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Thanks, yes, I agree it depends on my audience... and the average age of the web visitors is one of the components that should be considered.  The older visitors would probably still like the "home" button; the younger ones probably know that the logo is the home page link.

Howdy, neighbor. If their server is indeed hosted with google - dont worry about speed and loading times, that's for sure. All my tests prove that there is no better place to host than Google (in terms of speed). Host provider office location doesn't matter, since their actual servers are located in,  most likely Provo, Utah. Additionally, nowadays the time to servers and back doesn't vary much with distance. Example - we got several servers - one in dallas and one in utah. the difference in response times is 30-60 ms. Now, there is no connection between SERPS and IPs, unless that IP is blacklisted. In terms of subdomain being on different server - there is no difference either, since as you say, it's for orders and quotes only. Many-many websites have their shopping carts on servers, different from main content servers. Also since you're not gonna have any content on that subdomain, or backlinks to that subdomain (since it's quotes and payments), it won't bring any rankings changes. You can even robot-noindex the subdomain if you're afraid of changes after it's being indexed. The only legitimate concern is UX, based on longer loading times. So, make sure that software server are fast enough and you'll have no problems. Additionally, the small lag is accepted (even expected), when you're being redirected to shopping cart/payment pages. Cheers.

"Maybe we could say that we pull from a variety of sources off the web through this consumer reports article combined with interviews." I would probably go that direction. Or, you could mention a list of the locations you pulled information from, but not link to them. I might word it as something like: "Our review data comes from primary sources including our own internal recorded data, interviews, [whatever else] as well as secondary sources including consumer reports, and the following other sites: [list competing sites you pulled data from but don't link]. Fact is, if you are pulling data from competitors mentioning them and letting people know where your data is coming from is the right thing to do (as you've been saying). However, I probably would withhold the link and just list the site name in this situation. If there is a way to generate more reviews from other sources that you wouldn't mind linking to (like bloggers, other consumerreports type sites, perhaps look at niche forums/communities for users reviews, etc.) I would certainly pursue that route as well. Good luck!

No my friend, no! I'm saying we'll point the existing staging/testing environment to the production version and will stop using it as staging instead of closing it completely like I mentioned earlier. And, we'll launch a fresh instance for staging/testing use case. This will help us transferring majority if the link juice of already indexed staging/testing instance.

Thanks Russ, ultimately I'd like to remove the low value links. We can work to increase links to the more important pages but was hoping to reduce these low value links as well.

Thank you, Dirk. I always enjoy getting explicit answers from people who I have grown to trust. Thanks!

Hi There, You are correct that the two check marks represent an equivalent value. My instinct is that you are looking at two different parts of the tool. Some of the UI coding is a bit older for some parts of MA than others so while the information is the same it may be displayed differently on different parts of the tool. So it looks like everything is a ok but if you have any questions for me please let me know. For now I wish you a fantastic day and look forward to speaking with you soon!

Hi there! Thanks for writing in! I can see you've located the Multiseat feature in your account, yay! https://moz.com/account I can also see that you've assigned your available seat, the first seat will always be taken up by the account email If you have any other specific queries about your account, or the features please do writing in to help@moz.com. Cheers! Jo

I had a free trial month that Moz extended to another month all in an email then they charged me the 2nd month that they said in an email that they will extend I can put that email up if you want. I want my money back they moz was not suppose to charge me since they extended my free trial for another month.  I am a blogger and can put this out to my 6000,000 a year followers if Moz does not refund me my money.

Hey Christy, Sorry for the belated response. The keywords that we have been targeting were: knoxville tn veterinarian knoxville tn animal hospital knoxville vet emergency vet knoxville A second look in a different rank tracking software showed me that they do rank, but very low in google. I also checked the search console and found that while my website was getting impressions for non branded terms it had 0% CTR for these organic terms, this leads me to believe that the most important pages may not be showing up for the appropriate keywords.

I'd recommend linking to all your own properties using rel="me". You can see the tag in common usage on Twitter and Instagram  profiles, where the user's website link is tagged using rel="me". You can basically connect up all your online properties as belonging to the same person/brand/entity - and who wouldn't want that. You're indicating to Google that all those webpages are related to you. By linking to your social profiles from your website using rel="me", you're confirming that those profiles are officially yours.

Thanks Guys! Much Appreciated!

The Dirk answer points to some potential answers. Said that, when I click on your SERP's link, I see others sitelinks (just two): the first >>> Robes the second >>> Вся распродажа. As Dirk pointed out, your site has detected my IP (quite surely, but maybe it is user agent), and when I click on the second sitelink I see this url: http://www.revolveclothing.es/r/Brands.jsp?aliasURL=sale/all-sale-items/br/54cc7b&&n=s&s=d&c=All+Sale+Items. The biggest problem, when it comes to IP redirections, is that they are a big problem in terms both of SEO and usability: SEO, because googlebot (and others bots) will mostly be redirected to the USA version due to their IPs, even though Google crawls site also from datacenters present in other country (but much less); Users, because you are making impossible, for instance, to a Spanish user to see the Spanish site whenever they are not in Spain. And that really sucks and pisses off users. There's a solution: making the IP redirection just the first time someone click on a link to your site and if that link is not corresponding to the version of the country from were users and bots are clicking; presenting the links to the others country versions of your site, so that: bots will follow those links and discover those versions (but not being redirected again); users are free to go to the version of your site they really need (but not being redirected again if coming from those country selector links). Said that, it would be better using a system like the one Amazon uses, which consists not forcing a redirection because of IP, but detecting it and launching an alert on-screen, something like: "We see that you are visiting us from [Country X]. Maybe you will prefer visiting [url to user's country site]". Then, i just checked the hreflang implementation, and it seems it was implemented correctly (at least after a very fast review with Flang). I tried to search for "Resolve clothing" in Spain incognito and not personalized search, and it shows me the Spanish website and Spanish sitelinks correctly; I tried the same search from Spain but letting Google consider my user-agent (setup for English in search), and I saw the .com version and English sitelinks (which is fine). Remember, sitelinks are decided by Goggle and we can only demote them. To conclude, I think the real reason has to be searched not in a real international SEO issue (but check out the IP redirection), but to a possible and more general indexation problem.

My experience with subtopics in URL structure is that they are over-rated.  Use the main category to help the user know where they are in the site and potentially about the topic that the page might be about.  If you want to drop keywords, do it in the category or in the slug for the name of the page.  You can work it in there and it gives you more flexibility.  This also helps with making your page be closer to the root folder vs ending up being too far down in a folder structure. When I have used sub-categories you always end up with content that could be in two different ones and so then you have to decide which one is the better one, etc etc.  You will end up having to rework your URLs later due to issues with your sub-categories.   The only way I have seen subcats work well is when you have something like /state/city/zip or something else where your end item is only in one cat, subcat, etc. I would not do the /peanut-butter/ to redirect to /peanut-butter/subtopic-1 - that makes no sense from an organizational perspective.  If peanut butter is not a strong enough category by itself, it should not be a category to start with.   You need to rethink what your category topics are.  Ideally, /peanut-butter/ is a keyword combo you want to rank for and has great traffic potential that converts.  It should be a hub page for your site for that topic. Find good categories, work in the keyword into that category or if not work it into the slug for the name of the page.  If you want a good example, look at how the Moz site is setup.  Also, remember that keywords in the URL are good for SEO, but you really get more bang for the buck for a good title and content and links into that content.  Dont overthink the URL. Good luck!

Hey Meier, I'm glad that was helpful! With Wordpress I use Simple 301 Redirects by Scott Nelle.  It's very simple plugin to understand and use.  Let me know if you have any other questions! Be well, Alex Brown Del Mar Fans & Lighting

Transparency!!! That is a solid point. SEO's should have nothing to hide. It isn't magic

You may want to see the latest google webmaster hangout . John Mueller answers a question about this type of topic. You may also want to see the seo journal article linked to this. John Mueller has also stated a number of times that there is no duplicate penalty as such but my interpretation of that is that you wont rank as well as the original source. Many affiliate sites suffer from this kind of thing as they are share the same product descriptions etc. Pete

Second confirmation ;-), he's right. It's one of the things that for bigger sites really could get you in trouble.