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Are you able to check the traffic through organic search on the other 2-3 sites that you're talking about? If traffic there is very high (which I doubt) than you would have to think carefully about this. Otherwise if traffic is very low than I would check if you could redirect that to the most important domain in the inventory.

Yeps, what I want to add here is that Sitemaps will only help in getting Google to crawl and know about the more pages when they're in the sitemaps. For small sites I really doubt it will have an impact on getting them indexed.

Has the page already been indexed/cached again since you've made changes on the page? Also could it be that Google is rewriting titles for other search terms as well on these kind of pages?

What you can do is basically refresh the page and see if the menus still work. If the menu itself is still working at that point you'll know that there is no JS needed to run see the menu. The alternative is just checking in the Console to see if the code is being rendered there.

1. It's not a perfect solution and if you can make the costs than I would always do it, but honestly I can't say this is very critical right now to fix. Google and other search engines want you to have a very high quality sitemap so that all pages in there will exist and work for them as well as for users but if a certain percentage of them won't work then it won't get you massively in trouble I'd say.
2. I'm not really sure about this option as it doesn't sound like an actual fix at all so for now I would say don't do it.

Well, what's the problem for it being indexed? Are the links in your .gz sitemap being submitted and indexed?

HI Iurie,

Are the links to the sites in the other languages available in the HTML or are you loading them more dynamically. If the first is the case then it shouldn't be any problem and Google will at least find the links to these pages and probably provide you with some juice there.

Besides that I would recommend looking into href lang tags to point Google via the source code as well to the other languages.

Hope this helps!

Completely agree, just 1 character might not influence anything. Search engines are very well able to understand what that specific character means in the context if you add 360 next to it.

Hi Ryan,

By just looking at one keyword I think there is already a lot to gain in the content on your site. The relevancy of this page to your keyword: detroit wedding dj is quite low as the keyword is exactly matched only twice on the page and just somewhere in the body text: http://mikestaff.com/detroit-michigan-weddings/services/dj/. I hate saying that you need to use it more in the headings and the rest of the content but it probably will help. If the relevancy on the page itself isn't good enough then you might not win it although your metrics against most competitors will be much higher.

Hi,

Wait, there site is showing up in your results or their pages are ranking for your queries/pages? I feel like this needs a bit more explanation so we're able to help you out with this.

Martijn.

1. Yes, because still Google might think that the page is low quality.
2. Yes, as the page is very low quality it might drive a signal.

Just add the sitemap index file to your robots.txt and let them figure it out from there. You basically just want to point them to your sitemaps and they're able to do that from just the sitemap index. So there's not really a need to list all of them in there.

Try Rank Tracker from Link Assistant.

Hi Matt,

As far as I understand your problem, it doesn't seem a good way to use REL Canonical to link products to categories. As it's intended to link a page that is the same to another page which you wouldn't be doing here. What I would recommend is noindexing the page if you're confident that it doesn't provide you with any user intent.

Martijn.

1. Yes, the bigger the company the more I'd say it would be worth it to look into as you probably will start having issues with crawl budget and driving authority to certain places on your site.
2. In most sites images might already be embedded in a normal sitemap, you can check out ours at: http://thenextweb.com/sitemap_index.xml.

Hi,

It depends, if they're affecting the current visibility + indexation on the site then yes they will. Otherwise they won't as they're just there. It would probably be best to check your servers log files to see if these files still get any visits from Google. If they do/don't that will be the answer on if anything is being influenced. How you wrote it down in your original question, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Martijn.

Uhmm I thought this was about Google Search Console, not Google Analytics?

Hi Fred,

Do you have access to your log files by any chance? You could try to see in there if you can see if GoogleBot is actually looking at these pages. Sometimes it's just a matter of cached pages not being visible in there although they are.

Martijn.

Hi George,

Maybe in addition to that make sure you have to enter HTTP Authentication to make sure that none of the pages on the domain are being crawled. Besides that I would indeed go with the recommendation from Lynn.

Hi,

Parameters are definitely not always a bad thing, if you use them for filtering or pagination they have a great use case. Also for tracking purposes which I think is what you're talking about here it would be fine. But you probably want to put some support in place to make sure you don't mess up your SEO. You have a few ways of doing that:

• Define the URL parameters in Google Search Console, read more about it here.
• In some cases if it's just for tracking purposes but would trigger an actual pageview or 200 status code. Then it might be good to implement a canonical URL that would link back to the original page.
• Robots.txt, way more aggressive but if you don't want search engines to look at the pages at all you can exclude the parameters through the robots.txt. I would advise against using this if you don't have great SEO knowledge.

Hope this was useful!