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Yeah, I get what you are saying. Some folks are ok with leaving a review, even if it could be considered an embarrassing procedure. I was just wondering if there are ways or well-known platforms where anonymous reviews are possible.

Hi there.

Well, the question is why you don't want those paginated pages ranking. I assume that the content on those pages is different from each other and first page, and is still relevant. correct? If so, then by noindexing you might take away from your SEO, rather than add to it. If anything, canonicalize them to the first page (still very debatable if you should).

If you want your first page ranking - just make sure that it's optimized more than paginated pages - more popular products are on the first page, description text is there and is optimized, maybe do some targeted backlink earning to that page.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do what you are asking.. Sorry. You already did what you should have - change all links to website in GMB, social sites etc, copied the content over. Other than that - there is nothing you can do really.

The only thing which could be possibly remotely helpful is GSC address moving tool, of course, you'd still have to have access to old domain GSC - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

First, if you are ranking #1 already, and want to move those pages, you must have great reasons. There is a chance, quite a high one, you won't be ranking #1, or even potentially even on the first page for some time.

Considering that you must move these pages, I'd just create exact copy of those pages, literally. Just copy paste onto the new domain, 301 those links, and let new domain sit for a while with these pages, make sure that they are ranking etc. After that you can move all content - text, images, metas etc into new platform (if let's say you are switching from wordpress to magento or something like that).

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Only one word comes to mind as i read your question - "duplication".

1. No, you shouldn't use same meta descriptions and tags - it's going to bring up duplication issue;
2. Yes, you can use the same keyword research, but you'll need to write unique content for each of websites;
3. Why would you have 15 websites which are basically the same thing? Are they all ranking already for the same product? Do they have great traffic to all of them? If so, why fix something that ain't broken? If not, why spread all of your efforts to 15 different websites, if you can concentrate on 1 and make it the best thing in the world?

Cheers!

Hi there.

First, "...the understanding that there would not be any loss in page rank" - where did you get that info? 0.o It's well-known fact that there always be a downdraft with a period of recovery.

To answer your question - yes, you'll recover (assuming all 301s were done correctly). But it will take time. The problem is that your shop initially had the power and authority of your main domain (when it was brand.com/shop/blabla). Now, it's a brand new domain, with no history. And yes, even though you have redirects, it's still much closer to starting new domain, rather than redirecting domain completely.

Think of it as instead of building second story on top of existing house, you have to build brand new building with foundation and all, using some materials from your existing house. Who suffers? - both. You are taking away from existing place, and it will take longer and more resources to build up new place. Is it beneficial? - Sure, after both buildings are built - you'll have 2 great places to live in.

Hope this makes sense

Howdy, fellow mozzers.

I would like to hear some thoughts on how to go about review generation for industries, where anonymity is preferred - like plastic surgery, DUI/DWI law, even intimate-related stores etc. Far not everyone would want to have their profile attached to a plastic surgery procedure, especially in private areas; or have their face by a review about them getting out of jail for drunk driving etc.

We have clients in those industries and many clients of theirs would love to leave reviews, as long as they don't have to login with Google or other accounts. We sure use those testimonials on the website, but, again, faceless testimonials can look fake.

Any advice?

Yes, you should.

Here is a better definition for you:

302 redirect shall be used when the original URL was working as a normal web page, but then for some reason that page needed to be redirected for, let's say, next 24 hours only. An example would be if you are redesigning an existing page of a website and need to redirect users to another page for a few days so that users do not see the mess while you redesign.

301 redirect is pretty much when the original URL is not going to exist anymore, as in telling google to not check, not to render, not to try to index that URL.

Actually, I have a better question - since these temporary URLs are indeed temporary, why to even have them? and not just have straight forward normal URLs? It's not like those temporary URLs will be ever ranking..

Man I hate typical Google's response - "yeah, sure, we messed up everyone's past efforts, but we won't tell you what we did exactly"

Howdy fellow mozzers,

This morning, during our weekly client meeting, I have noticed that pretty much all of our clients' rankings went down a little after a weekend. Nothing major, but noticeable enough on the rankings graph. The MOZcast shows that there was some kinda activity over the weekend with higher than normal temperatures.

Anyone has any idea?

Hi there,

Well, the answer is in the name - are those 24hr links redirected permanently or temporarily? Are these links redirected forever, or they come back in some time? Considering your type of website, I would assume it should be 301s, since typically those download links never come back.

Howdy!

Well, as we all know, Google is all about user experience now, and, with menu not working, something tells me UX will suck. So, yeah, I'd say menus shall be working either JS is on or off.

P.S. I think the problem originates from a lot of developers using bootstrap and such for sake of ease of development, which uses JS for menus.

Hope this helps

I see Json markup, but as you said, it doesn't have anything about location. That's why i'm wondering where they are pulling from.

Thanks for reply.

But you didn't convince me I've been using addressLocality for forever, yet I have never seen this type of rich snippet before. Also, I checked with the tool before posting here, and, for example, this page (http://www.ridoutsbrownservicefh.com/obits) doesn't have ANY markup, yet it has this location pin rich snippet.

Can you provide any proof or more data that it's addressLocality? How did you come to this conclusion?

Howdy,

Saw this new(?) feature in mobile rich snippets (attached here).

Anyone knows what part of schema (or whatever else) is making this appear?

P.S.

From all responses, and some thinking, it looks like the answer would be "who knows", as usual with Google. But most likely it would be related to usual LocalBusiness addressLocality itemprop.

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@Dirk

This tool is broken now - are there any good alternatives?

No problem, let me know how it goes.

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.

I wish there was a way to unfollow in bulk..

That's what I thought. Thanks!