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Agree with Andy, here's another great resource on how Google considers Sitelinks.

Hope this helps,

B

Yea, so the changing of gTLDs does get a bit confusing. It's my understanding that because you are now using subdirectories with gTLDs, I would tell Google that your previous country-specific urls are now: www.example.com and then follow Google's guidelines for multi-regional and multi-lingual sites. Please take a look here at how to do that within Google's Search Console:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

Also See: Targeting Site Content To A Specific Country

Let me know if this helps (and applies to your situation).

Thanks!

Hi Sanjay,

Appreciate you searching the community for similar questions. Do you have comments allowed on that page? Curious if it could have picked up any link spam from that. Agree with Brian to scan your website and reach out to your server provider to see if they have any more details on a potential hack.

Do you happen to also have Bing Webmaster Tools? It would be interesting to confirm if they also picked up any sort of hack.

Hope this helps!

Correct, you would want to tell Google that www.example.it & www.example.de has moved to www.example.com.

The most common way of referencing your different website languages (to Google & redirecting users) is through hreflang in the of your pages, for example; your www.example.com website should have the following within the of it's pages:

Just make sure that on your other language urls, you also have the rel="canonical" in place for that url. For example on your /it/ site you should have the following in the header::

Lastly, the two most common mistakes when using hreflang are not cross linking properly & using the wrong language-country codes:
1. If page A is linking to page B, page B must link to page A.
2. Double check your codes through Aleyda Solis's hreflang tag generator.

Yes, that sounds great! Please let me know how it all goes and if you run into any other hiccups.

Cheers,

B

Did some digging and found a few resources stating:

Googlehadan official statement about this in its webmaster guidelines:
"If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a ? character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few. Don't use &id= as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index."

That was many years ago but more recently Google changed its position on that subject. The entry has been removed from Google's guidelines but here's the official statement from Google's blog:
"Google now indexes URLs that contain the &id= parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is.

Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may still be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you. If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls."

Click here read the full article

Penalization for personalisation

Let me know if this helps

Fascinating question Gyorgy!

I've always been a big fan of dynamic targeting.

It would be a great idea to have different URL parameters for each unique set of content. You might also want to push these pages to fetch & index within Google Search Console (and your sitemap.xml to showcase you're not attempting to cloak, etc.)

This would be a fantastic question for Google reps...I can try to reach out to someone today and let you know what they say.

Cheers,

B

PS. Just curious, how are you pulling in persona data?

Hi David,

Curious why you're not interested in doing rel=canonicals? I think I understand your overall goal and would suggest simply hiring a content marketer or writer to differentiate the content from product A page to product B page.

Hiring a content marketer or writer to differentiate the content from one to the other would be well worth it in this situation. Have the writer re-organize and re-write the content (while maintaining the same message) so that crawlers will view each page as unique.

Cheers,

B

It's also worth mentioning that Google gets SO MANY of these before and after requests they have created a segmented carousel (Dr. Pete would prob punch me for using that name haha!) -Nudity is not an issue for these indexed / segmented photos and greatly improves UX.

THANKS PEOPLE!!

Peace, Love & Grandma Hugs

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Great example! We haven't been flagged for any nudity but it's great to be aware of situations like that. Thanks so much

Image names have been optimized, are you referring to the "?attachment_id=117" that WP auto assigns uploads?

Are you familiar with a custom code we could use to alter that auto attachment name?

Thanks so much

Hi MoosaHemani,

Thanks so much for your response! -Only a small % of the images (ones that have been embedded on pages are indexed), while we are trying to make sure the before and after photos are being properly indexed. -All names of photos have been optimized aside from WP's auto ?=attachment_blahblah thing.

Also, how would we "use natural anchor text instead of targeting keywords all the time" for photos...the primary website is naturally linked to things however not sure what you mean for the photos?

Thanks,

B

customerparadignm.com makes a good point, however I've seen consistency & having a set office location work better.

https://moz.com/local/ does a great job of cleaning up consistency errors and is less expensive than Yext Business Listings.

Tips:

1. Submit a Change Of Address to G

2. Consistency, consistency, consistency.

3. Verify all major business listings for your new location.

4. Make sure your new location is on your website.

5. Schema markup never hurt.

Good Luck Fiona!

One of our clients is in the Cosmetic Surgery business (bodevolve.com) and individuals most likely to purchase a cosmetic procedure only search for 2 things....'**before & after photos' and 'cost'. **

That being said we've worked extremely hard to optimize all 500+ before and after photos. And to our great disappointment, they still aren't being indexed...we are testing a few things but any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

All photos are in the 'attachment' sitemap: http://bodevolve.com/sitemap_index.xml

I'm also testing a few squeeze pages like this one: http://bodevolve.com/tummy-tuck-before-and-after-photos/

Thanks so much,

Brit

The account settings state that there are 300 keywords PER campaign but I've found that I've met my max without getting up to 300word/campaign...

Any feedback would be much appreciated.