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Have you done a side-by-side comparison of your page to the competition? It could be that on-page isn't that is preventing you from achieving a higher ranking. It could be you don't have enough links, enough powerful links, or links with topical anchor text. It could be (as you mention) speed. If you're trying to rank locally, it could be proximity to the searcher. Or it could be your content doesn't incent engagement. It could be the page hasn't been indexed yet. There are so many possibilities.

Luca,

You're asking a pretty open ended question of the Moz community. If you're serious about wanting constructive feedback, you'd be better off hiring someone to do a thorough analysis of your website and its supporting processes so they could come up with some worthwhile and actionable recommendations. You might get onesy-twosy suggestions from this post, but it sounds like you might need something more thorough and exhaustive.

Moz has 58 recommended companies on a list you can peruse. You could also go thru the Q&A and blog looking for people who are experts in this area and put feelers out to them. Otherwise, I'd suggest you post a more specific question as it might incent more responses.

Good luck!

Thank you.

I'm not an International SEO expert. This is just my opinion.

I agree with Thomas that links from high-quality destination sites are going to help your rankings regardless. Just to confuse things, I also agree with you that you need to strike a balance when it comes to just how many of your links come from other destinations.

If, for example, you want to rank for SEO in the UK and your website has a majority of incoming links from the UK, I would expect those links reinforce and help boost your UK rankings because Google knows people prefer to shop locally. If, on the other hand, you are trying to rank globally, then you'd want (and benefit from) inbound links from other destinations as well.

So I think your assumptions are good. Reputable inbound links from other destinations are helpful so long as they don't confuse Google about which audience you're targeting. I guess you could use other international SEO techniques like hreflang tags, your URL structure, geo-targeting in GSC, and localized content to reinforce that if you were worried.

I don't know of any case studies on this topic.

So, we all "nofollow" most of the external links or all external links to hold back the page rank.

Nofollowing links does not mean you retain link juice or page rank. That page rank gets dropped rather than being transferred to another location.

Is it all same about external links and nofollow now?

I don't understand your question but if you mean should all external links be nofollow, the answer is no. As Google has suggested, you should still tag trustworthy destination links with the follow attribute.

Hi Pol,

No, not just by changing the both the URL and canonical to something new and different. You'll need a redirect. Is there a reason you can't?

It's a known bug at Google Dan. It's been reported in the webmaster central help forum and Google's John Mueller has said they're working on it.

Learn more here.

Is anyone else experiencing problems with the display of the MOzcast widget? I am and the Moz support person I spoke with wasn't able to replicate the problem.

See https://www.branded3.com/blog/5-easy-ways-to-monitor-google-algorithm-changes/ and https://www.b-seenontop.com/philadelphia-seo-services/.

It looks like a file is missing.

You can also use Google Search Console to ask Google to temporarily remove the page from its index. As Linda said, it should eventually drop off the index on its own, but this can help speed it up.

Go to Search Console > Google Index > Remove URLs.

I'd also make sure I wasn't continuing to link internally to the page.

I agree with the others. Given "https://www.mysite.com/index.html is not currently displayed in search results", in all likelihood it is being redirected to https://www.mysite.com (and should be). So you don't want to change the canonical to the index.html version of the page only to have it redirected back to https://www.mysite.com. It'll unnecessarily slow the site and might even create a loop.

I'm not understanding. Is the URL Alias a canonical or a redirect?

If it is canonical, then Google should not redirect but stay on the URL you've entered into the address bar. It may or may not show up in search results. The canonical is telling Google that your preference is to have only the Alias indexed but it's okay to have visitors land and stay on the original URL. Google treats it as a preference, not a directive, meaning it may or may not respect your wishes.

If the alias is a redirect, then when you enter the first URL into the address bar you should be automatically redirected to the second. Only the 2nd will be indexed and show up in search results. If Google is finding those, perhaps they were indexed at one time and still haven't fallen out. I'd also check the sitemap to see if they're listed there.

Hope that helps.

Hi xlucax,

You ask a question that does not have a simple answer. There could be many things impacting the slow rendering of your website.

I can see it is a Wordpress website and fortunately, there is much help available. I have curated a bunch of tools and articles on Pinterest that will help you diagnose opportunities for improvement and pull together a plan to speed the site. Here's a link - https://www.pinterest.com/beseenontop/speed-up-your-website/. Then, if you have specific questions, feel free to come back here again and ask.

If you're looking to hire someone to do this for you, Moz has a long list of recommended companies. Start there.

Good luck!

It can. It's bad enough that Google sometimes decides to insert it's own content into the title tag displayed in search results. If you add in a second blank title tag, I'd say that reduces the likelihood that your chosen title tag will display even more. Why not just get rid of the second (blank) title tag? Is there a reason you can't or a reason you want to keep it?

I think you've answered your own question.

If it was me and those "spiraling backlinks" were affecting my domain trust flow, I'd do just as you suggest and attempt to contact the webmaster to come up with a solution. They may not realize the harm they're doing and be happy to learn how to improve upon their own site. Try to negotiate a win-win so they're more likely to conform to your wishes.

You really should leave the page up with an explanation. How is it TAGFEE to take perks away without any prior notification or explanation until someone asks? I'm surprised. Not like you guys at all!

Interesting. I guess any service-based business has that issue. In your case, some people might actually want to see the product and "show up at his door". I think if he's okay giving out his address the only thing you can do is make it clear on his website that there is no showroom, no product on display at the business address and/or offer publicly accessible places where anyone could go and see it (if possible).

Maybe others will have different suggestions.

What is a realistic timeline to increase a website's domain authority by 20 points?

Years. Domain authority uses a logarithmic scale like the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes. Every notch you move up the rung takes exponentially more time, discipline, creativity, outreach, and energy.

If you're asking the question b/c you have to set expectations with someone, I'm with Gaston and would suggest you set business goals and a realistic timeline to reach them versus relying on a metric that correlates with high rankings. Think leads and downloads. If it's an e-commerce site, think sales. Things that are easier to measure and explain to the business.

What are the most important factors to increase a website's domain authority?

Someone from Moz would have to answer that. Here is the page on their site that best explains it. My understanding is the domain authority metric tries to mirror Google's interpretation of a website's importance and would expect incoming links and their sources to be given considerable weight in the calculation.

Are you asking if there is a more up-to-date list of directories that don't require a physical mailing address? If yes, I'm not aware of one. It's probably not worth investing a lot of time researching either. If you or client doesn't want his or her mailing address listed, then your best bet is to focus on organic and/or PPC unless they're a niche player with very little competition.

Ha! Yes, I noticed the Google goggle thing.

I get that each is a separate SKU and landing page. I'm suggesting why compete with yourself? Use canonical tags to tell Google (for ranking purposes) you want to consolidate all the SEO equity (and content) from all three pages into the category page (making it richer and stronger). Theoretically, if someone searches for "SkiEyes ExEyes goggles in red", Google will render the red landing page. If the same searcher searches for "SkiEyes ExEyes goggles", the category page will display.