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Hi there! First of all, I believe that you shouldn't use both canonical and rel=prev/next. The two techniques do not work together well: "In cases of paginated content, we recommend either a rel=canonical from component pages to a single-page version of the article, or to use rel=”prev” and rel=”next” pagination markup." (quoted from http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html" Basically you have more possibilities: Do not set up canonical or rel="prev/next", but use noindex, follow meta robots tag for pages 2+ (kind of old school, but still works as a charm) Implement Rel="Prev/Next" but without a canonical! the two elements do not work together (as mentioned above) I think the best method for you would be to have a rel="prev/next" and have the canonical removed. I hope this helps, Keszi

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this. It's certainly possible that one of our other community members would have some experience with this type of request, but I'm afraid that I don't have any wonderful insight to bestow :(. Best of luck!

Thanks Patrick, this is really helpful! I'll look into using the reviews in other ways, there's hundreds of them so it would be a shame to not use them to the fullest. Thanks again, Bas

Good Morning Ian Oh i see ! in that case then yes Screaming Frog would be a good way of seeing what pages have been optimised for what target keywords. Quake probably too although i havnt used that myself for a long while. Also for a quick browser based view of what a page is optimised for is SEOXRay if its still going. As well as Jasons advice to look at OpenExplorer backlink anchor text profiles, although for new sites are unlikely have developed much of a backlink profile and OE wont have indexed all backlinks/pages so i would still concentrate on looking at the on-page optimisation. All Best Dan

Hello! Thanks a lot for your feedback and clearing this out! It worked well. The robots.txt tester is a good tip! Thanks!

You can simply use Fetch as Google. A Google web master tool which will easily Index you website. 2mhzjte.jpg

Hi again Andy! I would advice to create different content. They will decide what to do. The portals are quite important, and its authority is higher. This website is too new. I would tell them both things: different content and also sending that content inmediatly to the index from Google Webmaster Tools. Thanks for your time!

From my experience the best option would be to include vashikaran specialist and the city location in the url. For example www.domainname.com/cityname-vashikaran-specialist. Try to make sure that these pages have unique content specific to the location. It's pretty common to fall into the habit of creating duplicate content with these types of pages.

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Hi guys! Thanks so much for the response! I did think it was an algorithm change, however the problem is- overall traffic hasn't dropped, and if anything, like that blue line, has increased and stayed steady. I attach screenshots of search console and mobile traffic. I'm having trouble finding any search algorithm change that would cause a drop in pages receiving traffic but not overall traffic? 6TUJlcR ZO8xe5i

I'm also looking to improve upon branding for my site barcodefactory using videos to do some branding...I'm very interested in this topic. We have a Youtube channel for the same purposes of using the traffic to generate some branding attention...just can't beat Youtube's audience over trying to go this alone via your own domain.

Patrick  -  Great response, really appreciate the effort you put into that and the solid strategy.   I do have a spreadsheet where I've mapped each page and related analytics, i.e. traffic to each page over time, meta tag info, PR, age, url, etc, and very few are driving any significant traffic so those are easy decisons.   The few that ARE getting some decent traffic just make me think it's worth any temporary slippage for longer term benefit of being better optimized, presenting a clear theme for each page for both visitors and search engines.  Knowing I'll retain 90% of the trust/authority by doing the 301 redirects makes it seem clear that's the right call. I've added several of the link references you included in your response to my reading list for this week, they look like great resources.   Thanks!

Travis, Thank you for this detailed response! Your correct with the assumption that the site does not fit our needs. The problem was that the company we work with develops WP sites using their own theme which is a very raw form of WP. Basically out of box the site does not have the functionality of any mainstream WP theme (no blog, backed limits a lot of control, a lot of custom CSS needed, etc.) We thought maybe installing a second theme would put a little more control in our hands (at least for the blog), and this could be done in house. After reading all the responses including yours it seems this unfortunately is not the way to go. Thank you for the all the info, Patrick

Hi John, Leslie has provided you with some excellent advice. Have you acted on on it yet, or taken any other action? We'd love to have an update on your situation! Thanks. Christy

I also have the same question but it is not the knowledge graph. If you search for "domain price" you'll note a price table extracted by Google from a website shown above the organic search result, which is very strange to me: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=domain+price&oq=domain+price&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i61.3119j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 Anyone know what this is? Organic or sponsored? How do they extract information like that? I mean that website is not even ranking high. Best, Corrine

Hey Paul, Great answer, for some reason it totally slipped my mind that robots.txt is a crawling directive and not an index one. Yes the pages return a 404 on the headers. I've grabbed a copy of the complete SERPS and will now manually disallow them. Thanks! Jon

Hi there! I'm sorry your links aren't showing up in Open Site Explorer yet. I'll try to explain a few reasons why this might be happening: There are two types of link data we capture: external and internal linking pages. In order for us to discover backlinks to your site, we need to crawl the sites and pages linking to you. Once we can find those links, we will then be able to crawl your site to find pages you link to and so forth. If you don't see any internal links to your page, make sure we're not blocked from crawling this URL or site. If our web crawlers are blocked from crawling certain pages (i.e., with "noindex" or Robots.txt), they may not be included in the index. For some more in-depth info, here's how we compile our index: - We grab the most recent index. - We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). - We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). ​ So, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority. It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile; I've got a post here that details why and how that is! Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. We update once a month and you can view the next scheduled update here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates Hope this helps provide some clarity. Please let me know if you have any questions - thank you! Kevin Help Team

Thanks for the response, the article already had these so I guess I'll just chock this one up as a "natural link from good content" win!