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I think that fetch as google returns the performance it already has on the page last time googlebot went there, so if you have applied changes lately it could take a day or two to google bot to recrawl the page and get the changes you've done. When did you do the change? can you let us know if after a couple of days the issue was solved?

Hey Steven, it's hard for giving you a 100% valid answer as we do not know your site as well as you do, but here I will try clarify your doubts with my PoV:

1. beware of the definition of original content. Google is starting to move away from the solely written by me = original = deemed to rank. They are trying to figure out which content is unique and also adds value to user experience. You need to try to provide content which is providing a meaningful addition to user experience.

2. care with internal duplication. the walt disney piece on the right looks like a boilerplate content which is present on more the 51 pages on your website (google search). Take into account that if you create an original piece and then you splash it across multiple pages of your website google may dilute its value

3. Panda is a page-level algorithm. Panda doesn't act on the site as a whole. Even before being integrated with Core algorithm it was clear that panda acted on a page-level basis, only after reaching a certain threshold the system may decide to rule out a site from google rankings. It's definitely likely that google may be discounting only the pages it feels that are not useful while keeping the ones that are adding a value. The cancer quotes list is a good list of quotes that may be not found elsewhere. You know better than we do which unique functionalities you ahve added to your website to assess which are pages that deserves to rank vs pages which are just a rework on already existing (onsite) pages.

I hope this helps you!

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Agree, it totally depends on what's up with the website. It may be more or less work, but unless they caused a google penalization for changing their website (ex. unwanted cloaking) it should be a matter of fixing the broken stuff.

Most likely google lost the track of their backlinks and without proper 301 redirection (which may have been sent all to the homepage is not helpgin them recover).

I would recommend try get access to their GWT first so you can assess how doable is the work for you. You can make a preventive analysis at no cost which will  help you understand the timeline and weight every single action you'll need to take, and how much are your clients able to support you.

hey camarin, so far I see 271 URLS indexed for the search "site:https://www.northshoreymca.org". There are of course a couple of changes I would do like try to have a friendlier look to the tag URLs instead of having the tag parameter, but anyway it seems that it's working. Also PA for this page https://www.northshoreymca.org/locations/haverhill/ is 33. I think as you said it was just a matter of time. I hope your problem got fixed.

heheh well I'd love that 47 not found could be "lots" by the way, where are thos links coming from? What you have to bear in mind is that it's not the same if the 404 is caused by internal or external linking.

If internal, then you have to see which page is creating the 404 and fix it

If external you have to ask the webmaster for fixing the link and meanwhile have the 301 in place so you can save the value of those links..

Yes that happened to me a couple of years ago too.

If you're redirecting a lot of different content to the exact same generic page (like a section/category homepage) google will consider that the page is like a container, not the location where that exact content was moved. A clear signal for them would be that they can't find any portion of the old content.

Here you can read some guidance from google regarding returning 404s. It seems that mask 404 witha 301 is not the way to go anymore, just limit that to pages with backlinks pointing there, because if not you can just return 404 and delete those pages from google index (you don't want google to waste your crawl budget on those pages).

Hope this helps!

Hi Laura,

I think your key insight is in the next result in google serp. I can read that datacard acquired DCS and Cardwizard. It seems that you may be beneficiating of the strong relationship of DCS with the query you're highlighting.

Well in fact DCS is exactly the exact match for the query you show, so I think that google finds relevant to show the company that acquired the one leading that space.

Look at their facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dynamic-Card-Solutions-Instant-Issuance/92503396903

I'm not very confident with your market but I definitely understood that datacard is the new DCS and it seems that google understood that too

Welcome to the semantic world that hummingbird just brought!

Hope this helps!

try visiting the site now, It seems Godaddyhas fixed the issue

Hey Amed,

Are those domains yours? As Andy said it's possible that something was configured badly on the server side. It doesn't seem to be an iframe but an exact copy of your site like if it was scraped.

try to make a change to one file and see if the change goes live in both sites, if that so it's definitely a server mis-configuration, if not, someone may have copied your site.

contact the site host. Godaddy as Andy said.

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Hey Jeroen,

If I were you I would play with canonicals in order to not confuse google.

For example: this url http://www.allesvoorbbq.nl/boretti-da-vinci-nero.html is for the black version, but then if you navigate the page and you go to http://www.allesvoorbbq.nl/boretti-da-vinci-nero.html#608=1373&swatch_id=750 you should point to the correct URL which is http://www.allesvoorbbq.nl/boretti-da-vinci-colora.html.

In the last url you also have a bad canonical as even if here http://www.allesvoorbbq.nl/boretti-da-vinci-nero.html#608=1373&swatch_id=750 you're showing the colora model you're canonicalizing to the nero model. You should fix that.

About duplication this is your last problem as google doesn't index different portions of the same page and using the # you're telling google that those are internal anchors and not different pages.

I hope this makes sense.

E.

Hi Janet, Th eonly thing you can do, assuming you're performing keyword research in Google Keyword planner, is to set it as all countries and all languages.

In this way without taking into account one country or another you can ahve search information for all of them, in this case the Search volume won't be influenced by the language/country settings but by the keyword itself (ex. italian football teams, quipos de futbol italiano).

you have to include all variations in both english and spanish BTW.

I hope this helps.

e.

your redirects has to be in your server if not it'd be hard to manage that by yourself.

What you ahve to be sure is how those redirects have been done.

If they're on a dedicated HTACCESS, then it would be fine as, like you said, you'll ba mainitainig hte exact same  URL structure, but if they're maintained by a WP plulgin or JS, be sure to not ovverwrite it, or if you want to get rid of it, export your rules and rewrite them on your htaccess.

Hi Lee,

without being able to double check keywords on that particular domain I suggest two possible factors working on google that you may be overlooking:

• hummingbird engine and semantic search. Google is trying to get the searchers intent not just plain keywords. Is possible that the site you're seeing is being highly related with the market they are thus getting a boost in all terms related to that topic.

• google bombing. this is something it used to work and even if some say no, it still work sometimes. Bombing was a practice to use exact anchors to give authority on a site about something without even mention that. Some people are worried about this being a possible negative seo practie and some other uses that as an optimization factor. What I can say is that google bombing could work but not as it was. As this is not related to keywords but to topic, as the linking site topic will be passed to the linked one and if that site accrues more links it vcould be possible to see it ranking for such topics.

There's not always a clear science around that but usually a penalized site never gets back to its prior shine, or at least it will take you a lot of time, that's why is it somewhat better to have a slower growth than risk anyway a penalty.

Regarding your examples, I see that pvc banners query returns a lot of otpimized results on that query. I don't know which link you may have removed but looking at backlinks pointing to http://www.discountbannerprinting.co.uk/banners/vinyl-pvc-banners.html
 in OSE I see that:

• one third of your referrals are spammy domains
• you are using quite alot of keyword rich anchors which are actually a good signal for link schemes to google

try to be as natural and possible and consider that you'll need to work more to get google trust than some other clean websites.

Hey, I can't find them on your site.

Is it possible that those pages are part of an older version of your site? I can only see /category/ folder but google definitely indexed 600 of your urls containing such tag.

As Patrick said I really recommend you to noindex all archive, category and tag pages as they are just thin pages useful for user navigation but not for google.

After you have added the noindex tag you may ask google to remove them from index and you'll ahve your issues solved

Hi! what about using cookies?

I mean, when an user reaches your site have a get php rule that appends a cookie to the user if their medium referral is cpc.

In your form you can add an hidden value which is cpc= 1 or 0. When the user send the form you can look for that cookie, if it exists set the cpc value to 1 if not 0. So you'll ahve a db stored information about if that user came or not via cpc.

Hi,

So if I've understood correctyl you want to redirect your blog.domain.com to domain.com/blog?

If that's so you have two possible options.

1. Maintain the old site URI structure. In this case you want to make a 1by1 redirect:
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/blog$1 [R=301,L]

2. move everything to a compelte new system. In this way it'd be impossible to maintain the old URI so you may want to, create dedicated redirects to you r best urls and use the follwoing
RewriteRule . http://www.domain.com/blog [R=301,L]

the htaccess has to be placed in the root folder of your subdomain.

i hope it makes sense

The vast mojority of tool out there are using adwords API, so you have very few alternatives. Personally I think that if you don't trust Google data you'll have the same issue with Bing's one, being also a search engine.

The solution I recommend you are two:

• wordtracker, one of the oldest out there is a very good alternative to google. They estimate searches based on data retrieved from their partner sites. BTW remember that even if it could be precise, don't use it (and neither any other tool out there) for making math with search volume as you'll never have a 100% accurate tool for that.

• I also received good feeedbacks about wordstream but I really never used it.

Hope this helps.

I agree with EGOL. I think that a new design should improve User experience on the site and all related metrics. In this case we're speaking about the same list EGOL says, from bounce rate to conversion rate and from time on site to internal navigation. This should be tested using an A/B platform or whatever ensures you're not changing from one day to another without knowing the effect of the new design. This requires good tools and time (optimizely may be one).

A new design may also improve SEO rankings and in my opinion this means, all changes made in development of the site:

• SPEED: improving CSS and javascripts, using of sprites and the things which may help you speeding up your site (google loves that!)
• URL REDESIGN: if URLs are completely messed up it could be good to review them and write more user friendly URLs. BEWARE! this may cause your rankings to dance a bit, due to 301s and changes effects. 301s can be set up in a wrong way and even if set up correctly may lose some value of the old page, so if you really NEED to update your URLs structure be sure of the benefits of that. If you're not sure DON'T CHANGE THEM.
• EXPERIENCE: It's a really great opportunity to make the most of mobile increasing traffic and build a responsive UI, compelling with experiences throughout all the devices.

All of the above can be an additional value but consider design as an effect mainly focused on improving user experience.on the site rather than googlebot. Try to improve user experience metrics and to not HURT SEO this by maintaining the code as it is, improving it but not changing it, without changes on site contet, without changingn meta data and URL (if you don't have a clear plan on how to take advantage of that change), hope this helps!

Hi Dj,

as far as I know reputation.com services I don't think it will affect you negatively under google eyes. They will work on bad results not on google but on the site where they're published in order to have them down. I've never worked with them so I don't know what they mean with down if offline or down the serps by hurting their credibility (maybe some bad links pointing there or whatever else).

Coming to your site, you're never participating actively into this so you shouldn't be hurted by such a practice. Hope this helps, anyway if you use it please share with us!!