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Hi Juan,

Yes I would redirect them, not for the sake of SEO but mostly to make sure that if traffic arrives at these domain names that it will be send to an actual site instead of a placeholder.

Hi,

Have you also excluded these pages from the robots.txt file so you can make sure that they're also not being crawled?
The code for the redirect looks something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/mono* - [G,NC]

Martijn.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brutal-poll-shows-most-people-214647063.html Good luck!

Well, you said you didn't care about the richt snippets ;-). You've also read this: searchengineland.com/google-plays-authorship-search-results-dropping-profile-image-google-circle-count-195163 ?

I wouldn't be worried about duplicate content at all, it's in a different language so they would make it as unique as possible. If you would have a Canadian site and a US one then for sure it wouldn't be a good thing but this isn't a case of duplicate content.

HREF Lang mostly takes care of ranking the right language for the right keyword in the right country. What I've seen before in these cases is that some sites rank with another domain which has a higher domain authority/ page authority then the page you would like to rank.

Hi Asif,

I'm seeing the same thing, at least a drop that big. I suspect it's a bug in or showing the structured data or something else as we didn't change anything either on the site. There have been data reporting bugs before in GWT, so it's likely that there is another one this time.

Hi Roman,

• Google Search Console/ Bing Webmaster Tools: Great for exploring your own backlinks when you combine the data with the other sources listed below.
• Open Site Explorer: Nice, big index, but it doesn't refresh that often so that doesn't make it great.
• Majestic SEO: Bigger Index, Updates very often. Not the most intuitive UI if you ask me.
• Ahrefs: Big Index, Haven't used this one that much.

Hope it's any useful.

I've used Botify at my previous job (Postmates) and I also brought it on at my current job at RVshare. I think it's a great tool that brings a lot of new things to the table that GA/GSC can't offer at all (and won't offer). If you're interested in learning how making changes to your site have a direct influence on crawl behavio\r by bots and how that can help you drive additional traffic then it's a great plus. That's why on the technical/product side it will open a lot of new opportunities for testing and continuous optimization.

Regarding if it's useful for you, I would be hesitant to buy an expensive tool (you're likely north of $1500 monthly) for a smaller site as there are fewer ways to optimize on that for the scale there is. But if the only 5K pages generate millions of users from Organic Search on a monthly basis and bring in a lot of money then Yes it might be worth it. If you're comparing to Moz/SEMrush etc. Don't they're not comparable and have totally different price points. You use Botify in addition to your current toolset, not as your toolset.

Yups what Nigel is saying, you can't use a SSL certificate for another site. So you should make sure that you buy a new one in order to set up that redirect.

Well it can't be a link farm if they're always using a nofollow as Google won't pass a lot of authority through these links. It's just selling your inventory to other sites as long as you use a nofollow element that is fine.

Hi Gerard,

Nope it isn't a sub domain, its a subfolder. A subdomain woud be: uk.mysite.com. By taking this as an example: https://img.skitch.com/20111205-8xw2hnpijjcmfsc39qjxyrab8c.jpg I think you're able to setup your SEOMoz Campaign.

Good luck!

Pretty sure that this might have changed your domain authority: https://moz.com/blog/comprehensive-analysis-domain-authority

You could go that route, but I would honestly ignore it and focus on some other issues ;).

Yes, as the redirect is something that you handle outside of the SSL certificate.

Hi Mark,

Sure, I would still submit these kind of domains as well to Google Search Console as submitting the domain name doesn't say anything about the indexation of the URL. It's a monitoring which you could use to submit URLs to be indexed but it's not a required thing. We have certain subdomains or root domains in there for our CDN for example that don't provide us with any additional SEO benefits but we still would like to make sure we can monitor some metrics there.

Hi Cody,

The best way is to block Rogerbot within your Robots.txt from crawling specific pages of your site. In your case protecting Rogerbot from seeing the pages with a session ID.
More information could be found here on Rogerbot.

Be cautious and test it out, but the lines you would have to add to your Robots.txt are probably:

User-agent: rogerbot 
Disallow: /*sessionid

Hope this helps!

Probably. It depends on what the quality is of those links, but if you likely already have to ask the question the answer in most cases is Yes.

Pages that are behind a login or need authentication don't really add up any additional logic for SEO as Google can't see them either. So that's why I usually would focus most of my attention on the public pages.

Hi,

I would mostly be worried about other sites linking to you with or without the www. version of it. If you never had a site with both versions then I wouldn't worry too much about it. But this is in most cases a server side fix that could go live in a few minutes as it's just a setting in your NGINX/Apache configurations on the webserver.

Martijn.

I have never heard about this tactic although I also would have loved it to never hear about it. It's probably already a terrible sign if you get negative reviews on your product or services. Although I could see why some services would allow to make su re curse words couldn't be found in the review itself.