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For the moment, yes, unless it's possible to reconfigure the SSL software. I'm so sorry for the inconvenience!

Thanks, Gabe! So nice of you to say. We've just had another good thread about EMDs going this past week, with a great response from Rand on it. You might like to read: https://moz.com/community/q/to-re-domain-or-not-re-domain-that-is-the-question#reply_376575

Hello Kory, How many products per page are you showing visitors? 12? In my experience, shoppers prefer to see more products on fewer pages. The best user experience would be to see them all on one page with more products progressively loading onto the page as the user scrolls down. This would be a "View All" canonical situation, which Google suggests for fast-loading websites. Since Magento isn't particularly fast, and because you have a very large catalog, I wouldn't advise a "View All Canonical" in your situation. However, you could certainly load more than 12 products per page. You could double that and cut in half the amount of paginated pages Googlebot has to load in order to find all of the products in each category. Another thing I recommend is putting static category introduction content on the first page, but not on subsquent pages, and to customize the Title tag on all pages by adding in the page number. These two things cut down the duplicate content risks. And of course keep rel next prev and your Noindex,Follow tags on paginated pages. All set?

Thanks for your detailed and helpful response, Peter! I went through all of your links and I found several matches between the examples provided there and our situation, especially for what concerns the domain's recency. We'll have a couple of weeks of patience to see if something in Google's SERPs is moving, otherwise we'll start trying to "force" search engines to start seeing and trust our site. And also maybe ask directly to Google for a re-evaluation. Many thanks, I'll update this post if something relevant will come up, in order to help other facing similar issue that can occur them in the future.

To bring the 10x concept to a macro level, it's about being better than you were and looking at others to learn about what you can do to be better. Evolve as a person, as a brand, or an organization. It's about putting in time, care, and thought into something. It's about attention to detail. It's about investing into your end product. Whatever that may be, whether it’s a piece of content (like this answer to a discussion question), a service, a product, or an experience. That way you can stand behind it. However, the larger a company grows the harder it is to_have accountability_. · If you have a chat box on your site, it's about responding right away. · If you have a phone number on the site, it's about answering in a professional manner. · If your client has a question, is about answering or following up with the correct answer. · If you have a product or service it means going through the user experience and asking yourself where it can be better. Mostly**, it's common sense**, the main problem with it is that many organizations don't assign anyone with real quality assurance, you know, common sense thinking, instead they task them with specific orders and give them limited authority to act on problems. (Mainly from my corporate experience, although I’m sure others have had this impression of huge conglomerates) Really, it's the idea baked into theheart of capitalism. If you don't become better you will founder, then run out of money, than dissolve. Do you feel bad for those that dissolve, you shouldn’t, they deserve it, it’s called survival of the fittest. Some brands have no hope because they are generally disliked, good luck becoming a 10x brand when you are in the business of telecommunications, insurance, or banking because you are already disliked. These organizations have become large and unwieldy and have created a lot of ill-will in the community, for themselves and their industries as a whole. Who likes calling their communications tech provider, insurance, or bank?. These experiences are often characterized with ridiculous and frustrating automated menus that ask you to type in long account numbers only to have the rep ask you again. They reroute you to wrong departments, and sometimes just hang up, why... no accountability. Too often customer service representative in these industries don't have access to the info needed by the client and the decision makers are off limits for questioning. These industries are very large and un-capitalistic due to the barriers to entry and government complicity. Hint: Government regulations could enforce morality and ethics in business but have been largely coopted by the organizations that they are supposed to regulate. Other industries that have low barriers to entry (real competition) are the places where brands can evolve. They can have honest and meaningful conversations with their clients and prospects, and find out what they want. Sometimes you want to be better but don't know how. The answer - ask those you serve. Comcast has never called me asking "What do you wish would change about Comcast?" - They aren't in the position to do this. There is no one at the company who actually cares about client satisfaction. They will try to please you if you are calling to cancel or if you are looking for service but once you are in a contract, they treat you like a second class citizen. At that point, what do they care about your satisfaction, they have you on a contract and they have your money. Hopefully, you spotted the trick, they should care. Why, because it’s called lifetime value of a customer. When Google Fiber comes around to Chicago (I’m not holding my breath), I won’t feel the least bit bad about switching. As soon as that contract is up, I will look to the ends of the earth to avoid doing business with a company like that, but sometimes, it’s the quality of internet speed, or the price of a product that is the end all be all decision parameter. Like in the Amazon example, people will hassle a company for answers and then turn around and give their money to Amazon. It’s unfortunate, but it’s what we deserve as a society if those are our ethics. Like food and consumer products, you have to pay for quality. If you expect good customer service you will have to pay a bit more. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Being a 10x brand is only possible in industries characterized by flexibility and highly adaptive environments. If you sell manufacturing equipment, and you can’t compete on price, find a way to communicate the value of after the sale support, and really deliver. If you provide a web based accounting service there are many ways to improve your offer with things like free training and access to knowledge. You may have noticed that I am using this medium to vent a bit but I hope that my examples are useful when discussing the idea of customer satisfaction and what it really means. A 10x brand will bend over backwards to make you happy, but at the same time, they shouldn’t break their backs to satisfy their competitors clients. A 10x brand makes an offer for a product or service that you didn’t know you need but now can’t live without. Maybe you didn’t even know it could exist. Many of the most popular emerging brands are rising to stardom due to new functionality and technology. Thank you for the discussion idea. Please let me know your thoughts about my somewhat cynical post, I would love to turn this into a conversation.

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Yeah - this IS problem. I have friend of mine who runs webhosting for "free hosting". And he told me that no way to get to 1st page with anything lower than 10k root domains is mission impossible. Also in terms of backlinks their scale is in millions. Only getting there is more and more links from anywhere in the world, any site from any niche. And i saw statistics... he is right. The problem that if you're in some similar industry then maybe patience is over. And maybe next Penguin will fix this, but we already heard this many times. So you can play few games: you can keep building links as before. Only pure white hat from various sources. Can be game magazine, game shows, local meetups, etc. you can use some gray hat techniques. Forum links, blog comments, etc. you can purchase some expired domains on game niche. Using tools as http://tool.domains/ for finding and evaluating them. this is blackhat and i won't recommend it but when all options are on the table - using PBN network or PDF linking. And this is "white side of blackhat". There is dark side of blackhat using software vulnerability like in 3P industry (Pharma, Poker and Porn). As i said before it's better to stay away from that, computer hacking can be also federal crime. Even don't think to use this for real client. Bad guys used them for "churn and burn" method where domain is used for few days, then blacklisted; but guys get new domain and used it for few days; next domain... sponsoring some good players - like Fatal1ty sponsoring some good video game streamers - you can look for them in Twitch or YouTube. One of closest example is mine friend called Gothika47 (i can connect you if you wish). He run video channel in YT https://www.youtube.com/user/VoodooHeadsTV and Twitch http://www.twitch.tv/gothika_47 (he was moved from Hitbox before month ago). So that streamers can bring you HUGE audience if you're used them proper. I was watch streams with over 1k viewers online and this is WOW because streamer listen watchers and can do their requests. creating infographic with LOL skills or even build calculator for LOL or item calculator; you can also make "for dummies" walktrough for novices; also strategy guides, clan guides, etc. You also can make a videos about that - only for novices. something other... just think about giving "value" to users As you can see this list isn't full and can be extended with many more ways. But always think "how we should add value to community?" Because this is important to them and this will drive sales. PS: Dificult situation - LOL is trade mark owned from Riot Games. And should think about possible legal issues from using their TM too.

Hi there! I'm afraid that, no, at this point there are not YOY reports.

Or should I fix the issue first via htaccess rule before attempting the migration I quite honestly think that the problem is WITH htaccess, not that you have to fix something else with htaccess. And as an answer to your question - you always can migrate with issues and hope that nothing breaks during the process, or try to patch it up so it seems to be working fine and, again, hope that it doesn't break on you, OR you can get it fixed at the root of the problem and don't worry about it in the future.

Hi. Bad idea. It won't help with rankings. Only will bring confusion to users and, since it's kinda spammy and manipulative, wrath from engine crawlers. Why do you want to redirect specifically? Why not just create a page domain.com/keyword, put related content, make it awesome, build backlinks to that page, if possible with exact or partial anchor text? If you check Search Results, it's far-far-far not always that index page is ranking for every keyword. Hope this helps.

Hi Peter Nikolow, Did you find something from the URL provided by me? Thanks!

Grasshopper, thanks for that.  My whole SEO education is full of little holes where I know some crazy deep in depth stuff, but have zero knowledge of some of the most basic things . . .  the whole www vs. non ww. thing right I think is one of them. I test on screaming frog . . on both each is full of "200" codes, but the www version has a 301 redirect on it. Does that mean I just need to configure moz to be looking for the NON www version and perhaps it will get more accurate information? Not even checking http vs. https . . . It's not an ecommerce site so I should be OK there.

To be honest, this type of thing is definitely a weak point in my knowledge but if it were my site, I wouldn't be heading in this direction with it. What you're essentially doing is obscuring duplicate content from search engines but presenting it to users which we know is a no-no. It may well be that search engines can't "see" that duplicate content just yet but that doesn't mean they won't in the next update. More importantly, users aren't particularly engaged by seeing the same block of content over and over so it's kind of a waste of valuable screen real estate. One other question to consider with this scenario: do users actually want to know about this manufacture process? This isn't a leading question. What I'm getting at is that content should always cover what the user wants to know, not what the business wants them to read about. If this process is really just a sidenote for most users, risking content duplication to push it directly in front of them is a large and unnecessary risk. Of course, if the process is a unique selling point that may actually persuade sales and/or build that rapport, disregard this point

Hi again. I've seen it. Quite honestly I disagree with absolutes being a priority. The arguments, presented in that WBF don't really work for me against the pain in development (I believe she mentioned even more drawbacks). Also, from my experience I have not seen any (at all) benefits in any way (SEO or loading speed) from having absolutes, rather than relatives.

Yes, you can use the following two rules, in this exact order, in your .htaccess file. I'm assuming you've got mod_rewrite on. RewriteRule ^([^]*)([^]*.) $1-$2 [N] RewriteRule ^([^_])([^]*)$ /$1-$2 [L,R=301] The first bracketed group in each rule -- ([^_]*) -- matches every group of characters that isn't an underscore. The first rule rewrites every underscore in the URL to a hyphen, until there's only one underscore left. At this point, control passes to the second rule, which replaces that final underscore with a hyphen, and 301 redirects to that page.

Sure thing, Using a canonical only would still let you access mysite.com/index.html and would display that url in the browser. This means 2 things, firstly a user can see this url (and it can look a little messy) if they happen to find their way onto this page and 2, they may link to your website using this url (many people copy and paste links from the browser window). Whilst this isn't a problem as the canonical would pass link juice anyway it makes things a little "messy". A 301 would do exactly the same as the canonical in terms of passing link juice etc but it wouldn't let the user access mysite.com/index.html  they would be redirected to mysite.com  removing the possibility anyone would see or link to  index.html Both solutions fix your problem, one is just a little neater.

I suggest STAT Search Analytics. They specialized in bulk, enterprise-level keyword rankings.

CDN isn't pure fun for SEO because you give links to other companies or domains. I can do http://cdn.example.com/ or http://examplecom.amazoncdn.com/ as closest example - then your both links to images goes away and isn't too good. Only way is if your site and images are on same domain/subdomain. But this require very good planning of deploying. And in result you will be "vendor locked" for cloud solution.