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Have you marked up your job postings with Structured Data? It might be good to look at if not as it's something that they're taking into account for being shown in the job search widget that comes up in search results from time to time.

Hi,

They cannot, but a competitor can. That's why most of the times you want to make sure that search pages are excluded from a search engines crawlers to avoid issues like this.

Martijn.

I would try to find out where this page is being redirected to. It could be that the homepage goes to: /index.html /index/ or something like that. It's not always bad in the end that a homepage is redirecting. Are you able to figure this out or otherwise able to share the URL?

As far as I know how Yoast can create the sitemaps it's just a dump of all the articles that you have in WordPress. So your use case wouldn't be solved with just installing the plugin. You would probably have to work with either what you have or put some effort into rewriting how there sitemaps are being generated.

It's not additional CSS, it's just a set of different characters (

I would actually go with the folder structure most of the time. As in most cases that you come across there is no overlap in parts of the content that you have. That's why you sort of want to create mini silos on your site. For that I would always recommend to go that way so you can divide the content across multiple folders.

@Keith, were you able to figure out the solution to this problem?

In addition to what Nigel is suggesting I would also recommend to claim www.example.com and example.com, if you used to have a HTTP site and have moved over the last years to HTTPS I would recommend using that to verify as well. All of this gives you the best insight.

This is only worth fixing as it's usually an easy change that needs to be made, right now it won't hurt you as there are so many other issues that have way more weight for a search engine. This particular one is one that millions of sites have.

Keith, it seems that speciality is not a valid property. The documentation doesn't mention it at all, so I would look into using MedicalSpecialty which you can find more information right here: http://health-lifesci.schema.org/medicalSpecialty

Hi James,

Most ecommerce sites or any site that has some kind of structure on a site's page is already to be easily scraped because they're re-using the same HTML. Structured Data Markup might make it easier but it was already possible years ago. I wouldn't worry about it too much, if you start worrying about competitors doing this you likely have other things to do.

Martijn.

I agree with Nigel here, there is no correlation whatsoever that is connecting featured snippets to Page Authority in what way. It's a metric setup by Moz (this product/tool) and it could be that many pages on your site aren't even in their index. I would focus on creating the best pages and making it easier for a search engine to understand the content, which you can do through for example structured data markup and verifying that, that data is still correct.

Quick question, have you also added the subdomain on your CDN to Google Search Console to see if you can find any additional information on your URLs in there? It sometimes something that people forget to do, a CDN doesn't always open up to a search engine (although it should).

Hi Preben,

I'd use your own data to calculate this, the data that you can usually find from vendors and blog posts like this are usually far off. They're outdated and aren't taking into account the specific industry (with its extensions) that you operate in. So you're basically making an assumption on what could be your performance where you'd be off with xx% at least.

Take your own data from Google Search Console and calculate it that way, with that it's a specific as possible and you can segment on the data that you're looking for.

Martijn.

Hi,

This might be a shameless plug but earlier today John Doherty actually launched a whole guide on how to do SEO for SaaS businesses. You can find it here: https://www.getcredo.com/saas-seo-guide/

Martijn.

Hi,

This is a common thing that you see on bigger sites, either product names or company names are the same and at scale that creates near duplicate titles or pages. What I would recommend is adding additional data, about either the location, pay, position type (fulltime,parttime,etc) to the title.

Martijn.

I have tried to upvote your response ten times, unfortunately works only once. Spot on.

Hi Benjamin,

I haven't noticed it for some integrations (not titles, but still SEO elements like META tags), although I wouldn't recommend using Google Tag Manager for any of this anyway.

Martijn.

Hi Alexander,

While most JS frameworks don't always need the 'old school' <a href=""></a>links to handle links most sites will still be using them and actively see them as links, just like Google does.

Martijn.

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.

Guess what? They probably find the old title, as it could still be mentioned on the page to be more relevant. That's all that matters. Apparently the users search term was something that they thought wouldn't match with the regular title. This has been a practice that they've been conducting for years. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it's bad