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Hi Dirk,

Thank you for your reply.

Our problem is that all our our second levels used to be individual websites with DA and PA of around 25-30. Now however after the migration, what used to be the home pages of individual sites are now 1 level down from the domain and have lost a huge amount of authority.

Is there something we've done wrong or is this simply what happens when merging lots of sites into one? What was the home page with high DA and PA is now much lower due to being a subfolder.

Thanks!

Hello all,

This could be something to do with our site or the Moz bar on Chrome, I just need to know which it is so if it is our website we can look into it further.

On certain sections of our website the Moz bar doesn't display any Domain Authority, not even zero, the bar just isn't present. These types of pages are php which pull in data through a feed daily.

Speaking to an SEO expert they said it could be where the page is being updated so frequently, or it could be something more sinister and technically not quite right.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is the Moz bar just not working for these types os pages or is it more likely something to do with my site? Ironically it's these pages which I'm having trouble with that are not showing in SERPs!

Thanks!

3Foorka

Hi Calin,

Thank you very much for your response. Just to confirm I am understanding you correctly, you are suggesting
the following approach:

1. Do a 301 Redirect on both old and currently indexed URLs

• www.example.com/tennis-shoes [currently canonicalised to www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2]
• www.example.com/tennis-shoes-2

To

www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2 [The URL we want google to index]

2. www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes [canonicalise to www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2]

The second step will prevent any duplicate content issues given the content will still be accessible
from this URL as well [www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes]

Finally it shouldn't be a problem to have a canonical tag on the www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2
to itself as we might need just in case the URL is accessed say using a query string (www.example.com/products/tennis-shoes-2?type=sports)?

Once again, thank you for taking your time to reply.

Hello all,

I've been talking with an SEO expert who convinced me to add more keywords to my titles of a section of our site which is updated with products daily. I can see the logic and I do prefer having these additional keywords.

The problem now is in Moz it says we have over 2,000 pages with title elements that are too long, which is true they are all over the 70 character limit.

Is this a problem SEO wise? Speaking to our SEO expert they said it's not ideal from a user point of view as you can't see the full title, but are we going to be upsetting Google by having 150+ character titles?

Thanks!