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Hello Steve,

As long as the www version redirects with a 301 to the non-www, there is no issue here.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi there!

There are several issues to be analyzed here.
1- The site is not offering that useful content to users, im seeing too few words and not that much content.
2- Internal search results are being indexed
3- I do highly recommend you to take a deep read into these resourses:

• SEO begginers guide - Moz
• Google Raters guidelines - Google

Hope it helps.
Best luck!
GR

Nope, you should not believe what your dev is saying (in this particular case).
As William said, Google suggest us to verify all your versions and set the preferred to be considerd.

Hello Sam,

Besides de question whether Wordpress or Blogstpot is useful, analyze every site as equal: Check its backlinkprofle, where visits come from, content quality and frequency posting and any other SEO metric you know.
Remember Google will like the links coming from good quality sites, without thinking too much about the platform where its published.

There are some folks out there saying that using free platforms (wordpress, blogspot, drupal, blog.com or any other) have less "power" or "SEO Juice" assigned by Google. I have not read any good case study that proves that.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi Raquel,

im commenting just to add other really useful resources about hreflang. Internationalization is a big deal and should be analyzed seriously.

Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog

Best luck.
Hope it helps.
GR

Hello everyone!

Personally I think this is too recent. As Danny Sullivan (I think was him) said, we should not go as lunatics trying to re-optimize our meta descriptions.

My advise to everyone that asks about this: Lets give Google a little time ( how about until Q2-18?), so then we will know how is the real impact.
Of course there is a direct metric about the CTR, with longer descriptions snippets the better is the chance to call the attention of the searcher. How ever, we still dont know for sure how Google creates that descriptions.

That's just my point of view. I'm more of a cautious person.

Best luck to all.
GR.

Hello Bee159,

On one hand, Google (though their spokemen) said that the algorithm is pretty good finding and diminishing the strenght of spammy links. So, if you talk to someone from Google right now, they might said: leave them, probably the algorithm will consider those as spammy and there will be no harm.

On the other hand, If you are absolutely sure that those links are spammy and malicious... then go ahead and disavow them. Remember that it's possible to disavow an entire domain.
More info here: Disavow backlinks - Search Console Help

Answering the list:

1. Its up to you.
2. Google might eventually recognize them as spammy and ignore them in your site's backlink profile
3. I don't know any good way of reverse engineering how backlinks end up in spammy sites.
4. I don't believe that Google might think more of your site just if disavow some links. Sure, if the penalty is caused by any of those links, then you will lower that risk.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR.

Hi Maureen,

If the migration and redirection were made correctly, then there is nothing to worry about.
DA will be transferred, give Roger (Moz bot) time to recrawl and process all the "new" pages.
Also, Google said that redirections do not lose page rank (in common words: authority and ranking hablity).

Just in case, these resources about migrations might come handy in your situation. The Website Migration Guide: SEO Strategy, Process, & Checklist - Moz Blog
The Ultimate SEO Guide for Successful Web Migrations at #DigitalOlympus - AleydaSolis
Migration Best Practices - SMX London 2018 <- backedup by JohnMu in this tweet

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

Yeap, that's perfectly normal and there is no way to ensure that you will rank the same or higher position, its likely but no one can guarantee that.
After a change like that, Google tries to re calculate the "ranking strengh" your page has for the selected keyword.
Give it a little more time, a few weeks, 3 or 4. Then evaluate if the impact was the correct.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hello Ryan!

From the tools that I know, use and/or used, what you are looking for is what SEMrush offers, its backlinks crawler is not the best, but can be hugely improved by adding a Majestic account.
Before you decide for SEMrush, be sure to watch all their videos and tutorials, its a really complete suite and it may help you in other projects. Take a look here: Kwnoledge Base - SEMrush

For backlinks discovery, the top 3 tools are ( IMO, in this order): ahrefs, majestic, Moz OpenSite Explorer.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR

Hi Mat_C

It's great that you are migrating and switching to https.
Regarding the switching on a server level, you can perfectly do it that way. Just remember that you need to address every URL that need to be, redirected to the new site, canonicalized or 404d.
There are a lot of issues to consider take a look in these resources about migrations:
The Website Migration Guide: SEO Strategy, Process, & Checklist - Moz Blog The Ultimate SEO Guide for Successful Web Migrations at #DigitalOlympus - AleydaSolis Migration Best Practices - SMX London 2018 <- backedup by JohnMu in this tweet

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

Google usually changes it´s title and or description as its thinks its better. Its very rare changing the title. It looks like its been just not the right amount of time since you´ve updated those meta tags.

I´d try telling fetching and rendering with Google search Console, checking what google sees and if its correct, asking to be indexed.
That option is under "Crawl" in the right menu in Search Console.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Ryan, in the Backlink Audit, there is a button Add backlinks, there you add your links created and/or not found by SEMrush.
This image might help: https://imgur.com/a/zZQvz

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi Julie,
Hope you're well.

Besides what many people say, there is no gain in removing it.
Also, officially Google, via John Mueller, said that removing .html doesn't matter. And they made a video!
Will removing “.html” from my URLs help my site? - SEO Snippets

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Cool! Lets hope its changes.

When clicking in one of those, the code given there, has te correct title?

Hello Sindre,

TL;DR;
I wouldn't worry that much for those links as long as you find them spammy probably google will consider them as spam and don't consider them when ranking your page.
Only if you consider that those links are hurting your rankings use the disavow tool.

Long explanation:
On one hand, Google (though their spokesman) said that the algorithm is pretty good finding and diminishing the strength of spammy links. So, if you talk to someone from Google right now, they might said: leave them, probably the algorithm will consider those as spammy and there will be no harm.

On the other hand, If you are absolutely sure that those links are spammy and malicious... then go ahead and disavow them. Remember that it's possible to disavow an entire domain.
More info here: Disavow backlinks - Search Console Help

Hope it helps.
Best luck
GR

What Alex has pointed out is what you're needing.

Also, I'd like to remember you that Googlebot crawls from several IP ranges. Not only the 66.xxx.xxx.xx.

EDIT:
Alex pointed me out that I've made a mistake. So I've checked my data in server logs.
In some of the sites I'm working, most of the traffic comes from the range: [66.249.6x.xxx-66.249.7x.xxx]

Always, when in doubt, with a reverse DNSlookup you'll find out whether it's an official GoogleBot or not.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Fantastic!
It´s wait until Google updates its index.

Best Luck!

Hi there,

1. Disavowing bad links. No, it won't hurt your DA or PA.
2. It's not confirmed by any official source, but having an algorithm penalty in a big portion of your site could hurt other subdirectories or subdomains

On the side, you should ABSOLUTELY not focus on private metrics as PA/DA, Domain rank, TF or what ever name any tool has for their metrics. Those metrics only reflect what that tool considers. It's known that having a high DA wont make you rank #1 for every keyword and having a low DA is not an impediment for ranking #1 and/or ranking higher that sites with high DA.
Also, as you are disavowing those links, every link profiler has an option to upload a list of disavowed links. Moz has its own.

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR

Dammit, my mistake. 
Was proabaly still asleep. I've checked with my log files and updated it

Thanks Alex!