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Hello,

I've been ranking a site for the last 5 months with good success, ranking on the first page for a high traffic keyword.

In the beginning of September however, my site completely dropped out of the SERPs for several of those keywords yet my site was still indexed and there was no penalty applied to my site via search console. I would assume this maybe because of the update during the time.My site came back again a week later and it was ranking much higher on the first page (#2).

Today, I just checked the SERPs and my site is now gone again. It was there this morning but now as of two hours ago it is gone, as well as one of my main competitors. My site is still indexed and no penalties via search console.

Does anyone know what causes these types of issues? Im assuming my site will come back in a week or so with hopefully the same or better ranking, but when I have disruptions like this it really hurts my organic traffic.

Any input is appreciated. Thanks!

I should have clarified, but it won't be just several sites, but could be in the hundreds since we have thousands of clients. Would that make a difference?

Thanks

Hello everyone!

The company I am working for is working on selling websites templates to clients in the near future. In terms of SEO purposes, would it be detrimental for our clients if we hosted all of these sites under the same server/IP?

Also, in the past we've sold sites under a domain we own, adding them on as a subdomain. For example, we would own yourflowers.com, and if Mark's Flowers wanted a site, we would give him: marksflowers.yourflowers.com

These sites are going to be the same niche as we are industry specific (example would be, we sell website templates specifically designed for flower shops around the United States).

I want the best possible SEO experience for our clients and I believe using subdomains and hosting under the same server IP can be detrimental, but I wanted to see what the Moz community thinks of this.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Thanks

Hello everyone!

I'm working with a site right now that is currently formatted as subdomain.domain.net. The old version of the site was formatted as domain.net, with domain.com and several other variants redirecting to the current format, subdomain.domain.net.

All of these redirects are 302, and I'm wondering if I should have all these changed to 301. Many of our old backlinks go to the old format of domain.net and i know the juice isn't being passed through, but i was wondering if there is any reason why you may want a 302 over a 301 in this case?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

Many of these don't. Should I 410 these instead? I'm thinking I might just 301 all of them to our homepage. They are quiet old

Hello everyone!

I'm going through a large list of old 404 links that search console has given me and a lot of these links need to be 301'd. My question is, should I 410 some of these links if I can't find a good place to 301 to? Or is there another thing I should do that is better practice.

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

I currently work for a software company that sell's CRM software for product sellers and one of our options along with this service is a website builder option that can provide the client with a website with several different templates to choose from.

Currently, we have over 500 clients using these website templates and I noticed that they are all under the same IP address.

My question is, in terms of a backlinking effort, would it be beneficial if we included a link to our company's website on the footer on each of these templates? Example could be: Powered by: (company's name) and have the name a link to our site.

I'm worried that this could be seen negatively by Google if we dofollowed these links or the fact that they are all under the same IP.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks