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Thank you, Christy!

I will be very honest with you. This question is too wide to be answered. More importantly, you need to create personalized strategies for you and/or your clients. Not every project will follow an exact blueprint. Of course there are general aspects you need to consider and the Moz blog and other very good sources are to be read, but do not make the mistake to think that all your clients businesses are the same. This is my advice and I wish you all the best.

Do you have a list of all links pointing to the webpages you are trying to redirect on the new launch? If the structure of your website changes, I would use my remaining development time to minify the time you are going to invest in changing them. So 301 is good, but it is better if you can change the external and internal links that you can to point to the new pages. After that, do the 301s. The migration will take development changes but also a lot of link fixing. Although https is a ranking factor, I don't see it as an urgent move. It is your call but I would use the time to prepare a really good migration. Good luck!

Hi Nicola! What are your reasons for splitting the migration? Is your site processing sensitive data? If yes, https is an ASAP problem for you since Chrome will already give your users some trouble when navigating your website. If not, I think you will be better of with a single migration. But again, could you give some details regarding your thoughts and reasoning about this? There could be multiple aspects that influence this decision.

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what your question is. The subdomain will still be under your domain. It will be the same website but a part of it will be on a different server. The traffic will count for the domain. Even if Google would see this subdomain as a different site (which I don't will be) you still don't have what to worry about because you would have used 301 redirects and all the links will point to the new subdomain. So all you really have to do is change all the links that you can (which lead to the login page) and then do a 301 redirect from the old one to the new one. This is safe in terms of SEO and you don't have to worry about losing your position in the SERPs. Hope this helps!

Hello! In terms of passing "link juice", if you do an analysis with Moz's OSE you will find that your domain has authority 11 and saneforums has authority 45. So, on one hand, it is good that they link to you in the menus and that the links are dofollow. However, as I understand it, the forums are the part of your website where people will interact and spend more time discussing different aspects. As such, on the long term, saneforums will benefit more because it serves people's interest more. From my point of view, it will be best if the forums are on your server and domain. However, if you cannot change this, I do not think that this structure is really bad. But this is only my opinion and I have no resources to recommend.

P.S. You need to work a bit on the page speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyournorthside.org.au%2F&tab=desktop

Hi! Don't worry. As long as you implement the redirects correctly, you will not have a problem. "A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website." Read more here -> https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection.

Hello Susan. I think that from Google's point of view, having the same URL on a different domain does not matter that much. What is a bigger problem is duplicate content. If you really want to launch two separate ecommerce websites with the same products, I think this is the issue you have to think about since you will have the same information for your products. Find more information here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content. However, why do you want two different ecommerce websites? Is there a business reason for this?

It depends on what you want to rank for. If it is English searches, use that language. If you want to rank for Hindi, use that version. As a rule of thumb, try to do what benefits your end users since this will eventually pay off in search engines. How do your users search for those pages or product? Use those keywords (after a keyword research process, of course). This will also be an advantage from a user experience point of view. Good luck!

Hello, here is a good list -> https://www.similartech.com/categories/heatmaps-and-session-recording. I personally use Mouseflow and find it very useful. Let me know if you find a tool that you like more.

Very happy to hear this!

Hi Renia! I am here just to confirm what David said Good luck!

What I would do is the following: change the rel canonical back, remove the https version from Search Console (you need to add the https version of the website as well in Search Console) and then fetch and reindex the http version (also from Search Console). So basically, help Google understand this mistake and go back to the http version. Also, check your sitemaps and be sure that you are not including https links there. Hope this helps.

Hi! I don't seem to understand the question. Is it that you added a https rel canonical to live pages and are wondering why it is indexed? If so, this is the normal behavior since your website already supports https and you have linked to it. The reason why only a few landing pages  show up as https for now might be related to how and when the crawler got there. I hope I didn't totally misunderstand the question.

Yes. I usually go for having everything under control. Moreover, implementing schema.org is really not a hard thing to do. I tried a quick search and found this article: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/schema-wordpress-seo/. It might help. They talk about a plugin which does schema.org integration in Wordpress but also show you how to implement it yourself. I hope it helps.

I'm really sorry for what happened! I recently had an employee who made such a mistake but at domain level We are monitoring our websites rankings and it fell from a visibility percentage of 21 to 4! Chaotic. After one month from correcting the problem, we only have a 10 visibility percentage. So, I think you might have to wait a bit until full recovery. However, please bear in mind that my team didn't notice the problem for one month since we did not have an optimization subscription for the client. Also, the domain did not have many linking pages to it and not a high authority. As such, I hope your page will recover much faster than the scenario I am talking about. Good luck!

Hello,

Google definitely has access to the data your are referring, as you can see it in Google Analytics.

My opinion is that there are two major types of sources for the metrics you are referring to: paid (what they can detect) and organic (all organic + what they cannot detect as being paid). It is known that Google AdWords will not influence your organic results directly. It will only benefit you as detailed here: https://moz.com/community/q/can-adwords-increase-organic-traffic

Although I have no proof, I think that Google takes into consideration the organic metrics with priority. I also think that paid campaigns, although they cannot do much good, they could possibly harm your organic if during the paid campaign your site performs very poorly. After all, there is a Quality Score indicator which influences the cost per click so there has to be some kind of connection between the analysis in AdWords and what Google thinks of your page.

All this being said, I would love to see anyone come up with some data sets tested in respect with your question.

Hello,

I would suggest the following:

1. Use Yoast SEO plugin (https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/) for general search engine optimization.

2. Code the Recipe structured data markup following the information in this link: http://schema.org/Recipe. You can code this in the specific theme file for your recipes from the Theme Editor.

Best of luck!

Oh, I just revisited the link I gave you initially.

Note: If you have a local Google+ Page, you should use the local verification process to add your business information to Google Maps and display the verification badge on your Google+ Page. You may also choose to link your website to the page using the process outlined below.

So, did you try this?

You cannot merge a business page with a local place. You can have both if you want, but I think you should be able to verify a link on any of the two types of pages.

Try to log out from your google account and then log in and see what happens when you want to link your website to your page. I can't see any reason for which you are not able to verify you website.

If it still does not work, please provide a screenshot or detailed explanation of what is happening. I cannot help you out just by reading that it does not work. Please provide more details.