo. But we make few links more than we should and from low quality sites. So site was shown in SERP for month in first or second page and then suddenly drop to 10 page. Our organic traffic was fell to 1/10 of before almost overnight. But we make new traffic sources - social media and referral traffic so we could live without organic. We change links, make diversify linking profile changing links, anchors or even both. We also delete some links. But nothing happen in SERP position. Then i use disavow tool and 2 weeks ago there was algo refresh (Penguin). Almost overnight search traffic jump more than 10x and recovering previous positions and getting new and ever better positions. Today - this site make traffic as 10x than after recovering. The problem is that you need to make changes in site against penalty. And wait for algo refresh. You also need huge patience because some drop can happen anytime, but for recovering you need algo refreshes. And refreshes take months or even years.

Hi Erica, Yeah, I get that about Google and links. just trying to come up with some reason why anyone would go to the trouble to submit a video review. Moz is kind of tough comparison, since it's an industry leader with many reasons one might post. Thanks... Mike

This is popular question for multilingual or multi-regional sites. And answered many times: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en The main problem is that this questions have many answers. And all of them are right, some more, other little more. Just don't forget that no matter what way you select you need to keep relevant language links to each language site. And keep hreflang to other language sites too. https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag https://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights https://moz.com/blog/open-source-library-tool-check-hreflang https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool

Hi Glenn! Thanks for passing along your feedback. I've sent this further to our product team to see about the likelihood of getting this implemented. Suggestions like these are really helpful in developing new features for our tools, so thank you again Kevin Help Team