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Hey there, I'd go for the Option 2, since rel=canonical passes the link juice in comparison to the noindex tag. Also, make sure you set up the rel=canonical to all the pagination pages as well. Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Those links are made into hrefs (eg made clickable) by xml styling that's been applied. It's purely for user convenience - doesn't matter to search engines either way. There is actually a massive benefit to having multiple sub-sitemaps like that though. Once you've submitted the sitemap index to Google Search Console, it will break out the crawling and indexing report for each sub-sitemap. Which means you will now be able to monitor and asses each of different sections of your site separately. Vastly easier to detect and fix crawl errors that way than when everything's lumped into a single sitemap. Paul

There are reasons for either. With relative paths (1) you can change your root domain without messing up your structure. (Like moving from a dev environment.) However, there are arguments to be made for the absolute path (2) including avoiding wholesale scraping and possible domain confusion (http://site.com vs https://site.com vs http://www.site.com vs https://www.site.com). Check with your developers and see what they say.

That's true, they append parameters tracking where you came from, which looks like it can affect the navigation you're seeing on the left. They're making sure that Google doesn't get confused by using a canonical on their pages, like Mike, Eric and I have recommended.

I think the way you have it is fine. If you must change it, I'd go with /product/the-product/345897345123/ . However, again I think this way is good: /product/the-product345897345123/ . That is a lot of sub-categories for that amount of product. You might consider adding a Noindex,Follow tag on some of them if you're not writing unique static copy for each of those pages.

The only major improvement I can think of hosting images externally would be improving the overall speed of your website. If you run a pagespeed test with Google's free tool and notice your site is rendering slow then I would first consider reducing the number of javascript and css files being loaded. You will run into issues if your site is loading too many external files you can expect to see increases in bounce rates and poor engagement metrics. This may have changed but Moz did an expierement awhile back on if website speed impacts search ranking however if certain pages are taking too long to load they probably This may have changed but Moz did an experiment awhile back on if website speed impacts search ranking. Even if speed does not directly impact rankings if certain pages are taking too long to load they probably won't be indexed. What I would do is run Google's page speed tool on a few pages and if you have Google analytics on your site you can get some insights by looking at Behavior-> Site Speed-> Speed Suggestions and check out some of the recommendations Google is making about your site.If you have a problem with If you find out that you have a problem with speed I came across a good article on some tips and suggestions that may be helpful for you about reducing http request. I hope this helps some.

Oh... maybe they should be slapped for dupe content ?  

Hi Russ, Did you read the question? We can't find out where the links are coming from....

Well - this was asked many times and answer is No. Here are more info about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIzr3eWK8I https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-geo-location-server-google-17468.html https://moz.com/community/q/does-the-location-of-my-server-effect-my-seo But if you are using generic domain (not ccTLD or SearchConsole targeting country) this could be problem - https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/ They have .com domain and targeting UK market So - if you have .de domain and in SC you set preferred geo location to Germany and your server is located in France (near Germany) then you shouldn't have to worry about it.

Thanks for the answer!

Thanks alot!

It's nothing you should worry about, honestly. Create great content, and if it makes sense to link out to someone, then do it. With or without a rel="nofollow" is up to you. Backing myself up here, in which John Mueller basically says there's no SEO advantage or disadvantage to outbound linking:  https://www.seroundtable.com/google-external-links-20951.html

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

Hi, You might want to read this article on faceted navigation on the google webmaster blog which gives some good advice on how to handle the situation. What to use depends a bit on your actual situation. Options include using a nofollow links / use a separate subdomain or block in robots.txt (using a separate folder). On Moz there is this article (the part of faceting) - its mainly about listing sites - but the core problem is more or less similar. Hope this helps, Dirk

Also using hreflang Check it with http://hreflang.ninja/ https://moz.com/blog/open-source-library-tool-check-hreflang

I got a agree with Dan on this one. If you're 301 redirecting to non-relevant pages is pretty much worthless.  a plug-in that deals with removing products is better than a default 301 to something that's not a relevant  landing page/Product page

Thanks!

No problem at all -Andy

Alright, I see what you're talking about. I have tried to do similar search in Russian Google - it gave me the same suggestion. https://www.google.nl/intl/en-NL/policies/technologies/cookies/ As far as I understand Google uses your browser locale and settings to offer different language, so, if you say all your settings are in dutch, then I'd look into your normal usage - do you mostly search in english? do you mostly browse english websites etc. Additionally I noticed in past that even if you tell Chrome browser not to suggest to translate page, it still does it. There is even meme about that (can't find it now).