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You are using relative URLs for most of your images. Look to see where you have set your default domain name in 3Dcart. Does it include the www suffix? Better yet, change all your URLs so they are absolute and include your subdomain and domain.

Charlesfitz,

You've done an impressive load of research. Here are a few other items to consider:

1. 464 pages had a connection refused (0) status code. Here are some examples:

   /collections/nude-mesh-dress/products/so-sexy-see-through-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/bandage-dresses/products/navy-blue-cap-sleeve-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/mermaid-midi-dress/products/mermaid-bodycon-bandage-strapless-sheath-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/sexy-birthday-dress/products/celebrity-bandage-pink-v-neck-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/whats-new/products/rio-rose-gold-two-piece-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/whats-new/products/bandage-black-strapless-pencil-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /products/spaghetti-strap-lace-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /products/hot-celebrity-black-and-grey-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/whats-new/products/two-piece-lace-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /sexy-black-dresses/products/black-bandage-spaghetti-strap-midi-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/one-shoulder-dress/products/one-shoulder-gold-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused
   /collections/white-bandage-dresses/products/white-elegant-strap-bandage-dress 0 Connection Refused

2. You have roughly 45% of your HTML pages returning a 430 status code. I have no idea what that is but it might be impeding your indexing.

3. You have 80 temporary redirects in place for HTTP to HTTPS files. That's not likely the explanation, but should be fixed.

4. You have a lot of duplicate title and H1 tags. That might result in the wrong pages getting ranked, and by wrong I mean the pages that aren't ideally optimized for your keyword phrase or targeted for SEO equity accumulation.

5. There are 13 404 (page not found) status codes.

6. You also have some perhaps unintentionally noindexed pages, for example, /blogs/news/top-10-new-york-fashion-bloggers, /collections/gold-bandage-dresses and /collections/white-swimwear. (It might also be intentional as I notice you can't manually navigate to white swimwear on the site.)

I found these by scanning the site using Screamingfrog.

"it does sound to me like your agency has enlarged its client stable without making the necessary hires to enlarge the staff"

The agency may have a misguided understanding of how SEO works and thinks you can add a few tags and easy-to-acquire backlinks and their clients' sites will magically skyrocket to the top of search results and convert. You might have to do some education at the same time. I'd prepare some simplified and relevant examples to try to get your points across more convincingly.

Good luck!

Let's just do the math.

Let's say you can productively work 8 hours a day, 21 days a month. That's 168 hours total.

Divide that by 55 clients and you get 3 hours a month.

I haven't added in any extra time for your "junior" as he/she is probably already using up some of your 168 hours as it is in managing, mentoring, training time.

There is no way you can achieve anything measurable on 3 hours a month, regardless of what the client has signed up for, regardless of the role and responsibilities you've been assigned. Furthermore, if you flip it around the other way, would you want to accept a client that was only willing to pay you 3 hours a month with the expectation that you could "move the needle"? I know I wouldn't.

Sometimes the http to https redirect can't be avoided. It depends on where you host your website.

Check your code and make sure every reference to /contact/ ends with a trailing slash. That should do the job.

I'd still speak with the hosting provider. It may be a firewall setting, not the CDN.

Hi Jack,

I saw your question a few days ago and didn't respond thinking I'd wait and see if there was talk of an update in the SEO forums. There hasn't been any.

As you probably know, Google updates its ranking algorithm 500-600 times a year. Only the larger, more disruptive ones get talked about in the forums. You may be witnessing one of the smaller ones. I know I have seen some fluctuations this week.

As to what to do about it, if you're playing by the rules I'd sit tight and see if things normalize over the coming few weeks. It's not unusual for there to be significant changes that eventually reverse. If things don't normalize, then you're going to have to do some comparative analysis to figure out what you need to do to catch up again.

Not a specific answer - sorry, there isn't one. I could be so many different things.

Have you checked with your website hosting provider? They may be blocking bots at a server level. I know when I tried to scan your site I got a connection timeout error.

It might be a permissions problem.

You have said the sitemap is here - http://www.tagible.com/images_sitemap.xml, which it is. But the robots.txt file (http://www.tagible.com/robots.txt) does not include that sitemap. It has 10 others, but not that one.

If one goes to the subdomain (https://photos.tagible.com/) or folder (https://photos.tagible.com/images/) where the images are hosted, there is a 403 (forbidden) return code. Crawlers may not be able to navigate to the folder with the images. The images themselves are accessible with a 200 return code, but not the subdomain or folder where they are stored.

I don't know if you're aware of it, but tagible.com, www.tagible.com, and photos.tagible.com are not redirecting to their https equivalents.

I don't have any evidence to support this theory, but I suspect engagement has a lot to do with it.

Here's a good article that explains how you can use Google Analytics to assess your own website's visitor engagement. You might want to compare desktop to mobile to see if there is a noticeable difference. It's very hard to get data that allows you to compare engagement metrics across different websites unfortunately.

Hi Jeff,

If the content on website 1 and 2 is the same and you do a page-by-page mapping and canonicalization, then you'll be fine. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.

Here are Google Guidelines for using canonicals FYI.

This post from Search Engine Journal (https://www.searchenginejournal.com/definitive-list-reasons-google-isnt-indexing-site/118245/) is helpful for troubleshooting.

This Moz post (https://moz.com/blog/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed) has some additional considerations. The 6th point the post author raises is one you should pay attention to given you're asking about a large e-commerce site. Point 6 says you might not have enough Pagerank, that "the number of pages Google crawls is roughly proportional to your pagerank".

As you probably know, Google has said they're not maintaining Pagerank anymore, but the essence of the issue raised is a solid one. Google does set a crawl budget for every website and large e-commerce sites often run into situations where they run out before the entire site is indexed. You should look at your site structure, robots tagging, and as Jason McMahon says, internal linking to make sure you are directing Google to the most important pages on your site first, and that all redundant content is canonicalized or noindexed.

I'd start with that.

You are most welcome!

Have you looked at this post, Sunday? I believe it will answer most, if not all, of your questions.

What is your domain Ishrat-Khan? I want to take a look at the live site.

Do I keep my canonicals at http** or make all https?**

Agree with Matt. All canonicals should be updated to https.

Will this affect ranking signals?

Shouldn't, if you've done everything right. You might even see a small boost.

Anything I should be looking out for?

I just recommend scanning your site when you're all done to make sure all internal URLs are https and there are no 404 errors.

Imageco,

No shame in trying to provide for your family! In fact, you led the way for a while there creating all those local directories. Not a good approach nowadays, but it worked for a while.

_What is the best way for me to do this? _

I'm going to point you to two resources created by Miriam Ellis, a local expert at Moz and a person who has tremendous insight and is willing to share her wisdom with anyone who asks.

Moz Local Checklist - This first one looks at the type of business you have and Google Guidelines to arrive at the best strategy for your Google My Business listing and content. It also inventories all the other steps that will need to be taken to achieve local SEO success and provides links to other helpful resources and a checklist.

Local Landing Page - Inspiration, tips, guidelines, and a template for creating truly valuable local content.

Do I need to delete everything and start completely from scratch or is there a less extreme approach to making this kind of transition?

I recommend you inventory your existing content after you've reviewed the resources above and then decide whether to keep, change, or delete them. I would expect they'll be helpful in coming up with "truly valuable local content".

And once I do make these changes what might be the time frame for turning up better locally?

As I'm sure you well know, local SEO takes time too. How long it will take is going to depend on your starting point relative to your competition. If you want to set a ballpark, I'd say a year. It's a ballpark. You should start showing up on maps sooner than that, but you may not make it into the local three-pack for some time after that. Much will depend on the strength of your competition and the health of your existing website. Local and organic are intertwined. The latest local search ranking factors study published by Moz found that the second most influential contribution to local rankings (second only to your Google My Business listing) was link signals - not on-page, not citations, and not reviews.

Good luck Imageco! Work hard. You'll get there.

JFSecurity,

It's likely a couple of things are going on.

(1) Fresh content earns a temporary ranking boost. It's not surprising that you might rank higher at first and then drop after a few days.

(2) Rankings change daily, for a whole bunch of reasons. You should do as MichaelAMG suggests and keep working at it.

You're welcome.

If you have the answer to your question, you should mark one or more responses with "good answer" so this thread can be closed.

It's a personal choice but I don't see any harm in leaving it activated. I think there's more of a risk that tables will get corrupted if you are periodically deactivating and reactivating but that's just my opinion. If it's a concern, you would be better off posing your question to the plugin author.