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Hi Luca,

in my opinion the best way to proceed is to use your old domain that has a good domain authority and create a subfolder on it, with internak link/links in the Homepage to it. A new website in a new domain will do nothing in a extremely competitive market.

I don't understand the second part of your question. A new website will stop existing if you redirect it with a 301 redirect to the folder on the old domain, and if it's new, it wont give any authority to the page of your product on the old domain.

What I could suggest you in terms of SEO, is to create that new page in the old domain and proceed with a little quality link building campaign destined to that url (quality press articles could be a good option), and probably a social media campaign also would help directly to the promotion of the product and indirectly to the SEO of the product page.

Hope that helps

Hi Kate,

that code is right, you should also look at your domain.com/robots.txt page to see if you are disallowing.

You should see something like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

This is correct. But if you see a "Disallow: /" that means that is disallowing all the website, and if you see a Disallow: your inner page...

In any case, I recommend you tu create a link in a website of the topic of your web to this page, maybe in a forum or a directory, to let Google index faster your page.

Hope you resolve this!

+1 to EGOL and Ginaluca. We need more information about that pages.

In any case, if we are talking about thin content, but if is quality content and it's not duplicated content or oriented-for-SEO content, I would not use noindex for it.

If we ar talking about empty pages or almost empty pages maybe is better to use noindex, or maybe is better to delete and redirect with 301 this pages.

I would reduce the internal linking, and maybe put those internal links lower or in places with less visibility. Just that.

Greetings!

Hi Luca,

there should be no reason to link to ProductY.com if it's an empty web that you redirect to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY, unless you create those backlinks, and if you create them, better to point them directly to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY

If there is some reason why someone naturally could create backlinks to that domain that I'm missing, in that case it could help, and it would transfer link juice to www.CompanyX.com/ProductY

If your company wants to do this for marketing purposes, go ahead, it won't benefit your SEO but it won't either harm it.

Greetings!

That page is indexed in Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:paydaysunny.com/payday-loans.html&rlz=1C1CHBD_esES777ES777&gbv=2&sei=mgkYW7KmB4PcwQKO956oBg

And the link seems to be from a PBN (Private Blog Network).

You won't be able to create a link on that site, you'll have to look for another ones... Or create your own PBN or buy a link to someone that has a PBN.

Hi mlb7,

Matt Cutts explained this around 2015:

When you are disavowing links, you can know that a link in your disavow file is considered disavowed once you see that Google has cached the page where the link resides. But when it comes to reavowing, we have no way of knowing when Google is going to start counting that link again or whether it will be given the same weight.

Reavowing a link can “take a lot longer than disavowing it,” though no one knows how long that is. Google wants to be really certain that spammers are not going to try to figure out which links are helping or hurting them by doing disavow and reavow experiments.

I recommend you to take a look to this video from Matt Cutts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=393nmCYFRtA

Sources:

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2409081/can-you-reavow-links-you-have-peviously-disavowed
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-disavow-links/

Hope that helps, good luck!

Hi nishthaj,

I think blocking with robots.txt is a good solution. But you don't have to block each url manually, it's better to block all urls that have: & or =

I think the code for this is:

Disallow: /*&

Disallow: /*=

This way you will automatically block all present and future weird urls like this and prevent present and futures problems.

Hope that helped

Just at the right of the url you can see the cache version from Google of this page. By clicking to the "arrow" than points down.

You can see that the Snapshot is from 28-05-2018: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Pu-yOVqMlVAJ:www.paydaysunny.com/payday-loans.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=en

Surely the spider-bot will crawl the page soon again and it will show the new title, be patient and don't force this

Googlebot takes more or less time to reindex if your site is more or less active.

The other questions:

1. The fastest and better way to index a website in Google is to create links in a very active website of your topic.
2. Almost every PBN was very useful 2-3 years ago, today you have to create a very natural and quality PBN to cheat Google with links like this. It takes a lot of work / money, so I don't recommend you this tecnique.

Hi Mike,

I recommend you to read this guide of spam score from Moz:

https://moz.com/help/guides/link-explorer/spam-score

Start reading on this part: "Another site's Spam Score - Again, this doesn't mean that these sites are spammy. This percentage represents a wide variety of potential signals ranging from content concerns to low authority metrics. Since this is just based on correlation with penalization, rather than causation, the solution isn't necessarily to disregard sites or disavow links with higher Spam Scores. Instead, we'd recommend using it as a guide for kick starting investigations. Be sure to check out a site's content and its relevance in linking back to you before disregarding or disavowing."

I personally never use Disavow Links Tool. I manually delete links or simply create new ones to reduce to percentaje of "spammy links" or the percentaje of links that have the same anchor...

But if I had to say a spam rating where I would use the disavow links tool, it probably would be higher than 60-80%, depending on my personal opinion of how spammy I see the website. If I see it very spammy, higher than 60%, if a don't see it very spammy, higher than 80%.

Hope that helps

Hi Gerard,

Google sometimes does weird things that is very difficult to understand. I've seen and compared both sites and yours at Seo Onpage is much better, because the other one is very poor at content and number of pages.

The only 2 things that can make sense are the domain name (your competitor's domain name includes "taxis") and the backlink profile, so like you cant do nothing about the first thing, I recommend you to replicate the links they created that you don't have:

https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/overview?site=www.lewestowntaxis.co.uk&target=domain

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/v5/external-per-domain/subdomains/live/all/all/1/ahrefs_rank_desc?target=www.lewestowntaxis.co.uk

Maybe that helps.

Good luck!

Hi Tunguyen,

Here you have some free tools that can help you to test your website onpage:

Speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ - https://tools.pingdom.com/

SEO optimization: https://www.woorank.com - https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Markup checker: https://validator.w3.org/

Also don't forget to check Google Search Console for errors in your website: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

Hope that helps

Hi Kate,

Google has reindexed your homepage today (19 Jun 2018 02:38:44 GMT), but instead of showing the title you have "Online Payday Advance Loans - No Credit Check | Payday Sunny" is showing this one: "Payday Sunny: Online Payday Advance Loans - No Credit Check". ¿Right?

It's the same but Google changed the sequence.

I recommend you to read this: https://yoast.com/google-page-title/

"Google does all sorts of things to your title. It sometimes replaces it with parts of your URL, but it’s also known to add the brand to the end of your title, or just completely rewrite it when it feels like it"

About your meta description Google is showing searching by a site this: "Payday Sunny provides an instant payday advance loans online. Get cash advance loans amount $100, $500 and $1000. Apply today.". That's the meta description you have, but Google can also do all sorts of things to your meta description depending on the search an what Google considers for that search.

About webmaster tools don't trust much their data about crawled backlinks, it's not very good. You can see better the backlinks with tools like https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/home or https://ahrefs.com/dashboard/metrics

But probably this tools won't either show all the links that you built. Some of them because it's too soon and the tool will take more time to find this links (specially Webmaster tools that is a bit slow for this), other tools simply won't never find them and others links maybe won't be never found by any tool because the page with the link has a noindex or is blocked by robots.txt, this has happened to me sometimes and I finally found this problem in some pages with links like on Themeforest profiles.

The best you can do is to use all this tools to watch the backlinks and you will find more than using just one.

Hope that helps Best wishes!

Hi Kate,

I never ping the links I build, i don't see it worth. If they are shared in social media it's much better, specially if they are shared by many people.

As you do, I would just save them on an excel file taking note about the date it began to be online in the web, the anchor text, if it's follow or nofollow and the type of web where is it. This list can serve you to build links moderately and irregularly in time to seem more natural,to control if some links or webs disappear, to build links of the type of link or anchor you need more (exact anchor, phrase anchor...). Here you have a good article about the anchor text: https://ahrefs.com/blog/anchor-text/

You can also use this list to do second-tier link building, pointing with these new links (tier 2) to the first links you created. I leave you here an article from Julie Joyce about this:

https://searchengineland.com/importance-second-tier-links-242941

Good luck!

Hi again Kate,

you can "fetch as Google" that url on Webmaster Tools https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch and then "request indexing".

Here you have more information about it: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812

Greetings!