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Hi there.

NOINDEX !== no crawling.  and surely it doesn't equal NOFOLLOW. what you probably should be looking at is canonical links.

My understanding is (and i can be completely wrong) that when you get hit by Panda for duplicate content and then try to recover, Google checks your website for the same duplicate content - it's still crawlable, all the links are still "followable", it's still scraped content, you aren't telling crawlers that you took it from somewhere else (by canonicalizing), it's just not displayed in SERPs. And yes, 80% of content being noindex probably doesn't help either.

So, I think that what you need to do is either remove that duplicate content whatsoever, or use canonical links to originals or (bad idea, but would work) block all those links in robots.txt (at least this way those pages will become uncrawlable whatsoever). All this still is unreputable techniques though, kinda like polishing the dirt.

Hope this makes sense.

uhmmm.. what are you talking about?

Hi there.

New view wouldn't help anyhow, because it's tied to the same tracking code. My guess is that either users are getting to those pages through bookmarks or browser history, or those links were indexed somehow and now you're getting hit by bots and crawlers.

Go to campaigns, see what source/medium those sessions are coming from, also check how long those sessions are and the bounce rate. If it looks like it might be crawlers - look into ghost and referral spam filtration. here is the link on how to implement - https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter

Hope this helps

Hi there.

Make sure that there is the only title and the only meta on each page, also check for other technical errors. If there are none and metas you're talking about is in the source code, do a "fetch as google" from Google webmaster tools. Then wait couple days. It always takes time to update snippets in search results.

If ALL metas are not showing up even then, it means that there is a tech errors somewhere. If some of them showing up, but not others - Google reserves the right to not use provided titles or meta descriptions. Meaning that your meta descriptions are not related enough  to what is on the page.

Agree with Martin. It can make a lot of difference if your business is heavily visual and can bring customers/visits through image search.

Hi there.

I usually include suite number, since it's a part of address. Basically, I'm matching the address line on Google My Business and website. Meaning if you have address in one line on GMB, include it in schema and if you have it in one line, don't include it in schema.

My personal opinion is that if you are located in office building with bunch of suites, Google can't understand that you're in suite #such-and-such, unless you specify. Also from user perspective, you always tell your clients "my address is house number H, street A, suite B", not "house number H, street A and one of the suites in that building. You'll find it, don't worry"

Hi there.

Well, first, even though backlinks are awesome, not always it's a requirement to be ranking and become popular. As you mentioned, social media is your huge friend, especially in realty industry.

At the same time, even though "usual" people don't have website, there are other websites like ask.com, quora.com etc which everybody can use and give you backlink. Also there are other forums, which accommodate any user etc.

Hi there.

Of course it can! The crawl rate is in pages per day, so if you remove pages (especially 1.5 million), there won't be as much to crawl

Also it can happen, if you have the same static pages and the crawl bot has crawled them all. Google doesn't crawl all pages all the time, they have limited resources. So, if you have launched or updated website recently and now not really updating it, you can see the change in crawl rate.

However, you can change crawl rate for 90 days, if you need them to crawl your website constantly (usually good for websites in process of reconstruction). Here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en

Hello, my friend.

Try this one: http://bfy.tw/2C2Y

Hi.

https://moz.com/products/api/updates

The last update was on August 3, which is earlier than 6 weeks ago. Therefore your website is not in database index.

Check back on october 14, which is the date of next update.

Cheers.

Hi.

Try reading this: https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-fix-an-803-error

Thanks for clarifying!

Thanks!

I have been noticing for quite some time that last minute changes in update release dates are becoming "normal". Is there way you guys can make those changes in update dates be announced earlier than on the expected update release date?

Hello, Rand. I just noticed that yesterday new update was scheduled for October 8th. And just now it says October 14th! What's going on? I hope it didn't break again...

Well, I just noticed that website is in flash! I believe non of crawl bots are able to crawl flash websites.

It seems that if I try to access redken.com it redirects me to flash version (/international).

Actually, now I can't recreate that. Super weird. Is there something "special" going on with automatic redirects? Look into that.

Hi there.

Which pages are those 4 pages? Is your robots.txt blocking it for some reason maybe?

Here is a video you can watch  about how funnels work and how they should be set up to achieve what you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IzxqN0WLjM

Please, read through links I've sent, do some self-education if you want to use Google Analytics. GA team has full course for free on how to use their products - https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/explorer

Or hire a professional to do it for you. This is easy work and can be done in several minutes, so it won't cost you much at all.

So, the "Booking-Flights" is destination goal. Therefore you can set up a funnel to see how many people are going through index page first. Google for videos or guides on how to setup funnels - there are tons of them.

I assume you guys don't have a tech SEO person. You really should have one.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012040?vid=1-635799114555282202-2288293858#goal_types

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032415#goal_types

What I meant was how is it setup technically. What's the type of a goal? how exactly it works?