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Submit it to Index. Google really doesn't care if you submit it over having them crawl it manually.

Hi,

It doesn't do this redirect for me on Chrome right now, but looking at the URL it seems to be a JavaScript redirect that is done somewhere on the client side rather than the server side. Hope that helps a bit.

Martijn.

They're using different data sources and basing their assumptions on different metrics. Sometimes it can also be a matter of the location, if it's global search volume or on a national level.

I second Martin, definitely update the XML sitemaps that you have for your site.

Hmmm, why not go the plugin route. You seem to try something that is obviously meant to be handled in a plugin.

Anyway, what you could do is just put the XML file in the root folder of your WordPress install. From there on it should be available and accessible on your server.

Hi Arjun,

The simple answer is, you can't do that through the API. There is currently no endpoint supporting gathering your backlinks from Google Search Console.

Martijn.

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.

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.

Hi Daniel,

I think it shouldn't, as I guess you're going to make sure the redirects are in place to link from the old sites to the new one?

Martijn.

HI,

What could happen here is that Google decided that the current URL is unfortunately not the right relevancy. Have you seen that with one of the other pages on the site?

Martijn.

Hi Alex,

This seems to work flawless, probably Moz can't recognize or hasn't crawled the page since you've added this. As far as I can see in the Structured Data Testing Tool the data is correct and your Schema.org is valid.

Martijn.

Hi Rann,

What is the exact problem here? Where is Moz limiting what you can do? In addition to both tools I would look into trying out Screaming Frog so you would be able to do a full crawl whenever you want.

Martijn.

If you're running WordPress, don't forget to check out the Yoast SEO WordPress News Plugin it can automatically create a News Sitemap for you.

Well, CSS files exist for a reason and in 99% of the times are a better option.

Well, I wouldn't recommend doing it as from a development perspective it ain't great. But from an SEO perspective I would worry more about the other 299+ ranking factors that are out there. Basically having your CSS validated or HTML validated won't do much in 2017 for your ranking compared to all the other variables that are taken into account.

Probably another tool that you want to look into is SEMRush. They provide a ton of data around keywords which includes the CPC. This will probably give you some insights into what you could be bidding and what not.

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.

Hey!

Usually tag pages are pretty useless and they could be removed if they don't provide any additional information. In your case I would make sure to see if there is any overlap between tags and categories and accordingly to that remove the tags. You could use the canonical tags, but that's mostly putting band aid on something that is fundamentally broken I'd say.

Martijn.

That would definitively help. In addition I would look into still adding the pages manually through the Submit to Index feature.

Hi,

That's not fun, have you tried adding these pages to Google Search Console and submitting them to the Index from there?

Martijn.