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Thanks for response!

Well, basically, as I mentioned, the problem was due to http-header robots tag. So, after removing it, and requesting "fetch as google", it's all up and running now. The crawl time proves that as well.

Thanks for giving me idea for looking into cache times in the future though!

Howdy, fellow mozzers.

I got approached by my friend - their website is https://www.hauteheadquarters.com

She is saying that they dropped from google index over night - and, as you can see if you google their name, website url or even site: , most of the pages are not indexed. Home page is nowhere to be found - that's for sure.

I know that they were indexed before. Google webmaster tools don't have any manual actions (at least yet). No sudden changes in content or backlink profile. robots.txt has some weird rule - disallow everything for EtaoSpider. I don't know if google would listen to that - robots checker in GWT says it's all good.

Any ideas why that happen? Any ideas what I should check?

P.S. Just noticed in GWT there was a huge drop in indexed pages within first week of August. Still no idea why though.

P.P.S. Just noticed that there is noindex x-robots-tag in headers... Anyone knows where this can be set?

Hi there.

Check out these two whiteboard fridays - it will help you:

https://moz.com/blog/cant-do-keyword-research-like-its-2010-whiteboard-friday

https://moz.com/blog/discovering-prioritizing-best-keywords-whiteboard-friday

Hi.

Here you go: https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker

Yes, results are real time

Yeah, that's the question - ill it be treated as variations or not. I guess i can test it.

Thanks for the input.

Hi there.

Your question is not really a question, rather your thoughts maybe?

Anyway, Google News rankings are based on, yes, typical SEO signals, but, more than anything, time sensitivity, mentions and social signals. So, an article, released today, which got traction in social media (shares, retweets etc), and some links will be performing at the top. So, base your optimization on that - the more newsworthy and shareable your content is - the better results you gonna get.

Hope this makes sense

Hi there.

There shouldn't be any difference, only extra bytes to load.  The first rule will be what will tell bots what to do. It's simply redundant rules.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

As far as I know - no. You'd have to consider using other products for crawl/tech issues (like semrush). But for rankings - yes, you can use moz's rank tracker to check however many times a day.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Yes, having the same NAP info is quite important, so, I wouldn't remove suite number, especially since it's your actual proper address. Maybe there is some type of guide from Facebook (I couldn't find it) on formatting of the address. But, to me it's like this - if it makes sense to user, it will make sense to search engines (google specifically).

Hope this helps.

Sure I'm here to help

Hi there.

Do you see any negative results so far? Any hints at it? How spammy are those links (anchor text, DA/PA of linking pages etc)? Did/do you have manual actions taken by GWT/search console? How is your MOZ OSE spam score?

What I would recommend, if you have a suspicion that disavowing those links would help, is to disavow small part of them, let's say 100-200 and see the effects on your rankings, DA/PA and other metrics.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Basically, canonical link tells search engines to move all the ranking weight to a page, linked by canonical link. Therefore if google thinks that page A should be ranked for a given keyphrase, but this page A has a canonical link to another page B, page B will be considered as a ranking nominee and page A will be discarded. Which means that all meta data and other things WILL be taken from page B.

Hope this helps.

Oh dear..

Disavowing links does not guarantee bump in rankings whatsoever. What you need to be looking into is proper SEO and branding. There are lots of resources about it on this forum, here are couple:

https://moz.com/learn/seo

Hi there.

I don't think there is much difference (if any) in YouTube optimization between 2015 and 2016. Here is a q/a thread from last year with bunch of resources provided. See if it helps:

https://moz.com/community/q/youtube-seo-best-practices

Hope this helps

Can you please tell a bit more on "make it fun" part?

Hi there.

There is no such thing as programmatic optimization, even in spite of that beautiful page you linked to. DON'T try to trick the system, work with it.

That's what I thought (and how i have it now). Just hoped that there is a way

Agree with previous response - incentives are the best way. We are struggling with getting reviews a lot, and we are "in-person" business. If you are strictly online - it gets even harder. My car's dealership offered $150 gift card for a 5/5 review. If you can do something like that, you'll get bunch of reviews for sure.

http://bfy.tw/71v6

Hi there

Well, here is my thought:

1. Let's say you had a domain old-domain.com with bunch of good backlinks;
2. You got rebranded (or whatever) and got new domain new-domain.com;
3. You did a 301 domain redirect from old domain to new domain (which is a well known good practice and recommended by everyone, since, as we know, 301 pass goodies along);
4. Would it count now that you have a backlink (any benefit) from your old domain?

I don't think so. Otherwise everyone would buy 10000 domains and did 301 redirects from them to their main domain, right? So, to me it seems that shorteners have the same logic.

Hope it makes sense