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To piggyback on what Miriam has posted - yes - it's worth the move. Some hosting companies will offer to move your website for you should you give them access to the server. I would recommend siteground if you have a WordPress website. The faster you can get it to load, the better. Thanks! John

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Hi AshShep1, I came across this same issue while using the new Link Explorer. I think it's mainly because the new Link Explorer's index is larger than the previous OSE and thus showing us more links that were not indexed previously by OSE. Regarding your question, if you feel that the links are undesirable, you can always use the Disavow tool provided by Google in the Google Search Console to disavow those links. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main Moz has a pretty good article on this tool here: https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool Hope this helps!

Thanks Umar It would appear looking at the threads you provided that I cant use the Trustpilot review scores in schema mark up as they are from a 3rd party & google only allows onsite reviews to be displayed via markup................doesnt explain my competitor at Golden Charter is displaying stars in SERPs as they have no onsite reviews! Which means that i will have to set up a separate method, which will duplicate the Trustpilot work, to capture directly reviews from customers. Why is like never easy!! Ash

Always link by page and subject matter. If you have an article about red widgets, you should link back to the page you have about red widgets. True you can build up your home page with a lot of links, but this hurts your user experience by making them have to go through the entire site to find what they came there for. When you send all your links to the homepage, you are suggesting what page is the most important to search engines. This can often be seen where you have sites that never have any subpages ranking or showing up in search results, only the home page over and over. Sounds great doesnt it? But you can limit the exposure of your site in the long run. By directing links at your subpages, not only do you increase the chance that they will eventually rank higher, you also can get more specific with your linking text. Direct keyword linking to the home page is more risky. With your subpage links, you can get closer or even use exact keyword phrase links because the content is more specific. In reality, use whatever link phrase that a user will click on. A bunch of keywords might not do that job as well as a conversion statement. If you are worried about getting people to your home page, change the way the subpages are set up on your site, so that users can go to the other relevant areas of your site with ease. It should be easy and simple to direct them where you want them to go using graphics or styled text.

Hi Andy all pages indexed, i have set up a new alert for this one, so will be interesting to see when it pops up! Thanks for the advice Ash

Hi Kristina thanks for your response - looks like i will just have to be more patient!! Thanks Ash

Thanks David 3 to 1 is a massive difference, certainly confirms i need to do it! Ash

Thanks for your help Jane! I will get on to it and make the changes. Ash

Hi Ash, This makes sense - I'd definitely lean towards getting some freelance or agency help, but on the surface of things, the noindex, follow meta tag could be very useful. Especially if the gateway page has no practical use from an SEO or conversion standpoint, there's no harm in either removing it from the index in this way or doing a minor restructure to get rid of it (although the first option would seem to be much simpler). Best, Jane

if your "money page" has a theme and / or keywords users do indeed search for on search engines, then creatively working out a natural way to link more to such "money page" is a great idea. However, do not just place links that do not add user value. If you could have a little written blurb that actually makes sense like "Click here to get quotes" or something like that (try to get some anchor in once in a while too), it is a great way to manage it. However, if your "category" page is the keyword users search for on Google / Bing and where you think it is the realistic starting point to find your customers then you may wan to work on a strategy linking more to the category page. Do not link without purpose internally, but do certainly try to create a setup where it makes sense to link internally to your most valued pages. Besides your breadcrumbs do not think in terms of just creating a system, which looks like a robot has created the internal linking structure. Be creative, but don't create a poor user experience.

Thanks Chris thats cleared that up! Ash

Thanks Wes Those 2 articles are spot on for what i am looking for! Ash

My website that is ranking well has errors too: Result: 59 Errors, 4 warning(s) So far the site is still ranking well so i am not very worried. But i know my friend who engaged in an India SEO company to solve his problem.

My mistake. I must have been up too late and started seeing double. I can't find any equity with what I saw then and what I see now.

That sounds like a good compromise solution to just show the main pages reducing the links substantially whilst maintaining an effective customer experience Thanks Oli Ash

HI Chris thanks for your thoughts. Just watched the Vid, which is great & we will review our content. Of course its chicken & egg, without volume visitors, as we arent on Page1, its difficult to fully understand customer behaviour with regards sharing etc. Whilst i have also seen short & long pages work, I havent any experience or checked the results of when on the same site they have keywords that overlap & are inter-related, such as the example i gave. For example, funeral planning will also show search results for funeral plans & yet have different volumes of searches when checking in Adwords Keyword Planner, so i want to target both, and currently i have them on differing pages - so is this the right strategy? I know that off page factors will also effect my overall ranking but im keen to get the optimum on page structure. What do you think? Ash

Thanks Jeff, guess i could link our from the site to the fuller explanation in the Blog Post? Ash

Thanks Rand I really appreciate your response - I feel a site overhaul is imminent! Ash

Also if I do combine the 2 pages should i 301 the compare page to the other? Thanks Ash