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My gut says that this is not a Panda hit. Any sites that I saw get hit with Panda in July were hit on exactly July 17th or 18th. The decision to noindex (I'm assuming you meant noindex rather than nofollow?) product pages is one that would likely need some in depth investigation made in order to decide. But, in most cases I do not recommend noindexing products. A drop from #1 to #3 does not sound typical of a Panda hit. That said, I have seen some Panda hit sites that start with a slight decline and continue to fall from there. But, again, my gut is saying this is not Panda. A drop from #1 to #3 could be a whole bunch of things and I'm guessing that having some thin product pages is not your main problem. This sounds like a question that is probably a little too detailed to be answered in Q&A. Perhaps if you are able to provide the url you can get some better feedback, but otherwise you'll mostly be getting gut instincts and opinions.

Sweet deal! I'm glad you were able to get everything sorted out!

Hi, I thought I would let people know that since we updated the href langs to the below format we are still yet to see the US homepage become visible in Google US and the UK homepage is still ranking

"Why not do parent category by type of clothing - "snowsuites", "sweaters" and so on and then have boy-girls filters inside?" "I acknowledge that implementing a filter for "boys" and "girls" would be the best way to solve this redundant categorization, but that would simply be to expensive for our client." That being said, canonicals will help direct the juice to the right (/outwear/) page and away from /outwear/girls and /outwear/boys. The only other option I can see is to have an overview category (/outwear/) and then deindex the subcategories in robots. disallow: /outwear/girls* disallow: /outwear/boys* But that only helps Google with what you already have. If someone directly links the /outwear/boys/ page, that will get lost. So canonicals would seem to be the way to go in the absence of filters.

You can use a form as described here. http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/textsubmit.shtml You can also ask the affiliate site if you can place their shopping cart code on your site.  Most carts will even allow branding themes that you can use to make their shopping cart have the look and feel of your website.  Your customers will be checking out on the affiliate program site, and their URL will be shown in address window.  Although there are ways to make it look like a subdomain on your site.

Thanks for the input, Dmitrii and sorry for not replying sooner. My experience is a bit different - maybe because it mainly stems from well-structured pages that was daily reindexed. Breadcrumbs generally showed up "almost instantly" (i.e. next index round) or "not at all". Same with some other cases of schema - even being deindexed and reindexed (be it after a silly mistake or the realisation that google for some unclear reason dislikes some markup within some others) within the same week has happened to me and is far from extraordinary. My prior experience with (old) schema.org breadcrumb markup was frustrating to the point of avoiding it; but next time I shall give it a try again. Always better to not mix syntaxes.

You probably want to contact a member of the MOZ help team directly rather than posting it on a forum... They're more likely to see it and respond if you visit https://moz.com/help/contact/account - Scroll down to the bottom and enter the details in the form.

Hi Ozil, did the answer by Matt and Jimmy offered you hints so to help you better in the strategic decision you were looking to solve? Said that, as Matt told, your question is too big to be answered in a simple Q&A, apart that all the possible recommendations would have the defect of being "generalistic", because this kind of strategic decision can be taken only knowing the detail of your business plan and not only of your website itself. Ciao Gianluca

Hi Tim, Thank you very much for taking the time to explain this. Best regards, Ed

Hey Dino! Since the domain is not actually www.locksmith.com or www.locksmiths.com, we will not recognize the keyword usage and the entire domain name counts as a single keyword. We do not recognize broad usage in the domain name as an exact match. So what we are looking for would be considered as exact match hyphenated domains. So something like www.seattle-locksmith.com would be two keywords in the domain. Hope this helps!

My first instinct is obviously to say "if you lose 50-75% of your links, will your rankings drop" - well ... yes? I mean that seems fairly obvious? But I didn't want to be that obtuse so I thought about it a bit longer. And really, the question is much more teachable than that over-simplified answer. What you are talking about is domain-level vs. page-level link factors. ANY link to your site affects the whole domain (domain factor) but a direct link to an inner page has more page-level effect. If you look at the Moz Ranking Factors Survey you will see this: Domain-Level, Link Authority Features: Based on link/citation metrics such as quantity of links, trust, domain-level PageRank, etc. And that, right there, is your answer. On the domain-level, we assume quantity of links, trust & PR of those links affects the domain as a whole. If you have poor quality links it can also tank the whole site even if they all direct to one inner page. So yes, the long answer is "quantity and quality of links can affect domain-level metrics and thus affect your rankings."

Understood - if you're ranking on the second and third pages, it may just be because it's a brand new baby website and needs to accrue more links and authority.

That's a bummer, but at least it's a truthful answer. so thank you! is there a technical reason why this isn't possible?

I would echo what Dirk said and add to that. Did you do 301s from the old URLs to the new URLs? Are the new URLs crawlable by Google? These type of links are notoriously bad for SEO because they're almost always implemented improperly. How long ago did all this happen? Has Google caught up? What URLs are in your sitemap now? Again, it's probably related to not being setup correctly. I have seen 100 of these clients and maybe only 1 or 2 that was done with any intent to make sure it still ranks. Check: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started?hl=en Finally, you said you just introduced these as new pages? Consider this: http://searchengineland.com/google-has-deprecated-their-ajax-crawling-scheme-233402 If Google is going away from these pages and you're going toward them, that is something I would seriously think about for the future of the site.

Is there a reason for SquareSpace to do this? We have a number of small sites on SquareSpace and are experiencing this same issue.

I am also not familiar with the plugin. I use the Redirection plugin (that's its actual name!) for WordPress redirects. Can you not specify the full URL? Otherwise, can you use /news/www.website.com because that is the path after your website.com actual URL? From the screenshots of the plugin it looks like that might work...

I don't see any problem with your approach. By combining all of these resources into one blog post, you're essentially curating content from your own site. As long as the post provides unique value to the user, then you're golden. In my mind, the value comes with packaging all these different resources into one post, making it easier for the reader to find all the info they need. I would recommend rewriting the content with this angle in mind. And like Michael said, link to the old blog posts as a way of expanding on certain topics.

Hi Justin, I don't personally have experience with webflow, but in looking through some of the sites they show as examples -- https://webflow.com/community  -- it doesn't appear SEO seems to be a priority at this point....  though this could also be the result of users unfamiliar with any SEO settings within their platform. -Jake

If you optimize your content properly, you should be able to rank all of those keywords with 1 page (with great content and links). Those keywords are semantically the same. Hummingbird is a awesome if you know how to leverage it. One trick is to use parentheses. For example, your opening sentence could be "ImageCo is the world leader in Device Imagery Software (DIS) Solutions." I would use "DIS Software" and "DIS Solutions" a few times in the document, and I would place those keywords in close proximity to the non-abbreviated keywords so Google links them semantically. I would also use all 3 Keywords in their own H2s. The trick is not to overdo it and make it look natural. No need to spam it. I would also be mixing in Proof Terms and Relevant Terms throughout the document with the most important going in the first 2 paragraphs. For a title tag, I would use: Device Imagery Software | DIS Solutions | Company Name It's much easier and cheaper to write 1 page of killer content and build links to it than to build 3.

'20 campaigns for 1 person, I can't believe that's a good thing.' I feel the same way. I am hoping in the future to move away from monthly projects towards more one-off campaigns/services, but nevertheless this is the job I've been given. That is why I am trying to squeeze the most out of my time and find a process where I can be strategic and focus on/prioritize for x,y, and z. Automating my reporting seems like the most obvious place to begin but can you believe I have yet to even start there. I'm making it a priority for Monday, done! I was hoping someone would have a monthly maintenance schedule/guideline they use and would like to share. Like Xhrs Analyzing/Reporting Xhrs Fixing Technical Issues Xhrs Link Building Xhrs Content/Blogging, etc..