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Yes, in your HREF Lang tags you're always self referencing them as well.

Spend your time wisely and go take care of the other 288+ metrics that do exist out there, this one isn't going to make any impact.

Yes, it's correct!

Yes, they are being counted towards that number.

Hi,

Usually the too many links issues won't impact your SEO that much. It's more of a warning that you should take into consideration. In your case the comments are not really separate links as they're using hashes. So they're not going to too many other pages on your site.

Your option 1 is not really going to help that much. Probably using nofollow would have the biggest impact, but then you would still have a lot of links on your page. Best would be to look at how many links you have right now to get a better understanding of what you could do with them: if that's removing them or not.

Martijn.

No, it shouldn't if you made sure that all the pages that you had before and that you have know will be redirected to the new pages that currently exist. In this case Google will make sure that the URLs are on the new location and if that's because of the redirects it shouldn't really hurt you. But there are a lot of things that can go wrong when setting up redirects, definitely if there are multiple.

Hi,

Was there a redirect in place to make sure all old links on your site will go from HTTP to HTTPS? If Yes, it wouldn't really matter as it will make sure that the link value + links will be attributed to the new version on HTTPS. If that wasn't the case than it will obviously have quite an impact. These days though it's a bit vague if couple does recognize that a site is also available on a HTTPS.

Martijn.

Hi,

In some cases your SEO Plugins should have made sure to update the redirects. But what you could do is a check on if there is a number/number in your URL and have it rewritten/redirect to make sure the old URLS will be redirected to the new ones. In the end the only thing you'd have to do is make sure the dates are stripped.

Are you using NGINX or Apache?

Martijn.

James is completely right here! You submit all of them so you can keep track of issues in case they come up with other versions of your site. But there is always a preferred one to use.

Hi,

Google is pretty good with figuring out what a certain page can be about. If they don't think the title is relevant to the page that the user can visit it will make it's own title. We see that in a lot of cases. For example: when doing a rebranding it took a while for Google to figure out the new brand name and they were still applying their own suffix with the old brand name to the URL.

Martijn.

Hey!

Make sure you check all the other checklists on the site, there can be a lot of other things involved to make sure you don't lose all your rankings. For The Next Web I wrote a checklist with all the things that we needed to take care off: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/02/marketing-the-tnw-way-18-migrating-to-https/#.tnw_WDpJUZtX

Martijn.

Yes, I agree with Joe. Option 1 is the way to go as option 2 would most likely rewrite the existing Affiliation schema.

Hi Jake,

What Moz is probably noticing on these pages is that the overlap of your codebase is quite big. Probably above a certain threshold. That's why they're warning that the content of the page might be a bit too similar. If you have the opportunity to change that around that would always help, for both Moz and search engines. But if the 'actual' content is really different on these pages as it seems like I wouldn't worry too much about it and focus on other issues that are having a bigger impact on your SEO.

Martijn.

Hi,

I wouldn't consider this is a big issue for now. This would only matter probably if you're in a very heavy competition and this is one of the few differences that you have compared to other sites in your same industry. Which basically never happens. Also in this case the URL structure is pretty optimized for SEO. That's why I wouldn't worry about it too much. Unfortunately, as far as I know you can't turn off the alerts for this though.

Martijn.

Yes, you would basically create on all sites that you're linking to a XML sitemaps file to make sure Google will know where to find the links and to see where they belong to. Hope that helps!

Hi Tom,

What I would look into is check what kind of competition you have in the US, to make sure you can find out what they're doing better then you there compared to your performance in the UK. You can than see if it's really up to the content on these pages and if they're optimized the right way or it's more up to the quality + amount of links that you have there. If the latter would be the case I would make sure to look into making sure that your strategy would result in getting more links from the US.

Martijn.

Hi Brainfruit,

I'm assuming that the content of your menu would still be visible in the source code of the page itself. As my best guess would be is that you're triggering this through the JavaScript on click. All of this shouldn't affect how Google will see your page.
What is probably happening is that the page itself isn't crawled yet by Moz over time, making the Page Authority 1.

Martijn.

Like Drones already mentioned, I would try to figure out what search engines could potentially still know about the history of your site. So make sure to check through all the available tools: Google Search Console (if you already own the domain), Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer and Ahrefs what kind of domains are linking to your site and what type of links they are. Relevant or non relevant. If the majority of them is it probably will harm you in this case as you have too many non relevant links pointing to your site. If you barely can't find anything about it, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Yes, like Andreas mentions. The Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin can do exactly this. We've been using it this way at TNW for a while.

Hi,

You could, but I would try to find out where the other one is coming from. Basically the second rel canonical tag will overwrite the first in most cases. So trying to find out how you delete one with keeping the right one would make most sense. You're at least on the right path!

Martijn.