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I highly doubt you can remove them - best case disavow them.

At this point, if you are willing to roll the dice, see what kind of effect the links will have on your rankings. Understand that those links are textbook spammy and should be treated negatively (they are irrelevant to your website, have lots of spammy outgoing links) but Google makes mistakes.

It is probably a matter of time before those links will be considered negative/poor and likely to hurt you down the line. However, it could be months/years before that happens.

If you are already ranking well some some terms and are scared of losing rankings, i'd disavow them now.

Screenshot? Link to page you are testing?

I see a good amount of pages indexed: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.northshoreymca.org%2F

Make sure the profile you are using in GSC (formerly GWT) is the https://www. version of the website (any other profile will show fewer/no indexed pages).

If you got canonicals set up properly, not much else you can do. Google should recognize what you are trying to do but it will still crawl the filters.

If you don't want the subcategories indexed and crawls minimized:

1. nofollow filter links
2. block them via robots using wildcards
3. set to noindex for all filtered urls.

From my experience*, using a subfolder structure will yield the best results.

I think the more important factor is how these pages are linked to from within other pages on your website. You need to build links from high authority internal pages to your degree pages using keyword rich anchor text. If you do this from both websites, I don't think it will make much of a difference which domain the pages are hosted on. i.e. if you link to the degree pages sitewide from both domains, you will see similar results hosting them on either domain.

So if you are going to move the degrees to the other domain, you might as well switch to a subfolder structure. If not, focus on building a stronger internal link profile.

*As you said, this topic is highly debated. Google's official stance is that there is no difference for ranking between subfolder/subdirectory. They also say that if the content on the subdomain is highly relevant to the content on the root domain, they will be treated as the same domain (authority overflows).

noindex means that crawlers can still visit the page (using crawl budget). You would need to link to those pages using a nofollow tag + block via robots.txt to prevent crawlers from accessing them.

Overall, if those pages aren't being crawled currently, then they aren't affecting your crawl budget since they aren't being visited. However, if you build more authority to your website, your crawl budget will grow so crawlers might start visiting those pages again.

#1) use the hreflang tag. This tells Google that the two sites are actually the same site, but meant for different markets (1 = Australia, 2 = default)

#2) There is no reason for these to be separate pages..

• Linux VPS
• Budget Linux VPS
• Standard Linux VPS
• Extreme Linux VPS

Your keyword = "Linux VPS".. nobody searches for your modifiers so there is no point to having multiple urls. I recommend merging them into one page. If not possible, set canonicals from all of them to only 1 version of the URL.

No. Nobody is going to click on that title, your CTR score will be low and you wont rank well even if the content is good.

Instead do something like... Common Acer E55 LCD Problems & Solutions (w/ Diagrams)

Then structure your actual content to have your other keywords as subheadings or used throughout the content.

"My Domain Authority has not moved from 17 in a long time." = there haven't been new links to the site in a long time.

If you want to rank, you need backlinks. Get your content shared and you'll see your rankings climb.

Yandex is pretty much only used in Russia, Kazakhstan and some Eastern European countries. If you don't have customers in those areas, I wouldn't worry about Yandex.

If its possible to avoid a redirect, do.

www.corporatesite.com/product/ -> www.consumersite.com/product/ is better than adding a redirect into the chain.

Great question, don't have definitive answer.

My guess is that Google would use the final page source (post javascript) since this is what is does when a website adds content via javascript post load. So if you remove the links, they shouldn't be counted.

I'd test this by fetching as google and seeing what it sees as the source.

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Overall, I don't think having double links to the same URLs will hurt your SEO much. Overall consensus is that only the first link will be counted anyways.

I would redirect any pages that have external authority (links from an external site) and leave the rest as 404.

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prams.net%2Fbrevi-ovo-twin

Fix your "lowPrice" and "highPrice" markup (remove € and add priceCurrency)

to be honest, I think it was automatically flagged (same ratings/reviews on multiple urls) and if you can request reconsideration, they'd approve.

I can see the links working in reverse (page=200 links to page=199 via rel="prev" code) but what is the largest number and where did that link come from?

Good news is that Google isn't picking up on those urls so you should be find rankings wise (its a Moz crawler issue) - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.interstellarstore.com/star-trek-memorabilia%3Fpage%3D&start=0

I've always treated it as such and their case study seems to confirm it. You can't sculpt link authority with it, but you can control the crawl budget better.

Agreed with above. You are probably still flagged by Penguin and it will be very hard to get your backlink profile back in order.

You can also try a double 301 redirect (301 redirect to a intermediary domain, then 301 redirect again to the new domain) in order to avoid passing the penalty while keeping your old domain.

I recommend you keep the title long as is and let google cut it based on the keywords searched. Editing those titles to a certain length and keep them making sense isn't scalable.

• long title tag = text gets cut off in serps, not worse for SEO but worse for CTR
• page heading and page title not matching won't hurt your SEO.

SEroundtable is usually pretty good at covering algo updates (and potential updates) - this is the only august post he has on a potential update.

You can also check out these volatility tools (which track changes in search engine results):

• https://algoroo.com/
• https://www.advancedwebranking.com/google-algorithm-changes/
• https://www.accuranker.com/grump/
• https://www.rankranger.com/rank-risk-index
• http://mozcast.com/
• http://serpmetrics.com/flux/

You should utilize og:locale:alternative and have og:locale set to the country you want to present it to. see details here.

Overall, since its English in both scenarios, I don't think you need to worry about it.