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Don't redirect them, if you redirect those URLS, people will not be allowed to log in. When you are in a page and want to login, the URL has that variable, so when you logged succesfully you can go back to the page you were. E.g. Log from here http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search/ and you will get this http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/login/?redirect_to=http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search

Instead redirect them and in order to save crawl budget, I suggest to:

• Add a nofollow for that <a href="">in the template</a>
  <a href="">* Set up in Google Search Console that variable don't affect page content* Any other method the community can suggest</a>

A quite close solution would be an Excel spreadsheet with 3 columns:

• A col: 404 URLs
• B col: 200 URLs from your SF crawl
• C col: This formula on C1 and for the rest of the rows: =VLOOKUP(""&A1&"",$B:$B,1,FALSE)

So, you will get in A col the URL needed to be redirected, and C Col, the URL to point the redirect.

Let me know if this works for you.

Completely agree with John. I saw a couple of cases like this one.

Another important thing besides the outreach program, it's to keep all the content and continue developing it. This advertising site StarterDaily (previously Zapping Latam) had this problem with less time (a couple of weeks) keeping their rankings. Now also ranks for the "zapping latam" brand term when it shouldn't.

Hey Guido, don't know if it's the best solution, but could be a temporary fix until the best solution is in place. I suggest to move forward with proper HREF LANG tagging or definitely delete those irrelevant languages. Try to do what I said before about validate each country/language and submit a sitemap.xml reflecting that folder to see crawl and index stats pero country/language. Add a sitemap index and obviously validate your entire domain. Just block in the robots.txt unnecessary folders, like images, js libraries, etc. to save crawl budget to your domain.

Let me know if you have another doubt

I understand that. Sometimes it's a little frustrating to rank but I encourage you to ask yourself this questions:

• I'm trying to run a marathon rather than 100 metres?: try to rank first for less competitive keywords like "dinning tables" or "dining chairs in london" rather than "furniture"
• Do people know me?: maybe you need a little boost to people know you so you can get some SEO signals (links, social shares, branding). Try to run an AdWords Campaign, get active in your social media niche, make partnerships with niche sites (not just for get links, get visibility to other audiences).
• I'm measuring the right KPI's?: sometimes ranking for highly competitive keywords is not the best option if you have a brand new domain. Are you receiving organic traffic? Are you getting long tail rankings? How's the conversion rate of organic search compared to other sources? Are you receiving non-brand traffic rather than your brand (in Google Search Console).

Hope this can help you. Good luck!

Perhaps it's more competitive than you thought. I google for "papaya 3d printing models" and you are ranking 5th. For "flatiron building 3d printing models" 8th. So if for those long tail terms it's difficult to rank, "3d printing models" should be more difficult. I saw a lot of AdWords ads for that keyword and according to Keyword Difficulty (https://moz.com/researchtools/keyword-difficulty) "3D printing models" on Google US scored 73%: Highly Competitive.

One thing I noticed is that you have a "cannonical" meta name and not "canonical". Don't think this it the reason of the problem, but you should address it.

I don't think if you are using a word in another language you will have a worst ranking rather than using english words. In Spanish speaking countries it's very often to see domains with english words.

If you are having impressions and not clicks, might be a branding issue and the domain name discourages the people to click. Its title and description are in English, Spanish or Basque? If you are not ranking my questions would be:

• The keywords you are trying to rank are too competitive?
• Are you using the keyword in your page?
• Do you have any link from sites in the UK?
• Do you target your domains to UK in Google Search Console if this domains are gTLD, if not, those domains are co.uk?

Might depend of your budget and your country, but in most of the cases (if you spend a lot of money) you have a Google rep. I had a siimilar case before and we had continuous contact with a Google rep. in Chile.

Why not move forward calling again and ask for the Google rep. assigned to your MCC/account?

Can you share more details like the keyword you are trying to rank and your website? one of the options could be the keyword it's too competitive e.g. "insurance", or your website has technical problems that are avoiding to rank for any keyword.

Exactly, also your Meta Description should have the terms you want to rank indepently this only will affect your CTR and doesn't affect the ranking of this page:

• Try to use "SSl-5 duncan" in this item and check in a couple of days
• I also suggest to check with Google Keyword Planner or a similar tool if "SSl-5 duncan" it's a relevant keyword in searches.
• If you google the terms in your Meta Description may appear the Description you want to appear https://www.google.com/search?q=SSl-5+duncan&oq=SSl-5+duncan+&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3486j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=The+ultimate+overwound+Strat+single+coil+pickup

Don't know why you have a UK oriented site for German and Italian people, I think is not important those languages in a country mainly English speaking (not US for example, there you must have a Spanish version, or in Canada for English and French). The owner must have their reasons.

Besides this, about your questions:

• If those non-relevant languages must live there, it's correct to implement HREF LANG (may take some time to show results). Also, if the domain is gTLD, you can validate all the subfolders in Google Search Console and choose the proper International targeting. With the ammount of languages and countries I imagine this might be a pain in the ***.
• About the crawling, for large sitesI recommend to crawl per language. If neccesary, per language-country. In this instance I recommend to create a sitemap XML per language or language-country for just HTML pages (hopefully dynamically updated by the e-commerce), create a Sitemap Index in the root of the domain and submit them in Google Search Console (better if you validated the languages or language-country). With this you can answer the question if some language or country are being not indexed with the Submited/Indexed stadistics of GSC.
• Maybe the robots.txt might save your crawl budget, but I'm not a fan of de-index if those folders are truly not relevant (after all, there should be a italian living in UK. If you can't delete the irrelevant langauges for some countries, this can be an option

Hi Gavo:

• First of all, you have a noindex tag in the section of your site.
• Your site it's made in Parallax or something similar, so, the sections are not really pages at all, just a part of the homepage. To index all the sections, this ones should have an unique URL (not with the # prefix, maybe a web developer can help you with this)

Don't redirect them, if you redirect those URLS, people will not be allowed to log in. When you are in a page and want to login, the URL has that variable, so when you logged succesfully you can go back to the page you were. E.g. Log from here http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search/ and you will get this http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/login/?redirect_to=http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search

Instead redirect them and in order to save crawl budget, I suggest to:

• Add a nofollow for that <a href="">in the template</a>
  <a href="">* Set up in Google Search Console that variable don't affect page content* Any other method the community can suggest</a>

Hi Jeffrey:

Sometimes Google shows other info in the meta description like Open Directory Project and Yahoo Directory. Have you tried to implement this in the section of each page you have this problem?

Maybe doesn't have any impact at all, would be different if another site links in that way the homepage.

But, Internal Linking is one of the multiple SEO signals (with little impact). Instead linking back the homepage, I would recommend link other subpages from any page ONLY if that link will be helpful to the visitor to check other products/similar topics/related info/etc (you are right about friendliness) If not, avoid to link only thinking about rank.

Perhaps it's more competitive than you thought. I google for "papaya 3d printing models" and you are ranking 5th. For "flatiron building 3d printing models" 8th. So if for those long tail terms it's difficult to rank, "3d printing models" should be more difficult. I saw a lot of AdWords ads for that keyword and according to Keyword Difficulty (https://moz.com/researchtools/keyword-difficulty) "3D printing models" on Google US scored 73%: Highly Competitive.

One thing I noticed is that you have a "cannonical" meta name and not "canonical". Don't think this it the reason of the problem, but you should address it.

Today doing what we know as "PageRalk sculping" (adding nofollow on links with no relevancy) is not a good idea since 6 years ago.

If you want to give more relevancy to certain pages, you can just link to the important ones and try to link to the pages with little relevancy in more internal section (try also to merge legal pages into just one). Also remember that this isn't the only factor to give more link juice to your most important pages.

Finally, just think about your visitors and show them the important info and links when needed.

A quite close solution would be an Excel spreadsheet with 3 columns:

• A col: 404 URLs
• B col: 200 URLs from your SF crawl
• C col: This formula on C1 and for the rest of the rows: =VLOOKUP(""&A1&"",$B:$B,1,FALSE)

So, you will get in A col the URL needed to be redirected, and C Col, the URL to point the redirect.

Let me know if this works for you.

If I understood, ashortcut.com always redirect to some a.com page. If this is correct, unfortunatelly Google will rank a.com page instead ashortcut.com, as the ashortcut.com page is a redirection pointing to a.com/newslettersignup.

If ashortcut.com isn't a redirection and you just duplicated the pages, yes, the option would be a rel canonical tag on both pages pointing to ashortcut.com. You should determine which domain/page has more relevancy from an SEO POV, so using Open Site Explorer from Moz will be helpful (maybe ashortcut.com doesn't have more Page Authority than a.com/newslettersignup

Let me know if I miss something.

If in Google Search Console it's all in place and no warnings are shown, you should wait.

Sctructured Data Markup it's just a suggestion for Search Engines and may appear if your site is relevant, trustworthy, and many other factors.