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Masonman,

You should not delete the post. 301 redirect it to the new content. This way you will maintain link juice and any traffic receive to the old content will then be directed to the new.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Dogara,

Install the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin. Then manually create descriptions and titles for your pages.

The duplicate content issue is most likely caused by disorganized categories or tags. Every time you categorize a post or tag content WordPress creates a new Archive page. This can create duplicate content on many pages of your site.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

The words are bolded to show you that the content contains the keywords you searched with.

Roman,

Yoast is an SEO guidance plugin for WordPress. This is only good info if the op has a WordPress website!

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Hi Tara,

The best way would be to 301 redirect the old urls to the new urls. So if your url is https://sitename/category/product and you want to change it to https://sitename/product then you must 301 redirect https://sitename/category/product ----> https://sitename/product so you do not loose link juice or receive an enormous amount of 404s.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Isaac,

Ask away! Site wont include you if they are not aware that you exist. What better way to let them know then to reach out ask for links back to your quality content.

I would refrain from using spammy language and try to be real and authentic with your approach. Build relationships with the site owners. This sense of friendship can payoff in the long run. But remember your content has to be quality!

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Hi Twisme,

You do not want google to think of your image title as a site title. It is not documented how google treats svgs and their properties. my recommendation would be to use the old fashion way <img src="file.svg" alt="youralttaghere">

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Hi Stefan,

Have you look at link profile? SEM rush shows 58 back links. Also there is paid traffic. Are you sure your not mistaken high rankings for paid ads? Spiritual Channelers is a top paid keyword for them.

Also traffic in general can increase organic rankings. There are metrics that you cannot see such as time on page and how many pages views. This is the inadvertent bonus to paid traffic.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

I would give it a couple weeks and let google fully recrawl and rerank the pages. This is not uncommon to see rank drops after an https migration but they are usually short lived. How are you monitoring the ranking of these keywords?

Eldon,

Open site explorer does not include all links in every index. And sometimes it excludes less authoritive links from index to index. What is the domain authority of the site you are linking out from?

Thanks

Don Silvernail

Becky,

It does seem strange. How long has it been since you updated to https, and how long has the ranking been down? Over a week?

Becky,

It could be an anomaly that you will see regain rank quickly or there are other issues.

Make sure there is not a redirect chain causing issues or that web bots can access the page. There may be a simple explanation.

Thanks,

Don

Emma George,

You will have to write custom titles and descriptions for each property. Each site might not produce content but they should posses content. Make sure the content is original to each site and you should be well upon your way.

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Don

Hi Richard,

Some archive pages in WordPress can produce significant traffic. Especial if the articles that reside under the archive are informative and the tag or category you use is a good keyword and provides value. So i only no index archives that have no real value.

Contact forms are up to you. Does the form sit on a landing page you want visitors? Or is it an internal link for data collection. A determination on what should be indexed or no indexed is what pages bring value to potential visitors. Many internal search pages bring no value to a user searching for your content on google. So these could be no index. User archives could be no index especial if the user is not an author of content on your site.

Thanks,

Don Silvernal

Is there are specific errors being reported along with the crawler message or see any numeric errors on the crawl page?

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Don

The links on the top of the page might be better for user experience not necessarily weight. Links could be missed if the user does not scroll to the bottom  so having them up close to the top would allow them to be presented to the user before they leave the page. Google will index them however even if they are at the bottom.

Yes that is correct

If you add keywords to your profile that do not rank this will bring down search visibility. Search visibility is only a percentage of where your tracked keywords rank.

If you remove all keywords and leave only one with a page 1 rank at position 1  you will have 100% search visibility. If you add four more keywords that don't rank at all you will have a 20% search visibility.

If these keywords fluctuate up and down the search visibility will also fluctuate up and down. So you must determine if the loss is due to adding new keywords that do not rank or they keywords you have been tracking have dropped from their former positions.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

Internal linking should have a hierarchy. Your main pages or top tier will have the highest pa. Linking within the text to the internal pages should start to allow the link juice flow down the hierarchy. You should make sure when you link to internal pages that there is common ground between the pages. You don't want to link from a page about sports to a page about cooking unless the cooking content is sports related.

Build a strategy around relevance and you will see these inner pages start to gain page authority.

Great Article Joy,

Johnathan,

I have to think drops here on maps may be due to some of your competitors upping their game. I have a client who has recently moved locations. He was getting great traffic and local actions. Once the move occurred to a more competitive location the traffic remained but the client dropped in local actions (maps and calls)

My suggestion is to up your game with content marketing and backlink campaigns to stay in step with the competition.

Thanks,

Don