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Make sure they are linked up with hreflang tags which would help search engines determine which pages are their language equivalents.
If you do a lot more promotion of the Dutch content, it will rank better than French pages (assuming equal competition). However, because there is a "these pages are the same but in 2 different languages" hreflang markup on the site, it should help you rank for the French pages as well.
If it is a local service, yes, adding location modifier keywords can help you rank for more local terms.
The Houzz slideshow widget = iframe. Button = javascript. There is no <a>link back to houzz.com</a>
<a>If you nofollow your links from the widget, you won't be penalized and it still helps with brand exposure. You can ask those people who add your badge to their site to link back to you separately and in a more natural way.</a>
You should remove it if possible. No reason to link to a dead link (poor ux, waste crawler time) or call a non-existent resource (slow site down).
However, I don't think it will make any noticeable effect on your rankings.
you can ping google to recrawl those pages and see the new status codes. Aside from that, you just need to wait.
If your products are ranking well for their target keywords, I would try and avoid changing their URLs (especially to a different domain). Keeping on your own domain also helps improve your product rankings when you grow your main website.
Not sure how the masking will be set up, but in some cases there is no "internal links" since they are all masked by the root masking domain. This would definitely prevent you from building more links (and further improving your rankings).
You'll probably experience a dip from not publishing new content but I don't believe there will be any other issues.
Updating old content (drip fed or in bulk) won't trigger any spam/manipulation flags.
Its recommended to noindex tags and category pages unless you add unique content to them (otherwise you are cannibalizing the individual post rankings). This is especially true if you only have 1 post in the tag/category and if you display the full text in the tag/category pages.
If you want to index and rank the tag/category pages:
Move charset="UTF-8"> immediately after the opening
Organic visits to landing page would probably be the most useful
Google's official stance: they are equivalent.
I prefer using the subfolder structure. If the content on your subdomains is significantly different from your root domain content, Google may treat them separately.
Check out: https://moz.com/community/q/the-great-subdomain-vs-subfolder-debate-what-is-the-best-answer
As long as each page has useful, unique content, shouldn't be an issue.
e.g. I create a page for each town that a restaurant delivers to. I include some random facts about the town (large companies, population, etc - stuff you can grab from city-data.com), directions from that town to the restaurant, some popular dishes and a paragraph of unique text tailored for visitors from that town.
Google has an issue with you scraping a database of every city in USA, templating out some content and tweaking your same keyword across all of those pages.
Google's official stance is that it's no big deal. They'll simply won't rank those URLs (so if you are getting 403s for pages you want to rank, that's an issue).
However, if those 403's have external backlinks, I'd redirect them to a similar live page on your site to not lose those links. I also prefer to not waste crawler time visiting non-existent pages so if its easy to do, I'd minimize the number of 403 response codes on the site.
You sample 403 looks like an offsite CDN which shouldn't hurt, but it is taking up unnecessary resources. No reason not to remove.
Here is the official suggested markup: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6340290?hl=en
On any non-AMP page, reference the AMP version of the page to let Google and other platforms know about it:
On the AMP page, add the following text to reference its non-AMP canonical version:
No.
Only thing I can think of is if the site you are iframing is slow, it would affect your page speed. But it wouldn't cause any issues with crawling.
See: https://moz.com/community/q/what-determines-search-visibility
Search Visibility score represents your overall ranking performance for your tracked keywords. It’s calculated by:
agreed. force https (via 301 redirects) and make sure all elements on your site are secured.
See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#review-snippets
You can supply ratings for the following content types:
You can treat each employee as a "Product" and have people review them. Probably your only solution.
Don't think there is anything special for web apps. Use regular title and meta description best practices.
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Clean up your website, make sure all bad urls 404 (or 410 if you can), clear out GSC crawl errors (may need to repeat a few times). If you received a manual action, resubmit your website.