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As far as Google is concerned these are valid titles, however they may be a bit lengthy. You'll notice there is a problem if Google starts to alter your title by using other content on the page. You can avoid this by making sure the content on your page matches well with the title.
For better readability consider changing the comma (or last comma if there are 3 items) to an ampersand (&). This gives the title a better appearance and reads more like a description instead of list of keywords.
Hello Michael, valid question. Unfortunately, the title attribute has no direct impact on search rankings. The title tag is primarily for usability purposes.
I'm not positive, but I believe there may be apps for the visually impaired that read the content of title tags and alt image tags. If you're using the same content on desktop and mobile devices I would go ahead and add the title if it helps clarify what the link is pointing to.
However, it is not recommend to use the title tag if it is the same as your anchor text. It should be unique and clarify what the link is. Hope this helps.
Thank you for clarifying. Nice looking website. This is a pretty common issue. If you plan on creating content in the near future on that page you can do a 302 temporary redirect to your page "How Fundraising Works" this would be the most relevant page, not your homepage.
It's never good to leave a blank page on it's own.
Also, I'm noticing a few other minor issues such as double backslash in your footer links and "Hello World" blog post is published. This can be a target for spammers and hackers.
Hope this helps answer your question.
Can you please provide the actual URLs or replace the domain with X's but keep the structure.
The structure of the URLs in your examples are not valid addresses so it's confusing. Thanks.
From the perspective of search engines your examples would be virtually identical. The first one with the dash is the most common usage and easy to read.
Each year will be a unique term in each of your examples except that in your second example you wouldn't rank for "2017".
The characters you must avoid are the ampersand (&) and underscore (_) which will combine terms.
Hello, there are a few options you can consider. First, you can consider getting a dedicated or semi-dedicated server so that you are not sharing resources with dozens of other websites. Second, as already mentioned a CDN such as CloudFlare is highly recommended.
Also, you can read some insight from CloudFlare about TTFB in that it is not entirely an important metric on it's own. You can enable gzip compression which will make your site load faster overall, but this may increase your TTFB.
Depending on your Joomla theme, there may be caching solutions available which can greatly benefit the load times. I think you might be using Rocket Theme so check out RokBooster extension.
Your site has 11 external JavaScripts. You should look into minifying and combining them to 1 file if possible.
I hope these recommendations help. Good luck speeding up your site.
You're welcome. The canonical tag is used to prevent duplicate content concerns. Your traffic reporting is still going to register traffic at the sub-domain page visit.
As Samantha mentioned, the Spam Analysis tool is not a 100% accurate tool, it's more of a 'helping tool'. With the tool its best use is to get some ideas on what poor links are pointing towards your site. Even then you need to take the results with a grain of salt. The tool may give you a spam score that is not entirely accurate, you need to examine the links and make sure it is actually spammy. You'll also notice that the tool doesn't pull all the back links to your site. Moz doesn't have the capability that Google does to crawl that much quantity. To get a complete list of your links go into Google Search Console.
If you're seeing your rankings and domain authority increasing this is a good sign Google noticed your disavow.
Hope this helps.
Chris
The reason for the -2 added to the category permalink is because you have a duplicate name. Even if this category is in the trash it will cause the -2 to be added if a new category is made. Delete any duplicate names in the trash to fix this.
I would recommend using the shorter category "womens" and if possible shorten the "product-category" slug so that your keywords have a chance to appear in bold the search listing preview.
Usually your product category links and breadcrumbs will update automatically when the permalink is changed. If you have placed manual links to these categories you may want to consider adding 301 redirects to the updated URLs.
Hope this helps. Best of luck with your updates.
Basically your only option is to move the blog from the sub-domain to a sub-folder on your main site and setup 301 redirects to forward the traffic to the new addresses. Let me know if you have any other questions for getting this to work.
If there is any possibility of relevant backlinks to these missing pages I would recommend 301 redirects to your homepage or other related pages to pass on that link juice.
I would suggest not disavowing a list of this size. My suggestions to you would be to create a robots.txt file and upload it to Google search console. This way you can continue to get traffic from the affiliate site, but it will tell Google not to crawl the domain.
Hope this helps, if you have additional questions please feel free to ask.
Chris Hickman
We have had this issue with a client of ours and it's easy to change, but there are a few hoops to jump through. What we had to do was call Google and have them manual set the address. The address we wanted could not be set by us alone, since it was a hyphenated unit number. Try contacting Google through here, https://support.google.com/business/contactflow?hl=en. It only took a day or two to get changed for us, they are pretty good with responding in a timely fashion.
Regards,
Chris Hickmana
You should not have any issues adding sub-directory sections. It is actually ideal to separate them. Just make sure that you create a good index page at /meat/ and /fish/ and add links to these sections from your other pages so they are discoverable and earn some authority on your site.
For SEO purposes, internal linking to priority pages is more important than the URL structure. Though the URL structure can be beneficial to include keywords and separate sections or categories of your site.
As long as you implement the correct 301 redirects and keep your original domains live (redirected) you should have minimal impact on your rankings. You will start to see the new pages indexed and ranking in place of the old sites.
Be sure to bring over the content in it's entirety and link to the new page URLs going forward and correct other backlinks if possible.
Your lower authority site should receive a good boost with the redirects to it. Your overall traffic may take a hit in the short term, but merging properties of the same company and focusing your efforts on one site is a good idea in the long run.
Best of luck moving your sites.
I wouldn't go beyond 2 levels deep on any sub-directory except on rare occasions when it's still a short URL. The directory structure does not matter so much for SEO if done correctly. However, with WordPress, the breadcrumbs, navigation and site-wide links will end up with poorly prioritized interlinking. This could be bad if you do have important pages in sub-directory structures such as yourself.
For example, your 1st level directory pages such as /guides/, /treatments/ and /social/ are cannibalizing page authority simply because they are linked to more (and in better positions) than your Men's Guide page is linked to. I recommend beefing up the internal links to the Men's Guide page and improving a lengthening the content on that page as you mentioned you plan to do.
Instead of linking to the page with the anchor "Introduction" use "Men's Hair Loss Guide."
It's a good idea to keep URLs as short as possible so that your keywords have the opportunity to appear in bold in the URL of a search listing. This makes the listing more attractive.
You may also want to consider placing the Men's and Women's Guide at the top level of your menu instead of the sub-menu if possible.
I've also noticed you have a lot of old content being indexed with a different website design, such as the About Us page. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I would suggest migrating it to the new design or redirecting where appropriate.
I hope these suggestions are of some use. Feel free to get in touch if you would like to discuss this or more advanced SEO further.
Hello,
A simple canonical tag would be sufficient. You can keep the content the same and not have to take the time to re-write the article.
Chris Hickman
You will want to be selective with the categories and tags that you use. If you have multiple tag index pages with the exact same content you may be at some risk of serving nearly identical pages. It's still not a huge SEO issue as Google will likely just prefer one over the other.
If it does become an issue where multiple tags or categories are identical you can block indexing as you described.
Tags are primarily a feature for users to navigate subjects on your blog rather than a method to improve SEO.
The content quality and title of your posts is much more important in terms of optimization. We recently discussed ways to optimize content for search rankings just yesterday on our blog. I would recommend you focus on your content and keyword targeting as described there.
Hope this helps. Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.
It sounds like you may be using the WP-Print plugin. This issue has been resolved by others by regenerating the permalink structure.
Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes
Let me know if that works for you. Best of luck.