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Hello,
Yes you are able to upload multiple sitemaps to your Google Search Console. Often sites that have thousands of pages will create multiple sitemaps to make it both easier for them to manage and search engines to crawl. Just make sure to keep them separate, what I mean by this is have one sitemap dedicated to your blog and blog only, same with your Magento site. Don't cross-reference pages into both.
Hope this helps.
Chris Hickman
All you need is a hosting account and to point the domain to a specific directory containing your .htaccess file.
Place your 301 redirects in the .htaccess file and you will be good to go. No WordPress install is necessary.
Hey there, in addition to Oleg's comment you can add an htpasswd file to your server to require a username and password to be entered before any users or robots are allowed to access your website.
You can find information on setting this up here.
I always like pointing out the linking C blocks when comparing the competition. If you're not familiar with linking C blocks, these are essentially IPs from servers of domains that are pointing to your site. You may have 10k backlinks, but they are coming from 2 C blocks. Ideally you would want to have a large variation of links, coming from an assortment of C blocks. In a nutshell you want to have links coming from all over, but make sure they are diverse, relevant, and high quality. It does take time.
Hope this helps.
Chris
Hey MissThumann, there is no good way to tell Google not to include a specific alt text. You could move the image down lower on the page to the second paragraph if you need to keep that specific image and alt text.
Otherwise, I would suggest that you change the alt text to something better that works in your search description or to remove it entirely and just leave the alt tag empty (alt=""). Hope this helps!
In terms of SEO, there are no penalties for using a gTLD. Technically you have an equal chance of ranking well for a keyword than those with .com domains. It comes down to preference, marketing and the SEO work you put in.
I can see the .training domain working well for marketing to a younger audience, it may be appealing and seem more modern. An older audience may be more accustomed and feel that .com domains are more professional.
Exact match keyword domains gained notoriety because they would often get great anchor text when people linked to their website. I don't see why you would have an issue with that because I would naturally link to the site as "Foo Training."
To answer your question plainly, no it won't be seen as spammy but the .com may seem more professional and credible to some users. I hope this helped make your decision easier.
Charles,
My suggestion would be to jump in and begin playing around with the tools. The best way to get an idea on how things work is to click around and see what features each tools have. You'll quickly learn how to navigate the tools and see how each tool operates.
If you want some videos here are a few links to what Moz has created. These may be helpful in showing what tools are capable of.
https://www.udemy.com/user/seomoz/
https://www.youtube.com/user/MozHQ
Hope this helps.
Chris
Hello,
Keep in mind the spam score is more of a helping tool, rather than a complete tool. In other words it's there to give you an idea of how your link profile appears, more than telling specifically which links are harmful. I believe the tool will be going away soon, so don't look too far into it.
Also, different tools, such as majestic and AHREFs are great for monitoring back links, but are not always 100% accurate. Sites like these, and even Open Site Explorer, don't have to the resources to scan the internet like Google does. With that being said, go to the source. Review your link provide within Google Search Console. Rather than using a tool, do it yourself, the results will be much more thorough.
I hope this helps, if you would like more information on reviewing your back link profile please ask.
Chris