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Hi Sarwan, It could be that this will not work because you use a CDN for serving both images and video content. According to https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en you have to prove ownership to the CDN hosting site before this will be allowed. Perhpas this is the same with video, as it talks about having to verify the CDN hosting site in Search Console before being indexed/crawled. Good luck with this! Anders

Thank you so much Sir Alan. I really appreciate your efforts for compiling this detailed response to my questions. Have noted down all the points along with how better I can handle them, will soon come up with a better fat footer.

Hello Andy, Many Thanks for your reply, the site is UK based and for UK customers. You can view details about the webacelator here https://goo.gl/3nGlNy. Our site is not particularly slow, in google page speed it scores 83 for desktop and 70 for Mobile. We tried every bit to move the score to Green but it is fixed on current scores. Recommendation is asking us to remove imp js files which is not possible, when we implementing google minified js the pages are not functioning proper. One of the recommendations was CDN for which we contacted our hosting and they recommended webacelator instead of CDN as we are a UK based site only and they advised CDN is more for global websites Our site is made on custom PHP To the most i have read online on forums a DNS change would not affect our rankings. We may now go ahead with the transfer keeping fingers crossed Cheers! Sohail

Good answers! If you do 301 redirect to all https pages would this cause issues with previous rel canonical tags which point to http version of the page. E.g. this page http://www.the upside sport.com/sale/women/hoodies/recovery-hoodie-coral Has a rel canonical pointing to (which is correct): http://www.the upsidesport.com/recovery-hoodie-coral Then if i implement a 301 redirect to the https version the correct version would be: https://www.theupsidesport.com/recovery-hoodie-coral But the rel canonical would be to the non-http page unless i change it. Would this cause issues if i don't change the rel canonical tags to the https version. - Chris

I'm not going to go into the DA vs. PA issue. What I am going to do is focus on the issue Umar brings up.  That's much more of a concern than the "Science" of DA vs PA since those are really only a tiny consideration across a much broader number of ranking, authority, quality, relevance and trust factors for links from one site to another and not something you would even be able to figure out if you thought it mattered. The risk of cross-linking the way you described on the other hand, is something that could risk both sites being penalized.  How much is the deal worth when considering what the harm would be if either, or both sites were penalized? Gamble if you want. Just recognize the price paid for gambling that gets snagged in Google's spam trap.

I the examples Kristina offered. It's really important to understand that integrating competitor product information into your site needs to be done artfully as much as scientifically. Get the message wrong, and you expose the company to DMCA takedown vulnerability, as well as potential lawsuits for business-damaging misinformation, or worse, having governmental agencies come after you. In other words, there are several "right" ways to go about it, and several "wrong" ways. Please be sure a professional is involved in this process, whatever the "method" or "style" of your approach might be - someone who understands the legal issues involved enough to avoid those vulnerabilities.

Hey Miriam, Thanks for the clarification. I've been treating Ricky's situation as if everything was in connection to the practice, not the doctors. To me the doctors are just employees that seem to transfer from office to office a lot. If the pages are for the doctors not the practice than I agree with you completely.

Hey Oksana, It's a good approach to know the related keywords before uploading a new video on YouTube. For this, go to http://keywordtool.io/'s YouTube section and get all the keywords data. You can add a long tail keyword in title but make sure it makes some sense. For the description, it's recommended to use the main keywords in the first 3-4 lines. Check out this guide from Brian Dean for better understanding, http://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-youtube-videos Hope this helps! Thanks,

Go Dan!

Hi, thanks for the answer: i have chrome 44.0.2403.107 i dont know how to see wich version of moz bar i have, could you tell me where to see this? however i have recently installed it, so i guess it is the latest version i see the export button at the left corner, and i can export the csv, but my question is how to configure what data is extracted, as it extracts different data on different computers, even using the same browser. Hope you can help Cheers

The links I looked at were being passed through with a 301 status code, which would be fine for SEO, but then they're passed through a 307, which is a temporary redirect akin to a 302. This Moz article notes that most major crawlers treat it the same as a 302, which implies that it's unlikely to pass any link value through to the destination site.

The one issue I see is that at least for the homepage, these two sites are identical. You have so many different geo-target sites, but between two sites of the same language regardless of location, does anything change? I'm seeing no differences on the homepage so I need to ask. This might be part of why .be is cached for .nl, you're not giving them something new to index. They are hreflang'd as well, which is telling them even more that the content is the same. I am going to assume that .be launched before .nl, or has gotten more play in the search results. Something is making it the go to for Dutch.

No probs Patrick. Sometimes it's unavoidable and would depend a lot more on the overall quality / trust of the site in general. When you say devalued, in this case the duplicate content would likely just be ignored - is this what you mean? That's not to say that everyone should go out and duplicate chunks of content - continue to focus heavily on making the content as good as it can possibly be. -Andy