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Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Unfortunately we only have the ability to delete keywords  a page at a time (at most - by selecting them all via the tickbox in the top left corner). I'm sorry about this! Best, Eli

And if people don't have Search Console access, they can always try queries like: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbc.co.uk ... however, due to the difficulty in exporting all the listed URLs, and due to some anti-scraping measures by Google, this data tends to be inferior to that supplied by Search Console. Always use Google's official tools first

While typing in  "Latest from ***.com" may trigger some press releases or news sites to show. The Google SERP is not strictly Google News. The Moz screenshot you attached showed Moz's latest blog posts at that time, and were not related to Google News to my knowledge. Hope this helps!

Thanks, Chiaryn —  I'm considering deleting my geo-based national keywords and adding non-geo local ones. Do I understand correctly that I will be able to view historical visibility and ranking for the old keywords and new visibility and ranking starting with when the new keyword phrases are added – but not both at the same time? Thanks! Bill

Difficult to say, but I would say much sooner than 6 month (I would say 30-60 days or sooner). Take a look at this link scheme  help article from Google and if it fits, let them know (link in last paragraph).  Good luck!

Hey, thanks for reaching out to us! You can block our crawler from crawling specific subdomains of your site by excluding our user-agent from the subdomains robots.txt file.  Our user agent is "rogerbot" and the directive would look something like this: User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: / You will want to make sure that this is associated with the robots.txt file specific to the subdomain you want to block. You can read more about Rogerbot in our guide. Hope that helps, let me know if you have further questions.

I'm not a massive display network person but AFAIK (as far as I know) Google's is one of the cheapest

Just to follow this up. We're now seeing the mobile usability error reports gradually being removed from pages at approximagely 100 pages / day. It just seemed to me that the whole validation request process didn't actually appear to do anything and we just had to wait for the site to be recrawled?!

I think the best solution for this might be Google's search operators (e.g., allintitle: keyword(s) site:domain.com) or Google Advanced Search (https://www.google.com/advanced_search).

Well the questions you need to answer are the ones that your target audience are asking! You don't get Google Points just for answering questions! Don't fall into the trap of creating the kind of Frequently Asked Questions page where none of your target audience care about any of the questions! You see this a lot when businesses take a very internal perspective and forget who they're meant to be talking to! Don't waste your take creating content around questions that nobody is asking! There's a couple of things to consider here: 1. What are the questions you need to answer on the landing page in order to get visitors to convert or take the next action. (How much does it cost,  etc) 2. Then there are broader questions for which you want to try and get a slice of the traffic (eg: where's the best place to hire bikes in alsace etc... ) If you're got access to search console you can look for queries that contain question related words ("how, why, where, when, what etc). You can also use these in search queries too. For example "inurl:how alsace bike" got me "How long is the Alsace wine route?" and more. Also, do take a look at the pages that appear in the search results for ideas too. Keep an eye on the related searches displayed in the search results as well. I have found that it's useful to have a friendly chat with the the business owner/sales people - they can usually (but not always!)  give you some insights into the questions that are important to potential customers. For many topics, the questions that people are are going to be the same as similar topics so taking a look at your direct competitors or site's with similar offerings can help you generate ideas. If you've got site search set up on the site make sure you're capturing the searches people are doing there, again that can help give you some ideas. If you've got a chat widget enabled on the site, it's worth seeing if you can get your hands on the transcripts or questions that are being asked there. You might also consider carrying out a survey, particularly if you've got a good social media following / subscriber list. Doug.

Quite an old style of architecture, it's a shame it cannot be changed. Just so others understand a bit more, what you refer to as a 'suffix' is actually called parameters. In a URL, anything following "?" is parameters If the language on the root is dynamic (it changes) then it's very difficult for you to hreflang to it effectively as it will conflict the the parameter URLs (which are language based) AND additionally, you won't know for certain what language to hreflang to. That also makes canonicals to the root quite tricky IMO I think what you are already doing, is the best of a bad situation. At least the parameter-based URLs set a designated language which you can rely on to be the same If you look at this official URL from Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en Scroll down until you find the heading "Using locale-specific URLs" and look at the table underneath of that heading Parameter-based geo-targeting, is actually the only one of of multiple architectures, which Google put in red text and explicitly warn people away from. Since the site you are looking at has crossed that red line, you may need to manage expectations about results. If they're going to pick the worst possible format and stick with it, without asking you as a consultant what is best, they've kind of shot themselves in the foot there P.S: Regarding 'actual' redirects, not canonicals. For sites that have proper sub-folder structure, usually you redirect users based on their location, but allow them to flag select to 'escape' the redirections (which can sometimes go wrong). You also usually exempt Google's user-agent ('googlebot') from regional redirects, as they can only crawl from one location at once and otherwise they think areas of your site keep going up and down due to all your redirects. But with your structure, I'm not sure I would even touch redirects. It's in enough of a state as it is without rolling those dice

Ignore the user declared canonical thing, that's not an error and you are misreading it. The full line says this: "Google-selected canonical: Same as user-declared canonical". This means that Google is choosing the SAME canonical as the user is, and in this case the user is you (not your site's users. They mean the search console user). That mans that Google is agreeing with you Also you are checking the wrong URL: https://d.pr/i/341c5u.png (edit of your screenshot) In the red box you can see that you are checking the URL (in Search Console) which does not end with "/". But in the green box, you can see that the canonical URL which you have set, does end with "/". So you are checking the non-canonical version of your page and hoping it is indexed If that still doesn't change anything, there is no error, Google just doesn't like your page enough to rank it properly (sorry)

I agree with what effectdigital said. It looks like everything is in place and your non-www and you http versions of the website are redirecting to the https-www version of the site.

It could happen, but it's unlikely to happen. If Google hasn't discovered that URL at all and then you make it easier for Google to discover, they may then apply internal authority to the page through your internal link structure. That could cause the page to rank higher. But the SEO authority wouldn't come 'from' the XML sitemap, only the 'discovery' of the URL would be impacted by your XML feed. If Google has already known of the page for a while (as is probably the case), then XML tweaks likely won't make any difference

I would recommend to disable tags indexing as there are cases where you are multiple tags for same topic. You can index categories as mentioned above that they are more structure and define your website in some way. If you write custom excerpt for each post, it helps categories to have unique content  for each post except.

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out to us! Spam Score in Links and Link Explorer represents the percentage of sites with similar features we've found to be penalized or banned by Google. Our machine learning model identified 27 common features among the millions of banned or penalized sites in the data we fed it. You can read more about Spam Score on our Help Hub - including an awesome video that explains how to use the score as well as the factors we use to calculate the score. Your Spam Score - This does not mean that your site is definitely spammy. The percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to change these factors on your site, but it may be worthwhile to consider them. It is best to use this percentage figure to judge the quality of inbound links to your site, giving you a signal to help you determine which of those links needs some further investigation and, perhaps, even removal. Another site's Spam Score - Again, this doesn't mean that these sites are spammy. This percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is just based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to disregard sites or disavow links with higher Spam Scores. Instead, we'd recommend using it as a guide for kick starting investigations. Be sure to check out a site's content and its relevance in linking back to you before disregarding or disavowing. You can read more about Link Explorer metrics here https://moz.com/help/link-explorer Our team are working on setting up a regular cadence for the spam score update, however, we do not have an exact timeframe as of yet. Best, Eli