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Thank you for your help! I thought it was correct, just the Moz team not making it clear that it is a "them" problem, as opposed to a Google problem.

Thank you! Hopefully this resolves my issue

The redirect service is the gray area here for me. I don't know them or their services. With that parameter in play, you need the self-referring canonical. The hreflang is set up right now, but I don't know how all of this is interacting together. I'd suggest starting by addressing the hreflang with the parameters in them. Make sure those parameters are not in the hreflang tags.  Also, do you have sitemaps for both languages submitted to Google? For what it is worth, I don't see things wrong in the SERPs. You are still on the first page for 'NASA gifts' and 'meterorite gifts' in the US. What other drops are you seeing? Some adjustment is expected when making changes like this.

I would recommend having 2 sitemaps - one for the US store and the other for the EU store. However, technically one sitemap will be fine. The reason I would recommend 2 different ones is for you to be able to see how many URLs from each sitemap are being indexed vs how many are being ignored - this will allow you to further investigate any possible issues. That being said, it sounds like you have a different issue since Google is choosing different canonicals than the ones you are declaring. This would probably be because the US and EU pages are almost identical and Google doesn't see a need to index both. Have you implemented HREFLANG across your website to target the different regions?  I would also look into the on-page elements & content for each page to make them more relevant to their targeted regions. Things like Titles, Headers, descriptive text, etc should be different in both sets of pages depending on the target region of each page. Hope that helps.

Hi there, When it comes to internationalization, there is a simple solution for google search: use hreflang tags. Here what they say: Internationalization and multi-language websites - google search help. Hoping that you have different URL for each store and that you've places hreflang tags correctly, you should not be worrying that much. OF course, you have to check rankings, traffic and other metrics that are important to you. Referring to placing nofollow tags, this won't make any difference in this case. Keep in mind that nofollow tags are there to tell google not to look what's there on the links; to not crawl (follow) them. Here more information from Google about nofollow attribute. Hope it helps. Best luck. Gaston

Hi Martijn, The solution didn't work, I'm not sure if there is a conflict here but this is what my htaccess currently looks like: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] #RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on #RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://thespacecollective.com/$1 [L,R=301] #RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://www.thespacecollective.com/$1 [L,R=301] <ifmodule pagespeed_module="">ModPagespeed off</ifmodule> RewriteRule .* - [E=noabort:1] RewriteRule .* - [E=noconntimeout:1] <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^interstellarstore.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.interstellarstore.com$</ifmodule> RewriteRule (.*)$ https://www.thespacecollective.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi Since November we migrated our shop from Magento 1 to 2 and our organic traffic has dropped by 50%. We still haven't figured out the cause (or a solution). But our developer has found out that Magento 2 handles Javascripts in a different way which causes a very bad result at Google PageSpeed Check. We have been in contact with magento and they advise to partly bundle Javascripts and partly offer separate files. Have you also had this problem? Is your organic traffic back to the level it was before the migration? Charlotte (www.dochorse.nl)

It's likely that they will be valued a bit less but the effects shouldn't be drastic. Even if you just had one massive page with all products on the ones at the top would likely get more juice anyway If it's a crazy big concern, think about a custom method to sort your products

Hi there. It's a little hard to be certain based on the screenshots you've provided - the best way of verifying this yourself (or for getting me to help) would be to evaluate the actual website from the "outside" - i.e. when not logged into the admin area. I would suggest reviewing what that looks like and ensuring it operates how you expect and want it to. If you would like me to take a look, please share a link and I'll see if I can help some more. Thanks

A little bit too advanced I think... well, trial and error it is.

Hi there, I can't point you in a specific direction on how to go about doing this, but as Martijn mentioned it's important that you make sure: 301 redirects are setup from old URLs to new URLs (/cat-name 301s to /prod-name) ALL internal links are updated to /prod-name (for example, in the main navigation, footer, sidebars, etc.) I believe what Martijn meant with the URL depth comment was that websites (particularly ecommerce sites) should be structured logically (mainly for topical authority). So for example, if you are a site that sells electronics, it's important from both a user and bot perspective that there is a domain.com/laptops/ page (which would be the category page). Under that, it makes sense to have a product page that would live on domain.com/laptops/macbook for example. It sounds like you are considering to remove the top-level category pages, which might result in a worse user experience and possibly a less-than-ideal setup for link equity being passed down to product pages. Martijn, is that what you were hinting at?

You can try by approaching the top brands in your niche to get the high quality and authority link insertion for your website SEO. There are many website examples that doing the same for guest posts.

Well I will say that Wordfence is just a minimal requirement on the other hands Sucuri offers a good level of security. So I think Wordpress+Sucuri  will give you a good mix.

Hey there, Sorry for the silence! Okay, a few things here: Yeah, you're going to run into duplicate content issues, since you're using English on all sites. You only need www.website.com for the US. Don't create us.website.com. For the UK and EU domain, localize with different currency, standard shipping, and legal information. (What's your plan, since the UK and EU use different currencies, to have them on the same site section?) If you have any content that's universal, like a blog post, keep that part of the site on the www.website.com section and don't duplicate it on the UK / EU site (unless you translate it). If at all possible, don't use subdomains for different countries. Subdomains split your domain value (which weakens your site) and also makes it clear that you're not a truly localized site, since you're using a .com instead of the right ccTLD for the country (not bad for SEO, but not great for click through rates). Better options are: Get the ccTLD for each country you're operating in. This is much more expensive, but better for localizing long term. Put each site section on a subdirectory, like www.website.com/uk/ Link between the different country versions of your site, so you can be sure Googlebot will find it. Moz has got a good article on this I recommend:https://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions, Kristina

Brilliant, thank you.

Thanks Oleg, I'll do just that and will inform you as to the results. There has been no other promotion. I lost the rank for the past two weeks, so I'm not sure if this is holding me down or the latest Google updates. The post has been up for around 2 months now, so I think that may be long enough to take effect. Google loves ripping my efforts to pieces, literally any headway I make, they pull me right back down. Every. Single. Time. This then begs the question, how does one gain do-follow backlinks organically? It would seem to me to be near impossible.

SF finding 'useless' links is actually part of its purpose, if you believe they're useless you should be asking why they're there. Your XML sitemap should have nothing but clean URLs; 200 response codes and not canonicalized to another URL. The problem isn't that you have category URLs, it's that those (like the one in my previous example) have a canonical tag that points elsewhere. Anytime this is the case, the URL is considered un-indexable. You can see the proof of this by doing a Google search for "https://www.interstellarstore.com/meteorite-jewelry/meteorite-necklaces", I just checked and this URL isn't in the index. You mentioned the age in your original comment that your XML sitemap had been submitted for well over 6 months, that's where I got the age from, maybe I misunderstood? You have no reason to not trust SF, it's one of the most valuable tools in an SEO's toolbox. I've used it for 5+ years to create hundreds of sitemaps and countless other SEO tasks with no problem in providing reliable, accurate data points.

Thank you!