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Hey Martijn! Thanks for the response. Have you used this service and if so would you recommend it?

Hey! Have you tried uploading more photos to the yelp account or encouraging people to leave reviews with photos? Perhaps they may pick those up and replace the ones current listed on the maps.

Hey Kyle,

This is also a good question. I'm curious as to why you would want to add the UTM parameters as you could just look at the referring source of traffic and attribute it to the specific site that the e-release is on. I'm looking forward to the discussion as I know some others will provide good feedback.

Hey Artur,

Great question! Is the site that you are planning on buying the domain for related to yours?

My personal opinion on this is that it gets into a grey hat area. You're rolling the dice a bit and I would proceed with caution as Google may be savvy enough to be one step ahead of you. If the site is related to your website, it may work (if you do it once). However, I would discourage this practice (especially doing it as a link building tactic multiple times).

I would be curious as to other SEO's say.

To piggyback on what Miriam has posted - yes - it's worth the move. Some hosting companies will offer to move your website for you should you give them access to the server. I would recommend siteground if you have a WordPress website. The faster you can get it to load, the better.

Thanks!

John

Hey Rasmus - I honestly think it's an issue with the redirects. I would double check them.

I did just visit https://www.pissup.de/package/basic-survival-4/ and it looks like it's redirecting. Were you able to get those shored up? If you are still having trouble, I would contact your web host to make sure those are shored up.

Hey Rasmus,

Just so I understand - a url like this: https://www.pissup.de/package/basic-survival-4/, should not be displaying on the german site. The german site should just have german right?

I found that page doing the site search listed in your initial question.

What's interesting is that this page isn't redirecting. Let me know your thoughts. I have feedback but I want to make sure of a few things before I share it.

Thanks!

John

Perfect! Happy to help!

Hey!

If you have access to the code, you can add this to the meta data:

You can also request to have it removed via the Google Search Console: https://www.sistrix.com/ask-sistrix/google-index-google-bot-crawler/how-can-i-remove-a-url-on-my-website-from-the-google-index/

If you have a CMS like Wordpress, there are free plugins that you can find that will no-index your pages fairly easily.

I hope that helps!

Hey James - would you be comfortable sharing the URL? I can run some diagnostics on it to see what other issues could be the cause of the drop.

Thanks!

John

I wanted to say that Vijay's answer was fantastic! To add to it - you do want to keep a close eye on if the video adds to the time on site or no once you add it to the page. Some videos may actually do more harm than good with time on site and conversion.

Thanks!

Hey Arnout,

I would do a few things:

1. You should be able to edit the html code of each presentation to add  to the meta title of the page. That should be a solid starting point. I know that is tedious but it will help you cover your bases. It looks like you are doing that already.

2. I would still disallow the directory via robots.txt.

3. #2 should work but as an extra, you could add a rel = no follow link property to the places where you link to that specific section. Here's a link for more details on that: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

4. To speed the process up, I would use the search console and request to remove the directory

Hopefully that helps!

Hey There!

Slow and steady wins the race with SEO. If you are limited on time and resources, I would focus on creating quality content with the posts that you add. It's tedious but it'll pay benefits in the long run. You could combine a few different tasks when publishing a post - so publish post, then update social media accounts and even do outreach to see if influencers will share it on social.

What I typically do is I actually have excerpts of the last 5 blog posts displayed on a homepage after the key content is displayed. Remember, that you can assign multiple categories to blog posts so you may want to do that if it makes sense for the visitor.

I hope that helps get you started!

Hey Tommy! Are you able to post a screen shot of what you are seeing in the search console. Is your web host reliable to where your site is going down periodically? Just curious. I look forward to seeing the screen shot.

Hey there! Is it possible to give the website URL you are having issues with? I'll be able to better assess the problem that way.

Thanks,

John

Sure! Happy to help!

Hi Tony,

In taking a look at the surface level, here are a few things I'd do with the site:

1. Assess your inner linking structure using the Google Search Console. A lot of the recent algorythm changes have been about your inner linking structure and also links to deeper pages.

For example: this page has 12 inner links: https://www.justbunkbeds.com/dillon-gray-beadboard-twin-bunk-bed/

Your contact us page has 256 inner links

I would look at where you are ranking and start building inner links within your site to pages that are on the second and third pages of Google. You can use your blog for this too.

Also - I'm not sure if BigCommerce allows this but I would also add a title tag to your images. I've seen increases in rankings if you also include a title attribute on images in addition to the alt tag

Finally - building external links to deeper pages would be at the top of my list of recommendations. I hope that helps!

Hey Tony! I'm looking at the site right now. You had mentioned images in your first comment but it sounds like the traffic as a whole went down. Can you confirm?

I wanted to reinforce with Martijn and Gaston had said. I would just have your web person 301 redirect the old URLs to the new URLs. I would add to keep an eye out for any stray URL's that you may have missed in the Search console and redirect those too. They tend to pop up 1-2 weeks after a site move. Thanks!

Hey Luca,

I'm sorry that you are running into this trouble. Here are a few things to review in order to get the number of pages increased in Google:

1. You'll want to review your internal linking structure in the Google Search Console. Adding a xml sitemap and submitting it to Google and Bing can help but inner links can help Google index new pages and deeper pages

2. Add content to key pages on the site like the homepage, category pages and individual product pages. If your site is thin (have pages that have less than 200 words of content), Google will be less likely to index it deeper

3. Build external links to deep pages on the site such as product category pages

I hope this helps - I would start with content and inner linking