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Ah, I was wondering since they may have entirely different pricing based upon who you talk to. https://www.sitelock.com/plans.php https://www.incapsula.com/pricing-and-plans.html

Thanks for all your help with this.

Hi Patrick, Many thanks . I will look at the article and what you suggest. Many thanks Pete

That's great news that you got the penalty revoked. It can often take a few days for the manual spam actions viewer to show that there is no longer a penalty.  Also, keep an eye on the manual spam actions viewer.  I've seen a number of sites lately that got a pure spam penalty revoked and then a few days or weeks later got either a thin content penalty or an unnatural links penalty.  Hopefully that's not the case for you though!

No problem! Let me know if I can be of anymore help!

Thanks Dirk! Will look into it now.. I wasn't checking the source but rather looking in Chrome Dev Tools

you need to wait for the coming updates. As Patrick mentioned MOZ run its update once in a month.

Well, you you could definitely get a CSV of every URL and title from the 'Crawl Diagnostics' section of a campaign, but admittedly we don't have anything that will collect all of the bodies for you. Perhaps someone else would know of another tool that would be able to help you out with that portion of your needs :). Live long and Moz-per!

Thank you both! This really helps.

Thanks Fuel for the article link.  I wll take a read Pete

If you don't have a mobile version for the French site I would not automatically redirect to the English version. I would rather offer users the choice - Continue to the French desktopversion or Go to the mobile version (English). For me it's not as much a question of SEO but more about User experience. Once the FR version of the mobile site is ready you can do the automatic redirect. rgds, Dirk

You might want to check if you have spam in your reports, especially this referral free-social-buttons. This referral spam hits with direct visit along with the referral part. The problem of this spam over others is that even if you filter the referral you will keep getting the fake direct visits, but luckily there is a solution, if you check the hostname that these direct visits use you will see that is not set or it's fake as any Ghost Spam in Google Analytic, so they way to stop this type of spam in any form(referral, keyword or direct) is to create a valid hostname filter that will only allow valid traffic. You can check full details of this issue in this article: http://www.ohow.co/unusual-increase-in-direct-traffic-on-ga-spam/

Cloaking no. What you would be doing is trying to help Google understand the images. I feel this would be similar to detecting a language or IP and serving an image with text correctly translated. The purpose isn't malice in fact quite the opposite. I have been leery of CDN's for any other purpose then delivering script for exactly the reason your client is in. When you think about it you can have 2 to 200 urls delivering the same images. Every time a bot crawls the site it sees X image is from a new location. How is the crawler suppose to understand what is actually there? Anyway my thoughts, hope it helps. Don

Patrick: thanks so much for your help on this. I just wanted to circle back to tell you that the problem is now resolved.  The site is "https://www.", and GWT was first setup as "http://" and then just "http://www." and both of those do a 301-redirect to "https://www."  So in any case, adding a third Google Webmaster Tools account for the secure version of the URL seems to have cleared up the problem and unlocked the keyword query data.

We're all students of the game. I hope I never stop learning about marketing. I had read about the sitemap implementation but never tried it. Then I ran into an enterprise client who has over 40,000 indexed pages & 20 separate languages. One of the languages didn't have a subfolder but all the rest did. Instead of coding it in, I figured my way through sitemaps & thought it was SO much easier in the end. I've used it a few times since and it's great.

Hey I'm a bit confused - not the first time! Would very much appreciate if you good folks could shed some light on a couple of questions. Our site in the search console is inputed as www.domain.co.uk Is this our subdomain? When I'm using Open Site Explorer and filter by Target, say "this root domain" is it now showing me inbound links to domain.co.uk instead? Lastly how does this affect rankings i.e getting links to www.domain.co.uk or domain.co.uk as whoever types in either domain gets to the correct site.