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I'd question that timing. I recently uploaded a disavow file containing a few hundred domains and saw an uplift within a week.

Definitely go for Option 1: redirecting to the relevant pages on the singular domain.

I would also recommend using subfolders to contain content on individual locations, something similar to rapturecamps.com/bali for Bali information. This would allow you to gain authority for that specific niche and add articles to that niche, rather than having them all under one central holder (the root domain).

When using the canonical ensure you use the full URL. There are multiple protocols that can be addressed at a domain, for example, ftp, so including the http:// would be best practise.

A side note about canonicals, if in the future you are planning on moving to https then ensure you update your canonicals. Depending on how you currently deploy your website; WordPress etc, you could use a simple php script to store a variable of protocol which will change globally if the file is updated.

If you change your domain then expect your rankings and traffic to drop significantly for at least a short period of time (a few months is likely). You'll need to set up 301 redirects from the old domain to the new, pointing to relevant replacement URLs on the new domain; .us/how-to-redirect => .com/how-to-redirect

The .us domain will help focus on a US market, though a .com will also do the same. The differences is a .com is also international, so users from the UK, France, etc may still feel comfortable dealing with a .com domain, but may not with a .us one.

The most important thing in terms of SEO is the users' experience in finding the answer to their query; too many people focus on using '-' in their URL in order to get the perfect, keyword rich domain, but Google actually looks for the speed and efficiency in which you can answer a query for "easier routes from IL to KY".

.com, .net, .org. They're all pretty much the same in terms of value; they're all TLDs. The key difference in them is how your users react to them; a charity/public service website may see better results by using a .org for example, but a multinational corporation would likely only settle for .com or .net.

It's picking up exactly what you have as the description... You should change your meta description if you want something else to display.

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So, they're copying your content but providing a link back to your website? Sounds like it could be recognised as providing credit for the content.

It shouldn't take "6 months" to recover from bad links as backlink analysis is now part of Google's "live" algorithm, any changes should see results within a few days/weeks at most.

Use the "latest links" and "most links" tools in GSC to download a .csv file and analyse the amount of links you are getting from "spammy" domains, disavow those and benchmark so that you can check results.

Do infographic directories request a link from users of the infographic to the original site? If people are uploading your infographic (the .jpg/.png version) then they should be providing a link to show acknowledgement to the author.

A client of mine has stars in the SERP result by implementing their trustedreviews score in to their page. CTR has improved since adding the rating.

Sidebars etc shouldn't be on AMP pages, as they are designed to present the user with the content on their mobile device. They are usually on a separate page, for example, url.com/page/amp, and shouldn't impact the desktop version of the website with regards to different content, sidebars etc.

AMP isn't currently a huge focus for many websites which are mobile friendly as AMP pages will not be shown preference in SERPs over mobile friendly ones simply for using AMP. If you have the option to add it then, of course, go ahead and do so. But if you are confident that you are mobile friendly and load quickly then I wouldn't panic too much over it.

Why would you redirect? You could simply make the homepage focused on weddings, improve the on page content etc.

Of course, your client could also have a separate website for wedding photography, ensuring all content on the website was focused on that niche.

The interstitial update only affected mobile browsing, from what I can remember. This popup doesn't appear on their mobile site and thus, I would assume it shouldn't have any impact. However, I would recommend increasing the wait time to pop the message up,  so that it acts as a form of help to a user, rather than blocking their browsing immediately.

Another vote for redirecting it to a relevant page on a new website.

It sounds like you already have the infrastructure in place to make the move relatively seamlessly. Without knowing the internals of the website itself it's hard to know whether to advise on ensuring CloudFlare is up to date etc. However, some basics:

• Make sure you update your sitemap to point to the correct https URLs
• Add your new https sitemap within your http property in GSC (keeping your old one too so that redirects are acknowledged sooner)
• Add a new property in GSC and ensure only the https sitemap is uploaded there

Interested to know why you have opted for subcategories rather than faceting the blazers category as a whole, ie having a domain.com.au/womens-blazers?style=boyfriend style URL.

Also, is there a reason you've not used .au in the second URL?

Google started clamping down on PBNs a long time ago...

http://searchengineland.com/google-targets-sites-using-private-blog-networks-manual-action-ranking-penalties-204000

Google is more interesting in the information you present users with and whether or not you can answer their query. Highlighting keywords may, to those not in the know, show that a website is more likely to answer a query, but in reality it may not be the case.

It's falls under the same method of Google attributing actual meaning, for example "wood floor" could be perceived as "wooden floor" or "wood flooring" and so on, where those websites might help the user more so than the one which contains the exact keyword in the URL.

Are you installing WordPress on the subfolder of '/blog'? Or hoping to feed the posts from WordPress > the /blog page?

There are a number of tools out there and OSE is just one of them. Using GSC's "Links to Your Site" can provide good insights on both who links the most and your most recently attained links.

ahrefs shows additional data and, in my opinion, the more data you can gather the better informed you will be. What I'm saying is, don't rely too much on the accuracy of one individual tool, when there are plenty more out there which may have a more focused approach on a certain aspect of SEO than other, more general tools.

It depends on how the first link is treated; links from profiles are often set as 'nofollow' and so pass no value to the target page.

Quickly checking on Quora, for example, they use a 'nofollow' tag on their links from answer contributor names.