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Also, don't just look to the spam score but check what the score was based on.

Example: A real good and populair site without contact information will get a spam score.

Use Open Site Explorer as an indicator but just check those sites manualy. It would be a pitty if you deleted realy good backlinks only beacause OSE says it has a spam score.

It depends. Analyse the links for yourself. Why do they get a high spam score and are they really spammy links?

Some links with a high spam score can still give you a great value. But in most cases I would choose to get rid of them.

How is your site ranking at the moment? Removing spammy links could have a positive effect but could also have a negative effect. Keep this in mind when your site currently scores high in the rankings.

Hi Nitin,

The URL is www.keukensduitsland.nl (/blog). The link to the blog page is in the bottom left corner called "Keukennieuws".

Hi Guys,

I'm currently asked to work on a website. I noticed that the blog posts won't get indexed in Google. www.domain.com/blog does get indexed but the blogposts itself won't. They have been online for over 2 months now.

I found this in the robots.txt file:

Allow: /
Disallow: /kitchenhandle/
Disallow: /blog/comments/
Disallow: /blog/author/
Disallow: /blog/homepage/feed/

I'm guessing that the last line causes this issue. Does anyone have an idea if this is the case and why they would include this in the robots.txt?

Cheers!

Thanks for the answers No outgoing links for the site

Hi Guy's,

We have a website with no outgoing links (only Facebook). Is this a good way to score better in the SERPS? Or is it better to have some outgoing "relevant" links for a natural linkjuice?

Thanks!

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

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!

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/

@ Andy Drinkwater We will investigate the points you mentioned...

@ Arnout Hellemans We are going to check Webmaster console 

@ Dirk Ceuppens We noticed the drop because we make use of serpfox.com, a daily SERP checker. Thanks for the advice and we will investigate this also.

For now i'm going to check all the points and give an update asap.

Thanks!

New update at:

https://moz.com/community/q/index-problems-part-2

Hi Guy's

A few weeks ago i posted a question: 
https://moz.com/community/q/index-problems

After some good advice, we changed a few things:

• www.domain.com <<< NL version
• www.domain.com/fr/ <<<< French version

(domain.com/nl/ 301 redirect to domain.com).

So the SERPS for keyword ‘shutters’ went from #32 to #8...... for 2 day's.... and gone.... and not comming back anymore....

Did we missed something?

Help is much appreciated, thanks

Yes, that could me possible.

But it also could be possible that a product will be in stock later, and then it will redirect to the homepage of category. So then we have to find a way to drop the redirect automaticly

Hi Guy's,

On a Wordpress website we have a SEO Ultimate plugin running. Every day i get lot's of 404 errors of products that doesn't exist anymore (but are indexed, site: .... ).

In the beginning we had lot's of testproduct that are not coming back in the shop. So i was wondering if there is a way to automaticly redirect product when there are out of stock, or not comming back anymore... So my 404's can be fixed.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi Guys,

i'm considering to prevent Google to crawl all the images on a webshop (3,432), because a the amount of pages that have to me crawled. Will this affect any search results?

Thanks!

Thanks Andy, Great!

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!

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

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!