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I analyzed the domain health and it seems ok!! Guys, I finally decided to create a small site (free hosting, a couple of texts from wayback machine,...) for this domain in order to start increasing the DA again, and I will place a couple of nice links to my money site once this is set up. Will all those links, in a couple of weeks I expect some results I will update you about my experience! Luis

Great answer. thank you !

Patrick's right—at the moment, there's no way to change the data collection day for your campaigns, short of creating new campaigns on the day you'd prefer. ScreamingFrog is a great tool, but depending on the size of those 2 sites you may be able to run a Crawl Test to get the information you need. That tool can crawl up to 3000 pages at a time. You can learn more about Crawl Test here.

Hi John Nobody but Google can tell you for sure - but if I compare both pages & check the guidelines here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2015/03/an-update-on-doorway-pages.html the site doesn't look like a typical doorway page: 1.Is the purpose to optimize for search engines and funnel visitors into the actual usable or relevant portion of your site, or are they an integral part of your site’s user experience? => the user experience on the vanity url is better than the standard page on the Hilton side. The only moment when you lead your visitors to the main site is when they want to book 2.Are the pages intended to rank on generic terms yet the content presented on the page is very specific? You're site seems optimised for people searching for this specific hotel - not hotels in general or any other generic terms 3. Do the pages duplicate useful aggregations of items (locations, products, etc.) that already exist on the site for the purpose of capturing more search traffic? You don't exactly duplicate - you enrich the content in order to offer your visitors (and not the search engines) a better experience. 4. Are these pages made solely for drawing affiliate traffic and sending users along without creating unique value in content or functionality? This point is definitely not the case 5. Do these pages exist as an “island?” Are they difficult or impossible to navigate to from other parts of your site? Are links to such pages from other pages within the site or network of sites created just for search engines? Yes it is an island - but in that case you could see any hotel site as doorway page for a site like Booking.com when they use the Booking search engine. To be honest, I would not be too worried. The goal of this update to eliminate pages will low added value, that only exist to rank & to funnel visitors to the main site. The example you gave has a high added value, and you're not funnelling to the main site (apart for booking purposes). Hope this helps, Dirk

Hi S. Good issue you have here. I agree with your sentiment below, if you can't maintain separate ccTLDs, they might not be right for you. I am not saying don't do it, as a ccTLD is a strong signal still, but if it doesn't work for you, the structure you mentioned works just fine. Just to make sure you have the right structure though, can you visit my tool here, answer the questions, and let me know what the result is? It's the best way I have found for determining international site structure. Once you have that, we can discuss what the right structure is for you. Kate

Great information!  Thanks!  I will act on this and make some progress. I can't believe our h1 tag (all this time) has been seen as one word FingersDueling Pianos!

That's my point, you only need to worry about the pages that had external links Thanks

Thanks again Patrick, Took a look through the article and subscribed myself to the Moz health, I will let things settle, James

If google is happy with your site in its mobile friendly testing tool https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ Then i would think google would be pleased enough to not hurt your rankings, also if you see the 'mobile-friendly' label next to your site on a mobile device would be another indication. Although i would think having your site suitable for as many many devices as possible would improve your user experience and have further positive effects on CTR'S, Bounce rates etc Hope this helps, James

A clarifying question: Is this one page we are talking about, multiple pages, or an entire site?

It's pretty likely it's the index. This one was quite a bit smaller than the last, so a lot of URLs are missing. That affects link metrics like PA/DA, as well. Patrick's link to Moz Health and Rand's Q&A post will give you more information. Do your due diligence, of course—it's possible that the issue _isn't _the update. But if nothing else has changed for you, that's the most likely explanation.

First, make sure you have the proper canonical URLs set up in your theme. You can use a good SEO plugin (Yoast, All-in-One SEO) or add it yourself. Second, go into Google Webmaster Tools and add "replytocom" to your URL Paramaters (Crawl > URL Parameters). Third, monitor the amount of those URLs in Google's index by doing the following Google search: site:yourdomain.com replytocom Hope that helps! Tom

Hi Martijn, Thank you for your response. We're going to have to look into that, I think. It's a bit of a hassle, since we're using an extension that works just fine in other shops. In the source code, the ga() is called in a separate