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Hi Check the Google Search Console forums, to see if there is a bug or delay in reporting data. Sometimes the data falls flat and will be restored within a few days. Martijn.

Brand names are best it helps to improve stats when your customers directly recognize you I have been building my e-commerce site for over 5 years and finally, my brand name Ajmal is recognized by my targeted audience.

Hi Duncan, What I suggest that you block receiving comments on your website if your website is not protected by SSL. It happens because hackers Inject spam links to redirect from the sites are not protected with SSL. I see now that you have SSL installed is it before the SSL was installed you had the spam issues? Secondly don't link or buy cheap back links from low DA/ PA websites that can increase the chances for spam on your website. I faced the same issue on my website and i removed few injected back links created on my word press before SSL Certificate was installed Also I suggest you to disavow links from your google console with the list and It can help you remove the spam back links. All the best

Hi Alex, Actually, the website age is not that big of a ranking factor anymore. You can rank in the top positions with a website a few months old. Also, with just guest-posting is not enough to rank high. I'd suggest you take a deep and comprehensive read to the Moz's beginners guide to SEO. I think that there are quite a few things to optimize that you are missing. For example, title tags. You should make them more descriptive and focused on the main keyword/phrase you are willing to rank. Hope it helps, Best luck. Gaston

i use it but its not enough . check it  here

If google and the user can see the link, it is a link wich can pass value. No matter if it is rotating, spinning arround or doing other crazy stuff. This is not crazy stuff, just a carousel. And SEO value? These are sponsered links, like the headline above says. Ok there is not a rel nofollow /sponsor, but I bet it is not much value they are passing (if any). But not because of the carousel, because they are sponsored.  Thats obvious for Search Engines. Pro Tip: If you think about a link, start to think about the value for you, your users or the users seeing that link, not the value for SEO or how much that link could boost your ranking.

Another thing that can produce mixed content is... you have an https page but within that page your display images, videos, widgets and other resources that are brought in from an http source.

I suppose it's no longer a big deal if the sitemap covers the main structure of your web site. If your sitemap is built in a honestly first rate structure,

The weighting of internal links is vastly inferior to the weighting of external links. I guess if you had no (or very few) external links hitting your site, the internal links might skew Google's view a little. But if some of your pages had even a few robust links coming from off-site (which are perceived as less biased links) then the internal linking wouldn't create any drastic movements. Footer links are often largely discounted, anyway - as they are not prominent and web-users don't often use them

Thank you, that was helpful, I'll certainly make use of that.

So you would suggest holding off using any kind of structured data to inform Google that a (metered) paywall is in place?  If the option to exempt Googlebot is not available, should we proceed with structured data? I think my main thing is - I know structured data is imperative for hard paywalls, but I am not sure if it will be detrimental or harmful to add the paywall structured data when there is a METERED paywall in place. I want all the content o be indexed and ranked, and am not sure if metering is considered cloaking. Thank you!

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Would you be able to write into us at help@moz.com so we can take a closer look at this please. We are looking forward to hearing from you! Eli

Not a problem!

It probably will. Linked or embedded resources (files, PDFs, images) should be accessed via HTTPS rather than HTTP. This remains true, even if your HTTP links then redirect to HTTPS

I face the difficulty in DA . During browsing  DA is different on search bar and when ever i open the site DA is Different.

Image Format I believe the preferred performance is WebP. But I usually try to use png over jpg. Compressing Images I think what might work best in your case is some sort of plugin like WP Smush. If you have a ton of images I'd invest in a tool or plugin that dynamically compresses images as they are uploaded to your site. I like WP Smush because it also strips out the metadata associated with images along with compressing them. If you have a ton of images it could be an attractive solution for you that you can scale. Outside of another plugin, you could try some sort of cloud-based solution to dynamically compress images before you upload them. I've tested an open-source image compression tool called Caesium in the past. This tool reduced some of my images by almost 40%. It performed better than the plugins I was using but I'm not so sure it would be a scaleable solution for you. Out of curiosity, how bad are your load times? Are you currently running into site speed problems or are you trying to make incremental improvements?