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Hi there!

In my personal and professional opinion, either have a blog or you dont. If you have, you must destine the resources needed and be part of the strategy. Having a content site just for the sake of having it is useless and can tell users that you dont care and/or that you are lazy with other parts of your products/services.

There is no experiment (to my knowledge) that proves the need of a blog to rank well in the principal keywords.
Usually, blogs or content sites are a part in a big content strategy, where you can target other more semantic and/or answer questions about your products. I'd like to think it as you are creating a conversion funnel, where blog posts, content in other sites or any content is somewhat convincing users about your products/services.
Having a correctly structured content site (or blog) could help somehow through internal linking to express more clearly the anchor/keyword intent for some specific pages. Also, always consider that if you can attract users a little interested in some of your products, you are getting a share of visibility that you didnt have without the content site.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Natalie,

I think i found your problem. There is an 301 redirect between the non-trailing slash and the one having the trailing slash.
Im attaching an image showing that redirect.
That inconsistency might be whatever tool you are referring is reporting.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

PS, Its always good to read some resources that might help you:
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

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Hi Matt!

Short answer: as long as redirection are correct, stick with the chosen version (non-www). Don't change from time to time, Google does not like that you are changing too much. PA and DA will be transferred

This is a business/company decision, where there should be decided to go with www or non-www version of the web. 
In SEO perspective, there is no difference. 
Also, keep in mind that PA, DA or any other private metric are only a measure and a guess (with certain clue) how likely is a web to rank or to be compared with other similar webs.

That said, either way you decide, be sure that all redirections are set in place correctly. It could be helpful the checklist this articles:
The Website Migration Guide: SEO Strategy, Process, & Checklist - Moz blog
A site migration SEO checklist: Don’t lose traffic - SearchEngineLand
SEO Site Migration Checklist: How to migrate your website and not kill your SEO efforts - GetCredo

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR

Hello Kingalan1,

This issue with spammy links from Globe sites has been reported before, here: 
The Globe - Spam Link Network. Should action be taken to remove these links? - Moz Q&A forum

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

Hi Martin,

Just add a robots tag with noindex.
This **WILL NOT **create 404 pages, because you are not deleting that pages, and wont hurt your rankings. 
Google does understand that you might not want some pages to be indexed, so just with noindex tag is enough.

Remember that it should be placed in the parte, like this:

<title>...</title>

More info about robots:
Robots meta directives - Moz
About the Robots tag - Robots.org

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

There is no human way to enable Mobile First Indexing. It will automatically be enabled when Google considers that both sites are equivalent.
In the meantime, this guide from DeepCrawl could be helpful: Ultimate Guide to Google Mobile First Index

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Sorry to hear that.

Its possible that googlebot still didnt find out that you've changed noindex tag.
Would you mind checking what does the _Inspect URL _tool report? 
To find that, go to the new version of Search Console and enter one of that URL that should be indexed in the textbox. 
Then clic on the "test live URL" button. This image could be helpful: https://imgur.com/a/CPvfwif

There you might get a hint of what is going on.

Hi Laura,
Hope everything is fine

TLDR; If your site is already in mobile first index, then a slow speed in mobile will affect your rankings.

What you need to know is whether your site is in the mobile-first index or not. You can check that by selecting several pages of your site in the correspondent search console property, through the coverage report looking into the last crawled URLs and clicking in the inspect URL. What to seek, specifically? What says in "Crawled as." Take a look at the attached image.

There you will find out if you are in the desktop first index (crawled mostly as google desktop) or mobile first index.
What does this mean? That your site will be either judged to rank with the desktop or the mobile version. 
If your site is in the mobile-first index and has a poor speed performance in mobile then won't probably rank high.

Hope it helps.
Best luck
Gaston

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Hi Mat_C

There is no issue with that Meta Robots tag. This is not the reason why those pages aren't indexed.

I'd look a little deep trying to understand why Google didn't want to index that pages. 
Do you have access to that website Search Console? What does index coverage report say? 
Have you tried looking for one of those URLs in the "URL Inspection Tool"? There you might find why Google chose not to index it.

That said, assuming that the site has as CMS Wordpress, the widely known YOAST plugin allows you to configure to be non-indexable many "known to cause issues" pages, such as tag or archive pages.
Have you checked that this is not the case?

Also, there is another common reason why pages aren't indexed: Canonicals chosen by Google. This happens when some pages are almost identical and/or serve for the same user intent, so Google's Algorithms consider them as the same and just set one as the canonical for other, even when there isn't any canonical tag present.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi ramb,

It's totally fine to have different robots.txt files for different subdomains.
Thus said, http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com are different subdomains. Consider the one with non-www as the full root domain.

In case it is needed, here you have Google's official resource about robots.txt: 
Learn about Robots.txt file - Search Console help

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gast

Hi there!

On the one hand, site: number of results is not the exact nor the current amount of URLs that Google has indexed. It's only just a way of seeing how much results there are. Google said that it's optimized for speed, that why it's an estimated number.
You should trust whats reported in Search Console.

On the other, it's possible that Google has checked an URL and considered as valid on one time and not index it, because of canonicals, similar content or any other reason. If you find some URL not indexed, yet reported as indexed in the coverage report, try checking it through the Inspect URL tool, then asking for the TEST LIVE URL option. There you may find some answers.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
Gaston

Hi stephen,

The fluctuation in the SERPs is something normal at this point.You should know, that when you are appling SEO techniques to your site google takes some time to recognize that the site is increasing inn authority.
Mean while, the serps fluctuate a lot.

Let me refer you to other Q&A that have been aswered and have great answers:
Is this a google dance? - MOZ Q&A
Google Rankings Are Dancing What To Do?  - Moz Q&A

Also, I advice you to check wether your site is penalized with any algorithm, check more ifo here: 
Google Algorithm Change History - Moz.com

Hope it's helpful.
GR

Hi there,

Its important to note that canonicals are a signal. Google can obey them if its algorithm considers that those pages are actually canonicals between each other. 
In my experience, this does not happen immediately, it usually takes Google some time to figure out if the canonicalization is correct. Keep in mind that pages being canonicalized HAVE TO be nearly identical and refer to the same topic.
And on the indexation part, pages can be indexed and be shown only when you search for that specific URL or using any advanced search parameter (such as site:).
More information about canonicals
- Consolidate duplicate URLs - Google Search support

• Canonicals tags - Moz resources Center

Regarding the second issue, if you refer to "site crawling" as what you do with an external tool, such as Screaming Frog or Moz, you are getting 5xx errors because that tool is making to many requests, try lowering its crawl frequency. I know for a fact that Screaming Frog allows you to do that.
But, unfortunately, I don't know any other way of discovering URL parameters in bulk but using an external tool.

Hope it helps,
Best luck.

Hi there,

In the matter of SEO, both are correct.

If you choose the first one, you can add breadcums to help the user's usability within the site. Personally, I think is more descriptive this one when you have few products.

On the other hand, if the site is an ecommerce with thousands of products, It's more accurate to have it well listed in categories. This not only helps user's usability but also helps you in the site's organization, and in the case that there are many products that have same caracteristics, you could group them into another category.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi Jonathan,

I think there werent any MozCon Local this year. Only the main event: MozCon 2018.
I believe that you have found that, but anyway: The MozCon 2018 Video Bundle

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi there,

In the first example, there is a mistake: the ending sign finish like this ' /> ' and it should finish like any other tag in HTML: like this ' > ' (in both, without the ' ' )

And what Chris says is right, the first points to the homepage and the second one to a specific page.

Best Luck.
GR.

Hi Li.

Unfortunately I've not found a way to do that. But I strongly recommend you using pro services like Moz RankTracker or some serptrackers.
Personally I use SERPbook.com
Free stuff usualy comes with time consuming actions.

Hope it helps.
GR

Hello Diego,

tldr; Wait a few weeks more, it might take a few mozscape updates.

An important thing to remember is when Moz does the mozscape update, check it here: Mozscape Updates.
Another thing to remember is that Moz crawls a lot of URLs every udpate, so it is possible that your old domain wasn't crawled by the last updates. So I'd suggest you to be a little pacient about the new site's metrics.

Also, you should not spect to get the exact same metrics that the old domain, there is always a little linkjuice loss in every redirect, even when Google stated that there will be no loss any more. Here a cool article by the great Cyrus: 301 Redirects Rules Change: What You Need to Know for SEO

Best Luck!
GR.

Hi Scott,

In the "Link Source" button, select "All Pages"
Here i've attached a screen.

Hope it helps
GR

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Hello there,

Did you left some time, without blocking those pages, to google bot to recrawl them?

If you implemented at the same time the noindex tag and the disallow in the robots.txt you are not letting google know that those pages should be deindexed.
Remember that blocking pages in the robots.txt avoid to be scanned again and the new robots tag is not seeng by google bot.

My advise is to let google bot recrawl all those pages and wait a few days, may be 2-3 weeks. Slowly the amount of indexed pages will decrease.

Hope i've helped.
Best luck.
GR.