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Hello Jeff,

Yeap, with Nofollow tags on that links.

Best luck!
GR.

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

Best Luck!

Cool! Lets hope its changes.

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

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

My suggestion is to wait a little longer.
Its possible that Moz's staff can't help you directly, because they dont manage the websites that are crawled in every update. At least that is what i know.

Best luck.
GR.

Hi!

Remember, that lowering in Moz's metrics doesn't mean that you will lose rankings.
Also, you can check here: https://moz.com/products/api/updates the current mozscape index. The actual was updated on January 8, 2018.

I'd sauggest you to be patient and back your metrics with oter tools too, like SEMrush, Majestic and/or ahrefs.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Malik,

That difference is because Moz and SEMrush uses their own index.
Also keep in mind that they update their index in differente paces. Moz does it nearly once a month. Also.
I can only tell you how Moz bot works: It starts with a base set list of domains, where following all links inside that sites. If One of the sites having links to your website is not linked previously and Moz bot does not get to that site, you will never see it in OpenSite Explorer.

It may be tricky to understand. Is it clear?

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR

Hi Robert!

The safest route here seems to be just adding an extra 301 to the https version. This will gather all the links out there. If you remove some of the middle links and that just happen to be a link to your site you'll be losing a possible good link.

Google understands well up to 4-5 hops. So I think that you'll be ok with just these 3 hops.

To back what i'm saying: Matt Cutts said it in these videos:
Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling? Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site?

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hello mag777,

TL;DR;
In a SEO perspective, there is no difference.

In my experience for the companies I've worked (and those im working) there is no difference in SEO for having www or non-www site.
How do we decide?

1. (as stated in the article you share) using the one that complies all the technical need of the website.
2. Understanding all online competitors and trying to see which version they use and why
3. For some companies its a commercial and branding thing. Just love to use one version.
   In my opnion this is the case of the really big brands, they follow the wave that in the begginings(arround 2000's) every website used www so as the general public understad that was an internet direction.

That last point is backed by me asking them why they use that version and them saying: "because Coca-cola, Ebay and every big company uses www. So we want to imitate them"

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR.

Hello there,

I'd advise against using a ccTLD that is not used generally as a gTLD.
It might be more tricky to rank globally.

Take into consideration that .ag ccTLD reffers as the country code domain of Antigua an Barbuda. And its listed as a ccTLD: Delegation Record for .AG - IANA
Also, google may consider that TLD as a generic, as stated here: International Targetting - Search Console Help. There might be another TLD that suit a variation of that idea.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Just to add some extra info,

Take a look on these three articles. They might help you.

The Big List of SEO Tips and Tricks for Using HTTPS on Your Website - Moz Blog
The HTTP to HTTPs Migration Checklist in Google Docs to Share, Copy & Download - AleydaSolis
Google SEO HTTPS Migration Checklist - SERoundtable

IMHO, spend an extra bucks and be completely sure that everything is done correctly. And the one that makes the migration takes the responsability for the job.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi!

Yeap you can target UK market with US site version. Always keep in mind that its possible that you might perform as well as in the main market (US).

Also, before making any desition and/or implementing, take a look at these articles:
Multi-regional and multilingual sites - Google Search Console
International checklist - Moz Blog
Using the correct hreglang tag - Moz Blog
Guide to international website expansion - Moz Blog
Tool for checking hreflang anotations - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
Best Luck.
GR.

Paul, 
I just provided the solution to de-index the https version. I understood that what's wanted, as they need their client to fix their end.

And of course that there is no way to noindex by protocol. I do agree what you are saying.

Thanks a lot for explaining further and prividing other ways to help solvinf the issue, im inspired by used like you to help others and make a great community.

GR.

Noup, Robots.txt works on a website level. This means that there has to be a file for the http and another for the https website.
And, there is no need for waiting until the whole site is indexed.

Just to clarify, robots.txt itself does not remove pages already indexed. It just blocks bots from crawling a website and/or specific pages with in it.

Hello vikasnwu,

As what you are looking for is to remove from index the pages, follow this steps:

1. Allow the whole website to be crawable in the robots.txt
2. add the robots meta tag with "noindex,follow" parametres
3. wait several weeks, 6 to 8 weeks is a fairly good time. Or just do a followup on those pages
4. when you got the results (all your desired pages to be de-indexed) re-block with robots.txt those pages
5. DO NOT erase the meta robots tag.

Remember that http://site.com andhttps://site.com are different websites to google.
When your client's website is fixed with https, follow these steps:

1. Allow the whole website (or the parts wanted to be indexed) to be crawable in robots.txt
2. Remove the robots meta tag
3. Redirect 301 http to https
4. Sit and wait.

Information about the redirection to HTTPS and a cool checklist:
The Big List of SEO Tips and Tricks for Using HTTPS on Your Website - Moz Blog
The HTTP to HTTPs Migration Checklist in Google Docs to Share, Copy & Download - AleydaSolis
Google SEO HTTPS Migration Checklist - SERoundtable

Hope I'm helpful.
Best luck.
GR.

Hi there!

Dont worry, there is nothing wrong with your site.
Wait a month or two, you might be crawled again and the PA/DA will be back.
The thing here is the Mozscape index, in where that site might have not been crawled for the last 6 month (Moz's index only stores data for 180 days).
I do highly recommend to use other backlink checker tools, such as Ahrefs.com or Majestic.com. Also in search console there is a part where Google tells you some of the backlinks pointing to your site.

I'll be attaching an image from ahrefs to show you that backlinks are there and are crawable.

Keep in mind that DA/PA or any other metric outthere does not tell the quality of any site. its just an approximation of what that tool understands about google algorithms.
More info here:
Mozscape API updates
Open Site Explorer Guide - Moz Help hub

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

GgApe

hello,

Yeap, it will be duplicate content.
Add a canonical tag from that myemail site to the blog post and issue resolved.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

Well having too much spammy content is a really difficult battle to fight.

Google will eventually tackle the bad, the spammy, the duplicate and the keywords stuffed content out of their rankings.
As your website is a forum, i'd advise to make more strict rules to the community and sanction the spammy content. Also educate the community in order to do not violate content google guidelines.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

In my opinion those are 2 different things, one is diminishing its linkjuice and onother is showing that website backlinks in the Search Console profile.

We would never know that.

That "Ranking strengh" is the sum of all the ranking factors google uses (I may guess over 500) that only Google knows and never will reveal.
Moz tries to analyze and is a nice metric, I will nor rely completely on it, because it only uses on page  data, that is just a part of what google analyzes.

Hope I've clarified, if don't just ask again