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Hi Guys,

I have a case which seems to occur more often for our customers. The websites of our customers seem to receive tons of backlinks from websites all over the world (China, Russia, Ukrain, etc).

It’s spam we never asked for, we didn’t buy any dodgy linkbuilding packages or anything.

Do any of you guys have experience with this matter? We try to disavow the links but it takes too much time and we will never manage to disavow 100% of all links.

Examples are www.keukensduitsland.nl and www.m2beveiliging.nl

Hope anyone has experience and maybe even solutions for this matter.

Thanks!

Thanks for the answer!

Hi Gianluca,
Thanks for your response and thoughts. We have had a 301 redirect from the domain to the /nl/ but that is where the problem began. We had multiple situations.

Original situation: .com redirecting (301) to /nl/ => no indexation for /nl/

Solution 1: Delete 301 redirect and add canonical tag to /nl/ and add href lang tags

The ranking has been better when implementing solution 1, but /nl/ has still not been indexed. But the pages after /nl/ are indexed. Strange isn’t it? We see the same trend at store.apple.com redirecting to store.apple.com/us/ but /us/ has not been indexed. Our possible solution #2 was to setup NL content on .com and FR content on /fr/. But I’am afraid that I will lose positions in Belgium (now ranking #3).

Yep, the links are there. It's not the typical Analytics spam

Hi Guy's

I have a question about Google asking me to translate the page when i search on brandname. It's in the Dutch Google and the searchquery is: "rotomshop"

I can find why Google wants to translate the page because all our settings are Dutch.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks!

We have a website full of introduction video's that are viewable in youtube on the website. Is that good for my SEO rankings? Or should i consider placing my video direct on the website without using youtube?

Thanks!

I've uploaded some data of one of our new customers. They used to have only 6 backlinks. Within 1 day, the backlinkcount raised to about 50. All from spammy directories form China, Ukrain, Brazil, etc.

So I'm talking about a real spam problem, not the typical spammy links in Analytics, copy of content or just a few % of all links referring to the website.

An example of a linking domain: http://dokuo30.kuronowish.com/cgi-bin/oekaki/up.cgi

I tend to think it has something to do with 404 page's being indexed.

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No it happens on multiple desktops. Are you searching in Dutch Google?

We have a webshop with products provided with a content blok below the category/products page. Some products have an infinite scroll option because of the amount of product.

Will infinite scroll affect ranking when there is an text below?

Thanks!

Thanks! First i'm going to optimize my channel for our brand.

On our webshop we've added some URL-parameters. We've set URL's like min_price, filter_cat, filter_color etc. on "don't Crawl" in our Google Search console. We see that some parameters have 100.000+ URL's and some have 10.000+

Is it better to add these parameters in the robots.txt file? And if that's better, how can we write it down so the URL's will not be crawled.

Our robotos.txt files shows now:

# Added by SEO Ultimate's Link Mask Generator module
User-agent: *
Disallow: /go/
# End Link Mask Generator output

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

Hi Guy's,

In Wordpress we've got the plugin "WP Rocket". It's possible to optimize CSS, JS, HTML and Google Fonts.

If i optimize (minify) CSS and JS the website will load faster and the pagespeed will be reduced. So i guess that's always better for SEO results en SERPS...

But what will happen if i optimize my HTML code? It will be much shorter but less organized. Will this also affect SEO results and rankings? I'm awear that less code will increase my text ratio, but don't know if Google will punish the website for having a code that's not very good organized.

Thanks!

Top thanks The only strange thing was that when i optimize my HTML code the Text/HTML ratio decreased :S