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Hi Wagner,

I'd wait a few days and check the SERPs. I believe that its just a coincidence and something temporal.
Stay alert.

Its difficult to say anything without the URL or when you say that nothing has been done.
Sorry.

Ups, then im sorry.
I've never intended to give false information. I had incorrect information.

Thanks for correcting me.
GR

Perfect. I will do as you say.
Thanks.
GR.

Hi Wagner,

How long have you been #2? 
have you made any major update? or any update at all?

Hi Jonathan,

Technically speaking, adding the hreflang sentence will not help your SERPs. Because it's redundant.

Also, I'd advise you to not add it. The reason is simple, the more lines of code, the slower the page is. And there is a common sense that google does not like redundant code.

Think it by yourself, in which way will it help you, that knowing that an english site, having a signal expressing that their language is english? Its like your mom would have a sign with ''I am a woman''

Hope it helps.
GR

Hi there!

I do love SEO, the cracking Web Search engine, but when it comes to other Google's search engines like Youtube and Apps Store it's an unknown field for me.
So, i'm diving into App Store Optimization, ASO.

This is my question:

Besides the text and the design in the description of the app, is there any other factor that we can manipulate or influence?(such as linkbuilding, social media or alien magic hehe).

Thanks a lot!
GR.

Hi everyone!

One of my clients wants to track their SERPs in the Google Play Store.

What are the platforms that you use? Are there any free?

He also want to track SERPs by country.. Is there anyone that can do that?

Thanks!
GR

Hi there,

Opensiteexplorer from moz, ahrefs.com and magesticseo.com are the best for backlink checking.

Hope it helps

GR.

Hi Eric,

I do know that those are competitive, but my coleague just keep telling me that its possible to rank them higher.
With tool did you use for backlink checking?

Hi Moz community,

I've a coleague that's working to rank this site: www.devsar.com.

The selected keywords are:
Mobile development
Web development
Django Development
Python Development

I've checked the site:

• It's fast and clean.
• Has a good PA and DA.
• It's responsive and good lookking.
• Meta description , title, hreflang.. everything in order.
• Link profile a little rare (checked with ahref.com), it's because someone made a mistake redirecting some expired domain

Can you help me to help my mate out?
Thanks
GR.

Hi Abdul,

Just redirect 301 the m.xyz domain to the responsive site. That should be all.

Remember that it might impact your SERPs and it might take some time to be completely updated in Google index. Always update the sitemap.xml without the old domain.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi there,

Is well known that Search console usualy has those error, that displays information that is not accurate.
Have you tried to search that site? Using site:yoursite.com? There you will confirm how many pages are indexed.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi there,

It's not necessary, because you are pointing the same URL, there is no actual canonicalization.
Personaly I believe that it will not do any harm, but its redundant. And it's not advisable to have redundant code.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi Abdul,

Page titles are only one in the whole ranking factors. If you have optimized your pages for those keywords, it would be advisable to optimize and work on the other ranking factors.

Some further read is here:

Search Engine Ranking Factors 2015 - Moz.com
On-Page  Ranking Factors - Best SEO Practices - Moz.com

Also, have you tried the Moz's on-Page grader? Check your pages and your competitors pages for those keywords, pretty valuable information will come out.

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi William,

Just as Eric said, it's like a problem triggered by the wordpress CMS.
I know 3 different ways to solve this problem:

1- Using a plugin, that creates a redict 301.
2- Creating a redirection pattern in the .htaccess file. Here more info: 
301 redirect (www.domain.com/index to www.domain.com) - Q&A Moz.com
3- In the case that redirects cannot be done, use rel=canonical in those pages making the problem.
I believe that this solution would need some coding creativity, to create a code that detects the URL non desired and put the right URL in the rel=canonical tag.
More info about that last:
301 Redirect or Rel=Canonical - Which One Should You Use? - Blog Moz.com

Hope its useful.
GR.

Hi Logan,

I'd like to state 2 ideas:

1- On one hand when it comes to the usability and making the more user friendy the site, links in the footer will be a waste of time.

2- On the other hand, it's commonly used by companies. I believe that they feel those links as "good practice" in a profesional web site.

A third point would be in a SEO perspective. In my opinion, they have no value. The internal linking should come in other ways, more like a "spider net".

Hope it's understandable.
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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Hi Jordan,

I've used TrafficTravis, even paid the pro version. Let me add some items to your comment.

• When searching for more than 10 kw, is recommended to buy private proxies. TT makes all searches by your IP, and pretty son in the day google will block yoor IP. And you'll have to wait some time.
• It has the option to search for competition and competitors in the selected keywords, linking a adwords account.
• It's practical, when using it for a long time, that makes graphics for the SERPs evolution.

Instead of using trafficTravis. I do recommend (when just tracking serps) using Moz, or some private trackers, like serpbook.com or proranktracker.com).

Hi Charlotte,

There are some tools that crawl the SERPs periodicaly. Them miight be useful in your case:

ahref.com
SEMRush.com

There are, of course many more, those two are the ones that I use. They have a freemium period, try them out!

Hope it helps.
GR.

Hi there,

Does it represent a problem for you, having those redirects in the htaccess?
Personaly, and in a SEO perspective, I will never delete the 301s redirects done in any site.

The fact that those pages havent recieved traffic doesn't mean that the old URL might have any links or authority that is now redirected to the actual URL.

Here you have a Q&A question, answered by some experts:
How long should I keep the 301 redirect file - Moz Q&A

Hope it helps.
GR.