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If you view source one of links:http://henryplumbingco.com/portfolio-item/butler-elementary/
you will find code as:
And here is problem. Feed and comment feed works perfect. But post comment feed (last one) didn't work at all. If you want to clean up this you can use Yoast SEO -> Advanced -> Permalinks -> Cleanup Head -> Hide RSS link or you can use plugin for this. Like this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mypace-remove-comments-feed-link/
@EGOL - check whois of both domains and you will see that same person hold both domains.
Poor man linkbuilding...
Dirk, Q&A section is missing but they (Mods + community dept + Moz staff) actively track all activity here.
Same here. I reading Moz since 2007 but, make mine account somewhere in 2011 and start contributing here in 2015. So all mine points was in last year.
I'm preparing now small script for tracking all activity in 2016 in Top 1000 users maybe
This is little bit answer and big offtopic. Mods - please keep mine opinion.
You shouldn't stop making awesome chocolate products nor 301 one to other. Because you have other problem...
Other problem is called "hidden text". When i looking source code of your page i can see lot of "display: none" and "display:none" and few huge tab. Now from Google point of view you hiding lot of content. Situation is even worse because bot devalue this hidden text:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hidden-tab-content-seo-19489.html
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-index-click-to-expand-19449.htmlhttps://www.seroundtable.com/google-content-hidden-dynamic-20653.html
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-display-none-20626.html <- this one is more important
Please note this from last link: "Hiding the content with a display:none might backfire on you. We are giving hidden content way less weight in ranking."
So what's going on your page with almost 20 matches of both "display:none" and "display: none"? Yup - text is devalued. Reviews, warranty, etc. You may not believe me but try to find this text from warranty "Belgian Dark Chocolate Couverture is the best tasting gourmet Belgian chocolate available. Perfect for all chocolate and candy making or eat it straight from the bag and enjoy the real flavor or the highest quality Belgian chocolate available." Just open Google and try to find it.
I think that you should use other theme for your shop and this time you should see inside for hidden content. Let this time content be visible even if page become little bit longer.
PS: I also have few years "hidden" content in sites due theme selection.
You need 3 things for images SEO:
If some isn't proper images SEO is hard. If you're in doubt please see Moz special WBF about this:
https://moz.com/blog/image-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday
First you need to read this one:
https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-keep-keyword-cannibalism-from-robbing-your-sites-performance
and more articles about "keyword cannibalism" or "content cannibalism" or something.
Because for you it's much more important to not harm current position as primary goal and secondary goal is to get some improvements.
So it's safe to try N:3 on same or other page just for test. But N:2 is probably correct way. You just to watch for implementing same on-page SEO optimization for new layout if there is new one.
Yes - this was explained here:
https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform
Long story short - they deprecated counts in button. And many services can't get anymore tweet numbers of links. Moz team know about this and as we discussing in Twitter with Rand they working on alternative solutions.
That's correct.
In your HTML you have code as:
[_this is the search icon and as it's created it fool some bots that there is file javascript(0) in current folder. So if i'm here:
http://www.jasonfox.me/infographics/page/9/
then bot add file this as relative and full path became:
http://www.jasonfox.me/infographics/page/9/javascript(0)
and this is how 404 is make.
Correct way is to replace "javascript(0);" with "javascript:void(0)" or with "#". Only this patch in WordPress theme (look around header.php) will stop 404s._](javascript(0);)
Here is it:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-priority-change-frequency-xml-sitemap-20273.html
Just as John Mueller suggest you should use lastmod attribute to indicate change http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html and then you can do sitemap ping to Google for reindexing. This is easy http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=URLOFSITEMAP.xml and it's allowed https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en
TL;DR - yes and no.
Long story - you can't disavow links only with spam score. All you need is to go and check manually with human is it look spammy or doesn't. Because tools can be easy fool and make legit sites to look spammy or vice versa. That's why you can't rely only on this machine generated number.
You also can use Majestic too. All you need is to verify your domain there and do export of domains and blind disavow all domains with TF < 1 and with ref. domains < 10. But you can change all domains with TF<5 or even TF<10. This give also good list of "bad" domains.
If you have enough time then you need to use SeachConsole, OpenSiteExplorer, Ahrefs, Majestic and WebMeUp. You need to signup and get all links for your domain (both fresh and historical). Then you need to export everything in CSV. Then merge all CSVs into one huge spreadsheet only for links; remove duplicate links and then to locate bad links with human inspection. Please check this article for useful tips:
https://moz.com/blog/5-spreadsheet-tips-for-manual-link-audits
Now bad news... this is slow and expensive process. But this is only way to make almost perfect link profile for your domain.
1. There will be some kind of turbulence but if domains are OK (not penalized) then you shouldn't hesitated.
2. This loop is wrong. You should do it xxx.com -> xxx.it; yyy.com -> xxx.it; never enter into redirect loop because this make mess even huge that you expect. Also consider entering HTTP/2 and switching to HTTPS. Because this will be major moving in 2016 year and sooner or later you will do this too.
Why you didn't put this in inbound.org job board? Or find someone, somewhere and outsource part of work. If you're in doubt look on WordPress team structure. Seems that distributed teams and members works not bad as regular company. Or create Facebook or Twitter ads about that. Be a creative and tricky. Can be SEO test for example. Or make LinkedIn ads.
As you can see there are many ways to find someone.
First definitely there is some kind of "algo filter" on your website.
Second you need to make audit on website because there can be crossing updates:
https://moz.com/blog/the-danger-of-crossing-algorithms-panda-update-during-penguin-3
And that's why only with some interactive chart can't be sure what filter is applied to your site. Now Panda and Penguin works much quick in filtering and need refresh to escape filtering.
About disavowing. I strongly recommend to read Marie Haynes articles:
https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool
https://moz.com/blog/5-spreadsheet-tips-for-manual-link-audits
(also check other artciels about this)
https://moz.com/blog/my-story-how-psd2html-worked-to-have-a-manual-penalty-revoked
https://moz.com/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-penguin-update
https://moz.com/blog/2-become-1-merging-two-domains-made-us-an-seo-killing <- this is continuing of prev. article.https://moz.com/community/q/disavow-straightaway-urgent <- just check question and mine second answer, it's long just to be paraphrased here. But only with Ahrefs you can't pass you also need other tools.
There isn't best solution in this case.
All you need is to prefer some http or https and to migrate everything to preferred protocol. This mean that you shoud:
In theory this is. As you can see "fix canonical" is just one small step there.
Yes, there are 4 Schema.org objects:
https://schema.org/SubscribeAction
https://schema.org/RegisterAction
https://schema.org/JoinAction
https://schema.org/FollowAction
There is only one issue - on all of them there is "agent" that we're talking about. Like "John join ACME", "John registered to ACME", etc. And without agent codes can be verified w/o issues but look meaningless "join ACME", "registered to ACME", etc.
I also try to implement Join/Subscribe/Register as SiteLink:
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview
but can't pass validation because "query-input". If exist it's unknown for subscribing, if i delete it it's missing and required. So consider both ways as broken currently.
Anyway - you can markup emails:
https://moz.com/blog/markup-for-emails
and make them little bit actionable.
I use iClickAndHost, SiteGround as shared hosting. I also use Amazon EC2, Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr as VPS. For CDN - Amazon CloudFront and S3. Everything works perfect.
But you should diagnose your hosting issues before considering switching them. Can be something temporary - DDoS, hardware failure, network overload, etc.
You also can check for HTTP header results for crawling too:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag
Also you can use some of Google services for this. Specially PageSpeed API:
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v2/reference/
Once you call this API it return JSON with list of blocked resources. It's little bit slower but i found that this is safe. Some hostings have IDS (intruder detection systems) and when some crawl them little bit aggressive they block whole IP or IP range. I know few cases when site is OK to be seen from users, but blocked from Google IP. Webmasters wasn't happy when they discover this. They call hosting few times and got "there isn't issues from our side, we didn't block anything". And 6 hours later they get "seems that another department was blocked this server for few specific IPs".
About checking for logged/nonloged users. You can use StructuredData Testing Tool. Also one call to get JSON with full HTTP response and then compare it with your result.
Long story short - YES. Any JS framework can impact your ranking.
I share again here link on Distilled how they using custom service to providing pure HTML version of site to bots only:
https://www.distilled.net/resources/prerender-and-you-a-case-study-in-ajax-crawlability/
And seems that experiment works very well on them.
Merging all domains under one will be best for you and your client. Here is proof:
https://moz.com/blog/2-become-1-merging-two-domains-made-us-an-seo-killing
But isn't just consolidation, you need to make silo structure, content changes, redirects and many other internal changes.
One of best GA course is Annie Cushing:
http://www.annielytics.com/annielytics-dashboard-course/
You also can see official GA Academy videos:
https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/explorer
or their YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/googleanalytics
You also can read few books from:
You can learn more from them. Almost all of authors i wrote here share tips and tricks in their blogs or in social media too. It's good to follow them.