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Hi there.

I'm not seeing any messed up code or headers or anything like that. As Gaston said, it might be after-effects of broken plugin or something.

At this point, i'd recommend this: do manual fetch as google request, see if it comes up. If not, disable all the plugins, do new fetch and see if it comes back, re-enable plugins, fetch, see what happens. this would help you troubleshoot.

I recommend doing these steps on development server - basically replicate your website on like a subdomain URL - that way you can do all the plugin disabling etc and do all the fetches without affecting currently ranking site. Also, after replication on dev server and doing fetch right away, you'll know if your home page is just being still cached by google in the state of noindex due to previous mess.

Also, make sure that in sitemaps you have last-modified set to as recent time as possible, otherwise google won't update the page index, since it's technically considered cached, if not modified since last crawl.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

Well, it surely confused me Yes, it's confusing to bots and seems kinda shady to me. If it's possible, do it straight forward - canonicalize to prefrred url.

Hi.

The way to fix the problem is to know where it's coming from. When you are using browser's network tab, you can preserve log and see where 302s happening. Also you can see those pages in moz and other tools. I clicked around and found that it's happening in product categories and when you click on products. Obviously, since most of the website pages are product pages, you get 45%+ 302 redirects.

Now as how to fix it. Honestly, I'm not gonna be able to tell you, because I don't have your website's code. But find where those redirects are happening (by the way I don't even see any url changes, so maybe this is a problem as well), see how it's setup to work. It can be plugin errors or WP settings.

As for htaccess - I believe https rules should be before any other rules, all "R" should be R=301 and RewriteEngine on should be only one time.

Hope this helps somehow

Hi there.

Official guide from Google - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

Official response from google on the same page -

Indexed, not submitted in sitemap: The URL was discovered by Google and indexed. We recommend submitting all important URLs using a sitemap.

So, no, it's not necessary, but recommended, otherwise you can't control how often Google recrawls it etc.

Hi there.

Have you read this? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html

That might answer some of your questions.

Now, did you allow some time for Google to "realize" canonical links after you made them live?

Hi there.

I am a little confused - you want to use iframe on duplicate website to hide the duplication? If so - it looks very spammy and shady. I assume that new website you want to produce has enough unique content and value, otherwise you will have many troubles with penalizations and stuff.

Hi there,

The third URL you are referencing, is actually indexed:

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDY4N18xNDgzNjgzMA

As for "crawled, not indexed" - in most cases it happens because of one and only reason - Google is seeing your page as thin content, not worth being indexed. Typically it happens on bigger sites with a lot of similar pages. In your case, you got many courses, with exactly same structure. So, if the content is not completely different, then Google might deem it not worthy.

As for the bug you referenced - did your URLs drop off the index exactly at the time when this issue has been discovered? (aka within the last week?).

Do you have any cannibalization happening?

To me it looks like that's the case. If I do this search: "site:https://www.ihasco.co.uk/ Sexual Harassment Training course"

There are many pages that are indexed and are ranking: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDcwN18xNDgzNjg4Mg

So, basically, you have pages that are more authoritative with similar content. Therefore your courses pages are dropping as thin content.

I would recommend doing some internal linking optimization to tell Google what is actually important. Look in GSC for internal links metrics.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I would say no, since all these keyphrases are meant for the same thing. Landing pages suppose to have unique specificly target content, I'm not sure that you'd be able to create a page per each of these keyphrases and not to compete with each other.

It looks like these keyphrases are perfect for (sub)categories titles. May be you can do that, and then in each category have one-two paragraphs, which target these specific phrases.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Looks like redirect (rewrite rule) loop. Check your htaccess.

Hi there,

Yes, not to split the "page rank", you have to redirect all HTTP, www etc versions to one main canonical version.

This is a forum for advice, not free work, however. i really doubt anyone would do any work for you for free. I'm sure plenty of folks will be glad to offer their services though. Just reach out through the links in whoever's profile.

Yes. But, again, don't rely just on that. It's 1 of thousands signals, and it's surely not the strongest one.

Hi again. I've seen it. Quite honestly I disagree with absolutes being a priority. The arguments, presented in that WBF don't really work for me against the pain in development (I believe she mentioned even more drawbacks). Also, from my experience I have not seen any (at all) benefits in any way (SEO or loading speed) from having absolutes, rather than relatives.

Hi there.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Are tweets copied and pasted into each page separately? Then I don't understand the "populate a twitter feed" part.

Can you explain a little more?

Well, if they are actually fixed, you can do "fetch as Google" for the whole domain.

Oh my!

This is surely the most ridiculous way to do it I've heard of. There are APIs, plugins and other much easier ways to do it. Do they know about it?

Here: http://bfy.tw/4AqJ - first three links.

Hi there.

Well, one thing is for sure - do not block tags in robots.txt. That won't help anyhow for sure.

As for organic rankings - at the last company I worked for, I've seen some instances when tag page was ranking for a longer tail keyphrase. So, I would keep tags somewhat SEO friendly. But, as you said, main reason for tags nowadays is UX. Therefore I approach it this way - UX/navigational help first, but, if possible, also make tag SEO friendly. Also 10 tags is too many to my opinion. I believe that recommendations are 2-3 tags, maybe 4, but over that is a murder.

Hope this helps

Hi there.

Pagerank? It is very outdated metric and it's not relevant anymore.

What I can tell you is to do SEO on your website. Health score from Ahrefs is just about missing title, meta descriptions etc., it doesn't tell you how optimized your website is. Do on-page optimizations, backlink building, technical SEO - and you gonna get ranking results.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I don't think there is an actual tool which will tell you that, but you can see it yourself while scrolling on a page - you'll see images loading as you scroll. Also you can use browser's developer console, specifically network tab. You should see images not being loaded until you scroll to them.

Hope this makes sense

Hi there.

In short, Yes, iframes will pass link juice, but to the page, which is a source of iframe, not to pages, which are linked inside the iframe. And no, javascript created links are not passing rank flow.

When using iframe, basically what you are doing is you are pointing to the container on another website, and whatever is inside that container, it's hosted on that another website. That's why rank flows only to src link.

As for JS created links - they are considered hidden, devalued or obfuscated. Refer to this page on MOZ - https://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

It's known that comment section is not awesome at all in the eyes of google, typically due to spamminess, so attention paid to such sections is way lower than to other content on the page. Also, as far as I remember, Disqus is being loaded through deferred JS, into an Iframe, meaning that it would not be even considered as part of your website. Also, plugins like that are usually loaded with deferred JS, which means your loading times shouldn't be affected. Therefore, it shouldn't really matter what you do to it to do impact (if any at all) on your SEO.

Concentrate on your own content, my friend.