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Hey there,

Rather than taking care of indexing your back links, focus on creating high quality content with great potential to get links naturally.

Regarding the back links, the rule is quality over quantity. Especially now, when Google sees primarily the amount of domains and doesn't care about how many other back links are pointing from each of them.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey Michael,

I've found some other threads about the same issue. You can check them, maybe it could help:
https://moz.com/community/q/how-long-will-404-errors-show-in-webmaster-tools-search-console https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/hupstYVfBzo

Best, Martin

Hey Nikki,

That's really weird. We've also noticed drop in rankings in May, however, not so huge.

Last Google update was the "Fred" in March, so I don't think that's the issue.

Maybe this article could help:
https://moz.com/blog/ranking-fluctuations

Make sure, there're no new 404s or any new toxic links. If the content is still of the same quality, it could probably be some tech or linking issue. Let me know if anything helped.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Martin,

The best way would be like this:

_UK = www.example.com/gb/ _
_Ireland = www.example.com/ie/ _
France – www.example.com/fr/

If you will create sub domains, Google will see them as different domains. The Domain Authority would be split which could negatively impact your rankings.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

Regarding the tools, I've checked one particular keyword in MOZ, SEMrush, Ahrefs and Searchmetrics - all tools are in the full paid subscription.

The tools show results as follows:
MOZ: 11.5k - 30.3k
SEMrush: 22.2K
Ahrefs: 14K
Searchmetrics: 24,295

So in this case, the last result from Searchmetrics seems to be the most accurate one. However, data from MOZ cover all the range. In my opinion, the best way would be to count the average of the search volumes from all the tools (which could be a bit time consuming, I know).

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

Sure, you can. You'll give this page higher importance.

For example, look at the homepage of MOZ. On the homepage, there are three links to the Product page - in the main navigation, in the body and in the footer.

You can do the same.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey Nikki,

Yes, those are correct.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Nikki,

It depends how the file was created. If you exported it manually it won't change by itself. Especially, if you changed URL structure, added some redirects and some new pages.

I'd recommend to resubmit new Sitemap.xml to Google Search Console because the new one will probably differ quite a bit.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey Matt,

I've had a quick look at the source code and you can probably work on your ALT texts a bit to help Google with the indexation.

For example, for this image you have set "Photo Credit: eyeliam" as ALT text, which doesn't contain any relevant keywords. Google might think this image is not important for the website/topic and, therefore, decides not to index it.

Also make sure that all the pages containing images are linked between each other.

Finally, you can create Sitemap.xml for images and upload it to GWT as well.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

I wouldn't be worried about PA too much in general (unless you're hesitating from which page you should get the back link). The one metric which matters is the Domain Authority.

Regarding the best practices of the domain form, the best way you can have is https://diveidc.com. In my opinion, it's not worth changing to the version with www only because of PA.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Becky,

Those pages will be found by Google if you have links pointing to them somewhere on your site. In terms of crawl budget, the more page depth the more time does Google need to spend on crawling your site.

However, with proper internal linking you should be able to significantly lower the amount of clicks. So the next step would be adding some links through relevant anchor texts. After you do this, watch the analytics and let me know if it had any impact.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

If you haven't finished your slider yet, just stop working now. There's no such thing as "SEO techniques for sliders".

Sliders are generally not good for SEO and UX, as you can read in all the articles related to this topic, i.e.
https://yoast.com/opinion-on-sliders/
http://searchengineland.com/homepage-sliders-are-bad-for-seo-usability-163496

But if you still want to have one, just make static picture which will change with every page load. I think this should be the golden mean.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

Just to make the terminology clearer, you can transfer the link juice (well, majority of it), not the back links. The back links stay the same pointing on the previous domain. However, I'd recommend to change the links to the new domain from the previous pages so, basically, no redirection would be needed in terms of driving the traffic.

Hope it helps a bit. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

Have you tried uploading the URL's to the Google Search Console and "S_ubmitting to Index_"? 
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?continue=/addurl

Also, upload the Sitemap.xml and make sure you have proper internal linking so all the pages are easy to get found and crawled.

Try this and let me know if it works. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

the reason for ranking in different countries for the same keyword could be fact that it's very similar in all the affected languages. I don't know which KW's and languages do you exactly mean but let's say for example _"tennis, casino, mobile, video, dinosaur, coffee, tea,..." _are very similar throughout the countries.

Also, the reason for higher rankings of the log-in page could be poor optimization of the internal linking. Maybe you have more links to the log-in page, maybe the links have more relevant anchor texts or maybe your homepage has bad UX metrics compared to the log-in page (people usually go to this page to complete the action which means very low bounce rate).

More information regarding the KW's and countries would be appreciated. Cheers, Martin

Just for sure, try to use other tools as well. Register for the free trial and try if they find any additional links. But I think Moz should do a great job. But if you have redirected the 20 links, it should be alright. The important thing is that they all don't point to homepage. That'd be unnatural.

Hey there,

As you've said - the content is not built just for SEO reasons.

The content is just the opportunity to write more KW's but it has to look natural in the end. The main purpose of your website is to sell so adjust the content according to UX with an appealing CTA. The more content is not always better as far as it could drive attention the wrong direction.

If you look at the articles here at MOZ, most of them are about 1.200 words which wouldn't make much sense for an e-commerce site. Just look at Amazon and do the same in the better way.

This article might also help you.

Cheers, Martin

Hey Christopher,

I'd suggest 2) page by page. It'll take you more time but it's worth it. If you would redirect all pages to homepage, it might look unnatural to Google.

However, it depends how many pages are on the site. If there are thousands of pages, just redirect the categories. I believe there's value in dividing the redirects in "smaller pieces".

If you have no time, just redirect the site to the most relevant page of your web. It doesn't need to be necessarily the homepage.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

1. This list is divided in terms of pagerank:
   http://freelinksubmissionsiteslists.blogspot.com.mt/2016/12/Infographic.html

2. This list is divided in terms of free / paid:
   http://www.coolinfographics.com/links/

3. This list is "just another list":
   http://www.99signals.com/infographic-submission-sites/

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Hey there,

I don't think the .global TLD has any major implications in SEO directly. However, people who are not familiar with those new TLD types might get confused. This can cause higher bounce rate and consequently lower rankings. Also, the URLs will be longer compared to .com which might have some UX implications as well.

For more information, see this article where the issue is covered in more detail:

_https://www.hover.com/blog/do-new-top-level-domains-affect-seo/_

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin