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Hi there.

As far as I know, internal nofollow links do not make any sense, unless you are trying to "direct" search bots to specific pages, but not others. In your case, as you say, there are many other links to the same page, so internal architecture here doesn't take place.

So, I say remove nofollows on internal links, try maybe reduce amount of links in general though. The problems you might encounter are related to so called crawl budget by search bots. They have limited amount of time and resources to be on your website, and, if you have many-many links to the same pages, bots might be running in circles, wasting their resources.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

The idea of internal linking is quite simple - link with relevant keyphrase to a page, you want to have some boost amongst internal rankings. It's far not necessary to have an internal link going back to main page from each of sub-pages. Just make sure that every page is accessible and navigation makes sense.

If you have sub pages which are about "Auto verkaufen" (i assume it's quite broad keyword), maybe you should have more narrow topic sub-pages and then link to them with more specific keywords?

If you took website down, you don't have to really do anything. Go to search console, do fetch as google on old admin subdomain, so google understands that it's not there anymore, and then just wait. Google will take those backlinks down.

I see. Read my response below and just use meta robots. it will help you out.

If you want to deindex those backlinks, you also can look into Google Search Console's demoting tool, but i don't think it's necessary.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334

Don't do that, disallow in robots.txt will NOT resolve indexing issue! What you need to use is meta robots. Noindex, nofollow. Watch this WBF on this subject:

https://moz.com/blog/controlling-search-engine-crawlers-for-better-indexation-and-rankings-whiteboard-friday

Hi there.

No, none of SEO related benefits would ever come from what email you use to login or URL in your profile. The way to use YouTube for SEO is actually to use it (surprise here:) for it's intended purposes - create awesome video content, put compelling descriptions, titles and thumbnails for your videos, grow the audience and, eventually, people will remember your brand, and start coming to your website from youtube, which will indirectly influence SEO.

Cheers.

P.S. Here are some links you might find useful:

https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/youtube-video-optimization-best-practices/

https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/page/lesson/discovery?hl=en

https://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2262954/optimizing-videos-for-youtube-search

https://moz.com/blog/youtube-ranking-factors-whiteboard-friday

https://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/

Hi there.

So, all the pages, from which those backlinks are coming from are non-existent anymore? have they been redirected? do they return 404s? Also, how did you find them? in Google Search Console or another tool?

So, if you found it in Google Search Console, and the original pages indeed have been removed and properly redirected, then it's just time delay by GSC. Otherwise (if those pages are crawlable), you should fix it.

Hope this makes sense.

I'm not sure I can give you some references, I can Google, I guess, but you can as well. It's type of idea-knowledge you get from being in industry for some time. Read the comment below by EGOL, he has good point about number of internal links to the same page as a logic factor.

Hi there.

Well, Google doesn't consider internal links for ranking purposes. However, sometimes it is helpful to use internal linking with exact match anchor text to help understand Google what the page is about. So, no, it won't hurt your rankings if you do what you did, but it won't help it either.

What I'd recommend, actually, instead of using the same anchor text for all of those links, use related keyphrases. So, in one blog it would be "customer success" anchor text, in another blog it would be "success metrics" (or whatever else you are targeting) and so on.

Hi there.

What's the link? Are you sure it's actually not indexed, rather than just dropped in rankings? Also, you say that you added canonical link. I assume that you have added canonical link to page which was ranking? If there is no robots.txt issue, are meta robots used - it could be the problem.

This one is very unreasonable to use - all it does is takes data from AdWords, using FREE API and Google suggestions and gives it to you. No new information, no extra data you can get from them, just a little more convinience, which I can't justify for $88/month.

Hi there.

Usually as soon as link is indexed by a search engine, it has an effect on rankings. Don't confuse with appearance in GWT, since it takes longer and stays there longer than in reality. There are many-many examples of rankings go up dramatically after successful link building campaign (like skyscraping or something).

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

What do you mean by heading tag? H1,H2 etc?

Hi there.

It's quite confusing the way you asking this question - they want two websites, but you gonna make one website? I understand you can use subfolders or subdomains, but if they are exactly the same restaurant, will they have different content? Do they want different designs? If so, what is going to be on main domain?

My suggestion would be to do one website with two location pages. This way, since content is the same they won't have duplicate content issues and it won't be confusing to users in case of different websites with different designs for the same restaurants.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

You need to be owner of account. If you are - click on your profile picture at the top right corner, click on Billing and Subscription, click on Manage Seats at the top nav. Then you can remove seats.

Cheers!

Hi there.

Many use SEMRush (I do to). Also There is Moz Content. It's not really a keyword research, but rather topics research, using which you can come up with keywords as well. The same type of tool is BuzzSumo.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

My thought is that it was just a coincidence. Usually, responsiveness doesn't affect rankings that dramatically, especially on desktop devices. There are many-many far more important ranking signals than being mobile-friendly.

Make sure that your website is properly optimized, you got good backlink profile etc. Also I suggest to look at your competitors. If they have improved, or there were new companies, which are better optimized than yours, and, at the same time your website is underoptimized - your rankings will go down.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Here is a code solution - it adds " - Page: X" where X is a number of page. Add it to functions.php file of wordpress:

<code>php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-/**
 * Plugin Name: T5 Add page number to title
 * Description: Adds ` | Page $number` to the page title.
 * License:     MIT
 * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */if(! function_exists('t5_add_page_number')){function t5_add_page_number( $s ){global $page; $paged = get_query_var('paged')? get_query_var('paged'):1;! empty ( $page )&&1< $page && $paged = $page; $paged >1&& $s .=' | '. sprintf( __('Page: %s'), $paged );return $s;} add_filter('wp_title','t5_add_page_number',100,1); add_filter('wpseo_metadesc','t5_add_page_number',100,1);}</code>

Hi, Pete.

In our case it was one time drop over couple days and then leveled out and stays around the same spot  - beginning of the second page.

What confuses me the most is this: neither us or our competitors have had any major (if any at all) changes in content (at least on main landing and ranking pages). Neither backlink profiles have changed. At the same time our rankings had experienced that drop and we are having trouble recovering. However, main competitors didn't have that drop.

P.S. All metrics in our case are better than competitors.

Any ideas on what's happening / what we should pay extra attention at?

Hi there.

Oh yeah, Many have the same problem. Me as well. And I can't figure out what's going on. As well as looks like there is no info from Google what was update about.

There is a suggestion floating around that it might be regarding backlinks quality, but there is no proof or reliable info about that either.

Here are my two topics I've asked, you can see what people are saying:

https://moz.com/community/q/recovery-after-recent-google-update

https://moz.com/community/q/january-2016-massive-rankings-fluctuations