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Hello Everyone,

So we have a client with a geo-focused ‘sports’ site but they also have a second site they are using to promote the seasonal camps they run. Local demographics and traffic would be a priority and main source of traffic. We know it would be ideal to have all of it consolidated but in this case a separate site was needed.

The camp site would be under a different Name but they do not really have a different physical location from the primary site. Assuming we can’t find a discernable different location we could use; from a local optimization perspective we have two questions:

1. Does that mean that we shouldn’t venture into local listings that need an address and trying to rank for map results and instead shift focus to other local strategies (i.e. geo-relevant content, link acquisition….etc.)? – We don’t want to dilute or devalue the primary site at all but if possible would like to be able to come up for both.

2. Should we avoid listing the address on the camp site as text for similar reasons?

We know the same business could be listed for multiple locations but any suggestions on the opposite approach or input would be very appreciated.

Please let us know if there is anything we could provide details for that might help.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Hello,

So we have a client that’s only interested in a handful of keywords. We would like track his rankings through a Moz Campaign but he currently uses Duck Duck Go to check them. Strictly from an accuracy perspective (and not necessarily added features like Mobile Rankings) is there any arguments we could use to convert them to Moz?

If not we will let them know but any input would be appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Thank you in advance for the help.

Best,

Thank you, Chris. We were thinking of taking the 302 redirect approach. The issue is actually with all of the images used on the blog articles. There are 100’s of posts and many from a few years ago need to be evaluated for copyright concerns. While we sort through all of them we will need to take the blog down temporarily.

Let us know if you have any other suggestions/approaches you think would be best. The extra insight is appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks again.

Best,

Hello,

We need to temporarily remove our entire blog from one of our sites. They rely very heavily on the blog content; as the rest of the site does not have much. Is there a 'best' process for going about this? – Should we put a 302 redirect on the entire blog and if so should it be to the homepage or an under-construction type page?

Any extra insight or suggestions would be helpful and appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you in advance for the help.

Best,

Thank you for your email and help. It’s a URL; essentially all of our products are placed in different collections. The URL in question is an all-encompassing Collection page with every product listed.

This ‘/collections/all’ page which shows a few thousand inbound links to it on Google Search Console can’t be found on the site even on the landing pages listed. Any suggestions on why this could be or something else we could check?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you again.

Best,

Hello,

We have an ecommerce site on shopify and in our ‘Google Search Console Internal Links’ it’s recording one URL with a few thousand links to it (more than the homepage). The issue is we can’t seem to find the link on any of the pages listed or even in our primary navigation.

The page is live, being indexed and even getting a fair amount of Organic Landing Page Traffic.

We reviewed all of the source code, site cache, looked through all of analytics for user maps, content drilldowns, referral pages..etc. and ran a Moz crawl test to check all canonical tags, indexfollow tags…etc. and still not sure where GSC is seeing the links.

If anyone has experience with this type of issue or has any insight it would be very appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Thanks again. We noticed you mentioned 'nofollowing' the pages but Steve said no-index, follow so we just wanted to confirm which you would recommend for these image/landing pages?

Best,

• B.

Thank you both for your answers and help.

I’m not sure why they set it up that way it was executed before I came on board. The site actually has a ‘gallery style’ page (with the enlarging function) but I believe they uploaded them to the Portfolio through those landing page URLs. Still trying to figure out the how and why.

For now we placed ‘no-index,follow’ tags on each image/page and will make sure each image is listed on the sitemap and has the right files names/alt text, which should help thank you.

It’s not how I would have set it up but there are so many images already in this structure. The help is very appreciated and if there is anything I might have missed please let me know.

Thanks again.

Best,

Hello,

We have a client with a very image heavy website. They have Portfolio pages with a large number of images. We are currently working on adding more copy to the site but wanted to confirm we are taking the right approach for the images on the site.

Under the current structure each image has its own landing page (with no copy) and is fed in (or generated on) to a Portfolio Page. While we know this is not ideal as it would be best to have the images on the Portfolio Page directly or even fill out the landing pages with copy; due to the amount of images and the fact these are only images (and not a 'targeted' page) that would not really be feasible.

Aside from the thin content concern these individual landing pages were being indexed so they are showing hundreds of pages on their sitemap.xml and in GSC even though they only have a few actual pages.

In the meantime we went into each image-page and placed a canonical tag back to the main Portfolio Page (with the hopes to add content to that page and have it as the ‘overarching’ page). Would this be the right approach? – We considered ‘noindex-follow’ tags but would want the images to be crawled; the issue is because the pages are not on the actual page are we canonicalizing these images to nothing?

Any insight would really be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Thank you Bernadette for that response and help. That’s what I thought would be the solution. Am I correct in assuming that because the http version is currently being indexed that there would most likely be an associated temporary drop in results while Google sorts everything out? – Because they are a seasonal-heavy business I’m trying to plan this accordingly so any experience/insight would be appreciated.

Thanks again.

Thank you Tom for your response. Currently only the http pages come up for the ‘site:’ search. I was considering implementing Search Console on the ‘https’ site to make sure it’s not being indexed…thoughts?

If the https version is not yet being indexed, as a preventative measure should we still migrate the site to the secure version (while pagerank is unaffected) or does it pay to go through every page that does not need it and keep as http?

Thanks again in advance.

Best,

Hello,

I have a question regarding SSL Certificates I think I know the answer to but wanted to make sure. One of our clients’ site uses http for their pages but when they started creating Registration forms they created a full duplicate site on https (so now there are two versions of all of the pages).

I know due to duplicate concerns this could be an issue and needs to resolved (as well as the pros and cons of both) but if they are already set up with https does it make sense to just move everything there or in some instances would it pay to keep some pages http (using canonical tags, redirects, htccess…etc)? – Most of the information I found related to making the decision prior to having both or describing the process but I couldn’t find anything that specifically related to if both are already present.

I thought that the best approach because everything’s already set up is to just move everything over to the more secure one but was curious if anybody had any insight?

Thank you in advance.

Mike,

Thank you for your response and help. I was leaning that way as well; the site says that all of the comments are regulated for quality and they would all be ‘human comments’. Presumably users select the category they are interested in and manually contribute.

Generally I would shy away from this type of thing completely but because of the above we were curious if anyone had experience with it as well as potential detriment.

There's a lot information available on blog commenting in general but not much from this perspective so it is appreciated.

Thanks again.

I’m always hesitant when it comes to purchasing comments but it seems like a natural approach. Is this something that Google would take notice and/or frown upon? - Anything we should avoid?

Any additional information would be helpful.

Thank you in advance.